tbh I love that last sentence
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 July 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
welp pic.twitter.com/b1OPrtyFGr— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) July 20, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Perfect.
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
Who do they think they actually speak for at this point? Does an NRO demographic even exist?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 20 July 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Old white men and women over 50 who fantasize about being on campus while free speech wars rage.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 July 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
uh otm?
Anyone who thinks that the Mueller Report reflects well on Trump either doesn’t know anything about it or has such low standards for Trump that it insults the man — more than his enemies could.— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) July 25, 2019
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 July 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
Oh, I think I can insult Trump more than that.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 25 July 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
#MeToo killed the office romance, see.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
The 'office romance' was never worth saving.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
i wonder which they'll pick
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EB0RMncW4AEsWJP.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
1. in what way is that Faustian2. have these people ever considered the third option of not talking at all
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
is max boot running for office
― j., Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
the prose reminds me of Kevin Williamson's. Is it?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:54 (four years ago) link
speaking of Kev:
The polls at the moment have it Biden, Warren, Sanders, and Harris, or the nincompoop, the nag, the nut, and the nark. I feel like the Democrats are not really giving Marianne Williamson a fair look.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
"nark"?
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
kev’s working himself up to finally type the n-word
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 August 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
Obviously Marianne is "the Nicks"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
uhhhh
https://med✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@penel✧✧✧.gristelf✧✧✧/letter-to-the-editor-of-the-atlantic-jeffrey-goldberg-ceab6adb07ea
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
https://bit.ly/2ZiNzSL
wow that's uh
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
that's the most extraordinary....thing I've read this year
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
That's something, all right.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
P.S. If I have an abortion, I’m agonna name it Kevin.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
I barely made it through a third of it. Mostly incomprehensible.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
but you like sci-fi~
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
it didn't seem too far off from the psychotic ramblings I occasionally see taped to telephone poles
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
but it would take at least 15 telephone poles to display this one
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
Interesting...
A quarter of the ceiling in my room caved in two winters ago. I did not have a stove, and for three years I had to wash my dishes in the sink of a bathroom barely more presentable than that in a truck stop. I lived next door to the same women’s shelter I had gotten kicked out of. This past winter, I was without power frequently because of how ill-equipped the old housing stock was to deal with multiple tenants. (It was a Victorian era building). After a snowstorm, I went two and a half days without running water, and in December a meth-addled prostitute who lived on a floor above me took an ax to a man’s head.Until last winter, when the house became really unsafe, I pretty much woke up every day and thanked God that I was there, instead of still married to Kevin, because he was just that mean.
Until last winter, when the house became really unsafe, I pretty much woke up every day and thanked God that I was there, instead of still married to Kevin, because he was just that mean.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
No way she woke up and thanked god everyday
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
I see your point.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
Even if she did, god was probably just like “you’re welcome, I guess. That place seems like a shithole tho lol”
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
God was all "yr welcome, just be sure to let everybody know in a 5,000+ word Medium blog post k thx bye"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
With an editor that could have been good, without one it was...sort of stunning tbb
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
And hey kid - post it on some telephone poles xp
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
*tbh, new phone problems
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
I wonder how many times she re-read and edited that before posting.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
Fewer than two times. Probably none.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 August 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
Their favorite bully impressed Bill Maher's audience:
Kevin made a case against majoritarianism that caught Maher off guard: “Like me, you don’t trust big masses of people because they tend to be stupid and easy to scare. All of the best things about our Constitution are the anti-democratic stuff like the Bill of Rights, which is America’s great big list of stuff you idiots don’t get to vote on. If we had put slavery up to a vote in 1860, it’d have won, it’d have won 70 to 30. If we put free speech up to a vote today it’d probably lose.”
Maher derided the idea that free speech equals money, and Kevin calmly shot him down. “I actually don’t think so. . . . That’s like saying, well you have freedom of the press but if you want to have a press, it’s $100 million, well you can’t do that because that’s big money in journalism.” Maher and the crowd seemed a bit stunned by the cogency of that, and Maher moved on to “tribal politics and political correctness.”
more like "audience stupefied by Williamson's stupidity"
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
wow if only there were some kind of historical record to examine we could determine if ppl voted on things like slavery and if it was good small r republicanism that ended slavery huh well I guess we’ll never know
― wario in the streets, waluigi in the sheets (m bison), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
certainly there's no acclaimed hollywood films about the 13th amendment
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
is bill maher's show actually that popular? idgi
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
a few libs I know still love'em
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
that makes me sad, the things that entertain others make me sad
― wario in the streets, waluigi in the sheets (m bison), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Don't be religulous.
― McGrief the Crying Dog (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
OTFM Maher is such a goddamned idiot
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link
I suspect Williamson's point was that it took a war to end slavery because -- eh why bother
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
hat’s like saying, well you have freedom of the press but if you want to have a press, it’s $100 million, well you can’t do that because that’s big money in journalism.” Maher and the crowd seemed a bit stunned by the cogency of that
does someone wanna bother explaining this argument to me cuz it seems completely incoherent afaict. He's equating the price of presses (which are set by the market) as equivalent to the price of running in an election (which is set by a market only because we don't have publicly financed elections)?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
also since when does free speech = owning a free printing press? that is not what the amendment is about...
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
He appears to be equating "freedom of the press" with owning a daily newspaper or magazines with a mass circulation in the hundreds of thousands, which is such a restrictive definition that the First Amendment would not have applied to anything at all when it was written in 1789.
Then, as now, it merely referred to the printed word, which was (and still is) important because it is a durable form that can be circulated widely. Samizdat publishing in the USSR is an excellent recent example of an influential and wide circulated 'press' that cost one hell of a lot less than $100 million.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
It sounded like he was saying that a right isn’t really a right if the government can put a big restriction on it
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link