The Cancel Culture thread! WOO!

[BryanM]

I never really thought there was much strength to the philosophical side of the Putter books, but if there's one point it looked like JK repeatedly attempted to cram down our yaws, it was some variant of McCarthy era commie witch-hunt fever and how wrong that all was. I really feel like she just took all that and flushed it down the shitter.

Nah it's... bog standard liberalism. Laissez faire capitalism, a shining world of meritocracy. The entire point of the thing is the question if mixed race people deserve to be recognized as human if they're capable of using magic (and if they're not, fuck'em with the rest of the mundanes). Harry and team libs are on the side of merit, while their enemies are fascists obsessed with blood quantum.

We.... try not to talk about the slave race that wants to be slaves. Rationalizations that the world as it exists is good and just are absolutely core to the mainstream ideologies we're groomed to believe from birth.

Most crazy rich people who want to make a difference do stuff like cure measles or something (you know like bill gates).

So the opposite of Bill Gates's rent seeking.

Like they say, politics is downstream from culture. Rowling's product was perfect for both sides of the transaction and made it excellent to push - harmless inoffensive fluff that makes sure every feels comfortable with the world we live in. Much like Ender's Game is good at telling children violence is ok as long as we do it. In a very real way, this stuff is a replacement for the bible. In grooming people a certain way during their developmental years.

[vol.2]

The entire point of the thing is the question if mixed race people deserve to be recognized as human if they're capable of using magic (and if they're not, fuck'em with the rest of the mundanes). Harry and team libs are on the side of merit, while their enemies are fascists obsessed with blood quantum.

Yeah, I remember that stuff. I haven't read them in a bit, but it was all pretty weak IMHO. I'm referring to that (literal) witch-hunt thing where people were selling out their neighbors and there was a list with a committee and that echoed McCarthyism.

We.... try not to talk about the slave race that wants to be slaves.

This, I just don't understand where you're going with and would need some elaboration to see what you mean. I don't want to go misinterpreting that because reasons.

Rationalizations that the world as it exists is good and just are absolutely core to the mainstream ideologies we're groomed to believe from birth.

No doubt. Load of BS.

So the opposite of Bill Gates's rent seeking.

More or less. Clearly Gates is a political donor, but that doesn't invalidate the work he does to put something positive back into the world. That's what he wants to be remembered for, and it's a good thing. You cannot so easily make the same argument for JK. She is using her money and recognition to wage a war on the transgender community by writing fiction that plays upon people's fears (apparently by exercising her own fears). It reminds me of the Pink Floyd album The Wall a bit. The song Mother had that great line about how our mothers impart their fears into us. I always found that to be really creepy actually.

[BryanM]

This, I just don't understand where you're going with and would need some elaboration to see what you mean. I don't want to go misinterpreting that because reasons.

There's a wonderful little scene where Hermione tries to be a dumb socialist hippy and free the elves, and everyone including the elves hates her guts for trying. Whether you want to interpret that as saying "you shouldn't feel bad for exploited workers because they like it" or not, eh.

[Durandal]

Here lies Potato Head (formerly Mr. Potato Head)--the latest victim to have their cojones gotten mercilessly terminated in this never-ending Cancel Culture Cyberwar X.

[vol.2]

There's a wonderful little scene where Hermione tries to be a dumb socialist hippy and free the elves, and everyone including the elves hates her guts for trying. Whether you want to interpret that as saying "you shouldn't feel bad for exploited workers because they like it" or not, eh.

Oh, the "free the house elves" thing. I think it's supposed to be a thing about how the enslaved learn to accept their roles because they don't perceive there to be any other choice about it. But maybe I got that wrong, I can barely remember.

[BIL]

Here's the timestamped coverage on Wednesday's Majority Report (they haven't clipped it yet):

https://youtu.be/6y_czdyncaM?t=4254

Thanks! Watching now.

It's really blowing up recently because the Harry Potter author just published her trans-panic detective novel. Lindsay Ellis had an interesting rundown of the history of tran-panic in entertainment in response.

I could easily be way off, but I thought she'd published the novel like a year ago? I don't really keep up with her, just impossible not to hear in the UK.

I owe Hotdog-chan a watch, for her liver-shotting not only Enemy Of Gaming MoobieBub, but ALSO poor Quinton - leaving both beardy creeps barfing on the mat, carted away by stretcher! So I am sure I will be brought up to date. She the kinda cold-blooded broad I like, gotta keep em away from the wheel though

Here lies Potato Head (formerly Mr. Potato Head)--the latest victim to have their cojones gotten mercilessly terminated in this never-ending Cancel Culture Cyberwar X.

Honestly, "Potato Head" sounds like either a callous insult, or a horrifying VD. I've got no opinion on this horseshit either way, just seems like a product affability downgrade to me.

It's calling like Mr. Heli "HELI." Now he's not cute - he's a machine! The "Mr/Mrs/Ms" has an anthropomorphising warmth to it.

I'm Mr. Bucket
You put your balls in my mouth

LMAO! Oh Mr. Bucket.

I'm Mrs. Bucket
You put your balls in my mouth

She any good, Mr. Bucket? Fuck am I askin' you for... you probably taught her how!

I'm Bucket
You put your balls in my mouth

"Police investigate after local toy Bucket fatally bludgeoned in unprovoked attack"

Yes, I know, it's "balls in my top." How about I put this DICK IN YOUR MOUTH (■｀W´■)

[BryanM]

It's literally just a logo change. Brands are desperate for attention.

I'm more partial to the KFConsole, myself. Hopefully one day we'll have a gaming console that can deep fry chicken too, which is just what the world needs.

[Sengoku Strider]

Perfection. Anything I add here could only lessen the experience.

[Mischief Maker]

[Blinge]

It's me, Mr Bucket..
I'm gonna suck on your BAWWWLS

[BulletMagnet]

A bit of food for thought.

Even though I'm pretty sure nobody has ever once actually taken me up on it, I'll propose my usual game: imagine for a moment that the fourth-grader cited in the article had written a paragraph in support of, say, Christianity, or free markets, or something along those lines, and had been treated this way by both the school system and the court system, because it might have upset somebody - even my vivid imagination is having trouble picturing the sheer magnitude of the shitstorm that would have ensued and continued unabated for years afterwards.

While I'm here, I'll also take this opportunity to note that the usual "these women are just too oversensitive" and "they infer what they want to infer because they want those tell-all book royalties" crowd has unwittingly ended up occupying a rare piece of common ground with yours truly by declining to leap, frothing with indignation, to Andrew Cuomo's defense, for, y'know, some reason. Presumably they've carefully reviewed the allegations against him and made their judgement purely on the merits of the case, as they always do.

[BIL]

Ah, it's Rolling "A Rape On Campus" Stone. I've archived the page. I do this with any article I post ITT, because this shit is 99% clickbait.

Even though I'm pretty sure nobody has ever once actually taken me up on it, I'll propose my usual game: imagine for a moment that the fourth-grader cited in the article had written a paragraph in support of, say, Christianity, or free markets, or something along those lines, and had been treated this way by both the school system and the court system, because it might have upset somebody

If I've read the judgement correctly, the school officially declined to publish the essay for reasons of age-appropriateness, this being a book for 10y/os and their families.

Appellant has not plausibly alleged that Pincipal Foster’s restriction on R.R.S.’s speech violated that principle. None of the justifications that Appellant attributes to Principal Foster’s initial refusal to include R.R.S.’s LGBTQ-themed essay in the fourth grade class’s essay booklet -- i.e., her concern about the age-appropriateness of the essay and her fear that the essay’s subject matter would anger the families of fourth grade students -- suggest that the restriction had anything to do with the content of R.R.S.’s essay. On the contrary, these justifications illustrate that Principal Foster was averse to the subject of LGBTQ rights appearing in the essay booklet.

If the school published essays on drink being a one-way street to daddy/daughter impreg, or GodCam knowing when you've pulled out of your bro's widow and busted in her face to snipe her kids' inheritance (#NOFAP), or abstinence from bareback anal granting +1 evasion vs God Napalm - you know, Bible Stories! - I would somewhat cock a snook at their defence. (only somewhat, I went to a religious school, they're well you know)

Otherwise, this looks like more of the ongoing conservative/liberal tug of war. Which will only intensify, I'm sure. Maybe Liz Foster genuinely keeps cocks and cunts off the dinner table. Or maybe, she is one of them thar TERFs! Being a TERF myself (I dislike Fallon Fox smashing women's faces in, even if he is incompetent enough that one eventually fought him off; I was unsurprised by the outcome of male rapist Karen White being placed in a women's prison; Chaz's show makes me wince, and Desmond's makes me ill), and also an anti-semite (I defended Nathan Robinson), and a baby-killer (RIP Savita Halappanavar), it's a fairly wide tent, one esteemed organs like Rolling Stone will find no end of fodder in.

When a private business makes a business decision about the best way to market and sell their products, that’s the essence of capitalism and something companies do every minute of every day. That has nothing to do with censorship or free speech. But, when a government stops an individual from speaking — that’s exactly what censorship is.

When my \M/ETAL AS FUCK tee featuring Baphomet-kun throwing horns and sporting beastly meat & two veg got 12y/o me sent home from Casual Friday, that's exactly what censorship was.

[BryanM]

10 year olds aren't retardos, but obviously the powers that be in public schools are. C'mon, "write an essay on society"? You only have four options there:

A. I love society it's cool we have slave owners, genociders, and rapists on our monies.

B. We live in a society.

C. Society kind of sucks ass.

D. Ignore instructions, write about something else.

As you all know, I'm of the opinion that without disagreement, there's nothing being said at all. So anything of type C would have been discarded as someone would be "offended" and complain. (But it's cool to tell 10 year olds absolute monster Christopher Columbus is a folkhero.)

Fallon Fox

oi...

Even discounting all other arguments, the point of these exclusive spaces (including things like Black history month) is to give people who'd otherwise be invisible a space to be seen or compete. Letting people like Fallon push others out is not in that spirit. They're probably doing this stuff to create drama and boost ratings, all for the $

[BulletMagnet]

If I've read the judgement correctly, the school officially declined to publish the essay for reasons of age-appropriateness, this being a book for 10y/os and their families.

In part, yes (ignoring that the principal is said to have openly factored in the potential reactions of local parents), but the court primarily defers to a previous decision which concerned high schoolers' submissions to the school newspaper, which determined that school officials do not violate their students' constitutional rights when they choose to suppress any material that could be considered under their purview as educators, for any reason.

This is the larger point that the article was making: the "free speech advocates" who inevitably pop up at convenient times like to brand themselves as the inheritors of Sir Thomas More's mantle, claiming that their devotion to free expression trumps all else, that personal viewpoints play no part whatsoever in their activities, have had precisely nothing to say about any of this, either the decision at hand or the precedent (and its subsequent interpretations) informing it.

You'd think that the people who are willing to make open calls to violence their hill to die on in the name of the sacred Constitution might be willing, if not eager, to weigh in on the implications of repeatedly allowing schools - you know, the ones who in every other instance are indoctrinating our children and cannot be trusted - near-total discretion in what they allow students to say out in the open. Somehow, though, this time it doesn't seem to rate their attention - as the article posits, this can only suggest - and strongly - that the specific subject matter that has run afoul of free speech issues - not the overarching issue of free speech itself - is the true motivator for their outrage, no matter how indignantly they insist that others are the ones who are dealing in "petty partisanship" for being so rude as to point that fact out.

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While I (more or less) agree with the sentiment of the article which is that the conservative right in the US is significantly more hypocritically self-serving than the dems (of which I am not), I think they could have chosen a better example than that. It's not unusual that kids are censored to read about sexual identity. Perhaps a bit of a grey area, but meh.

I think it's kind of a weak article and has the feel of grasping at straws. There are plenty of better arguments to be made along these lines which are made on a daily basis in better places.

Ah, it's Rolling "A Rape On Campus" Stone.

No doubt, but you can't hold the whole staff responsible for the worst thing ever done by one of it's employees. If we are holding news outlets accountable for spreading bold-faced lies, then every right-wing outfit would instantly have to be thrown in the grinder. Credibility in US media and politics is basically non-existent at this point; there is zero weight to calling out anyone anymore when they can just glaze over it or go on like it never happened. There used to be some integrity to the whole thing, but when people started to believe the political tabloids, that all ended. We are more than halfway to the Brave New World. Get ready for it.

I defended Nathan Robinson

Makes sense. It's important to note here though that the Zionist community is largely pro-trump. He is seen as an ally in the fight to cleanse the orthodox territories of other minorities. For example the Caribbean communities in Brooklyn which have been forced out of the fringes for years now. So it's more complicated than just one and done IAC.

I dislike Fallon Fox smashing women's faces in, even if he is incompetent enough that one eventually fought him off; I was unsurprised by the outcome of male rapist Karen White being placed in a women's prison

As well you should be (IMHO), but is it a gender issue, or is it the failing of the shitty, broken prison system in the US? The fact that there is a decent argument to be had that goes something like: were these assults worse than all of the other woman on woman assults that happen regularly in US prisons? begs one to really look at what's happening in our industrial prison complex. But I understand that's a lot harder than just pointing the finger at a couple men that did despicable things.

[BIL]

oi...

Even discounting all other arguments, the point of these exclusive spaces (including things like Black history month) is to give people who'd otherwise be invisible a space to be seen or compete. Letting people like Fallon push others out is not in that spirit. They're probably doing this stuff to create drama and boost ratings, all for the $

Bryan you TERFy bastard, if you die 2night I won't go to ur funeral

Spoiler

BECAUSE ILL BE IN JAIL FOR KILLING THE MUHFUCKA THAT KILLED U

If I've read the judgement correctly, the school officially declined to publish the essay for reasons of age-appropriateness, this being a book for 10y/os and their families.

In part, yes (ignoring that the principal is said to have openly factored in the potential reactions of local parents), but the court primarily defers to a previous decision which concerned high schoolers' submissions to the school newspaper, which determined that school officials do not violate their students' constitutional rights when they choose to suppress any material that could be considered under their purview as educators, for any reason.

Yep, I saw the precedent. 1988, highschool-aged children disallowed from discussing teen pregnancies, and divorces, in their school paper, if I'm right? Seemed more contentious than the current case, on the face of it. Those aren't topics I would want 12+y/os discouraged from discussing openly, let alone outright barred.

We certainly weren't, in our conservative church-run school. I'm surprised, tbh - not often my neck of the woods seems relatively progressive. Though as my uncle always reminds me, "America is a fucking massive country."

This is the larger point that the article was making: the "free speech advocates" who inevitably pop up at convenient times like to brand themselves as the inheritors of Sir Thomas Moore's mantle, claiming that their devotion to free expression trumps all else, that personal viewpoints play no part whatsoever in their activities, have had precisely nothing to say about any of this, either the decision at hand or the precedent (and its subsequent interpretations) informing it.

From where I'm standing (Nazi TERF Baby Eater's Front), he's rammed a square peg into a round hole - conflating a school's discretion to regulate what they consider age-appropriate in their publications, with some wider government crackdown on free speech.

Schools can suppress speech, technically. So can other state organs. Like Tinkletowne Constabulary, who have informed me and my lads that our plan to raise awareness of prostate cancer (kills men like breast cancer kills women, holy fuck) by marching naked up and down the high street, waving flags emblazoned "ONE UP THE BUM, NO HARM DONE" will almost certainly be prosecuted under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.

Shit sucks.

You'd think that the people who are willing to make open calls to violence their hill to die on in the name of the sacred Constitution might be willing, if not eager, to weigh in on the implications of repeatedly allowing schools - you know, the ones who in every other instance are indoctrinating our children and cannot be trusted - near-total discretion in what they allow students to say out in the open. Somehow, though, this time it doesn't seem to rate their attention - as the article posits, this can only suggest - and strongly - that the specific subject matter that has run afoul of free speech issues - not the overarching issue of free speech itself - is the true motivator for their outrage, no matter how indignantly they insist that others are the ones who are dealing in "petty partisanship" for being so rude as to point that fact out.

Oof blimey, way outta my orbit, that crew.

Do we have many of those sorts around here, any more? This is a pretty milquetoast joint nowadays, AFAIK. >_> I mostly enjoy this thread for the unparalleled MovieBob content - which I provide!

Ah, it's Rolling "A Rape On Campus" Stone.

No doubt, but you can't hold the whole staff responsible for the worst thing ever done by one of it's employees. If we are holding news outlets accountable for spreading bold-faced lies, then every right-wing outfit would instantly have to be thrown in the grinder. Credibility in US media and politics is basically non-existent at this point; there is zero weight to calling out anyone anymore when they can just glaze over it or go on like it never happened. There used to be some integrity to the whole thing, but when people started to believe the political tabloids, that all ended. We are more than halfway to the Brave New World. Get ready for it.

I'm spoiled by the News Of The World's falling on its sword RE: hacking Milly Dowler (teenager murdered by Levi Bellfield)'s phone, I think. :/

Not that the paper didn't simply dissolve into Murdoch's empire, reconstituting elsewhere. But it's rare these hacks so much as throw the public a bone.

I defended Nathan Robinson

Makes sense. It's important to note here though that the Zionist community is largely pro-trump. He is seen as an ally in the fight to cleanse the orthodox territories of other minorities. For example the Caribbean communities in Brooklyn which have been forced out of the fringes for years now. So it's more complicated than just one and done IAC.

Oh sure - not meaning to endorse him, or any other commentator. I just know the "criticise Israel? ur a Nazi" brickbat when I see it. For all I know, the guy's secretly a frothing Stormfronter. Certainly couldn't tell that by the tweets that got him canned, though.

the outcome of male rapist Karen White being placed in a women's prison

As well you should be (IMHO), but is it a gender issue, or is it the failing of the shitty, broken prison system in the US? The fact that there is a decent argument to be had that goes something like: were these assults worse than all of the other woman on woman assults that happen regularly in US prisons? begs one to really look at what's happening in our industrial prison complex. But I understand that's a lot harder than just pointing the finger at a couple men that did despicable things.

I should've clarified, the Karen White incident happened in England. I bring it up as, tragically, it's subject to the sort of hyper-polarisation our intrepid journos seem to be dining particularly well on, lately.

I don't see obliterating nuance like this leading anywhere good. I'm "anti-LGBT," because "Prison Governor Biruford, should we house this violent male rapist in our women's facility?" gets a "No, I'm afraid not, too risky" from me. The school is "anti-LGBT," because they decided to keep it G-rated for the 10y/os.

My country is anti-LGBT, because *record screech* homosexuality is punishable by ten years' hard labour, and our culture has a violently homophobic streak running from the poorest slums to the highest halls. Do you chaps know Beenie Man? He was gonna break big in the early 00s, with his hard-hitting yet expertly radio-refined dancehall RIDDIMS. Interviews in all the big UK music mags - I remember well, because I was a student at the time! Di white yute, dem a loved BEENIE! But then, you happening cats actually read his lyrics, and that was that. Raas!

DEM A CANCEL BEENIE

(I was reading about this poor kid campaigning for LGBT rights back home. Young law graduate, excellent schooling and grades from a leading US college, must've had his pick of training contracts over there. Decided to put that on hold and go back home to campaign, but had to wind it up because, yep, he was running a real risk of getting shot in the face on his doorstep. For suggesting we not prosecute gay people for existing)

I like being able to say "You fucking muppets, what did you think would happen" RE: Karen White without becoming Random Barbarous West Indian Homophobe #526,345,345.

Such subtlety is going the way of the dodo, it seems. >_> (I would admittedly take a belt sander to White's piggish mug, but 99.9% of people I'd go Full 80s Slasher on are random straight guys like me. Fritzls, Garridos, Castros, list as long as your arm! Be like Tom Zito's greatest hits when I get my hands on 'em! doesn't mean I'm an androphobe! an INTERNALISED androphobe, even)

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I should've clarified, this happened in England. I bring it up as, tragically, it's the sort of hyper-polarisation our intrepid journos seem to be dining particularly ostentatiously on, lately. I'm "anti-LGBT" because "Should we house this violent male rapist with a bunch of women?" gets a "No, I'm afraid not" from me. The school is "anti-LGBT" because they decided to keep it G-rated for the 10y/os. I don't see this leading anywhere good.

I should've done more looking into that. I just assumed it happened over here; apologies. Yeah, it's a weird thing that is. I can't say I'd think a violent criminal like that should be housed with anyone at all. I suppose that if the current system isn't sufficient to keep them from hurting each other, then they need to be separated, one way or the other. I'm not too informed about how things are run over there tbh.

I get your point, yes, there's a tight-rope when it comes to button-pushing issues. I have a sense that it will "calm down" eventually and level off. I think it's a period of readjustment to the internet and the massive changes in social discourse that we've seen over the past 20 years. Let me put it this way: I think that it will either calm down or get much, much worse, and the actions of a few violent criminals will seem like specks in the wind compared to what we will be facing. There's a good chance that the US will face some kind of guerilla civil conflict over the next 20 years or so. I guess I'm not super looking forward to facing that if and when it comes.

I'm not sure how things are going to shake out over there, but it seems like you also have some big moves with brexit and the big BJ in office; if things become domestically destabilized in the US, it could have a pretty nuts-ass effect on the rest of the world.

All of this cancel culture stuff will just be relegated to window-dressing; symptoms of the massive reorganization that the internet is inflicting on the world's social-culture brain.

[BIL]

It's so late here, I typed "Tom Zito" (infamous FMV gaming shitbird) when I mean Tom Savini (slasher gore madman)

[BryanM]

That reminds me that sodomy (that's oral or anal sex) was/is illegal under the UCMJ. The consensual with an adult version of this offense was/is punishable by: Dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 5 years.

I think around 70%+ of everyone was guilty of that one, including --> this guy <-- . Is it so fucking hard to like... amend that shit? Guess it would... offend... someone...

(But of course on the flip side carnal knowledge doesn't apply if you're married to the other person in question. Dem puritan 'murican values...)

In Spring, 2005, several news reports indicated that the Pentagon had asked Congress to alter Article 125 and possibly decriminalize consensual sodomy. These reports, however, have proven to be incorrect. Instead, it appears that the pentagon only wanted to reclassify consensual sodomy as a separate offense.

[BIL]

I was gonna say there's a great script there, about Super Badass Soldiers who save the president from ninjas, only to get thrown in the brig because homo. But then I remembered Alan Turing, an IRL Nazi-destroying superhero, who my England rewarded by systematically destroying his body and life via state-mandated chemical feminisation, after WWII was won. So never mind.

All I know is, when CHAOS A.D. arrives, if I'm gonna have someone hauling my legless body back home, it'd better be Hardass Gay Bloke and not Little Miss Can't Lift Shit. THIS IS REALITY TOOTS

It seems ROYAL FAMILY is in the CANCEL CHOKEY, as MRS. PRINCEHARRY says someone (but who?!) remarked "CRUMBS, WHAT IF THE BABY IS BLACK - LIKE U" "Sounds like Prince Phillip!" say our resident royalists. WRONG BITCH! Prince "No surprise you've gone slitty-eyed" Philly would never be so gauche. He'd wait until the happy arrival, then say something hideous!

So teh riddle, 2 ME, is: did Mrs. Marple make this shit up? That's the kinda thing you get reamed in court over. I have said it before

RIP BILL "TAKEN ALIVE? FUCK THAT JIVE" CONRADT

Spoiler

and will say it to the end of time. AMERIKANERS DO THE BEST JUNKFOOD TV Royal family? ZZZ. But now? PAPAPAP!

[BryanM]

God, Turing is definitely in a long line of scientists getting metaphorically burned at the stake as thanks for their contributions. It's a fuckin' miracle technology ever managed to advance this far.

The UCMJ sodomy law is kind of similar to all those laws designed to harvest slaves - a cudgel everyone's guilty of, that's been used to selectively target people their bosses don't like or want to get rid of. Hetero blowjobs - lose all your money and go to jail for five years. A crime the military lawyers and judges are themselves guilty of. I'd call it a farce, but it's just par for the course considering the sea of other bullshit we're drenched in. "Of course they'd have something like that".

We live in a society.

[orange808]

I am not a Brit, so I never really understood the obsession with the royals. I think it's a grift: a family business that does nothing.

As far as I can tell, the difference between the red haired one and the dark haired one is: the dark haired one makes public appearances and silently waves, while the red haired one makes appearances on television and blabbers on endlessly. Everyone cries because mommy crashed going 100 kilometers per hour to outrun: people with cameras. Well, I didn't know that lady. I mourn my own family and friends more than a complete stranger. Sorry.

[BIL]

Can I call 'em or what? OPRAH WINFEY confirms Prince Phillip is not in contention for BlackBabyGate!

Is this... how ANDY meets his end? A handy way to jettison the Pizza Express-loving royal, common enemy to the gravy train of HARRY and WILLS alike! Christ, this is cracking television.

ITS HARD OUT THERE FOR A PRINCE

The UCMJ sodomy law is kind of similar to all those laws designed to harvest slaves - a cudgel everyone's guilty of, that's been used to selectively target people their bosses don't like or want to get rid of.

I'd never considered this purely pragmatic angle. Then again, I wasn't aware US military law was quite so identical to Jamaican slums' ubiquitous "bowcat fi dead" (I'm guessing both having their roots in the barbaric common law Turing ran afoul of) - and the broadly equivalent mafia regard of men who allow their wives on top, let alone give them oral, as effectively gay.

I tend to read the latter two as simple honour culture one-upmanship (see also "we have no gays in Iran"). Who is the baddest shotter? The guy who'll murder you for going down on your girlfriend, duh! It may look (and indeed is) like bizarrely prurient savagery, to less primitive cultures, but those tend to have phased out murder as a source of social capital for any but their most elite.

(much has been written suggesting that there is a heavy degree of closeting, here - no safer closet than one that'll produce a hail of flying lead if you so much as glance at it)

So now I wonder if there isn't some of that cynical tactic in these shitholes, too (apologies to Sicily, I've never been - fuck Kingston, memorising bullet patterns IRL is shitty culture design).

Even in famous anime The Sopranos, TONY's wife reminds him he's guilty of the very thing he's lampooning his boss UNCLE JUN over! "I shoulda never busted his balls for givin' head!" laments our hero, after narrowly escaping officially sanctioned termination for his jibe! Perhaps he unwittingly attempted a pro gamer move on his superior.

[BryanM]

Before Dr. Seuss got wrapped up into the current smokescreen (bullshitscreen? I feel like there needs to be a word like bullshitscreen, but more elegant) to cover for the minimum wage not being increased+the increased aggression we're ramping up in the middle east, I had watched this yootob vid on his Midnight Paintings series.

I am not a Brit, so I never really understood the obsession with the royals. I think it's a grift: a family business that does nothing.

As far as I can tell, the difference between the red haired one and the dark haired one is: the dark haired one makes public appearances and silently waves, while the red haired one makes appearances on television and blabbers on endlessly. Everyone cries because mommy crashed going 100 kilometers per hour to outrun: people with cameras. Well, I didn't know that lady. I mourn my own family and friends more than a complete stranger. Sorry.

When Di died, a person I had never heard about before or since, my cousin was bummed out about it and even asked the school office to fly the flag at half mast. I was a big ????????????? about it, but whatev. Chalked it up to the typical motivations behind celebrity/authoritarian culture. It boggles my brain that people don't really care about celebrities but care that "everyone" cares, so I live by pretending it doesn't exist, like most nightmarish things I can't do anything about.

Thinking about it now, and considering his personality.... it was probably more to score "empathy points" with girls than anything else. Though it's not impossible the guy was a Princess Di fangirl before this happened, hell if I know or am going to ruin the mystery for myself..

When Di died

Also, what a name "Di". Probably a dumb easter egg in the computer simulation we're living in..

[BIL]

Before Dr. Seuss got wrapped up into the current smokescreen (bullshitscreen? I feel like there needs to be a word like bullshitscreen, but more elegant) to cover for the minimum wage not being increased+the increased aggression we're ramping up in the middle east, I had watched this yootob vid on his Midnight Paintings series.

I go with Mr. Lahey (PBUH)'s deliberately inelegant SHIT TYPHOON.

"Shit Typhoon's comin', Randy. Haul in the jib, before it gets covered in shit."

Nasty and undoubtedly deleterious, but by its nature, difficult to even countenance without distracting levels of instinctive disgust. That it's ragingly apparent as a big bunch of shit is largely the source of its power. 3;

Thought that was a riff on good ol' Saturn Devouring His Son @ 8m18s, for a sec. Terribly late here, video was worth staying up for!

Being a former colony who've never quite let go, we got a day off school for national mourning of lovable DI-HIME, who I thought was nice to talk about landmines and AIDS. Bad shit. The night of the fatal wipeout, I distinctly remember keeping the news from my granny, for fear she'd have a heart attack. I was retarded, me granny is tough as fuckin nails. But it did make her cry! Crazy shit, BUT TRUE I can't pretend to understand, but I think diehard sports fans are just asking for it, too.

"Thirty years of pain~" went that chart-topping song about teh footie. Football, it is coming home! They asked the cheeky cunt who wrote it if he'd pen another for England's latest WC massacring, and he chuckled "FOOK THAT, m8 - now its been fifteh years of pain!" <-- that's personal growth worthy of any shonen hero. Or Dr. Seuss!

...

Is JAPJAC still banned? I feel a sinister presence eyeing this thread. Show yourself bitch. Didn't the Germans hand Ingerland their latest WC bumming? Ha!

Anyway, all I could think all day was:

WEAR YOUR MUHFUCKIN SEATBELT KIDS :O
The one guy who didn't get turned into fuckin ravioli was wearing his!

"Ee, m8," said my bitch-ass cousin once, "Did u kno, if u wear a seatbelt, when u go forward, ur spine will rip out of ur back?" This from an especially moronic 10y/o. I bet DI-HIME is on record saying something similar. Probably in Hello! or OK! magazine. Kudos for raising awareness of buried munitions but now she dead. 3;

[vol.2]

to cover for the minimum wage not being increased+the increased aggression we're ramping up in the middle east,

And all of the other BS. Also the fact that our public transportation is fucked up and non existent and our health care system is worse than many poorer countries and our infrastructure is dilapidated and crushed beyond repair in some cases (look at what the fuck just happened in texass).

The circus must continue because, above all else, people get bored.

I have to admit though I was sad about Di. I guess I just get caught up in those things, but I still don't think it's okay that they tabloids killed her. It's all just kind of sick, and I don't really think she asked for it. I'm not an apologist for the monarchy. Fuck all that I don't care. But I can't help to feel bad if someone gets crushed like that. It's hard to ignore.

[BryanM]

Definitely a big proponent of seat belts here. A gentle hug while flying around in a death machine - what's the big deal? Are these people just too cool and macho to live? (Jesus, I just read a bit of a thread asking "would she have survived if she was wearing a seatbelt" and these fucks went "NO." Christ there are really stupid people. Always remember the nut test.)

I'm a moderate fan of DoNotEat on youtube - stuff like the real story of the killdozer guy (he tried to go on a killing spree because They wouldn't let him dump his feces into the stream), basic engineering of the systems cities use to keep things going, etc. He has a podcast where he chats about horrific engineering disasters with other nerds - faulty safety system making a train derail and destroy half a town, a crooked capitalist violating building codes to save money on his mall then heavy air conditioners on the roof collapsed the thing and killed hundreds, stuff like that. You get disaster porn and nerdy engineering porn all in one place.

All these elaborate, horrific man-made disasters.... and the latest episode is the completely innocuous-sounding "it snowed in Texas".

So much fuckin' death. From that.

The picture of the street where half of it is in Texas and the other half is in Arkansas says so much... the Arkansas half is plowed, Texas side, eh, not at all.

Thought that was a riff on good ol' Saturn Devouring His Son @ 8m18s, for a sec.

There's one o' those in his latest video on the corporate art style.

The corporate art style reminds of the phoney baloney "niceness" employees and such are forced to radiate at all times. "Your call is important to us" says the automated answering system that has you on hold for 20 minutes.

Icky.

Is JAPJAC still banned?

Still banned as a fuck. It'd be hilariously weird if he bounced back to postin' after a decade after an unban - he had less than a thousand posts, he shouldn't be that invested!

I think Shoe-sama was one of the only guys to get a second chance. Immediately created more threads about pizza or socks or something.

rip Shoe-sama ;_;

[vol.2]

Definitely a big proponent of seat belts here. A gentle hug while flying around in a death machine - what's the big deal? Are these people just too cool and macho to live?

It was in the news a lot, and there was a narrative built up around her. I'm not immune to that stuff, and I was fairly young. That's being honest; I'm not sure if I would care now, probably wouldn't be paying as much attention.

rip Shoe-sama ;_;

Couldn't resist looking this up. Found this one gem: "im not a troll i just like to shit in threads." Perhaps they just wanted to see how far things could be taken before the hammer dropped? It was interesting that of the few fully intelligible posts, moderators were mentioned by name. Like a war cry or something. An interesting glance.

[BIL]

Shoesama was too pure for this world. Banned for being a turkey. Cunts. 3:

I cannot believe it, shumps friends! O_O PRINCEHARRY say he mam, DI-HIME, left him 10million poundfordshires, just in case...

"My family or I were ever cut off." Oh no.

"She knew something like that might happen." Oh no!



OHHH NOOOOOOOOO!

Fuck a BLACKBABYGATE. This cancel calamity is going to resurrect the ravening ghost of...

GINGER CONSTITUTIONAL CRISISGATE
(aka Totsugeki! WANPAKU DI-HIME'S DOKI-DOKI CAVALRY FUCK FEST / "Charge! Naughty Princess Di's Heart-Pounding Cavalry Fuck Fest")

Is there nothing American television cannot improve? You know in this country, a blatant nonce JIMMY SAVILE ruled the airwaves for close to half a century, only outed after his peaceful death at ripe old age! In BURGERHOLT, you have kid-touchers blowing their brains out live on TV! It is like ROBOCOP directed by PAUL VERHOEVEN! I know which nation I will swear allegiance to!

(I'm sorry Burinju - PLS accept this second JPG of friendship, to continue the good accord between our peoples v_v)

Spoiler

[Blinge]

i am utterly floored
di-hime!

I'm so sick of this royal shit forever. some ginger peasant like me, (some people tell me to my face that i'm not ginger like they're doing me a favour lmfao)
like saying - WHAT!? you're not ugly!!
- anyway as one of her majesty's lowliest subjects, what do I care about the goings on of the ruling class, limey or yank. Someone said a racism to one of the people least likely to be threatened by racizm in the entire fucking world. Not gonna get a brick chucked at her on the street or beaten to death by an EDL is she? I guess she thought the royal family was a disney production.
The reality is far worse luv, it's the Beeb!

My family tried to talk to me about that shit in a zoom call. cmon man! I've decided in IRL that i'm gonna refuse to look at or discuss anything pertaining to royal gossip ever again. Simply refuse to engage on any level, respond with silence, say "i don't want to talk about that."
I wonder how much I'd suffer, socially. At least people will be spared my opinions.