Fox give the other side of things? Well, I suppose fantasy is the other side of the coin to reality. Must be comforting to have a sea of white faces confidently state that the real reason your life is crap is some conspiracy involving some 'other', minorities, liberals, immigrants, they're all plotting to take what you want to have.
Nothing dangerous about winding up your audience for years, telling them to buy guns, giving them an enemy then pretending that conservatives/christians/white people are under attack, nope. There's no chance that's ever going to result in innocent people being murdered.
He testified against Trump so clearly he must be guilty of something! They say it so it must be true. If they can't find a smear that sticks, they'll just photoshop a slice of pizza into his hand so the drooling cretins of 8chan have something to make long youtube videos and twitter threads about.
It's almost as though people like Barr abuse every single scrap of power they're given and the only way to stop them, or even to make them think twice about doing so is to expose their activities to the harsh light of day. If he wanted the benefit of the doubt he wouldn't have consistently been a partisan hack hellbent on hiding and excusing criminal activity by the rich and powerful since the first Bush administration.
People like Barr are why no-one in politics deserves to receive the benefit of the doubt just because they're in power, they've abused the public's trust for far too long.
Christianity is built on gossip. The whole New Testament is nothing but takes on events written hundreds, if not thousands of years after they supposedly took place. I guess that means it's kind of fitting he hates gossip, given how much evangelicals seem to hate the rest of Jesus' teachings.
Look at it from their perspective, a mountain of money is not all the money so they simply have to find new ways to keep wringing blood from a stone, even if they end up pulverising it in the process.
I for one am glad to live in a world where Warner brothers can make untold millions from buying the rights to Happy Birthday without creating a thing, where content is gated off in particular regions and often blocked in it's country of origin, where GEMA can black out music services in Germany for years on end, and I'm thrilled to live in a world where performance rights societies can send legal threats to stop people singing while they work because they've already taken away the right to listen to the radio within earshot of customers. (Seriously, that happened http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8317952.stm ) If publishers don't control music and try to control and keep people from hearing it in the most miserly ways imaginable, they may reach wider audiences and be purchased and enjoyed, which is madness. It's for the good of music to keep shoving stones in juicers in the hope of finding more blood and pushing for laws that make everything just that little bit worse for the audience, as we all know the easiest way to really make something become vibrant and full of life is to deprive it of Oxygene, right Jean Michelle?
Well, if there's one thing we all know by now it's that filing and losing a lawsuit over being called a racist is a surefire way to get people to stop calling you one, and surely isn't going to get the fact you're known for being a racist douchebag repeated across the internet until the end of time.
Seriously though, if you don't want to be called a racist douchebag, stop being racist douchebags. It's not hard, the vast majority of humanity manage to live their lives without making monkey noises and smashing watermelons to taunt African Americans.
I read everything Devin Nunes says online in Marvin the Martian's angry voice. It makes his wild, futile flailing at a fictional cow even more amusing.
The Republicans have spent the past few years pumping untreated sewage into the judiciary, appointing unqualified ideologs who'll side with conservative causes, no matter what. It may not be too long before cases like this start plodding through the system and being won regardless of whether or not they have any merit.
I'm sure this will go nowhere until the immediate aftermath of yet another tragedy, then it'll resurface in the hope they can use that to push what will be yet another PATRIOT act style mass intrusion law.
I think the backronym could use some work though, I suggest the
National Online Teenager Harassment and Intrusive Note Gathering act. It'll do NOTHING to solve the problems that stem from virtually unregulated access to firearms.
'Stop! You can't do this! Telecoms lobbyists will stop giving me money if the targeted deregulation done purely for their benefit can be undone in the states where people actually live! There's no money to be made making the poor internet services worse in red states!'
Nothing will come of this, as even conservatives know that Project Veritas are to truth and journalism what homeopathy is to medicine. Trump likely saw their video, demanded vengeance and this is being done to sooth his childish rage, like most of his legal threats.
Another brave rightwing free speech warrior bravely retreats from the risk of exposure. They only want to publicly debate people when they're guaranteed either a boost in terms of exposure by sharing a stage with a left wing celebrity, or a win against some unfortunate, easily flustered college student without any media training.
I look forward to his column on this where he's the true hero for backing out, who was simply too clever, handsome, tall and modest for the professor, generous too as he didn't want to end his career. It'll make a change from cheerleading for war and climate change denial.
You can tweet lies, you can tweet racist dogwhistles, you can retweet white nationalists and far white conspiracy theories, but sharing Nickelback is where Twitter draw the line.
You shouldn't share them as a wise man,
You shouldn't share them as a rich man tweeting.
They'll let you tweet just like a madman,
Conspiracies about all those impeaching.
But this'll make them act finally.
This'll make them act finally, you racist old man.
This'll make them act finally, you racist old man.
Let's not forget that the Trump regime created a voter fraud investigation panel, added people who claim there are illegal voters everywhere, and they came up with nothing. Kobach basically makes a living from alleging voter fraud in red states then 'fixing' the problem by purging (largely minority) voters and erecting barriers to stop them re-registering, he was put in a position to dig and find something to try and force his will on all 50 states, yet he found nothing.
If there was any evidence for it at all, we wouldn't hear the last of that evidence, there would be fix news specials, Benghazi-like hearings, but here we are.
Jesús the illegal voter is the new Jesus, an unseen presence with massive influence in the minds of republicans, with little to no evidence to back it up. People are just meant to accept they exist as a matter of faith.
Yeah, next time libertarians try this, it'll surely turn out better and become Galt's Gulch made real, unlike all the other times, because liberty and whatnot. :)
It's been tried, Colorado springs experimented with being a voluntary libertarian paradise, but soon found out it cost them far more than it saved. They turned off all the streetlights for example, and found people were happy to pay $300 to turn on the streetlights in their own neighborhood but not $200 to turn all the streetlights on in all neighbourhoods, and while it saved them $1.25 million in electricity, it cost them $5 million due to copper theft. No electricity made it easy and safe to loot, oh and no police and fire services as they were slashed too.
People would gut the things the US needs to run because they're incredibly shortsighted, rather than the big wastes of money like defense because fear motivates better than helping the less fortunate.
On the post: Alexander Vindman Now Threatens Bogus SLAPP Suit Against Fox News & Laura Ingraham
Re: Trustworthy..??? Really
Fox give the other side of things? Well, I suppose fantasy is the other side of the coin to reality. Must be comforting to have a sea of white faces confidently state that the real reason your life is crap is some conspiracy involving some 'other', minorities, liberals, immigrants, they're all plotting to take what you want to have.
Nothing dangerous about winding up your audience for years, telling them to buy guns, giving them an enemy then pretending that conservatives/christians/white people are under attack, nope. There's no chance that's ever going to result in innocent people being murdered.
On the post: Alexander Vindman Now Threatens Bogus SLAPP Suit Against Fox News & Laura Ingraham
Re: Re: Look man
He testified against Trump so clearly he must be guilty of something! They say it so it must be true. If they can't find a smear that sticks, they'll just photoshop a slice of pizza into his hand so the drooling cretins of 8chan have something to make long youtube videos and twitter threads about.
On the post: Attorney General Calls FOIA Requests 'Harassment' During Long Rant About How Much It Sucks To Be Running The Nation
It's almost as though people like Barr abuse every single scrap of power they're given and the only way to stop them, or even to make them think twice about doing so is to expose their activities to the harsh light of day. If he wanted the benefit of the doubt he wouldn't have consistently been a partisan hack hellbent on hiding and excusing criminal activity by the rich and powerful since the first Bush administration.
People like Barr are why no-one in politics deserves to receive the benefit of the doubt just because they're in power, they've abused the public's trust for far too long.
On the post: Evangelical 'Financial Whiz' Who Apparently Hates Gossip, Sues YouTuber For Criticism
Christianity is built on gossip. The whole New Testament is nothing but takes on events written hundreds, if not thousands of years after they supposedly took place. I guess that means it's kind of fitting he hates gossip, given how much evangelicals seem to hate the rest of Jesus' teachings.
On the post: Music Collection Org: Revenues Are Booming... And That's Proof Why We Need Even More Draconian Copyright Laws
Look at it from their perspective, a mountain of money is not all the money so they simply have to find new ways to keep wringing blood from a stone, even if they end up pulverising it in the process.
I for one am glad to live in a world where Warner brothers can make untold millions from buying the rights to Happy Birthday without creating a thing, where content is gated off in particular regions and often blocked in it's country of origin, where GEMA can black out music services in Germany for years on end, and I'm thrilled to live in a world where performance rights societies can send legal threats to stop people singing while they work because they've already taken away the right to listen to the radio within earshot of customers. (Seriously, that happened http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8317952.stm ) If publishers don't control music and try to control and keep people from hearing it in the most miserly ways imaginable, they may reach wider audiences and be purchased and enjoyed, which is madness. It's for the good of music to keep shoving stones in juicers in the hope of finding more blood and pushing for laws that make everything just that little bit worse for the audience, as we all know the easiest way to really make something become vibrant and full of life is to deprive it of Oxygene, right Jean Michelle?
On the post: Court To Racist Douchebags: It's Not Defamatory For A Newspaper To Call You 'Racist Douchebags'
Well, if there's one thing we all know by now it's that filing and losing a lawsuit over being called a racist is a surefire way to get people to stop calling you one, and surely isn't going to get the fact you're known for being a racist douchebag repeated across the internet until the end of time.
Seriously though, if you don't want to be called a racist douchebag, stop being racist douchebags. It's not hard, the vast majority of humanity manage to live their lives without making monkey noises and smashing watermelons to taunt African Americans.
On the post: Devin Nunes Demands Satirical Internet Cow Stop Making Fun Of Him... Or Else
I read everything Devin Nunes says online in Marvin the Martian's angry voice. It makes his wild, futile flailing at a fictional cow even more amusing.
On the post: Man Sues Twitter For $1 Billion Claiming His Account's Suspension Violated His Right To Worship President Trump As A Demigod
Re:
The Republicans have spent the past few years pumping untreated sewage into the judiciary, appointing unqualified ideologs who'll side with conservative causes, no matter what. It may not be too long before cases like this start plodding through the system and being won regardless of whether or not they have any merit.
The ABA has been utterly damning in their assessment of these people, and the republican response has been to push ahead anyway, even as these blubbering nincompoops fall apart under the slightest pressure. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-nominee-cries-american-bar-association-letter
On the post: New Mass Shooting Prevention Bill Will Use 'Anti-Terrorism' Methods To Ramp Up Surveillance Of Students
Gun control not an option then? Thought not.
I'm sure this will go nowhere until the immediate aftermath of yet another tragedy, then it'll resurface in the hope they can use that to push what will be yet another PATRIOT act style mass intrusion law.
I think the backronym could use some work though, I suggest the
National Online Teenager Harassment and Intrusive Note Gathering act. It'll do NOTHING to solve the problems that stem from virtually unregulated access to firearms.
On the post: Ajit Pai Whines About The Numerous State-Level Net Neutrality Laws He Just Helped Create
'Stop! You can't do this! Telecoms lobbyists will stop giving me money if the targeted deregulation done purely for their benefit can be undone in the states where people actually live! There's no money to be made making the poor internet services worse in red states!'
On the post: Bringing Free Speech Back: Trump Promises To Sue CNN Over Its Biased Coverage Based On Dumbest Legal Theory Ever
Nothing will come of this, as even conservatives know that Project Veritas are to truth and journalism what homeopathy is to medicine. Trump likely saw their video, demanded vengeance and this is being done to sooth his childish rage, like most of his legal threats.
On the post: After Four Years Of Failing To Bring Its Plan To Completion, UK Government Pulls Out Of Porn Blockade Effort
Being a bunch of clueless knobs, the Tories realised that an adult material filter would effectively deplatform them.
On the post: States Rush To Protect Net Neutrality On Heels Of Court Ruling
Cue the Fox News chorus line of 'states rights' republicans talking heads decrying states exercising the right to create net neutrality laws.
On the post: Anti-Safe Space Crusader Bret Stephens Apparently Needs A Safe Space: Backs Out Of Bedbug Debate
Another brave rightwing free speech warrior bravely retreats from the risk of exposure. They only want to publicly debate people when they're guaranteed either a boost in terms of exposure by sharing a stage with a left wing celebrity, or a win against some unfortunate, easily flustered college student without any media training.
I look forward to his column on this where he's the true hero for backing out, who was simply too clever, handsome, tall and modest for the professor, generous too as he didn't want to end his career. It'll make a change from cheerleading for war and climate change denial.
On the post: Twitter Removes Nickelback Meme Trump Tweets, But Leaves All The Others Up
You can tweet lies, you can tweet racist dogwhistles, you can retweet white nationalists and far white conspiracy theories, but sharing Nickelback is where Twitter draw the line.
You shouldn't share them as a wise man,
You shouldn't share them as a rich man tweeting.
They'll let you tweet just like a madman,
Conspiracies about all those impeaching.
But this'll make them act finally.
This'll make them act finally, you racist old man.
This'll make them act finally, you racist old man.
On the post: Another Day, Another Major Disinformation Effort Facebook Thinks Is Ok
Re: Re:
Let's not forget that the Trump regime created a voter fraud investigation panel, added people who claim there are illegal voters everywhere, and they came up with nothing. Kobach basically makes a living from alleging voter fraud in red states then 'fixing' the problem by purging (largely minority) voters and erecting barriers to stop them re-registering, he was put in a position to dig and find something to try and force his will on all 50 states, yet he found nothing.
If there was any evidence for it at all, we wouldn't hear the last of that evidence, there would be fix news specials, Benghazi-like hearings, but here we are.
On the post: Another Day, Another Major Disinformation Effort Facebook Thinks Is Ok
Re:
Jesús the illegal voter is the new Jesus, an unseen presence with massive influence in the minds of republicans, with little to no evidence to back it up. People are just meant to accept they exist as a matter of faith.
On the post: Some Investors Are Fed Up With AT&T's Costly Obsession With Merger Mania
They're trying to become the GE of telecoms, because growth through acquisitions never ends in tears.
On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations
Re: Re: Re:
Yeah, next time libertarians try this, it'll surely turn out better and become Galt's Gulch made real, unlike all the other times, because liberty and whatnot. :)
On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations
Re:
It's been tried, Colorado springs experimented with being a voluntary libertarian paradise, but soon found out it cost them far more than it saved. They turned off all the streetlights for example, and found people were happy to pay $300 to turn on the streetlights in their own neighborhood but not $200 to turn all the streetlights on in all neighbourhoods, and while it saved them $1.25 million in electricity, it cost them $5 million due to copper theft. No electricity made it easy and safe to loot, oh and no police and fire services as they were slashed too.
People would gut the things the US needs to run because they're incredibly shortsighted, rather than the big wastes of money like defense because fear motivates better than helping the less fortunate.
Next >>