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step sister 

[Jansen]

9 year old

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-activision-blizzard-begins-massive-layoffs-offering-comprehensive-severance-packages-to-affected.99283/page-10#post-17850760

I just, really hate capitalism. If that makes me some weirdo or edgy asshole or something so be it.

It makes you sane, and you're in excellent company. Eat the rich.

The posts and avatar combination

[kingv]

I was at a restaurant owned by a friend who was throwing an anniversary party of sorts;  place was kinda rowdy... I look up at the bar and see my friend arguing with a guy about something, she's like 5'2" and he honestly looked like he might punch her...   Well I wanted a drink anyways and thought I would try to diffuse whatever it was.. so I walk up and say something like "Hey let's chill out let me buy some drinks we can work whatever this is out" and kinda put my hand on arguing dude's shoulder.

His friend from behind then proceeds to knock me out, and repeatedly stomped my head.  I woke up the next day in the hospital.

I have been living with the impact of a traumatic brain injury ever since (about 15 years now.)

The End

What were they arguing over?

Whether a hot dog is a sandwich or not.

Should have said “whether or not white Jews are an oppressed minority”

[team filler]

jews are an oppressor minority   

[Transhuman]

The funniest part of that Kharvey ban is that he's right.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senate-procedural-vote-on-kavanaugh-set-for-10-30am-et-10-5.72943/page-53#post-13480652

He's literally (a defender of) centrist scum

[EightBitNate]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/blood-sweat-and-pixels-should-be-required-reading-for-every-resetera-member.99058/post-17822083

I have a lot of respect for Schreier. I think he's one of the few gaming journalists with proper work ethics.

Can't believe they let this gator skate by. 

Speaking of Schreier:

How can you be one of the leading journalists for one of the bigger video game blogs, have 80k Twitter followers, have your own book, but have this be the headshot you use for everything?

[clothedmacuser]

 defender of centrist scum

Fuck yeah.  I finally found a tag worthy phrase.




Also, besides teachers does anyone over 18 really give a shit about Black History Month?

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/blood-sweat-and-pixels-should-be-required-reading-for-every-resetera-member.99058/post-17822083

I have a lot of respect for Schreier. I think he's one of the few gaming journalists with proper work ethics.

Can't believe they let this gator skate by. 

Speaking of Schreier:

How can you be one of the leading journalists for one of the bigger video game blogs, have 80k Twitter followers, have your own book, but have this be the headshot you use for everything?

(Image removed from quote.)

.
I mean how is he supposed to fix that ugly fucking face

Might as well just own it

[Jenkem]

taco bell nacho fries supreme w/ jalapenos added are great

[EightBitNate]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/blood-sweat-and-pixels-should-be-required-reading-for-every-resetera-member.99058/post-17822083

I have a lot of respect for Schreier. I think he's one of the few gaming journalists with proper work ethics.

Can't believe they let this gator skate by. 

Speaking of Schreier:

How can you be one of the leading journalists for one of the bigger video game blogs, have 80k Twitter followers, have your own book, but have this be the headshot you use for everything?

(Image removed from quote.)

.
I mean how is he supposed to fix that ugly fucking face

Might as well just own it

You can be ugly and take a decent photograph. His pic looks like something my aunt would post.

[clothedmacuser]

This entire thread.  Imagine thinking that Esquire is trolling you

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193

The best part of the Waypoint lore discussions of Kingdom Hearts so far is where they decide Xehanort is the ultimate centrist and it ends with a mocking "debate me" from Austin and a really monotone "change my mind" from Patrick.

 


I get thinking it's a stupid fucking article (It's from Esquire for one thing) but they are taking it to Glenn Beck levels.


for kicks here is them responding to The Onion making fun of them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-onion-reviews-super-smash-bros-ultimate.85783/

[PogiJones]

The ironic thing about KHarvey being a contrarian on RE is that that means he's usually right.

[clothedmacuser]

Dont tell me that is the first time you ever read an Esquire magazine

Studio 54 ref!

[BikeJesus]

Update on Jussie Smollett:

Gave police redacted phone records and hired Harvey Weinsteins PR firm.

 

[HaughtyFrank]

This entire thread.  Imagine thinking that Esquire is trolling you

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193

RE getting pissed over this has to be one of the most idiotic moments yet.

[agrajag]

The ironic thing about KHarvey being a contrarian on RE is that that means he's usually right.

he's about 50/50 on any given subject

[clothedmacuser]

This entire thread.  Imagine thinking that Esquire is trolling you

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193

RE getting pissed over this has to be one of the most idiotic moments yet.

It's a low point in Ree history.  And that is saying a lot.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-activision-blizzard-begins-massive-layoffs-offering-comprehensive-severance-packages-to-affected.99283/page-10#post-17850760

I just, really hate capitalism. If that makes me some weirdo or edgy asshole or something so be it.

It makes you sane, and you're in excellent company. Eat the rich.

The posts and avatar combination

Not to defend "Capitalism" (or this specific instance of downsizing) but do they think there would not be some sort of workforce allocation mechanism ("layoffs"), and one without any friction, in a different system ? There's plenty that could be done to mitigate the effects or to remove the incentive for companies to part with workers at the drop of an hat.


I also loved the post is followed up by :

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-activision-blizzard-begins-massive-layoffs-offering-comprehensive-severance-packages-to-affected.99283/page-10#post-17850929

Capitalism.
Paternalist capitalism.

[VomKriege]

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-of-europe-will-lay-off-320-people-this-month-1627924242

Without Iwata's knowledge I'm sure.

[Momo]

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-is-it-possible-that-jump-force-is-so-ugly-what-happened-at-bandai-namco-spike-chunsoft.63346/

ultra-photorealistic style

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[Rufus]

Photorealistic PVC action figures.

[VomKriege]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-if-trump-is-exonerated-in-the-russian-collusion-investigation-he-will-surely-win-in-2020.99385/

[agrajag]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/do-you-think-if-trump-is-exonerated-in-the-russian-collusion-investigation-he-will-surely-win-in-2020.99385/

Either way you look at it he's a serial killer.


se·ri·al kill·erDictionary result for serial killer
noun
noun: serial killer; plural noun: serial killers
a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern.

Trump is unpredictable though so the keyword in that definition is TYPICALLY... by that definition he is a serial killer through his actions and those that have died from his policy implementation. Hopefully Serial Killer X is behind bars soon.

[wsippel]

Not to defend "Capitalism" (or this specific instance of downsizing) but do they think there would not be some sort of workforce allocation mechanism ("layoffs"), and one without any friction, in a different system ? There's plenty that could be done to mitigate the effects or to remove the incentive for companies to part with workers at the drop of an hat.

They're consolidating their back offices, because there's no real reason for Blizzard and King to have their own PR, social media and customer support departments in addition to Activision's own. Additionally, with Heroes of the Storm shut down and Destiny returned to Bungie, a bunch of jobs in the same areas no longer exist. So this specific instance seems perfectly valid and would have happened regardless of their 2018 earnings. I'm certainly not a fan of Activision, but streamlining their operations and using the money to hire more actual development staff, which is what they plan to do, seems totally sane and understandable. The only issue I have is that this step was a long time coming, yet the layed off workers didn't get advance notice. That's just shitty and wouldn't be legal in any EU country as far as I'm aware.

[Uncle]

First I thought this was going to be clickbait alt-right like "watch feminist get DESTROYED" but the dude in the video doesn't seem like that kind of guy and the story is 

 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Kharvey was insufferable on old gaf.

Now he's a breathe of fresh air in the looney bin of era.

[Rufus]

First I thought this was going to be clickbait alt-right like "watch feminist get DESTROYED" but the dude in the video doesn't seem like that kind of guy and the story is 

 

Have a gander at the rest of his videos. Clickbait central.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193/post-17855403

I'm also curious to your answer to the, what appears to be, an article trying to defend Weinstein on the same cover. Is this a 'typical' Esquire article?

cover: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzNCw6oU0AEeLEj.jpg

"INSIDE THE DEFENSE OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193/post-17856064

You have no idea the contents of that article, and the title of it “Inside the Defense of Harvey Weinstein” in no way whatsoever implies any sort of attempt to defend the man himself but rather would obviously more than likely be about the case itself. You’re just making up reasons to be outraged right here.

Well shit, you got me, I was literally frothing with outrage in that post. That's why I asked the question and implied that I didn't read Esquire when the other poster clearly did and was familiar with this month's issue. Cause I was outraged.

And clearly the article could be about any number of subjects about the case, tackling the defense, 'men/women who defend Weinstein' or the actual defense lawyers, or my initial interpretation since it shared the same space as that tacky ass cover, another fluff piece about those who defend against #MeToo. Course it's all moot since we both haven't read the article, though it could be on their website.

Brilliant observation nevertheless, I'll contact the editors of Esquire myself and send them your way next.

article, the top search result:

Why did one of New York’s most successful criminal defense lawyers feel up to representing the disgraced movie mogul? Just ask one of his past high-profile clients: Diddy. Jay Z. Martin Shkreli. Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (The list goes on.)

Is Benjamin Brafman a bad man because he helps (allegedly) bad people? He thinks not. “I’m not the morality police,” he tells me one afternoon several months ago at his firm, Brafman & Associates PC. “I’m a criminal-defense lawyer.”

But what if the client is Harvey Weinstein, the former film mogul now facing charges of sexual assault involving two women—and similar allegations from dozens more? Brafman leans back, places his palms on the table, and narrows his eyes, like I’ve just questioned Earth’s roundness. “I’ve spent forty years trying to get to the top of my profession, and this is the most high-profile case in the United States,” he says. “It’s flattering to be picked by someone like him.”

Brafman, seventy, likes to be flattered. “Do you know Jay-Z’s song about me?” he asks, seventeen minutes after we meet. The track, “Welcome to New York City,” is actually by Cam’ron, but Hova provided a guest verse name-checking the attorney. In 1999, the budding entrepreneur was accused of stabbing a man he suspected of bootlegging his next album. Brafman landed him a sweetheart plea deal: three years’ probation, zero days in prison. In his verse, Jay-Z raps, “Got Brafman defending me / ’Cause New York’ll miss me if I’m locked in the penitentiary.” A picture of the two—Brafman’s five-six frame rising to just above Jay’s shoulder, even with the added inch from his signature crest of slicked-back hair—sits among dozens of mementos on top of a credenza.

Framed images and awards cover the office, the corner one, on the twenty-sixth floor of a midtown Manhattan high-rise. Celebrity clients get prime wall real estate: There’s Martin Shkreli, the self-styled Pharma Bro (securities fraud); Plaxico Burress, the Giants’ star receiver (attempted criminal possession of a weapon); Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing agitator (illegal campaign contributions). All either pleaded to lesser crimes or dodged the top charges. Sometimes, when the evidence is overwhelming, you hire Brafman just to cushion your fall.

Early last October, exactly one year after the Weinstein exposé ran in the Times, I meet Brafman at the cafeteria in the Southern District of New York’s federal courthouse to discuss how, against all odds, he has started turning the case in Weinstein’s favor.

Brafman’s eyes are reddened at the edges; the bags underneath them are puffier than usual. He has just wrapped the sentencing hearing for the client convicted of soliciting child pornography. “I hate the agony of defeat,” he says as he picks at a Cheerios single-serve cereal cup. (The defendant, who was facing up to thirty years in prison, ended up with a seventeen-year sentence.) As the conversation turns to Weinstein, Brafman’s mood lightens.

[Momo]

benjamin

[VomKriege]

I kind want to make a thread just to see how it will go

Gonna take a wild stab in the dark and say it won't reach the end of page 1 before it's hijacked by the usual crowd trying to convince everyone that RLM are secretly alt-right/racists etc.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/redlettermedia-ot-very-cruel.804/page-97#post-17773581

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/post-brexit-the-united-kingdom-sets-its-sights-on-a-return-to-imperialism.90289/post-16439082

I called it. I warned folks the Brits still harbor empire dreams. No one believed me though.

Please, tell me more about "the brits" still harboring "empire dreams" Mr inhabitant of the country that has been at war for 222 out of the 239 years it has existed as a country, that started 201 out of the 248 armed conflicts since world war 2 ended, and accounts for 41% of the entire worlds military spending
 

[Snoopycat_]

Neogaf spotted lurking near tables full of gorgeous women of every shade from cafe au lait to deep mocha.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-this-weeks-editorial-cartoon-in-the-onion-ironic-or-what.99363/post-17852473
 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I'm really not getting how Esquire - an international magazine - having a white kid on its cover for its march issue (because it doesn't release an issue in february) is 'trolling' anyone because black hysteria month?

e:

Should it? Let's review.

"How could they publish this during black history month?" is an asinine complaint. It's the March issue. Hits subscribers today, won't see newstands for a good bit- but is meant to be MARCH'S issue, not February's. And Esquire doesn't publish a February issue and hasn't for a while. How many other publications do you know that put their Black History Month content in the March issue? And before you say anything, publishing weeks earlier than the cover month IS standard practice for US publications.

second: not one single person before I did noted that this was not a standalone piece, but one of a series, and Esquire WILL be publishing similar pieces on the Black, Female, and LGBTQ experience before it completes. it's meant to reference a similar piece they did in 1992, which highlighted a day in the life of a ten year old boy- only more expansive.

Third: Esquire isn't in the business of writing Trump friendly puff pieces- that's not their audience. Conservatives wouldn't be caught reading it any more than they would be caught subscribing to Ebony magazine. It's left of center, and the politics section WILDLY so.

Fourth: Esquire has no issue with putting black men (it is a men's magazine) on their cover- there were 8 regular issues last year, two of them had black headliners on the cover. The same for 2017, and 2016. The implication that they're tone deaf on race issues doesn't hold up.

I rarely have to call out "outrage culture" but the majority of complaints in this thread are off base.

welp, crab bucket not gonna like this post.

[BisMarckie]

Are these a parody of terrible political cartoons?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Are these a parody of terrible political cartoons?

What kind of political cartoon would you expect The Onion to have?

[VomKriege]

AOC's handling of this was master class. I've never seen a politician delivering such a precise, and flawless, response for a very delicate subject that not only involved a close friend and colleague who she agreed with but her own constituents and make it all work to bring everyone together with positive feelings. There were so many angles this could have gone wrong, but she got it! Truly remarkable, and she's only been in congress a month!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot2-presidentpelosi.95742/page-265#post-17854005

[benjipwns]

User Banned (3 Days): Inflammatory Commentary

LikudEra dot com

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193/post-17855403

I'm also curious to your answer to the, what appears to be, an article trying to defend Weinstein on the same cover. Is this a 'typical' Esquire article?

cover: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzNCw6oU0AEeLEj.jpg

"INSIDE THE DEFENSE OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193/post-17856064

You have no idea the contents of that article, and the title of it “Inside the Defense of Harvey Weinstein” in no way whatsoever implies any sort of attempt to defend the man himself but rather would obviously more than likely be about the case itself. You’re just making up reasons to be outraged right here.

Well shit, you got me, I was literally frothing with outrage in that post. That's why I asked the question and implied that I didn't read Esquire when the other poster clearly did and was familiar with this month's issue. Cause I was outraged.

And clearly the article could be about any number of subjects about the case, tackling the defense, 'men/women who defend Weinstein' or the actual defense lawyers, or my initial interpretation since it shared the same space as that tacky ass cover, another fluff piece about those who defend against #MeToo. Course it's all moot since we both haven't read the article, though it could be on their website.

Brilliant observation nevertheless, I'll contact the editors of Esquire myself and send them your way next.

article, the top search result:

Why did one of New York’s most successful criminal defense lawyers feel up to representing the disgraced movie mogul? Just ask one of his past high-profile clients: Diddy. Jay Z. Martin Shkreli. Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (The list goes on.)

Is Benjamin Brafman a bad man because he helps (allegedly) bad people? He thinks not. “I’m not the morality police,” he tells me one afternoon several months ago at his firm, Brafman & Associates PC. “I’m a criminal-defense lawyer.”

But what if the client is Harvey Weinstein, the former film mogul now facing charges of sexual assault involving two women—and similar allegations from dozens more? Brafman leans back, places his palms on the table, and narrows his eyes, like I’ve just questioned Earth’s roundness. “I’ve spent forty years trying to get to the top of my profession, and this is the most high-profile case in the United States,” he says. “It’s flattering to be picked by someone like him.”

Brafman, seventy, likes to be flattered. “Do you know Jay-Z’s song about me?” he asks, seventeen minutes after we meet. The track, “Welcome to New York City,” is actually by Cam’ron, but Hova provided a guest verse name-checking the attorney. In 1999, the budding entrepreneur was accused of stabbing a man he suspected of bootlegging his next album. Brafman landed him a sweetheart plea deal: three years’ probation, zero days in prison. In his verse, Jay-Z raps, “Got Brafman defending me / ’Cause New York’ll miss me if I’m locked in the penitentiary.” A picture of the two—Brafman’s five-six frame rising to just above Jay’s shoulder, even with the added inch from his signature crest of slicked-back hair—sits among dozens of mementos on top of a credenza.

Framed images and awards cover the office, the corner one, on the twenty-sixth floor of a midtown Manhattan high-rise. Celebrity clients get prime wall real estate: There’s Martin Shkreli, the self-styled Pharma Bro (securities fraud); Plaxico Burress, the Giants’ star receiver (attempted criminal possession of a weapon); Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing agitator (illegal campaign contributions). All either pleaded to lesser crimes or dodged the top charges. Sometimes, when the evidence is overwhelming, you hire Brafman just to cushion your fall.

Early last October, exactly one year after the Weinstein exposé ran in the Times, I meet Brafman at the cafeteria in the Southern District of New York’s federal courthouse to discuss how, against all odds, he has started turning the case in Weinstein’s favor.

Brafman’s eyes are reddened at the edges; the bags underneath them are puffier than usual. He has just wrapped the sentencing hearing for the client convicted of soliciting child pornography. “I hate the agony of defeat,” he says as he picks at a Cheerios single-serve cereal cup. (The defendant, who was facing up to thirty years in prison, ended up with a seventeen-year sentence.) As the conversation turns to Weinstein, Brafman’s mood lightens.

I’m not reading all that. Can you just sum up how outraged I should be on a numerical scale?

[BisMarckie]

Are these a parody of terrible political cartoons?

What kind of political cartoon would you expect The Onion to have?

What kind of political cartoon would you expect some German newspaper to have? You wouldn't know?
Check mate, Anglo-centric scum.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Are these a parody of terrible political cartoons?

What kind of political cartoon would you expect The Onion to have?

What kind of political cartoon would you expect some German newspaper to have? You wouldn't know?
Check mate, Anglo-centric scum.

I expect all political editorial cartoons to be on-the-nose-unfunny, only the onion are doing so deliberately
 

e:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-41861482/top-political-cartoons-of-the-year-in-uk-newspapers
 

[nachobro]

euroPeons

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot2-presidentpelosi.95742/post-17858778

Some great news for a change:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ackage-heres-whats-it/?utm_term=.fdf240313721

The measure protects 1.3 million acres as wilderness, the nation’s most stringent protection, which prohibits even roads and motorized vehicles. It permanently withdraws more than 370,000 acres of land from mining around two national parks, including Yellowstone, and permanently authorizes a program to spend offshore-drilling revenue on conservation efforts.

Perhaps the most significant change the legislation would make is permanently authorizing a federal program that funnels offshore drilling revenue to conserve a spread of sites that includes major national parks and wildlife preserves, as well as local baseball diamonds and basketball courts. Authorization for the popular program, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), lapsed months ago due to the partial government shutdown and other disputes. Liberals like the fact that the money allows agencies to set aside land for wildlife habitat. Conservatives like the fact that taxpayers don’t have to foot the bill for it.

Congress is now set to reauthorize the fund in perpetuity, though it will not make its spending mandatory. Congressional funding for the program has “fluctuated widely” since its inception in 1965, according to a 2018 Congressional Research Service report. Less than half of the $40 billion that has piled up in the fund during its five decades of existence has been spent by Congress on conservation efforts.

The bill reauthorizes and funds the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act through 2022, which provides habitat protection for more than 380 bird species, and codifies a signature program of President Barack Obama’s. That program, the Every Kid Outdoors Act, allows U.S. fourth-graders and their families to visit national parks free.

The measure also expands the boundaries of more than a half-dozen national parks and adds three units, including two Civil War sites in Kentucky, the Mill Springs Battlefield and Camp Nelson.

wow thx journalism for protecting democracy from dying in darkness

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Glorious.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193/post-17855403

I'm also curious to your answer to the, what appears to be, an article trying to defend Weinstein on the same cover. Is this a 'typical' Esquire article?

cover: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzNCw6oU0AEeLEj.jpg

"INSIDE THE DEFENSE OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/black-history-month-trolling-continues-esquire%E2%80%99s-profile-of-white-american-boy-during-black-history-month-stirs-controversy.99193/post-17856064

You have no idea the contents of that article, and the title of it “Inside the Defense of Harvey Weinstein” in no way whatsoever implies any sort of attempt to defend the man himself but rather would obviously more than likely be about the case itself. You’re just making up reasons to be outraged right here.

Well shit, you got me, I was literally frothing with outrage in that post. That's why I asked the question and implied that I didn't read Esquire when the other poster clearly did and was familiar with this month's issue. Cause I was outraged.

And clearly the article could be about any number of subjects about the case, tackling the defense, 'men/women who defend Weinstein' or the actual defense lawyers, or my initial interpretation since it shared the same space as that tacky ass cover, another fluff piece about those who defend against #MeToo. Course it's all moot since we both haven't read the article, though it could be on their website.

Brilliant observation nevertheless, I'll contact the editors of Esquire myself and send them your way next.

article, the top search result:

Why did one of New York’s most successful criminal defense lawyers feel up to representing the disgraced movie mogul? Just ask one of his past high-profile clients: Diddy. Jay Z. Martin Shkreli. Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (The list goes on.)

Is Benjamin Brafman a bad man because he helps (allegedly) bad people? He thinks not. “I’m not the morality police,” he tells me one afternoon several months ago at his firm, Brafman & Associates PC. “I’m a criminal-defense lawyer.”

But what if the client is Harvey Weinstein, the former film mogul now facing charges of sexual assault involving two women—and similar allegations from dozens more? Brafman leans back, places his palms on the table, and narrows his eyes, like I’ve just questioned Earth’s roundness. “I’ve spent forty years trying to get to the top of my profession, and this is the most high-profile case in the United States,” he says. “It’s flattering to be picked by someone like him.”

Brafman, seventy, likes to be flattered. “Do you know Jay-Z’s song about me?” he asks, seventeen minutes after we meet. The track, “Welcome to New York City,” is actually by Cam’ron, but Hova provided a guest verse name-checking the attorney. In 1999, the budding entrepreneur was accused of stabbing a man he suspected of bootlegging his next album. Brafman landed him a sweetheart plea deal: three years’ probation, zero days in prison. In his verse, Jay-Z raps, “Got Brafman defending me / ’Cause New York’ll miss me if I’m locked in the penitentiary.” A picture of the two—Brafman’s five-six frame rising to just above Jay’s shoulder, even with the added inch from his signature crest of slicked-back hair—sits among dozens of mementos on top of a credenza.

Framed images and awards cover the office, the corner one, on the twenty-sixth floor of a midtown Manhattan high-rise. Celebrity clients get prime wall real estate: There’s Martin Shkreli, the self-styled Pharma Bro (securities fraud); Plaxico Burress, the Giants’ star receiver (attempted criminal possession of a weapon); Dinesh D’Souza, the right-wing agitator (illegal campaign contributions). All either pleaded to lesser crimes or dodged the top charges. Sometimes, when the evidence is overwhelming, you hire Brafman just to cushion your fall.

Early last October, exactly one year after the Weinstein exposé ran in the Times, I meet Brafman at the cafeteria in the Southern District of New York’s federal courthouse to discuss how, against all odds, he has started turning the case in Weinstein’s favor.

Brafman’s eyes are reddened at the edges; the bags underneath them are puffier than usual. He has just wrapped the sentencing hearing for the client convicted of soliciting child pornography. “I hate the agony of defeat,” he says as he picks at a Cheerios single-serve cereal cup. (The defendant, who was facing up to thirty years in prison, ended up with a seventeen-year sentence.) As the conversation turns to Weinstein, Brafman’s mood lightens.

I’m not reading all that. Can you just sum up how outraged I should be on a numerical scale?

8.8

classic Gerstmann

[Joe Molotov]

Now I’m mad.

[BisMarckie]

Need an emergency filler like for my previous post. 

[VomKriege]

I didn't want to say it, but that's what I was thinking.

It doesn't seem Russia created it (hence my posts asking), but if Kamala makes it far, which she likely will, Russia is going to use it.

It's just racism, which is their specialty, so yeah.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot2-presidentpelosi.95742/page-263#post-17851168

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot2-presidentpelosi.95742/post-17858778

Some great news for a change:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ackage-heres-whats-it/?utm_term=.fdf240313721

The measure protects 1.3 million acres as wilderness, the nation’s most stringent protection, which prohibits even roads and motorized vehicles. It permanently withdraws more than 370,000 acres of land from mining around two national parks, including Yellowstone, and permanently authorizes a program to spend offshore-drilling revenue on conservation efforts.

Perhaps the most significant change the legislation would make is permanently authorizing a federal program that funnels offshore drilling revenue to conserve a spread of sites that includes major national parks and wildlife preserves, as well as local baseball diamonds and basketball courts. Authorization for the popular program, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), lapsed months ago due to the partial government shutdown and other disputes. Liberals like the fact that the money allows agencies to set aside land for wildlife habitat. Conservatives like the fact that taxpayers don’t have to foot the bill for it.

Congress is now set to reauthorize the fund in perpetuity, though it will not make its spending mandatory. Congressional funding for the program has “fluctuated widely” since its inception in 1965, according to a 2018 Congressional Research Service report. Less than half of the $40 billion that has piled up in the fund during its five decades of existence has been spent by Congress on conservation efforts.

The bill reauthorizes and funds the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act through 2022, which provides habitat protection for more than 380 bird species, and codifies a signature program of President Barack Obama’s. That program, the Every Kid Outdoors Act, allows U.S. fourth-graders and their families to visit national parks free.

The measure also expands the boundaries of more than a half-dozen national parks and adds three units, including two Civil War sites in Kentucky, the Mill Springs Battlefield and Camp Nelson.

wow thx journalism for protecting democracy from dying in darkness

nice.

Less than half of the $40 billion that has piled up in the fund during its five decades of existence has been spent by Congress on conservation efforts.

[BisMarckie]

I didn't want to say it, but that's what I was thinking.

It doesn't seem Russia created it (hence my posts asking), but if Kamala makes it far, which she likely will, Russia is going to use it.

It's just racism, which is their specialty, so yeah.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2019-ot2-presidentpelosi.95742/page-263#post-17851168

I always thought it was Vodka or these dolls.
Next time I'm there, I'll make sure to try some racism.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Is there an age minimum on VPs?

Cause a Sanders/AOC ticket is my jam to see era just die.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Crooked failing UK mainstream media still not reporting on hero defending post office from insane racist thug wielding morning star on chain 

[Nintex]

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

In fairness, Shinobi really enjoyed Mass Effect: Andromeda

[Shuri]

THe ESQuiRe KiD iS JUst 17, He DoENsT KnOW whAT He’S DOinG