Good riddance, ya' racist piece of sh... granite.

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You need to police your fellow Jews so they don’t earn this negative tag for your group. Blacks need to do the same thing.
 

It is very suspicious.

(Our host may be an exception.)

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National Review ran an article in the 1970s about Wittgenstein's eccentricities, which were remarkable.

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"Massachusetts, the Dixie of New England?" NO WAY. That would have to be Maine. Massachusetts is the polar opposite of Dixieland. Of all the major cities in the Boston-Washington corridor, Boston, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, Washington, Boston & DC are the least like the others, especially Boston. NYC, Philly and Baltimore share a great deal of commonalities but are different than D.C. and a lot different than Boston.

Boston is no way shape or form like any city in the South nor is Massachusetts like any state in the South. To the average Southerner, no state is more detested in the South than Massachusetts and that includes New York and New Jersey. People in the South actually like upstate New Yorkers a great deal but Massachusetts? Oh, hell no. Those of us old enough to remember the Boston Bus Riots still smell the hypocrisy of a native Bostonian or someone from Mass.

We will take the lobster heads in Maine, upstate New Yorkers, some Western Pennsylvania and Southern Pennsylvania folk and White Maryland natives, but you Yankees can have the rest.

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Many more black women slaves were shipped to Turkey than the expensive eunuchs. They had plenty of babies.
 

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For most of those 156 years, America wasn't on the decline. It was Lyndon Johnson, the first southern President since Andrew Jackson, who initiated the decline of American society. As soon as he took office this weird southern cuck culture of immigration and female empowerment took hold. Since then, the entire country (Northeast excepted) has been following the same trajectory as his home state of Texas -- albeit more slowly.

But even before LBJ, the South had been exerting cultural influence on the country as a whole, despite the lack of national political power. It's often forgetten that the Negroes who destroyed Northern cities like Detroit were recent immigrants from the South, as were the ones who turned Los Angeles in to gangland. These Negroes had enormous cultural influence in the form of "music". White southerners also migrated in large numbers to California and brought with them their strange ideas and habits.

Everybody is always talking about Massachusetts, but that state is the exception and not the norm, and it more closely resembles the South demographically.

It's just undeniable at this point that the South has done the majority of the social damage to America and itself. The South is a story of abject sorrow and tragedy. Never before have a people tried so hard and failed to build a civilization, and taken down a great historical empire with them (the USA).

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If you are a certain age, get your shingles vaccine. You really don’t want to get shingles at your age.
 

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Harkening back to the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, there was a parade of "witnesses" attesting to Ivy League credentials, which made one lone guy who had attended the Illinois Institute of Technology stand out. This led to a comment by Paul Simon (the Senator from Illinois, not the singer-song writer, which had to be explained in news reports at the time) that "Illinois Institute of Technology is a fine, fine school."

Illinois Institute of Technology is one of those places where you can learn math and even earn a law degree if I remember correctly, and yes, it won't put you on the fast-track to being appointed to the Supreme Court or even as part of pool of clerks and other camp followers of the three branches of the Federal Government.

Graduating from Harvard won't put you on that track either. Getting on that track is not a matter of having taken certain courses of study at Harvard, it is a matter of friendships and personal social relationships, many of which are established by what housing unit you are placed in. Harvard does a good job of "tracking" and "segregating" the "in crowd", whether minority or majority race from the rabble whom they admit, either based on racial preference or academics to obtain the desired "balance" of their student body.

Yes, our elites have become more racially diverse, but our elites are still drawn from a narrow pool of persons who have known each other over much of their lifetimes.

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That's exactly right: the US prioritized winning the war. But whose war, and with what priorities? The US fought as though our priorities were minimizing (our own) casualties, and preventing the USSR from grabbing western Europe. From which I conclude that those were indeed our priorities. Saving (a few of) the Jews was a side effect.

I'm sure the USSR would have very much enjoyed concentrating its forces on the Finnish front, or going to North Africa to ease its army into things by practicing on a single already-defeated German corps, but it chose other priorities.

And France wasn't the only possible place from which to invade Europe. Don't forget we invaded Italy first. As for Romania and Hungary, that wouldn't have even required a beach landing; we could have "persuaded" Turkey to let us land next to Bulgaria. (And I'm sure the Soviets would have been happy for us to take over fighting Germany's Army Group South.)

So as I said: priorities.

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our Greatest Generation sacrificed itself for the Jews
 

Never mind prioritizing our Pacific empire over doing anything whatever in Europe.

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Yeah. If you play different sports throughout the year, that's probably healthier. From my experience, the athletes most likely to be seriously injured are either playing year-round (like baseball players with the travel teams) or participating in a very brutal sport (football, wrestling, hockey).

College admissions are really competitive these days. So lots of parents figure if they get their kid to specialize in a particular athletic position, they can ride that into a good university. For example, I know a family that trained their daughter to be a Crew coxswain since she was in junior high. She was able to use that to get into an Ivy League university. That's a huge reason why parents like to train their kids on a year-round schedule.

Also, pro sports recruiting scouts are increasingly expecting young people to demonstrate athletic potential at a young age. If you're not able to push your kid to his physical ceiling during his teen years, he might not even get the chance to enter the draft. Meanwhile, your kid will be competing against other kids who were training at a young age and, therefore, outclass him.

A lot of what affluent parents are doing these days is basically zero-sum competitions that help their children, but make society worse off. Like pushing a kid to start SAT prep at age 13.

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Nikki Lauda pulled into the pits early in the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix because he considered it too dangerous (due to heavy rain causing flooding of the track). It's entirely possible that he forfeited a Championship due to that decision; however he was still recovering from a horrific accident that nearly killed him and would leave him disfigured and requiring multiple surgeries. Very few people questioned his bravery given the situation.

It's quite a sports story... reasonably well recounted in "Rush" (2013).

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We should not be vaccinating Alzheimer's patients at all. It's better to die of pneumonia than to die because your brain has forgotten how to tell the esophagus to function and I've seen both.

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A decade later, TE lamented that the experiment has failed. Despite all its efforts, a British Silicon Valley did not spring up around Cambridge, as it proved to be no Stanford. TE's conclusion was that the Brits just aren't ambitious enough, like the Americans. They make 20m pounds and are happy to sell or maintain, whereas Americans aren't happy until they make $20 billion.

Be careful what you wish for.

SV should serve as a cautionary tale to the world, not one to emulate. Big Tech has gone passed the point of good, they have now arrived at pure evil. Google, Facebook and Microsoft track us like cattle for exploitation. Twitter does nothing but fan the flames of hatred. Apple bankrupts us with their expensive iPhones. Netflix has become the new purveyor of soft porn and other cultural garbage. Palantir knows everything there is to know about each of us. Amazon has destroyed tens of thousands of retail businesses, and the internet basically is a giant deep dark jungle where hackers roam free and the (((media's))) stomping ground for disseminating fake news of both left and right.

Yet I suppose these are the "best and brightest" that Boris wants to attract and bring to Britain. I say let him have it. Silicon Valley has destroyed the world, not improved it. Back in its early days it may have been developed by hippies like Steve Jobs and Wozniak who want to change the world for the better, but thanks to Bill Gates and company it has been transformed into a greed-is-good Wall Street offshoot. These days tech is all about money and tracking people. The only thing the techies care about is to develop yet another useless app to sell to Big Tech and make billions, ethics be damned. Wall Street/Private equity big money has tainted and destroyed technology. Boris Johnson can have these rapacious soulless vampire squids disguised as "engineers". America will be better off without them.

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The proviso "if you are fairly affluent" is important. I haven't lived in the USA, so please feel free to shoot me down, but my strong impression is that relatively poor Americans get far more for their money than poor British people especially in terms of housing. But yes, as an affluent Englishman I've had a very good life. The greatest change came in the 80s, when I went from being poor in London, living in a shabby area full of violent and stupid people, to being well off in London, living in an attractive area full of interesting and pleasant people, with a lot of green space. Since we left London I've lived in beautiful and quiet country areas. The biggest threat to the countryside is unattractive new housing development eating up fields and woods, driven by population increase consequent on mass immigration.

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The IOC also accepted Atlanta's explanation that you would be surprised by how cool Atlanta is in late July-early August due to Atlanta's towering 900 feet of elevation. But the 1996 Olympics proved just as sweaty as you'd expect.

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Summer in Britain is pretty great. There are good reasons why rich people love flying in for Wimbledon, Henley, the Derby, the Open etc, Tom Stoppard's birthday party, etc etc etc etc.

Of course, it's not summer year round.

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I do not see much chance that living in the UK will ever be preferable to living in the USA, but it is nice to have the option anyway.

 

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I thought my 4-hour experience in a ghetto ER after an edible-pot-induced panic attack was unique (I saw some seriously fucked up things and people, which is the last thing you want to see when you perpetually think you're 15 seconds away from dying). But wow, that really takes the cake.

Thanks for sharing.

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You're stupid as fuck. Working hours have declined since the 1970s. Nobody works 8 hours anymore unless they're dirt poor.

The lockdown never even began in this country. Look at China 2020 if you want to see what lockdown means. America's modest restriction will never end if we don't invest in a solid 1 year lockdown like China did. We can kick the can down the road for 100 years if you like. But eventually we're going to do that 1 year lockdown.

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THE HYPERREAL AND THE IMAGINARY

Disneyland is a perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulacra. It is first of all a play of illusions and phantasms: the Pirates, the Frontier, the Future World, etc. This imaginary world is supposed to ensure the success of the operation. But what attracts the crowds the most is without a doubt the social microcosm, the religious, miniaturized pleasure of real America, of its constraints and joys. One parks outside and stands in line inside, one is altogether abandoned at the exit. The only phantasmagoria in this imaginary world lies in the tenderness and warmth of the crowd, and in the sufficient and excessive number of gadgets necessary to create the multitudinous effect. The contrast with the absolute solitude of the parking lot - a veritable concentration camp - is total. Or,rather: inside, a whole panoply of gadgets magnetizes the crowd in directed flows -outside, solitude is directed at a single gadget: the automobile. By an extraordinary oincidence (but this derives without a doubt from the enchantment inherent to this universe), this frozen, childlike world is found to have been conceived and realized by a man who is himself now cryogenized: Walt Disney, who awaits his resurrection through an increase of 180 degrees centigrade.

Thus, everywhere in Disneyland the objective profile of America, down to the morphology of individuals and of the crowd, is drawn. All its values are exalted by the miniature and the comic strip. Embalmed and pacified. Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real"
America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.

The imaginary of Disneyland is neither true nor false, it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate the fiction of the real in the opposite camp. Whence the debility of this imaginary, its infantile degeneration. This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere - that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.

Disneyland is not the only one, however. Enchanted Village, Magic Mountain, Marine World: Los Angeles is surrounded by these imaginary stations that feed reality, the energy of the real to a city whose mystery is precisely that of no longer being anything but a network of incessant, unreal circulation - a city of incredible proportions but without space, without dimension. As much as electrical and atomic power stations, as much as cinema studios, this city, which is no longer anything but an immense scenario and a perpetual pan shot, needs this old imaginary like a sympathetic nervous system made up of childhood signals and faked phantasms.

Disneyland: a space of the regeneration of the imaginary as waste-treatment plants are elsewhere, and even here. Everywhere today one must recycle waste, and the dreams, the phantasms, the historical, fairylike, legendary imaginary of children and adults is a waste product, the first great toxic excrement of a hyperreal civilization. On a mental level, Disneyland is the prototype of this new function. But all the sexual, psychic, somatic recycling institutes, which proliferate in California, belong to the same order. People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that. They no longer touch each other, but there is contactotherapy. They no longer walk, but they go jogging, etc. Everywhere one recycles lost faculties, or lost bodies, or lost sociality, or the lost taste for food. One reinvents penury, asceticism, vanished savage naturalness: natural food, health food, yoga. Marshall Sahlins's idea that it is the economy of the market, and not of nature at all, that secretes penury, is verified, but at a secondary level: here, in the sophisticated confines of a triumphal market economy is reinvented a penury/sign, a penury/simulacrum, a simulated behavior of the underdeveloped (including the adoption of Marxist tenets) that, in the guise of ecology, of energy crises and the critique of capital, adds a final esoteric aureole to the triumph of an esoteric culture.

Nevertheless, maybe a mental catastrophe, a mental implosion and involution without precedent lies in wait for a system of this kind, whose visible signs would be those of this strange obesity, or the incredible coexistence of the most bizarre theories and practices, which correspond to the improbable coalition of luxury, heaven, and money, to the improbable luxurious materialization of life and to undiscoverable contradictions.

 

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There was no effort, and I mean none, by America’s institutions to stop Donald Trump. The analysis that Russia made was simply completely missing. Most of America’s institutions backed Trump. Pundits made careers out of attacking those of us who warned of the dangers of Trump ascending to the Presidency — and those of us in public life who did warn of it paid a steep professional price, losing our columns, book deals, and so on.
 

The only one who saw it and said it openly was Hillary Clinton. And guess what? Elites and institutions attacked her like crazy for it. Think what you like about Hillary — but she was dead right, and she was the only one, more or less, in a position of power, to say so openly. The only one — that’s how massive, epic, incredible, spectacular, America’s failure was and is.

 

Let me end with one final note, then. This leak doesn’t just confirm the worst suspicions about Trump. It also lends credence to the idea that the deniers are Russia’s men, too. Who else, at this point, would really defend any of this? When it’s obvious? When there’s now literal hard documentary evidence? Only someone, really, being paid to. Being paid well to.

That makes the deniers — I don’t know, hypocrites? Liars? Propagandists?

But it’s different for you. They’re probably being paid to deny it. You? You’re not being paid handsomely to deny the fact that Trump was Russia’s man, America’s first Manchurian Candidate of a President, one installed as a puppet to rip America apart and make it implode.

What does that make you, if you don’t believe the obvious, overwhelming, damning evidence by now?

Somewhere between a fool, a mark, and a sucker, my friend. Maybe all three.

 

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It Took Me a Long Time to Come Out as a ‘Plushie’ Lover

But as I stood there teary-eyed, clutching a tiny stuffed monkey, my heart still thudding, I understood that love can grow in the most unlikely places, and that there is no love worth its name unless it feels vulnerable to loss.
 

Since at least February, Max Schimd has been playing The Zero Hour on his Dustbin of History! radio program. (Broadcast live over WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City, Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 AM; archived here)

Part One of But I Wouldn't Want to Die There begins just after brief intro at ~5:01 on the June 2nd Dustbin of History! broadcast.

produced & directed by Elliott Lewis, starring Nehemiah Persoff, Brock Peters, William Woodson, Mady Norman, Jester Hairston, Victor Borgman, Herbert Rudley, Marge Redmond, theme by Ferrante and Teicher, story by Stanton Forbes, produced by J. M. Kolus, exec producer Jack Meyers, assoc producer Rochelle Sherman, story editor Kim Weiskopf, music by Stanley D. Hoffman, theme music by Ferrante and Teicher, announcer Hugh Douglas.
 

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This was totally unnecessary. The other two victims also appear to be respectable people - the "aspiring rapper" may have killed them for their vehicles (the truck belonged to one of the dead men).

The rapper, Bryan Rhoden, should have been in prison stemming from a 2017 incident when he and another fellow got into a dispute over a drug deal and shot each other. Aggravated assault (there is no attempted murder in Georgia) should have kept him in for 20 years, until 2037. But no, they somehow let him go.

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/cops-double-shooting-georgia-state-campus-started-with-drug-deal/dSWKBoLlC5K6KGOXn0ySQN/

Then , in 2020, he led police on a 150 mph chase thru heavy traffic - this should have been good for another few years:
https://www.pharostribune.com/news/local_news/article_f181e95e-e63a-11ea-aeaf-1398d1f42d2e.html

But no they let him go again.

And then within hours of the murder, Rhoden was arrested by the Chamblee Police Department on unrelated charges, including DUI, driving a vehicle without insurance, false identification and more. But they let him go once more. Only when they connected him to the murders did they arrest him again. I doubt he is getting out any time soon, but meanwhile three men are dead.

It's tiresome and expensive (and "racis" to have to keep all these (mostly but not only black) scumbags locked up for long sentences but that's really what needs to be done. They are not capable of rehabilitation (certainly not in prison which is more like a school for criminals) and when you let them go they just go on to worse offenses. But not doing it costs the lives of many innocents whose deaths could have been prevented.

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Irony aside, spelling is not some kind of achievement. For instance, William Butler Yeats remained a poor speller all his life, despite being one of the 2-5 best English language poets of the 20th C.

As for vocabulary, languages differ so much that knowing some "exotic" foreign words (mostly Greek and Latin, but others, too) doesn't, in my view, signify much. Shakespeare's vocabulary was around 35,000 different words; Tolstoy's was ca. 130,000 words; Racine's was barely more than 2,000 words.

What is bigger inconsistency is that English is in many ways corrupt Latin: you got the noun corruption & the verb to corrupt (instead of regular Latin "corrumpere") & erupt (instead of Latin "erumpere").

Spelling is not such a big deal ...

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They could easily compensate for society's ills on any salary if they were allowed to. The issue isn't teacher pay or teacher energy, it's our broken educational system deliberately pursuing bad policies with nightmare outcomes.

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Captain Tripp, you gotta admit that Neil Young was pretty cool in his day, driving around Los Angeles in a hearse for transportation, or so I read. I guess he picked up the lefty stuff way back and never let go of it. However, and in keeping with the musical and music lyrical theme of this thread*, the following song has some "USA, USA!" type lyrics (actually, that's what the backing vocalists sing).

Neil Young's Hawks & Doves album was released one day before the 1980 US Presidential election when Ronnie got elected. As Bruce Springsteen's song was misinterpreted or, really, NON-interpreted by most Americans who heard it, this very obscure song, the title track of Mr. Young's album, may be really pro-American, but it's hard to tell where or if Neil is being sarcastic anywhere.

I'll just blockquote the whole thing, and see what you all think:

Ain't getting old,
ain't getting younger though.
Just getting used
to the lay of the land.
I ain't tongue-tied,
just don't got nothin' to say.
I'm proud to be livin' in the U.S.A.

CHORUS--->
Ready to go, willin' to stay and pay
U.S.A., U.S.A.
So my sweet love can dance
another free day
U.S.A., U.S.A.

In history we painted pictures grim.
The devil knows
we might feel that way again.
The big wind blows,
so the tall grass bends.
But for you don't
push too hard my friend.

CHORUS

Got people here
down on their knees and prayin'.
Hawks and doves
are circlin' in the rain.
Got rock and roll,
got country music playin'.
If you hate us, you just
don't know what you're sayin'.

CHORUS
 

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Too late for that!

We win you lose!

Like Leonard Pitts says:

gnash your teeth close the borders but you cannot stop demographic change

What do you guys care anyway? You'll be dead and most of you losers dont have children

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It's the opposite - their audience has forgotten what National Geographic is. You want to see pictures of bare breasted women? Type a few keystrokes and you'll have all the pictures that you could ever want in 5 seconds. You don't have to wait a month for the next issue.

Given that their original mission is now moot, they could either close up shop or find a new mission. They couldn't just keep doing the same thing for an ever dwindling audience of old white men.

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First, I don’t know what Greil Marcus is talking about. The “enormous explosion” of Springsteen’s popularity dates back to 1975, and the release of Born to Run. If anything, his pop-star status was fading by the time of Born in the USA. In 1984, Bruce was a Boomer in an increasingly Gen-X market.

Second, the mid-80’s pop sound was generally happy and optimistic. Gas was cheap, jobs were plentiful, Vietnam was ancient history. It really was “Morning in America” if you were young. Even when musicians tried to be socially critical, they usually ended up writing a party song. Think Timbuk 3’s Future’s so Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades or Midnight Oil’s Beds are Burning.

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Kingsley Amis was also Jewish, likely of Portuguese descent from way back. So, not toff or posh, unless they married into nobility.

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https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1410110111322939397?s=20

Just an awkward Kentucky boy, and look at him now! And they say social mobility is dead. Clyburn and friends selected two Senators for a reason, and it certainly wasn’t Primary votes!

Elaine’s family must be proud.

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Here is a simpler explanation for Occam fans:

The Israel lobby wanted Iraq destroyed because Iraq was an enemy of Israel.
 

Jewish Americans are the most strongly opposed to the Iraq war" of all religious groups. Is this a surprise? Not really, but it is now semi-official, after a Gallup analysis of 13 surveys from the last two-plus years concluded that Jewish people oppose the Iraq war by a "better than 3-to-1 margin, 77 percent to 21 percent."
 

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No wonder...“Cops” got cancelled…
 

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When the best you can hope for in life is being the manager if a mcdonalds
 

Worse is the people who don't have their stuff together enough to even work at a McDonalds

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Their daughter Collins Tuohy
 

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It’s in the eyes. The more intelligent the man the more the eyes matter. Thatcher’s eyes were incomparable.

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It is sad that most women who are of good character & noble spirit cannot find a partner just because they’re ugly. One of life’s miseries.
 

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Good looking men will find that something besides doors swings open for them...

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It is hard to think of any really ugly women who have been notably successful, but then ugly women can often convert into fairly good looking men if pinch comes to shove.
 

Naomi Wolf has been kicked off twitter for her vaccine opinions. She was way hotter than the typical Yale woman I picture but that was a long time ago.

Did you ever read the thing where the 80 year old Hayek said Margaret Thatcher was the most beautiful woman he had ever met?

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Brandeis university has banned more words so as not to upset the ultra ultra sensitive. Two words are trigger warning. Because guns have triggers. Another word is picnic. Because in the USA no one ever used the word until after the civil war when lynching innocent blacks became a major social occasion for the evil southerners.

According to the idiot intellectuals of Brandeis, lynching innocent blacks became the main focus of social gatherings in the south. Something like the summer bloc parties or church, chamber of commerce Elks Moose Masons Hibernian Hall Knights of Columbus, company, factory other organizations summer parties.

So the southern word for lynching of innocent blacks for fun and having a party was; still is picnic.

Actually it’s a French word means potluck or bring a little something to a party or gathering . Connotes finger food too.

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Are you sure John Goodman didn't sneak into the Capitol dressed in General Milley's clothes to defend critical race theory? Because what's happening these days is crazier than any Coen brothers movie.

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Well, he shook hands with Rumsfeld, took a few wrong turns, and now he's the dead king of a country of pestilence.

It's really as if biblical Jews were in charge of the US.

Further afield:

IKEA employees walk off job after company serves fried chicken and watermelon for Juneteenth

IKEA confirmed in a statement to the Independent on Wednesday that roughly 20 employees walked out in protest at the lunch, but insisted that black staff had helped organize the menu, which “was created with the best of intentions” and included “recommendations from black co-workers.”

“We got it wrong and we sincerely apologize,” a company spokesperson declared.

Though the menu also included other items, like mac n cheese and potato salad, many employees considered the food choices to be racist – noting the connection of fried chicken and watermelon to many African-American stereotypes, as well as the food’s connection to slavery.
 

One employee told CBS46 that the incident “caused a lot of people to be upset” and that they “actually wanted to quit.”

“People weren’t coming back to work,” the employee added, while another worker said, “You cannot say serving watermelon on Juneteenth is a soul food menu when you don't even know the history. They used to feed slaves watermelon during the slave time.”

Racist illustrations and cartoons from American history frequently showed caricatures of black Americans eating slices of watermelon. Fried chicken has also had a similar history as a racist trope.
 

Sweden: Fridays for Climate school walkouts. USA: Fulltime for Reparations work walkouts.

Well, don't hire blacks.

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We don't have a name for the type of guy who becomes a typical rock star: arty, not hugely masculine, skinny, high cheekbones, but highly heterosexual and drives young women wild.

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Porn lesbians are far different from real life lesbians.

I don’t know if Steve’s article “Why Lesbians aren’t Gay” is still online but I believe he said, “Men find lesbians erotic in fantasy but boring in reality. Men find gays disgusting in theory but likeable in reality.”

And for what it’s worth, one of my sister’s best friends is a flaming gay man. Even he said once lesbians are crazy.

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I recall one of our NYC posters said that he actually doesn't mind this kind of low-level street harassment too much, because the locals know how to avoid it, and it discourages outsiders from moving to the city and driving rents through the roof.

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Bro, this Montaigne dude was from olden times in France. They didn't have cheerleaders or even football, but they still had fun when they played harpsichords and went to balls wearing masks and to see people getting their heads chopped off. Some of it was pretty gay but still dudes fucked chicks and Montaigne was a famous writer and and a noble. Girls like that stuff so he probably got a lot of trim. Plus he had six kids with his old lady.

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Johnny I hadn't heard of that, but that's just life imitating art. The Seinfeld clip below is from 1998. You could still make fun of everything back in '98. It's got angry Puerto Ricans and even angry gay Puerto Ricans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fkuSywIHh4

I miss that country, in which even NY (mostly) Jewish comedians would make fun of anything, even Communism - see clips from the Seinfeld Christmas Communism episode.

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They wanted to be "real" journalists, but had to "settle" for being sportswriters.

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Henry Bushnell
@HenryBushnell
Humans. Stories. Sports.

In that order. Features writer, @YahooSports
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“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke discovered that - in his later years when he wrote the (once? famous) elegant and insightful - Duino Elegies - - - in utterly beautiful - - - - -Dunio in the Swiss alps.

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