The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Put those blinders on! Mustn't see the explosive issue that threatens the survival of the French state! You know, the French state that has cradle-to-grave welfare, and 10% of their population that games that system? Oh, they also are responsible for a huge amount of crime, and no-go zones, and vicious anti-Semitic violence, not to mention a savage fixation on a revolutionary ideology that will destroy French culture and bring down the Fifth Republic!

You know...the Amish!

France's government collapses again: What could happen next?

None of the options now look appealing for Macron, from his perspective at least. And for France, the road ahead promises more of the political uncertainty that is eroding investor confidence in the European Union’s second-largest economy and is frustrating efforts to rein in France’s damaging state deficit and debts.
Domestic turmoil also risks diverting Macron’s focus from pressing international issues — wars in Gaza and Ukraine, security threats from Russia, and the muscular use of American power by U.S. President Donald Trump, to name just a few.

The globalist fixation on Ukraine and Gaza, dutifully parroted by a compliant and curiously incurious media, allows people like Macron to ignore the existential issues plaguing France. Muslim immigration. Muslim crime. Muslim political power pushing France toward an Islamic theocracy.

Gaza is a wonderful tool to placate the restive Muslims by showing them France's Jew-hating bona fides...and feeding the crocodile for a bit longer. And Ukraine diverts attention, in spite of the ridiculousness of any sort of Russian threat to France. Kiev to Paris is more than 1,200 miles. Are Russian armored columns going to rampage across central Europe and capture Paris?

France's political structure is flawed, and it has been in chaos for a very long time. de Gaulle was able to hold it together, and he was still reviled by huge numbers of Frenchmen. The president has a huge amount of power, which is why Macron can hold on in spite of an approval rating under 20%. He's not going anywhere until the next national election in 2027, but don't think anything earthshaking will come then...they have already disqualified Marine Le Pen!

France has a massive welfare state that is crumbling in large part because of immigration. It has a sclerotic and oppressive regulatory state that stifles innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. It has a voting population that is hell-bent on protecting its pensions and retirement, at the expense of everything around them.

And Macron's response to all of this has been to pander to the globalists and the Islamists in his midst, all in service of his fanatical desire to retain power.

Sound familiar? He is a more competent and less senile Joe Biden! Or Hillary Clinton!

France will not recover unless the people of France reject the status quo and embrace change the way America, Italy, Japan, and a few other countries have. And that will probably not happen!

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 I shall let the others know this one is live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 07, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)

2 /plants flag

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 07, 2025 11:00 AM (OUMaO)

3 Too slow! Ah well...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 07, 2025 11:00 AM (OUMaO)

4 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 11:00 AM (zjgNU)

5 My co-workers screamed for lunch 1p minutes ago

Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 11:01 AM (xatjc)

6 My prediction: Macron and his family quietly disappear to a nice French based territory/island, and live out the rest of their lives there. At least that's what he'll do if he has any sense.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 07, 2025 11:02 AM (O7YUW)

7 So you are capable of posting on time.

(You can tell us, last night's ONT was just something you threw together last minute just to get something up even though you weren't on the schedule.)

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:02 AM (R256O)

8 Willowed because work is coming in and I must away:

It does seem to help a number of folks to know that people are praying for them. It is so important.

It always throws me for a loop when someone mentions praying for me. It isn't that I don't appreciate it - I do, very much - it's just something so out of my cynical worldview that sometimes I need to be dope-slapped with a reminder such as that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 07, 2025 11:02 AM (ufSfZ)

9 Gotta admit, CBD, your fondness for that country and its culture perplexes me.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

10 Does CBD live in France or just visit there a lot? I can't tell as merely a semi-regular commenter.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at October 07, 2025 11:03 AM (Dg7ng)

11 Mister, France could use a man like Louis Napoleon again. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 07, 2025 11:03 AM (ufSfZ)

12 The globalist fixation on Ukraine and Gaza, dutifully parroted by a compliant and curiously incurious media, allows people like Macron to ignore the existential issues plaguing France. Muslim immigration. Muslim crime. Muslim political power pushing France toward an Islamic theocracy.
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Fixing the world is so much more glamorous than providing the function of government.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:04 AM (krQz2)

13 5 My co-workers screamed for lunch 1p minutes ago
Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 11:01 AM (xatjc)

Is today ice cream day at the cafeteria?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:04 AM (R256O)

14 The party that says, "Deport all the asylum seeker welfare recipients," should do well at election time, I suppose.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:04 AM (GBKbO)

15 You know, the French state that has cradle-to-grave welfare, and 10% of their population that games that system?

10%... pull the other one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:05 AM (ExV1e)

16 France's government collapses again:

It's only Tuesday. How many times is it this week?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 11:05 AM (9loYT)

17 So....hangings?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:05 AM (xcxpd)

18 Got out just in time, CBD!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 07, 2025 11:06 AM (kgE5c)

19 You can have a welfare state or open borders but not both.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:07 AM (xcxpd)

20 So....hangings?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

It's my understanding they have...their own ways.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 07, 2025 11:07 AM (OUMaO)

21 France has a massive welfare state that is crumbling in large part because of immigration. It has a sclerotic and oppressive regulatory state that stifles innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. It has a voting population that is hell-bent on protecting its pensions and retirement, at the expense of everything around them.
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This is why I believe.

1. Western Civilization is undeniably superior.

2. Caucasian genetics wasn't it.

You couldn't make me into a white supremacist by today's secular standards.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:07 AM (krQz2)

22 How long until France isn't "a thing" anymore? Seems like it's been at a tipping point for a decade. The UK's closer (IMO) to collapsing than France.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 07, 2025 11:07 AM (Q4IgG)

23 You can have a welfare state or open borders but not both.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:07 AM (xcxpd)
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But Imagine you can! -- John Lennon

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:08 AM (krQz2)

24 Fixing the world is so much more glamorous than providing the function of government.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:04 AM (krQz2)

And it's easier to change the subject when you, inevitably, fail.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

25 France is for the French.

If that is what they want, let them have it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 11:08 AM (i24o9)

26 How long until France isn't "a thing" anymore? Seems like it's been at a tipping point for a decade. The UK's closer (IMO) to collapsing than France.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer

It's a race to the bottom.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (9loYT)

27 France has no history of Liberalism. They lurched from absolute monarchy into Terror and then gradually slumped into feckless Gimmedat-ism while their nation got blown into a shitpit by squabbling saxons. Twice. Liberté is just a word you see on a building once in a while that means literally nothing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (06Hmj)

28 they have already disqualified Marine Le Pen!

__________________________

Not so fast there. They scheduled an expedited appeal on LePen. Her appeal will be heard in January 2026 (just a little over 3 months from today).

Posted by: Orson at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (dIske)

29 Fixing the world is so much more glamorous than providing the function of government.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:04 AM (krQz2)

And it's easier to change the subject when you, inevitably, fail.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:08 AM (ExV1e)
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All progressives need that when their "brilliant solutions" turn out to be neither.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (krQz2)

30 The government collapsing and Muslim-love is just a cover for the fact that Brigitte has a dick.

Posted by: Ms. Ovens at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (oftw2)

31 >>The globalist fixation on Ukraine and Gaza, dutifully parroted by a compliant and curiously incurious media, allows people like Macron to ignore the existential issues plaguing France.

The power of propaganda on the masses is one of the intel communities most potent weapons. Not just ours although they take a leading position but intel communities around the world. Many people, in some cases most people, can be convinced to go along with a position if they are bombarded with enough propaganda.

Repealing the Smith Mundt Act is one of the most underreported stories of the last couple of decades. It was done for one reason, to allow the deep state to flood the US with government propaganda. It needs to be reversed and the entire worldwide propaganda network needs to be exposed.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (viF8m)

32 France isn't even the country in Western Europe in the worst shape

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

33 The addiction to open borders is going to destroy the left across the Western World.

They're going to become Italy's Democrat Party which has seen itself stagnate and steady collapse over the past couple of decades while becoming increasingly beholden to open borders while it loses political power.

Which could be fun to see across the Western World.

Just keep telling your natives that they suck and must give all their wealth to Syrians who hate the national culture, leftists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)

34 IIRC, France's immigration court ruled that any "palestinian" who enters the country is automatically considered a refugee and entitled to asylum. Their recognition of the non-existent state of Palestine is likely an attempt to prevent mass migration of Gazans to France.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:10 AM (2ap+5)

35 I don't know if it's the 10/7 (or, in French 7/10) anniversary or what but I just drove past a couple dozen No Kings protesters occupying all four corners of a major intersection. I'd never seen a single protester until last week now there are dozens. It's like a single vampire was feeding and now there are dozens.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:10 AM (R5VX1)

36 Thx CBD
The French political system is filled with ennui. Next it will be filled with Muslims. The cheese eating surrender monkeys are terminally bored

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (pwtJC)

37 France has no history of Liberalism. They lurched from absolute monarchy into Terror and then gradually slumped into feckless Gimmedat-ism while their nation got blown into a shitpit by squabbling saxons. Twice. Liberté is just a word you see on a building once in a while that means literally nothing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 07, 2025 11:09 AM (06Hmj)
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That I have read, Rousseau is usually credited as a major player in Liberalism.

Of course the people most influenced by Rousseau brought The Terror....

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)

38 France is on an unsustainable debt path, and Macron can't keep a finance minister or prime minister, because the numbers don't work. They must cut welfare benefits, and stop borrowing. What should happen is a new election, but Macron won't allow that, because LePen's party would win.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (0U5gm)

39 My co-workers screamed for lunch 1p minutes ago
Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 11:01 AM (xatjc)

I've got enough algebra helping my children with homework. I don't need to solve for p in the comment.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (zjgNU)

40 The president has a huge amount of power, which is why Macron can hold on in spite of an approval rating under 20%.

Stop bragging.

Posted by: Keir Starmer at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

41 I don't know if it's the 10/7 (or, in French 7/10) anniversary or what but I just drove past a couple dozen No Kings protesters occupying all four corners of a major intersection. I'd never seen a single protester until last week now there are dozens. It's like a single vampire was feeding and now there are dozens.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:10 AM (R5VX1)

And you, with only two middle fingers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (i24o9)

42 37 That I have read, Rousseau is usually credited as a major player in Liberalism.

Of course the people most influenced by Rousseau brought The Terror....
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2

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The original genocidal Marxists before Marx was even born.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)

43 Le Pen's National Rally is mainstream left wing. They have no hope of escaping the fiscal trap they are in.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:12 AM (2ap+5)

44 20 So....hangings?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo

It's my understanding they have...their own ways.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 07, 2025 11:07 AM (OUMaO)

The genius of France
Can be seen at a glance
And it's not in their fabled fashion scene
It's no that they're mean
Or their wine or cuisine
I refer, of course, to the guillotine.

--T-Bone Burnett

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (R256O)

45 My co-workers screamed for lunch 1p minutes ago
Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 11:01 AM (xatjc)

I've got enough algebra helping my children with homework. I don't need to solve for p in the comment.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (zjgNU)

My youngest is stuck on the concept of solving a problem and getting an answer in terms of a variable right now. The struggle is real.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (i24o9)

46 The addiction to open borders is going to destroy the left across the Western World.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:10 AM (GBKbO)
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And it's whities who started this nonsense.

Because they wanted to be free of the Weight of God, and they stumbled in idiocy.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (krQz2)

47 You'd have to be out of your mind to move to France. Wait, what?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (wBaIH)

48 Greg Price@greg_price11
Rep. Dan Goldman said yesterday that President Trump, Stephen Miller, and the "extreme right" are to blame for a liberal judge's home burning to the ground.
Law enforcement in South Carolina just released a statement saying there's no evidence the fire was intentionally set.

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Another perfectly good right wing conspiracy theory shot to hell!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (R5VX1)

49 MADISON — The citizenship status of all Wisconsin voters must be verified before the next statewide election in February, a Waukesha County judge has ordered. The ruling from Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Maxwell requires the Wisconsin Elections Commission to review the state's voter rolls over the next five months to determine whether anyone who is not a U.S. citizen is registered to vote.

Posted by: SMOD at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (RHGPo)

50 France is on an unsustainable debt path, and Macron can't keep a finance minister or prime minister, because the numbers don't work. They must cut welfare benefits, and stop borrowing. What should happen is a new election, but Macron won't allow that, because LePen's party would win.

And if he tries to cut spending, someone else who will pretend it's unnecessary will win election. The problem is a populace who wants more than they're willing to pay for. I'm so glad we don't have that here.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (Riz8t)

51 My co-workers screamed for lunch 1p minutes ago

Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 11:01 AM (xatjc)
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That doesn't seem very filling.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (krQz2)

52 Greg Price@greg_price11
Rep. Dan Goldman said yesterday that President Trump, Stephen Miller, and the "extreme right" are to blame for a liberal judge's home burning to the ground.
Law enforcement in South Carolina just released a statement saying there's no evidence the fire was intentionally set.

-
Another perfectly good right wing conspiracy theory shot to hell!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (R5VX1)
________

I'll bet that it's an electric car or scooter or something like that that started this fire. We will probably never know the truth.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

53 The no go zones of Paris are expanding every year.

It was shocking to me when I was last there at the airport. Easily 70% of the passengers were “diverse”. I’m Not talking about any specific flight. I mean just walking around the terminal.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:14 AM (wrRTB)

54 They will send Macron to the Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia, where he will stay until the next French nuclear test.

Posted by: SMOD at October 07, 2025 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

55 And it's whities who started this nonsense.

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Toxic compassion, it's what's eating your dinner!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:15 AM (R5VX1)

56 On a very related note, Vauban Books in the US has reprinted Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints. Get yourself a copy at a reasonable price, and see how this was predicted 50 years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:15 AM (0U5gm)

57 Rep. Dan Goldman said yesterday that President Trump, Stephen Miller, and the "extreme right" are to blame for a liberal judge's home burning to the ground.
Law enforcement in South Carolina just released a statement saying there's no evidence the fire was intentionally set.

-
Another perfectly good right wing conspiracy theory shot to hell!

Pffffft. As if that will stop them.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

58 33 It's mad that the leader of Italy's Democrat Party is a lesbian with the not very Italian name of 'Elly Schlein' who was born in Switzerland to an American father (iirc). They couldn't even find a native born ethnic Italian to front their gay movement.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (Dg7ng)

59 One would think the French President's first concern would be France, it's economy, safety, security, and culture.

And one would be wrong.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (KZgz0)

60 French government has crushing and unpayable deficits, any effort to cut spending (borrowing) will result in riots.

Hm, sounds vaguely familiar in a way. Can you say “world reserve currency “ boys and girls? Because that’s practically speaking the only reason American cities weren’t turned into smoking cinders long ago. They are turning to rubble much more slowly than otherwise might be the case, but there are groups of dedicated enthusiasts working on it, high and low.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (1WKhx)

61 Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:02 AM (R256O)

"On time?"

We post when we want. That we spoil you by posting at approximately the same times every day is simply convenient for us.

But hotair.com sticks to a schedule also? So try them out.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (Flying the American Flag!) at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (n9ltV)

62 CBD leaves France, French government collapses TWICE ! coincidence ...??

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (g47mK)

63 That I have read, Rousseau is usually credited as a major player in Liberalism.

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Rousseau was an immoral piece of shit.

I think Voltaire said that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (Q1uY4)

64 43 Le Pen's National Rally is mainstream left wing. They have no hope of escaping the fiscal trap they are in.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:12 AM (2ap+5)

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National socialist, I believe the correct term for them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)

65 One would think the French President's first concern would be France, it's economy, safety, security, and culture.

Okay, YOU try and pronounce MFGA.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

66 My prediction: Macron and his family quietly disappear to a nice French based territory/island, and live out the rest of their lives there. At least that's what he'll do if he has any sense.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at October 07, 2025 11:02 AM (O7YUW)

What family? Him and his superannuated wife? I think she was past menopause before they got married.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Nzhwp)

67 Of course the people most influenced by Rousseau brought The Terror....
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)

Rousseau used the magic words of Liberalism to advocate for a brutal dictatorship that merely avoids the yucky other magic words like "Royal".

His brand of liberty was National Liberty, and all backs must bend over the plow to serve it. Everyone is a slave to the cause of being free of monarchy.

Using the words of Liberalism doesn't make a Liberal any more than running an AK-47 makes a Marxist-Leninist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (06Hmj)

68 Le Pen's National Rally is mainstream left wing. They have no hope of escaping the fiscal trap they are in.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:12 AM (2ap+5)

I don't know of a population in Europe not addicted to government schemes and programs and whatnot to 'give' them stuff. Maybe some of the Easterners since some of them are old enough to remember communism with less than fondness.

I believe that the collapse will come pretty quickly if Trump can continue to lessen their leech-like suction on the American taxpayer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (ExV1e)

69 ‘ France's political structure is flawed’

I’ve never felt that their political structure is so much flawed as the culture is.
The French people are conditioned to want a revolution every generation or so. Since 1789.
They don’t consider any regime as legitimate unless it’s the result of a revolution.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

70 France reminds of another country but I can’t quite place it…ummmm.

Posted by: Gimme Gimme Gimmeee at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (doWZh)

71 Hope CBD your not going anywhere near Francistan

Posted by: Skip at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (xatjc)

72 That I have read, Rousseau is usually credited as a major player in Liberalism.

Of course the people most influenced by Rousseau brought The Terror....
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2

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The original genocidal Marxists before Marx was even born.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
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I found out a couple years ago that Marx, while being more historically significant afterwards, is actually less significant in the flow of things.

His writings on revolution were absorbed by the un-repentant Jacobins in France. Such that Marx's writings contributed to the 1870s retry at revolution.

Marx just pretty much provided a timeline and some more narrative to flesh out the original Rousseau-ian context.

I've put it so: Rousseau is the main event, and Marx is a wave rider.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (krQz2)

73 Thus, Marxism <=~=> Jacobinism.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (krQz2)

74 Okay, YOU try and pronounce MFGA.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

France Autre-temps Grande!!!!

....

Uhhhhh.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (06Hmj)

75 69 ‘ France's political structure is flawed’

I’ve never felt that their political structure is so much flawed as the culture is.
The French people are conditioned to want a revolution every generation or so. Since 1789.
They don’t consider any regime as legitimate unless it’s the result of a revolution.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (jbnUc)

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Well, they do have a parliamentary system, and parliamentary systems sucks. So there's that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)

76 The SC judge who conveniently was out walking on the beach during the conflagration is 59 years old. Her husband is 81 and was in the house. She was trying to off him!

Posted by: Jonathan Lawson @ Colonial Penn at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)

77 MADISON — The citizenship status of all Wisconsin voters must be verified before the next statewide election in February, a Waukesha County judge has ordered. The ruling from Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Maxwell requires the Wisconsin Elections Commission to review the state's voter rolls over the next five months to determine whether anyone who is not a U.S. citizen is registered to vote.
Posted by: SMOD at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (RHGPo)

I presume that this will be overturned because... shut up.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

78 76 The SC judge who conveniently was out walking on the beach during the conflagration is 59 years old. Her husband is 81 and was in the house. She was trying to off him!
Posted by: Jonathan Lawson @ Colonial Penn at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)

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While trying to make herself a victim.

This is more likely than her house's burning being a political hit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

79 Le Pen's National Rally is mainstream left wing. They have no hope of escaping the fiscal trap they are in.

FWIW, here's the AI take on National Front:

No, Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) is not a left-wing party; it is widely classified as far-right
. It is a nationalist and right-wing populist party that has historically been accused of xenophobia and antisemitism.
Key aspects of the National Rally's political positioning include:

Nationalist and anti-immigration stance: The party's platform is built on French nationalism and advocates for significant cuts to legal immigration, stricter controls on illegal immigration, and the protection of French identity.
Right-wing populism: While it has adopted some economically left-leaning policies to attract working-class voters, the party's core ideology and overall political position are on the far right.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

80
You cannot have a transformative leader like Trump in Europe. If we had a parliamentary system in the US, a Trump would be impossible.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 07, 2025 11:20 AM (tgvbd)

81 It's mad that the leader of Italy's Democrat Party is a lesbian with the not very Italian name of 'Elly Schlein' who was born in Switzerland to an American father (iirc). They couldn't even find a native born ethnic Italian to front their gay movement.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (Dg7ng)

Are you sure that's a woman?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

82 Okay, YOU try and pronounce MFGA.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)
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In French, it's easy. You just ignore the letters you don't want to say.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:21 AM (krQz2)

83 Rep. Dan Goldman said yesterday that President Trump, Stephen Miller, and the "extreme right" are to blame for a liberal judge's home burning to the ground.
Law enforcement in South Carolina just released a statement saying there's no evidence the fire was intentionally set.

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Another perfectly good right wing conspiracy theory shot to hell!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (R5VX1)

Sniffs loudly. Hmmm, maybe a hint of financial combustion?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:21 AM (Nzhwp)

84 37 That I have read, Rousseau is usually credited as a major player in Liberalism.

Of course the people most influenced by Rousseau brought The Terror....
Posted by: Axeman
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Rousseau wrote better than his past rivals did. But the radicalism was there from the time of the Gutenberg Bible--whether it was the urban Anabaptists in Germany, their cousins the Levelers in England, etc. Roman Catholicism followed Paul in focusing not on challenging current governmental regimes but instead perfecting oneself for heaven. Protestantism, for whatever its virtues, upended that by radicalizing the language of rights due to opposition to rulers that forbid its practice. From there, it is a simple step to go toward viewing all leaders in society as potentially suspect while at the same time viewing people, as Locke did, as basically good. So the virtuous people overturning the rascals in the ancien regime by obliterating them from history was ok because the people's collective General Will wanted new magistrates and a new regime.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:21 AM (WDjG6)

85 Good news, everyone! He's turning his life around!

Karmelo Anthony, who is currently on house arrest for fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf, has reportedly enrolled in college classes.
This comes after Frisco ISD granted him his high school diploma, even though the school was not obligated to do so after his expulsion, and the decision was greatly opposed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:21 AM (R5VX1)

86 That new Japanese PM sounds great. Get her in a Usagi costume and tearing out hearts.

Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

87 The SC judge who conveniently was out walking on the beach during the conflagration is 59 years old. Her husband is 81 and was in the house.

Posted by: Jonathan Lawson @ Colonial Penn at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)
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She ran out of fish tank cleaner.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (krQz2)

88 Sarah Hoyt argues that the basic shape of a country continues no matter what it does; it returns to the original historical construction. She was talking about Russia and the US when she said it, but I suppose it is also valid for France.
Whatever happens, revolution, republic or empire, it appears to try to recreate the reign of Louis XIV no matter how many times it strikes out for the first Republic.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (rbvCR)

89 Speaking of:

@unusual_whales 20h
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

@Mark___Taylor 17h
“We have to bring in immigrants to support the aging population.”

“The aging population needs to keep working to support the immigrants.”

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2025 11:23 AM (mlg/3)

90 It has a voting population that is hell-bent on protecting its pensions and retirement, at the expense of everything around them.

To be fair, I can kind of grasp that. I'm forced to pay into a system and then suddenly get told that I can't get that money back? I'd be disgruntled as well.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 11:23 AM (RjOoY)

91
It now seems like France is holding a no way out-

Race between Madame Guillotine and the Scimitar.

Place your bets now!

Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 11:23 AM (iJfKG)

92 77 I presume that this will be overturned because... shut up.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

Because the Wisconsin Supreme Court is more concerned with policy than law.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:23 AM (R256O)

93 89 Speaking of:

@unusual_whales 20h
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

@Mark___Taylor 17h
“We have to bring in immigrants to support the aging population.”

“The aging population needs to keep working to support the immigrants.”
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2025 11:23 AM (mlg/3)

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They made the GDP line go up, though!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

94 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

They don't have an immigration problem, but the ousted PM had wanted to open Japan up to Mass migration from Africa

Posted by: Josephistan at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (FLx59)

95 Okay, YOU try and pronounce MFGA.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

France Autre-temps Grande!!!!

....

Uhhhhh.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko

I see no fault here. Carry on.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (OUMaO)

96 Speaking of:

@unusual_whales 20h
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

Sheesh, let's just be honest and say you're going to work them until they drop.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

97 Rousseau was an immoral piece of shit.

I think Voltaire said that.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (Q1uY4)
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Stephen Maturin had some choice words to say about him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (WvZaB)

98 80
You cannot have a transformative leader like Trump in Europe. If we had a parliamentary system in the US, a Trump would be impossible.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I would agree. The original parliamentary systems were designed to work with Kings as executive who could make the tough decisions while parliaments could in turn check the kings.

PMs turn that on its head with parliamentary supremacy with no real checks on power in many countries other than societal outrage vetoing parliament via street politics. And unlike kings viewing the whole country as their property to be managed, PMs instead focus on maintaining and growing party support for themselves rather than the country as a whole.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (WDjG6)

99 I'm sure he was just planning a rowdy, fiery but peaceful protest.

A man was arrested with 200 homemade explosives while outside the Catholic Church where several Justices were to attend the Red Mass.

Bottle rockets and molotov cocktails.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (9k34X)

100 To be fair, I can kind of grasp that. I'm forced to pay into a system and then suddenly get told that I can't get that money back? I'd be disgruntled as well.

Posted by: NR Pax

Gen X and beyond say hi.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (OUMaO)

101 94 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

They don't have an immigration problem, but the ousted PM had wanted to open Japan up to Mass migration from Africa
Posted by: Josephistan at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (FLx59)

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They'd started the process, from what I understand. Some mayors were paying thousands of Africans to come in.

If there's a country in the world who won't long tolerate the degradation of their culture through mass non-assimilation of another culture, it's Japan. They'll degrade their own culture with waifus, thank you very much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

102 76 The SC judge who conveniently was out walking on the beach during the conflagration is 59 years old. Her husband is 81 and was in the house. She was trying to off him!
Posted by: Jonathan Lawson @ Colonial Penn at October 07, 2025 11:19 AM (oftw2)

Except they found no evidence it was arson.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (R256O)

103
Karmelo Anthony, who is currently on house arrest for fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf, has reportedly enrolled in college classes.

Unfortunately the boy he stabbed to death can't say the same...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)

104 Not to derail too much, but looking through the r/France subreddit for comments, they had a post with video of hunters launching live ducks into the air like clay pigeons to shoot!!! https://tinyurl.com/54hzvuca

I know the used live pigeons in the first modern Olympics before replacing them with clay pigeons, but seeing a modern hunter blast a catapulted duck out of the air was surreal, funny, and disgusting, all at once.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (JCZqz)

105 Roman Catholicism followed Paul in focusing not on challenging current governmental regimes but instead perfecting oneself for heaven. Protestantism, for whatever its virtues, upended that by radicalizing the language of rights due to opposition to rulers that forbid its practice.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:21 AM (WDjG6)
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So, IMO, it was a necessary development. Even though I don't agree with the traditional theory of "Rights'.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (krQz2)

106 >>@EricLDaugh
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>>22m
🚨 UPDATE: Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey will be arraigned following his indictment TOMORROW and large attendance is expected

>>Time for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (viF8m)

107 97 Rousseau was an immoral piece of shit.

I think Voltaire said that.
Posted by: Cicero
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Rousseau himself admits to being a deadbeat dad, a peeping tom, sexually perverted, lazy, greedy, etc. About the same as Karl Marx.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)

108 You know, I think France's notion of turning all the native folk from its ex-colonies into good little Frenchmen is not working out too well.

Posted by: Paco at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (mADJX)

109 Some people give the islamists whatever they want to keep them from killing non-islamists. What happens when they have nothing more to give? At that point the islamists have their caliphate.

Posted by: Eromero at October 07, 2025 11:27 AM (LHPAg)

110 Many people, in some cases most people, can be convinced to go along with a position if they are bombarded with enough propaganda.
——-

Quantity yes. But also, Repetition. I think it is a form of Hypnosis as well. Rhetoric is considered the Art of Persuasion. Getting people to do something, or not do something.

You can try to persuade them. Or you have to force them. There are no other options. Persuasion has lost its mojo, and the gaslighting and phony “manufactured consent” hasn’t worked either. Hence the “force them” stage.

Jack why do you think they passed Smith-Mundt? Various spook agencies have been breaking that shit since … well forever. Easily since the 1910s. 1920s. 1930s. 1940s, 1950s …. etc. i guess put it into hyperdrive. Or make it more profitable to NGOs? Gotta be a money or power angle.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 07, 2025 11:27 AM (x4uGH)

111 CBD leaves France, French government collapses TWICE ! coincidence ...??
Posted by: runner

CBD was the only thing propping the Fwench government up!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (9loYT)

112 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Not yet, but the left in Japan has been programming the country for decades to open up immigration. They had a taste in the 80's of what happens when Iranians started showing up and created a mafia running all kinds of scams. In the 2010's they were encouraged to accept islamist 'refugees' and it's scarring the shit out the Japanese when the Pali protests walk through neighborhoods chanting. That and China conducting ops for decades as well.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (mlg/3)

113 They don't have an immigration problem, but the ousted PM had wanted to open Japan up to Mass migration from Africa
Posted by: Josephistan at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (FLx59)

Maybe they should reach out to young people of Japanese ethnicity around the world, and entice them to migrate to their ancestral homeland, although I doubt many would take it up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (Nzhwp)

114 Gen X and beyond say hi.
Posted by: Brother Tim

Gen X here as well. I've been hoarding my savings for the past decade or so to the point dragons think I'm overdoing it.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (RjOoY)

115 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

They don't have an immigration problem, but the ousted PM had wanted to open Japan up to Mass migration from Africa
Posted by: Josephistan at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (FLx59)

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They'd started the process, from what I understand. Some mayors were paying thousands of Africans to come in.

If there's a country in the world who won't long tolerate the degradation of their culture through mass non-assimilation of another culture, it's Japan. They'll degrade their own culture with waifus, thank you very much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (GBKbO)
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Sex robots not ready yet?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

116 The ticking time bomb for France is their debt; they have no conceptual plan to deal with it, which means they will be forced to take a very inflationary way out. (that's always the default path of least resistance for a semi-democratic government)
As Germany falls into the same trap, there's a decent chance that this could sink the entire EU.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK8)

117 France still uses water cannon on rioters, which we won't do. So, I give them points for that.

Posted by: Sprung A Leak at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (oftw2)

118 Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

They don’t have a problem yet. But they are setting it up. It was announced recently tens of thousands of Africans will be imported. There are also a scattering of Indians and other SE Asians. All “guest workers”. We know that no guest workers ever go home though.

Germany and Netherlands started off with Muslim “guest workers” too. How’s that working out?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (wrRTB)

119 48
‘ the "extreme right" are to blame for a liberal judge's home burning to the ground.
Law enforcement in South Carolina just released a statement saying there's no evidence the fire was intentionally set.’

Is it bad or good if leftist judges think that their house will magically burn down if they make a bad ruling?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (jbnUc)

120 115 Sex robots not ready yet?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

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When you think about it, a sex robot is just a waifu that has the ability to talk back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

121 I saw a clip of Germans hiking with national flags; sort of like what is happening in England with the St. George's flag everywhere. I can see no way this goes wrong.

Actually, it makes me happy. They may finally be getting over the WWII guilt that's been destroying them for 80 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

122 Maybe they should reach out to young people of Japanese ethnicity around the world, and entice them to migrate to their ancestral homeland, although I doubt many would take it up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

An interesting idea but I think most of them are aware of just how expensive it is to live in Japan. And of course, the locals will never accept them (But they will be polite about it).

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (RjOoY)

123 They don't have an immigration problem, but the ousted PM had wanted to open Japan up to Mass migration from Africa
Posted by: Josephistan at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (FLx59)

I think that was because he saw that video game that said Africans made great Samurai.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (uWKK8)

124 It's turn the other cheek time!

“We have to be mature in our thinking” says the Dem Va Speaker of the House as he tells the congregation not to get “distracted” and support the Dem AG candidate who fantasized about killing a GOP lawmaker and his children

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (R5VX1)

125 Rousseau himself admits to being a deadbeat dad, a peeping tom, sexually perverted, lazy, greedy, etc. About the same as Karl Marx.
Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)

Nice work if you can get it, I guess.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (ExV1e)

126 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

They don't have an immigration problem, but the ousted PM had wanted to open Japan up to Mass migration from Africa
Posted by: Josephistan at October 07, 2025 11:24 AM (FLx59)
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I think some in Japan were being sucked in by the logic of "Everybody else is burning their hands on the stove--what makes you so special?!"

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (krQz2)

127 An 81 year old stupid enough to be married to an AWFL judge?

Left unattended in a mansion full of rich idiot made in West Taiwan gadgets?

It's miraculous the house didn't go up before now.

"I was just trying to test the smoke detector batteries! From the couch. Downstairs. With a lawn weeding torch. Nobody said not to do that in any of the manuals that i didn't read! I'm gonna sue!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (06Hmj)

128 Do the American people get a Mug shot of Director Comey? He can sell T-shirts, like Donny Two Scoops, correct?

Posted by: Common Tater at October 07, 2025 11:30 AM (x4uGH)

129 Frogs will be frogs.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 07, 2025 11:30 AM (oG7Qz)

130 Rousseau himself admits to being a deadbeat dad, a peeping tom, sexually perverted, lazy, greedy, etc. About the same as Karl Marx.
Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)
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He once sojourned to England as a guest of some fans of his. He acted like a complete asshole while there and his hosts kept making excuses for his bad behavior. Sounds familiar.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 07, 2025 11:30 AM (WvZaB)

131 I think the new Japanese President assumes that Japan will still be Japan with 25% fewer people in it than it will be with 10% more people in it, but 33% of them African.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

132 Except they found no evidence it was arson.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (R256O)

Sufficiently clever arson would mimic a "natural" cause for a house fire.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (Nzhwp)

133 Willowed from last thread (past the 100-comment mark):
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The fucking Prickster:
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JB Pritzker "[Kristi Noem] needs to get out. Grow up. She's the one cosplaying a social media influencer… She's in fact… causing problems. ICE officials are the ones causing the problems they are now asking for help to deal with."
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HELP?!

Oh, yeah--just asking that your citizens not try to assault them--that's just too needy for The Prickster.

Oh, yeah, these fucking people know how to "solve our problems"!

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (krQz2)

134 > Do the American people get a Mug shot of Director Comey? He can sell T-shirts, like Donny Two Scoops, correct?
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That's not who we are... ™

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (Q4IgG)

135 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?

Posted by: Elric The Blade

Japan is a very high trust society. They are quiet on trains and in public areas, and petty crime is rare. I watched a video just the other day, and it was related to how Japan recently allowed several thousand Syrians into the country. For some unknown reason, the crime rates have gone up where these immigrants settled, the subways are now full of loud voices singing fight songs, and trash has suddenly started appearing in public places.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (0U5gm)

136 Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

Arbeit Mach Frei, baby!

Posted by: Shickelgruber at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (ufSfZ)

137 the locals will never accept them (But they will be polite about it).
Posted by: NR Pax

A Navy buddy of mine once remarked that the Japanese can call you a Western barbarian more politely than any other people.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

138 88 Sarah Hoyt argues that the basic shape of a country continues no matter what it does; it returns to the original historical construction. She was talking about Russia and the US when she said it, but I suppose it is also valid for France.
Whatever happens, revolution, republic or empire, it appears to try to recreate the reign of Louis XIV no matter how many times it strikes out for the first Republic.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:22 AM (rbvCR)

Except, oddly enough, roughly every 1600 years all of the existing nations fall to pieces, many disappearing forever, and new nations with new peoples grow over their graves.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (uWKK8)

139 116 The ticking time bomb for France is their debt; they have no conceptual plan to deal with it, which means they will be forced to take a very inflationary way out. (that's always the default path of least resistance for a semi-democratic government)
As Germany falls into the same trap, there's a decent chance that this could sink the entire EU.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK

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Peter St. Onge said central bankers won't go along with monetizing the debt because that would result in bankers decorating lamp posts (metaphorically, of course).

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (2ap+5)

140 Except they found no evidence it was arson.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (R256O)

Sufficiently clever arson would mimic a "natural" cause for a house fire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (Nzhwp)
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It is suspected to be a slow gas leak.

It's not like that can't be engineered. All it means is no accelerant was used.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (krQz2)

141 I saw a clip of Germans hiking with national flags; sort of like what is happening in England with the St. George's flag everywhere. I can see no way this goes wrong.
Actually, it makes me happy. They may finally be getting over the WWII guilt that's been destroying them for 80 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

I will start paying attention when the protesters start marching with state flags. That is going to be the point that the government is going to panic

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (rbvCR)

142 A lot of small towns in Japan will just be ghost towns as the population dies out in them. But is that really such a bad thing? We have ghost towns all over the western US. Not the end of the world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (wrRTB)

143 Rousseau was an immoral piece of shit.

I think Voltaire said that.
Posted by: Cicero
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Rousseau himself admits to being a deadbeat dad, a peeping tom, sexually perverted, lazy, greedy, etc. About the same as Karl Marx.
Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)
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Rousseau was a shitbird pervert who was so wrong about everything he could only be French

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

144 >>Jack why do you think they passed Smith-Mundt? Various spook agencies have been breaking that shit since … well forever. Easily since the 1910s. 1920s. 1930s. 1940s, 1950s …. etc. i guess put it into hyperdrive. Or make it more profitable to NGOs? Gotta be a money or power angle.

I think they did it for the same reason they set up a vast censorship machine to target anyone who went against the approved government narrative. It's about control and in many cases to be able to do things like mass immigration, the idiotic war in Ukraine and the equally idiotic war in Gaza.

There is no rational reason to support mass illegal immigration but if the only thing people hear is that it is obviously a good thing and everyone supports it then many will go along with it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (viF8m)

145 So, IMO, it was a necessary development. Even though I don't agree with the traditional theory of "Rights'.
Posted by: Axeman
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Catholic theology always had a sense of human rights as you will even see it peek up now and again in medieval Speeches from the Throne made by kings ascending to high office.

A lot of these are lost in the mists of time but enough still exist that indicate the reciprocal nature of duties and responsibilities between kings and their nobles and countrymen. Which in turn rests on the ability of the Catholic Church to tame the worst impulses of societies.

Protestantism broke that along with rationalism (ironically derived from Catholic scholars) movement and the Renaissance which placed more focus on the individual than society and stability. Perhaps inevitable after the Black Death, mebbe not. But placing human individuals front and center using the older language of covenants and the Law derived from ancient Jewish concepts, made for a world changing explosion of political thought in the West for good and ill.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (WDjG6)

146 I think France's notion of turning all the native folk from its ex-colonies into good little Frenchmen is not working out too well.

Posted by: Paco at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (mADJX)

Yes...they seem to be using the British model, with just as much success!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (n9ltV)

147 125 Rousseau himself admits to being a deadbeat dad, a peeping tom, sexually perverted, lazy, greedy, etc."

So he admits that he was French.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (uWKK8)

148 Rousseau himself admits to being a deadbeat dad, a peeping tom, sexually perverted, lazy, greedy, etc. About the same as Karl Marx.
Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:26 AM (WDjG6)

I'm not a deadbeat dad or a peeping Tom. Guess I'll have to up my game.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

149 The ticking time bomb for France is their debt; they have no conceptual plan to deal with it, which means they will be forced to take a very inflationary way out. (that's always the default path of least resistance for a semi-democratic government)
As Germany falls into the same trap, there's a decent chance that this could sink the entire EU.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK

What? They're running out of other people's money?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (oG7Qz)

150 Except they found no evidence it was arson.
Posted by: tankdemon

You still believe what the press tells you? You're probably trying to blame this one on me, too.

Posted by: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (oftw2)

151 The retirement age in the west was generally set when the average lifespan was 65-75. It’s now 75-85. Raising the retirement age is just math.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (wrRTB)

152 Maybe the French thought every Algerian was another Camus.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (2ap+5)

153 It will be interesting and amusing to watch France fall. And, when it does, which seems to be sooner than later, I wonder who and where the finger pointing will start?

Posted by: sidney at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (Uy/WF)

154 Except, oddly enough, roughly every 1600 years all of the existing nations fall to pieces, many disappearing forever, and new nations with new peoples grow over their graves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (uWKK

Hey, sometimes you get to see a rerun of the good episodes in syndication!

(Lookin at you, Yisroelim)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (06Hmj)

155 Inside voice, Mark, inside voice.

Mark R. Levin@marklevinshow
Hamas Nazis celebrate second year anniversary of October 7 slaughter of Israelis. I sit here grinding my teeth when I hear about peace with these sub-human bastards.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (R5VX1)

156 Except they found no evidence it was arson.
Posted by: tankdemon

Sufficiently clever arson would mimic a "natural" cause for a house fire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

There's not too many of those. Insurance companies have become VERY good at determining arson.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (9loYT)

157 143 Rousseau was Swiss, not French.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (Dg7ng)

158 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?

Posted by: Elric The Blade

Japan is a very high trust society. They are quiet on trains and in public areas, and petty crime is rare. I watched a video just the other day, and it was related to how Japan recently allowed several thousand Syrians into the country. For some unknown reason, the crime rates have gone up where these immigrants settled, the subways are now full of loud voices singing fight songs, and trash has suddenly started appearing in public places.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (0U5gm)
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I lived in Japan for a year. Before the Syrian animals arrived. There were working-class immigrants there at the time, but they were 99% Asian (mostly from Philippines, Thailand, etc).

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

159 154 Except, oddly enough, roughly every 1600 years all of the existing nations fall to pieces, many disappearing forever, and new nations with new peoples grow over their graves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (uWKK

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My Austrian empire that stretches from India to Mexico will last forever, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)

160 If you ever want to know more about what a bunch of tools most leftist "intellectuals" are, read Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky". Rousseau is also included.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

161 I regret having ever mocked French snobbery. It is heartbreaking to see France surrender its national pride as it willingly surrenders to the invading caliphate. There will be another Battle of Tours in coming decades. I fear that the caliphate will triumph this time.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at October 07, 2025 11:36 AM (HJSUz)

162 A lot of small towns in Japan will just be ghost towns as the population dies out in them. But is that really such a bad thing? We have ghost towns all over the western US. Not the end of the world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (wrRTB)

I suspect that at some point some of the younger generation will decide that living in Tokyo or Osaka isn't worth the expense and they'll discover the glory of their country and find a life. The population will fall but, hopefully, eventually stabilize. The standard of living will fall to something domestically sustainable. Not the worst possible outcome.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:36 AM (ExV1e)

163 158 I lived in Japan for a year. Before the Syrian animals arrived. There were working-class immigrants there at the time, but they were 99% Asian (mostly from Philippines, Thailand, etc).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

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How much Japanese can you read/speak?

I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

164 58 33 It's mad that the leader of Italy's Democrat Party is a lesbian with the not very Italian name of 'Elly Schlein' who was born in Switzerland to an American father (iirc). They couldn't even find a native born ethnic Italian to front their gay movement.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at October 07, 2025 11:16 AM (Dg7ng)
Looks like WNBA coach.

Posted by: Eromero at October 07, 2025 11:37 AM (LHPAg)

165 75
‘ Well, they do have a parliamentary system, and parliamentary systems sucks. So there's that.’

Yeah. But it doesn’t automatically have to.
Having it full of French people makes it suck.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

166 A Navy buddy of mine once remarked that the Japanese can call you a Western barbarian more politely than any other people.
Posted by: Bulg

I hung out with several of the Japanese exchange students during my Senior year in college. They asked me to help them out with an assignment regarding American dating customs.

After things were over, they said "You ever date a Japanese girl?"

"My last girlfriend in fact. Her dad was a Nisei." Their ears pricked up at me using that term.

"So...what did he think?"

"He wasn't thrilled about her bringing home a gaijin." They burst out laughing about how I knew the term.

(Side note: Her mom? Just as Japanese and she liked me a lot. Dad never stood a chance.)

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

167 120 115 Sex robots not ready yet?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:28 AM (iFTx/)

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When you think about it, a sex robot is just a waifu that has the ability to talk back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

I'm not buying the 1.0 version but I will look closely at the 2.0 and later generations...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:37 AM (xcxpd)

168
Peter St. Onge said central bankers won't go along with monetizing the debt because that would result in bankers decorating lamp posts (metaphorically, of course).
Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (2ap+5)

But if the Government cuts spending enough to get hold of the problem, both Left and Right will riot in the streets. (they've said so) Government will fall completely, and real chaos will result.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:37 AM (uWKK8)

169 Macron should call early presidential vote, says his first PM Édouard Philippe. Keep in mind that Philippe follows Bardella (RN) in current polls. So this gives him a shot at the presidency

The new president will then dissolve the assembly and try to win the legislative election with restored legitimacy. There is a good chance it would work.

The risk of having someone win the presidential who isn’t as strong against Putin is too high. Better to have Macron until some stability with the Russian conflict.

This is how Russia works. Country by country. We are at war. And by we, I mean all of Europe. Better get used to it, because it’s been like this for a while now.

"Macron should resign" says the man that wants to be president. I dislike Macron like most of the french right now, but having an election now and risking having Bardella or Le Pen is too high, we all know who is financing their campaign...

Yeah! Let marine LePen’s minions win, and enjoy the final days of the European Union. /s

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

170 If you ever want to know more about what a bunch of tools most leftist "intellectuals" are, read Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky". Rousseau is also included.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (Riz8t)

Great book. Funny, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (E+7Sa)

171 Peter St. Onge said central bankers won't go along with monetizing the debt because that would result in bankers decorating lamp posts (metaphorically, of course).
Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:32 AM (2ap+5)

The projected solution is that the pensions and retirements will be required to accept bonds backed by the repayment of the debt, which is what I think he is saying.
It is like financializing bundled mortgages. That worked out spectacularly well.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (rbvCR)

172 142 A lot of small towns in Japan will just be ghost towns as the population dies out in them. But is that really such a bad thing? We have ghost towns all over the western US. Not the end of the world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Part of that is the same reason that rural areas of the US have hollowed out in population. No jobs for the young so move to urban/suburban/exurbs to obtain one. Retirees, not so much so less need to move.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (WDjG6)

173 167 When you think about it, a sex robot is just a waifu that has the ability to talk back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

I'm not buying the 1.0 version but I will look closely at the 2.0 and later generations...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:37 AM (xcxpd)

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3.7 is when they can do the go up on one foot, wink, and flash the peace sign thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)

174 I lived in Japan for a year. Before the Syrian animals arrived. There were working-class immigrants there at the time, but they were 99% Asian (mostly from Philippines, Thailand, etc).

The Thais and Filipinos remember what happened to them the last time Japan got frisky.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

175 I have a friend who spent some time in Japan. He said it was by far the best time of his life when it came to women. They looooooved them some tall blond gaijin.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (wrRTB)

176 132 Except they found no evidence it was arson.
Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:25 AM (R256O)

Sufficiently clever arson would mimic a "natural" cause for a house fire.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (Nzhwp)

So we shouldn't be mocking Dan Goldman for blaming the fire on right-wing lunatics despite there being no evidence of arson?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (R256O)

177 Pithy.

U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA
Fuck Hamas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (R5VX1)

178 There's not too many of those. Insurance companies have become VERY good at determining arson.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (9loYT)

Do you think a leftist insurance company will be super-diligent about finding arson in a claim filed by a Democrat judge?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (Nzhwp)

179 I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.

I was chatting with a woman who said her son enjoyed learning Japanese and he really took to it. I asked her what appealed to him about it. She said that he's autistic and to him, the rules about the language made more sense to him.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (RjOoY)

180 169 This is how Russia works. Country by country. We are at war. And by we, I mean all of Europe. Better get used to it, because it’s been like this for a while now.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

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Russia sounds really powerful. Probably not a good idea to get on their bad side, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

181 177 Pithy.

U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA
Fuck Hamas.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (R5VX1)

That tumor knows what time it is

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (xcxpd)

182 We could probably get away with raising the social security retirement age in the US the higher age requirement only applied to white males.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (2ap+5)

183 Yeah! Let marine LePen’s minions win, and enjoy the final days of the European Union. /s

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This!! But without the /s.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:40 AM (wrRTB)

184 179 I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.

I was chatting with a woman who said her son enjoyed learning Japanese and he really took to it. I asked her what appealed to him about it. She said that he's autistic and to him, the rules about the language made more sense to him.
Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (RjOoY)

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Makes sense.

It was either that, trains, or becoming Frasier Crane, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

185 Pithy.

U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA
Fuck Hamas.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:39 AM (R5VX1)

Heh.

He's not wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 07, 2025 11:40 AM (06Hmj)

186 "3.7 is when they can do the go up on one foot, wink, and flash the peace sign thing"

Which version will take out the trash and mow the lawn?

Posted by: fd at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (3TpDb)

187 186 "3.7 is when they can do the go up on one foot, wink, and flash the peace sign thing"

Which version will take out the trash and mow the lawn?
Posted by: fd at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (3TpDb)

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Always on the roadmap, never in development.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)

188 Rousseau himself admits to being a deadbeat dad, a peeping tom, sexually perverted, lazy, greedy, etc."

Whoa....what's wrong with being greedy and sexually perverted?!?!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (JCZqz)

189 Eh Fetterman is doing his usual bullshit. Tweets something reasonable then turns around and votes with the Dems. Fuck him, along with Hamas.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (wrRTB)

190 So, IMO, it was a necessary development. Even though I don't agree with the traditional theory of "Rights'.
Posted by: Axeman
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Catholic theology always had a sense of human rights as you will even see it peek up now and again in medieval Speeches from the Throne made by kings ascending to high office.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (WDjG6)
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Which wouldn't surprise me, because I believe the logic we model with the "Rights model" is mainly supported by the Judeo-Christian tradition.

I do think the problem with the Catholic Church was that it was an authority, and subject to the abuses concomitant with authority.

The stripping down to Sola Scriptura (which is not a 100% belief with me, but I like the cross-pollination, nonetheless) allowed us to focus less on authority and in reading the words of Jesus himself, call ourselves to servant leadership, which is the model of Jesus, himself.

I think the missteps of the Church demonstrate that this is human enterprise with God. That even a human who devotes himself to the service of God and can become renown for his zeal for scripture is still just a human.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (krQz2)

191 The ticking time bomb for France is their debt; they have no conceptual plan to deal with it, which means they will be forced to take a very inflationary way out.
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Thank goodness we don’t have that problem. That can’t happen here, obviously.

Posted by: Common Tater at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (x4uGH)

192 Yeah! Let marine LePen’s minions win, and enjoy the final days of the European Union. /s

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

Wow, I agree with one of them, if you remove the sarc tag.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:41 AM (0U5gm)

193 How much Japanese can you read/speak?

I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

I've noticed with myself that I know enough of Romance and Germanic languages to be able to feel comfortable listening to (even if I don't understand the vocabulary) most any Indo-European language, even Hindi. However, any of the far Eastern languages such as Mandarin or Japanese have the same effect on me as the Bushmen making clicking sounds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:42 AM (uWKK8)

194 I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

Hangul (Korean) is supposed to be pretty easy to learn. I think of it as sort of a analog QR code.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:42 AM (rbvCR)

195 Interesting that all the Western articles on her focus on her hardline immigration stance. Does Japan have an actual immigration problem, or is this just Western media obsessed with finding parallels to Trump?

Posted by: Elric The Blade

Japan is a very high trust society. They are quiet on trains and in public areas, and petty crime is rare. I watched a video just the other day, and it was related to how Japan recently allowed several thousand Syrians into the country. For some unknown reason, the crime rates have gone up where these immigrants settled, the subways are now full of loud voices singing fight songs, and trash has suddenly started appearing in public places.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:31 AM (0U5gm)

Yes, you can see the change in cities like Tokyo over the last few years especially.

Bringing in people who have zero connection to a safe, high trust, honest, high responsibility society has been a tremendously stupid and unsafe idea.

It would still be possible, because the numbers aren't huge, to give them all the heave-ho. I suspect if the new PM does that, she'll be considered the greatest PM in Japanese history.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 11:42 AM (iJfKG)

196 But France has CBD.
That must mean something.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 07, 2025 11:42 AM (n4GiU)

197 Countries with rabbit-like birthrates flooding countries with panda like birth rates.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 11:42 AM (TCuno)

198 If anything retirement age should be higher for women since they live longer on average. Good luck ever making that happen though.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:43 AM (wrRTB)

199 I lived in Japan for a year. Before the Syrian animals arrived. There were working-class immigrants there at the time, but they were 99% Asian (mostly from Philippines, Thailand, etc).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

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How much Japanese can you read/speak?

I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)
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I could not read any Japanese in Kanji, etc. But I could speak and understand enough at the end to get through an entire day speaking only Japanese. I mean conversational stuff. I couldn't conduct business or speak in great detail. But enough to get by in a normal day.

I learned this one right away: "Anata wa kireidesu. Kekkon shite imasu ka?"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

200 I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You can learn the phonetic alphabets in a weekend. The 'chinese' characters, to be able to read and write like a high schooler, would take about a year or two of solid study. Conversation fluency requires living it daily for a year and a half in my experience.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2025 11:43 AM (mlg/3)

201 So we shouldn't be mocking Dan Goldman for blaming the fire on right-wing lunatics despite there being no evidence of arson?
Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (R256O)

Sure we should. Because my bet is that this is as fake as all the other "right-wing" violence. Like college profs finding nooses on their office doors, put there by themselves.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (Nzhwp)

202 If you're wondering why indictments and prosecutions aren't going faster this might be a clue. The DOJ is a sewer of leftist trash.

>>@kylegriffin1

>>New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (viF8m)

203 Yeah. But it doesn’t automatically have to.
Having it full of French people makes it suck.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

French have a hybrid system courtesy of DeGaulle. Basically the president can run the country through decrees if necessary. Both the 3rd and 4th Republics though resulted in parliamentary deadlocks much as our Congress has for the last 30 years or so.

Mass suffrage voting only works if the differences between citizens are small implying a homogeneity of thought, values, and wealth. So politics then is relatively inconsequential absent an external threat. But when the differences internally are large, the system breaks down such as before the ACW for America or the current inevitability of bankruptcy of Western welfare states.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (WDjG6)

204 Russia sounds really powerful. Probably not a good idea to get on their bad side, I guess.

Remember the rules! Russia is a failed state, merely a gas station with nukes, whose economy is collapsing, and is inhabited by ignorant, savage, Asiatic subhumans.

Also, if Ukraine loses, the Russians will be blitzing into Paris next Tuesday.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (xTIDn)

205 Macron's wife has a child older than he, a pretty decent looking cardiologist.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (gKoO+)

206 So we shouldn't be mocking Dan Goldman for blaming the fire on right-wing lunatics despite there being no evidence of arson?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM (R256O)
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No, because a possibility of arson doesn't make a case against an arsonist.

So yes, he's still being incontinent about this. And needs to be mocked.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (krQz2)

207 While unlikely that Reconqueste! can become a player in France politics, Sarah Knafo is undeniably cute.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (2ap+5)

208 199 I learned this one right away: "Anata wa kireidesu. Kekkon shite imasu ka?"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

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Looked it up.

Heh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

209 France will not recover unless the people of France reject the status quo and embrace change the way America, Italy, Japan, and a few other countries have. And that will probably not happen!

Across the western world you see people trying to get change by the traditional method of voting for the established party that is out of power and...not getting change.

You can see how successfully the left has take over right leaning establishment parties and just turning them into a continuation of the left leaning established party. Yes they have the Romney haircuts and say the correct things more or less but once given power they continue what the left leaning parties do.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (sKqQm)

210 Eh Fetterman is doing his usual bullshit. Tweets something reasonable then turns around and votes with the Dems. Fuck him, along with Hamas.

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voted for GOP-led continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (g47mK)

211 I'm in my third year of Japanese on Duolingo. Taking it slow but still don't feel like I have any proficiency at all.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (TCuno)

212 150 Except they found no evidence it was arson.
Posted by: tankdemon

You still believe what the press tells you? You're probably trying to blame this one on me, too.
Posted by: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow at October 07, 2025 11:34 AM (oftw2)

Tomorrow is the anniversary of your big day!

Posted by: tankdemon at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (R256O)

213 I'm curious about languages with completely different writing systems, and I sometimes wonder how easily I could take it up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:36 AM (GBKbO)

Hangul (Korean) is supposed to be pretty easy to learn. I think of it as sort of a analog QR code.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:42 AM (rbvCR)

It was literally created bo order of the king IIRC so that ignorant peasants could become literate instead of wrestling with Chinese kanji.

So, I would guess that it's the easiest of the asian written languages to pick up.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

214 I can't wrap my brain around the French seeing their country utterly crumbling around them, for those aware of the welfare/economic bombs that will sink them, but most assuredly the Muslim invasion. How can they not see where they are headed? I know it's not only France. But if I were a citizen, I'd be utterly horrified at the Islamification that is 100% barreling toward them with no brakes. Muh pensions aren't going to save them when Mohammed takes over and plunders everything and everybody. And it's going to happen unless something drastically changes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (qBdHI)

215 Yeah! Let marine LePen’s minions win, and enjoy the final days of the European Union. /s
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 11:38 AM

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (kgE5c)

216 131 I think the new Japanese President assumes that Japan will still be Japan with 25% fewer people in it than it will be with 10% more people in it, but 33% of them African.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
Olympic Athlete Development Program.

Posted by: Eromero at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (LHPAg)

217 Porn addiction? Now theres help. New from Vinco Boner Ban stop em arassing boners.
: Trump Urges ‘Troublemaker’ Greta Thunberg to ‘See a Doctor’ After Israeli Deportation
https://tinyurl.com/3cxupjsh

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 07, 2025 11:46 AM (VPPG8)

218 93
‘ but the ousted PM had wanted to open Japan up to Mass migration from Africa’

And Iraq.

If Takaichi does nothing more than block migrants she’s already a success.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

219 Relax, everybody!

https://is.gd/Glssfd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:46 AM (R5VX1)

220 210 voted for GOP-led continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown
Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (g47mK)

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Show votes to get Republicans in PA on his side. He's never actually a deciding vote to move things. If it's a 49-51 vote, he'll never switch and become the 50th to allow Vance a tie-break.

Which is working. 40 point positive rating of Republicans in PA.

However, he's pissing off the left so much that he's already getting primary challengers for 2028, and he'll probably end up losing because primaries are where dedicated partisans vote. And Republicans won't vote in the Democrat primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

221 voted for GOP-led continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown
Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (g47mK)

Knowing it wouldn’t pass. It’s the McCain gambit. Vote the right way when the vote is meaningless. When it counts vote with the left.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:47 AM (wrRTB)

222 @180

>>Russia sounds really powerful. Probably not a good idea to get on their bad side, I guess.

Russia is weak!

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Mirror Universe Cosmo Kramer playing Risk on a Crowded D Train.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 07, 2025 11:47 AM (wd4e/)

223 If I had 1/10 the skills and expertise to do it, I'd get one of the free abandoned houses in a nice area of rural Japan and fix it up. And I have an angle to qualify for that program.

Have traveled through a fair amount of rural Japan and it has most of the virtues we think of with that society, just very quiet of course.

Even though Japan's sort of on the "front lines" of global confrontation in that part of the world, the quiet areas remind me of parts of Brazil or Argentina, which are clearly off the track of geopolitical happenings.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (U/Byj)

224 The stripping down to Sola Scriptura (which is not a 100% belief with me, but I like the cross-pollination, nonetheless) allowed us to focus less on authority and in reading the words of Jesus himself, call ourselves to servant leadership, which is the model of Jesus, himself.

I think the missteps of the Church demonstrate that this is human enterprise with God. That even a human who devotes himself to the service of God and can become renown for his zeal for scripture is still just a human.
Posted by: Axeman
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Words to ponder. Thanks. And I do agree the organizational imperatives can often lead to bad consequences. Reason why I prefer subsidiarity as much as can be practical--not because it promises heaven on earth but it limits the damage that organizational demands or evil impulses by leaders can wreak.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (WDjG6)

225 A lot of small towns in Japan will just be ghost towns as the population dies out in them. But is that really such a bad thing? We have ghost towns all over the western US. Not the end of the world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 07, 2025 11:33 AM (wrRTB)
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Shiki is an outstanding horror anime about the death of a small town.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (krQz2)

226 Classy Freddie Blassie wrestled in Japan in the early 60s. He defeated their national champ, leaving him a bloody mess. Very dishonorable and was feared and hated by the Japanese to the end of his life. Curious Japanese would follow him at a distance in Tokyo. He'd hide around the corner of a building, jump out, and scare the crap out of them.
Dr. X, on the other hand, also defeated the Japanese champ, but did it honorably. He was bestowed the highest foreign civilian honor, The Order of the Rising Sun.

Posted by: Dick Beyer, Dr. X at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (oftw2)

227 220+ comments in, and this is only the third instance of 'frog'.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (0sNs1)

228 Do you think a leftist insurance company will be super-diligent about finding arson in a claim filed by a Democrat judge?
Posted by: Alberta Oil

When it comes to paying out millions? Yes.

They want to use your money. Not theirs.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (9loYT)

229 210 Eh Fetterman is doing his usual bullshit. Tweets something reasonable then turns around and votes with the Dems. Fuck him, along with Hamas.

==

voted for GOP-led continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (g47mK)

B/c it doesn't yet matter.

King did also, and now that folks might be teetering, he's announced he will likely start voting with the Dems soon...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (tOcjL)

230 Eh Fetterman is doing his usual bullshit. Tweets something reasonable then turns around and votes with the Dems. Fuck him, along with Hamas.

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Fetterman's lucidity with some of his statements don't impress me, and never have. Precisely because of this. He votes D all the time and that obliterates his "common sense" utterances on occasion. I put no stock in him.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (qBdHI)

231 219 Relax, everybody!

https://is.gd/Glssfd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:46 AM (R5VX1)

Gay as Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

232 his intel chip entirely upgraded,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (bXbFr)

233 How can they not see where they are headed? I know it's not only France. But if I were a citizen, I'd be utterly horrified at the Islamification that is 100% barreling toward them with no brakes. Muh pensions aren't going to save them when Mohammed takes over and plunders everything and everybody. And it's going to happen unless something drastically changes.
Posted by: Lady in Black at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (qBdHI)

Sometimes everyone sees where things are headed, and they all do a Thelma and Louise anyways.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (uWKK8)

234 Remember the rules! Russia is a failed state, merely a gas station with nukes, whose economy is collapsing, and is inhabited by ignorant, savage, Asiatic subhumans.

Also, if Ukraine loses, the Russians will be blitzing into Paris next Tuesday.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Amazing! Holding to opposite states, simultaneously, until the political narrative collapses due to reality, forcing it to be one or the other.

Posted by: Schr�dinger at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (JCZqz)

235 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

you are contradicting yourself in the same post !

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)

236 Macron's wife has a child older than he, a pretty decent looking cardiologist.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (gKoO+)

That's hardly Macron's family, though, is it? I mean, technically the guy is a his stepson, but in no way is Macron parent to the guy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (Nzhwp)

237 I'm in my third year of Japanese on Duolingo. Taking it slow but still don't feel like I have any proficiency at all.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (TCuno)

You need to hang out with some Japanese kids. Kids are cruel and merciless with your language mistakes, but you will learn to speak Japanese.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (oG7Qz)

238 I would bet Japanese parents are not very happy if their daughters brought home a blonde American guy.

Posted by: Case at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (9HFDU)

239 it does not matter, however, it matters so much they want him out !

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:50 AM (g47mK)

240 235 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

you are contradicting yourself in the same post !
Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (g47mK)

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Not really.

Saying he's aiming for maverick status by winning over Republicans while abandoning leftist ideologues and partisans who want "fight fight fight" only directed at Trump.

He'd win the 2028 general election for senator in PA easily. But he's not going to make it to the general election because the motivated left is going to primary his ass and beat him there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

241 One advantage of learning Japanese is there is plenty of anime and Jpop for listening practice

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 11:51 AM (U+tWr)

242 I learned this one right away: "Anata wa kireidesu. Kekkon shite imasu ka?"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

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Looked it up.

Heh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
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Never in my life was it easier to get dates than in Japan. I had to do nothing but stand at the bar. I was so exotic and forbidden-fruity (tall white guy with blue eyes) the girls would come to me. And not mid girls. Hot girls. Sadly, once I got back to USA I was just another white dude.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

243 Not to worry, if the ME migrants in Japan, get too sporty, Godzilla will take care of them. He loves Middle-Eastern cuisine.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

244 The Eastern District of Virginia.

>>@Project_Veritas

>>BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Number Linked to Newly Fired U.S. Prosecutor Michael Ben’Ary Dreams President Trump and Eastern District of Virginia Attorney Lindsay Halligan Will Die

>>"I would like to strangle that b*itch myself. Every night I dream that this nightmare will end ... or that she or @RealDonaldTrump would simply die."

>>In a leaked text from October 6th, a number linked to Ben'Ary, who was terminated last week, urges fellow
@EDVAnews prosecutor Russell Carlberg - previously exposed by Veritas for threatening whistleblowers - to "keep monitoring" cases to prevent interference from President Trump’s new appointee, Lindsay Halligan, who oversees the Comey case.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 11:51 AM (viF8m)

245 Anata wa kireidesu. Kekkon shite imasu ka?"
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07,

Is that ou est la biblioteche?

Posted by: From about That Time at October 07, 2025 11:51 AM (n4GiU)

246 ‘ the "extreme right" are to blame for a liberal judge's home burning to the ground.
Law enforcement in South Carolina just released a statement saying there's no evidence the fire was intentionally set.’
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Interesting tidbit in one of the articles I read: The judge referred the reporter to the court spokesperson or some such for further information, after relying that she, herself, was fine.

WTF?

The court is not your PR firm or agent.

Anyway. Standing by my prediction that it is fire insurance fraud
But murder-for-hire by her to collect the life insurance on her husband is coming strong on the inside corner.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (9k34X)

247 Yes, you can see the change in cities like Tokyo over the last few years especially.

Bringing in people who have zero connection to a safe, high trust, honest, high responsibility society has been a tremendously stupid and unsafe idea.

It would still be possible, because the numbers aren't huge, to give them all the heave-ho. I suspect if the new PM does that, she'll be considered the greatest PM in Japanese history.

I see. So, old Japan was a neighborhood with an HOA, while new Japan has no HOA.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

248 I would bet Japanese parents are not very happy if their daughters brought home a blonde American guy.
Posted by: Case at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (9HFDU)
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Xenophobia is tolerated by every other culture.

However, it makes sense that it's eschewed in Judeo-Christian culture because of what scripture says about strangers.

Israel and Christians are supposed to be better about this than heathens.

By this, I'm not putting it to the same use as the Scripture-users among progressives.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (krQz2)

249 The only way to learn Japanese or any Asian language is total immersion and 5 to 10 years depending on how motivated you are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (wd4e/)

250 249 The only way to learn Japanese or any Asian language is total immersion and 5 to 10 years depending on how motivated you are.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (wd4e/)

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Will 5 minutes every other day on Duolinguo suffice?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

251
Actually, it makes me happy. They may finally be getting over the WWII guilt that's been destroying them for 80 years.
Posted by: Archimedes

It has to last at least as long as slavery guilt.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2025 11:53 AM (63Dwl)

252 How can they not see where they are headed?

Because they have been conditioned to not see it. Same as large swaths of US citizens.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:53 AM (ExV1e)

253 Fetterman is a Dem and will for Dem priorities, unless it clashes with his inner belief system. Which is more than I can say for most of Ds and Rs.

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:53 AM (g47mK)

254 Finally, we're back to some good, old fashion crazy.

'Stained red as if they were possibly used': Firefighter dumps 75 tampons in ex-boyfriend's yard because she was mad he was dating someone else, cops say

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:54 AM (R5VX1)

255 >>@Project_Veritas

>>BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Number Linked to Newly Fired U.S. Prosecutor Michael Ben’Ary Dreams President Trump and Eastern District of Virginia Attorney Lindsay Halligan Will Die

>>"I would like to strangle that b*itch myself. Every night I dream that this nightmare will end ... or that she or @RealDonaldTrump would simply die."

>>In a leaked text from October 6th, a number linked to Ben'Ary, who was terminated last week, urges fellow
@EDVAnews prosecutor Russell Carlberg - previously exposed by Veritas for threatening whistleblowers - to "keep monitoring" cases to prevent interference from President Trump’s new appointee, Lindsay Halligan, who oversees the Comey case.
Posted by: JackStraw

Bring back black sight renditionings.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 11:54 AM (9loYT)

256 If Ds had 5 more like Fetterman the government would not shut down.

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)

257 When I was studying Mandarin in college, I thought that the grammar was insanely easy.

The tones and the characters, not so much.

I decided to stick with Russian.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

258 I set the language on my phone to French and have never been able to get it to completely go back to English. After you've seen Paris, I guess.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 11:55 AM (2ap+5)

259 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Number Linked to Newly Fired U.S. Prosecutor Michael Ben’Ary Dreams President Trump and Eastern District of Virginia Attorney Lindsay Halligan Will Die

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It is going to take years to clean out the Augean stables that is the federal bureaucracy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:55 AM (0U5gm)

260 214 How can they not see where they are headed? I know it's not only France. But if I were a citizen, I'd be utterly horrified at the Islamification that is 100% barreling toward them with no brakes.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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The French have a ruling elite that knows each other, were educated in the same schools, and look down upon average citizens as peasants. Britain has the same issue. Don't know enough about Germany but I would not be surprised the same phenomenon exists.

We have reached where roughly 10-20 percent of the population but a majority or greater of political/business/religion/societal leaders view themselves as more akin across borders than with citizens in their own countries. Thus, their loyalties are with their peer groups rather than whatever country they inhabit.

To them, the World really is Flat because wherever they go around the world, they meet up with their fellow cosmopolitan class and their world is mostly safe, orderly, and sanitized of wrong thinkers. E.g. Mamdani's parents with him and how they lived in Uganda for example.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 11:55 AM (WDjG6)

261 Oh the EDVA (US attorney office handling much of the Beltway crime wave) story gets worse. Apparently Project Veritas recorded/acquired a recently fired attorney there wishing death upon Halligan, and Trump.

This appears to be a thing among the cretinized barbarian "progressive" vermin who now make up much of "elite" US society.

I would think, seriously, that DOJ would simply swap out the entire staff there, down to the admin people. It's a critical office that is 100% unfit for purpose with current personnel. Then at least we'll get some slam-dunk jaw-dropping prosecutions of a few of the Beltway gangster mediocrities who have trashed our institutions the last few years - naturally they'll all be acquitted by "juries" of "Americans" living there, or dismissed by comically lawless "judges", but still.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 11:56 AM (U/Byj)

262 Anyway. Standing by my prediction that it is fire insurance fraud
But murder-for-hire by her to collect the life insurance on her husband is coming strong on the inside corner.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (9k34X)
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And it's something that normal police procedure would take as more likely than without evidence of arson, some political enemy decided she must be taken out.

People are so much more likely to suffer deadly force from people that they know than strangers. Which is why cops' order of suspicions goes the way it does.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:56 AM (krQz2)

263 256 If Ds had 5 more like Fetterman the government would not shut down.

Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)

It wouldn't shut down if we had 5 more Rs either...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 07, 2025 11:56 AM (tOcjL)

264 152
‘ Maybe the French thought every Algerian was another Camus.’

Camus can do but Sartre was smarter.

Posted by: Sideshow Bob at October 07, 2025 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

265 I'm in my third year of Japanese on Duolingo. Taking it slow but still don't feel like I have any proficiency at all.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

It's best to find a language partner which can be hard to find in many parts of the US. See if a local university has a language exchange or extension courses.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (mlg/3)

266 Actually, it makes me happy. They may finally be getting over the WWII guilt that's been destroying them for 80 years.
Posted by: Archimedes

It has to last at least as long as slavery guilt.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 07, 2025 11:53 AM (63Dwl)

Two weeks?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (i24o9)

267 An interesting idea but I think most of them are aware of just how expensive it is to live in Japan. And of course, the locals will never accept them (But they will be polite about it).
Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 11:29 AM (RjOoY)

It's always important to remember that "polite" doesn't mean "kind".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (zjgNU)

268 Oh boy....lol

Al-Jazeera: Greta Thunberg mistreated by Israeli forces in detention, activists say. Activists describe mistreatment after Israel intercepted Gaza aid flotilla and detained about 450 people.

137 deportees landed in Istanbul, including 36 Turkish nationals alongside activists from the United States, Italy, Malaysia, Kuwait, Switzerland, Tunisia, Libya, Jordan and other countries...

Turkish journalist Ersin Celik told local media outlets he witnessed Israeli forces “torture Greta Thunberg,” describing how she was “dragged on the ground” and “forced to kiss the Israeli flag.”

American participant Windfield Beaver gave similar accounts at Istanbul Airport, alleging Thunberg was shoved and paraded with an Israeli flag.

“They treated us like dogs. They left us hungry for three days. They didn’t give us water; we had to drink from the toilet … It was a terribly hot day, and we were all roasting.”

Turkish activist Aycin Kantoglu recounted bloodstained prison walls and messages scrawled by previous detainees. “We saw mothers writing their children’s names on the walls. We actually experienced a little bit of what Palestinians go through,” she said.

Posted by: Intercepted Al Jazeera Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (JCZqz)

269 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Number Linked to Newly Fired U.S. Prosecutor Michael Ben’Ary Dreams President Trump and Eastern District of Virginia Attorney Lindsay Halligan Will Die

>>"I would like to strangle that b*itch myself. Every night I dream that this nightmare will end ... or that she or @RealDonaldTrump would simply die."

>>In a leaked text from October 6th, a number linked to Ben'Ary, who was terminated last week, urges fellow
@EDVAnews prosecutor Russell Carlberg - previously exposed by Veritas for threatening whistleblowers - to "keep monitoring" cases to prevent interference from President Trump’s new appointee, Lindsay Halligan, who oversees the Comey case.
Posted by: JackStraw

Could someone parse this out for me? Are numbers going crazy now, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (Nzhwp)

270 Countries with rabbit-like birthrates flooding countries with panda like birth rates.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 11:42 AM (TCuno)

Margaret Sanger also felt this way you know.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (rbvCR)

271 Finally, we're back to some good, old fashion crazy.

'Stained red as if they were possibly used': Firefighter dumps 75 tampons in ex-boyfriend's yard because she was mad he was dating someone else, cops say
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:54 AM (R5VX1)
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Just for s&g, I looked her up. She looks ... unwell. Also very dyke-y.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

272 France requires a Tyrant. Its what they do. Parliamentary systems always need a Tyrant to change. Kind of baked into the cake.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (AdHga)

273 Is this gonna affect the world's supply of french fries?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
bleh to hominy at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (y+qgR)

274 Amazing! Holding to opposite states, simultaneously, until the political narrative collapses due to reality, forcing it to be one or the other.

I have noticed that it's been a while since the pro-Uke types have been posting maps on how they are going to divide up Russia into fifty new countries after the glorious Ukrainian victory.

They used to do that all the time.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (xTIDn)

275 Could someone parse this out for me? Are numbers going crazy now, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (Nzhwp)
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Reportedly 6 ran away from 7.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (krQz2)

276 250 249 The only way to learn Japanese or any Asian language is total immersion and 5 to 10 years depending on how motivated you are.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (wd4e/)

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Will 5 minutes every other day on Duolinguo suffice?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

What if I just watch a lot of anime?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (xcxpd)

277 “They treated us like dogs. They left us hungry for three days. They didn’t give us water; we had to drink from the toilet … It was a terribly hot day, and we were all roasting.”

Turkish activist Aycin Kantoglu recounted bloodstained prison walls and messages scrawled by previous detainees. “We saw mothers writing their children’s names on the walls. We actually experienced a little bit of what Palestinians go through,” she said.
Posted by: Intercepted Al Jazeera Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (JCZqz)
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Yea, that totes happened, for realz!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

278 256 If Ds had 5 more like Fetterman the government would not shut down.
Posted by: runner at October 07, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)

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Yes, it would have.

Because Fetterman's maverick votes never matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

279 I'm becoming dangerously black-pilled. Seeing the left celebrate Kirk's death, make excuses for killers and murderers, and now they celebrate 10/7. I'm not going to do anything, of course, but I'm at the point where I wouldn't care if Trump, or Israel for that matter, took the lefty projection to heart. It's not a good feeling.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (Q+3G7)

280 Oh the EDVA (US attorney office handling much of the Beltway crime wave) story gets worse. Apparently Project Veritas recorded/acquired a recently fired attorney there wishing death upon Halligan, and Trump.

This appears to be a thing among the cretinized barbarian "progressive" vermin who now make up much of "elite" US society.

I would think, seriously, that DOJ would simply swap out the entire staff there, down to the admin people. It's a critical office that is 100% unfit for purpose with current personnel. Then at least we'll get some slam-dunk jaw-dropping prosecutions of a few of the Beltway gangster mediocrities who have trashed our institutions the last few years - naturally they'll all be acquitted by "juries" of "Americans" living there, or dismissed by comically lawless "judges", but still.

Posted by: rhomboid

Do you all remember the Rasmussen survey of elites a while back that showed them amazingly out of touch with the rest of America? They almost all work for the federal government.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (0U5gm)

281 You can also pay to have Zoom-type language partners.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (ZvUfz)

282 I have noticed that it's been a while since the pro-Uke types have been posting maps on how they are going to divide up Russia into fifty new countries after the glorious Ukrainian victory.

They used to do that all the time.

Yeah, no. But you keep on trying.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

283 It was literally created bo order of the king IIRC so that ignorant peasants could become literate instead of wrestling with Chinese kanji.

So, I would guess that it's the easiest of the asian written languages to pick up.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

My wife named the new kitten "Sejong"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

284 You can also pay to have Zoom-type language partners.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (ZvUfz)
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I'll be somebody's Zoom partner.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin' at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (krQz2)

285 Reportedly 6 ran away from 7.
Posted by: Axeman

I don't blame him. 7 ate 9.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

286 271 Finally, we're back to some good, old fashion crazy.

'Stained red as if they were possibly used': Firefighter dumps 75 tampons in ex-boyfriend's yard because she was mad he was dating someone else, cops say
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 11:54 AM (R5VX1)
____

Just for s&g, I looked her up. She looks ... unwell. Also very dyke-y.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

Nothing says, "you made a mistake by breaking up with me" like littering.

Seems racist. Like one of this Menstrual Shows ai keep hearing about.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
bleh to hominy at October 07, 2025 12:00 PM (y+qgR)

287 265 I'm in my third year of Japanese on Duolingo. Taking it slow but still don't feel like I have any proficiency at all.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

It's best to find a language partner which can be hard to find in many parts of the US. See if a local university has a language exchange or extension courses.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (mlg/3)

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My Italian practice on Babbel actually really helped shore up my original, self-taught education to the point where I was shockingly confident in my low-level conversational ability in the language in Italy.

And then I see people who do online learning in apps for languages who just shut down in real world practice, and I wonder how different my experience is from theirs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

288 I'll be somebody's Zoom partner.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin'

He's boner fide!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:00 PM (Riz8t)

289 275 Could someone parse this out for me? Are numbers going crazy now, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 11:57 AM (Nzhwp)
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Reportedly 6 ran away from 7.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (krQz2)

25 or six to four

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 12:01 PM (xcxpd)

290 An observation.

Duolingo Japanese lessons very focused on dates, time, and duration of events.

Duolingo Chinese focused on commerce, money, exchanges.

Duolingo Finnish focused on food, animals, and familial relationships.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 12:01 PM (ZvUfz)

291 ‘ Yeah! Let marine LePen’s minions win, and enjoy the final days of the European Union.’

They’re right! That would help me enjoy the final days of the European Union.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 12:01 PM (jbnUc)

292 Turkish journalist Ersin Celik told local media outlets he witnessed Israeli forces “torture Greta Thunberg,” describing how she was “dragged on the ground” and “forced to kiss the Israeli flag.”

I'll take "shit that never happened" for $50,000, Alex.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 12:01 PM (9loYT)

293 Vietnamese should be easier since it's the only tone language that uses a latin alphabet (bravo colonialism!). Umm, nah. Gave it a try for a while (in-country) and problem was I was already long languaged out with other languages and lacked the fire to dive in.

However it is helpful because one can read street signs, etc without much trouble, so that's nice.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 12:01 PM (U/Byj)

294 >>Could someone parse this out for me? Are numbers going crazy now, too?

Number refers to the phone number where the text came from.

The EDVA is a leftist swamp that apparently likes to dream about killing Trump and his new USA for EDVA. Seems like there are quite a few death wishing leftists in VA.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)

295 Seems racist. Like one of this Menstrual Shows ai keep hearing about.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
bleh to hominy at October 07, 2025 12:00 PM (y+qgR)
---
It's Love, Brother Love, say
Brother Love's Traveling Menstrual Show
Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies
And ev'ryone goes, 'cause everyone knows
Brother Love's show

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:02 PM (krQz2)

296 I think there is less than zero chance of IDF troops desecrating the Israeli flag by forcing Greta Thundershart to kiss it. Would be much more on-point to force her to wipe her ass with the pali flag.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 12:02 PM (Nzhwp)

297 When I was studying Mandarin in college, I thought that the grammar was insanely easy.

I once supervised a native Mandarin-speaker whose English was excellent, but there are always tells.

I reviewed all of his work, and my boss asked me how things were going, and I said: "Fine - but I am getting a sense of how grammar works in Mandarin."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 07, 2025 12:02 PM (xTIDn)

298 I would bet Japanese parents are not very happy if their daughters brought home a blonde American guy.
Posted by: Case at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (9HFDU)

The mom was pretty excited about it. At least in that, er, um, documentary that I watched. Yeah, that's it, that's what it was, a documentary.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 07, 2025 12:02 PM (144I4)

299 Yea, that totes happened, for realz!
Posted by: Elric The Blade

My favorite part was at the end, the "We actually experienced a little bit of what Palestinians go through,” she said.

These bored AWFLs so desperately want to be martyrs, feeling they've faced oppression and made a difference. It's some kind of psychological disorder.

Posted by: Intercepted Al Jazeera Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (JCZqz)

300 Reportedly 6 ran away from 7.
Posted by: Axeman

I don't blame him. 7 ate 9.
Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)
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That's my point. These numba's be crazy!

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (krQz2)

301 The only way to learn Japanese or any Asian language is total immersion and 5 to 10 years depending on how motivated you are.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 07, 2025 11:52 AM (wd4e/)

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Will 5 minutes every other day on Duolinguo suffice?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

What if I just watch a lot of anime?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM (xcxpd)
___

I lived in Japan so I was immersed. But it only took about 6 months when something "clicked" and I took a big step forward. All of a sudden I started hearing words that I didn't before, and realizing how badly I was pronouncing them. Then there was another big step at about a year. Had I stayed for another year or even 6 months, I would have been fluent.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (iFTx/)

302 'Stained red as if they were possibly used': Firefighter dumps 75 tampons in ex-boyfriend's yard because she was mad he was dating someone else, cops say
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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She should try to hook up with King Charles, I hear he likes that sort of thing.

Posted by: whig at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (WDjG6)

303
Good morning, all!

Hankul can be picked up in a weekend. The language itself will take you forever, and it's not worth it unless you intend to spend significant amounts of time in Korea.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (lCaJd)

304 MSNBC Panel: Jay Jones Should Do Everyone A Favor And Quit; “Who Says That?”

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel did not circle the wagons around Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General, Jay Jones, who was reported this weekend to have texted some extremely violent things about killing a GOP colleague.

“He should probably be forced to withdraw from the race,” Joe Scarborough said. “And ‘probably’ is doing a lot there.”

“Republicans and Democrats alike” are criticizing Jay Jones, Mike Brzezinski said. “NBC News is reporting that Jones did not deny the accuracy of these texts on Friday night, and says he takes full responsibility for his actions.”

“Horrible, I didn’t want to read them out loud.”

“Congresswoman Spanberger, the gubernatorial candidate, did very quickly denounce them,” Jonathan Lemire added. “But it’s unclear whether this attorney general candidate will stay in the race. I think there’s a growing sense that he probably should not… This is just way beyond the line.”

Translation: They’re afraid Jones will lose.

https://is.gd/Nvnzbv

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

305 You can also pay to have Zoom-type language partners.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

I'm waiting for the ear buds that translate in real time.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (9loYT)

306 It was literally created bo order of the king IIRC so that ignorant peasants could become literate instead of wrestling with Chinese kanji.

So, I would guess that it's the easiest of the asian written languages to pick up.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

My wife named the new kitten "Sejong"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

I expect you'll be able to write in Feline next year.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (iJfKG)

307 I would buy toilet paper with embossed with the "palestinian" flag.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (2ap+5)

308 304
Translation: They’re afraid Jones will lose.

https://is.gd/Nvnzbv
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

======

He's apparently started cancelling events.

No predictions, but it is...interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

309 I would bet Japanese parents are not very happy if their daughters brought home a blonde American guy.
Posted by: Case at October 07, 2025 11:49 AM (9HFDU)

The mom was pretty excited about it. At least in that, er, um, documentary that I watched. Yeah, that's it, that's what it was, a documentary.
Posted by: haffhowershower at October 07, 2025 12:02 PM (144I4)
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I was not for bringing home to parents. I was for ... other purposes.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

310 Turkey fried in Greece.

Posted by: Oh, no ... at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (rTaAB)

311 I'd learn an Asian language, but right now I can't afford a gong.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
bleh to hominy at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (y+qgR)

312 309 I was not for bringing home to parents. I was for ... other purposes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

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Arranging flowers in aesthetically pleasing ways?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

313 I was not for bringing home to parents. I was for ... other purposes.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

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Arranging flowers in aesthetically pleasing ways?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
__

How did you know??

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

314 Seeing the left celebrate Kirk's death

-
Apparently, Willie Nelson has released a pro Charlie Kirk song.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 12:05 PM (R5VX1)

315 AOP it's (somehow) text messages obtained with one of the fired lawyers from EDVA office talking murderous trash about Halligan, the newly installed USAT. Have not looked into how they were obtained. But Project Veritas, so some kind of sting, not surveillance, as the FBI did to GOP senators.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 12:05 PM (U/Byj)

316 Turkey fried in Greece.

Posted by: Oh, no ... at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (rTaAB)
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Tyre-ing after a while.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:05 PM (krQz2)

317 They were mostly peaceful texts...

Posted by: The Jay Jones campaign at October 07, 2025 12:05 PM (rTaAB)

318 I'm becoming dangerously black-pilled. Seeing the left celebrate Kirk's death, make excuses for killers and murderers, and now they celebrate 10/7. I'm not going to do anything, of course, but I'm at the point where I wouldn't care if Trump, or Israel for that matter, took the lefty projection to heart. It's not a good feeling.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (Q+3G7)

Power beyond it to enjoy the higher plane of consciousness. Before you may have casually observed that leftists are evil and want you dead. You may have been shocked even to get a glimpse of such. Now you know and feel it in your bones.

There is nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 12:06 PM (i24o9)

319 Yeah, no. But you keep on trying.

Come on - the Hudson Institute and similar US government funded organizations regularly posted maps showing Russia divided up into several dozen weak, nominally independent countries.

They had conferences discussing how they were going to break up the Russian Federation.

They don't do that anymore.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 07, 2025 12:06 PM (xTIDn)

320 Number refers to the phone number where the text came from.

The EDVA is a leftist swamp that apparently likes to dream about killing Trump and his new USA for EDVA. Seems like there are quite a few death wishing leftists in VA.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 12:01 PM (viF8m)

Really, I gathered that. But the headline could have been much better written. Why not say, "asshole X's phone was used to send this text?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 12:06 PM (Nzhwp)

321 Translation: They’re afraid Jones will lose.

https://is.gd/Nvnzbv
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

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He's apparently started cancelling events.

No predictions, but it is...interesting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:04 PM (GBKbO)
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I think he's toast. But we'll see. I also think Shitta is gonna win in NJ. That would be HUGE.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

322 I would buy toilet paper with embossed with the "palestinian" flag.
Posted by: Oglebay

I wish I could afford to start a "boutique" company that could imprint requests.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 12:07 PM (9loYT)

323 321 I think he's toast. But we'll see. I also think Shitta is gonna win in NJ. That would be HUGE.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

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The VA AG race was already close, if polls (spit) are to be believed. Like 50/50 race.

A NJ win would just amuse me.

Mostly because I need the left to explain about how losing the NJ governor's race is evidence of their rising popularity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

324 Do something with that to prepare yourself, yours, and others in your community that would be an asset in the coming days.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 12:07 PM (i24o9)

325
I was studying mandarin and I turned the page after the first dialog where the explanations and drills were. It read:

You will be delighted to learn that there are no tenses or numbers (singular vs plural) in mandarin.

Was i EVER.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (lCaJd)

326 Yea, that totes happened, for realz!
Posted by: Elric The Blade

My favorite part was at the end, the "We actually experienced a little bit of what Palestinians go through,” she said.

These bored AWFLs so desperately want to be martyrs, feeling they've faced oppression and made a difference. It's some kind of psychological disorder.
Posted by: Intercepted Al Jazeera Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 07, 2025 12:03 PM (JCZqz)
__

Yea, they've so internalized how awesome it is to be victims, that they're desperate to be victims themselves -- even if they have to LARP it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

327 I have seen clays featuring Obama's likeness.

Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (2ap+5)

328 So, I would guess that it's the easiest of the asian written languages to pick up.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

Vietnamese wins hands down on that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (zjgNU)

329 I think he's toast. But we'll see.

As I said yesterday, I think the real question is whether his departure will be enough to sink Spanberger. She's condemned what he said, but hasn't called for him to step down.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

330 France falls to the muzzies. Where do the French people who can flee go?

Posted by: morigu at October 07, 2025 12:09 PM (RDxgA)

331 Looks like Kash has fired more assholes because of Jack Smith's wiretapping
x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1975533143110381877#

Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 12:09 PM (gKWVE)

332 So, I would guess that it's the easiest of the asian written languages to pick up.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 07, 2025 11:45 AM (iJfKG)

Vietnamese wins hands down on that.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (zjgNU)
__________

Stanley Kubrick taught us all that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

333 203
‘ Mass suffrage voting only works if the differences between citizens are small implying a homogeneity of thought, values, and wealth.’

I agree but that isn’t a problem of parliaments in particular but democracy in general.
And seeing that play over the last 10 years, I think ‘Democracy but only for me and the like minded. But not for them.Democracy that embraces the left is suicide’

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 12:09 PM (jbnUc)

334 Look out! They're getting serious!

https://is.gd/elYexD

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (R5VX1)

335 329 I think he's toast. But we'll see.

As I said yesterday, I think the real question is whether his departure will be enough to sink Spanberger. She's condemned what he said, but hasn't called for him to step down.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

========

The only real question is:

Will a leftist losing an election specifically because of violent rhetoric lead to moderation of rhetoric from anyone else in the Democrat Party?

My guess is no.

"They abandoned him! He said nothing wrong! We must become more violent in our rhetoric in response!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

336 "I just drove past a couple dozen No Kings protesters occupying all four corners of a major intersection."

December 2024, Barry incited activist storm troopers to take back Fundamental Transformation from the bitter clinger class, who, with Audacity of Hope, put OrangeManBad back behind the Resolution Desk, previously a footstool for "The 'Won' We've Been Waiting For" feet.

Nothing is sacred when you are the Cool high priest of Pants Crease Leg Tingles. Bow, peon.

Posted by: ju at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (EgpoY)

337 They had conferences discussing how they were going to break up the Russian Federation.

Valentines Day, 2023:

Preparing for the Dissolution of the Russian Federation

PAST EVENT
HUDSON INSTITUTE
FEBRUARY 14, 2023

https://tinyurl.com/v3hccj3u

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (xTIDn)

338 The VA AG race was already close, if polls (spit) are to be believed. Like 50/50 race.

A NJ win would just amuse me.

Mostly because I need the left to explain about how losing the NJ governor's race is evidence of their rising popularity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

I suspect that the shutdown will go on until these election results are in. It's not a smart thing to do, but I suspect each side is going to feel either supported or despair from how those elections turn out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (uWKK8)

339 Looks like Kash has fired more assholes because of Jack Smith's wiretapping
x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1975533143110381877#
Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 12:09 PM (gKWVE)
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I'm surrounded by Assholes!

Posted by: Dark Helmet at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (WvZaB)

340 338 I suspect that the shutdown will go on until these election results are in. It's not a smart thing to do, but I suspect each side is going to feel either supported or despair from how those elections turn out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (uWKK

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*bides its time*
-The Antideficiency Act

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

341 Most Japanese parents are quite OK with daughters bringing home gaijin guys. Better than OK. Especially Americans. Pretty much everything went right in the US-Japan relationship after that little misunderstanding in the 40s, for most Japanese (idiot US autoworkers in the 80s bashing vastly superior imported Japanese cars never had a widespread analogue in Japan).

It's possible to amicably discuss firebomb raids with living witnesses (who were kids at the time) in Japan and there isn't a trace of resentment towards the US. Japanese haven't generally been properly educated about the depraved behavior of their armed forces during the war, but the blame for destroying the country fell squarely and naturally on the militarist leadership/ultranationalists without need for persuasion.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (U/Byj)

342 339 I'm surrounded by Assholes!
Posted by: Dark Helmet at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (WvZaB)

=====

I'm doing my best.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

343 327 I have seen clays featuring Obama's likeness.
Posted by: Oglebay at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (2ap+5)

Some of these are probably at the bottom of some lake or river somewhere:

https://is.gd/c8HimN

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (PiwSw)

344 I think he's toast. But we'll see.

As I said yesterday, I think the real question is whether his departure will be enough to sink Spanberger. She's condemned what he said, but hasn't called for him to step down.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (Riz8t)
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I think Shitburger holds on mostly because Sears has no party backing. The DNC is all-in on Shitburger. The GOP is letting Sears twist in the wind. Stupid. That's a winnable race for Sears.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

345 Look out! They're getting serious!

https://is.gd/elYexD

Not shown: the singalong rapidly breaks up when it is announced that today's pudding will be tapioca.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

346 If English had Chinese grammar

https://youtube.com/shorts/QKik8FofKeQ
?si=MXl-kJWKUCNI7yw0

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (F3QDV)

347 Vietnamese wins hands down on that.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 12:08 PM (zjgNU)
__________

Stanley Kubrick taught us all that.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)
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"Me love you long time"?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at October 07, 2025 12:12 PM (WvZaB)

348 Seems racist. Like one of this Menstrual Shows ai keep hearing about.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Archie Bunker was performing in a Menstrual Show in blackface when Gloria gave birth to Meathead Jr.

Posted by: I'm Alabamy Bound at October 07, 2025 12:12 PM (oftw2)

349 @261. This appears to be a thing among the cretinized barbarian "progressive" vermin.

Posted by: rhomboid

Period. 😉. Disposable, not elite.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 07, 2025 12:12 PM (pZkxf)

350 France falls to the muzzies. Where do the French people who can flee go?

Posted by: morigu at October 07, 2025 12:09 PM (RDxgA)

To France to stand up and kick them out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 12:13 PM (i24o9)

351 Apparently, Willie Nelson has released a pro Charlie Kirk song.

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If that's true, that's yuge. I'd like for it to be true! He's quite the lefty, I think.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 07, 2025 12:13 PM (qBdHI)

352 306 My wife named the new kitten "Sejong"
Posted by: Kindltot at October 07, 2025 11:59 AM (rbvCR)

I expect you'll be able to write in Feline next year.

the well-known documentary red dwarf informs us that cats write using smells.

Posted by: anachronda at October 07, 2025 12:13 PM (oY6Yp)

353 Do it Kash, keep firing assholes.

Posted by: gKWVE at October 07, 2025 12:13 PM (gKWVE)

354 New Jersey and Virginia don't elect governors. Bergen county and Fairfax county do.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 07, 2025 12:13 PM (F3QDV)

355 Looks like Kash has fired more assholes because of Jack Smith's wiretapping
Posted by: gKWVE

You can't do that! That's not allowed!!!!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at October 07, 2025 12:13 PM (JCZqz)

356 Most Japanese parents are quite OK with daughters bringing home gaijin guys. Better than OK. Especially Americans. Pretty much everything went right in the US-Japan relationship after that little misunderstanding in the 40s, for most Japanese (idiot US autoworkers in the 80s bashing vastly superior imported Japanese cars never had a widespread analogue in Japan).

Eh. In the early 80s, I dated an Okinawan girl. We went hiking with a Japanese friend (older man) and he told me that if I dated her she would never be able to get a Japanese man, because apparently I have cooties.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:13 PM (Riz8t)

357 334 Look out! They're getting serious!

https://is.gd/elYexD
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (R5VX1)

Needs moar cowbell...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 07, 2025 12:14 PM (PiwSw)

358 267 It's always important to remember that "polite" doesn't mean "kind".
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Very true. They do place high value on manners even if you can't stand the person.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 12:14 PM (RjOoY)

359 Archie Bunker was performing in a Menstrual Show in blackface when Gloria gave birth to Meathead Jr.

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Heh, I remember that. I think Gloria got stuck in a phone booth and started going into labor. I remember they had to lay the booth on its side to try and get her out.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 07, 2025 12:15 PM (qBdHI)

360 New Jersey and Virginia don't elect governors. Bergen county and Fairfax county do.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

All of NoVa -- Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington, and Alexandria

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 12:15 PM (77rzZ)

361 Is this gonna affect the world's supply of french fries?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
bleh to hominy at October 07, 2025 11:58 AM

No love for me?

Posted by: Cheese Royale at October 07, 2025 12:15 PM (0sNs1)

362 I'm surrounded by Assholes!
Posted by: Dark Helmet at October 07, 2025 12:10 PM (WvZaB)

=====

I'm doing my best.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

Have you tried fasting?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 12:15 PM (i24o9)

363 You adore France, CBD, but you know they must save themselves.

As we must save ourselves.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 07, 2025 12:15 PM (pZkxf)

364 I think Shitburger holds on mostly because Sears has no party backing. The DNC is all-in on Shitburger. The GOP is letting Sears twist in the wind. Stupid. That's a winnable race for Sears.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 07, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

They did the same thing to Ken Cuccinelli.

GOP hates actual conservatives.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 12:16 PM (zjgNU)

365 35 I just drove past a couple dozen No Kings protesters occupying all four corners of a major intersection.

around here, it's about half a dozen folks at the big intersection in town waving "small dictator energy" signs.

Posted by: anachronda at October 07, 2025 12:16 PM (oY6Yp)

366 From yesterday, first posted by a fellow Moron. Paris today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bh6HBiebfY

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 07, 2025 12:16 PM (5xuJ/)

367 365 35 I just drove past a couple dozen No Kings protesters occupying all four corners of a major intersection.

around here, it's about half a dozen folks at the big intersection in town waving "small dictator energy" signs.
Posted by: anachronda at October 07, 2025 12:16 PM (oY6Yp)

======

The protests from 6 months ago had 10% more.

But 10% of the protestors from 6 months ago died of old age.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

368 Most Japanese parents are quite OK with daughters bringing home gaijin guys

My one experience that I related earlier was pretty amusing. At one point the father told me to stay away from her. The next morning that was revoked because the mother heard what he'd said.

Her words: "He's a nice boy and he treats her well. BACK OFF!" The man's survival instincts kicked in immediately afterward.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 12:17 PM (RjOoY)

369 I have seen clays featuring Obama's likeness.
Posted by: Oglebay

Tell me it was a a sport shooting range. Lie if you must.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 12:17 PM (9loYT)

370 Very true. They do place high value on manners even if you can't stand the person.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 07, 2025 12:14 PM (RjOoY)
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And that's wasn't bad, until "The personal is political" people came along.

And then even being polite to people who were doing stuff you didn't want done was too much for the feelz.

But the same basic group of people that broke down our civility, now talk about "civility".

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:17 PM (krQz2)

371 Look out! She mad!

BREAKING: Pam Bondi just DEMOLISHED Senator Blumenthal after he ACCUSED her of impropriety:
"I CANNOT BELIEVE that you would ACCUSE ME of impropriety when YOU LIED about your MILITARY SERVICE."
"You LIED to be elected a US Senator."
"Don't YOU EVER challenge MY integrity. I have abided by EVERY ethics standard. Do NOT question my ability to be fair and impartial as Attorney General."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 12:17 PM (R5VX1)

372 I have seen clays featuring Obama's likeness.
Posted by: Oglebay
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Momma said there'd be clays like this.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:18 PM (krQz2)

373 I have noticed that it's been a while since the pro-Uke types have been posting maps on how they are going to divide up Russia into fifty new countries after the glorious Ukrainian victory.

They used to do that all the time.

Preparing for every possibility of what the Russian Federation could look like at the end of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, whenever it may end, is not synonymous with calling for regime change. It is prudent for US and allied policymakers to have an awareness of the different social and ethnic dynamics within the Russian Federation and the potential cracks that may erupt.

2. Unlike the fall of the Soviet Union, when scholars and policymakers knew what the resulting 15 states would look like, it is unknowable which, and how many, ethnic groups in Russia may seek independence, let alone when. But it is almost certain that these ruptures will not align perfectly along the oblasts and republics depicted on the map today.

That's a whole lot of qualifiers, for something that may or may not happen. More to the point, it's one paper, by one institute.

It's hardly what you claimed.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 07, 2025 12:18 PM (Riz8t)

374 "I CANNOT BELIEVE that you would ACCUSE ME of impropriety when YOU LIED about your MILITARY SERVICE."
"You LIED to be elected a US Senator."
"Don't YOU EVER challenge MY integrity. I have abided by EVERY ethics standard. Do NOT question my ability to be fair and impartial as Attorney General."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 12:17 PM (R5VX1)
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She went there.

Republicans have needed to got there for a while.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (krQz2)

375 I'm waiting for Israel to announce its recognition of France and/or the UK as the Palestine state. They should do so in the UN General Assembly, and announce that they will provide one-way travel for the "Palestinians" in Israel to get to their new homeland.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (S/Y4j)

376 Don't forget the Obama Chia head.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (0sNs1)

377 I think the GOP problem is that the national party is still very weak and ineffective, due to not really adapting well to the Trump takeover of the party; and the State parties are still overwhelmingly ingrown old-boy clubs that are focused on pumping money into the pockets of them and their friends, not about winning elections.

That's going to take a long time to cure. If it is ever cured.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (uWKK8)

378 I have seen clays featuring Obama's likeness.
Posted by: Oglebay
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Momma said there'd be clays like this.
Posted by: Axeman

PULL!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (9loYT)

379 I have seen clays featuring Obama's likeness.
Posted by: Oglebay

Clay bathouse?

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (144I4)

380 The protests from 6 months ago had 10% more.

But 10% of the protestors from 6 months ago died of old age.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I would have preferred if the decline was due to deportations or Antiftards in jail.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 07, 2025 12:20 PM (JCZqz)

381 GOP hates actual conservatives.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 12:16 PM (zjgNU)
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They hateses the hobbitses.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:20 PM (krQz2)

382 Don't forget the Obama Chia head.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (0sNs1)

I wanted to get one for my sister so bad.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 12:20 PM (i24o9)

383 Don't forget the Obama Chia head.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (0sNs1)

I wanted to get one for my sister so bad.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 12:20 PM (i24o9)
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I'm just going to say: Phrasing.

Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:21 PM (krQz2)

384 Macron could pivot, kick out the welfare leaching immigrants, clean up the banlieues and make them safe again, bolster France's nuclear energy program, protect and support the church. Or he can declare war on Russia. The choice is obvious, if you are being paid/blackmailed by the globalists.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 07, 2025 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)

385 377 I think the GOP problem is that the national party is still very weak and ineffective, due to not really adapting well to the Trump takeover of the party; and the State parties are still overwhelmingly ingrown old-boy clubs that are focused on pumping money into the pockets of them and their friends, not about winning elections.

That's going to take a long time to cure. If it is ever cured.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (uWKK

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The reform of the GOP is interesting in that it's both top down and bottom up. The middle is what is safest from change as things play out.

Trump's win in 2016 and subsequent wins since have accelerated a process that should have taken decades to get someone like Trump (an 80s moderate Democrat) to become the most conservative Republican presidential candidate since Reagan. Normally, the middle would have changed long before the top changed.

But, the middle is now being squeezed from both top and bottom.

I'm not sure if there's a political change quite like it in American history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

386 They hateses the hobbitses.
Posted by: Axeman at October 07, 2025 12:20 PM (krQz2)

It's amazing the resemblance that John McCain had to Gollum.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 07, 2025 12:22 PM (zjgNU)

387 Or he can declare war on Russia. The choice is obvious, if you are being paid/blackmailed by the globalists.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

I don't think him unilaterally declaring war on Russia invokes NATO Article 5, and losing a war to Russia probably won't help him.

Posted by: Military Moron at October 07, 2025 12:23 PM (JCZqz)

388 >>She went there.

>>Republicans have needed to got there for a while.

Kash was even more blunt with Schiff. It was a thing of beauty.

I think the Trump team is taking their cue from the boss.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 07, 2025 12:23 PM (viF8m)

389 Is Bad Bunny on yet?

Posted by: Lindsey Graham, closeted homosexual and Bad Bunny fan at October 07, 2025 12:23 PM (Hsed0)

390 389 Is Bad Bunny on yet?
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Snort.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 07, 2025 12:24 PM (AdHga)

391 279
‘ I'm at the point where I wouldn't care if Trump, or Israel for that matter, took the lefty projection to heart. It's not a good feeling.’

You get used to it.
If it helps try to imagine what real justice would be for them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at October 07, 2025 12:24 PM (jbnUc)

392 Macron could pivot, kick out the welfare leaching immigrants, clean up the banlieues and make them safe again, bolster France's nuclear energy program, protect and support the church. Or he can declare war on Russia. The choice is obvious, if you are being paid/blackmailed by the globalists.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 07, 2025 12:21 PM (Dv3i1)

Macron got installed in that position because he is pliable, not because he is smart.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 07, 2025 12:24 PM (Nzhwp)

393 A now, a few words from Madmani . . .

https://is.gd/AdsHMA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 12:24 PM (R5VX1)

394 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 07, 2025 12:25 PM (77rzZ)

395 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 07, 2025 12:25 PM (PiwSw)

396 I think the GOP problem is that the national party is still very weak and ineffective

Rasmussen has a GREAT video out on sort of this topic. Trump’s coalition is NOT very Republican, or even conservative, and the apparent gains the GOP has been making may not be all we're hoping for. Recommend saving to watch when you get a chance.

https://tinyurl.com/ubrzaujk

Posted by: Military Moron at October 07, 2025 12:25 PM (JCZqz)

397 This France collapse won't effect French Fries will it?

Posted by: Fat, nose ring pull tab AWFL at October 07, 2025 12:25 PM (F2OU/)

398 Don't forget the Obama Chia head.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 07, 2025 12:19 PM (0sNs1)

I wanted to get one for my sister so bad.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

That f'n weak assed pussy. You can get a chia pet head of almost any EXCEPT that F'n weasel.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 12:26 PM (9loYT)

399 If each country had kept their own currency, they'd be better off. We should have never treated the Euro as anything other than scrip. They should have traded among themselves for Eurozone transactions. The rest of the world should have said no to converting national money into it.

There ain't no way, no way the Euro is worth more than the Dollar. When Trump got to Europe, he shoulda punched their bankers mammas in the mouth.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 07, 2025 12:26 PM (uQesX)

400 Fiscal crisis? What fiscal crisis?

Report: In defiance of US government, Houston uses federal money to repaint rainbow crosswalks

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Going For the Brass Ring! at October 07, 2025 12:27 PM (R5VX1)

401 Sockray Blue!

Posted by: Don Black at October 07, 2025 12:33 PM (AOsQT)

402 John Lennon anecdote: he and a friend were walking through Lennon's palatial English estate, and his friend marveled at it, and said, "But, John! you wrote a whole song about imagining no possessions..."

Lennon laughed. "It's just a fucking SONG, man!"

Posted by: Beverly at October 07, 2025 12:49 PM (Epeb0)

403
I have seen clays featuring Obama's likeness.
Posted by: Oglebay

Tell me it was a a sport shooting range. Lie if you must.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 07, 2025 12:17 PM (9loYT)

Back in the late 90s, a friend and I went to the local BLM shooting area, known as the Glass Factory. It was a full house that day, lots of folks set up to shoot, including quite a bit of tannerite stuffed into kitchen appliances, something I'm not a fan of since shrapnel tends to come back and ding your car if you set it up at 10 yards like those guys did. Anyway, Manny had a life size pic of Frau Gruppencankles Clinton stapled to his target stand. He went out to set it up and everyone ignored the cold range command and started blasting it to hell before he got half way back to the firing line. He barely got a chance to put a few holes in it since it got chewed up.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 07, 2025 12:52 PM (y9nCu)

404

I do wish you'd stop lumping in my country when dissecting the problems of Europe. We have, in addition to some bits and pieces a political system unique in history. Our Republic was carefully crafted to be just that, a Republic. It has through the years successfully withstood challenges that have destroyed lesser governments, with an unbroken record of victory. It is part of our heritage over the years now, to continue the struggle of our predecessors to ensure our Republic endures.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at October 07, 2025 01:05 PM (vFbHf)

405 To be fair, in Napoleon's day Russia did exactly that, marched from Russia all the way to Paris and took it.

But Macron and his ilk are proposing fighting a war without men to fight it

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 02:19 PM (8avO+)

406 If each country had kept their own currency, they'd be better off. We should have never treated the Euro as anything other than scrip. They should have traded among themselves for Eurozone transactions. The rest of the world should have said no to converting national money into it.

There ain't no way, no way the Euro is worth more than the Dollar. When Trump got to Europe, he shoulda punched their bankers mammas in the mouth.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 07, 2025 12:26 PM (uQesX)

Reality trumps the games the EU plays every time. Let them keep buying champaign with bad paper.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 02:22 PM (8avO+)

407 Trump's win in 2016 and subsequent wins since have accelerated a process that should have taken decades to get someone like Trump (an 80s moderate Democrat) to become the most conservative Republican presidential candidate since Reagan. Normally, the middle would have changed long before the top changed.

But, the middle is now being squeezed from both top and bottom.

I'm not sure if there's a political change quite like it in American history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 07, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

Probably the collection of the GOP itself from the fragments of the North Whigs and a dozen minor parties to be a nationwide contender in a few years, to winning their first election and accreting a large slug of Northern Dems permanently during the Civil War

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 02:27 PM (8avO+)

408 My youngest is stuck on the concept of solving a problem and getting an answer in terms of a variable right now. The struggle is real.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 07, 2025 11:13 AM (i24o9)

Might check Youtube for lessons there. I get random stuff for more advanced math, someone may have a different method of teaching your child can grasp easier.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 02:31 PM (8avO+)

409 I don't know of a population in Europe not addicted to government schemes and programs and whatnot to 'give' them stuff. Maybe some of the Easterners since some of them are old enough to remember communism with less than fondness.

I believe that the collapse will come pretty quickly if Trump can continue to lessen their leech-like suction on the American taxpayer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 07, 2025 11:17 AM (ExV1e)

The tricks they are playing to pretend they have a representative government are running out. They can't really form a working government now, and Macron's time is running out.

Dumping the dead weight of EU regulation might help somewhat, but with "le deep state" likely to go to war with the government means more time wasted rather than fixing things.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 07, 2025 02:38 PM (8avO+)

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