December 31, 2023
First-World Problems...
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The Changing Face Of Asymmetric War: What Is Changing It?
Economics, My Dear Boy, Economics*
[Aside from the questionable math and my suspicion that the Russian success against the Leopard II might be exaggerated, this is a worthwhile article.] The question is: how can 1st World nations combat the high-tech-low-cost attacks of their sometimes stone-age adversaries? The answer is simple, and absolutely antithetical to the post-modern concept of limited war, limited casualties, surgical strikes, restrictive rules of engagement, and political expediency trumping any military considerations on the battlefield. Return to total war. Until Western technology dominates $35,000 drones that can kill anything on the battlefield, the only sane response is to discard the 21st century conceit that war can be manipulated and titrated and guided and massaged to arrive at a specific end that has no significant casualties or destruction. That is nonsense, and the experience of the last 70 years proves it. Israel should have leveled Gaza, and saved the hundreds of soldiers who have died and will die in their careful campaign to destroy only Hamas infrastructure, and kill only Hamas terrorists. The United States should have leveled every Iranian base in Syria after the first drone was used to attack one American installation. The West should have bombed every Houthi installation the second a single ship was attacked in the Red Sea. The short-term answer to commodity drones and RPGs and rockets is power. Oceans of artillery and bombs fired at every target of opportunity. They are reasonably inexpensive, and surprisingly accurate! But the goal is not pinpoint accuracy to kill only the drone operator in a spider hole in an abandoned building. The goal is to terrify and intimidate and destroy the will to fight. That is a disproportionate response, and it is axiomatic that to win a war, one needs to destroy more and kill more than one's opponent. Proportionality has become an excuse to avoid victory. We need more victories and fewer proportionate and ultimately inconsequential military adventures. That will save lives...the important ones in our armed forces, and even those among our enemies, since protracted wars, simmering and seething just below the surface ultimately kill more people than a short, swift, violent response. *Apologies to Harold MacMillan
Economics, My Dear Boy, Economics*
A $500 IED pins down an American armored column for hours...a Muslim lunatic with an explosive vest necessitates a $50,000,000 security upgrade at a border crossing....a $35,000 drone destroys (maybe) a $10,000,000 Leopard II tank...a $500 Qassam rocket requires at least one $50,000 Tamir missile to shoot it down.
One of the glories of market economies is how fast expensive and rare technology quickly can become available to everyone. Obviously militaries clamor for the highest tech, in part because it is better for their needs, but also because it is unreachable for all but the richest nations. That is the technological advantage that America has had for many years. But the explosion in computing power, sensor technology, and controller cost has blurred those lines. The Shrinking Cost of War Threatens Western MilitariesThe war in Ukraine has made it increasingly clear that modern warfare is now undergoing its own aggressive period of commodification. The driver of this is somewhat ironic: technology initially developed for military purposes, such as GPS and advanced electronic optics, has been designed for consumer products, and their price dragged down. The commodified versions of the technology are now being used to create new weapons systems that are highly effective and cheap. The most prominent piece of this sort of now-commodified technology in the Ukraine war is Russia’s ZALA Lancet drone. These have been used extensively to target tanks and other vehicles belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It is now commonplace to see videos of Lancet drones being used to destroy advanced tanks, such as the German Leopard II. Consider the relative costs. A Lancet drone costs around $35,000. It appears to be easy and quick to produce, with ZALA Aero Group announcing it will increase production by “several times this year.” A Leopard II tank, on the other hand, costs around $11 million. It is also slow to manufacture, with maybe fifty or so produced each year. This is where things begin to get absurd. On a pure cost basis, Russia can produce 314 Lancet drones for every Leopard II tank Germany produces. This gets even more dramatic if we factor in relative prices in the two countries by using purchasing power parity (PPP) adjustment—how economists make accurate international economic comparisons. With this, we find that, for the cost of producing one Leopard II tank in Germany, Russia can produce 683 Lancet drones. This raises an obvious question: is the battlefield worth of a Leopard II equivalent to nearly seven hundred Lancet drones? Probably not. The commodification of the battlefield we have seen in Ukraine calls into question much of contemporary Western military strategy, which seems to focus on producing high-quality, high-cost equipment in the hope it can overwhelm inferior forces. Nor is this solely the case in a grinding war of attrition, as we have seen in Ukraine. Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza in October this year, we have seen various other aspects of Western military strategy be called into question by the process of rapid battlefield commodification.
[Aside from the questionable math and my suspicion that the Russian success against the Leopard II might be exaggerated, this is a worthwhile article.] The question is: how can 1st World nations combat the high-tech-low-cost attacks of their sometimes stone-age adversaries? The answer is simple, and absolutely antithetical to the post-modern concept of limited war, limited casualties, surgical strikes, restrictive rules of engagement, and political expediency trumping any military considerations on the battlefield. Return to total war. Until Western technology dominates $35,000 drones that can kill anything on the battlefield, the only sane response is to discard the 21st century conceit that war can be manipulated and titrated and guided and massaged to arrive at a specific end that has no significant casualties or destruction. That is nonsense, and the experience of the last 70 years proves it. Israel should have leveled Gaza, and saved the hundreds of soldiers who have died and will die in their careful campaign to destroy only Hamas infrastructure, and kill only Hamas terrorists. The United States should have leveled every Iranian base in Syria after the first drone was used to attack one American installation. The West should have bombed every Houthi installation the second a single ship was attacked in the Red Sea. The short-term answer to commodity drones and RPGs and rockets is power. Oceans of artillery and bombs fired at every target of opportunity. They are reasonably inexpensive, and surprisingly accurate! But the goal is not pinpoint accuracy to kill only the drone operator in a spider hole in an abandoned building. The goal is to terrify and intimidate and destroy the will to fight. That is a disproportionate response, and it is axiomatic that to win a war, one needs to destroy more and kill more than one's opponent. Proportionality has become an excuse to avoid victory. We need more victories and fewer proportionate and ultimately inconsequential military adventures. That will save lives...the important ones in our armed forces, and even those among our enemies, since protracted wars, simmering and seething just below the surface ultimately kill more people than a short, swift, violent response. *Apologies to Harold MacMillan
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 12-31-2023 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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EMT 2024 Eve
Happy New Year.
Buckle in. I suspect this year is going to be one for the history books.Posted by: krakatoa at 06:00 AM | Comments (234) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Daily Tech News 31 December 2023
Top Story
- Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cost-cutting and mergers as losses mount in their streaming services. (Ars Technica)
But not, so far as I can tell, giving much thought to making content people want to watch.
Amazon is propped up by the river of money flowing from AWS - and oh boy di I have a rant there - so they won't feel the same pain until Jeff Bezos decides he wants that money for something else. When the axe finally swings there, it will be swift and brutal.
Plus they have a wide selection of old content that you can get access to for a few bucks a month. I think it's A$5 to get MGM's entire back catalogue on Prime Video, which is how I'm watching Stargate. When I'm done, I just cancel that and pick up a channel with something else.
Or just watch Hololive.
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December 30, 2023
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (12/30/23)(One of my favorite Zappa LPs of all time)
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The Saturday Night Joke
A former Sergeant in the Marine Corps took a new job as a high school teacher. Just before the school year started, he injured his back. He was required to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body.
Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn't noticeable. On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school. The smart-aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and he knew they would be testing his discipline in the classroom. Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk. When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he picked up a stapler and stapled the tie to his chest. Dead silence........... The rest of the year went very smoothly. H/T Hrothgar
A former Sergeant in the Marine Corps took a new job as a high school teacher. Just before the school year started, he injured his back. He was required to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body.
Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn't noticeable. On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school. The smart-aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and he knew they would be testing his discipline in the classroom. Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk. When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he picked up a stapler and stapled the tie to his chest. Dead silence........... The rest of the year went very smoothly. H/T Hrothgar
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 12/30/2023 [TheJamesMadison]
Getting close now, it seems. I should be done right before the next Oscar ceremony, which isn't too far away, but I was looking ahead to what came after my stopping point of 2004 and realized that the whole game seemed to have changed character from that point on. Considering the vast changes in how the Academy seemed to be operating when it came to Best Picture winners that had occurred from the early 70s to the early 00s, it felt like simply too much for one post. So, here I am breaking it up into two, separated by a couple of months.
From my observation, the 70s is the last time the Oscars were somewhat "pure" in their efforts to award Best Picture. You may recall that I was pointing out that they were oscillating between movies that reflected their past (something like Oliver!) to reflecting what they thought the future was (Midnight Cowboy), eventually settling on something in between, the classically made film with more frank depictions of sex and violence like The Godfather. Well, that period passed, and some odd things happened to the Academy.
I think it boils down to three major developments. The first is that the actors (just under 1/3 of the voting body in the late 70s) either knowingly or unknowingly banded together to make the awards more about them than ever. The second is that this is where the franchising of movies started, and the Academy didn't want anything to do with it. The third is that the Oscar campaign began in the late 70s.
The Third Quarter Century of Oscar Best Picture Winners
Getting close now, it seems. I should be done right before the next Oscar ceremony, which isn't too far away, but I was looking ahead to what came after my stopping point of 2004 and realized that the whole game seemed to have changed character from that point on. Considering the vast changes in how the Academy seemed to be operating when it came to Best Picture winners that had occurred from the early 70s to the early 00s, it felt like simply too much for one post. So, here I am breaking it up into two, separated by a couple of months.
From my observation, the 70s is the last time the Oscars were somewhat "pure" in their efforts to award Best Picture. You may recall that I was pointing out that they were oscillating between movies that reflected their past (something like Oliver!) to reflecting what they thought the future was (Midnight Cowboy), eventually settling on something in between, the classically made film with more frank depictions of sex and violence like The Godfather. Well, that period passed, and some odd things happened to the Academy.
I think it boils down to three major developments. The first is that the actors (just under 1/3 of the voting body in the late 70s) either knowingly or unknowingly banded together to make the awards more about them than ever. The second is that this is where the franchising of movies started, and the Academy didn't want anything to do with it. The third is that the Oscar campaign began in the late 70s.
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The Weekend Hobby Thread 
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Good afternoon Hobbyists. What has been going on in your world? After 2+ weeks of some crud and a Christmas trip out of state, I really haven't done anything since seems like forever. Enjoy the thread and leave the current events out at the curb. Thank you.
Good afternoon Hobbyists. What has been going on in your world? After 2+ weeks of some crud and a Christmas trip out of state, I really haven't done anything since seems like forever. Enjoy the thread and leave the current events out at the curb. Thank you.
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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 30
Still got boxes from Christmas?
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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.
Would you like a treat?
Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.
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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Dec. 30
Last year's very red cattleya is blooming again. Unlike this year's, the older plant's flowers are unequivocally red in every light.
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Can women decolonize the University of Minnesota?
that's an accurate map of Korea.
Hopefully they will be united one day
"the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed."
Professor Melanie Yazzie, University of Minnesota
Read on:
Women and Decolonization
Why is extreme anti-Israel activism dominated by wild-eyed young women?
Remember that Charles Manson wanted to start a race war:
Hopefully they will be united one day
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Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
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Good morning Horde. It is hard to believe this is the final Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival thread of 2023. I wish to thank you for your lurking, opining and/or bloviating away. And I know a number of you are thankful for the Prayer Revival and Annie's hard work. If I don't see any of you until Monday, Happy New Year. May your 2024 be healthy and prosperous for you. So before we get into the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping items (Rulz for those of you in Mosinee, WI) No rules this Saturday. Just remember if you break it, you bought it. And you can pray for forgiveness next week.
Good morning Horde. It is hard to believe this is the final Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival thread of 2023. I wish to thank you for your lurking, opining and/or bloviating away. And I know a number of you are thankful for the Prayer Revival and Annie's hard work. If I don't see any of you until Monday, Happy New Year. May your 2024 be healthy and prosperous for you. So before we get into the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping items (Rulz for those of you in Mosinee, WI) No rules this Saturday. Just remember if you break it, you bought it. And you can pray for forgiveness next week.
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Daily Tech News 30 December 2023
Top Story
- SpaceX has rounded out the year with two orbital launches three hours apart - one carrying one of the X37B space planes, and the other 23 Starlink satellites - and a static test fire of the third Starship test vehicle. (Ars Technica)
That makes 96 commercial launches this year, of which 96 succeeded. And a couple of test flights which, uh, tested things.
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December 29, 2023
Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot, And Never Brought To Mind? Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot, And Ohh Enn Tee?
Well, it's the very last meme madness of 2023. But don't worry, they'll be much more in '24! I hope everyone had a good day, like this guy.
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The End of Days (2023 Edition) Cafe
Iceland
on the trail to Barad-Dûr
by Ronald_Soethje
Teaching a bird a song. Cat bothering a rooster. Dog is flapping his ears so hard he might fly away. Mom dropping the kid off for soccer practice. All the algorithms think I like charging baby elephant videos and they're 100% right. Puppy moves stool so that elderly woman can sit down easier. Rescued raven loves his adopted dad. Quoth the Raven: Quiet snore.
Iceland
on the trail to Barad-Dûr
by Ronald_Soethje
Teaching a bird a song. Cat bothering a rooster. Dog is flapping his ears so hard he might fly away. Mom dropping the kid off for soccer practice. All the algorithms think I like charging baby elephant videos and they're 100% right. Puppy moves stool so that elderly woman can sit down easier. Rescued raven loves his adopted dad. Quoth the Raven: Quiet snore.
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20th Anniversary Repost: The Fetterman Correspondances
From the Los Angeles Blade, December 12, 2022: Meet the Bisexual Wife of Pennsylvania's New US Senator.
Sub-hed: When the Washington Blade caught up with Gisele Barreto Fetterman this month, she was looking forward to some upcoming travel plans Yeah I'll bet she was!!!When the Washington Blade caught up with Gisele Barreto Fetterman this month, she was looking forward to some upcoming travel plans. First up is a trip to Washington in January to witness the swearing-in ceremony for her husband, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who was just elected to represent the Keystone State in the U.S. Senate after one of the year's most hard-fought midterm races. Then, in March, she plans to visit family in Brazil for the first time since travel to her native country was restricted in the early days of the pandemic, and just in time to celebrate another electoral victory as Brazilian voters have ousted their far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.This bisexual girlboss lived as an illegal alien in the US for something like 12 years.
Regarding the right-wing attacks that were focused on her identity as a bisexual woman and immigrant from Latin America, she jokes, "they made me sound like a superhero."She expounded upon her theories about how to honor and obey one's (yuch!) husband.
She also shares photos on social media with her 6-foot-8 husband's head partially cropped out so that her shoes are visible in the frame, and insists that their marriage operates with the unspoken understanding that Gisele is always right when there are differences of opinion. On that latter point, should anyone long for the same dynamic with their spouse or significant other, Gisele Fetterman offers the following advice: "You just have to be really confident in your truth," she said, adding, "then you just, like, ignore him when he's speaking."America's foremost Pompous Documentarian Ken Burns has been collecting the correspondence of John and Gisele Fetterman. He has shared with me their most recent exchanges, which I will now share with you. I think you will agree that this love is a fire whose embers will smolder and glow throughout eternity.
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The New Years Resolutions of the Libs of TikTok
Obviously mentally-ill woman declares herself "non-binary," then says she's offended that her husband still calls himself straight. She demands that he identify himself as "queer" in a "queer marriage." She rants and raves that her husband isn't giving the "LGBT community" respect by admitting he's gay.
I got news for you: He's not going to be in this marriage, whatever you want to call it, for much longer. Tommy Dorfman, the mentally-ill man who gave grief to the Delta employee for not guessing which gender he identifies with this week, is a trans activist who makes instructional videos for kids about how to self-inject with estrogen.Jamie Gumm nods. A "church" staged a same-sex nativity scene.
Many brands promote Tommy and they think he's a good role model
A church nativity scene in Italy that features two mothers of the baby Jesus instead of Mary and Joseph figurines has been blasted as "dangerous" and "blasphemous" by conservatives -- who are calling for it to be taken down. Father Vitaliano Della Sala defended the depiction of the birth of Jesus on display at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, in Capocastello di Mercogliano outside Naples. "I wanted to show with this scene that families are no longer just the traditional ones," Della Sala told Reuters. "In our parishes we see more and more children from the new types of families that exist and are part of our society, children of separated and divorced people, gay couples, single people, young mothers."Wow the gay black woke "Doctor Who" (#NotMyDoctor) started his first show by dancing in a gay nightclub and who would have imagined, the ratings are already terrible.
Ncuti Gatwa's 'Doctor Who' Christmas Day Special Ratings Are Second Worst Debut In History, Viewers Abandon The Show's DegeneracyJohn F. Trent's headlines are punchy.
The "star" of the soon-to-be-cancelled series, which is now distributed by Disney, which promises to insert their not-so-secret-gay-agenda into every corporate product they produce (especially those intended for children), says the show will really "lean into" its "leftist liberal bubble." Oh -- and he also says that anyone who doesn't like the show is racist. I didn't see that one coming.
The overnight ratings are in for Ncuti Gatwa's debut as the Doctor in The BBC's Christmas day special and they are not good. Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who Christmas Special "The Church on Ruby Road" (2023), BBC The BBC reports, the Doctor Who special "The Church on Ruby Road" only saw viewership at 4.7 million. This is just marginally better than the final 60th anniversary special that saw Gatwa take over as the Doctor in "The Giggle." That episode had viewership of 4.62 million. The other two previous 60th Anniversary specials featuring David Tennant as the Doctor saw viewership at 5.08 million and 4.83 million. In fact, Gatwa's debut ratings as the Doctor are some of the worst in the entire show's history. Jodie Whittaker's debut episode "The Woman Who Fell to Earth" had overall viewership of 10.96 million. Peter Capaldi's debut as the 12th Doctor in "Deep Breath" saw viewership at 9.17 million back in 2014. Matt Smith's debut in "The Eleventh Hour" in 2010 saw viewership hit 10.08 million. Tennant's 10th Doctor appeared at the end of "The Parting of the Ways" back in 2005 and had viewership totaling 6.91 million. His first episode by himself, "The Christmas Invasion" hit 9.84 million viewers. Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor premiere in "Rose" in 2005 saw viewership hit 10.81 million.
At one point he stated, "'I think I felt a particular affinity to Jodie [Whittaker] just because of the shared struggle, as in the Doctor's never been seen like this before, and what that means for yaysayers, naysayers. How do you navigate that? She was so generous. With her story and her experience of it all." He continued, "I was a little bit braced for impact and then was very pleasantly surprised because it was the antithesis [of what I was expecting]. But then, also, what's scary is that we all live in [social media] bubbles. I remember scrolling on Twitter and being like, 'Oh my gosh. I'm so loved.'" Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who Christmas Special "The Church on Ruby Road" (2023), BBC RELATED: 'Doctor Who' 60th Anniversary Special Ratings Continue To Decline Gatwa then predictably accused critics of being racists, "And then I clicked on one tweet that wasn't as positive. And then that opened up an entire world of the opposite feeling. "Oh no. There they are." Seeing the anagrams of my name [made into a racial slur] was just lovely." From there, he promised the show would lean into the social bubble he personally lives in, "But it was interesting. As I say, I live in a very leftist, liberal bubble. And in fact, there's a really great episode coming up next year where we lean into that."Wonderful. You'll never believe what our Navy is teaching its personnel. Actually, you'll believe it pretty readily.
An English course at the U.S. Naval Academy teaches officer candidates left-wing theories of gender and sexuality, along with elements of Critical Race Theory, according to syllabi obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The course description for HE 374, Topics In Gender & Sexuality in Literature, begins by tracing the history of gender and sexuality studies from its origin in the women's studies discipline rooted in the Second Wave Feminism of the 1970's and 1980's, according to a syllabus the DCNF obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. However, the English major course broadens to include studies for future U.S. Navy officers on LGBTQ studies, race, class and concepts informed by Critical Race Theory, which defines people groups in terms of oppressor and oppressed, the syllabus shows. "Most of the faculty, students, and topics of study in early Women's Studies programs were limited by being White, middleclass, women," the female instructor, whose name is redacted but who appears to have served as Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences during that semester, wrote in the course description. "In the 2000's, some Women's Studies Departments renamed themselves Gender and Sexuality Studies in order to better reflect Women's Studies' growing interest in exploring Queer Theory, Masculinity Studies, Intersectionality, race, and class. Women's Studies Programs are feminist at their hearts; Gender and Sexuality Studies Programs are not, and in fact, might even reject feminism for its original focus on White middleclass women." Students begin the class by performing a land acknowledgement, the syllabus shows. Students also set the learning outcomes for the course.More wokeness from the former armed forces:
The second class period involve study of "theories of gender" and learning about the Genderbread person, a visual made to show a difference between "gender identity," "gender expression," "anatomical sex," "gender" and "sexual orientation." On the third class period, students create a diversity statement and learn gender and sexuality vocabulary. Another in-class activity scheduled for week 3 is reading pan-African and socialist civil rights activist W.E.B. DeBois' "Double Consciousness." The primary texts of the course were "The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender" by Nancy Chodorow and "Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory" by Toril Moi. Both books are critical of conservative ideas about sex and gender. "Women's mothering perpetuates itself through social-structurally induced psychological mechanisms. It is not an unmediated product of physiology. Women come to mother because they have been mothered by women," Chodorow wrote, according to a summary. Moi's book imagines a world "beyond the opposition feminine/masculine, beyond homosexuality and heterosexuality," a review shows.
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20th Anniversary Repost: I Must Eat Jim Acosta
I Must Eat Jim Acosta
by Rich "Psycho" Giamboni
Special Guest Columnist for Ace of Spades HQ I must eat Jim Acosta. Some of you probably think, "Ah, good ol' Psycho is being metaphorical here." Look at my fucking face, asshole: Does this look like a face that does "metaphorical"? It's a slippery fuckin' slope. One day you're talking in metaphors and the next day you've got a trucker's balls bouncing off your fucking eyes like he's a Crossfit Games medalist and the Workout of the Day is doing a hundred dick-squats in your face-rack. This isn't a metaphor. This isn't a riddle. This isn't one of those back-of-the-McDonald's-tray-liner connect-the-dots where you connect all the dots and it says "Rich 'Psycho' Giamboni means he's gonna eat some nice McDonald's french-fries." So screw your heads on straight for once, fuckbutts. When Rich "Psycho" Giamboni says I must eat Jim Acosta, Rich "Psycho" Giamboni means he's gonna fucking eat Jim Acosta. I will eat Jim Acosta, I will consume his flesh, I will make little Jim Acosta burgers and call them CNN Sliders. Simple math here, dummies. The End of Days are coming, and when they come, it's Thunderdome, baby. Two men enter, one man leaves with warm, sluggish "Jim Acosta" kind of feeling in his belly. Now I know what you're thinking now. You're thinking: "Oh, Psycho means that when the country has turned into Road Warrior for a few months, and men have turned to animals scavenging for any kind of food, then, when Psycho's on the edge of starvation, he will descend into savagery and eat Jim Acosta." Not even close, queerbaits. I mean the minute I even think I smell the End of Days are coming, I'm heading to Jim Acosta's house with a bottle of Mangria and a spork. I mean, I'm not even waiting for the starvation. I'm not even waiting for the hangry. Shit, I'm not even waiting for food-lines. I mean, the minute I get the sense that the country's sliding just a little bit sideways, it's Go-Time, and by "Go-Time," I mean it's time to eat Jim Acosta. The early bird catches the worm, and I'm not waiting for some jabroni with the same idea to bag the first Jim Acosta of the fall season. I'm talking about early, brother. I mean, the grocery stores will still be filled with food and the credit card machines will all still be working. And in that hour of waiting, Jim Acosta will hear the bell toll, and the bell is the one the farmer clangs to call the cows to the cull-shed. I mean to treat this operation like it's a Best Buy Doorburster deal and the second best sale is a 68 inch Sony Ultra HD TV for four bucks and the best deal is the Jim Acosta Self-Propelled Steak Collection, and the only price is having the guts to beat the crowd. And you know what second-in-line gets? Second in line gets a 30% Off Coupon for Not Eating Jim Acosta. The minute I hear anything that has that Sign-of-the-Apocalypse ring to it, like hearing that the Renegade reboot is on hold due to creative differences with Lorenzo Lamas, I'm going to drive my F-150 to whatever mani-pedi joint Jim Acosta's getting made all pretty at, bait the crew cab with MAC for Men makeup samples, knock him unconscious with ether and begin seasoning him Old El Paso taco powder.
You think I'm joking? You think I'm "ribbing" with you, paizano? Well, the proof is in the eating, and you'll see how much I'm "ribbing" when you smell some barbecue action going down and you hear Jake Tapper crying that Jim Acosta is "missing, but presumed delicious." I will eat Jim Acosta, and in consuming his flesh, I will add his weakness to my own. Jim Acosta is the Cow That Walks on Two Legs, and I intend to gorge. And that's the name of that tune, chumps. Rich "Psycho" Giamboni is an occasional guest columnist for the Ace of Spades media empire. His previous column, If You Touch My Hoagie Again, I Will Literally Kill You, won the 2005 Polk Prize for Special Achievement in Journalistic Threats.
Originally published July 31, 2018. This actually started out as a riff I did at dinner with friends. I announced, "I will eat Seth Mandel, and I don't mean when the apocalypse begins, I mean like next Wednesday at 3," and went off. A lot of the jokes in the column were from that Cannibalism Toast.
Wait, was it Noah Rothman? I forget it. I was one of those damp squibs of neocon shame. For this column, I changed the target of cannibalism to Jim Acosta, because, I mean, most people don't know who Seth Mandel or Noah Rothman are. And I let Rich "Psycho" Giamboni take the blame.I Must Eat Jim Acosta
by Rich "Psycho" Giamboni
Special Guest Columnist for Ace of Spades HQ I must eat Jim Acosta. Some of you probably think, "Ah, good ol' Psycho is being metaphorical here." Look at my fucking face, asshole: Does this look like a face that does "metaphorical"? It's a slippery fuckin' slope. One day you're talking in metaphors and the next day you've got a trucker's balls bouncing off your fucking eyes like he's a Crossfit Games medalist and the Workout of the Day is doing a hundred dick-squats in your face-rack. This isn't a metaphor. This isn't a riddle. This isn't one of those back-of-the-McDonald's-tray-liner connect-the-dots where you connect all the dots and it says "Rich 'Psycho' Giamboni means he's gonna eat some nice McDonald's french-fries." So screw your heads on straight for once, fuckbutts. When Rich "Psycho" Giamboni says I must eat Jim Acosta, Rich "Psycho" Giamboni means he's gonna fucking eat Jim Acosta. I will eat Jim Acosta, I will consume his flesh, I will make little Jim Acosta burgers and call them CNN Sliders. Simple math here, dummies. The End of Days are coming, and when they come, it's Thunderdome, baby. Two men enter, one man leaves with warm, sluggish "Jim Acosta" kind of feeling in his belly. Now I know what you're thinking now. You're thinking: "Oh, Psycho means that when the country has turned into Road Warrior for a few months, and men have turned to animals scavenging for any kind of food, then, when Psycho's on the edge of starvation, he will descend into savagery and eat Jim Acosta." Not even close, queerbaits. I mean the minute I even think I smell the End of Days are coming, I'm heading to Jim Acosta's house with a bottle of Mangria and a spork. I mean, I'm not even waiting for the starvation. I'm not even waiting for the hangry. Shit, I'm not even waiting for food-lines. I mean, the minute I get the sense that the country's sliding just a little bit sideways, it's Go-Time, and by "Go-Time," I mean it's time to eat Jim Acosta. The early bird catches the worm, and I'm not waiting for some jabroni with the same idea to bag the first Jim Acosta of the fall season. I'm talking about early, brother. I mean, the grocery stores will still be filled with food and the credit card machines will all still be working. And in that hour of waiting, Jim Acosta will hear the bell toll, and the bell is the one the farmer clangs to call the cows to the cull-shed. I mean to treat this operation like it's a Best Buy Doorburster deal and the second best sale is a 68 inch Sony Ultra HD TV for four bucks and the best deal is the Jim Acosta Self-Propelled Steak Collection, and the only price is having the guts to beat the crowd. And you know what second-in-line gets? Second in line gets a 30% Off Coupon for Not Eating Jim Acosta. The minute I hear anything that has that Sign-of-the-Apocalypse ring to it, like hearing that the Renegade reboot is on hold due to creative differences with Lorenzo Lamas, I'm going to drive my F-150 to whatever mani-pedi joint Jim Acosta's getting made all pretty at, bait the crew cab with MAC for Men makeup samples, knock him unconscious with ether and begin seasoning him Old El Paso taco powder.
You think I'm joking? You think I'm "ribbing" with you, paizano? Well, the proof is in the eating, and you'll see how much I'm "ribbing" when you smell some barbecue action going down and you hear Jake Tapper crying that Jim Acosta is "missing, but presumed delicious." I will eat Jim Acosta, and in consuming his flesh, I will add his weakness to my own. Jim Acosta is the Cow That Walks on Two Legs, and I intend to gorge. And that's the name of that tune, chumps. Rich "Psycho" Giamboni is an occasional guest columnist for the Ace of Spades media empire. His previous column, If You Touch My Hoagie Again, I Will Literally Kill You, won the 2005 Polk Prize for Special Achievement in Journalistic Threats.
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Disinformation Outlet CNN Blares False Claim That Colorado Supreme Court Judges are Receiving Death Threats
CNN falsely claimed that the Colorado Supreme Court Insurrectionists were receiving death threats.
Remember, CNN demands that its ideological competitors be banned and deplatformed for "disinformation." CNN claims that when it reports falsehoods as facts -- which it does every day -- it rushes to issue a correction. Where is the correction? All they're doing is backpedaling and redefining "death threats" to justify their initial lies. While CNN hypes non-threats against its close Marxist allies, it ignores the real threat made by its allies against people on the right:CNN uncomfortably admits the FBI haven't identified any actionable threats against Colorado Justices.
"...what they said was a 'hoax' report at one of the justices' residences. No specific threats to the justices in those forums, from what we understand. So, no specific threats at this time..."
-- "No specific threats" -- Denver PD responded to a single "hoax report" -- Feds are now just combing through social media for "any threat of violence" pic.twitter.com/qzGcEGncNF -- Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) December 26, 2023
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One in Five Young Americans Has a Positive Impression of... Osama Bin Ladin
You don't say.
Gee, I wonder how they came by these insane pro-terrorist-violence Marxist opinions. Oh that's right. I remember now. The Daily Mail:One in five young Americans has a positive view of 9/11 mastermind and Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, according to disturbing results of a DailyMail.com poll. The alarming survey also found three in 10 Gen Z voters believe the views of the anti-Semitic terrorist leader who slaughtered thousands of innocent people were a 'force for good'. Family members of 9/11 victims said the findings are 'horrifying' and proof of a startling trend suggesting some in the younger generation are growing sympathetic to terrorists. Another DailyMail.com poll in October found one in 10 voters under the age of 30 had a positive view of Hamas, despite the group's murderous attack on Israel that killed more than 1,300 men, women and children.You know who is definitely not down with Osama bin Ladin? The one generation since WWII that's worth a damn.*
Gen X and President Biden: Reality bites* As a generation, I mean. Obviously there are lots of great examples from all generations, and terrible examples from Gen X. But yeah, overall, Gen X is the one which is broadly sane. Unfortunately, it's also the smallest generation. (Excluding older generations who are losing population due to dying off.)
December 27, 20235:29 AM ET
President Biden is most unpopular among members of Generation X, who lean more conservative than those in other generations.
... "Gen X is the most Republican of the generations," said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University and author of the book Generations, which examines what drives generational differences. NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist polling underscores that point: By generation, Biden has the highest disapproval rating from Generation X (62%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (48%), baby boomers (48%) and Generation Z/millennials (50%). Biden also has the highest "strongly disapprove" rating from Gen X (52%), compared with the Silent/Greatest Generation (41%), boomers (39%) and Gen Z/millennials (35%). Twenge says that political leanings of generations can be influenced by the popularity of the president when that generation is in adolescence or young adulthood. For Gen X, that is largely defined by an unpopular Carter and a popular Republican president, Ronald Reagan.
... ... Walters added that Trump's "Make America Great Again" messaging appeals to older voters, particularly boomers but also their Gen X children. "They saw their parents doing well or making a decent life that they feel like they weren't able to have the same access to -- could be the other piece."
... Culture wars are nothing new for Gen Xers -- the generation that coined the term "political correctness" -- but the current debate over when and how to police speech is particularly unpopular with them. "Gen X really prides themselves on being tough, and based on their upbringing and childhood and their adolescence, there's just a lot of pride in being able to roll with the punches and being able to have conversations with people you disagree with," said Twenge. Gen Xers are not as culturally conservative as boomers -- the generation that preceded them. But they're also not as culturally progressive as millennials and Gen Z. Sean Trende, senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics and himself a Gen Xer, described it as "almost like a cultural libertarianism." "We call it culture war or cancel culture or wokeness or whatever -- I think Generation X is the one that that reverberates negatively with the most," he said.
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