I don’t think most of you shouting about this actually care about children or families. Sorry.
It is something a normal human should care about, but I don’t think most of you have normal human feelings when it comes to partisan issues.
If I understand things, Republicans don’t care about ending the child separation and Democrats don’t want to end it because they like it as an issue.
One could probably do a good paper on public choice theory about all this.
But if the problem is solved, then we’ll have to find new things to yell about. That could take… minutes.
Nazi Germany: Could it happen in America? Unlikely. Barely anyone here speaks German, so I don’t see how it could ever be more than fringe.
The retooled Ghosted is good, though now it’s just an office comedy.
The bright side of both sides being constantly dishonest to you is you can’t really be sure things are as bad as they seem.
Wait. Your solution to the problem is “elect Democrats.” We tried that. It was awful.
So now do we have to build family-size cages? How much of my tax dollars is going to this?
Wouldn’t it be simpler if the Democrats just argued for open borders instead of fighting every single enforcement measure?
Your two sides to choose from in the immigration debate are racists or liars.
journalists see picture of Obama in 2014 punching an immigrant child
“Look what Trump’s rhetoric has done!”
I loved the surprise at the end of the Creed 2 trailer. They kind of glossed over that in Creed (as the later Rocky movies didn’t really match the tone of Creed) but now they’re going for it.
It’s too late to fix The Last Jedi. Just start Episode IX with Rose being executed for treason for her attack on Finn.
The main thing holding back the pro-immigration side is the whole arguing against all enforcement while not just coming out for open borders. It makes you look like dishonest weasels which causes people to be dismissive of your arguments.
Another thing is the whole trying to blur the distinction between illegal immigration and legal immigration. People notice that and know you’re trying to pull as fast one on them.
If you see something written on the back of my jacket, know that that’s not supposed to be there. You do not actually have permission to kick me.
When things look unbelievably horrible, just console yourself with the fact the media is probably lying to you.
The only long term solution to illegal immigration is for Mexico to get a per capita income comparable to ours. That works pretty well at the Canadian border.
It’s funny how easily we parents can be manipulated by a picture of a crying child when from experience we know that small children cry all the time for no good reason and you can’t read that much into it without knowing the full context.
desperately
“Is she hurt?”
“No. I just told her she couldn’t have another piece of candy.”
The success of Jurassic World is almost as baffling me to me as the success of Avatar. I don’t even remember anything from it other than the feeling that Chris Pratt was kind of wasted in it.
I honestly have a hard time believing anyone is excited for the sequel to Jurassic World. Double so for Avatar.
Being constantly dishonest does not help convince people that you stand on unassailable moral high ground.
Journalists have ran with so many falsehoods to get at Trump that I now bet they’ve successfully convinced many Americans that child separation isn’t even happening.
Though we’ve taught language to apes like Koko, apparently the one thing an ape has never done is ask a question. So apes would not make good conspiracy theorists.
Seriously, though, that’s a pretty interesting distinction between humans and non-humans. Supposedly a parrot named Alex once asked “What color am I?” and that’s the only non-human example of a question.
Stop all the hyperbole. The only one worse than Hitler is Punchler.
When people say “organized crime,” I still picture men in pinstripe suits with fedoras holding Tommy guns, though I bet it looks different now.
It’s kind of unfair the right keeps focusing on the things the media gets wrong instead of the 32% of the time they get something right.
Did Donald Trump really autograph the pictures of the dead kids? I was kind of expecting something to come out that made that not as weird as it sounds, but nothing so far.
Do you think kicking people out of restaurants convinces them that they should rethink their politics or does it convince them that the other side is a bunch of hateful a-holes?
Trump is even worse than I expected and the alternative on the left is even more worser.
Rewatching Community, there’s only a few parts of the 4th season where you’re not thinking “This is the 4th season.” The body switching episode stands with some of the best, but a lot of the season almost feels like it’s fan-made.
5th season is back on point, though. Man, I hope we get our promised movie.
We are a bunch of spoiled rich kids who obsess on dumb things because we have no real problems except what to do with all the people trying to sneak into our awesome country.
Got a Raspberry Pi and got it up and running. I guess it’s just a computer until I get some stuff to connect up to it. Might just get a starter kit to do some projects with the kids and then we’ll figure out how to make our robot.
Might go with Python for programming since I think that will be easier for my daughter to learn, but I can’t get over my bias that scripting languages are for babies. I want to program embedded circuits in low-level C, like a man.
Found out I can also get an Arduino start kit with projects pretty cheap (like $30) so might get that too for further options. Could always use the two things together for part of our robot.
Pulled out my breadboard; I haven’t used that since college. Same goes for my soldering iron. I started out an electrical engineer, but work mainly software now. I want to wire things up. Getting excited!
Reason I’m doing this now is I’m creative with writing, but not my programming and electronics ability. So I’m going to borrow my kids for that. This is going to be the Axe Cop of robots. They tell me what they want, and I’ll make it happen.
Is there any dispute that women and minorities on the right get a disproportionate amount of hate from the left versus white males on the right?
I think the hate comes first from red versus blue tribalism and then the expression of the hate (racism, sexism, other bigotry) comes second.
Think of people making fun of Michael Moore. They’ll often go after his weight, though they wouldn’t make fun of random fat people like that. The hate came first, then the fat shaming.
Maybe we sometimes get too focused on how hate is expressed—racism, sexism—and not the root hate that would exist even if people curbed their sexist or racist impulses.
Many people have the idea its good to hate certain people. It’s usually of the form “these people are hateful, so it’s good for me to hate them.” I think it’s easy to see how that can end up being circular.
Parenting is easy. It’s just equal parts “Nice to meet you, hungry,” and idle threats.
It’s too bad Buzz Hickey (Jonathan Banks) was only in the one season of Community. His character and intensity was absolutely hilarious—I think a better funny old guy than Pierce.
Yeah, rewatching Community, the 3rd season got a little flabby (though it had some genius episodes), the 4th season was, well, the 4th season, but the 5th season is grade A.
If we had a new civil war, it would be the Seinfeld of civil wars—a civil war about nothing.
I’m fine with mobs chasing away Trump cabinet members as long as that also happens to Maxine Waters and the rest of the Democrats. No one from D.C. should feel welcome anywhere.
What gets my goat is not the suggestion that Trump and his cronies are too horrible to be a part of polite society but the implicit suggestion that his opponents in the other party are acceptable.
The problem with George Will’s column is he was accurate in how awful the Republicans are but just kind glossed over how awful the Democrats are.
Remember when a guy shot up a bunch of Republican congressmen playing baseball? Everyone still agrees that was a bad thing, right?
I don’t want a whole news cycle about Maxine Waters. I don’t think any more people take her seriously than Samantha Bee.
You can’t reason with Nazis. If history has taught us anything, it’s that the only thing you can do with Nazis is shoot them with your Gatling gun, find the keys, work your way through the level, and finally fight Hitler in a robot exoskeleton.
The way things are shaping up, 2020 will once again be a choice between two unbelievably horrible options and then you just vote for the one who doesn’t direct all of their hate at you personally.
watches “The Hysterical Idiot’s Tale” in which people watch “The Handmaid’s Tale” and actually believe it has some relation to reality
“This is just like what’s happening in this country right now!”
“I’m preventing the next Hitler!”
“No, you’re just a hysterical, partisan idiot.”
“I’m stopping families from being torn apart!”
“You don’t actually care about that.”
“I will never let this go!”
“You’ll forget all of this when you have a new thing to make fun of Mike Pence over.”
Can’t the left play some pen and paper D&D type game where they fight Hitler? All their LARPing is getting irritating.
When they go low, we go lower, and then they go even lower and so on until we’ve drilled into the earth’s core and the country is destroyed by volcanoes.
When they go low, we go high. Higher ground is a tactical advantage. Air supremacy!
Remember, there’s only one way to stop Nazis: Hate-filled mobs targeting undesirables.
Everyone wants their hate and anger to be righteous. That certainly isn’t something that makes you different than the Nazis.
Everyone just needs to trust mobs more in that they’ll only focus their wrath on who deserves it.
I do fell like I should get a “verified Twitter user” badge to wear so businesses know to treat me well as otherwise it will be a PR disaster.
The left make a good argument that Trump is a detestable human being who shouldn’t wield such power. They just don’t make a very good argument that they’re better and lately tend to argue vehemently the opposite.
“You’re the Nazis!”
“No, you’re the Nazis!”
“No you!”
“No you!”
“Actually, we’re both garbage people.”
“You’re right. Why are we fighting? Let’s be friends and make life miserable for everyone else.”
-my worse fear
Wow. Everyone sure has a lot of excuses for why it’s good for then to act like a-holes.
I can only assume because they’re kind, good people whose politics would enrich this nation.
What did Jesus say about enemies? He said to something your enemies. Punch? Yell at?
I dunno. Probably some silly Christian thing.
People are talking about “civility,” but what we have in this country are the exact conditions that led to the rise of Team Rocket. So while we’re all being polite, pikachu gets stolen. And then what’s next? Genocide. Or maybe they steal Bulbasaur.
Before you dispute my comparison with today and the rise of Nazi Germany, know that as a kid I repeatedly played the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D, so I know a lot about Nazis.
If you’re afraid of the rise of Nazism, luckily Trump appointed Gorsuch so there was a slim majority against government compelled speech.
The Supreme Court is dumb. It’s important to note this after every decision, whether you agree or disagree with it.
“We own that seat because the one justice died while our guy was president!”
Does everyone understand how unbelievably dumb this system is?
It’s fantasy to think the left were ever going to be as motivated about replacing Scalia as the right. Opposite would be true if RBG had died.
Survival!
Our immigration policy is just like Nazi Germany. The travel ban is the same as internment. This prickly pear is basically a hedgehog.
Told my 5yo how Trump is taking children away.
He looked up at me and said, “Good.”
“Don’t you understand. These poor kids–”
“Make America great again!” he yelled and put on a MAGA hat.
I’m scared. I’ve locked myself in the bathroom and he’s pounding on the door. Please help!
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