This Is Fine

GodEmperorDune

12:04 AM

The fact that she said this with her life on the line.... women undefeated bruh

Tweeted by AllenTweeetz on June 25, 2018 at 4:31 PM

puzzlepiece87

Sublink of earlier linked Carbon Ironies article (thanks for that!): what kind of murderer will we live with?

Memor-X

12:27 AM

@Chippies no he'll be on Politics.SE

and then complain about unpatriotic downvoting

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X lol did this really happen?

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune no but would you be surprised if it did?

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X nah because clearly downvotes are "uncivilized"

Chippies

@Memor-X fake news, flagged and deported

GodEmperorDune

12:51 AM

Glad folks like this tweet! Please check out my piece today analyzing Trump’s actions and why I think they are the result of evil intent, not incompetence. https://www.salon.com/2018/06/25/is-donald-trump-truly-incompetent-not-half-as-much-as-liberals-hope/

Tweeted by AmandaMarcotte on June 25, 2018 at 1:40 PM in reply to AmandaMarcotte

Unionhawk

"The Anti-War movement in Vietnam ... The Civil Rights movement ... both of those were much more civil in tone": @David_Gergen on the 'uncivil discourse' of politics in 2018 compared to other historical divides https://cnn.it/2Mp6ipl http://www.snappytv.com/tc/8312225

Tweeted by CNNnewsroom on June 25, 2018 at 2:41 PM

Unionhawk

1:11 AM

Also! Doing a socialism today by learning about organizing farm workers which is Cool

Memor-X

1:37 AM

Trump blasts Harley Davidson for using tariffs as "excuse" to move some production out of US http://hill.cm/s784Egg

Tweeted by thehill on June 26, 2018 at 12:43 AM

i like how he tells the company to be patient if it's loosing money

quartata

Lmao

It's so hilarious people are getting mad at corporations being corporations

Memor-X

@quartata well corporations are generally seen as greedy but what's funny is one businessman getting mad at another business for doing what he would have done

Ocean science agency may remove climate change from agency mission, replace it with trade deficit http://hill.cm/IODt1RA

Tweeted by thehill on June 26, 2018 at 12:25 AM

*faceplam*

while yes it's more back to the sustainable fishing thing, to be honest you should be worrying about your own people getting the food before trading it off

but in more funny trump news

Protestors to fly giant inflatable Trump baby over London during his UK visit http://hill.cm/2ix7nir

Tweeted by thehill on June 26, 2018 at 12:04 AM

[insert joke about it being thin skinned and filled with hot air]

Australian oBike customers demand refunds as Singapore service shuts down http://bit.ly/2yJRPTg

Tweeted by SBSNews on June 26, 2018 at 1:35 AM

Unionhawk

#OccupyICEPDX Tear gas pellets have been fired at the Macadam st entrance of the ICE building in PDX by police inside the bulding. They fired toward the street and people passing in cars were at risk of being gased. They were asked to roll up their windows. Please come support.

Tweeted by BashfulBulba on June 26, 2018 at 1:45 AM

the assault has begun

Unionhawk

3:01 AM

ooo

Apparently the ICE building in Portland?

It's owned by the city

Rented by the feds on some variety of conditional basis

GodEmperorDune

gogo break the lease

Unionhawk

@tedwheeler

GodEmperorDune

surely part of the lease forbids the govt from doing war crimes on the property

murgatroid99

I think it's crimes against humanity, not war crimes

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 fair

We're suffering from a breakdown of democracy, not of civility, argues @michelleinbklyn https://nyti.ms/2yGXedt

Tweeted by nytopinion on June 25, 2018 at 11:31 PM

Unionhawk

3:17 AM

@GodEmperorDune but no, from what I understand, Ted wants to give an outward sense of not helping the feds out here while at the same time desiring a relatively quiet return to the status quo

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yeah I saw that leaked email

Unionhawk

As one would expect from any sanctuary city that rents a building to ICE

Honestly

GodEmperorDune

centrists gonna centrist

Memor-X

5:10 AM

Charmaine Maguire receives 18 months probation and a recorded conviction for riding a horse while drunk to a #Logan bottle shop @SkyNewsAust

Tweeted by brendanjsmith9 on June 26, 2018 at 2:49 AM

Wipqozn

11:14 AM

@Memor-X That's, ah, quite the sentence

cc @Yuuki

Unionhawk

12:56 PM

Hello! I'm taking off my news cap and putting on my socialism cap to present the following:

From Aug 10-12, we're hosting #RustBeltCon18 in Pgh, a convention of over 30 @DemSocialists chapters from across the region to share skills & support one another in our organizing. It'll cost some money to pull off. Can you chip in? https://www.gofundme.com/raise-for-rust-belt-conference

Tweeted by pghDSA on June 26, 2018 at 12:23 AM

Chippies

Unionhawk

Cincinnati is roughly the southwest corner of this region, and pittsburgh is graciously hosting this conference, so any support is appreciated

I don't actually know what other chapters are included, the regions are not well defined (well I mean I assume someone has a list)

@Unionhawk reports are that this has settled

almost like they were just going for a warning shot, to the extent that the use of chemical weapons can be a warning shot

GodEmperorDune

2:23 PM

#SCOTUS upholds President Trump's travel ban in 5-4 decision

Tweeted by KimberlyRobinsn on June 26, 2018 at 2:15 PM in reply to KimberlyRobinsn

Supreme Court is ok with white supremacy too it seems

SOTOMAYOR & RBG GO THERE: Say travel ban was plainly motivated by Trump's anti-Muslim animus. Quotes from campaign speeches and all. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-965_h315.pdf

Tweeted by mjs_DC on June 26, 2018 at 2:18 PM in reply to mjs_DC

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Daily reminder with every 5-4 decision that Republicans got away with straight-up stalling Obama's Supreme Court appointment.

Exeggutor

I'm fucking embarrassed to be from this country.

Unionhawk

afaik Janus will probably be happening today too

though that one was set in stone months ago

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki pretty much this

Fucking McConnell

puzzlepiece87

@Unionhawk Is there some DSA general fund you'd recommend?

quartata

2:33 PM

Richard Spencer says that "antifa" sucked all the fun out of college appearances, calls it quits

lmao

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune If anything, this is going to be the one thing that'll be in every history book about this period in time.

Unionhawk

@puzzlepiece87 there is a gofundme to pittsburgh there that will support this effort in particular

Yuuki

Congress just completely ignored the Constitution.

puzzlepiece87

@Unionhawk I understand that. I'm asking if you all have a general fund that you think is well-used that I could donate to regularly.

Unionhawk

no

lol

Technically National is a thing

and for $5 a month you can officially join dsa

but like

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

puzzlepiece87

2:35 PM

Got it, I'll keep my eye on the individual efforts then.

quartata

noted retailer of centrist t-shirts DSA National

GodEmperorDune

They also decided 5-4 that California can’t force the anti-choice bamboozle centers to have real information about abortion services, but Muslim ban is kinda sucking up the oxygen

Ugh what bullshit to wake up to

Unionhawk

A lot of growing pains, I think, but at a certain point (now through 2019 convention) that doesn't really fly for me

2019 convention is going to be lit

Nzall

/8 But the upshot is this: the majority says that the President of the United states can revile Muslims and say he wants to ban them, but as long as his law is facially neutral and someone can make up a neutral argument for it, it survives. /end

Tweeted by Popehat on June 26, 2018 at 2:36 PM in reply to Popehat

GodEmperorDune

the slightly good thing that the muslim ban decision did was mention that korematsu (the decision which allowed the US to put the japanese into internment/concentration camps) was officially overturned and not allowed

Unionhawk

2:40 PM

That reminds me I should check on the vote to send an internal letter to national about the national compassion fund that raised $200,000 and as far as I know has yet to be disbursed

to make sure there isn't like, a block vote from cville members or something

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune small yay

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i feel like this was done so the court could point to it and be "see i'm not racist, i did a good thing"

Unionhawk

ok cool so far it's just "we aren't going to get answers from national" and such, which I think is likely, but we should at least make them not answer our questions

puzzlepiece87

And now I see why you can't recommend

Unionhawk

Like I said, 2019 convention is going to be lit

NPC recall, uh

Yuuki

2:43 PM

We're Not Broke - The Corporate Tax Cheats of America

►

Unionhawk

abolish the NPC

Yuuki

Documentary on corporate tax evasion and the effects on the US economy.

Unionhawk

idk what other resolutions are likely to come up

probably one to officially endorse bernie sanders for president nationally

from the Our Revolution types

Yuuki

> This documentary was mostly really well done but it's extremely frustrating that they destroy the entire message at the end by taking the responsibility off of government to fix the problem and saying that the 'greedy corporations' should just do the right thing and and just pay more, whatever that means.

Corporations absolutely love the 'evil greedy corporation' narrative because it makes the problem seem like it's a problem with the businesses and not with the government (and therefore that's where we should seek a solution) whereas the corporations know that regulation is the only way…

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk but then who will give quests?

Yuuki

2:44 PM

source

quartata

@Unionhawk I think you meant joe kennedy

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki good analysis

quartata

Kennedy/Biden 2020, double your joe

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i mean this also seems like shortsighted thinking, because if corporations are bad and greedy then it should be no problem to pass harsh regulations preventing such things, right?

Unionhawk

@quartata Honestly I would not be surprised if a particular caucus brings forward a resolution to endorse whoever the democratic nominee is

like, 100%

that is within the realm of possibility

I think such a resolution would get destroyed, however

yeah

quartata

2:47 PM

i think weve all come to terms with the fact that the 2020 nominee is probably going to blow

Unionhawk

As it turns out, organizing is super complex because it involves a lot of people

with many different visions of how to do politics

puzzlepiece87

@quartata I certainly have

quartata

warren is probably the best we can hope for, and thats pretty unlikely

it'll probably be Biden.....

Unionhawk

I think warren could be good

I dunno

some people don't like her

puzzlepiece87

I'd be okay with Warren too

Unionhawk

2:49 PM

but

puzzlepiece87

Warren, Harris, Booker are all my co-#1s

Booker's my favorite politician but everyone else doesn't like him so he won't get it

Unionhawk

Like, I wouldn't be happy with pretty much anyone they nominate

but I'd be ok with some

puzzlepiece87

I do not want any 2016 frontrunners

quartata

trying to think what we would do if we had president eric garland

puzzlepiece87

You would get blocked by his Twitter account for sure

GodEmperorDune

2:55 PM

I'm reading Thomas' opinion in the crisis pregnancy center case, and the rationale is airtight: things five people on SCOTUS don't like are unconstitutional, but things exactly like those things are constitutional if something something 1787

Tweeted by jesseltaylor on June 26, 2018 at 2:55 PM

quartata

big surprise

expecting the supreme court to be impartial in 2018

Yuuki

Republicans: "Justices should only interpret the Constitution within the text!"
Also Republicans: "Judicial activism is okay when we have the majority."

Unionhawk

lol it looks like there are Joe Crowley signs illegally close to every NY14 polling site

Wipqozn

3:18 PM

@Exeggutor It's never too late to move to Canada! We could be Canadabros.

In fact there's a Google office in Toronto I think, you could just transfer there!

Tim Stone

Uhhh trying to give props to the farmers by lamenting a Monsanto R&D loss is mmm

The whole section is actually about trade warring with China and nothing to do with farmers themselves, lol

Reality Winner, a former NSA contractor, formally entered her guilty plea in court in Augusta, GA. Agreement is for 63 months in prison, 3 years supervised release

Tweeted by kgosztola on June 26, 2018 at 2:59 PM

Yuuki

3:35 PM

@TimStone Seems like a straightforward theft case (taking seeds from a farmer's cornfield) because I think reverse-engineering isn't illegal by any means.

Tim Stone

mm it probably is in this instance somehow but yeah it doesn't make sense

My mistake was mentioning Sonny Perdue the other day so naturally he's appeared to say something dumb

It's a patent violation/IP theft situation mostly which I doubt any farmer actually gives af about except for the fact they got screwed by Monsanto and China didn't

ToxicFrog

@Wipqozn there's one in Kitchener as well! Lower cost of living, more rivers, right next to Guelph

Unionhawk

3:55 PM

Jesus fucking christ

Hearing that Team @JoeCrowleyNY is taking our campaign posters, affixing them to trees, and then reporting them to @NYCSanitation to fine us. They are trying to ratchet us into $10k worth of fines. If you see anyone affixing our posters illegally, STOP THEM and take a photo.

Tweeted by Ocasio2018 on June 26, 2018 at 3:00 PM

puzzlepiece87

@GodEmperorDune Larian: Good quest design means you can finish the quest even if you kill almost any NPC.

Yuuki

@puzzlepiece87 I'm not sure if you can call Bethesda's recent offerings as "good quest design".

"Another settlement needs your attention."

puzzlepiece87

4:12 PM

@Yuuki I think Larian would argue that's more of a Bethesda quest design problem than a NPC problem.

Yuuki

Trying to remember another game where you can kill like every NPC.

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki That's neither Larian nor Bethesda, or just not Bethesda?

Also, I think but can't say for sure that you can do that in Spiderweb Software RPGs?

@Yuuki You know who Larian is, right? Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2?

Unionhawk

> Medium- to higher-wage workers and diabolically anti-union employer .... Includes most private sector employees, ...

:(

Yuuki

I actually haven't played Divinity.

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki I haven't played D:OS yet but that's on me, they're very well-reviewed.

@Yuuki Out of the 4 principal RPGs that came out of Kickstarter's prime (Wasteland, Pillars, D:OS, and ... what was the other one...

Yuuki

4:16 PM

Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

puzzlepiece87

Shadowrun

Out of those 4, the general consensus among my friends was that all were at least good and D:OS was #2 behind Pillars

If you like RPGs, you should probably give it a spin

@Yuuki This is in my backlog

Yuuki

I have Pillars but haven't really messed with it.

I also only played Tyranny for like 30 minutes.

puzzlepiece87

What have you been playing instead? (so I can judge you)

(So you can judge me) I've recently been playing Homefront: The Revolution, Minecraft, and Mad Max

I was also pleasantly surprised to see that Dontnod's (Life is Strange) newest, The Amazing Adventures of Captain Spirit, is actually free

Yuuki

As far as all games go: Hyrule Warriors, Mario Tennis, Jurassic World Evolution, World of Warcraft, Rainbow 6 Siege.

Actually not a lot of RPGs.

puzzlepiece87

Oh okay, you're probably never going to get to them then

Yuuki

4:21 PM

The last RPG I really played the heck out of was Atelier Lydie & Suelle and Xenoblade 2.

puzzlepiece87

Not only are you multi-platforming, you're also AAAing hard.

Unionhawk

A worker must have bread, but he must also have video games - rosa luxemburg

puzzlepiece87

Indeed, slot it into the next negotiations

Yuuki

Kinda slowing down on World of Warcraft though because I've got level-capped characters and the new expansion isn't for another month or so.

And so there's no motivation to push content because the current gear treadmill is just going to get slashed and burned with the new xpac.

puzzlepiece87

Indeed, who has time to play indie RPGs when you're working two jobs? xD

Yuuki

4:23 PM

Rainbow 6 is pretty much only played with friends.

@puzzlepiece87 Yeah, progression raiding is a hell of a thing.

It's why I'm rolling DPS this xpac, so I can feel less guilty about skipping raids when I feel like doing something else.

I used to be one of the guild's two tanks and it ended up burning me out halfway through this current expansion.

SaintWacko

I think The Bridge is leaking

puzzlepiece87

Makes sense, good for you making that decision

I'm playing Homefront/Mad Max/Minecraft on hardcore, that's my self-punishment, I like a challenge so I start over when I die.

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko I mean I can tie this back to capitalism being bad or some shit it's fine

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Haha

Yuuki

@SaintWacko I blame lack of investment in infrastructure.

Unionhawk

4:26 PM

there is no ethical consumption of video games under capitalism

puzzlepiece87

@SaintWacko Just link a tweet to dystopia and we'll be back to morosity in no time xD

Yuuki

> Trump: "We're going to rebuild our infrastructure."
Also Trump: "F--k kids."
Also also Trump: "No literally, f--k kids."

puzzlepiece87

@Unionhawk @Yuuki looool nice from both of you

Yuuki

I mean, if we actually re-invest significant capital into infrastructure, I'd be super happy.

@puzzlepiece87 I mean, he has on record barged into a Miss America changing room to basically leer at the contestants.

Unionhawk

That does remind me I should probably push Blood Sweat and Pixels up in my queue considering it's a library book that I've renewed like three times

but I am slow

puzzlepiece87

4:28 PM

@Yuuki Was referring to the infrastructure joke

Yuuki

Laughing in This Is Fine is probably off-topic or something.

Unionhawk

jokes are illegal

SaintWacko

Using the term "off-topic" is off-topic

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki @Unionhawk Depends on who's doing the laughing.

You or I, no. Obama or Tim Stone 2020, laughing is news.

Yuuki

oh boy square enix just emailed me to tell me that i can dress like a prince or princess.

SaintWacko

4:30 PM

@puzzlepiece87 Man I wish we could have Obama back

Yuuki

You know what? I'm content that he's gone. Clearly the job was terrible and I just want him to be happy.

puzzlepiece87

@SaintWacko Sooooooo everything's currently shitty and Obama would be a massive improvement over that, buttttttt the Democratic party has been forced ~~way~~ left since his time and I'd prefer to have someone that at least pays lip service to abolish ICE, stop the drone madness, doesn't insist on prosecuting Snowden, etc.

Yuuki

I mean, he had sorta paid lip service to stopping drone madness by literally telling Congress to stop him.

But you know, Republicans love bombing.

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki Boooooo, no one was forcing Obama to do drones.

Yuuki

I mean, that's literally "lip service".

puzzlepiece87

4:34 PM

He literally would not have even needed an EO to do that.

SaintWacko

Actually, the Republicans got the best of both worlds there

puzzlepiece87

@Yuuki Technically correct: the best kind of correct.

SaintWacko

They got to complain about what the president with a different skin color was doing AND other people with a different skin color were getting blown up! Win/win!

Yuuki

Did they ever complain about drones? I never heard anything about drones except from Democratic representatives.

Unionhawk

I...'m not sure they were the ones primarily doing the complaining about the second one

SaintWacko

4:36 PM

Oh no, those were two different things

They were very much only complaining about the first one

Yuuki

WTB a president whose most serious scandal in the first 100 days was mustard

Actually, was that in the first 100 days?

Unionhawk

I mean alternatively WTB one with good politics but /shrug

oH NO

dude

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Technically, you wouldn't be able to buy one with good politics.

As presidents with good politics wouldn't be able to be bought.

(English?)

quartata

4:53 PM

@Unionhawk wuh

Unionhawk

Dr. Prof. Jordan B. Peterson is coming to Cincinnati lol

quartata

show him my tweets

Unionhawk

Tickets starting at $38

but going all the way up to $103

quartata

lmao

Unionhawk

it is not clear to me what tier 1 tickets get you

quartata

4:55 PM

imagine paying $69 to have someone tell you that postmodernist criticism is anti-white

Unionhawk

oh, I think I see?

quartata

when you could go onto /pol/ with a text to speech for free

Unionhawk

$38 for balcony, $58 for loge, $103 for orchestra?

the tiers don't correspond to the seating chart in any real way other than there are 4 sections

quartata

how appropriate that it's like a play

a farce perhaps

Unionhawk

I mean it's at a theater so

the tickets are labeled just tier 1 through 3

lmao Fox has had a guy at the Red Hen since Monday apparently

they're closed mondays

and are only open for dinner

great stuff doug

there's nobody there, it's just him

I guess they assumed there would be some horde

GodEmperorDune

7:15 PM

“The ICE officer pushed us out & didn’t let us follow our three-year-old client into the lobby, & then pushed me to the ground. I was wearing high heels, so that’s when my foot was fractured and my leg got all bloody. ...he called me back in & detained me" https://www.thedailybeast.com/immigration-attorney-says-ice-broke-her-foot-locked-her-up?ref=home

Tweeted by attackerman on June 26, 2018 at 7:15 PM

quartata

extremely normal

"""just doing my job""'

quartata

8:01 PM

Schumer responds to Maxine Waters: It's "not American" to call for Trump officials to be confronted in public http://hill.cm/kzOgELL

Tweeted by thehill on June 25, 2018 at 8:52 PM

Unionhawk

love to be an opposition party

quartata

Unionhawk

these guys are going to lose every seat in 2018

love to spend time on this shit, at all

Yuuki

On the one hand, I get that there's this justification that they don't want to look like jerks before the mid-terms. On the other hand, I don't want to live in a country where some people legitimately think voters will forgive literally everything the administration has done because some official got kicked out of a restaurant.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki i don't get why dems are worried about this when republicans will literally not hold town meetings because they are scared of consituents and trump is calling out specific people and companies nearly every day

maybe the left will be civil when the trump admin stops being monstrous assholes

Unionhawk

8:09 PM

no

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Honestly, because this country has demonstrably shown that the voting population holds Democrats and Republicans to different standards.

Unionhawk

to be clear

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki and that's bullshit

Yuuki

Oh, it's definitely bullshit.

Unionhawk

The democrats are just unwilling to fight for people.

it's not complicated

one might be tempted to think a lot of high level democrats and the associated cloud of consultants and foundations and think tanks only care about keeping their jobs and protecting their friends and keeping their donors happy and looking principled and you'd probably be right

Tweeted by bombsfall on June 26, 2018 at 8:09 PM in reply to bombsfall

quartata

8:12 PM

that tweet is why I posted it here naturally

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk its that the dem politicans (and sadly many dem voters) are too hung up on potentially losing their own privilege to want to put it on the line for anyone else's

Unionhawk

yep

we do not have a party in this shitty country that cares about working people

Yuuki

And also, it does not seem like working people even care about working people.

quartata

i mean,,, i would normally joke about the peace and freedom party

But wasn't Roseanne their candidate

GodEmperorDune

and dems somehow have their heads in the sand that trump will blow over after so many years and they'll be left standing and that scenario is definitely not guaranteed

Unionhawk

8:13 PM

@Yuuki I mean it doesn't matter because neither party does

GodEmperorDune

@quartata iirc it was before she went alex jones

Unionhawk

"I won't kill you but I don't have to save you" vs culture wars stuff

puzzlepiece87

@quartata Love too be so bad at your job that you can't even pivot the conversation back to ripping kids apart from families.

quartata

@GodEmperorDune >implying people change

Unionhawk

to say that "people are voting against their interests" implies that anyone in establishment politics cares about anyone's interests

puzzlepiece87

8:15 PM

"I can see why a lot of people are so upset about ICE ripping kids away from their mothers at the border - it's monstrous." That's literally all you had to say Chuck.

Unionhawk

other than the donor class

GodEmperorDune

@quartata ehhh most of the third parties have candidates that are pretty far from the mainstream

Yuuki

@quartata If you've seen that documentary by that kid on her father being slowly propagandized by Fox News and talk radio, people can definitely change.

And change drastically.

quartata

Can't even say "gently admonish ICE"

Yuuki

Unfortunately, it does seem that that change is by and large typically for the worse.

puzzlepiece87

8:16 PM

@quartata So bad at job

GodEmperorDune

i liked some of jill stein's stuff but a doctor cozying up to antivaxxers... declaring that trump and hillary were the same, ... its too much

quartata

@Yuuki when it comes to racism I'm inclined to believe most people have it internalized to some extent, and it's always there

puzzlepiece87

@GodEmperorDune And making strong Russian appearances.

GodEmperorDune

@puzzlepiece87 at the time i thought that was dumb but not as deeply problematic as other things. in hindsight, yep

Yuuki

The problem is that Jill Stein and Gary Johnson were barely anything more than single-issue candidates. And if you've seen their interviews, they didn't even know their own single issues that well either.

GodEmperorDune

8:18 PM

@Yuuki there are some former white supremacists doing great work to try and pull other people out of the movement

@Yuuki yeah john oliver did a good segment on this

puzzlepiece87

@GodEmperorDune Agreed.

GodEmperorDune

ah yes, exactly what i need, an explainer on big dick energy. thanks promoted tweets

and i think i ended up on some sort of blocklist, because i'm being blocked by people i never interacted with. weird

GodEmperorDune

8:54 PM

and of course while the left debates whether we should be civil or not, the right debates whether actual civil war is necessary or not

The LEFT DECLARED WAR on AMERICA. Ask Steve Scalise. War was necessary to FREE THE COLONIES. War was necessary to FREE THE SLAVES. A fight might be necessary to SAVE THIS REPUBLIC from the LEFT. It's NOT what I want but OH WELL. FOUNDERS & LINCOLN didn't want it either but had to

Tweeted by SheriffClarke on June 26, 2018 at 12:25 AM

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune The left calls out people refusing service at restaurants, the right is perfectly okay with running people over with your car.

@GodEmperorDune ... huh?

Is he saying the Civil War was about slavery?

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki ikr

its not verified, so not sure if this is a parody account but it has about a million followers and trash in the mentions so it seemed legit

Tim Stone

Tough words from VP Pence in Brasilia today: He told Latin American nations: "Just as the United States Respects Your Borders and Your Sovereignty, We Insist That You Respect Ours."

Tweeted by vmsalama on June 26, 2018 at 7:06 PM

lmfao

Yuuki

Maybe it's because I know some relevant history, but "SAVE THE REPUBLIC" reminds me of Cuba, Iran, and China.

Except word-swap "republic" with "revolution".

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone lololololol

Yuuki

8:58 PM

Oh and France.

GodEmperorDune

love to own goal during the world cup

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune I'm pretty sure it is? He got unverified after he was hacked I think and it was funny

Yuuki

@TimStone That's just...

@GodEmperorDune Look, if the US team isn't going to play, then the administration will have to pick up the slack.

Tim Stone

Somewhere Kissinger choked briefly on a roll as he felt a disturbance in the force

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone maybe this means they don't want regular people from latin america to come in, only spies, assassins, and elite military units designed to destablize the govt and support a military coup?

quartata

9:01 PM

@TimStone when have we ever respected borders

GodEmperorDune

@quartata before they went bankrupt

they were a decent place to get books

quartata

nice

puzzlepiece87

MNT vs. Trinidad & Tobago - Omar Gonzalez Own Goal - Oct. 10, 2017

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quartata

i actually have a bookcase I snagged from a closing Borders

puzzlepiece87

@puzzlepiece87 This basically eliminated us from World Cup qualification

quartata

9:05 PM

Perfect end to the news day. https://nypost.com/2018/06/26/bloomberg-considering-run-for-president-as-a-democrat/?utm_source=maropost&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20180626&mpweb=755-7085005-719287179

Tweeted by GarbageApe on June 26, 2018 at 8:58 PM

cw: bourgeois

puzzlepiece87

> It’s a country whose law enforcement officials (and school administrators) generally have very few qualms about enforcing arbitrary, unjust, or downright stupid rules, because The Rules Are The Rules.

Yup, that's my country

Kevin van der Velden

I didn't know you lived in america

puzzlepiece87

Source: Current Affairs "I can't believe they still make kids recite the pledge of allegiance"

> It was written by a socialist

@Unionhawk Everything you've ever known has been a lie.

GodEmperorDune

steve king has literally sorry not sorryed

Steve King explains his retweet of a message by a Nazi sympathizer. He told me it was unintentional because he didn't know who the person was. But he's not sorry and won't delete the tweet, and supports the message in tweet railing on mass immigration http://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/steve-king-retweet-nazi-sympathizer/index.html

Tweeted by mkraju on June 26, 2018 at 9:10 PM

puzzlepiece87

@GodEmperorDune See Chuck, you can literally get by never apologizing for **** but you're going after Maxine Waters, and again, you had one job: return the conversation to kids being ripped away from mothers.

You're a failure in this regard, Chuck. Colossal.

Yuuki

9:20 PM

Abolish everything. The House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, let's just live in Mad Max World.

I'm sure we'd be better off.

It's terrible that even I can't tell whether this is sarcasm or not.

puzzlepiece87

My current support for abolition of things is trending towards everything, yes.

It used to be nothing, now it's some of the things.

Chippies

can anyone explain to me why (mass) immigration is considered a bad thing?

Yuuki

He discussed his immigration views. "I want to see the American civilization strengthened," King said. "That means we are a Judeo-Christian country..." Immigrants need to embrace "Americanism" and "not create enclaves in America that are the antithesis of Americanism."

Tweeted by mkraju on June 26, 2018 at 9:14 PM in reply to mkraju

Because Steve King is racist.

Chippies

in my mental utopia, there would be no borders and everyone could live and work wherever they want

if there's no jobs where you live, you can move to a different "country'

keeping people from immigrating just seems counter productive to everyone

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies because people are racist

Chippies

9:25 PM

@GodEmperorDune okay, so I'm not just being oblivious here

GodEmperorDune

and are concerned that whites' place at the top of society is in danger

Chippies

yes, the immigrants are taking the jobs we didn't want to begin with, oh no

Yuuki

oh noes, immigrants are taking over our culture. Well, maybe if you put spices in your food...

Chippies

taking over culture is something I don't get either, but I know all of the internet is against it

GodEmperorDune

i can't speak for canada or other countries, but in the US the people who are afraid of immigration are specifically afraid of black and brown people immigrating. There is not a ban on people from the EU coming over, there is a ban on people coming from the middle east and africa, as well as lock ups of people coming from latin america

i agree that change is hard, but i'm sorry old white men, time to GTFO and you can go peaceably or be dragged kicking and screaming.

Chippies

9:32 PM

@GodEmperorDune well, I was in Ottawa and I think I saw more non-white people than I saw white people, so I guess at least some areas don't mind it :P

my only issue was, and that is a personal problem, I found some of the people hard to understand, because they had strong accents

Yuuki

@Chippies Tell them to go easier on the hair dye.

Chippies

but I also have trouble understanding some of the bay area accents in Newfoundland and they're all white people :P

@Yuuki I am replying to let you know that the joke has been acknowledged

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies the fact that you realize that this is a thing you personally have to work on is what makes the difference

Chippies

we can't all look and sound the same and I guess some people don't want to understand that

puzzlepiece87

@GodEmperorDune Also, let it be said that this sentiment is strongest among people who don't have to deal with immigrants at all. Can't be said enough. In places that actually have immigrants, people are much more chill about it.

GodEmperorDune

9:39 PM

@puzzlepiece87 yes, though that gets more into that fox news and right wing radio have painted black and brown immigrants as a scapegoat for all the things wrong in rural america

Unionhawk

@puzzlepiece87 I'm just going to handwave this fact away with good old fashioned traditional leftist infighting

Yuuki

@puzzlepiece87 Welcome to Texas, where those of us in the southern part of the state couldn't really give a fig about immigration enforcement and all the crazy people live in the panhandle.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki my favorite thing is learning about the texas towns that literally straddle both sides of the border, so people used to cross the border to run errands or visit family

i think there is an indigenous reservation that still does this

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune ye, they actually have special permission to cross freely

user15026

@puzzlepiece87 I think a lot of that is fear of the unknown

user15026

9:43 PM

It doesn't excuse it, but it does explain a lot in my encounters with people

Unionhawk

because it's their sovereign land

puzzlepiece87

@Ash And blameshifting, but yes, you're right :)

user15026

@puzzlepiece87 yes, that too

Unionhawk

even though it's also completely stolen still in the context of "there is still a '''national border''' in the middle of it"

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yep

i mean if you want to get pedantic about it, technically the reservations are sovereign nations and therefore the US border runs right up to the rez, then around the north side of the rez, then reconnects to the mexico border on the other side

Unionhawk

9:46 PM

good thing not getting pedantic about it benefits colonizers :)

and is also how it's implemented in practice

GodEmperorDune

colonizers can go in the sea

(from whence they came, actually)

speaking of colonizers

TRUMP SHATTERS DISHONESTY RECORD: The president of the United States made 103 — 103 — false claims last week. Fifteen per day. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/analysis/2018/06/26/donald-trump-made-103-false-claims-last-week-shattering-his-dishonesty-record.html

Tweeted by ddale8 on June 26, 2018 at 5:39 PM

quartata

Imagine building the wall through these towns in Texas lmao

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