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[Leadbelly]

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1099394135361028096
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1099415576076845057

Lol

The guy is like fucking Rasputin.

[Jansen]

What was Mercury Fred banned for?
Justice is real.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senator-dianne-feinstein-is-taped-being-snide-to-children-asking-about-the-green-new-deal.101373/page-19#post-18225943

[Don Rumata]

LATINX

sounds like a Windows 95 on-disc course to study Latin.

[pgtl_10]

5-year-old son doing gymnastics had been deemed inappropriate by YouTube. That means the channel can’t earn money on a video with more than 300,000 pageviews.

Who the fuck watches five years old doing gymnastics?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/youtubes-new-comment-policy-will-punish-creators-due-to-trolls-making-inappropriate-comments-update-only-apply-to-videos-that-include-minors.101367/page-6#post-18215127

Very sus.

I could barely walk at 5 let alone do gymnastics, and these kids are doing somersaults and shit?

I have a friend whose 4 year daughter did gymnastics.

[NegativeCrepe]

mercury fred

red mercury

 

[Phoenix Dark]

This Feinstein/troll kids story is too much for me. At this point it's hard for me to view climate change as anything more than an abstract concept of doom that young liberals channel their existential fear and depression though. There is no logical plan or actionable blueprint for combating it...instead we get a variety of fantasy ideas and proposals, and anyone who dares questions them is Literally Trying To Kill Us.

I believe in climate change. But at the same time, I don't really give a shit. The cake is baked, there's nothing humans can do right now to fix this. And when you add in politics and everything else...nothing is going to be done about this anyway lol. Enjoy your life. Get an education. Make money. Eat ass. Have a family. Who cares.

[Mr Gilhaney]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuNEjihgIyZ

[agrajag]

lol Feinstein sounds like a bitch, why would anyone stan for her

[Nintex]

LMAO REE is giving out warnings in the Anthem is trash Jim Sterling thread because people call Jim's shitty videos trash. 

[Jansen]

Anthem sucks but so does Jim Sterling

 however I do enjoy how easily he can trigger people with his super repetitive videos

[zepblackstar]

LMAO REE is giving out warnings in the Anthem is trash Jim Sterling thread because people call Jim's shitty videos trash. 

wait.. REE is staning Anthem now?

[Jansen]

This clearly needed its own thread. Jim definitely knows boring trash he's been making it for years...

Lol

[Jansen]

LMAO REE is giving out warnings in the Anthem is trash Jim Sterling thread because people call Jim's shitty videos trash. 

wait.. REE is staning Anthem now?

Not really. It's more that people hate jim's super predictable videos.

[jorma]

lol Feinstein sounds like a bitch, why would anyone stan for her

you're about to end up on a stinkles spreadsheet, comrade

[Joe Molotov]

Imagine careposting so hard in a "Diane Feinstein gets DESTROYED by Woke Elementary Kids, MUST SEE 👀" thread that you can get yourself banned. 

[benjipwns]

What was Mercury Fred banned for?
Justice is real.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/senator-dianne-feinstein-is-taped-being-snide-to-children-asking-about-the-green-new-deal.101373/page-19#post-18225943

User Banned (1 Week): Trolling and antagonizing other members

User Banned (3 Days): Hostility, antagonizing users
You posted a Project Veritas-style edit of a political exchange and people are reacting accordingly.

Bronson, you gunna let this kind of shit stand man? This person has been attacking the OP and throwing around conspiracy theories for pages now.

[james]

Univision (Spanish NA TV Channel) is depressing ass [sic?] hell.

First reply:

I feel for you OP. I'm glad my Spanish is shit so that I can just tune it out.

Excellent, it turned into a thread to shit on white people who use latinx, and since none of the pasty ass mods will click a Univision thread it's only getting better

[Tripon]

mercury fred

red mercury

 

Pretty sure it's the same poster. Looking for red mercury brings up nothing now.

[Propagandhim]

https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1099394135361028096
https://twitter.com/Complex/status/1099415576076845057

how can you be this horny

[james]

https://twitter.com/FortPointer/status/1099399230672826369

[agrajag]

Univision (Spanish NA TV Channel) is depressing ass [sic?] hell.

First reply:

I feel for you OP. I'm glad my Spanish is shit so that I can just tune it out.

Excellent, it turned into a thread to shit on white people who use latinx, and since none of the pasty ass mods will click a Univision thread it's only getting better

I still think it's some dumb white people shit.

It is common in latinx circles among educated and academic people.

 

[benjipwns]

you're about to end up on a stinkles spreadsheet, comrade

holy shit

"Mitch McConnell caught on camera, fucking up the country unapologetically right on the news almost every day now, protecting a man he knows to be literally selling the presidency to Saudi Arabia and Russia."

<Crickets>

"Elderly public servant fails to hug child in precisely the right way "

<scandal>

Did you watch the unedited clip or are you too hot to press play yet? My point has fuck all to do with who's more evil or old or bad with kids and about how we waste media, news and social attention on trashfires and drama while cadaverous vampires suck the entire thing dry.

Also are you two doing a bit?

I'm not giving anyone a pass. I watched the entire video. It's nada. I don't really like Pelosi either. Further treating these ends of a spectrum as equally problematic and wasting time on this shit is pointless and self defeating. Also plays into the plain as day strategy of dividing people and groups. I'm serious about that. It's highly energetic already. I'm not biting.

Seven pages of allegedly aligned people fighting over nothing at all and trolls literally posting the same Feinstein scandal that got dredged up to make people fight each other last time.

She's a powerful egotistical elderly member of the political establishment. Her value is to use rules and relationships on behalf of the democratic party and its voters. She was fairly elected by a majority of people who've been quite familiar with her lack of gentleness. Letting intellectually dishonest people turn it into something it isn't is on you.

She's not a nice person, she's probably mean as a fucking bat. But not in this video and you're getting played. Next step is to move the goalposts to some more reasonable problem you can have with her. Or a historical problem. It another target.

Go nuts, but remember that people are trying to make you do that and trying to get you riled up about everything except the very real and imminent problems and dangers.

Personally I'd like to actually take the vote to the floor as a symbol and a way to put these clowns on the record - and a way to force the Democrats to actually address it as a head on policy issue, but there's a reason Mitch wants to vote on it too - and that is to force Democrats to vote against it because it's half baked procedurally and in policy terms. I think he's miscalculating what a lot of people would take away from that. But 16 pages of infighting, real and troll, about the propriety of how an old Senator speaks to children about procedure, and most of the outrage at Feinstein springing from a decontextualized clip, or goalposts moved from a bad spot, is a honey trap for division.

There's nothing stopping anyone from making a new thread about the underlying vote, or climate change, or the veracity and practicality of this Green New Deal or a future better one. And then at least the tone could start civil and practical - instead of tossing an unexploded video bomb out there and laughing as everyone gathers around to sniff it.

This trash, btw, is absolutely delightful to the people against meaningful climate change action, because it gums up the works and muddles the message and decoheres the opposition.

OK, let's just unpack that comparison. Not as an attack on your underlying point but as the reason that underlying point is almost inevitably q bad comparison.

Because an (R) would literally be telling them no, because he planned to sell the environment to the Koch Brothers and watch the world burn and gin up a war against Iran. And because he was monolithically supporting a criminal he knew to be selling American power to Vladimir Putin, a Saudi murderer and anyone who could transactionally and financially benefit him. Including North Korea.

Feinstein is telling them correctly and inelegantly that this vote is unworkable and literally tries to explain why it's complicated and hands them a policy and planning roadmap for doing the opposite. She's dismissive and rude and shows bad political instincts and low empathy - but her message remains true: we're trying to fix it but this bill is not viable in its present form.

But If an elderly republican was trying to tell them something mildly moral and was exasperated but calm, it would only be newsworthy because a republican was actually trying to get genuinely good for climate change effort into policy. That's how far apart those teams are. Literally good vs evil. It sounds absurd and reductive - but pick ANY policy - climate change, voting rights, Healthcare, war, truth, economics, any major policy position. It's not nuance about interest rates or geopolitical complexity. It's pretty binary stuff.

Look at how the "teams" deal with this stuff too. Some Dems - even a few real ones - are calling for the ouster of one of their most powerful leaders, because she's mean sounding or glib and doesn't want to simplify an issue. The other team keeps pederasts, racists and monsters safe and secure. We demand resignations and immolate our own team because we aren't monolithic and because we do actually hold our own accountable. Relatively speaking it's a night and day difference. And to a fault sometimes. Perfect as the enemy of good.

It's only "my side" because of policy and competence/numbers. I think that literally 90% of the politicians I vote for are ego driven power hungry grafters or at least became that after some idealism - and that they are at least mostly aligned with my fact and morality based approach to governance. I don't have a single "hero" outside of maybe Ocasia Cortez as a naive but talented communicator - a kind of powerful tool who's built up enough credibility to at least fend off the millions of dollars and tweets pointed at her because she's a threat. I think she's young and inexperienced and her value is a combination of party evolution and calibration to the left. I don't think she's going to be Obama any time soon but we need her to grow and get seasoned without being cynicized by the system - and to bring more young people to the party and the ballot.

The last American politician I admired without holding my nose was Barney Frank. Not on any specific angle but as a package of effort and policy and mostly honesty. I felt a very similar admiration for Bernie initially and ironically Bernie's negatives for me were a direct result of his campaign rather than his career. If he can address those I can get behind him again.


But the "my side" comparison only works if they're both playing the same sport and that's simply not true. Perhaps especially on this issue.

If we ever attack climate change as a moonshot - it needs to be just that - a muscular Patriotic rah rah New Deal that kills two birds with one stone. Building and mandating solar and renewable energy sources but attacking smart infrastructure and funding research into materials, storage, distribution and efficiency at a ferocious target based pace - and a pace that propels American economic and leadership growth.

"We will create a recyclable energy storage and distribution technology that is a sustainable net environmental good. We will eliminate all XXX power by X date" and so on.

But to get to that Kennedy moon speech we need more control of a rational and good government - and the "cold war enemy" needs to be climate change itself. Pessimistically I believe that the only thing that will change the American system and consciousness will probably be a catastrophic and indisputably climate related natural disaster - a drowned city on American soil. We have enough evidence to identify the most feasible candidates. Maybe it will be a giant and sudden permafrost or methane event - or an exponential melting event. But we only react to crisis - and crisis also paralyzes us. And we need another Kennedy - an inspirational figure who can cut through team loyalty directly to the issue itself.

I think people are still infuriatingly oblivious to how compromised and weak our system is. It's cheaper to bribe an American politician than a Russian oligarch. Mere thousands of dollars can get you access to politicians but also the American public. You can warp the systems quite economically. Results from those investments can be immediate and obvious. Coal and energy barons are able to directly buy tax dollars for pennies. With guaranteed returns. Foreign nations are paying cash for the ability to wreak havoc on the world stage and undermine our democracy and civil discourse. For piffling amounts. Russia literally can't afford to repair its naval fleet, but for the cost of a couple of skyscrapers it can rock the foundations of NATO and help itself to a country or two.

Saudi Arabia for the cost of a few condos and mansions can access American nuclear technology and create an obscenely dangerous situation in the middle east - and its princes continue to flagrantly fund ISIS and Al Qaeda and the destruction of America and Israel - and we symbolically moved our embassy to Jerusalem as a deliberate affront to the entire middle east - for cash and a direct favor to a racist coalition and probably money from Israel and American citizens like Adelson. Knowing that it would further worsen the global stage and benefit no one. And we don't make a squeak when settlers are deliberately deployed to anger not just Palestinians, but the Muslim world.

But the teams comparison doesn't withstand scrutiny because of the nature of the teams and the import of what their rules create.

One of the teams is - to put it mildly - imperfect. But the other team is literally evil.

LOL she's not going anywhere. Even if you only ever watch the clip and ignore the rest of the visit - the worst thing you can accuse her of is distant and condescending tone.


Even if you're credulous or sensitive enough to be outraged by that, the only reasonable remedy is a ballot years from now. She's always been like this and she wins elections in spite of it and possibly because of it.

Meanwhile republicans continue to erode environmental protections as quickly as they can the president says our entire scientific community is wrong on climate change and our intelligence apparatus is wrong and that he believes Putin over the FBI.

18 pages.

[agrajag]

Frank O'Connor, get some help.

[Nintex]

Someone tell Frank that the company he works for...

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/microsoft-google-gop-convention-222658

 

[BisMarckie]

Imagine reading these screeds.

[Propagandhim]

Said this before, but...he's on heavy doses of adderall.  No normal person can do this.

[benjipwns]

I like how even in that massive rant about climate chaos and how Republicans are literally evil he still meanders into ranting about Israel for a couple paragraphs.

[D3RANG3D]

Latinx is stupid as fuck.

[Nintex]

We finally know which companies donated towards this year’s Republican primary convention in Ohio and which refused.

The largest donation made in-kind was software and software licensing worth $1.8 million provided by Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

 

[Uncle]

[benjipwns]

so what Halo species do you think Frank is making into an Israel expy in the lore

[agrajag]

https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/status/1099366465302642688

[benjipwns]

What the fuck is fgc. Did you not learn in school that you use the full words the first time an acronym is introduced?

lol git gud

[stufte]

Where my Tinx at?

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/status/1099366465302642688

And if R Kelly was sexually assaulting boys (you know, like Catholic priests) instead of black girls, he wouldn't be getting defended by (a segment of) black men.

[Snoopycat_]

A quick reminder that the nation's favourite quiz show, Say what you really think, will be returning soon. As usual it will be hosted by team captain Enzom who's popular catchphrase, Greetings fellow coloureds, lead the New York Post to dub him the Niles Crane of racial awareness.

[Joe Molotov]

Hispanics are truly the worst at graphic design.

Why is this racist and inflammatory drive-by rhetoric not actioned yet?

Can't believe he forgot to put "Hispanix are truly the worst at graphix design." 

[tiesto]

LATINX

sounds like a Windows 95 on-disc course to study Latin.

I always think of the Atari Lynx when I hear it.
The Atari Latinx. Featuring such hits like Chico's Challenge and Baja California Games...

[Tripon]

LATINX

sounds like a Windows 95 on-disc course to study Latin.

I always think of the Atari Lynx when I hear it.
The Atari Latinx. Featuring such hits like Chico's Challenge and Baja California Games...

Atarx?

[BlueTsunami]

https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/status/1099366465302642688

Whataboutism over paedophilia is never a good look. And basically what PD said.

[benjipwns]

They got banned for their posts in response to me though.

Hi,

They were banned for how they responded to me.

Look at me! I get people banned! Look at me!!
 

who has two thumbs, over 30000 posts and just got someone banned

[benjipwns]

apologies if incelsiorlef does not infact have two thumbs, i did not intend on misfingering her

[HaughtyFrank]

Why not just say Latin/Latins? I'm sure no one will think you're talking about the Romans.

[BlueTsunami]

Why not just say Latins? I'm sure no one will think you're talking about the Romans.

Cause we gotta include everyone, even latin dudes who still wear boot cut jeans

[Himu]

https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/status/1099366465302642688

And if R Kelly was sexually assaulting boys (you know, like Catholic priests) instead of black girls, he wouldn't be getting defended by (a segment of) black men.

(Image removed from quote.)

You ever notice niccas use whataboutisms when pos black men get their just desserts? A man that abused children and got away with it despite evidence for decades and the first thing they think is,”if r Kelly were a white man/catholic priest” whataboutism like they the most oppressed mother fuckers in the world when the dude - I repeat - GOT AWAY WITH IT when it was public fucking knowledge.

Black men are (mostly) trash. Not you tho.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://twitter.com/RealDLHughley/status/1099366465302642688

And if R Kelly was sexually assaulting boys (you know, like Catholic priests) instead of black girls, he wouldn't be getting defended by (a segment of) black men.

(Image removed from quote.)

Black men are (mostly) trash. Not you tho.

nah we not on that wave

[Himu]

[BlueTsunami]

Hispanics are truly the worst at graphic design.

Why is this racist and inflammatory drive-by rhetoric not actioned yet?

Can't believe he forgot to put "Hispanix are truly the worst at graphix design." 

[NegativeCrepe]

They got banned for their posts in response to me though.

Hi,

They were banned for how they responded to me.

Look at me! I get people banned! Look at me!!
 

would you action me? i'd action me so fucking hard

[D3RANG3D]

I am so... they can fuck off with that shit.

[Phoenix Dark]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ados-american-descendants-of-slavery-movement-russian-operation-or-legitimate-sentiments.101534/page-2#post-18230718

The only interest most white liberal institutions have in black people is as votes, foot soldiers for other people's movements. A decade of democrat focus on policies aimed at helping specific demographics or segments of society (immigrants, gay people, women, etc) has black people finally saying "hey, what about us." The response? Candidates rolling up to black radio shows to shuck and jive, discuss their favorite soul food, talk about how they use to smoke weed (Kamala Harris) etc. But when it comes to talking to black people about black interests, and specific policies to help black people? Nope.

ADOS was inevitable. I don't think it's a major movement or will shift the election, but this has been a decade in the making. Are Russian trolls magnifying it and using it to create tension? Sure, no question. All you have to do is search ADOS on twitter to see obvious troll accounts. That doesn't change the fact that legitimate issues are being raised by these people, and they should be taken seriously. Does that mean candidates should be promising reparations aimed exclusively at descendants of slaves? Fuck no, reparations will never happen and is a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow policy for any candidate to die on a hill over.

[BlueTsunami]

I am so... they can fuck off with that shit.

As am I. And I haven't ridden a BMX since middle school

[D3RANG3D]

I am so... they can fuck off with that shit.

As am I. And I haven't ridden a BMX since middle school

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Dont lie it was a Huffy

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[El Babua]

ADOS was inevitable.

Tell that to GRRM 

[BlueTsunami]

I am so... they can fuck off with that shit.

As am I. And I haven't ridden a BMX since middle school

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dont lie it was a Huffy

[close]

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[Himu]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ados-american-descendants-of-slavery-movement-russian-operation-or-legitimate-sentiments.101534/page-2#post-18230718

The only interest most white liberal institutions have in black people is as votes, foot soldiers for other people's movements. A decade of democrat focus on policies aimed at helping specific demographics or segments of society (immigrants, gay people, women, etc) has black people finally saying "hey, what about us." The response? Candidates rolling up to black radio shows to shuck and jive, discuss their favorite soul food, talk about how they use to smoke weed (Kamala Harris) etc. But when it comes to talking to black people about black interests, and specific policies to help black people? Nope.

ADOS was inevitable. I don't think it's a major movement or will shift the election, but this has been a decade in the making. Are Russian trolls magnifying it and using it to create tension? Sure, no question. All you have to do is search ADOS on twitter to see obvious troll accounts. That doesn't change the fact that legitimate issues are being raised by these people, and they should be taken seriously. Does that mean candidates should be promising reparations aimed exclusively at descendants of slaves? Fuck no, reparations will never happen and is a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow policy for any candidate to die on a hill over.

This movement has been growing via Youtube. I can point you to some videos. Beware, they're mostly anti-semitic and occasionally anti-lgbt. This thing has been brewing for a while.

The basic gist is that black americans - as in, those descended from slaves - have completely different interests than say, an african immigrant.

[Leadbelly]

I believe in climate change. But at the same time, I don't really give a shit. The cake is baked, there's nothing humans can do right now to fix this. And when you add in politics and everything else...nothing is going to be done about this anyway lol. Enjoy your life. Get an education. Make money. Eat ass. Have a family. Who cares.

The global north will be fine, it's just southern food supplies and water that will be majorly impacted. Actually, this is probably the greatest act of exploitation in human history, externalizing the costs of our entire industrialization process onto the backs of developing nations.

As they say, Earth will do just fine, it's just us that may have a problem. The amount of CO2 in the air is nothing compared to what it has been in an earlier period of Earth's history.

[james]

Why not just say Latin/Latins? I'm sure no one will think you're talking about the Romans.

Because they're rerards

[Phoenix Dark]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ados-american-descendants-of-slavery-movement-russian-operation-or-legitimate-sentiments.101534/page-2#post-18230718

The only interest most white liberal institutions have in black people is as votes, foot soldiers for other people's movements. A decade of democrat focus on policies aimed at helping specific demographics or segments of society (immigrants, gay people, women, etc) has black people finally saying "hey, what about us." The response? Candidates rolling up to black radio shows to shuck and jive, discuss their favorite soul food, talk about how they use to smoke weed (Kamala Harris) etc. But when it comes to talking to black people about black interests, and specific policies to help black people? Nope.

ADOS was inevitable. I don't think it's a major movement or will shift the election, but this has been a decade in the making. Are Russian trolls magnifying it and using it to create tension? Sure, no question. All you have to do is search ADOS on twitter to see obvious troll accounts. That doesn't change the fact that legitimate issues are being raised by these people, and they should be taken seriously. Does that mean candidates should be promising reparations aimed exclusively at descendants of slaves? Fuck no, reparations will never happen and is a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow policy for any candidate to die on a hill over.

This movement has been growing via Youtube. I can point you to some videos. Beware, they're mostly anti-semitic and occasionally anti-lgbt. This thing has been brewing for a while.

The basic gist is that black americans - as in, those descended from slaves - have completely different interests than say, an african immigrant.

I'm familiar with it, and have been debating it on The Coli for awhile. And yea there's a lot of ugly shit in there. Tariq and others are involves so you know there's gonna be wack anti-lgbt shit in there.


I have no issue with recognizing the different situation and interests of descendant blacks and immigrants. Or anger over AOC and others deciding that if you want to have reparations, you have to give them to Latinos too. Tension between blacks and Hispanics (politically) was inevitable as well. Democrats have shown no hesitation to go to any extreme and die on any hill for Hispanic/immigrant issues. Black people?

[Himu]

PD do you put hot sauce in your wallet, nicca?

Also you are starting to sound like me last year. You...you okay?