If Mort Divine ruled the world

[HamburgerBoy]

The White House banned Acosta, falsely accusing him of molesting a female White House employee who had tried to seize the mic from him. Later Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, tried to back up the fake molestation charges by sharing a doctored video from the world’s most infamous font of doctored videos, Infowars. The fake Infowars video was edited to make it look like Acosta had put his hands on the female employee. He did not. It was a lie.

I love how the media gets away with brazenly lying about this. At most, Infowars edited the video to make Acosta's arm look like it moved faster than it actually did, by duplicating a single frame of the video twice. A minority of media organizations have actually half-defended Infowars/Watson by saying it was very possibly a result of the video --> GIF conversion and a couple sloppy edits in the process of zooming in on his arm at the point of the movement, and that the edit had subtle impact on its own. The question was never about whether or not Acosta put his hand on her arm, which he blatantly did whether you look at the Infowars version or the CSPAN original.

EDIT: I love how they go "muh racism" and "muh press" and "muh aristocracy" and follow it with an image of Thomas Jefferson, a racist slaveowning member of the Virginian plantation elite, who literally helped pioneer the gossip rag through his close associaton with James Callender. And I consider Jefferson to be the greatest president in our history.

 

[Dak]

Journalists are no talent, unethical, scum. And some, I assume, are good people.

 

[Dak]

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/wesley-yang-on-asian-americans-and-political-correctness.html

there’s this complex system of lies that grows ever more insular and ever more gaslighting of those who remain within it, such that no truths are speakable. So is the Asian person someone who can speak some truth? This is what I have been attempting, not just because I see some sort of social utility in my role but because that’s my temperament. Any time there’s going to be a series of dogmas placed upon what you’re supposed to think or say, I’m going to put myself on the side in opposition to that. Because the search for truth necessarily involves flouting those kind of restrictions.

 

[Dak]

https://quillette.com/2018/11/14/the-free-speech-crisis-on-campus-is-worse-than-people-think/

 

[Dak]

https://marginalrevolution.com/marg...sults-assortative-mating-inequality-seen.html

More evidence that progressive ideals undermine themselves.

 

[CiG]

I know she's pretty much low hanging fruit...



...but she's so moronic.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

She says very nearly the exact same things that the Dem leadership has been saying for decades, she just realized after Trump that not that many people really give a shit about numbers so there's no reason to even pretend to be accurate with them. The sooner the illusion of Dems being about facts and not feels crumbles, the better. I wish her all the best.

 

[CiG]

True indeed.

 

[Dak]

No one is about facts and figures unfortunately. One of the ugly truths revealed by social media.

 

[CiG]

I think what I find worse about her is that she can't even lie on her feet or do a good acting job in the pursuit of even just looking like she's not a straight up retard. Most do spew bullshit but they don't constantly have errormessage.meme moments live on TV.

 

[CiG]

Her TV appearances kinda remind me of those beauty pageant moments where the winning model says something utterly retarded and everybody smiles and claps.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

https://www.thestranger.com/theater...ePOeo7QEmC8lHvBB-otj__Vq4XszEk4r3BpOxfofS32eE

NO! I think they aren't sexy ENOUGH! I readThe Anti-Fascist Handbook, and it was kind of dull, you know? There was no humor. The black bloc, they at least kind of have style, and they have those shields made out of duct tape, which I'm kind of jealous of... but I have always thought they should add a little color, a hint of red for communism or something.

I fucking love Waters.

 

[CiG]

Comedy gold on Fecesbook.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

this vid is labeled as a depicting "trump supporters"

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/dawn-rayd-ragana-woe-more-playing-anti-fascist-brooklyn-metal-fest/

 

[The Ozzman]

That's hilarious because I would probably rather listen to NSBM than any of the shit that would he performed at that show.

 

[CiG]

This event is for those of us who reject and push back against that poison infecting our scene—those who adhere by the mantra that “metal is for everyone (except Nazis),” and who are committed to cleaning up our own backyard.

Typical annoying busybodies trying to police other people. Insufferable scum.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Second-wave black metal has always been about busybodies. Imagine getting offended over some shitty left-wing festival when we're talking about a bunch of church-burning gay-murdering fashion-imposing edgelords. I hope this is how black metal dies.

 

[CiG]

Who's offended?

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Taake should play a competing show at the nearest venue.