Link of the Day: A Sad Day for Those Who Profit From Racial Injustice

[High Praise! to The Babylon Bee]

Media Disappointed Only 30 White Nationalists Showed Up At Event They Hyped

Bonus Link (true story via RedState):

SJW’s Flip Over “DOOM: Eternal” as it Mocks Leftist Political Correctness on Immigration

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Icebreaker: Do You Have a Favorite Plant?

Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data

76 Fun Icebreaker Questions

Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)

Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.

If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.

Do you have a favorite plant?

Generically, Venus Flytraps, because I love it when bugs die. I wish they ate more wasps and cockroaches.

Specifically, my Geranium Blossom

Random Thoughts: Space Force and Antifa

What happened to ignoring stuff? I never saw a Sarah Jeong tweet before all this. I’ve never been subjected to an Alex Jones video. Why go out of your way to be offended?

We’re going to have a tyranny of people with too much time on their hands. We don’t want those people calling the shots; they’re often just as big a horrible idiot as the people they rail against.

People need to learn to just deal with being offended. And also to not actively seek out things that offend them.

Finally, the Academy Awards listens to me. I had mentioned a “Best Comic Book Movie” category. Last year that would have been a contest between Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnarok, and Logan. That’s something people actually care about.
My next suggestion is you wait a decade before awarding best picture for year. Lessens chance of some picture winning that everyone will forget about in a year.

We need hate crime laws. It should be against the law to not hate crime. Stomp out crime love!

I’m so proud. My 2yo pointed up at the night sky and said, “There’s Jupiter!” And… she was so close. It was Arcturus. Jupiter was a little to the left. But still.

Even the smartest person in the world would destroy the economy if he tried to control it, but the people often proposing that sort of thing are as dumb as a turnip.

I’m nearing 40. I guess I’m too old for Space Force. I’ll have to go get my 5yo son interested in it.
“I hear whining. They don’t let whiners in Space Force.”

CNN actively trying to get someone silenced scares me more than Alex Jones.

I would have been excited about Idris Elba as James Bond five years ago, but now we have Space Force to protect us.

Yes, Ben Shapiro would absolutely destroy Ocasio-Cortez. No one on the left or right doubts that. So it would be a bad idea for her to do the debate. She should probably also stop giving interviews. Just say an occasional “Yay, socialism!” until the election.

Watching Luke Cage season 2. They spell out all the Jamaicans’ dialogue phonetically in the subtitles, so that’s no help there.

I’m bored now of Ocasio-Cortez. She needs to become a Space Socialist so Space Force can fight her.

me pitching a movie ten years ago
“So, somehow Donald Trump is elected president, and he creates a Space Force.”
“That sound hilarious.”
“It’s not a comedy!”

Come on. We’ve seen how Ocasio-Cortez does in a friendly interview. We’re dying to see what would happen with her in a debate.
Plus, it’s important in a functioning democracy to humiliate socialists as dumb.

It would nice if there was some sort of political movement with a coherent ideology instead of all these identity politics house of cards.
Also, it would be nice if the Nazis and Communists all stayed back in the 20th century.

Can’t believe its the 21st century and we’re still fighting socialists.
We should be fighting space socialists with our Space Force.

People wanting to dunk on a socialist has no more complex a motivation than people wanting to dunk on a racist.

Obscure reference I don’t think my kids will ever get: When they tell me something they think is distressing that I don’t care about, I say “Oh no!” in an imitation of Lex Luthor’s nephew from Superman IV when he’s spun in the air by the nuclear man.
That was the only thing that stood out to me in that movie.

My 5yo said he wants to be the first person on Mars and plant a flag there.
Then he said it was going to be a Zelda flag 🙁

I told him about Space Force and asked if he wanted to join. He thought about it for a couple seconds and said, “No. I don’t want to be killed.”
Always the pragmatist.

My 7yo daughter was more positive about Space Force. When I told her that aren’t really any bad guys in space, she said, “They’ll probably just drop bombs on bad guys from space so they don’t see them coming. Yeah, I’d like to do that.”

I still don’t quite understand who Omarosa is and I am happy about that.

So there was supposed to be some big Nazi rally and instead we got a bunch of left-wingers attacking cops and journalists.
Why don’t we all just calm down and stop pretending this country is on the brink.

The race war is being fought between two small, angry, violent groups of white people.

They should call it the “Luke Cage Punching and Musical Act Variety Hour.”
Misty Knight is my favorite and I can’t quite put my finger on why. It’s like she’s constantly smug… but somehow in a good way.

Maybe “fascists” and “anti-fascists” are like “flammable” and “inflammable.”

The Democrats’ support for socialism over Capitalism insane. Capitalism now has a more than hundred year record of feeding the hungry, lifting people all over the world out of extreme poverty, and giving us countless technology. Socialism has the same lengthy record of doing the opposite.

It would be nice if there was like this profession whose job it is to inform people so everyone would understand how much better things have gotten over the past century so people aren’t wanting to constantly cut off their nose to spite their face.

No one knows how much better things have gotten in the poorest parts of the world because no one actually cares what goes on there… they just like to pretend to care. Except for capitalists. They actually care because they can get richer making things better.

At this point, we shouldn’t even be legitimizing socialists by debating them. They should instead just be put in stocks and have tomatoes thrown at them. And we should charge $5 a tomato because capitalism.

When you look at the condition people lived in throughout history, we are an absurdly rich country. The only thing we lack is gratitude.

I enjoy Twitter. There’s lot of fun opinions on it. And I appreciate everyone’s passion.

Has there been any interviews with people who have donated to Strzok? I am curious about the thinking there.

What if the tape is Trump doing that Chris Rock bit?

It doesn’t make you any less of a man to discuss your feelings.
It makes you less of a man to have feelings.

I realize there’s some pretty basic—people did it for millennia—that I have no idea how to do without an iPhone app: Spot the planets in the night sky. I mean, Venus is easy, but I’m trying to think how pre-internet I would have been able to locate the others.

Just in case it hasn’t been said enough, Better Call Saul is very very good.

I could see some people not liking Better Call Saul, just like I could see a 4yo not enjoying a perfectly cooked steak.