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Pudu Cafe
The pudu -- the world's smallest deer species
Squirrel: Well I'm in your house now, tough guys, whatcha gonna do? Thanks to the Patriarch Tree. A scared and traumatized dog was abandoned by his "family" when they moved out. A kindly neighbor spent two full weeks sitting with the dog to gain its trust and get it to leave the abandoned property and come live with her. This bird is cute but I bet after five minutes you'd put it in the oven. Too much of a good thing. Dog plays self-catch. Baby elephant tests the tensile strength of his trunk. Go team. Ready for adventure! Woman takes some risks rescuing a dog from a bridge support.
I suspect this is AI but what are you gonna do. I got fooled by an embarrassingly amateurish Hulk Hogan hoax. Looks good, though! Christmas in July.
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 31, 2025
Siblings.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/xquJrOzPHu
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 29, 2025
There are some streets that don’t look real ( which make you feel happy) Thread 🧵
— Incredible Things (@incred_things_) July 31, 2025
1. Switzerland
It looks like something straight out of a fairy tale. And we're not exaggerating. pic.twitter.com/OEXXHgUK2K
OK, WHO DID THIS???🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/r3hqUqGdDU
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) July 31, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 31, 2025 07:42 PM (GYt5+)
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Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 31, 2025 07:45 PM (zYpTz)
Such happiness.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 07:45 PM (ZOv7s)
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Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 07:46 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: toby928
8 Pudu is ridiculously cute.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Horde.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2025 07:46 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 07:46 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 07:43 PM (KRtlO)
Part of me thinks it's real lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2025 07:47 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 07:47 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 31, 2025 07:47 PM (dfIr7)
Two Goldens in a pool talking about diving in to get the tennis ball. With any other breed this would not be believable but every Golden owner knows this video is entirely plausible.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 07:48 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ace
Fake But Accurate.
It meets the standard.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2025 07:48 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 31, 2025 07:48 PM (RZ2SK)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 07:43 PM (KRtlO)
Part of me thinks it's real lol.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2025 07:47 PM (snZF9)
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The giveaway is that she's not that coherent in real life, nor in any way funny.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 07:48 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 07:37 PM (jCafe.
I have seen it argued that communism only works ag the kibbutz level. It is a semi stable system that seems to continuously function. The person arguing said that was both the reason some jews favored communism AND why many resented jews.
I think the theory is full of shit, personally on any large scale. Very few- probably even Jews- know what kibbutz even are.
I think we fall into a trap WAY to fucking often of assuming both our allies and enemies are political philosophers on the level of Voltaire or John Locke. As a matter of course.
No. Most of these people are fucking retards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: H at July 31, 2025 07:50 PM (2gjbv)
Greater love hath no commenter.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
There goes a true Man. *toasts*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 07:50 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 07:50 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Accomack at July 31, 2025 07:51 PM (28cZF)
But I mean... EVERY ethnic group has terrible people in it, I'm part English and there's been a whole host of terrible Brits in the past. I'm part Danish, and while Niels Bohr and Victor Borge were a very fine fellows, I have no doubt there have been awful Danes.
God's blessing or whatever the reason, Jews have been gifted with on average a higher IQ and impact on the world so when they go bad, they go really bad. But they have done so much good as well as a group.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 31, 2025 07:51 PM (dfIr7)
Squirrel: Well I'm in your house now, tough guys, whatcha gonna do?
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I have a feeling my cats would react the same way. They like to talk tough by chittering at squirrels through the window.
They wouldn't have the first clue on how to tackle one in real life since none of them have tried in years.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 07:51 PM (IBQGV)
That's gotta be this deer species' entire defense mechanism.
"Dude, I was 20 feet away and couldn't pull the trigger. The little guy just looked at me and I melted. All I wanted to do was take him home, feed him, wrap him in a blanket and pet him in my lap until we both fell asleep."
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 07:51 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 07:52 PM (i24o9)
Hmm updated : The common ancestor of seals and dogs lived over 50 million years ago and was a small, insect-eating mammal that lived in trees. Over time, this ancestor evolved into different species, including those that eventually became seals and those that became dogs.
Posted by: Captain Fantastic at July 31, 2025 07:52 PM (VPPG8)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 07:51 PM
Don't you have, like, you know, a book you could lend them?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2025 07:53 PM (Rk726)
Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2025 07:54 PM (fV+MH)
A squirrel got into our house, and our cat Dexter thought that he had a new fren and wanted so bad to play with him an be buddies. The Squirrel was traumatized and absolutely petrified with fear, trapped in a corner. I managed to catch it with some gloves on and heaved it into a tree.
I hate squirrels but its illegal to kill the stupid things in this town so :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 31, 2025 07:54 PM (dfIr7)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 07:54 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)
Words to remember when out in public ...
Posted by: browndog growling at July 31, 2025 07:55 PM (TTAGa)
We should never have come down from the trees.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 07:55 PM (fVmgO)
You put big ol' antlers on a tiny deer creature and that's gold, eleven out of ten on the cute and adorable scale. This? A real missed opportunity. 7 at best.
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at July 31, 2025 07:55 PM (cduTK)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 31, 2025 07:55 PM (wTDxT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 07:50 PM (63Dwl)
*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 07:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2025 07:55 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 07:51 PM
Don't you have, like, you know, a book you could lend them?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
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Now that you mention it, I think I DO have a book that might help.
"Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels."
A gift from a Moron at a TXMOME a few years ago.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 07:56 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2025 07:56 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 07:56 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Accomack at July 31, 2025 07:57 PM (28cZF)
Posted by: Pudu Facts at July 31, 2025 07:57 PM (vFG9F)
"Dude, I was 20 feet away and couldn't pull the trigger. The little guy just looked at me and I melted. All I wanted to do was take him home, feed him, wrap him in a blanket and pet him in my lap until we both fell asleep."
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Correct. Wikipedia:
Threats
They are taken from the wild as pets, as well as exported illegally.
Although.....
They are overhunted and killed for food by specially trained hunting dogs.
Humans suck, sometimes. But even those can't kill a pudu. They have to train a dog to do it for them.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2025 07:57 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2025 07:57 PM (Rk726)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division "
It's true. Does that make it real?
Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2025 07:57 PM (fV+MH)
I hate squirrels but its illegal to kill the stupid things in this town so :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 31, 2025 07:54 PM (dfIr7)
Was it a tree squirrel or a ground squirrel? I hate the ground squirrels, they are almost as damaging as hogs.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 07:57 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 07:54 PM (g47mK)
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I suggest you read the late great David Horowitz's Radical Son, which explains the popularity of Marxism in Jewish-American communities. Horowitz started as a 60s radical and gradually rejected it, becoming a Reaganite conservative. Very well written. Highly recommend.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 07:59 PM (gpah0)
https://youtu.be/vKcruJ36BfM?si=FZNs8BBNszcNVp92
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 31, 2025 08:00 PM (wTDxT)
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream
Little backward-pointing one-spike horns. Not branching antlers.
Like goat horns.
Probably why one of the two species (not pictured above) is named Pudu mephistophiles.
The cute one is Pudu puda.
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2025 08:00 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 07:58 PM (ZOv7s)
That does not answer my (rhetorical) question about his appeal to non-Jews, and then blaming that on all Jews.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division "
Well that is your truth isn't it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 31, 2025 08:01 PM (Rk726)
Posted by: Pudu Facts at July 31, 2025 07:57 PM (vFG9F)
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I suppose it's pure coincidence that anyone who adopts a pudu as a pet ends up dead a few nights later, drained of all their blood.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 08:01 PM (IBQGV)
The Pudu will tear you limb from limb, just for fun. Don't be fooled; they're cold-hearted killing machines..
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:01 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:02 PM (1fKd8)
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me that's a sin
I won't ever slack up
Punk you better back up
Try and play the role and yo the whole crew will act up
Get up, stand up, come on!
Come on, throw your hands up
If you've got the feeling jump up touch the ceiling
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:02 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:02 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2025 08:02 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Pudu Facts at July 31, 2025 08:02 PM (vFG9F)
i thought it looked real too but there's another video, this one in color, of about ten bunnies bouncing on a trampoline, and some guy linked it saying it was AI. He said the bunnies sometimes "merge" into each other.
So that has me suspicious of animals bouncing on trampolines.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:02 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: JTB at July 31, 2025 08:03 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:01 PM (HZi96)
Lookit the bones!
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at July 31, 2025 08:04 PM (wVcYX)
I called last night's cafe Hoodoo cafe and this one Pudu cafe. I'd like an oo-doo rhyme for tomorrow night.
Can anyone think of a Tolkein-esque word that fits the oo-doo rhyme? No not voodoo, there's no voodoo in tolkein.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)
Though the videos pre-date AI...some of the Juggies were definitely fake.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:04 PM (fVmgO)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:00 PM (g47mK)
When I was on Twitter, I followed this Chinese leftist chick who was mostly rational, except she had a hard-on for Jews, accused them of communist revolution, purges, etc.
As I recall, it stemmed from a few well-positioned people in the hierarchy, who could be called Jewish, during events in question, and that proved the entire conspiracy or something.
It's fascinating.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:05 PM (i24o9)
Its real and its spectacular.
It really does look like that. Not everywhere but lots of places.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 08:05 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Pudu Facts
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE WATER DEER ACTUALLY HAVE BIG OL' FANGS.
https://is.gd/Jemena
IT'S ALSO FUNNY THAT IS.GD GAVE ME A URL THAT LOOKS LIKE IT SHOULD LINK TO A MANNIX GIRL.
Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at July 31, 2025 08:05 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Big Penguin at July 31, 2025 08:06 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 07:47 PM (77rzZ)
Macrons wife was born with a pudu!! I swear
Posted by: Harry Paratestes - on the hunt for bridgets hog at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (LY3xe)
It's fascinating.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:05 PM (i24o9)'
Funny no one talks about ..Milton Friedman. That would totally ruin their argument.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (g47mK)
It just displays their ignorance of Marx and Engels.
They hated Jews and their own Jewish Heritage. In fact, I would go so far as to say their disdain of Religion as a whole is targeted mainly at Judaism.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (fVmgO)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)
WTF was Gandelf then?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 07:59 PM (gpah0)
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I’ve been there. The Swiss alps are gorgeous. But then all the alps are gorgeous. So much of the USA is stunningly gorgeous too. But we tend to discount that because we live here. All the shit must be nicer far away from us, right?
I’m a big skier and ski a lot out west. I run into a lot of foreigners who come here for the skiing. To them, the USA is as cool and exotic as the foreign ski areas are to us.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (1fKd8)
he was a Maia
though I think Maia were also called Ainu. Or the higher level angels were Ainu.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:08 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 07:59 PM (gpah0)
I'd like to spend about six months in that imaginary place and see if I liked it enough to move there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:08 PM (fVmgO)
he was a Maia
though I think Maia were also called Ainu. Or the higher level angels were Ainu.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:08 PM (KRtlO)
Now you're just making shit up.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:08 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:09 PM (KRtlO)
i thought it looked real too but there's another video, this one in color, of about ten bunnies bouncing on a trampoline, and some guy linked it saying it was AI. He said the bunnies sometimes "merge" into each other.
So that has me suspicious of animals bouncing on trampolines.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:02 PM (KRtlO)
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What about girls with big boobs bouncing on trampolines?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:09 PM (1fKd8)
They hated Jews and their own Jewish Heritage. In fact, I would go so far as to say their disdain of Religion as a whole is targeted mainly at Judaism.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (fVmgO)
Really? Huh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s)
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One of my all time favorite books. In one of his books, this one I think, he talks about a technique his parents used to calm him down when he was very upset. They asked him to list everyone who loved him. I tried it on one of my daughters when she was maybe six and in mid tantrum. Worked like a charm.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:09 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 08:10 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:10 PM (g47mK)
Unless you are hording a lot of money don't bother. Switzerland takes immigration very seriously.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 08:10 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 31, 2025 07:51 PM (dfIr7)
Thats an odd claim for a country who had an average IQ in the low 90s until this year when both Israel and India seemed to jump in a statistically improbable way to be about level with Western Europe and slightly higher than the us which has been dropping iq points like a boss with all of our new Americans.
But anyways. Neither here nor there.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes - on the hunt for bridgets hog at July 31, 2025 08:10 PM (LY3xe)
that's not a rhyme with Hoodoo and Pudu but if you can think of an elvish word that does, let me know
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:10 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)
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Dunno about Tolkien, but Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain has a character named "Glew" who drank a potion or something and grew too big to escape the cave where he lived.
So "Glew Grew" would fit.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 08:11 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division "
It's fake, but accurate.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 31, 2025 08:12 PM (zYpTz)
Valar (Melkor, Manwe)
Maia (Gandalf, Sauron)
Probably Noldor Elves (Feanor, Son of Feanor, Galadriel)
Numenoreans
Dwarves
Wood elves
First men (Hurin, Turin)
Men, Hobbits
Dwarves
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
You ever skied Mt Rainier or Mt Baker? Whistler is in Canada Land but is really nice. Go a little further north to Kewlona and now we’re talking.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 08:12 PM (mT+6a)
Grogu.
*takes victory lap*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:13 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: CaliGirl
Yeah, we're supposed to believe there's a place where men in Lederhosen blow Alpenhorns.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:13 PM (L/fGl)
This was early Tolkien Elvish, and did not survive into his later works.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:00 PM (g47mK)
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The origin of the idea that it was a Jewish conspiracy is because its early leadership had lots of Jews within it. Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Rosa Luxembourg, and so on.
When Stalin took over, the Old Bolsheviks were purged, which removed a lot of the Jewish element.
As to why it found a following, it combines the sins of envy (I won't other peoples' stuff), wrath ("eat the rich!") and pride ("we are the true elites!") which is a very potent combination. It used to be a political/economic theory, but now is more of an anti-religion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (ZOv7s)
They hated Jews and their own Jewish Heritage. In fact, I would go so far as to say their disdain of Religion as a whole is targeted mainly at Judaism.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (fVmgO)
Really? Huh.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s)
Makes sense. Ex Catholics or Evangelicalls who become atheists usually target their former religions.
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)
WTF was Gandelf then?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (i24o9)
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In Amazon's Rings of Power Season 2, the murder hoboes (aka "Harfoots") think of the tall stranger as a "Grand Elf" and that gets corrupted into "Gandalf" or something. It was dumb.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (IBQGV)
And hawk Ricola.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (w6EFb)
That a male posing as a female
And it looks like a Jooo.
Posted by: Candaces Weenus at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (B9BeB)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: don't fact check me, bro at July 31, 2025 08:15 PM (AOsQT)
And then there's those alleged Swiss watches. Fake and gay.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2025 08:15 PM (w6EFb)
Valar (Melkor, Manwe)
Maia (Gandalf, Sauron)
Probably Noldor Elves (Feanor, Son of Feanor, Galadriel)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
You asked for it!
https://youtu.be/0l16FtrzGTA
Posted by: mikeski at July 31, 2025 08:15 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 08:10 PM (viF8m)
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Residency is a lot easier than citizenship. Tina Turner became a Swiss citizen and had to speak German to a certain standard, as well as demonstrate enough wealth.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (ZOv7s)
it's also anti-cannonical. Tolkein explains what Gandalf means. It's something like "Staff-Carrier" or the like.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:04 PM (KRtlO)
Just use Frodo and we'll all pronounce it Frudu in our heads.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (6ydKt)
It just displays their ignorance of Marx and Engels.
They hated Jews and their own Jewish Heritage. In fact, I would go so far as to say their disdain of Religion as a whole is targeted mainly at Judaism.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:07 PM (fVmgO)
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Marx and to a lesser extent Engels were mentally ill nutbags. Marx was so crazy he admitted he never took a bath or washed his clothes. He was so smelly and dirty — even by the standards of the time — his skin was covered in festering boils and infections. Never take advice from a man who lets his dick rot.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (1fKd8)
Another place I'd like to visit is Lake Louise, it's so much closer and also looks lovely.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (KRtlO)
Because they were snazzy dressers?
Nazis were evil shits, but no worse than the NKVD or the Turks who did the Armenian Genocide. Or the assholes who ran S21.
That is one thing that fucking annoys me: making power ranks based on who these monsters killed based on how much we liked the victims. Fuck that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)
Valar (Melkor, Manwe)
Maia (Gandalf, Sauron)
Probably Noldor Elves (Feanor, Son of Feanor, Galadriel)
Numenoreans
Dwarves
Wood elves
First men (Hurin, Turin)
Men, Hobbits
Dwarves
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:12 PM (zZu0s)
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***boom, boom, rumboom, rumboom, boorar, boorar boom boom, dahrar boom boom boom, dahrar boom boom***
Posted by: Treebeard at July 31, 2025 08:17 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 08:17 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:17 PM (KRtlO)
Somewhere, I have a photo of men in lederhosen blowing alpenhorns on top of Mt. Pilatus.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 08:18 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Pudu Rancher's Association at July 31, 2025 08:18 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (KRtlO)
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It's not like the writers of that show ever bothered to crack open a book to read the source material.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 31, 2025 08:18 PM (IBQGV)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
NERDS!
Posted by: Ogre at July 31, 2025 08:19 PM (DgGvY)
Don't be fooled. Switzerland's bucolic scenes and picturesque mountains are just a facade behind which is a dystopia of grinding poverty, polluted skies and hopeless despair.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:19 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:19 PM (KRtlO)
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 31, 2025 08:19 PM (tljrc)
When Stalin took over, the Old Bolsheviks were purged, which removed a lot of the Jewish element.
As to why it found a following, it combines the sins of envy (I won't other peoples' stuff), wrath ("eat the rich!") and pride ("we are the true elites!") which is a very potent combination. It used to be a political/economic theory, but now is more of an anti-religion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:14 PM (ZOv7s)
I guess what I am saying it, tens of millions of people across Europe found the theories appealing. By choice. The liked it. The unwashed massed like it. Then it did not work for them. So instead of blaming themselves for making that choice, they started pointing at Jewish names.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:20 PM (g47mK)
Hmmm. Yeah forgot ents. Slot them in above the noldor.
Tom Bombadil you can slot in at Maia or maybe a bit above, wtf knows.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: CrankyShirts at July 31, 2025 08:20 PM (hFlE4)
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 08:20 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: World Ends in 2033 at July 31, 2025 08:21 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:21 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Paco at July 31, 2025 08:22 PM (mADJX)
Still not easy. A former customer of mine was married to a Swiss woman, ran a pretty successul business, spoke German fluently as well as Dutch and English and it still took him over 5 years to get citizenship.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 08:22 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
You ever skied Mt Rainier or Mt Baker? Whistler is in Canada Land but is really nice. Go a little further north to Kewlona and now we’re talking.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 08:12 PM (mT+6a)
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I skied Whistler. I’d love to go to Revelstoke (one of the all-time great family names, btw) outside of Kelowna but it’s a bitch to get to from nyc. I mostly ski Alta (so easy to get to from nyc) and Jackson Hole.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:22 PM (1fKd8)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:20 PM (g47mK)
Blaming someone else for your woes is timeless, basic human nature. Rarely ever is free will the most popular choice, even in the best of times.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:22 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (0sNs1)
Big Sky?
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (fVmgO)
Posted by: Pudu Rancher's Association
"Freeeeeeesh pudu on the boarrrrrrrrd"
-- Buc-ee's meat slicers
Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2025 08:24 PM (6WCwE)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:22 PM (i24o9)
that is true, US culture is unique
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:24 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 31, 2025 08:24 PM (/U5Yz)
Hmmm. Yeah forgot ents. Slot them in above the noldor.
Tom Bombadil you can slot in at Maia or maybe a bit above, wtf knows.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:20 PM (zZu0s)
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Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
First name the four, the free peoples:
Eldest of all, the elf children;
Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses;
Ent the earthborn, old as mountains;
Man the mortal, master of horses...
It's right there in the song...
Posted by: Treebeard at July 31, 2025 08:24 PM (IBQGV)
i used to like him (for an announcer). has he gotten insufferable? or did you never like him?
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:24 PM (KRtlO)
Another place I'd like to visit is Lake Louise, it's so much closer and also looks lovely.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (gpah0)
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If you live in CA (CaliGirl?) you have Lake Tahoe. Beautiful.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:25 PM (1fKd8)
There is section of the population in the US who are blaming the "white cis-whatever" for their failures. Same thing.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (g47mK)
__________
Yoo hoo!
Posted by: The Patriarchy at July 31, 2025 08:25 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: You Kind Of Expect It at July 31, 2025 08:26 PM (G5+As)
Valar (Melkor, Manwe)
Maia (Gandalf, Sauron)
Probably Noldor Elves (Feanor, Son of Feanor, Galadriel)
Numenoreans
Dwarves
Wood elves
First men (Hurin, Turin)
Men, Hobbits
Dwarves
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 08:12 PM (zZu0s)
The Vanyar Elves, above the Noldor. The Sindar Elves, below the Noldor.
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2025 08:27 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:27 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 08:27 PM (0aYVJ)
Big Sky?
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (fVmgO)
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Yup, I skied there. I loved it, a lot like Jackson Hole. But this was right before that stupid Yellowstone show got popular, so it was very quiet and isolated at the time.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:27 PM (1fKd8)
And let me see, you would be from, uh, Austria, am I right?"
"No, I am Inga from Sweden."
"Sweden?... but you're wearing leder...ho-hosen."
"Yeah for sure, from Sweden."
https://youtu.be/goSeIDDMwgE
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:27 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (g47mK)
__________
Yoo hoo!
Posted by: The Patriarchy
Don't take The Patriarchy if you are allergic to the Patriarchy. Ask your doctor if The Patriarchy is right for you.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 31, 2025 08:28 PM (RZ2SK)
Fuck that show.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:28 PM (fVmgO)
I think there's something to this.
The reich had sex appeal, gave evil a certain stylishness and glamour. Appealing uniforms, interesting architecture (kinda art deco on steroids), masterful propaganda that portrayed a strong, vibrant civilization. No matter how evil, it had its marketing presentation down to a science. Who in their right mind would choose frumpy and dowdy communism over what the reich had on offer? And I think it's a big part of why the Nazis loom so large in the popular imagination today, continue to show up in film, television, etc.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 08:29 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
Jackson Hole was much nicer 30 years ago. Have you been to Taos?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 08:29 PM (mT+6a)
If you live in CA (CaliGirl?) you have Lake Tahoe. Beautiful.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:25 PM (1fKd
You know how it is, you want to go to places youv'e never been before.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 08:29 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 08:16 PM (gpah0)
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If you live in CA (CaliGirl?) you have Lake Tahoe. Beautiful.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
They both pale next to the Kill Van Kull.
Posted by: Bayonne Butch at July 31, 2025 08:29 PM (G5+As)
Fuck that show.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:28 PM (fVmgO)
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Every single character in that series was loathsome.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:30 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 08:23 PM (0sNs1)
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"Drug" is that statue that the Wildmen use (Woses) to watch over their pathways, so that "Drugu" would be a form a primitive magic.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:30 PM (ZOv7s)
And I think it's a big part of why the Nazis loom so large in the popular imagination today, continue to show up in film, television, etc.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 08:29 PM (guCHD)
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I think it was P. J. O'Rourke who said that nobody ever had a fantasy about sex with a liberal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:31 PM (HZi96)
Posted by: ace
He loves the sound of his own voice. Completely insufferable. Almost as bad as Bob Costas.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2025 08:31 PM (mT+6a)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 31, 2025 08:32 PM (MyqLb)
I think there's something to this.
The Frauleins always swooned over my monocle, though I was a bit follically challenged.
Posted by: Kolonel Wilhelm Klink at July 31, 2025 08:32 PM (G5+As)
Fuck that show.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:28 PM (fVmgO)
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I never saw it. But it created a lot of demand in Montana and now places like Big Sky are crawling with rich assholes. Same thing happened earlier in Jackson hole and telluride. Colorado was long ago colonilized by the locusts. Vail? Holy shiiiit.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:32 PM (1fKd8)
Don't be fooled. Switzerland's bucolic scenes and picturesque mountains are just a facade behind which is a dystopia of grinding poverty, polluted skies and hopeless despair.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
They outsource it to Birmingham.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2025 08:32 PM (bxwtE)
Posted by: CaliGirl
I flew over the swiss alps once. Holy shit, you go down in a plane there they won't find you for 10,000 years. Looked like a frozen moon of a gas giant.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2025 08:32 PM (snZF9)
unless something better comes along I think i'll use "Ainu"
or maybe I'll just skip it.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:25 PM (1fKd
You know how it is, you want to go to places youv'e never been before.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 08:29 PM (gpah0)
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100% correct
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (1fKd8)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK
Hugo Boss
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (VofaG)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:20 PM (g47mK)
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Your problem is that what you said is a lie. Communism was established by a vanguard party, not by the masses. The Communists won because they were amoral, totally ruthless, and they imposed their will with an iron fist.
Poland, East Germany, Chechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria became communist at the point of a Soviet gun.
The Jewish role in the origins of Marxism is undebatable; the problem is confliating ALL Jews with its secular/atheist founders. A lot of observant Jews were put to death by their Marxist kinsmen.
And of course Schicklegruber exploited age-old bigotries to whip up a common enemy of the Volk.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2025 08:34 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Stacey Abrams at July 31, 2025 08:34 PM (RZ2SK)
I think it was P. J. O'Rourke who said that nobody ever had a fantasy about sex with a liberal.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:31 PM (HZi96)
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He said he was flattered when people called him a Nazi because no one ever fantasized about being tied down and ravished by a liberal.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:35 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:35 PM (1fKd8)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:30 PM (HZi96)
The youngest son and his Indian wife were the most decent main characters in it.
Beth outdid JR Ewing in her vindictiveness.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:35 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bulg at July 31, 2025 07:47 PM (77rzZ)
"Duiker" certainly is, and so is "Dik-Dik", for sure.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 31, 2025 08:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:36 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 31, 2025 08:37 PM (RZ2SK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:30 PM (HZi96)
The youngest son and his Indian wife were the most decent main characters in it.
Beth outdid JR Ewing in her vindictiveness.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:35 PM (6ydKt)
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I never saw the show, but from what I can gather, it’s basically Sopranos on a ranch.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:37 PM (1fKd8)
Posted by: Sebulba at July 31, 2025 08:37 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 31, 2025 08:37 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2025 08:34 PM (XMwZJ)
Average or median IQ ?
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:38 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:25 PM (1fKd
You know how it is, you want to go to places youv'e never been before.
Posted by: CaliGir
no
Posted by: n at July 31, 2025 08:38 PM (qKQ12)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (g47mK
Hugo Boss
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (VofaG)
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The "Death's Head" dated back to the Napoleonic Wars, when the Duke of Brunswick created it because his lands were overrun and he recruited exiles and mercenaries to win them back. So it wasn't a Nazi creation, they just latched onto it.
Germans have pretty cool toys as well, and everyone gushes over their absurdly expensive and terribly unreliable tanks. And experimental planes that barely saw service.
Black leather coat > Eisenhower jacket.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:39 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:39 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 31, 2025 08:39 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
You rang?
Posted by: Stacey Abrams at July 31, 2025 08:34 PM (RZ2SK)
I said frozen moon of a gas giant, not a frigging gravity well.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2025 08:39 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:35 PM (1fKd
I am telling Fenelon.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:39 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:19 PM
Dwarves labor as thralls in their underground chocolate mines. Far from light or hope.
Posted by: toby928 at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (jc0TO)
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And dressed his men in black as if in mourning for his father, killed at Auerstadt.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:37 PM (1fKd
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The themes in all these series are all the same: amorality, murder, sex, corruption. It's like they move Hollywood culture to some new location.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (HZi96)
I think we fall into a trap WAY to fucking often of assuming both our allies and enemies are political philosophers on the level of Voltaire or John Locke. As a matter of course.
No. Most of these people are fucking retards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)
Families and small societies are usually practicing reciprocity. They reward work and punish sloth with peer pressure and possible expulsion. Communism can't do that.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:37 PM (1fKd
I think of it more as a country-western, modern, version of 80s primetime soaps, like Dynasty, Dallas, Knotts Landing, Falcon Crest, etc.
It got hype because of that, and it wasn't too woke.
Costner being in it helped, a lot.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:35 PM (1fKd
I am telling Fenelon.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:39 PM (g47mK)
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I take the 5th and want a lawyer!
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:42 PM (1fKd8)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+)
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Dunno. Bernie Sanders got booted from a hippie commune for being a lazy fuck.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 31, 2025 08:42 PM (WvZaB)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)
You've been to my workplace.
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2025 08:43 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: n at July 31, 2025 08:43 PM (7neCS)
1923 isn't terrible, but it's not as good.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:43 PM (6ydKt)
Fuck that show.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2025 08:28 PM)
I tried to watch it and I didn't like it and the dialogue isn't realistic. It's stupid and I can't figure out why it's so popular.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 08:43 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:36 PM (HFcKg)
Uh-oh...does not bode well for me, as I'm not sure I can make irreversible plans because reasons. I'll have to hope for the best.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 31, 2025 08:44 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
And half of them are even more stupid.
Posted by: MkY at July 31, 2025 08:44 PM (cPGH3)
unless something better comes along I think i'll use "Ainu"
or maybe I'll just skip it.
Posted by: ace at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (KRtlO)
Derring-do crew.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:36 PM (HFcKg)
Y'all should be getting some kind of tourism-related kickback. I wonder how much money y'all have poured into the local economy over the last decade?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (HZi96)
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Bad people doing bad things to each other can be tremendously entertaining. Think "Dynasty," which was a hugely popular show, driven by Joan Collins' evil.
"Justified" was great because you had Tim Oliphant blasting away at creeps and drug lords. Good stuff.
One of the season previews has him discussing "Han shot first" and it was brilliant.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (ZOv7s)
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As Glenn Frey explained in Smuggler's Blue some years ago, "It's the lure of easy money, it's got a very strong appeal."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)
Is that wrong?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (i24o9)
1. Those who don't want to destroy the one ring
2. Those who do
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (DR8E2)
CaliGirl, I'm right there with ya on that. I've watched a bit of that show, and could never stomach more than a few minutes of it. Every character was a complete asshole.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
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Ended the Holy Roman Empire, created the Confederacy of the Rhine and set the stage for German unification.
What an asshole.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:39 PM
My friends talk about those people, I don't know if they know them or know of them. I didn't know who/what they were talking about but it was a big topic of discussion.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (VofaG)
Poland, East Germany, Chechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria became communist at the point of a Soviet gun.
The Jewish role in the origins of Marxism is undebatable; the problem is confliating ALL Jews with its secular/atheist founders. A lot of observant Jews were put to death by their Marxist kinsmen.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)
Russia also became Communist at the point of a gun. The Communists won the Civil War there.
The Jewish were huge in the intellectual groups in most European urban areas while urbanism was taking off. Change Marxism with almost anything else and you will find the same thing - lots of Jews taking part.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Pudu Rancher's Association. at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (L/fGl)
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Arguably the best episode of "Miami Vice" ever.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (L/fGl)
now it is
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:48 PM (g47mK)
One of the season previews has him discussing "Han shot first" and it was brilliant.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (ZOv7s)
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It was great, but by season six, I was getting tired of a low lifes.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 31, 2025 08:49 PM (Fju+s)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (8avO+)
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Marxism's appeal to intellectual Jews was that it was secular, pretended to be scientific, and also promised a society without religious or ethnic division, allowing full integration.
The Modern offshoot echoes those egalitarian goals, but they're buried under race hatred and sexual perversion.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM (ZOv7s)
You're not even getting 2 $5 foot longs out of that thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM (1fKd8)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (guCHD)
Imagine the money to be made by opening a liquor store in Corsicana.
Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM (ERmw4)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)
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Ended the Holy Roman Empire, created the Confederacy of the Rhine and set the stage for German unification.
What an asshole.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (ZOv7s)
He actually was more of a counter revolutionary. He crushed the last revolutionary rising by firing artillery saving the Directory. Its just that there wasn't a "royal" group left to form a restoration government and his attempts to create one didn't survive him due to implacable foreign hostility.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 31, 2025 08:51 PM (j1Y/l)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)
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Either way, still an asshole.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (L/fGl)
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Arguably the best episode of "Miami Vice" ever.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
Lots of gems from MV. 'Out Where the Buses Don't Run' is nearly perfect.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2025 08:52 PM (bxwtE)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:40 PM (8avO+)
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Dunno. Bernie Sanders got booted from a hippie commune for being a lazy fuck.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 31, 2025 08:42 PM (WvZaB)
That's why he turned to Communism.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:53 PM (8avO+)
One of the season previews has him discussing "Han shot first" and it was brilliant.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:45 PM (ZOv7s)
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It was great, but by season six, I was getting tired of a low lifes.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at July 31, 2025 08:49 PM (Fju+s
I really enjoyed the low lifes on Justified.
Wynn Duffy is one of the funniest characters ever portrayed: the middle management of a criminal enterprise trying to cope with the chaos created by subordinates so stupid they were stupefying. The look on Wynn's face, again and again.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 08:53 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:52 PM (ZOv7s)
Comparably speaking probably not.
Posted by: polynikes at July 31, 2025 08:53 PM (VofaG)
Jews also took it in the pants in Ukraine when the Soviets enacted the Holodomor. Jewish Soviets despised the shtetl bumpkins as much as anybody. Like when Kevin Williamson left his small town, made it big and then devoted his career to shitting on small town Americans.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2025 08:54 PM (gKWVE)
1. Those who don't want to destroy the one ring
2. Those who do
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (DR8E2)
Three kinds:
3. Those who drink in the pub and grow crops and stay home.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:54 PM (8avO+)
Poland, East Germany, Chechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria became communist at the point of a Soviet gun.
The Jewish role in the origins of Marxism is undebatable; the problem is confliating ALL Jews with its secular/atheist founders. A lot of observant Jews were put to death by their Marxist kinsmen.
And of course Schicklegruber exploited age-old bigotries to whip up a common enemy of the Volk.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:33 PM (ZOv7s)
No, not initially. Some chose to follow Lenin. some others chose to follow other parties. Similar to what happened during the French Revolution. Then they solidified the gains. Many true believers who were willing to die for the idea.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:55 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:47 PM (HFcKg)
I liked that part of it, since they show how a modern ranch operates in a lot of the scenes. As an easterner I found those parts interesting.
I also how like how they showed how a modern reservation operates with Native Americans who aren't stereotypes but are portrayed as real players in politics trying to save their culture and produce some prosperity for themselves.
They could make a spinoff show out of that aspect if they tried, and people might be interested. Natives are represented so they get their woke quota that way as a bonus.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 08:55 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Eromero
Or a road side ammo stand.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 31, 2025 08:55 PM (RZ2SK)
johnny maga@_johnnymaga
Mom of one of the thugs who ambushed Whites at the Cincinnati Jazz festival claims her son is “not a thug” because he has 5 kids, “is in school.”
He has a conviction for robbery, charges for criminal possession of a firearm, and was just arrested for receiving stolen property.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2025 08:54 PM (gKWVE)
I've heard it said Stalin was working up a huge purge on Jews when he conveniently died and the successors were not interested.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM (8avO+)
I agree with that. France got lucky. Russia did not. They got Stalin.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 08:57 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Eromero
Or a road side ammo stand.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 31, 2025 08:55 PM (RZ2SK)
Or an Emu rental business.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 31, 2025 08:57 PM (i24o9)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 08:53 PM (guCHD)
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My wife is from Appalachia, living one county south of Harlan. She said while it was obviously not filmed on location, they got the local politics and culture down quite well, even down to the family names.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:57 PM (ZOv7s)
But I also really liked Jim Beaver as Drew Thompson.
Hell, I liked most of the cast. It would be easier to list the cast members I disliked:
Michael Rappaport.
That is all.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 08:57 PM (0aYVJ)
He has a conviction for robbery, charges for criminal possession of a firearm, and was just arrested for receiving stolen property.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (L/fGl)
The mother of a Dindu Nuffin.
Posted by: RickZ at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (gKWVE)
I'm not sure what your definition of "thug" is . . .
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (L/fGl)
Thuggee was a network of organized crime in British Raj India in the 19th century of gangs that traversed the Indian subcontinent murdering and robbing people. A member of Thugee was referred to as a Thug.
Wiki
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: TV Addict at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (gKWVE)
I'm not sure if he had a dog. He might have liked one.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (8avO+)
The Doctors' Plot.
Posted by: RickZ at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (gKDq2)
Longmire (same writers I think) did the same. Kind of refreshing to not see the 'noble savage' canard. Just complicated, messy, people.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (bxwtE)
That is all.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 08:57 PM (0aYVJ)
Shit. Forgot about Patton Oswalt. Fucking turd.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 08:55 PM (g47mK)
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I don't see any conflict between what I wrote and what you wrote.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (bxwtE)
Longmire was pretty good. Being from Wyoming, my biggest sticking point is that they filmed in New Mexico.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 09:01 PM (0aYVJ)
He has a conviction for robbery, charges for criminal possession of a firearm, and was just arrested for receiving stolen property.
__________
Peccant in small ways. Venal sins. Indiscretions. Like using the wrong fork at a dinner party.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2025 09:02 PM (HZi96)
1. Those who don't want to destroy the one ring
2. Those who do
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (DR8E2)
Three kinds:
3. Those who drink in the pub and grow crops and stay home.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:54 PM (8avO+)
Say what I typed out loud. I was just trying to offer another 'oodoo suggestion.
Ah well, I guess I missed the target there
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at July 31, 2025 09:02 PM (DR8E2)
I'm not sure if he had a dog. He might have liked one.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Stalin had dogs. That's one thing I remember from reading a biography. His roommate was disgusted because he'd let the dog lick his plate.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2025 09:02 PM (zCv9W)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (ZOv7s)
choice! you were saying that they were forced into the system, I am saying that they chose poorly and ended up with the system that later crushed them; like nazism, it appealed to many in Germany, once it took hold, even if there were individual who thought that is was not OK, they could not do anything
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 09:02 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 09:03 PM (g47mK)
johnny maga@_johnnymaga
Mom of one of the thugs who ambushed Whites at the Cincinnati Jazz festival claims her son is “not a thug” because he has 5 kids, “is in school.”
He has a conviction for robbery, charges for criminal possession of a firearm, and was just arrested for receiving stolen property.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
34-year-old Montianez Merriweather is from South Cumminsville. He served seven years in prison for armed robbery and was out on bond for four felony gun charges when the fight occurred.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2025 09:04 PM (63Dwl)
2. Those who do
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at July 31, 2025 08:46 PM (DR8E2)
Three kinds:
3. Those who drink in the pub and grow crops and stay home.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:54 PM (8avO+)
Say what I typed out loud. I was just trying to offer another 'oodoo suggestion.
Ah well, I guess I missed the target there
Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at July 31, 2025 09:02 PM (DR8E2)
I tend to be reading comments from bottom to top. Might have missed something.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 09:04 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 09:04 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: That JEF at July 31, 2025 09:05 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (8avO+)
He was working toward something. There was a purge of Doctors at one point, late and iirc he was kind of moving into an antisemitic direction.
Stalin is kind of fascinating because you can see over the course of his life an all powerful, paranoid psychopath and what he does with all that power.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 09:06 PM (idIpT)
Michael Rappaport.
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There was one character I found really annoying- Winona.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 31, 2025 09:07 PM (eZ5tL)
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 09:02 PM (g47mK)
One of the appeals of Naziism was that it was not Communism but could employ ex-Communist thugs that were rife in Post WWI Germany with some re-education. The ex-military Freikorps roaming around fighting Communists could also join up.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 09:07 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2025 08:59 PM (bxwtE)
Dark Winds on AMC did that, also.
It was set in the 1970s, and is a supernatural thriller type series. I watched the first season years ago, but gave up on it.
There was also that comedy series Reservation Dogs on FX, but I never watched it. It looked kinda stupid.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 09:07 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."
He jes got mixed up with the wrong people.
Posted by: His mama at July 31, 2025 09:08 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 08:58 PM (HFcKg)
I love that. That's really special.
Some people think we don't cowboy here but we do.
And another good friend is moving to Texas, more West Texas but Texas. Her daughter just had her first baby and the daughter also works with horses, I want to say large animal vet but I may be mistaken. I'm thinking you might know some people I know that moved your way.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 09:09 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 31, 2025 09:10 PM (eZ5tL)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:10 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (8avO+)
He was working toward something. There was a purge of Doctors at one point, late and iirc he was kind of moving into an antisemitic direction.
Stalin is kind of fascinating because you can see over the course of his life an all powerful, paranoid psychopath and what he does with all that power.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 09:06 PM (idIpT)
——
His paranoia and distrust of doctors probably killed him.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 09:10 PM (1fKd8)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 31, 2025 09:07 PM (8avO+)
funny story (I guess as funny as nazism can be...), Heinrich Müller (before he became a chief of Gestapo) was all for bashing nazi heads when he was Chief of Police in Bavaria.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2025 09:11 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 31, 2025 09:07 PM (eZ5tL)
Do not disagree. She kept messing with Raylan. But whoa, nice gams! ;D
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 09:12 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:10 PM
Okay I don't know what those are but I have a cowboy in mind I'm going to ask if he uses those and gauge his reaction.
I love watching those guys work. You guys make it look easy.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 09:13 PM (gpah0)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:50 PM
* makes call us sign *
Posted by: Lena D., Trigglypuff, Stacey, and The View panelists at July 31, 2025 09:14 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 09:15 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:10 PM
Let's not forget your introduction of yaks to the Café.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 31, 2025 09:16 PM (0sNs1)
Reservoir Dogs is a teen show I think
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 31, 2025 09:10 PM (eZ5tL)
It was very unusual, with good acting.
I just forgot about it after the first season and never got back to it.
There's a cute actress that was in both shows.
She played the pregnant girl in Dark Winds.
That's the only reason I remember the other show, I saw her in an ad for it.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 31, 2025 09:16 PM (6ydKt)
https://youtu.be/gJimy62QpcY
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 09:17 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bombadil at July 31, 2025 09:17 PM (MX0bI)
Reservoir Dogs is a teen show I think
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 31, 2025 09:10 PM (eZ5tL)
I've watched the first season of Dark Winds and really liked it.
I'm told the multi-volume series of books it is based on is very good.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 09:18 PM (guCHD)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:18 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo
I think I may have that. Was it a duo biography of Stalin and Hitler. That one starts with one chapter on Stalin, then Hitler, going back and forth, chapter to chapter, between the two all through the book. It was a HUGE book.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 31, 2025 09:19 PM (bxwtE)
Posted by: JTB at July 31, 2025 09:21 PM (yTvNw)
Posted by: SMOD at July 31, 2025 09:22 PM (GITLP)
@FBIDDBongino . Jul 28
Another update for you on our efforts to defend the homeland and protect the American people from our foreign adversaries.
Alongside @USAttyPirro, we announced that American citizen Christina Chapman was sentenced to 102 MONTHS in prison for DEFRAUDING 309 US companies and STEALING THE IDENTITIES of 68 Americans.
She operated a “laptop farm” from her home, generating more than $17 MILLION for North Korea to fund their nuclear weapons and evade our sanctions. With over 90 LAPTOPS in her home and 49 SHIPPED OVERSEAS, North Korean IT workers were not only earning money for the North Korean government but also accessing US companies’ networks and highly sensitive data.
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If you're thinking Christina Chapman is a pseudonym for a hot NoKo Wang Wang think again.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2025 09:22 PM (T4RS9)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at July 31, 2025 09:07 PM (eZ5tL)
Annoying, but hot. Sure, she was a cheating bitch, but...
I do think it is hilarious that the end of the series showed her married to a new guy who was not Raylin. I wonder if that guy knew the clock was ticking on his marriage?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 09:23 PM (zZu0s)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OVPAIBKLfWs?feature=share
Posted by: Archimedes at July 31, 2025 09:24 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo
The Great Terror by Conquest is like that. I have only been trying to read it from beginning to end for about 30 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 09:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:18 PM (HFcKg)
I will let you know and I will ask him about Harry Rose.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2025 09:26 PM (gpah0)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at July 31, 2025 09:34 PM (6BEH+)
Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald . 7h
The corporate media will not report on these new disclosures showing the CIA/FBI/Hillary Russiagate fraud because they were its leading perpetrators (they gave themselves Pulitzers for it).
If they have to talk about it, they'll just depict it as Trump persecuting opponents.
This is the smoking gun evidence inside Durham annex. If it is authenticated by further investigation it means liberal mega donor George Soros’ team knew the whole Clinton plan for Russiagate hoax four days before FBI opened up probe. And so did Obama, Brennan, and Comey.
https://tinyurl.com/36s96wjs
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 31, 2025 09:36 PM (T4RS9)
@DanScavino
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They (dems) thought Trump and those close to him would be in prison by now—That was their end game after a long 9 year journey…but he’s BACCCCCCCK, and the cover-up is unraveling before our very eyes. Buckle up and sleep tight y’all, you know who you are. Tick-tock!!!!!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2025 09:37 PM (viF8m)
There is a US Federal Court of Appeals hearing the case today and for the next few...and my impression is that they are going to claim they have the authority to shut Trump's trade negotiation strategy down. Who knows which way the USSC goes when the case eventually gets there.
This is the big story in today's news. You can actually feel the hope from the Leftist journalists that they'll rule Trumps tariffs illegal.
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2025 09:37 PM (dIske)
Posted by: SMOD at July 31, 2025 09:22 PM (GITLP)
Those muthafu*kas need serious jail time.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2025 09:37 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: scampydog at July 31, 2025 09:40 PM (41CYW)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:43 PM (HFcKg)
Hmmm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 09:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:43 PM (HFcKg)
*types* *deletes*
So. How's the weather down there? Humid today but sharply cooler since a t thunderstorm rolled through.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 09:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 31, 2025 08:34 PM (XMwZJ)
Not that it matters but no they dont. There was one study of students in a yeshiva in NYC that found high IQs for Ashkenazi. It may have been true but it was a yeshiva for high performers. So not really a good statistical sample.
The US army has meticulous iq test records going back to ww1. And they used to categorize by religion. As you say most Jews in the us were Ashkenazi and IIRC the average iq was in the low 90s. Higher than blacks lower than Western Europeans. Which tracks with average IQs throughout the Middle East.
But more to the point we now have a country full of jews (Israel) and they have a lower average iq than the US which is the most mixed race country on the planet. Not to mention lower iqs than Europe and Asia (chinas numbers are suspect due to rampant cheating on tests but Japan and Singapore also show similar IQs.)
Again none of that matters its just one of those weird talking points I see thrown around a lot. And I do think there is some truth to the argument that IQ is bullshit anyways.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes - on the hunt for bridgets hog at July 31, 2025 09:46 PM (kqrPR)
I immediately told my wife to go to the other side of the truck, and opened both passenger side doors, just in case we had to dive inside. But the mama moose was chill as hell, and her calf actually wandered really close to the truck. It was very cool, really.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)
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Posted by: Harry Paratestes - on the hunt for bridgets hog at July 31, 2025 09:46 PM (kqrPR)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 31, 2025 09:47 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at July 31, 2025 08:22 PM (1fKd
Revelstoke is a fair hike from Kelowna. Better to fly into Kamloops, rent a car, and make the 90 minute (more or less) drive to Revelstoke.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2025 09:49 PM (WGkKU)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:49 PM (HFcKg)
But the people who have low ones do genuinely seem intellectually disabled. Maybe that's just a no-brainer (it's an easy call to say retarded people are retarded, any quantification method would capture that). I don't know.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 09:50 PM (guCHD)
Nighttime lows 3rd warmest
Means 8th warmest since 2000
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Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 31, 2025 09:50 PM (guCHD)
Yeah there is definitely a difference between "smart" and non smart people. I just dont know if IQ is the best measurement. I know many high iq people who are retards and many average IQ people who seem smart.
So there seems to be something else at play. Maybe it is as simple as curiosity.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes - on the hunt for bridgets hog at July 31, 2025 09:53 PM (kqrPR)
__________________________
I lived in NH for a number of years, up in the sparsely settled northern tier. I had moose visiting my back field regularly. Big ones. And, I kept an airhorn handy mostly for safety from moose and bears, but sometimes for entertainment. When moose graze, they're front legs are too long and they have to sort of get down on the first joint. This makes them very unbalanced (which is where the airhorn sometimes came into play). It's sort of a hybrid of cow tipping
Posted by: Orson at July 31, 2025 09:53 PM (dIske)
I am better off not knowing. My life is pretty damn good as it is, and I do not need to know if I am a dullard or a genius.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 09:55 PM (0aYVJ)
I am better off not knowing. My life is pretty damn good as it is, and I do not need to know if I am a dullard or a genius.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 09:55 PM (0aYVJ)
I was given one when I was young. My parents never told me the score. I never asked.
I can guess a general range based off my LSAT score but again - who cares?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes - on the hunt for bridgets hog at July 31, 2025 09:57 PM (kqrPR)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2025 09:57 PM (HFcKg)
I am better off not knowing. My life is pretty damn good as it is, and I do not need to know if I am a dullard or a genius.
Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at July 31, 2025 09:55 PM (0aYVJ
Between is good enough.
Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2025 09:57 PM (ERmw4)
It's finally gonna cool off this weekend here, and the forecast highs nudged lower, mid 70s.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 31, 2025 09:59 PM (w6EFb)
He has a conviction for robbery, charges for criminal possession of a firearm, and was just arrested for receiving stolen property.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at July 31, 2025 08:56 PM (L/fGl)
Five kids by five different baby mamas? Thug is thug. Shoot it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2025 09:59 PM (WGkKU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 31, 2025 09:59 PM (6BEH+)
They didn't actually really care, just that I wasn't sticking a fork in an outlet was good enough.
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Also gotta say Harvey Weinstein looks good with the weight loss.
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Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)