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Reason: FaceBook Acted as the Government's Censorship Bureau, Too

Muh Private Corporations.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) played a direct role in policing permissible speech on social media throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Confidential emails obtained by Reason show that Facebook moderators were in constant contact with the CDC, and routinely asked government health officials to vet claims relating to the virus, mitigation efforts such as masks, and vaccines.

...

The Facebook Files, which were obtained by Reason as a result of the state of Missouri's lawsuit against the Biden administration, reveal that the CDC had substantial influence over what users were allowed to discuss on Meta's platforms: Facebook and Instagram.


[I]n May 2021, CDC officials began routinely vetting claims about COVID-19 vaccines that had appeared on Facebook. The platform left it up to the federal government to determine which assertions were accurate.

Facebook's moderator notes that some of the [claims flagged by the government for review] "would already be violating"--an implicit admission that the CDC's opinion on the other claims would be a deciding factor in whether the platform would restrict such content. Facebook was clearly a willing participant in this process; moderators repeatedly thanked the CDC for its "help in debunking."

Claims vetted by the CDC included whether "COVID-19 is man-made." The CDC told Facebook that it was "theoretically possible, but extremely unlikely."

For months, it was Meta policy to prohibit users from asserting that the pandemic may have originated from a lab leak....

By July 2021, the CDC wasn't just evaluating which claims it thought were false, but whether they could "cause harm."

[I]n November, the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization for children to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. Meta proudly informed the CDC that it would remove false claims--"i.e. the COVID vaccine is not safe for kids"--from Facebook and Instagram. Meta also provided the CDC with a list of new claims about vaccines and asked whether the government thought they could "contribute to vaccine refusals."

Once again, asking the government -- its superior, its boss -- whether or not it should censor citizen speech.

...

It's important to consider the ramifications. Meta gave the CDC de facto power to police COVID-19 misinformation on the platforms; the CDC took the position that essentially any erroneous claim could contribute to vaccine hesitancy and cause social harm.

Meta also thought the CDC should know that people were making fun of Anthony Fauci.

Meta also kept the CDC apprised of criticism of Anthony Fauci, the White House's COVID-19 advisor and head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). One email warned the CDC that Facebook users were mocking Fauci for changing his mind about masking and double-masking. The CDC replied that this information was "very helpful."

Why was this relevant? Perhaps making fun of Anthony Fauci, who Represents Science, "caused harm" and increased vaccine hesitancy as well?

Robbie Soave, though a doctrinaire Muh Corporations libertarian, is honest enough to note that while Meta was being so very helpful to the federal government, their helpfulness might have been prompted by duress: The government was threatening them weekly with punitive regulation if they did not censor speech as the government demanded.


White House communications director Kate Bedingfield says social media 'should be held accountable' for publishing vaccine misinformation and is 'reviewing' Section 230 amid Biden's spat with Facebook

* White House comms director Kate Bedingfield said social media companies should be held accountable for publishing misleading info on vaccine

* She also said the administration is reviewing Section 230

* Section 230 gives tech companies blanket legal protections for content posted on their platforms

* 'We're reviewing that and certainly they should be held accountable,' she said

David French, who is totally not an undisclosed paid lobbyist and soulless shill for Monopoly Tech, calls this mere "jawboning" by the government and chides anyone who thinks this is a case of the government drafting Muh Corporations into the position of government agents that "the government has robust free speech rights too."

Unlike citizens!

Weird, David French is always telling us it's corporations and the government who have free speech rights, while the people actually granted free speech rights by the Constitution -- that is, people -- don't.

He was just hired as a columnist for the New York Times so you know his ethics are impeccable.

Oh, and you also know his credentials as a True Conservative are impeccable as well.

Posted by: Ace at 01:48 PM




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1 Did it again.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2023 01:49 PM (N1tpc)

2 See? I didn't say first.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2023 01:49 PM (N1tpc)

3 $1B in bitcoin, thank you.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2023 01:49 PM (N1tpc)

4 SARS-CoV-2 is biological warfare funded by NIAIH and developed by the Communist Party of China.

Posted by: Jim at January 19, 2023 01:50 PM (qFmzj)

5 The left has control of every large corporation. Big tech, big auto, big finance, etc...

The right ought to be making the aim to break up EVERY large corporation. But since they are paid off, that won't happen with the worst ruling class in our history.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2023 01:50 PM (N1tpc)

6 The only people concerned with "censorship", are those with a driving need to spread lies and objectively false information. Why should people be able to lie to others online? Don't your Ten Commandments say "thou shalt not lie"?

Posted by: Sid, now with Aviators at January 19, 2023 01:52 PM (iFmwO)

7 I coulda been a contenda.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 19, 2023 01:53 PM (XlE1Z)

8
Types.
Deletes.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 19, 2023 01:53 PM (wtvvX)

9 In early March '20, I posted something on face book along the lines of why is anybody listening to this twerp about Fauci. Reposted it more than once, I believe.
I still don't get it.

Posted by: From about that time at January 19, 2023 01:53 PM (4780s)

10 If only there were a name for a system where the government doesn't own corporations buy directs their actions.

Like a mix of socialism with some private ownership....

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2023 01:53 PM (N1tpc)

11 Was your child harmed by one of CoVID-19 TheRapy? Perhaps it would help to discuss your child's situation with Kate Bedingfield.

Posted by: Marooned at January 19, 2023 01:54 PM (w6hJ9)

12 Ha! "When those mobsters said "Nice business you got here, it'd be a shame if sumthin' happened to it" they were just complimenting your fine establishment and wishing you future success!

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 19, 2023 01:54 PM (CQ3Qb)

13 Be betta, Meta

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 19, 2023 01:54 PM (63Dwl)

14 David French is so impeccable he hires a guy to watch another guy bang his wife.

Posted by: Azathoth at January 19, 2023 01:56 PM (wb1YC)

15 Reason: FaceBook Acted as the Government's Censorship Bureau, Too —Ace

Pard ... just watch the number of people here that can't wait to tell a COB to ban this or that person. Or read history. This is nothing new.


You're going to equate secret government censorship of a media platform to banning trolls here?

Seriously?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 19, 2023 01:57 PM (wtvvX)

16 Meta also provided the CDC with a list of new claims about vaccines and asked whether the government thought they could "contribute to vaccine refusals."

So if you correctly note the clot shot kills people it will "contribute to vaccine refusals." at least for sane people.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 01:57 PM (lc5cP)

17 I can say, I did nazi that coming.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 19, 2023 01:58 PM (N1tpc)

18 The almost-perfect PsyOp.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 01:58 PM (Xrfse)

19 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

20 If there was an opposition party right now they would be passing a bill paying out large cash sums to anyone injured by the clot shot and helping to coordinate a class action lawsuit against Pfizer and Moderna.

If...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 01:58 PM (lc5cP)

21 Pard ... just watch the number of people here that can't wait to tell a COB to ban this or that person. Or read history. This is nothing new.

Yes, commenters urging banning of other commenters is just like a facist partnership between big tech companies and the government. If you can't rant about the jews and negroes at the HQ, there is no America. Or something.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 19, 2023 01:59 PM (KFhLj)

22 The Facebook Files, which were obtained by Reason as a result of the state of Missouri's lawsuit against the Biden administration, reveal that the CDC had substantial influence over what users were allowed to discuss on Meta's platforms: Facebook and Instagram.
++++
I will bet you $5 that it wasn't just the CDC. I am sure they are just as tight with the IC/LE complex as Twitter.

Anyone who read anything about "The Twitter Files" and assumed that it was just a Twitter problem is a fool.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 01:59 PM (t0OGg)

23 I agree the social media companies should be punished for publishing false vaccine data. This didn't turn out the way they thought it would. I'm not sure the country is ready to hear the government created a virus to maim them and scare them into compliance though.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 19, 2023 02:00 PM (oWBc3)

24 It was amusing on FB when they would put up that Covid warning....when we were talking about dog vaccines.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 19, 2023 02:00 PM (4IUUf)

25 This is my shocked face.

Gee, funny how the conspiracies of yesterday become the truth of today.

And yesterday's government truth is today's lies.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 19, 2023 02:00 PM (lf83v)

26 23 Anyone who read anything about "The Twitter Files" and assumed that it was just a Twitter problem is a fool.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 01:59 PM (t0OGg)

=========

"It's not a problem. It's just jawboning."
-David French

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:00 PM (LvTSG)

27 Print is dead.

The Constitution is in print.

Do the math.

Posted by: Egon Spengler at January 19, 2023 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)

28 I'm not sure the country is ready to hear the government created a virus to maim them and scare them into compliance though.

I still think Fauci's virus was un-intentionally released but...there is no serious question the US government paid for its development.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (lc5cP)

29 See? I didn't say first.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Neither did I .

Posted by: JT at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (T4tVD)

30 This all comes as such a shock. If we later find out that water is wet...well, that would be going too far.

Posted by: t-bird at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (dNNCD)

31 I am sure there are "Microsoft Files" and "Amazon Files" and "Google Files" and the like, too.

You can save yourself a ton of time with two easy tricks:
1. Assume that all tech companies are committing fraud, hate you and are colluding with the government to deprive you of your rights
2. Assume that any company with more than 500 employees is committing fraud, hates you and is colluding with the government to deprive you of your rights

You will be right far, far more often than you are wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (t0OGg)

32 Anyone that gets their information from FB or the govt. is going to have a very rough life.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (UuD2k)

33 I'm not 'vaccine hesitant.'

I'm not getting it. No hesitation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

34 What happened to that one guy who always wore a leather jacket from reason on all the shows that made him look like a douchebag?

Nick somethingorother?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:02 PM (zZu0s)

35 Sue them individually and get some jack pot justice.

Sec. 1983. Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation custom or usage of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at January 19, 2023 02:02 PM (vN+oL)

36 It was mentioned here back in 2020 and 2021, but the Twitter and Facebook "COVID fact checkers" were under an organization that had $2B invested in the mRNA injections.

Posted by: Egg shortages are easily recognized via the overabundance of eggs on shelves at January 19, 2023 02:02 PM (ylp2r)

37 You can't blame us. It was early in the pandemic and we didn't know anything!

We made mistakes!

We just thought it was so important that you didn't know anything else!

Posted by: DC Politburo at January 19, 2023 02:02 PM (krQz2)

38 I am sure there are "Microsoft Files" and "Amazon Files" and "Google Files" and the like, too.
_______

And pedophiles. Don't forget us.

Posted by: You Know Who at January 19, 2023 02:02 PM (lf83v)

39 OK, so the only solution given by CDC for a genetically engineered virus, is a genetically engineered gene therapy shot, which changes the genetic sequence of muscle tissue?

Hey... look, that guys drowning, clearly we need to open the floodgates.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:03 PM (oHd/0)

40 What happened to that one guy who always wore a leather jacket from reason on all the shows that made him look like a douchebag?

Nick somethingorother?

***

Goth Fonzi

Posted by: Azathoth at January 19, 2023 02:03 PM (wb1YC)

41 To David French, 'jawboning' is when the cock is too big to fit in his mouth, he must dislocate his jaw like a snake.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

42 What happened to that one guy who always wore a leather jacket from reason on all the shows that made him look like a douchebag?

Nick somethingorother?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:02 PM (zZu0s)
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Yes. Of the Sicilian Somethingorothers.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (krQz2)

43 The tell was the always whipsawing of info.

-masks are no good against this virus.

Two weeks:

-everyone strap on the rat bags! IT IS REQUIRED!!!!!!

-I am not sure about these vaccines being developed by Trump.

Biden elected:

-EVERYONE MUST TAKE THE VAX OR WE WILL DESTROY YOU. LETS MAKE SOME JOKES ABOUT USING THE MILITARY TO VACCINATE PEOPLE BY FORCE!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (zZu0s)

44 I don't always watch from a supply closet while my boss plows my wife, but when I do, it's at the New York Times.

Posted by: David French, The Least Interesting Man In The World at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (oINRc)

45 "He was just hired as a columnist for the New York Times"

Nice. He's probably set for life now. NT's get paid.

Posted by: gp, Standing Up For What's Too Hard To Reach Whilst Sitting at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (24fqN)

46 Reality: The FBI admitted: "correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries"

Let that really sink in. If it's true, that means what we're hearing about the FBI at Twitter is also at facebook and snapchat and instagram every other social media site. It means it's at Microsoft and Apple and Google. It means it's at Amazon and Wal Mart and Costco. It means it's at Netflix, Hulu, Sling and Fubo, and DirecTV and Comcast. It means it's at your Internet Service Provider. It's at Ford and GM and Toyota. It's at Visa and MasterCard and your bank. It's in Verizon and T-Mobile and your smart phone. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's what the FBI itself said in that quote.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (AD14M)

47 Note:
Big Tech has always been a government OP. From the beginning - Google, Facebook, Twitter...all IC front operations.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (XvPQV)

48 Yes. Of the Sicilian Somethingorothers.
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (krQz2)

Kinda more seemed related to the Dalmatian Douchebags.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (zZu0s)

49 -EVERYONE MUST TAKE THE VAX OR WE WILL DESTROY YOU. LETS MAKE SOME JOKES ABOUT USING THE MILITARY TO VACCINATE PEOPLE BY FORCE!
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With F-15s!

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (KY22T)

50 50 Note:
Big Tech has always been a government OP. From the beginning - Google, Facebook, Twitter...all IC front operations.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (XvPQV)

========

One of the Jason Bourne movies was about this. The worst one, but still...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

51 I also note that all the search engines are now compromised. You now ONLY get a very few moderated results from searches... and then the same 15 - 20 entries page after page after page. Deep dives for 'unapproved' or unpopular information... EVEN WHEN FACTUAL... are now a thing of the past.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (oHd/0)

52 hahaha, I looked it up.

The COVID fact checkers were funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Guess where else the Johnson name is involved in the COVID injections?

Go on. Guess.

Guess twice in a row if you need to.

Posted by: Egg shortages are easily recognized via the overabundance of eggs on shelves at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (ylp2r)

53 This Biden and his junta are much like every other fascist-communist regime to have ever cheated their way to power.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (u4CEu)

54 Your future life under a blue government:

Portland Parks and Recreation has a limited number of slots open for swim classes.

So, they came with a progressive solution - minorities are allowed to sign up for swim classes on one day, and white people are allowed to sign up for swim classes the following day, assuming that there are any spaces left (which there frequently aren't).

One guy related that he has a white kid and a Hispanic kid - his Hispanic kid was allowed to sign up for swim classes, and his white kid wasn't.

Think of it as pre-reparations...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (2tUFv)

55 That's some serious Voltaire level satire @30. I hope.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (oWBc3)

56 -masks are no good against this virus.

Two weeks:

-everyone strap on the rat bags! IT IS REQUIRED!!!!!!


The icing on this cake is AFTER they switched to everyone has to wear a mask or we all die some acquaintance of Fauci emailed him asking if masks did protect people and he said....no.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (lc5cP)

57 Hmm...
Our Project Lifelog ends Feb 4th, 2004
Facebook launched Feb 4th, 2004

That's a damned coincidence, I say!

Posted by: The Pentagon at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (Sv58p)

58 ----------------
With F-15s!
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (KY22T)



And nukes!

- - Eric "Bang Fang" Swalwell

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

59 David French, who is totally not an undisclosed paid lobbyist and soulless shill for Monopoly Tech, closeted homo, soyboy cuck that cries while jerking off watching The Paolo rail his beard...

Suggested edit for accuracy

Posted by: Fake AoS editor at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (JCZqz)

60 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (nHuRB)

61 50 Note:
Big Tech has always been a government OP. From the beginning - Google, Facebook, Twitter...all IC front operations.
-----------------
It was DARPA that invented the internet, search engine and social media analog for DoD. Then some enterprising Spook got a boner and gave it to the world.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (KY22T)

62 I also note that all the search engines are now compromised. You now ONLY get a very few moderated results from searches... and then the same 15 - 20 entries page after page after page. Deep dives for 'unapproved' or unpopular information... EVEN WHEN FACTUAL... are now a thing of the past.

Posted by: Romeo13

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Yep. I was recently searching for a direct quote and couldn't get any results on qwant, duckduckgo, or bing.

If you can't link to the topic you're out of luck.

Gatekeepers and all that.

Posted by: Egg shortages are easily recognized via the overabundance of eggs on shelves at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (ylp2r)

63 Wait...Ace and the COBs have been compromised by "our betters"? I guess I didn't get the memo. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (Xrfse)

64 You know, many libertarians will buy the argument that teachers in classrooms and coaches on fields are "Congress" and that public prayer is an "establishment of religion", just as much as liberals do.

But they're real sticklers on major players in government and chilling effect on conversation.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (krQz2)

65 Second Junior keeps singing "A Pirate's Life for Me," and I have no idea where he learned it.

I am encouraged, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (LvTSG)

66 Mask = 3 microns

Covid = .3 microns

Fauci = Asshoe

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

67 64 It was DARPA that invented the internet, search engine and social media analog for DoD. Then some enterprising Spook got a boner and gave it to the world.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (KY22T)

========

Al Gore?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (LvTSG)

68 I also note that all the search engines are now compromised.

It's incredible how bad Google's search engine has gotten.

Google's goals are: 1) to get you to click on an ad; and 2) to keep you from seeing any "misinformation" in the search results

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (2tUFv)

69 "It's not a problem. It's just jawboning."
-David French

Did I mention that my wife's nickname is Jaw?

Posted by: David French Super Cuck at January 19, 2023 02:08 PM (u4CEu)

70 I also note that all the search engines are now compromised. You now ONLY get a very few moderated results from searches... and then the same 15 - 20 entries page after page after page.

Posted by: Romeo13
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Qwant.com

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:08 PM (krQz2)

71 As for the vaccines now, most people who have been doing any amount of research on the vaccines and not just blindly listening to what NPR, CNN and MSNBC are saying will not be getting the vaccine or boosters any time soon.

The American public no longer trusts their government or the elites running the show. We know they are full of $hit and will no longer be told what to do.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 19, 2023 02:08 PM (6Tc2R)

72 Reality: The FBI admitted: "correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries"

Let that really sink in. If it's true, that means what we're hearing about the FBI at Twitter is also at facebook and snapchat and...

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk

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That's how I interpreted it when I first heard it. Same as when they talk about the injections being safe and effective. They're telling the truth. Some are safe, and some are effective.

Posted by: Egg shortages are easily recognized via the overabundance of eggs on shelves at January 19, 2023 02:08 PM (ylp2r)

73 @49

Meanwhile FBI Director Chris Wray is at Davos, along with our head spook, Avril Haines.
The real action at Davos is in private meetings of all kinds, why zoom simply won't do.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (SJsWC)

74 59 -masks are no good against this virus.

Two weeks:

-everyone strap on the rat bags! IT IS REQUIRED!!!!!!

The icing on this cake is AFTER they switched to everyone has to wear a mask or we all die some acquaintance of Fauci emailed him asking if masks did protect people and he said....no.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM

Look, we came out later and admitted we lied to stop citizens from buying and hoarding masks, because WE wanted to buy and hoard masks to ensure we could protect the right people.

Posted by: Dr. Fauci at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (JCZqz)

75 He was just hired as a columnist for the New York Times so you know his ethics are impeccable.

Oh, and you also know his credentials as a True Conservative are impeccable as well.


David French's spats, top hat and monocle are impeccable, too.

Posted by: RickZ at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (emlEe)

76 Mask = 3 microns

Covid = .3 microns

Fauci = Asshoe
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)
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I just put up a fence to keep mosquitoes out of my yard!

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (krQz2)

77 The icing on this cake is AFTER they switched to everyone has to wear a mask or we all die some acquaintance of Fauci emailed him asking if masks did protect people and he said....no.
-----------------
Do you have any idea how many black kids can't swim? Check out a Tarzan movie for the answer.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (KY22T)

78 25 It was amusing on FB when they would put up that Covid warning....when we were talking about dog vaccines.

you'd also get a covid warning when you were jawboning in the vintage computer groups about the gold old days on your trusty vax-11/780.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (sGtp+)

79 >>> All FaceBook did was tap into a basic human urge. The urge to say who can or can not talk.

I must have been born broken, I've always been live and let live, and didn't have a desire to control others and what they do.

It's been eye opening, the number of controlling, fascistic, totalitarians there actually are in the world, and just how far they will go to hall monitor, karen, bully, and enslave the rest of us.

It's disheartening to learn that you grow up thinking the majority of people are like you, and then see just how wildly wrong you were.

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (ijTfm)

80 >>So, they came with a progressive solution - minorities are allowed to sign up for swim classes on one day, and white people are allowed to sign up for swim classes the following day, assuming that there are any spaces left (which there frequently aren't).


Do they have a sign saying "Whites Only" on the following day?

Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2023 02:10 PM (O4PVb)

81 ---
Qwant.com
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:08 PM (krQz2)



Sorry, but that sounds like a queef gone horribly wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

82 Spring of 2021 I spent 3.days behind my desk attempting to source Cinqona (quinine bark) without success. I believe the CDC and the rest of the Feds restricted access and importation. October 8 through Dec 6 I lay in the hospital fighting extreme .COVID pneumonia. I came off O2 November 9, 2022

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at January 19, 2023 02:10 PM (3Or4S)

83
The American public no longer trusts their government or the elites running the show. We know they are full of $hit and will no longer be told what to do.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 19, 2023 02:08

This, we are so far gone and corrupt. I don't see how we right the ship at all.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 19, 2023 02:10 PM (8ZYSd)

84 Must have dialed in to the alternate AoS
going to re-boot and see if I can dial in
on the right wave.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 02:10 PM (5TmO/)

85 Qwant.com
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:08 PM (krQz2)


Sorry, but that sounds like a queef gone horribly wrong.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, French so...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:11 PM (XvPQV)

86
Well, French so...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:11 PM (XvPQV)



Your point is valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

87 I also note that all the search engines are now compromised. You now ONLY get a very few moderated results from searches... and then the same 15 - 20 entries page after page after page. Deep dives for 'unapproved' or unpopular information... EVEN WHEN FACTUAL... are now a thing of the past.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (oHd/0)
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Foreign search engines can be better. I have better luck with Qwant than with the domestic search engines, but even it is spotty. The Russian Yandex plays games, too, but they are playing an anti-Western game, so you can often find a lot more information from Western sources on it. Good luck finding anything critical of Russia, though.

This will become the norm. If you're looking for real information, you'll need to get it from a source that hates the party involved. If you want information about America, get it from Russia. If you want information on Russia, get it from America or India. If you want information on India, get it from Pakistan.

It will still be manipulated the negative will be surfaced first, but your search will at least return hits.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (t0OGg)

88
The Bad Cat: Occam's Razor now cuts toward deliberate malfeasance by the CDC. This is well beyond incompetence and CYA:

https://tinyurl.com/2h5kqnyq

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (Mzdiz)

89 82 >>> All FaceBook did was tap into a basic human urge. The urge to say who can or can not talk.

I must have been born broken, I've always been live and let live, and didn't have a desire to control others and what they do.

It's been eye opening, the number of controlling, fascistic, totalitarians there actually are in the world, and just how far they will go to hall monitor, karen, bully, and enslave the rest of us.

It's disheartening to learn that you grow up thinking the majority of people are like you, and then see just how wildly wrong you were.
Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (ijTfm)

As Robert Heinlein said, there's only two kinds of people, regardless of political party: Those who want to control other people and those who don't.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (XvPQV)

90 They promise to be good hitters of the button. But they mean to control that button.
Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (Svq+/)

I actually do not disagree. Hear me out:

I believe in free speech. The thing is, ace is trying to run a business and have a life here. To maintain a community. He lets us get away with a whole shitload of edgy crap. For the most part, he lets people take their shots at cobs or himself and usually will engage, but not ban because people are arguing.

The bright shiny line is things that will either destroy the community (like posting racial slurs, even aside from the monetization, not many would want to wade through N bombs or what have you) or stuff that will destroy his platform legally because of deplatforming. Would it be better if we could not communicate with each other at all? because that is what we would be staring down the barrel of.

Also, consider this: if you would not say it at a well armed and attended MoMe, then you probably cannot say it here (the edgy insurrectiony stuff notwithstanding- that probably flies MORE there.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (zZu0s)

91 The American public no longer trusts their government or the elites running the show. We know they are full of $hit and will no longer be told what to do.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 19, 2023 02:08

This, we are so far gone and corrupt. I don't see how we right the ship at all.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 19, 2023 02:10 PM (8ZYSd)



I've always had a healthy distrust in my government. What the medical community has done, however, means I don't trust it one damn bit and will avoid it like the plague as long as humanly possible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

92 Do you have any idea how many black kids can't swim? Check out a Tarzan movie for the answer.

That is Portland's official reason for the blatantly racially discriminatory policy - that statistics show black kids are more likely to drown than white kids.

If you think that swim class signups should be handled in a racially nondiscriminatory manner, then you want black kids to die.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (2tUFv)

93 Wait...Ace and the COBs have been compromised by "our betters"?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:07 PM (Xrfse)

Duh. How do you think we pay for the dental plan?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (XIJ/X)

94 I lived the first mumble, mumble years of my life completely without the internet. Now we have it and everything is going to shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (Y5qcH)

95 21 If there was an opposition party right now they would be passing a bill paying out large cash sums to anyone injured by the clot shot and helping to coordinate a class action lawsuit against Pfizer and Moderna.

Speaking of which, where’s all that winning that the McLoser GOP promised us? 😂

Posted by: Ex-GOP at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (ExFoQ)

96 97 Duh. How do you think we pay for the dental plan?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (XIJ/X)

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Lisa needs braces.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (LvTSG)

97 The second best boning is jaw boning.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (u4CEu)

98 The American public no longer trusts their government or the elites running the show. We know they are full of $hit and will no longer be told what to do.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 19, 2023 02:08

This should be a very good thing, if true. However, if true, I'd expect society to look and act a lot differently than it does. It'll be further confirmed as false when Biden is reelected in an obviously fraudulent election, and nothing happens.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (JCZqz)

99 "This is true. I cycle back and forth between a few. Same entry ... entirely different results."

When you run your comparisons, start each test with freshly cleared browser caches. I suspect the search results displayed depend in part upon local browser cookies, etc.

Posted by: gp, Standing Up For What's Too Hard To Reach Whilst Sitting at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (24fqN)

100 This will become the norm. If you're looking for real information, you'll need to get it from a source that hates the party involved. If you want information about America, get it from Russia. If you want information on Russia, get it from America or India. If you want information on India, get it from Pakistan.
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I bet any number of people here are old enough to remember hearing about folks in 3rd world oppressive dictatorships having to do the same to get news about their own country.

It's disheartening to know we're at the most 1st Amendment time in our history and they're locking information down tight.

Posted by: Egg shortages are easily recognized via the overabundance of eggs on shelves at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (ylp2r)

101 And at the end of the day, it's not "FaceBook" or "Government". It's all just people. Just like Corporations are just people. Just a group expression of what groups want. And what they want is everyone that disagrees to shut the fuck up.
Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal


A cucky reductionist excuse if there ever was one.

Facebook and the Uniparty don't believe for a second that they are just 'people.' They are your Betters ™. They are The Elite.

You think for a fucking second you can just waddle up to them with "Hello, my fellow citizens"???

Piss off with that affected banality, bootlick.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (XF9Gj)

102 Assholes always think freedom of association is conspiracy directed against them, in no small part because it is.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 19, 2023 02:13 PM (KFhLj)

103 Boy, a lot of FIRST!-shaming on the blog today.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (45LeZ)

104 It amazed me, back in the day, how many guys joining the Navy, couldn't swim.

Posted by: Archer at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (gmo/4)

105 As Robert Heinlein said, there's only two kinds of people, regardless of political party: Those who want to control other people and those who don't.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (XvPQV)

This. Everything else is just details.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

106 Trump reportedly is coming back on both Twitter and Facebook. Rob Reiner likely to be hardest hit.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (ZGrMX)

107 Check out a Tarzan movie for the answer.
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Eaten by hippopotami?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (XlE1Z)

108 Boy, a lot of FIRST!-shaming on the blog today.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (45LeZ)



I'm used to it. I've been shameful my whole life!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

109 What the medical community has done, however, means I don't trust it one damn bit and will avoid it like the plague as long as humanly possible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

Look at the Covid fiasco as a way to find competent physicians who actually think for themselves.

My internist, who started out as a gung-ho pro vaccine guy, is now extremely suspicious, and told me not to get the boosters. I am keeping him.

I have another doctor who sounds like a fvcking cheerleader for Pfizer. I am not keeping him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (XIJ/X)

110 I lived the first mumble, mumble years of my life completely without the internet. Now we have it and everything is going to shit.

The internet was supposed to be liberating - instead it's turned into a very effective instrument for generating lynch mobs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (2tUFv)

111 30 You're going to equate secret government censorship of a media platform to banning trolls here?

Seriously?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 19, 2023 01:57 PM (wtvvX)

Yes. Because at the end of the day, its still a person, hitting the shut up button, on another person.

And its a basic human urge that enables that. We're not ruled by angels or demons. We're ruled by people. And most people that aspire to hit that button mean to hit it. They promise to be good hitters of the button. But they mean to control that button.
Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal at January 19, 2023 02:01 PM (Svq+/)

So you don't believe in freedom of association.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (eYoxG)

112 American public no longer trusts their government or the elites running the show. We know they are full of $hit and will no longer be told what to do.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 19, 2023 02:08
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Expand it.

Last year, a speaker at the big WEF confab talked about this. She put it pretty bluntly:
At Davos a few years ago, the {unintelligible} Survey showed us that the good news is the elite across the world trust each other more and more. So we can come together and design and do beautiful things together. The bad news is that in every single country they were polling, the majority of people trusted their elite less.
https://is.gd/0wiIKQ

The elites worldwide are having a big 'ole love-fest while he normals increasingly hate their collective guts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (t0OGg)

113 There is no industry that I trust as much as I did six years ago, and I was pretty cynical back then (or at least that's how I felt). I would assume that's a good thing that masks are coming off, but I don't know if a survey of history will back up that assumption.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (44ww/)

114 Big Tech has always been a government OP. From the beginning - Google, Facebook, Twitter...all IC front operations.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:04 PM (XvPQV)

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One of the Jason Bourne movies was about this. The worst one, but still...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

I'm literally rethinking my opinion of vast numbers of anti-government/Anti-CIA movies from the 70's and 80's that I previously sneered at.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (XvPQV)

115 I've been shameful my whole life!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Those dirty flip-flop fantasies will catch up to you eventually.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (XIJ/X)

116 Yep. I was recently searching for a direct quote and couldn't get any results on qwant, duckduckgo, or bing.

If you can't link to the topic you're out of luck.

Gatekeepers and all that.
Posted by: Egg shortages are easily recognized via the overabundance of eggs on shelves at January 19, 2023 02:06 PM (ylp2r)

Hmmm. If this keeps up, maybe libraries and those dusty old things called books might make a comeback.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (BdMk6)

117 Duh. How do you think we pay for the dental plan?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM


Wow...you guys have dental? I thought you just used Nevergiveup.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (Wnv9h)

118 I wonder if Strzok is on the pad there?

Posted by: torabora at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (OUiUM)

119 It's disheartening to learn that you grow up thinking the majority of people are like you, and then see just how wildly wrong you were.
Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:09 PM (ijTfm)
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Not only that, I internalized the message these people pretended to believe.

Remember the ACLU was never about "civil liberties" as much as it was about holding holding noxious behavior in front of our nose like a smelly sock and asking us "Is *this* the liberty you wanted? Is *this* why you rejected Marxism?!" They wanted to induce liberty fatigue.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (krQz2)

120 @55 the Johnson family also owns the NY Jets, which explains a lot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (bOUhi)

121 30 You're going to equate secret government censorship of a media platform to banning trolls here?

Seriously?

Posted by: Tex Lovera
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Yeah, no. This is where the all or nothing logical fallacy comes about. You can also add the ecological fallacy to it. Part of it is the argument that publicly owned companies have the same rights as individuals including speech. Repeatedly, Scotus has ruled that is not so (see regulation of commercial speech for example) and even recent free exercise cases (Hobby Lobby case) recognize the difference as does the commerce clause jurisprudence in NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel.

Then, you have the utility feature added to it as generally available infrastructure has been considered a marketplace rather than individual expression so like broadcasting, the FCC can regulate as to the common interest any licensed broadcaster.

So, essentially Ace or his designated COBs to censor opinions that are likely to cost him money directly by driving off sponsors, attracting expensive government investigations, and generally making a nuisance of themselves without the same effects as if Google bans someone from all its various platforms.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (bDjBG)

122
Those dirty flip-flop fantasies will catch up to you eventually.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (XIJ/X)



Cold sweats aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

123
David French, who is a whore totally not an undisclosed paid lobbyist and soulless shill for Monopoly Tech, calls this mere "jawboning" by the government and chides anyone who thinks this is a case of the government drafting Muh Corporations into the position of government agents that "the government has robust free speech rights too."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2023 02:17 PM (pNxlR)

124 BTW, Antifa had a shootout with the Atlanta police a couple days ago (the Antifa shooter shot a cop, putting the cop into the ICU, and was killed by return police fire).

Imagine the media reaction if the Proud Boys had done this.

Instead, crickets...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2023 02:17 PM (2tUFv)

125 110 Trump reportedly is coming back on both Twitter and Facebook. Rob Reiner likely to be hardest hit.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM

Harder hit than Truth Social, or whatever failed Twitter alternative he was shilling for?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 19, 2023 02:17 PM (JCZqz)

126 Speaking of controlling aholes... has there been a proper convo here that I missed on Wizards of the Coast and their leaked contract about the revoked Open Game License for OneD&D?

I think Hasbro, the big boss that bought WoC, is behind the controlling OGL grab. And Like Daily Wire, WoC had to release a bland reactionary statement about how fans are getting it all wrong, in reaction to long time fans utterly rebelling at the new contract. You can only gaslight people so far when it's clear a power grab is afoot.

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:17 PM (ijTfm)

127 I thought you just used Nevergiveup.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (Wnv9h)

A Navy dentist? Are you out of your mind?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (XIJ/X)

128 This will become the norm. If you're looking for real information, you'll need to get it from a source that hates the party involved. If you want information about America, get it from Russia. If you want information on Russia, get it from America or India. If you want information on India, get it from Pakistan.

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Radio Free Russia is an idea whose time has finally come.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (pAwzk)

129 129 BTW, Antifa had a shootout with the Atlanta police a couple days ago (the Antifa shooter shot a cop, putting the cop into the ICU, and was killed by return police fire).

Imagine the media reaction if the Proud Boys had done this.

Instead, crickets...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2023 02:17 PM (2tUFv)

Is that the incident in the sidebar?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (zZu0s)

130
The elites worldwide are having a big 'ole love-fest while he normals increasingly hate their collective guts.


For the last few years the people of Western countries have been voting to replace the elites ruining their countries.

The first problem was propaganda confusing them...look at, for example, how the majority of Obama voters thought the Republicans controlled congress in 2006-8 and were "voting them out".

But the bigger problem now is that with rampant election theft there is no way to peacefully replace them or even send them signals that the people disagree with them...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (lc5cP)

131 Yeah, no. This is where the all or nothing logical fallacy comes about. You can also add the ecological fallacy to it. Part of it is the argument that publicly owned companies have the same rights as individuals including speech. Repeatedly, Scotus has ruled that is not so (see regulation of commercial speech for example) and even recent free exercise cases (Hobby Lobby case) recognize the difference as does the commerce clause jurisprudence in NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel.
Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (bDjBG)

It is a failure to distinguish between one individual deciding not to interact with another and the decision of a major corporation or monopoly power or state to deny commerce. One hurts feelings, the other hurts livelihood.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (eYoxG)

132 I have another doctor who sounds like a fvcking cheerleader for Pfizer. I am not keeping him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (XIJ/X)

Yep. But sadly, not a ton of options sometimes. I have to drive a ways to find a half way decent doctor. I do most of my medical business with a RNP from Africa, who doesn't hassle me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (XvPQV)

133 Why this incessant obsession with David French on this blog? Who cares about David French? No one I know.

Posted by: abab at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM (vew3n)

134 Now we have it and everything is going to shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

= =

This.

Tech was supposed to bring an age of enlightenment and peace. Instead we've devolved to narcissism and cruel arrogance. We're supposed to have orbiting cities, a moon base and initial settlements on Mars. Instead, we've got the iPhone 14 and Joe Biden as we argue about killing our unborn babies and how the weather is going to kill us.

The future is going to look back upon us with contempt.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM (AD14M)

135 I've always had a healthy distrust in my government. What the medical community has done, however, means I don't trust it one damn bit and will avoid it like the plague as long as humanly possible.
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Yep. That bit about killing the elderly kind of woke me up to how depraved Medical people are.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM (KY22T)

136
At Davos a few years ago, the {unintelligible} Survey showed us that the good news is the elite across the world trust each other more and more. So we can come together and design and do beautiful things together. The bad news is that in every single country they were polling, the majority of people trusted their elite less.


Funny, the surveyors never ask the next question of the populace: "What measures would you consider reasonable and ought to be taken to bring the elites back down to earth?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2023 02:20 PM (pNxlR)

137 Tech was supposed to bring an age of enlightenment and peace. Instead we've devolved to narcissism and cruel arrogance.
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Remember two things:
1. All biology is predatory of biology
2. The Rennaissance was followed by the Inquisition

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:20 PM (KY22T)

138 Remember the ACLU was never about "civil liberties" as much as it was about holding holding noxious behavior in front of our nose like a smelly sock and asking us "Is *this* the liberty you wanted? Is *this* why you rejected Marxism?!" They wanted to induce liberty fatigue.
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (krQz2)

That is the best explanation of the Skoki (sp?) case I have ever heard.

We all know you just wait until they are crossing a bridge than then run your Dodge at them.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 19, 2023 02:20 PM (44ww/)

139 138 Why this incessant obsession with David French on this blog? Who cares about David French? No one I know.
Posted by: abab at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM (vew3n)

He is like a beloved stuffed animal that ace punches regularly to make himself feel better.

See also:
Jonah (that one has fallen off)
Allahpundit (whatever his name is after he moved to the cuckshed)


The Rick Wilson never got the treatment- except for the general shit directed at the Dispatch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:20 PM (zZu0s)

140 Who has more dignity?

A. A drunken 'Outdoor American' laying in the gutter covered with rancid urine and other peoples shit.

B. A crack whore that does tricks in a NJ truckstop.

C. Mitch McConnell

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (D25PY)

141 Is that the incident in the sidebar?

Yep.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (2tUFv)

142 Maybe Kafka was right?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (KY22T)

143 But here's also the thing ... by the letter of the law ... one can be a "common carrier" and be immune to all the comments.

Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (Svq+/)

This website doesn't purport to be a Facebook or Twitter. It's literally a right-wing political blog.

It'd be silly to go to a cooking website and complain how people don't like talking about trans whale rights.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (eYoxG)

144 I thought you just used Nevergiveup.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (Wnv9h)

A Navy dentist? Are you out of your mind?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM


Point. You never know what might end up in your mouth.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (Wnv9h)

145 148 Maybe Kafka was right?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (KY22T)

He really was turning into a cockroach?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (XvPQV)

146 146 Who has more dignity?

A. A drunken 'Outdoor American' laying in the gutter covered with rancid urine and other peoples shit.

B. A crack whore that does tricks in a NJ truckstop.

C. Mitch McConnell
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (D25PY)

Hmmm, I hate these kind of trick questions...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

147 Queers have mens clubs.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (KY22T)

148 The American public no longer trusts their government or the elites running the show. We know they are full of $hit and will no longer be told what to do.
Posted by: Czech Chick at January 19, 2023 02:08 PM (6Tc2R)

You're far more optimistic than I.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (Oka5v)

149 132 I thought you just used Nevergiveup.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (Wnv9h)

A Navy dentist? Are you out of your mind?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (XIJ/X)

Naval Dentist's motto:

Yanchors Away

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (CCSxw)

150 As Robert Heinlein said, there's only two kinds of people, regardless of political party: Those who want to control other people and those who don't.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (XvPQV)

This. Everything else is just details.
Posted by: Aetius451

The clusterfuck in Davos being a prime example. The crazy talk coming from Gore, Kerry, Schwab, and some German asshole talking about people needing to stop eating meat for the planet, etc. I wouldn't cry if the sweet meteor of death hit the main venue where they gather. These so-called elites that are dining at 5 star restaurants, who regularly fly in private jets, own yachts, and travel in large SUVs, and whose part of their Davos shindig have hired escorts are railing about how the commoners should live and be under their control. I wonder how many minors have been ordered for their pleasure.

Posted by: Cheri at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (oiNtH)

151 But the bigger problem now is that with rampant election theft there is no way to peacefully replace them or even send them signals that the people disagree with them...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 02:18 PM (lc5cP)
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The distrust of elections process is one part of it. The censorship is another. Airing of grievances is increasingly difficult, so social movements are harder. Petitioning the government is pointless because the government is unaccountable.

That is a *very* dangerous combination because it results in an intelligence vacuum, which prevents the system from correcting. Even if the government powers *wanted* to course-correct - and some very well might - they are increasingly *unable* to do so because they don't know what's wrong. They don't know what's wrong because they censor dissent.

What this runs the risk of causing is a big blowup all at once, like what happened in Romania. You go from a smooth, functional system where everything is normal to the dictator being shot in a schoolhouse and a total revolution occurring in a matter of days. Nobody sees it coming and the proximal cause/trigger is usually surprising or mundane.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (t0OGg)

152 Point. You never know what might end up in your mouth.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (Wnv9h)

It's not gay if you're unconscious!
-NGU*

*j/k

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (zZu0s)

153 Yep. That bit about killing the elderly kind of woke me up to how depraved Medical people are.

Prior to COVID there were a lot of articles about how much better things would be if the government would stop spending money on healthcare for old white people.

So...I wasn't completely surprised.

Also consider how the government used American soldiers during the WoT - throwing them into meat grinders because it was easier politically then killing the leadership of our enemies with the weapons we had.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (lc5cP)

154 And this isn't even an Ace thing. Ace isn't the most aggressive editor here. Not by a long shot.

If you find it so egregious, why do you even bother consuming bits and bytes here? Plenty of other places you can do that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (Xrfse)

155 146 Who has more dignity?

A. A drunken 'Outdoor American' laying in the gutter covered with rancid urine and other peoples shit.

B. A crack whore that does tricks in a NJ truckstop.

C. Mitch McConnell
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (D25PY)

Need pics of the crack whore first

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (XvPQV)

156 145 So you don't believe in freedom of association.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (eYoxG)

Its not the world I live in. Or you live in. When Freedom of Association gets honored, I'll honor it. And I'll also open up a Dudes Only, Unless You Have a Stripper Body Billiard Club.

Until I have room to live by those rules, I'll live by the current rules.
Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal at January 19, 2023 02:20 PM (Svq+/)

Do you think people on this website accept or reject the existence of Men's only groups and clubs?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (eYoxG)

157 When a group of people, organization, or corporation says "Don't Be Evil" you can bet that they have been, are, and always be evil.

Looking at you google.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (u4CEu)

158 138 Why this incessant obsession with David French on this blog? Who cares about David French? No one I know.
Posted by: abab at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM

As a long time moron and true conservative, I care greatly about what the great David French thinks, and you haters should be ashamed of the insults you hurl his way!

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (JCZqz)

159 151 148 Maybe Kafka was right?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (KY22T)

He really was turning into a cockroach?
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That would be a step up given his alternatives.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (KY22T)

160 You know it's getting kind of hard remembering that we're the crazy conspiracy theorists at a time when people believe that Alec Baldwyn couldn't accidently shoot someone without Trump sneaking on the set and sabotaging the gun.

But you have to remember that we're the conspiracy theorists, even when it's hard.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (krQz2)

161 has anyone heard about the antifa terrorist that shot a state trooper in Atlanta? He was shot and killed. Erick Erickson , yes...that E.E. talked about it for more than an hour....and not only are they keeping an Atlanta P.D Training Facility from being built, but according to Erick, they are doxxing the contractor and his employees, but, apparently threatening the Churches they go to, and at least 1 church is arming themselves! Erick sounded almost like a real conservative, can't believe this isn't a huge story, both locally and nationally.


tinyurl.com/4xmcy74a

Posted by: ziggggeeee at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (PJWI9)

162
I earned a long time ago to get news about America from elsewhere. It's full of lies anywhere you go - press men are subhumans among all races of men - but virtually any other country has better coverage of this country than we get here.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (oINRc)

163 The best way to handle this would have been for every conservative/libertarian/republican to flood the social media sites with arguments opposing lock downs, forced vaccinations , censoring ideas etc. The algorithms and corporate/government apparatchiks could not have handled the volume and would have collapsed. Hindsight is obviously 20-20

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (bOUhi)

164 Is that the incident in the sidebar?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yes. Most of the protesters at the site are not even from Georgia but are being paid expenses via Gofundme.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (bDjBG)

165 why do you even bother consuming bits and bytes here?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:22 PM (Xrfse)

Because he likes to troll AoSHQ.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (XIJ/X)

166
"permissible speech"

Fuck you, Faceplant. Fuck you CDC. May you both die screaming in agony.

Is THAT permissible?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2023 02:24 PM (n+4am)

167 just to be clear, the trooper was injured, the terrorist was shot and killed

Posted by: ziggggeeee at January 19, 2023 02:24 PM (PJWI9)

168
I wonder how many minors have been ordered for their pleasure.

Posted by: Cheri


WEF -- Come for the Whoring, Stay for the Whores

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2023 02:24 PM (pNxlR)

169 Why this incessant obsession with David French on this blog? Who cares about David French? No one I know.

Posted by: abab at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM
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As if the daily absurdities that French spews out aren't rife enough for entertainment and derision!

Pro tip: You do you.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (krQz2)

170 >>> As Robert Heinlein said, there's only two kinds of people, regardless of political party: Those who want to control other people and those who don't.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at January 19, 2023 02:12 PM (XvPQV)

This. Everything else is just details.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

Ah, Jesus' plan vs Satan's plan. Letting people choose their own path, good or bad, in the Great Test of life, and giving God the glory of it, vs forcing them all back to heaven and Satan getting the glory. It all goes back to the beginning! I hadn't thought about it this way, thanks.

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (ijTfm)

171 Well, who doesn't? We're all guys here. This is how guys express friendship.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

172 Even if the government powers *wanted* to course-correct - and some very well might - they are increasingly *unable* to do so because they don't know what's wrong. They don't know what's wrong because they censor dissent.

I call this narrative overdrive and you can see it everywhere now.

For example the people claiming that the clot shot was safe, falsely, generally believed the people claiming COVID's elevated fatality rate. And conversely the people falsely claiming COVID's elevated fatality rate believe the people claiming the clot shot had no side effects.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (lc5cP)

173 Who has more dignity?

A. A drunken 'Outdoor American' laying in the gutter covered with rancid urine and other peoples shit.

B. A crack whore that does tricks in a NJ truckstop.

C. Mitch McConnell
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (D25PY)
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Dignity? McConnell, probably. He is rich and powerful enough to pretend he's not an evil monster.

Honor? The whore is the most honorable. She works, provides a service, and goes home at night. The work itself isn't honorable, but it is at least work performed in fair exchange so she's a couple of cuts above the vagrant and an incalculable number of cuts above McConnell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (t0OGg)

174 can't believe this isn't a huge story, both locally and nationally.


tinyurl.com/4xmcy74a
Posted by: ziggggeeee a
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To ask such a question is to answer it. The PTB don't want antifa to be seen as a threat or terrorists. They want Jan 6 individuals to be thought of that way despite no police being shot, churches being threatened, etc.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (bDjBG)

175 Remember the ACLU was never about "civil liberties" as much as it was about holding holding noxious behavior in front of our nose like a smelly sock and asking us "Is *this* the liberty you wanted? Is *this* why you rejected Marxism?!" They wanted to induce liberty fatigue.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:16 PM (krQz2)

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Great point.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (k+cER)

176 Naval Dentist's motto:

Yanchors Away
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Is Navy Corpsmen's motto:

Chancers Away?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (KY22T)

177 171 Because he likes to troll AoSHQ.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:23 PM (XIJ/X)

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Hey!

That's my job!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

178 Look at the Covid fiasco as a way to find competent physicians who actually think for themselves.

My internist, who started out as a gung-ho pro vaccine guy, is now extremely suspicious, and told me not to get the boosters. I am keeping him.

I have another doctor who sounds like a fvcking cheerleader for Pfizer. I am not keeping him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:15 PM (XIJ/X)
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I had an appointment with my neurologist last week and he actually came right out and said " I have have to tell you that the MS drugs are the standard treatment, HOWEVER, if you are fine with the lifestyle and dietary changes that you've been making, then I really think you will have a better outcome with that." He then later said that he was becoming extremely "sceptical" of vaccines in general.

I think he's always been sceptical of a certain Vaxx but now he's actually able to say things out loud.

The tide, it is turning.

Posted by: Just Lily at January 19, 2023 02:26 PM (Q4iKx)

179 Naval Dentist's motto:

Yanchors Away
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Is Navy Corpsmen's motto:

Chancers Away?
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:25 PM (KY22T)



Inhibitions Away!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

180 Remember the Alamo, forget Uvalde.

They don't care about public harm just perception.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 19, 2023 02:26 PM (xdFEI)

181 I've always had a healthy distrust in my government. What the medical community has done, however, means I don't trust it one damn bit and will avoid it like the plague as long as humanly possible.
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Yep. That bit about killing the elderly kind of woke me up to how depraved Medical people are.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM (KY22T)

Agree. And I was in the medical profession for decades. It's not what many people think. It's not run by people with medical expertise, but by marketing departments.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2023 02:27 PM (BdMk6)

182 Facebook is playing Fascism with the government
Everything for the government nothing outside the government

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2023 02:27 PM (xhxe8)

183 You know what would be a radical development. The next Republican administration, whether Trump or DeSantis, should indict Meta for stifling free speech and instituting censorship.

Never mind that they only complied with government's orders, that is the crime. All the media must be made to see that if they squash free speech they will pay sooner or later.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at January 19, 2023 02:27 PM (3JfbU)

184 Because he likes to troll AoSHQ.

Yeah, I guess I knew that. Sometimes I can't resist. I still haven't learned the lesson: engagement = encouragement.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:27 PM (Xrfse)

185 One time, in the Navy, the guys on the boat thought it would be fun to trick the Corpsman into looking at their butthole.

He only looked at 2 or 3 before he caught on.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:28 PM (Y5qcH)

186 Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal at January 19, 2023 02:26 PM (Svq+/)

I am going to validate everything you said by banning you for trolling.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:28 PM (XIJ/X)

187 Hey!

That's my job!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:26 PM (LvTSG)
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I don't get Prometheus.

Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:28 PM (krQz2)

188
I'm coming to the conclusion that you folks aren't supportive or allies of celebrating transgendered minors at sporting events.

Posted by: Auspex at January 19, 2023 02:28 PM (j4U/Z)

189 192 One time, in the Navy, the guys on the boat thought it would be fun to trick the Corpsman into looking at their butthole.

He only looked at 2 or 3 before he caught on.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:28 PM (Y5qcH)

And he didn't like it.

At first.

-R. White

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:28 PM (zZu0s)

190 194 I don't get Prometheus.
Posted by: Axeman at January 19, 2023 02:28 PM (krQz2)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

191 Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:27 PM (Xrfse)

It's an experienced troll.

No worries.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (XIJ/X)

192 @167 antifa is now calling for violence against police nationwide. Over at twitchy.com it's noted that Twitter banned the accounts calling for violence. This could be a real problem for democrats as if there shock troops start offing cops they'll have a choice cops and order or antifa and chaos

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (bOUhi)

193 I've always had a healthy distrust in my government. What the medical community has done, however, means I don't trust it one damn bit and will avoid it like the plague as long as humanly possible.
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Yep. That bit about killing the elderly kind of woke me up to how depraved Medical people are.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:19 PM (KY22T)

Agree. And I was in the medical profession for decades. It's not what many people think. It's not run by people with medical expertise, but by marketing departments.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2023 02:27 PM (BdMk6)

It's amazing that 3 years into Covid, the medical community has no better treatment plan than "Just get the shot, you rubes!"

Posted by: Wally at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (vMWVi)

194
And it would be silly to be offended when certain groups think they've got the lock on a universal definition of decent conversation across the entire spectrum of communication. Of course, they'll gig you about not being "decent" or "common sense" about what you say.

Dude, you just do not get it. Everything you say always comes from a position of being in charge, and dictating what is or is not acceptable. Pretty typical of folks that thought the Patriot Act would work out just fine.
Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal at January 19, 2023 02:26 PM (Svq+/)

You don't get it. A consistent issue with your understanding of politics and reality is you have yet to reach the starting line.

Consider what distinguishes libel from people insulting each other. None of these ideas emerged in a vacuum. You are attempting to establish principles hinged upon nothing but arbitrary preference. Ideas of centuries past boiled down to disconnected slogans.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (eYoxG)

195 >>> Yep. That bit about killing the elderly kind of woke me up to how depraved Medical people are.

Every group that needs empaths to make a true difference... medicine, education, law, government, religion, I'm missing some... seems to just attract psychopaths and sociopaths at the very top rungs of leadership.

Medicine is no different. Ask anyone that had a doctor with a God complex making decisions with their health. Or the Covid elites run by Fauci.

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (ijTfm)

196 175 Why this incessant obsession with David French on this blog? Who cares about David French? No one I know.

Posted by: abab
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This pernicious narcissism on the nets where individuals demand that their host and commenters discuss what they want is puerile. Same as those with hot takes that have to disrupt special topic threads.

It is tedious and boring to tell such folks that Ace and the cobs don't work for you and the customer ain't always right. Ignore, engage, or go elsewhere is the cure that some folks strangely do not want to do.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (bDjBG)

197 OT: Spouse tells me eggs are up to $4.54 at Aldi's today...that's an increase every week this month...

In some good news, baby carrots are down to 35 cents/lb, so if you can live off these, you can eat well (my carrot ginger soup with coconut milk may be making a return since hub bought me 2 lbs of baby carrots today and ginger helps viruses go away faster)...

It's funny - last year, it was avocadoes that couldn't be sold fast enough - this year, it's carrots. I'd love to know why...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (exHjb)

198 While I won't say I am pro-Putin but all the wrong people are anti-Putin so that is a big plus to be pro-Putin and I will say I am anti-Zelensky for the same reason.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:30 PM (u4CEu)

199 Heh. (NOT)

If you thought FB was bad...

https://tinyurl.com/5n7p6bya

For the chilren.

God help us all.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 19, 2023 02:30 PM (MkuC5)

200 Why the hate for David French? Sometimes he makes great observations.

Posted by: Bravid Slench at January 19, 2023 02:30 PM (44ww/)

201 >> I don't get Prometheus.

I watched that for the first time a few weeks ago when it played on one of the cable channels, BBC of all things.

When it was over, I was just sitting there...WTF? This makes no sense...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2023 02:30 PM (Mzdiz)

202 And at the end of the day, it's not "FaceBook" or "Government". It's all just people. Just like Corporations are just people. Just a group expression of what groups want. And what they want is everyone that disagrees to shut the fuck up.

There is this little, tiny, itsy, bitsy, technical matter of it being a major felony for government personnel to conspire with anyone to oppress any person's free speech rights. The punishment starts at 10 years in prison and ranges up to a potential death sentence.

And don't even give me the private enterprise argument. According to the SCOTUS section 230 protection plus following government instructions makes META etc. lose their private company status and become government operatives who have to respect Constitutional rights.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 19, 2023 02:31 PM (+UCfO)

203 Jawboning sounds hot.

Posted by: eleven at January 19, 2023 02:31 PM (iziT8)

204 Jawboning sounds hot.

Posted by: eleven at January 19, 2023 02:31 PM (iziT

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As does bonejawing.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (k+cER)

205 205 While I won't say I am pro-Putin but all the wrong people are anti-Putin so that is a big plus to be pro-Putin and I will say I am anti-Zelensky for the same reason.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:30 PM (u4CEu)

I am not pro-Putin- but I am also not Pro-Zelesky. My Bullshit meter broke the needle during the whole Ukraine thing start. I just kept looking around and wondering what the deal was. Everyone seemed so emotionally engaged and I am sitting here going 'am I becoming a sociopath- or has everyone gone fucking nuts?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

206 >>> As Robert Heinlein said, there's only two kinds of people, regardless of political party: Those who want to control other people and those who don't.

Auron MacEntyre will tell you which side wins.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (44ww/)

207
If you don't like the way AoS is run or the views that are mainstream here, then I'd encourage you to start your own blog where things are run correctly. We were just discussing a long-time and popular commenter who decided to leave the community because of disagreement with one particular issue that was important to her. She just stated her case and moved on to her own venue, she didn't come back here and constantly whine about it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (n+4am)

208 210 Jawboning sounds hot.
Posted by: eleven


Only if you have a good dentist.

Posted by: Kamala at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (D25PY)

209 ... If you thought FB was bad...
https://tinyurl.com/5n7p6bya

For the chilren....
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 19, 2023 02:30 PM (MkuC5)
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Of course. The same governments that feed children into the system needs universal mass surveillance to combat those feeding children into the system.

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:33 PM (t0OGg)

210 Jawboning is Tight!!

Posted by: Willie Brown at January 19, 2023 02:33 PM (u4CEu)

211
Europe, and European ideas, are the world's scab and long overdue to be ripped off.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2023 02:33 PM (pNxlR)

212 Every group that needs empaths to make a true difference... medicine, education, law, government, religion, I'm missing some... seems to just attract psychopaths and sociopaths at the very top rungs of leadership.

Medicine is no different. Ask anyone that had a doctor with a God complex making decisions with their health. Or the Covid elites run by Fauci.
Posted by: LizLem
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I am afraid that the only cure is small is beautiful. A doctor being a jackass believing themself to have the power over life and death is a lot less harmful where they practice solo. Word gets out and people avoid them. Same with government, a shitty local government can be avoided, less so at the state level and not at all at the national one. So power must be reallocated from the national to the local. Ditto with corporations--a lot of their bean counting relies on bigness otherwise a lot of counter productive practices would not be profitable. And the same for private organizations of all sorts--the larger they are, the more insulation they have to do bad things.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:34 PM (bDjBG)

213 204 Nova Local, I hope your going to be using those baby carrots in a nice chili.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:34 PM (45LeZ)

214 Amid all the speculation about whether the media and/or the Democrats have "turned against" Biden over the "Corvette" documents scandal, is it possible they are more importantly using it to divert attention away from the even bigger issue of the Twitter docs scandal?

Twitter docs bigger? I think so, since it uncovers a whole spectrum of government, media, and big tech malfeasance, and Omertà has been maintained there, while the lid is at least somewhat off Joe's Corvette docs.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 19, 2023 02:34 PM (gMml8)

215 Anyone who read anything about "The Twitter Files" and assumed that it was just a Twitter problem is a fool.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 01:59 PM (t0OGg)

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I always assumed it was all of them, Twitter was simply unlucky to have been bought by someone even slightly in favour of free speech. That android owner of Meta is completely authoritarian.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at January 19, 2023 02:34 PM (3JfbU)

216 I am not pro-Putin- but I am also not Pro-Zelesky. My Bullshit meter broke the needle during the whole Ukraine thing start. I just kept looking around and wondering what the deal was. Everyone seemed so emotionally engaged and I am sitting here going 'am I becoming a sociopath- or has everyone gone fucking nuts?'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

Zelensky has a very carefully crafted PR image. Almost like he a product they are trying to sell. Like him wearing camo pants and a sweatshirt to address Congress. That shit doesn't happen on accident.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (Y5qcH)

217 It's amazing that 3 years into Covid, the medical community has no better treatment plan than "Just get the shot, you rubes!"
Posted by: Wally at January 19, 2023 02:29 PM (vMWVi)

It's not that nutty, when you consider there's no real effective treatment for common cold viruses either, just for the secondary effects and some of the symptoms.

PS - Don't sleep on secondary effects for viruses this fall, b/c most seem to bring about nasty follow on bacterial infections for susceptible folks...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (exHjb)

218 OT: Spouse tells me eggs are up to $4.54 at Aldi's today...that's an increase every week this month...

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You can tell there's a shortage by how full the shelves are. Or something. Also $5/dozen eggs are a sign of a thriving economy.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (XTk1T)

219 I am afraid that the only cure is small is beautiful. A doctor being a jackass believing themself to have the power over life and death is a lot less harmful where they practice solo. Word gets out and people avoid them. Same with government, a shitty local government can be avoided, less so at the state level and not at all at the national one. So power must be reallocated from the national to the local. Ditto with corporations--a lot of their bean counting relies on bigness otherwise a lot of counter productive practices would not be profitable. And the same for private organizations of all sorts--the larger they are, the more insulation they have to do bad things.
Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:34 PM (bDjBG)
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Subsidiarity. Decisions should be made at the smallest practicable scale.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (t0OGg)

220 Dude, your views are like those of a young college student. Don't flatter yourself. Start with the basics. What is a state, why do we have laws, where did the idea of natural rights come from.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (eYoxG)

221 210 Jawboning sounds hot.
Posted by: eleven at January 19, 2023 02:31 PM (iziT

It is when you use the jaw bone of an ass.

Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (Xomus)

222 If the actors in question could not be given horrendous IRS audits, have their HQ raided by swat teams, have swarms of regulators sent to inspect and fine them, had anti-trust lawsuits brought against them, then yes the government theoretically could discuss censoring public speech with them.

Given that that's not true, ANY request made by the federal government is tantamount to making the actor following the request a government agent.

Posted by: mikethemoose at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (T/vhV)

223 226 Subsidiarity. Decisions should be made at the smallest practicable scale.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (t0OGg)

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"What gets taught in schools in Moo, Nebraska should be set by experts in Washington DC."
-The Entire Bush family

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (LvTSG)

224 I am not pro-Putin- but I am also not Pro-Zelesky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (zZu0s)

I am more pro-Putin than I am pro-Zelensky. I want this war to end before we get in too deep. And I think the best way for that to happen is if Russia wins, after a fashion, consolidates, and declares the war over.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (XIJ/X)

225 It is when you use the jaw bone of an ass.
Posted by: Roy at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (Xomus)

My. Man.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (MkuC5)

226 193 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)

227 220 204 Nova Local, I hope your going to be using those baby carrots in a nice chili.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:34 PM (45LeZ)

One day, I should, just to see if I could post a worthy chili to the food thread with them.

I mean, if I can turn pumpkin, sweet potato, and black bean into an awesome chili, surely there has to be some way to make a carrot one work - maybe if carrots go to 20 cents/lb, I might even give it a go...

Of course, then I'd ruin the joke more than I already did with this post...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (exHjb)

228 >>I always assumed it was all of them, Twitter was simply unlucky to have been bought by someone even slightly in favour of free speech. That android owner of Meta is completely authoritarian.

Some of the Twitter files dumps made it very clear the government was doing it to other social media sites. Emails from Elvis Chan of the FBI showed that he was doing the same with Facebook and other sites.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (ZLI7S)

229 Given that that's not true, ANY request made by the federal government is tantamount to making the actor following the request a government agent.
Posted by: mikethemoose at January 19, 2023 02:35 PM (T/vhV)
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It's illegal. The government cannot ask a private company to do something that would not be legal for it to do itself.

That this is criminal is not question. But we're post-law, so the criminality doesn't matter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (t0OGg)

230 233 193 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)

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Just be careful about what you say regarding sous vide-ing French toast with maple syrup.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (LvTSG)

231 "I am not pro-Putin- but I am also not Pro-Zelesky. My Bullshit meter broke the needle during the whole Ukraine thing start. I just kept looking around and wondering what the deal was. Everyone seemed so emotionally engaged and I am sitting here going 'am I becoming a sociopath- or has everyone gone fucking nuts?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (zZu0s) "


It's all different forms and variations of gaslighting.

Never let these goblins make you think you're crazy.

Posted by: eleven at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (iziT8)

232 In other news:
Preezy Smirkypants and Greaseball Newsom will bere in Santa Cruz today touring storm damage and lecturing us about climate change. Assholes are going to shut this town down. Good luck getting lunch or anywhere else.

Posted by: wth at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (v0R5T)

233 That android owner of Meta is completely authoritarian.
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The thing that interests me is why was Zuckerberg picked to be given the FB franchise. Who's his daddy? Who gets to be an instant mega billionaire while in college?

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (KY22T)

234 Let's not forget that simply asking someone to perform an action on your behalf is asking them to be your agent in a limited sense, regardless of what type of influence you might have.

Posted by: mikethemoose at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (T/vhV)

235 236 It's illegal. The government cannot ask a private company to do something that would not be legal for it to do itself.

That this is criminal is not question. But we're post-law, so the criminality doesn't matter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (t0OGg)

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That almost sounds like fascism, but leftists are anti-fascist, so that can't be true...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (LvTSG)

236 Those fucking goofball masks that the "authorities" kept pushing was the first red flag that they fools.

Here is you mask; tinyurl.com/2zcrbh37

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (kaTkN)

237 I've never understood "jawboning" as a metaphor.

Isn't it a reference to Samson? The guys he jawboned didn't need to file taxes anymore afterwards.

The context of usage seems to be more like "empty threats" but like I said I can't figure out the reference.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (eQ0H6)

238 233 193 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)

Yeah...

ace is not an omnipresent being. COBs pick up the slack...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (CCSxw)

239
When it was over, I was just sitting there...WTF? This makes no sense...

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz)


It is a product of a group of people who really, really hate the human race and obsess over hateful ways to exterminate it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (pNxlR)

240 Deep dives for 'unapproved' or unpopular information... EVEN WHEN FACTUAL... are now a thing of the past.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:05 PM (oHd/0)

You misspelled ESPECIALLY

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (81K7o)

241 I thought Fakebook was for old geezers to post pictures of their ugly grand chirruns so everybody could pretend to "Oooo" and "Ahhh" over them.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (YypaB)

242 233 193 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)

Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

243 248 I thought Fakebook was for old geezers to post pictures of their ugly grand chirruns so everybody could pretend to "Oooo" and "Ahhh" over them.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (YypaB)

=========

It's also where old geezers get their news, approved by the former Weekly Standard employees, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

244 241 Let's not forget that simply asking someone to perform an action on your behalf is asking them to be your agent in a limited sense, regardless of what type of influence you might have.
Posted by: mikethemoose at January 19, 2023 02:37 PM (T/vhV)

Yeah, there is a reason that College Professors are not supposed to sleep with ADULT students. Same power relationship exists between Government and Business.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (oHd/0)

245 Some say that the Barrel can ban someone on it's own. But those people are crazy. The Barrel isn't sentient, right?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (UuD2k)

246 I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

Well, except for himself...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (XIJ/X)

247 >>> 175 Why this incessant obsession with David French on this blog? Who cares about David French? No one I know.

Because it's funny? Ace has legit beefs with Goldberg, French is just for fun.

For a long time, I didn't get the recurring Stelter hate jokes that a lot of people in conservative media do, like Crowder (Tater's stupid face is in the sun in the opener of the show!) or Gutfeld. But it's their show. And now that it happens every time, I can see it for the fun it is.

As for me, I hate French because he once seemed open minded: he championed Romney for pres, as an evangelical who should have traditionally hated Mormons. As a Mormon myself, I warmed to that. In the Trump years, when all the masks fell away, I realized French was just using that to leverage a spot in the conservative grifter inc, first at National Review (the conservative christian case for Romney!) and then a larger spot in the GOPe gravy train. And that French actually liked Romney because they were both kindred spirits in the GOPe swamp.

Because of the personal betrayal I feel from French and Romney, as a Mormon, I HATE French.

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (ijTfm)

248 249 233 193 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)

Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

========

Just be wary of Queensryche lyrics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

249 It is when you use the jaw bone of an ass.

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I heard a really great sermon preached on that one time. It was based on accepting and working for God's purpose using what is at hand. Very smart observation.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (XTk1T)

250 248 I thought Fakebook was for old geezers to post pictures of their ugly grand chirruns so everybody could pretend to "Oooo" and "Ahhh" over them.
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It is a data mining operation.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (KY22T)

251 161 46 Who has more dignity?

A. A drunken 'Outdoor American' laying in the gutter covered with rancid urine and other peoples shit.

B. A crack whore that does tricks in a NJ truckstop.

C. Mitch McConnell
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2023 02:21 PM (D25PY)

Need pics of the crack whore first


you'll have to wait until she gets back from davos

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:40 PM (sGtp+)

252 253 I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

Well, except for himself...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (XIJ/X)

=========

This could almost function as a shelving joke...

Quality.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:40 PM (LvTSG)

253 Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

Bander came close couple of nights ago.

A timely tug of the forelock placated the master of the house.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:40 PM (CCSxw)

254 Ace isn’t omnipresent?

Does this mean I can stop looking for him under my bed at night?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:40 PM (45LeZ)

255 Hey, you don't like our iron fist in the velvet glove approach of coercing censorship via private enterprise, fine. We'll just start shooting people.

Posted by: The Maniacs Currently In Charge at January 19, 2023 02:40 PM (ONBCh)

256 199 the Democrats will try and play both sides

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (xhxe8)

257 Baby carrots are an inferior substitute for regular (adult??) carrots. They are almost as bad as those trendy meat substitutes like "impossible" and "beyond".

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (ChAEn)

258 Breaking: 6 year old in VA who shot teacher had an "acute disability" which required mom or dad to come to class wit him every day. On the day he shot the teacher, mom and dad were not there (reason TBD).

Okay, if you need mom or dad to be there every day, MAYBE you shouldn't be in the classroom, but should be learning AT HOME...just sayin...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (exHjb)

259 264 Baby carrots are an inferior substitute for regular (adult??) carrots. They are almost as bad as those trendy meat substitutes like "impossible" and "beyond".
Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (ChAEn)

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But they're still just carrots, just smaller and shaved into shape.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)

260 The context of usage seems to be more like "empty threats" but like I said I can't figure out the reference
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I've always heard it as just talking about something. Not negative, just discussing. Moving your jawbones.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (XTk1T)

261 I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM


But if it happens to you, own that sh*t, and go out in a blaze of glory.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (a3Q+t)

262 News article on the fact it was the 1st week mom and dad were not there...
https://wtop.com/ education/2023/01/lawyer-gun-used-by-child-who- shot-teacher-was-secured/

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (exHjb)

263 Just be wary of Queensryche lyrics.

The warning you gave us is surely our last.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (Bd6X8)

264 Subsidiarity. Decisions should be made at the smallest practicable scale.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Yep. Same argument basically as Adam Smith's invisible hand and Madison regarding factions in Federalist 10. You can either extinguish liberty itself (which is what the greenies or oligarchs think) or you can keep the power centers fighting each other by making the engagements in society smaller in scope which reduces the scope of harm.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (bDjBG)

265
ace is not an omnipresent being. COBs pick up the slack...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (CCSxw)

Hey, ixnay on the omnipresentay alkway illway ivegay itway awayway.

Posted by: CaliGirl at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (8ZYSd)

266 261 Ace isn’t omnipresent?

Does this mean I can stop looking for him under my bed at night?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:40 PM (45LeZ)

Misdirection. The fur is great camouflage. Maybe that's him over by the closet...

Or that motion out of the corner of your eye in the kitchen...

Or that smell that you thought was the dog...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

267 While I won't say I am pro-Putin but all the wrong people are anti-Putin so that is a big plus to be pro-Putin and I will say I am anti-Zelensky for the same reason.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:30 PM (u4CEu)

As I've said, there are no good guys in the Uke war. And that includes the US.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (BdMk6)

268 I am not pro-Putin- but I am also not Pro-Zelesky. My Bullshit meter broke the needle during the whole Ukraine thing start. I just kept looking around and wondering what the deal was. Everyone seemed so emotionally engaged and I am sitting here going 'am I becoming a sociopath- or has everyone gone fucking nuts?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:32 PM (zZu0s)
.........

Z-dog is the new Kardashian of politics.
Do you not stand with Ukraine?
*poop emoji*

Posted by: wth at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (v0R5T)

269 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)


When they're not fixing shoes

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (ChAEn)

270 193 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)

Didn't Ace ban hisself once?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (YypaB)

271 264 Baby carrots are an inferior substitute for regular (adult??) carrots. They are almost as bad as those trendy meat substitutes like "impossible" and "beyond".
Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (ChAEn)

They are adult carrots. They were just rejected for sale as regulate carrots. Just whittled down because they looked like dicks or had brown spots and couldn't' be sold with the regular carrots.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (UuD2k)

272 but should be learning AT HOME...just sayin..
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Well, he learned how to cap a bitch at home.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (KY22T)

273 I see algore has gone bonkers. He must be worried about money.

Posted by: Infidel at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (ZEa+g)

274 Baby carrots are an inferior substitute for regular (adult??) carrots.
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Baby carrots ARE inferior regular carrots. They grind down bad ones that wouldn't be suitable for packaging as "normal" carrots so that they can still sell them. IIRC they can get two or three baby carrots out of one bad carrot.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (XTk1T)

275 231 I am more pro-Putin than I am pro-Zelensky. I want this war to end before we get in too deep. And I think the best way for that to happen is if Russia wins, after a fashion, consolidates, and declares the war over turns his sights on the balkans .

fixt, because do you *really* think he'll be satisfied with his yugozapadnaya zemlya?

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (sGtp+)

276 Baby carrots are an inferior substitute for regular (adult??) carrots. They are almost as bad as those trendy meat substitutes like "impossible" and "beyond".
Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM


None of which belong in chili.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (a3Q+t)

277 @258 Norm Macdonald -lastyears worst job, Crack whore has been edged out this year by a new winner , Crack whore trainee

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (bOUhi)

278 Roll out the barrel, we'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the barrel, we've got the blues on the run
Zing boom tararrel, ring out a song of good cheer
Now's the time to roll the barrel, for the gang's all here

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (M+Lyo)

279 Hey, you don't like our iron fist in the velvet glove approach of coercing censorship via private enterprise, fine. We'll just start shooting people.
Posted by: The Maniacs Currently In Charge


I wish they would. We can go ahead and get this Number 6 dance started.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (jwRpK)

280
Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)



*sobs*

*runs away*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

281 Yep. Same argument basically as Adam Smith's invisible hand and Madison regarding factions in Federalist 10. You can either extinguish liberty itself (which is what the greenies or oligarchs think) or you can keep the power centers fighting each other by making the engagements in society smaller in scope which reduces the scope of harm.
Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (bDjBG)

That material hasn't been taught in schools for a generation or two.

Much to our demise...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (CCSxw)

282 "Some say that the Barrel can ban someone on it's own. But those people are crazy. The Barrel isn't sentient, right?"


Of course not. ha

Crazy talk

Posted by: The Barrel at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (iziT8)

283 283 31 I am more pro-Putin than I am pro-Zelensky. I want this war to end before we get in too deep. And I think the best way for that to happen is if Russia wins, after a fashion, consolidates, and declares the war over turns his sights on the balkans baltics .

fixt, because do you *really* think he'll be satisfied with his yugozapadnaya zemlya?


fixt again, because oops.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (sGtp+)

284 Didn't Ace ban hisself once?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (YypaB)

IIRC the legend correctly, he could still comment, but had locked himself out of the ability to post or had forgotten the password or something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (zZu0s)

285 I saw a deal for staying in Scat Franshitsco for $149/night. IDK but they would have to pay me $250 minimum a night to stay there.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (u4CEu)

286 grrrr

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (sGtp+)

287 But they're still just carrots, just smaller and shaved into shape.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:41 PM (LvTSG)


Nope. They're just carrot-adjacent.

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (ChAEn)

288 Reddit, heavily moderated by lib assholes in the name of "goodness tolerance and fairness", is honestly one of the most toxic POS places to be on the internet.

They use their precious downvotes to intimidate and silence people. It's pathetic. You can argue it's pathetic that people would be intimidated by downvotes but its human nature and they know it.

It's a shame because reddit replaced regular discussion forums which at least you had a roulette wheel shot of not being run by a stuck up uptight trigger happy fuckface moderator.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (icOEQ)

289 The censoring of just the Ivermectin info should send some to life in prison and some to death.

"No matter how cynical you think you are, you're not cynical enough."

Posted by: Golfman at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (BLVc0)

290 I once made a ring out of 24 carrots and gave it to my wife.

She was not amused.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (45LeZ)

291 I do think it's perhaps splitting hairs, but I don't think it's accurate to say the government is the boss of the social media oligarchs. More likely, the social media oligarchs are at least junior partners of the pharmaceutical industrial complex, and other assorted oligarchs.

So the role of the CDC in this is to provide legitimacy to the claims, not to dictate them to anyone.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (opjIO)

292 Today would be a good day to nuke Santa Cruz.

Posted by: wth at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (v0R5T)

293 You know what a good add to chili is? Apricot preserves.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (KY22T)

294 Kevin McCarthy
@SpeakerMcCarthy

I spoke with
@RepGregSteube
and his wife, Jen, this morning. He is in good spirits, and our entire conference prays for a swift recovery. I informed him he will serve on the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and he is eager to get back to work!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (NpAcC)

295 *sobs*

*runs away*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Sponge, look at me, you did not immediately start posting from a VPN with a different hash. You handled it like a Man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (zZu0s)

296 Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (sGtp+)

I think Putin's army has been shown to be pathetic. I don't think he has the capacity to expand the war.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (XIJ/X)

297 300 You know what a good add to chili is? Apricot preserves.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (KY22T)

Sweet just seems so wrong.

Fruit=/=chili.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (zZu0s)

298 283 231 I am more pro-Putin than I am pro-Zelensky. I want this war to end before we get in too deep. And I think the best way for that to happen is if Russia wins, after a fashion, consolidates, and declares the war over turns his sights on the balkans .

fixt, because do you *really* think he'll be satisfied with his yugozapadnaya zemlya?
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:43 PM (sGtp+)

Actually... yes. What Putin really needs, are Russian Citizens. He needs educated population to help exploit the vast Russian resources. The Uke territory he annexed is primarily populated by ethnic Russians... Balkans, are not.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (oHd/0)

299 They are adult carrots. They were just rejected for sale as regulate carrots. Just whittled down because they looked like dicks or had brown spots and couldn't' be sold with the regular carrots.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (UuD2k)


I saw Regulate Carrots open for The Black Eyed Peas at MSG in 2005.

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (ChAEn)

300
It's illegal. The government cannot ask a private company to do something that would not be legal for it to do itself.

That this is criminal is not question. But we're post-law, so the criminality doesn't matter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)


Also remember that every government request/demand of it's citizens, EVERY ONE, is issued at gunpoint. The end point of every government requirement is being threatened with a sucking chest wound.

Woman opens tiny one-chair nail salon
City sends inspector to check her paperwork
Woman says "I'm busy with customer, go away"
City sends inspector with city cop, ARMED city cop
Woman says "I'm still busy, go away"
Cop gives citation
Woman ignores citation
City issues bench warrant for Woman
SWAT team breaks down salon door, throws customer to ground, shoots customer's purse dog and stitches Woman with MP5 mag dump.
Police Chief gives TV interview "If she'd have just complied with the reasonable requests of The City, she wouldn't be in a plastic bag in the coroner's office."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (n+4am)

301 231 I am more pro-Putin than I am pro-Zelensky. I want this war to end before we get in too deep. And I think the best way for that to happen is if Russia wins, after a fashion, consolidates, and declares the war over turns his sights on the balkans .

fixt, because do you *really* think he'll be satisfied with his yugozapadnaya zemlya?

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda
==
You are giving right propaganda citizen.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (u4CEu)

302 266 But they're still just carrots, just smaller and shaved into shape.

at some point, someone will collect the shavings and press them into carrot mcnuggets.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (sGtp+)

303 309 266 But they're still just carrots, just smaller and shaved into shape.

at some point, someone will collect the shavings and press them into carrot mcnuggets.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (sGtp+)

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And they will call it meat, and you will applaud.

Or else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (LvTSG)

304
Sponge, look at me, you did not immediately start posting from a VPN with a different hash. You handled it like a Man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (zZu0s)



*sniff*

You think so?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

305 stochastic kulak anachronda
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Did we prompt a color revolution before setting up bio-chemical weapons labs there and then have a president prompting the "minor incursion"?

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (XTk1T)

306 For the most part ace practically begs people to stop whatever their behavior is before he bans them.

Grammie winger got unlucky one day and I won't mention the other unlucky one but otherwise ace is easygoing as hell.

I know because I get banned almost everywhere I go and I've never even come close here in 16 years.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (icOEQ)

307 I think Putin's army has been shown to be pathetic. I don't think he has the capacity to expand the war.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (XIJ/X)

Don't underestimate Russia's ability to pathetically continue a war.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (UuD2k)

308 Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

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Just be wary of Queensryche lyrics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

And hipster slap fights.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (BdMk6)

309 >>> Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
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He made a direct en garde yesterday.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (5TmO/)

310
I saw Regulate Carrots open for The Black Eyed Peas at MSG in 2005.
Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (ChAEn)



Ooh. I'm sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

311 >> The censoring of just the Ivermectin info

A French university just published a paper proving the mechanism of action of ivermectin against Covid disease. It basically blocks action of the spike protein against red blood cells in the same way it blocks the action of a parasite like malaria against the blood cells. They use the same biochemical pathways. Jessica Rose, one of the substackers I read regularly, speculated this would be the mechanism of action over a year ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (Mzdiz)

312 Ray Van Dune, I think they just want to get rid of Biden, install Kamala with Newsom as Veep and then get rid of Kamala. That way Newsom is in place for 2024 and the two idiots are gone. I believe the documents are being placed to be found.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (3JfbU)

313 You sound like a Boomer convinced all your underpinnings will never change.

Let me remind you that we Boomers stacked dead Communists by the tens of thousands, what exactly has your generation done to stop the left?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (+UCfO)

314 249 233 193 So a Cob can ban someone in a thread that Ace has posted?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:36 PM (45LeZ)

Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Wielding the banhammer is the thankless task necessary to the wellbeing of the community. Some folks got a rude welcome to that like LawDawg on his blog when it was instalaunched. Others use preapproval features so the crappy trolls never even appear.

FWIW, "obligatory suckup post /sarc" thanks Ace and the Cobs for wielding the banhammer. Wonder if wah wah diddy diddy was scoggie doggie though.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (bDjBG)

315 316 >>> Yep. ace will step in from time to time. I have hardly ever seen ace hammer someone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
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He made a direct en garde yesterday.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (5TmO/)

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Fake Thomas Jefferson quotes tend to be safer than a few real Thomas Jefferson quotes...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

316 *sobs*

*runs away*


You had to know that a grown man who admits to listening to Wet Leg would find Operation Mindcrime too strong a medicine.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (KFhLj)

317 Putin is less of a threat to my mind than the WEF.

Honestly, I think there is a lot of daylight between them on the scale.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (zZu0s)

318 "Why this incessant obsession with David French on this blog"

Chuey just flexing his cruelty muscle. They need to be exercised regularly to be effective.

Posted by: Bosk at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (ZVuYy)

319 Reddit, heavily moderated by lib assholes in the name of "goodness tolerance and fairness", is honestly one of the most toxic POS places to be on the internet.

They use their precious downvotes to intimidate and silence people. It's pathetic. You can argue it's pathetic that people would be intimidated by downvotes but its human nature and they know it.

It's a shame because reddit replaced regular discussion forums which at least you had a roulette wheel shot of not being run by a stuck up uptight trigger happy fuckface moderator.

Posted by: ... at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (icOEQ)


It's worth the risk of downvotes for a chance at some uptwinkles!!

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (ChAEn)

320 304 300 You know what a good add to chili is? Apricot preserves.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (KY22T)

Sweet just seems so wrong.

Fruit=/=chili.
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Sweet, Fruity and Sour - add a bit of vinegar to spike the flavor. Serve on rice with fresh cut onions, cheese and sour cream. Good Eats.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (KY22T)

321 I think that most of us have no problem with differing opinions. It's the rapid-fire contrarianism that seems to hijack the threads that sours things.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (Xrfse)

322 327 304 300 You know what a good add to chili is? Apricot preserves.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (KY22T)

Sweet just seems so wrong.

Fruit=/=chili.

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Tomato is a fruit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

323 ========

And they will call it meat, and you will applaud.

Or else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (LvTSG)



My favorite is cauliflower things. They make you think it's going to taste like something other than cauliflower and it NEVER DOES.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

324 Let that really sink in. If it's true, that means what we're hearing about the FBI at Twitter is also at facebook and snapchat and instagram every other social media site. It means it's at Microsoft and Apple and Google. It means it's at Amazon and Wal Mart and Costco. It means it's at Netflix, Hulu, Sling and Fubo, and DirecTV and Comcast. It means it's at your Internet Service Provider. It's at Ford and GM and Toyota. It's at Visa and MasterCard and your bank. It's in Verizon and T-Mobile and your smart phone. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's what the FBI itself said in that quote.
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Congress needs to order the FBI/CIA/DNS release every single bit of communications (no redactions) they had with these companies - 30 days to comply. Shouldn't be a problem.

Posted by: Frau Merkel at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (fs1hN)

325 328 I think that most of us have no problem with differing opinions. It's the rapid-fire contrarianism that seems to hijack the threads that sours things.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (Xrfse)

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No it doesn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

326 I don't think wah wah got banned, his comments are still there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (zZu0s)

327 Wonder if wah wah diddy diddy was scoggie doggie though.
Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (bDjBG)

Yes; It was Scogg Dog, IMO.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (D+F6R)

328 It's the rapid-fire contrarianism that seems to hijack the threads that sours things.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (Xrfse)

That's a good way of describing it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (XIJ/X)

329 I am pretty sure Cobs have banhammered spammers in a Ace thread

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (xhxe8)

330 Yep. Same argument basically as Adam Smith's invisible hand and Madison regarding factions in Federalist 10. You can either extinguish liberty itself (which is what the greenies or oligarchs think) or you can keep the power centers fighting each other by making the engagements in society smaller in scope which reduces the scope of harm.
Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:42 PM (bDjBG)
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Minimizing the cross-section of damage increases robustness, albeit at the cost of consistency and efficiency.

A man making a bad decision will harm himself (or himself and his family). A city government making a bad decision will harm the whole city. A state government making a bad decision will harm the whole state. A national government making a bad decision will harm the whole country. A world government - G-d forbid - making a bad decision will harm the whole world.

If you don't *have* to make a decision at that higher level (for example: border and citizenship rules, basic rules of order, etc.), you *shouldn't* make decisions at that higher level, even if it would be efficient to do so.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (t0OGg)

331 add a bit of vinegar to spike the flavor.
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Yep. Little known and very helpful cooking tip:

Whenever you taste a soup, chili, stew, etc. and think "close, but it needs something..." a dash of vinegar is almost always the answer.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (XTk1T)

332 314 I think Putin's army has been shown to be pathetic. I don't think he has the capacity to expand the war.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (XIJ/X)

Don't underestimate Russia's ability to pathetically continue a war.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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He will fight to the last Russian or they get a new Premier. POSSIBLY, if we had a sane, functional government we could negotiate a peace settlement but that's not the kind of settlement this government wants.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (5TmO/)

333 /off Mutti sock

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (fs1hN)

334 Facebook is evil. Everyone should know that.

And I got my painting done in the guest bedroom, hours in advance of my guests arriving.

Did you know that a quart of paint contains only 31 fluid ounces? I did not know that. Tricksy Glidden hobbitses. I blame Bidenflation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (tkR6S)

335 Sweet, Fruity and Sour - add a bit of vinegar to spike the flavor. Serve on rice with fresh cut onions, cheese and sour cream. Good Eats.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (KY22T)

Huh, I will never say no to onions. I have never had chili on rice. No reason that would not work.

Still no on the sweet fruit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (zZu0s)

336
Oh, HCQ has essentially been proved as well. It's mechanism of action is not primary, but secondary. It acts as a powerful zinc ionophore. That means it acts to ramp up transport of zinc ions into cells.

Zinc is a big immune booster with anti-viral properties. Zinc and Vitamin D levels are the key to resistance to Covid.

All this was suppressed. And yes, I consider it mass murder.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (Mzdiz)

337 *sniff*

You think so?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
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I love when members of the Horde show us their tender sides.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (lf83v)

338
You had to know that a grown man who admits to listening to Wet Leg would find Operation Mindcrime too strong a medicine.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at January 19, 2023 02:48 PM (KFhLj)



Your point is valid.

Wet Leg blows....and not in a good way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

339 at some point, someone will collect the shavings and press them into carrot mcnuggets.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (sGtp+)


Fap, fap, fap!!

Posted by: Bugs Bunny at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (ChAEn)

340 >>> Congress needs to order the FBI/CIA/DNS release every single bit of communications (no redactions) they had with these companies - 30 days to comply. Shouldn't be a problem.
Posted by: Frau Merkel at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (fs1hN)

*FBI eying their tech that lets them created communications that delete permanently after time, and can't be screenshot*

Um, about that...

Posted by: Eff the BI at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (ijTfm)

341 Supreme Court investigation fails to identify leaker of Dobbs draft decision

https://tinyurl.com/zbwn55h6

Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (NpAcC)

342 Huh, I will never say no to onions. I have never had chili on rice. No reason that would not work.

Still no on the sweet fruit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (zZu0s)

I like chili on rice...very filling meal.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (CCSxw)

343 Okay, if you need mom or dad to be there every day, MAYBE you shouldn't be in the classroom, but should be learning AT HOME...just sayin...
Posted by: Nova Local

True. Without the parents and without a loaded weapon. I guess the school will need to include that in the next parent-teacher's night.

Posted by: Cheri at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (oiNtH)

344 You know what a good add to chili is? Apricot preserves.
Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:45 PM (KY22T)

You should be banned for that comment.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (BdMk6)

345 A French university just published a paper proving the mechanism of action of ivermectin against Covid disease. It basically blocks action of the spike protein against red blood cells in the same way it blocks the action of a parasite like malaria against the blood cells. They use the same biochemical pathways. Jessica Rose, one of the substackers I read regularly, speculated this would be the mechanism of action over a year ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (Mzdiz)

Heard Peter Koury preach this in August of 21.

Greatest crime ever committed against the American people. EVER.

Posted by: Golfman at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (BLVc0)

346 Weird. Democrats are pushing garbage polls like the Morning Consult showing Trump beats DeSantis in a matchup.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (IaTa3)

347 He made a direct en garde yesterday.

Posted by: Braenyard
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A lot of people want to talk about bloodshed of their enemies. That sort of think like antisemitism, racism, and bigotry, and other such posts directly affect Ace's ad revenues and thus the community for the rest of it. Plus attract direct government attention that can make it expensive and/or cause them to unmask Ace as to cost him or her their livelihood and peace of mind.

Want to do that shit, start your own blog as people here in particular do not need reminders of 'what time it is'. You want to do that consciousness raising, go comment on reddit specialty threads until you are banned. Want flame wars, go to the chans and so on.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (bDjBG)

348 Posted by: Wah Wah Pedal at January 19, 2023 01:53 PM (Svq+/)

So shut up, already.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (tkR6S)

349 349 Supreme Court investigation fails to identify leaker of Dobbs draft decision

https://tinyurl.com/zbwn55h6
Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (NpAcC)

***cough bullshit cough***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (CCSxw)

350 314 I think Putin's army has been shown to be pathetic. I don't think he has the capacity to expand the war.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:46 PM (XIJ/X)

Don't underestimate Russia's ability to pathetically continue a war.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:47 PM (UuD2k)

Fer Real!

Posted by: Steiner at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (oHd/0)

351 My favorite is cauliflower things. They make you think it's going to taste like something other than cauliflower and it NEVER DOES.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, it tastes like cauliflower and the other thing. Just like tofu, which can also serve the same purpose, depending what texture you want. But you don't deny what you start with - you just decide you're okay with it as your veg (as you also serve your protein in the same sauce...unless it's Lent, and then you're sacrificing!)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (exHjb)

352 ========

Tomato is a fruit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:49 PM (LvTSG)



Funny. So is the transportation secretary.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

353 Yep. Little known and very helpful cooking tip:

Whenever you taste a soup, chili, stew, etc. and think "close, but it needs something..." a dash of vinegar is almost always the answer.
Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (XTk1T)


Ahem!

Posted by: Worcestershire Sauce at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (ChAEn)

354 Posted by: Heh at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (wII10)

Granted that there are a lot of indoctrinated kids, but my son is not a Communist or a socialist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (D+F6R)

355 I would think a sweet chili would be considered something else. Sort of like whatever the difference between chutney and not-chutney is.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (XTk1T)

356 fixt, because do you *really* think he'll be satisfied with his yugozapadnaya zemlya?

fixt again, because oops.
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (sGtp+)

I don't think anyone has provided any evidence Putin wants to expand beyond the areas of Ukraine he considers to be Russian.

The scaremongering people do around this tends to contradict itself, in that either he's a megalomaniac, hellbent on world domination, or an incompetent fool whose army can't shoot straight enough to not lose to little ol' Ukraine.

It can't be both. Pick one.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (opjIO)

357 Supreme Court investigation fails to identify leaker of Dobbs draft decision
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What about the strawberries? And the existence of a second key that I have confirmed using geometric logic?

Posted by: Captain Queeg at January 19, 2023 02:53 PM (lf83v)

358 Sponge, completely agree on the cauliflower shit.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:53 PM (45LeZ)

359
Quercetin is another powerful zinc ionophere. Vitamin D, Zinc, and quercetin. Get your levels of those up and you're good, not just against Covid, but a lot of other viral infections.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at January 19, 2023 02:53 PM (Mzdiz)

360 __________

I love when members of the Horde show us their tender sides.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (lf83v)



I'm, like, in touch, brah.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

361 Ahem!
Posted by: Worcestershire Sauce
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Yeah, but it gets out of hand quickly. A 1/4 teaspoon of worcestershire sauce and you KNOW it's there. I do, at least, and my taste buds are crap. Vinegar is slower to reach that point.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:53 PM (XTk1T)

362 I like chili on rice...very filling meal.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (CCSxw)

Yeah, I prefer chili on cornbread for my carb - that's where my sweet comes in (from the cornbread, not the chili)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:53 PM (exHjb)

363 It can't be both. Pick one.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (opjIO)

Ukraine joining NATO was a red line that the Russians have been communicating since the fall of the USSR.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (UuD2k)

364 362 I would think a sweet chili would be considered something else. Sort of like whatever the difference between chutney and not-chutney is.
Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (XTk1T)

Chutney is...(no look)... like a fruity chopped sludge thing, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (zZu0s)

365 357 349 Supreme Court investigation fails to identify leaker of Dobbs draft decision

https://tinyurl.com/zbwn55h6
Posted by: redridinghood at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (NpAcC)

***cough bullshit cough***
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (CCSxw)

No way someone there did not tell the administration what was coming, and give them a look.

Leak was from the White House, not the Court, and the Court has no jurisdiction to even ask question of, the White House Staff.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (oHd/0)

366 Whenever you taste a soup, chili, stew, etc. and think "close, but it needs something..." a dash of vinegar is almost always the answer.
Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (XTk1T)

Or lemon, it's the acid that brightens things up.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (M+Lyo)

367 Sponge, completely agree on the cauliflower shit.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 19, 2023 02:53 PM (45LeZ)



One of the pizza chains has a 'new cauliflower crust' they're pushing.

I'm just imagining how disgusting that is......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

368 I just wish that every asshole in the world jawboning about saving the world would come together and save the world.

And then they can shut the fuck up and leave me alone.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (kaTkN)

369 Yep. Little known and very helpful cooking tip:

Whenever you taste a soup, chili, stew, etc. and think "close, but it needs something..." a dash of vinegar is almost always the answer.
Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (XTk1T)

Ahem!
Posted by: Worcestershire Sauce at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (ChAEn)

Pomegranate molasses, FTW.

Posted by: Christopher Kimball at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (BLVc0)

370 AOS,come for the witty banter, suffer the trolls, stay for the baby carrots

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (bOUhi)

371 I actually had thoughts on a book!

It's about a movie, though...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (LvTSG)

372 I don't think anyone has provided any evidence Putin wants to expand beyond the areas of Ukraine he considers to be Russian.

The scaremongering people do around this tends to contradict itself, in that either he's a megalomaniac, hellbent on world domination, or an incompetent fool whose army can't shoot straight enough to not lose to little ol' Ukraine.

It can't be both. Pick one.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 19, 2023 02:52 PM (opjIO)

Not true, see:

GW Bush evilgenius / chimpymchitler / retard

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:55 PM (CCSxw)

373 Chutney is...(no look)... like a fruity chopped sludge thing, right?

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I don't really know. I think I might've made some with some peppers once (cowboy candy, and very tasty and easy if you like that sort of thing), but I have no real idea what makes a chutney chut.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:55 PM (XTk1T)

374 Mango in Indian dishes like curry is fantastic. It depends on the fruit.

My fave fast food sweet and sour sauce is McDonald's, it uses apricot.

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:55 PM (ijTfm)

375 Fake Thomas Jefferson quotes tend to be safer than a few real Thomas Jefferson quotes...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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When the flying monkeys are after one, he tends to be sensitive about those matters.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 02:55 PM (5TmO/)

376 chut·ney
[ˈCHətnē]
NOUN
a spicy condiment made of fruits or vegetables with vinegar, spices, and sugar, originating in India:

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:55 PM (zZu0s)

377 I like chili on rice...very filling meal.
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:51 PM (CCSxw)


Pasta works too. Like they do with that meatsauce version of chili in Cincy.

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (ChAEn)

378 I love when members of the Horde show us their tender sides.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (lf83v)


I'm, like, in touch, brah.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
________

Our vulnerabilities make us strong.

*puts on Taylor Swift record*

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (lf83v)

379 Or lemon, it's the acid that brightens things up.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (M+Lyo)

Lemon zest included in a pancake batter, along with blueberries is sooo bright tasting.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (CCSxw)

380 That one watch of Wet Leg keeps getting me their songs on YouTube. It wasn't bad just not my type of music

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (xhxe8)

381 I love when members of the Horde show us their tender sides.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot


I will show my tender sides as long as all promise not to touch.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (jwRpK)

382 Or lemon, it's the acid that brightens things up.

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That makes sense. I'll try lemon juice next time I make chili and see if it gives an off flavor.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (XTk1T)

383 GW Bush evilgenius / chimpymchitler / retard
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:55 PM (CCSxw)

Cheney was teh Evil Genius... GW was Chimpy...

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (oHd/0)

384 369 Yep. Little known and very helpful cooking tip:

Whenever you taste a soup, chili, stew, etc. and think "close, but it needs something..." a dash of vinegar is almost always the answer.
Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:50 PM (XTk1T)

And if you really want to make something spicy, add just a little bit of mint to it. Really opens up the sinuses and lets the peppers get up in there.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (UuD2k)

385 333 I don't think wah wah got banned, his comments are still there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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Banning can take several forms I am guessing from previous experience modding on another blog but obviously different software than Pixy. One is the nuclear strike rendering that nic and comments non-existent in past and present, another is surgical and strikes the offending comments only and/or including time outs/banning of person, etc., and the third is a banning of a person--in particular for continuing to come back after being banned using vpns and nics in order to do so.

Posted by: whig at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (bDjBG)

386
They are adult carrots. They were just rejected for sale as regulate carrots. Just whittled down because they looked like dicks or had brown spots and couldn't' be sold with the regular carrots.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe


Whoever came up with the idea of putting substandard carrots in a lathe is fucking sooper genius.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (n+4am)

387 Let me also remind everyone that hippies were the invention of the same media that you now realize lies through its teeth about everything. Didn't it ever occur to you that they may have been lying then too?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (+UCfO)

388 "Leak was from the White House, not the Court,"

All roads lead to POTUS-in-fact Ron Klain

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (SJsWC)

389 A stranger moseying by and peaking in would think we're the biggest bunch of schizophrenic's around.

From government censorship to Ukraine to chili recipies........all in one thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

390 368 I just wish that every asshole in the world jawboning about saving the world would come together and save the world.

And then they can shut the fuck up and leave me alone.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2023 02:54 PM (kaTkN)

I think they think they are doing that in Davos right now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (zZu0s)

391 373 Chutney is...(no look)... like a fruity chopped sludge thing, right?
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Chutney is good. I use it in my chili as well.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (KY22T)

392 First thought when Lundberg breezes by and requests several million rows of [types deletes] data for the guys in the Big Cheese room:

"ruh roh"

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 19, 2023 02:57 PM (MkuC5)

393 Baby carrots wail for their mothers as they are violently yanked out of the earf.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 19, 2023 02:57 PM (flINI)

394 One of the pizza chains has a 'new cauliflower crust' they're pushing.

I'm just imagining how disgusting that is......


Local pizza joint has that. I've been told it's not bad but it's not right, either.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 19, 2023 02:57 PM (Bd6X8)

395 But whoever suggested Dead South been playing them daily

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2023 02:57 PM (xhxe8)

396 Pasta works too. Like they do with that meatsauce version of chili in Cincy.

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (ChAEn)

It's better with chocolate chips.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (XIJ/X)

397 >>> 349 Supreme Court investigation fails to identify leaker of Dobbs draft decision

I said this before... I don't care if they tell us peons who the leaker is. I DO want the justices to know, and then the justice that is the leaker, or is connected to the leaker, has to wear a dunce cap in the chambers from now on until they retire.

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (ijTfm)

398 > A French university just published a paper proving the mechanism of action of ivermectin against Covid disease. It basically blocks action of the spike protein against red blood cells in the same way it blocks the action of a parasite like malaria against the blood cells. They use the same biochemical pathways. Jessica Rose, one of the substackers I read regularly, speculated this would be the mechanism of action over a year ago.

Remember the Nuke Plant Director in Chernobyl who kept insisting people tell him how a RBMK reactor explodes? Instead of looking at the evidence, he was relying on Sov propaganda (USSR equipment doesn't fail!), fear of correcting an official, the situation's novelty, and the unknown pathway to explosion to deny reality.

That's what the anti-Ivermectin crowd reminded me of. Instead of looking at the apparent success, they insisted that because we couldn't describe the exact mechanism of success, that means it doesn't work.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (eyxn4)

399 The Daily Daddario sees you and is speechless:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpx4m

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (LvTSG)

400 Now it can be told-

I LEAKED THE SUPREME COURT DOBBS DECISION

Come and get me, coppers.

Posted by: Miklos is also implicated in the Lindbergh baby thing, probably at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (YWSMN)

401
Pasta works too. Like they do with that meatsauce version of chili in Cincy.
Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (ChAEn)



Skyline Chili is an abomination that should be banished from Earth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

402 Dumping Deadhead sock.

Posted by: Golfman at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (Nnr5r)

403 Pasta works too. Like they do with that meatsauce version of chili in Cincy.
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Cincy chili is like licking an exhaust pipe.

Posted by: Puddinhead at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (KY22T)

404 One of the pizza chains has a 'new cauliflower crust' they're pushing.

I'm just imagining how disgusting that is......


If done correctly, it is really good. Thin and crispy.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (OgrpQ)

405 Heard Peter Koury preach this in August of 21.

Greatest crime ever committed against the American people. EVER.
==
Just keep in mind, the majority of your health care providers are vaxed and multiply boosted.

Anecdote, just heard medical student with persistent cough, found to have enlarged spleen pressing on diaphragm, worked up - chronic lympocytic leukemia - kid isn't even 30 yet. It is usually seen in people 60's, rare in 40's.

Posted by: Its a slow motion catastrophe right in front of your eyes at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (2Nei5)

406 One of the pizza chains has a 'new cauliflower crust' they're pushing.
________

Two degrees above the push for an insect diet in Europe.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (lf83v)

407 389 A stranger moseying by and peaking in would think we're the biggest bunch of schizophrenic's around.

From government censorship to Ukraine to chili recipies........all in one thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm not Schizophrenic! I'm Personality MultiTasking!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (oHd/0)

408 a spicy condiment made of fruits or vegetables with vinegar, spices, and sugar, originating in India:
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Huh. I guess cowboy candy IS a type of chutney.

They're mostly just candied / sweet jalepenos you can use as a side or condiment. They're great with fish and barbeque. Random grab

https://tinyurl.com/2q8wxms2

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (XTk1T)

409 394 One of the pizza chains has a 'new cauliflower crust' they're pushing.

I'm just imagining how disgusting that is......

Local pizza joint has that. I've been told it's not bad but it's not right, either.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 19, 2023 02:57 PM (Bd6X

Usually it has a lot of fat and cheese and salt in it, so you're almost better off just eating the bread based crust, unless you are REALLY trying to lower your carbs levels (which pizza would not be the 1st food to come to mind to do)...it's not healthier for almost anyone...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (exHjb)

410 Or lemon, it's the acid that brightens things up.

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That makes sense. I'll try lemon juice next time I make chili and see if it gives an off flavor.
Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now?


Pledge Lemon Wax. It's a desert topping and floor wax!

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (jwRpK)

411 "the position of government agents that "the government has robust free speech rights too."

Right. Free speech rights to mislead the public into doing things that get them killed by the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, after they funded and organized the creation of the virus in the first fucking place.

Yeah no, that's not "free speech", that's "you get a trial and a rope"

Posted by: somedood at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (BaGvt)

412 The Daily Daddario sees you and is speechless:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpx4m
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (LvTSG)



Heard her voice for the first time the other day.

Um.......how unfortunate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

413 It's better with chocolate chips.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (XIJ/X)

I've had a chili that included dark chocolate and cinnamon.

Tasty...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (CCSxw)

414 "I love when members of the Horde show us their tender sides."


They're all tender.


so tender

Posted by: The Barrel at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (iziT8)

415 >>> I will show my tender sides as long as all promise not to touch. Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (jwRpK)

You don't want a belly rub?

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (ijTfm)

416 412 Heard her voice for the first time the other day.

Um.......how unfortunate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

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She can talk?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (LvTSG)

417 Gee. How unexpected.

@SCOTUSblog 34m

BREAKING: The Supreme Court says it has been unable to identify "by a preponderance of the evidence" who leaked the Dobbs opinion last year.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (XF9Gj)

418 The "baby carrots" argument is silly. There are all kinds of products which are from so-called "ugly food". This is food which is cosmetically unappealing yet still perfectly good to eat. We get all kinds of products like this. Tomato paste, instant mashed potatoes, potato chips, diced beets, canned corn, the list is pretty long.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (jTmQV)

419 A stranger moseying by and peaking in would think we're the biggest bunch of schizophrenic's around.

From government censorship to Ukraine to chili recipies........all in one thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)


I have a friend who I've introduced to the blog and is considering delurking but thinks we speak a confusing language!

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (ChAEn)

420 The story of Thomas Sowell is tragic, because he is a Casandra.

He told us everything that was going on, and then he watched America move in the direction 180 from what he asked for. My heart breaks for just this one great man.

The idea that I wouldn't blame the boomer generation more than anyone else, is asking a lot.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (44ww/)

421 *FBI eying their tech that lets them created communications that delete permanently after time, and can't be screenshot*
____

There should be some statistics on the usage of this that could be revealed. And a law forbidding use.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (fs1hN)

422 Pasta works too. Like they do with that meatsauce version of chili in Cincy.
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Cincy chili is like licking an exhaust pipe.
Posted by: Puddinhead
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You prolly like carrots in your chili.

Posted by: Say how would you know what licking an exhaust pipe is like anyway? at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (2Nei5)

423 I put baby carrots in my baby chili.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (44ww/)

424 Everybody knew the administration was lying when they said there was no visitor log for Puddin's home in Rhode Island. Well guess what--the Secret Service has a visitor list and they'll turn it over if congress asks for it.

https://tinyurl.com/yuatyk6s

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (sWM8x)

425 Before March 2021, which marks Month 0 for when President Biden's inflation got started, it was rare to see the regular sale price of a can of Campbell's Condensed Tomato Soup above one dollar. In January 2023, that's now the lowest price at which American consumers can buy a can, where it has been temporarily reduced to that level by Kroger-affiliated grocery stores from their regular sale price of $1.29 per can during the week of 10 January through 17 January 2023.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (8GeFp)

426 That's what the anti-Ivermectin crowd reminded me of. Instead of looking at the apparent success, they insisted that because we couldn't describe the exact mechanism of success, that means it doesn't work.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (eyxn4)
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No one knew how aspirin worked for about 100 years.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (XlE1Z)

427 McCarthy introduced a bill for a new tax scheme. Abolish federal income tax and put a sales tax in place.

I imagine essentials like food would not be taxed.

What do you think? It seems fine to me at first look.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (eyxn4)

428 Heard her voice for the first time the other day.

Um.......how unfortunate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

*waits for obvious joke*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (zZu0s)

429 I've had a chili that included dark chocolate and cinnamon.

Tasty...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (CCSxw)

I was poking fun at Skyline Chili.

I always put a little chocolate in my chili. I think it goes really well!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (XIJ/X)

430 425 Everybody knew the administration was lying when they said there was no visitor log for Puddin's home in Rhode Island. Well guess what--the Secret Service has a visitor list and they'll turn it over if congress asks for it.

https://tinyurl.com/yuatyk6s
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (sWM8x)

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I wonder how many people on the list have the requisite clearances to be in the same room as the confidential information that was just lying around the place...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

431

If done correctly, it is really good. Thin and crispy.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (OgrpQ)



Cauliflower is not the taste I want from my pizza.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

432 The Daily Daddario sees you and is speechless:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfzpx4m


I get that look a lot. Usually followed by screaming and running.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (Bd6X8)

433 The "baby carrots" argument is silly. There are all kinds of products which are from so-called "ugly food". This is food which is cosmetically unappealing yet still perfectly good to eat. We get all kinds of products like this. Tomato paste, instant mashed potatoes, potato chips, diced beets, canned corn, the list is pretty long.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (jTmQV)


They taste funny to me. Maybe it's the processing. No clue. But I don't like them.

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (ChAEn)

434 A stranger moseying by and peaking in would think we're the biggest bunch of schizophrenic's around.


We aren't?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (Xrfse)

435 428 McCarthy introduced a bill for a new tax scheme. Abolish federal income tax and put a sales tax in place.

I imagine essentials like food would not be taxed.

What do you think? It seems fine to me at first look.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (eyxn4)

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Will it pass the Senate?

Oh, failure theater. Not worth discussing. Moving on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating a corrupt and violent world with Clint Eastwood at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

436 I will show my tender sides as long as all promise not to touch. Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (jwRpK)

You don't want a belly rub?
Posted by: LizLem

Only from the ettes. Garrett and a few others scare me.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (jwRpK)

437 nood,

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (XF9Gj)

438 They haven't shrinkflated a can of tomato soup in its126 years. Interesting article at zh

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (8GeFp)

439 >>>I think they think they are doing that in Davos right now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

>And every year when they're not saving the world and fuck prostitutes, they're fighty-fighting to save our fragile democracy.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (kaTkN)

440
I have a friend who I've introduced to the blog and is considering delurking but thinks we speak a confusing language!
Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (ChAEn)



They're not wrong.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

441 434 A stranger moseying by and peaking in would think we're the biggest bunch of schizophrenic's around.


We aren't?
Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 19, 2023 03:01 PM (Xrfse)

I think I just saw him!!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (zZu0s)

442 >>>Ukraine joining NATO was a red line that the Russians have been communicating since the fall of the USSR.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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The Russians have been red lining since the end of WWII, the Russians can go fuck themselves they need a good kick in the butt. Fix their own house before dicking with others.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (5TmO/)

443 The Secret Service kept a visitors log for my house and didn't tell me about it?

That's spying!

Posted by: Joe Biden, C'mon man! at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (lf83v)

444
Two degrees above the push for an insect diet in Europe.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot



When the main dish at Davos is Poached Hissing Cockroaches in a delicious Pureed Mealworm Creme Sauce, then I'll consider adding insects to my diet.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (n+4am)

445 Let me also remind everyone that hippies were the invention of the same media that you now realize lies through its teeth about everything. Didn't it ever occur to you that they may have been lying then too?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 19, 2023 02:56 PM (+UCfO)

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With an assist from the Soviet Union, but I repeat your point.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (z5Neb)

446 I put baby carrots in my baby chili.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (44ww/)


Baby oil in your recipe?

Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (ChAEn)

447 Pledge Lemon Wax. It's a desert topping and floor wax!

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I've only got pine-sol, so I guess it will have to do.

Posted by: Did you realize you might own a Class III short barrel rifle now? at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (XTk1T)

448 411 "the position of government agents that "the government has robust free speech rights too."

Yeah no, that's not "free speech", that's "you get a trial and a rope"
Posted by: somedood at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (BaGvt)

Uh, no. Governments are a man made institution which has no Rights. It has obligations and Powers... but as it's legal authority is made by Man, and can thus be CHANGED by Man... it does not have Rights.

They need to go read the Declaration of Independence and Constitution again.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (oHd/0)

449 >>> If done correctly, it is really good. Thin and crispy.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at January 19, 2023 02:58 PM (OgrpQ)

Agreed. Bake a cauliflower crust right on the oven rack, so it gets crispy underneath, not soggy. So good.

Several pizza chains are also doing Pizza Bowls, they just bake the toppings for you in a dish and there is no crust at all. I will get that, then scoop it into a low carb tortilla wrap at home and eat it. Delicious!

Posted by: LizLem at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (ijTfm)

450 IIRC the legend correctly, he could still comment, but had locked himself out of the ability to post or had forgotten the password or something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 19, 2023 02:44 PM (zZu0s)

That sounds about right...

Thanks Aetius451AD!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (YypaB)

451 Hola !!!

Posted by: Senior at January 19, 2023 03:03 PM (uEVfM)

452 Supreme Court can't identify the leaker. Not really very Supreme are they.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2023 03:03 PM (bOUhi)

453 Pasta works too. Like they do with that meatsauce version of chili in Cincy.


Adding pasta pretty much changes chili to Hungarian gulash.

Posted by: rickb223 Gone Galt at January 19, 2023 03:03 PM (jwRpK)

454 That's what the anti-Ivermectin crowd reminded me of. Instead of looking at the apparent success, they insisted that because we couldn't describe the exact mechanism of success, that means it doesn't work.
Posted by: bonhomme

That happened with Ignac Semmelweis, the first to begin to understand sepsis/anti-sepsis.

Because he couldn't explain exactly how it worked, he was hounded out of medicine.

Posted by: Miklos recalls at January 19, 2023 03:03 PM (YWSMN)

455 The Russians have been red lining since the end of WWII, the Russians can go fuck themselves they need a good kick in the butt. Fix their own house before dicking with others.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (5TmO/)

/Points at the US Government...

/Points at a mirror....

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 19, 2023 03:04 PM (oHd/0)

456 When the main dish at Davos is Poached Hissing Cockroaches in a delicious Pureed Mealworm Creme Sauce, then I'll consider adding insects to my diet.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (n+4am)

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I, for one, do NOT look forward to our new Klingon overlords.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 03:04 PM (4WAN5)

457 The Court doesn't want to know who leaked it, and as a rule they found no one so it will happen again.
Idiots

Posted by: Skip at January 19, 2023 03:04 PM (xhxe8)

458 Usually it has a lot of fat and cheese and salt in it...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (exHjb)

And this a problem in what way, exactly?

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at January 19, 2023 03:04 PM (MkuC5)

459 Adding pasta pretty much changes chili to Hungarian gulash.
Posted by: rickb223

GLARE GLARE GLARE GLARE

Posted by: Miklos, mere Magyar Moron at January 19, 2023 03:05 PM (YWSMN)

460 Cauliflower is the bastard child of vegetables. Its only value is perhaps as a low cal option. But even then there are better choices. You know it's a weak ass vegetable when they tout the vitamin C and a vitamin k benefits. Meanwhile you can get more vitamin C in a chili pepper and more vitamin K in spinach. No, just no.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 19, 2023 03:05 PM (IaTa3)

461 I, for one, do NOT look forward to our new Klingon overlords.
Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 03:04 PM (4WAN5)

I do.

Posted by: Claymore at January 19, 2023 03:05 PM (MkuC5)

462 440
I have a friend who I've introduced to the blog and is considering delurking but thinks we speak a confusing language!
Posted by: Doof at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (ChAEn)


They're not wrong.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 19, 2023 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

I describe it as "inside baseball" to anyone I tell about the HQ.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at January 19, 2023 03:05 PM (CCSxw)

463 Because he couldn't explain exactly how it worked, he was hounded out of medicine.
==
pretty sure germ theory is when you get down to the molecular level, still a theory.

Posted by: Michael Crighton at January 19, 2023 03:06 PM (Pvndj)

464 427 McCarthy introduced a bill for a new tax scheme. Abolish federal income tax and put a sales tax in place.

I imagine essentials like food would not be taxed.

What do you think? It seems fine to me at first look.
Posted by: bonhomme at January 19, 2023 03:00 PM (eyxn4)

Repeal the 16th amendment as part of passage and send to the states, b/c if you don't, we'll get both taxes at max levels...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 03:06 PM (exHjb)

465 Supreme Court can't identify the leaker. Not really very Supreme are they.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 19, 2023 03:03 PM (bOUhi)

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I was assured by Chief Justice Benedict Roberts that there are no political judges!

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 03:06 PM (4WAN5)

466 I have a friend who I've introduced to the blog and is considering delurking but thinks we speak a confusing language!
Posted by: Doof

Hungarian lessons are alternate Tuesdays

Posted by: Miklos, Vigyazztatok! at January 19, 2023 03:07 PM (YWSMN)

467 I do.

Posted by: Claymore at January 19, 2023 03:05 PM (MkuC5)

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Heh.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at January 19, 2023 03:08 PM (4WAN5)

468 One can't thrive w/o the other. Another ex:

Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, January 9, 2023
Justice Department and Meta Platforms Inc. Reach Key Agreement as They Implement Groundbreaking Resolution to Address Discriminatory Delivery of Housing Advertisements

The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a key milestone in its settlement agreement with Meta Platforms Inc. (Meta), formerly known as Facebook Inc., requiring Meta to change its advertisement delivery system to prevent discriminatory advertising in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA). As required by the settlement entered on June 27, 2022, resolving a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Meta has now built a new system to address algorithmic discrimination. ...

Posted by: Lola at January 19, 2023 03:08 PM (p39Z2)

469 Covid self treatment: swab your nose with tincture of Iodine, or Betadine, and gargle with Listerine or any other mouthwash containing alcohol, while tilting your head back. Do this several times a day, for a couple of days and your covid infection will most likely go away. I had a 104 degree fever with mine, and doing the above cleared it up quickly. Everyone of my friends who got infected at the same time, and with the same strain of the virus, was sick for 2 weeks.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 19, 2023 03:09 PM (+UCfO)

470 Cauliflower is the bastard child of vegetables.
==

par boil a full head of it in a bottle of white wine and red pepper flakes until just starts to soften.

Then put that SOB on a hot charcoal fire, close lid get temp up to about 500. Let it go about 20 minutes, so it is well blackened on the out side.

rip apart and dip into melted cheese

Posted by: N' Orleans Chief at January 19, 2023 03:12 PM (QuFFz)

471 COVID-19 is man-made.

The pandemic may have originated from a lab leak....

The COVID vaccine is not safe for kids.

There, I said it.

Posted by: scottst at January 19, 2023 03:20 PM (MhCeS)

472 Supreme Court investigation fails to identify leaker of Dobbs draft decision

https://tinyurl.com/zbwn55h6
Posted by: redridinghood


So then, it was team Roberts.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 19, 2023 03:23 PM (D25PY)

473 Hungarian lessons are alternate Tuesdays
Posted by: Miklos, Vigyazztatok! at January 19, 2023 03:07 PM


So, how do you say taco in Hungarian?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 19, 2023 03:33 PM (a3Q+t)

474 Usually it has a lot of fat and cheese and salt in it, so you're almost better off just eating the bread based crust, unless you are REALLY trying to lower your carbs levels (which pizza would not be the 1st food to come to mind to do)...it's not healthier for almost anyone...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 19, 2023 02:59 PM (exHjb)

Aimed at the gluten-free market.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 19, 2023 03:39 PM (tkR6S)

475 1

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 04:22 PM (5TmO/)

476 2

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 04:23 PM (5TmO/)

477 3

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at January 19, 2023 04:25 PM (5TmO/)

478 Defaced Book just got unmasked

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 19, 2023 05:33 PM (wGqjj)

479 Speaking of the CDC:

"The CDC only began studying the (Covid shot adverse) data in March 2022, 15 months after the first jab and only after a letter from an attorney.

In the CDC’s data, now released, there are more than 700 safety signals.

In the cardiovascular safety signal, there are more than 70,000 adverse events.

In the neurological safety signal, there are more than 50,000 events."

Posted by: Ju at January 19, 2023 06:18 PM (aTmM/)

480 I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 12,000 bucks a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
Here's what I've been doing... www.Payathome7.com

Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at January 20, 2023 07:26 AM (ZT1qe)

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