Postcards from the Clown Show

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1610408453998276611

"Follow their rules" ...

https://twitter.com/alexstein99/status/1610439225295486977

 

[Occam's Banana]

I was soooo tempted to inform Abby of her ignorance, but realized it was better to just let her have her L and move on.

Well played, sir.

My policy is: never explain your trolls to the cretins.

Just let them make fools of themselves for all to see who can or may.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/abs/lgbtqz/85A2B98B6708318C7C7DAAE40D15D4C9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
​

 

[CCTelander]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/abs/lgbtqz/85A2B98B6708318C7C7DAAE40D15D4C9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
​

Has anyone contacted the Nobel Committee? We may be looking at #122.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/abs/lgbtqz/85A2B98B6708318C7C7DAAE40D15D4C9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
​

The alma mater of Isaac Newton and Allen Turing, ladies and gentlemen...

Western Civilization - the jewel of human society - is a dead man walking.

 

[Anti Federalist]

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?


https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1610042220656365568

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1586397991656689667

I guess MSNBC and Raytheon didn't want him.

https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1610810803862769672

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/Casey5122dark/status/1611290349984440321

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/c...mercy/63-e4153262-ed95-4461-b57e-d8b90b6c6c4c

Missouri state Corrections Department spokeswoman Karen Pojmann:

The Left DEFENDS Trans Killer
In this video I discuss the news surrounding Missouri's controversial death penalty case that was in the news this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZqQi0Y7-pA

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1611409640167718920

 

[A Son of Liberty]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1611409640167718920

The best thing about the modern world is that everyone has a chance to speak their mind.

The worst thing about the modern world is that everyone has a chance to speak their mind.

We live in the stupidest time in human history. Someone needs to find Biff, kill him, and take the Sports Almanac back to 1955 so Doc Brown can destroy it like a good, thoughtful mad scientist.

 

[Anti Federalist]

The best thing about the modern world is that everyone has a chance to speak their mind.

The worst thing about the modern world is that everyone has a chance to speak their mind.

We live in the stupidest time in human history. Someone needs to find Biff, kill him, and take the Sports Almanac back to 1955 so Doc Brown can destroy it like a good, thoughtful mad scientist.

+rep

Made me chuckle.

Hope you and yours all had a good Christmas season.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Forgot to pay my picture tax

 

[A Son of Liberty]

+rep

Made me chuckle.

Hope you and yours all had a good Christmas season.

Thanks bud, you too! Talk soon!

 

[Occam's Banana]

This "context" label is being applied by YouTube to certain videos (such as this one by Glenn Greenwald):

Notice that the alleged "context" is essentially nothing but a repetition of the same words in a different order - "The January 6 United States Capitol attack [...] was [an] attack [...] at the United States Capitol [...] on January 6" (duh!) - with the phrase "domestic terrorist" shoehorned into it.

IOW: YouTube's "context" labels are just furtive assertions disguised by vacuous verbosity.

Not that anyone around here will be at all surprised by this, of course - I just find it amusingly (and pathetically) ham-fisted.

Who do they think they're fooling?

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Who do they think they're fooling?

95% of the general population?

 

[Occam's Banana]

95% of the general population?

But that can't be it. At this point, anyone who hasn't already drunk their Kool-Aid isn't likely to start just because of YouTube's ludicrously clumsy attempt at "context" - especially as it is attached to a video by a reputable journalist who purports to challenge and debunk "The Enduring Media Lies Surrounding January 6" (per the video title), and given that watching that video is presumably the reason why any visitor to that page who sees that "context" is even there to begin with.

IOW: Anyone at all likely to watch Greenwald's video is not also likely to be swayed by YouTube's absurd "context" label, and anyone who is likely to be swayed by YouTube's absurd "context" label is not likely to be there to see it in the first place. So what's the point, apart from echo-chambered self-reassurance?

 

[CaptUSA]

This "context" label is being applied by YouTube to certain videos

You know... This is a good thing. These labels have really become to represent "Official State Narrative".

So it's easy for people. When you see a "Context" label, you're seeing the OSN label. Who says the government isn't effective??

 

[cjm]

You know... This is a good thing. These labels have really become to represent "Official State Narrative".

So it's easy for people. When you see a "Context" label, you're seeing the OSN label. Who says the government isn't effective??

The OSN label tells me the content is worth looking at.