I posted this YouTube video before, but for some reason it seems relevant again:
I would hesitate to suggest doing this at the next ANTIFA gathering; they might beat you to death with a bike lock.
Also: a better approach than violence and destruction for all those Confederate monuments:
Ha. HA! I say!
This is making the rounds… a supposed “ANTIFA Manual” supposedly found at Evergreen State College. Is it for real, or is it satire? I would *guess* the latter; there are some things in this that seem to be a bit over the top even for the fascists in ANTIFA… but I just don’t know. How to tell these days?
And if it is satire… you can bet that there will be ANTIFA members, or the ANTIFA-adjacent, who will read the thing and nod along.
The YouTube video is an audiobook of the thing, as read by a robot.
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Oh, and there’s also this bit of followup:
(No, not *mine.* Dream on, haters!)
In light of recent gloomy events, I hereby present the video that has made me laugh the hardest in the last week or two:
This looks pretty good:
Comes out in October. Order it here, because… why wouldn’t you?
Yesterday:
Followed almost immediately by media types laughing at him for being an idiot for suggesting anything so obviously silly.
And then…
Bishop James Dukes, pastor of Liberation Christian Center in Chicago, wants a George Washington stature removed, and in order to save some money, the Andrew Jackson park should be renamed for Jesse Jackson or Michael Jackson.
Poe’s Law is now in full effect re: statues.
The fallout from the National Socialists Vs. Socialist Socialists kerfuffle in Virginia continues. One event was a group of people pulled down a 90+ year old statue of a Confederate soldier in Durham, North Carolina. This is one of those “yeah, but on the other hand” sort of things.
On the one hand, monuments to the Confederates are akin to the Germans setting up monuments to their wartime military. The Confederates were losers in every sense of the word… they were fighting for an immoral and fundamentally doomed cause and they were fighting a bigger, richer, more powerful and industrialized neighbor who effectively surrounded them. Even had they won their independence the CSA is unlikely to have long survived as their cultural basis was weak at best and they now had no way to retain states that decided to go their own way. And, of course, they were losers because they *lost.* Waving Confederate flags proudly always struck me as being on the same level as proudly displaying your straight-F report cards, or the arrest record of your idiot grandfather who was a drunkard and an incompetent bootlegger.
On the other hand… tearing down statues that YOU DON’T OWN is necessarily criminal. If you were to do this and get away with it – and if you read the article, there are people DEMANDING that those arrested be given amnesty – then if the statue is replaced by something you *do* approve of, then someone else can come along and tear *that* down.
But here’s the real head-scratcher – the name of the person arrested: Taqiyah Thompson.
Taqiyah?
That’s, ummm… a little strange. I’m not sure if it’s ironic or on the nose to be named after the Islamic principle that it’s ok to lie to non-Muslims for religious purposes (some claim that it’s only ok to do so when they are in immanent danger of bodily harm, but then they also claim that “Jihad” is only about a spiritual struggle within yourself, not blowing yourself and a whole bunch of innocent bystanders to bits).
Also, who is Taqiyah associated with? Why, the Workers World Party, of course! These folks aren’t “Socialist,” they are all about Marxist-Leninist Communism. Of Course they are. How adorable to complain about the evils of the Confederacy while supporting the evils of Communism, a system that enslaved and murdered many more millions than the CSA ever dreamed of.
I’ve heard a lot of hysterical screeching since January that the US today is “a lot like 1930’s Germany.” Yeah, but it’s not. A far closer analogy would be *1920’s* Germany, which saw the rise of Fascism as a response to the Communists, with street battles between national socialists and outright communists. *THAT* seems like about where we are these days. So, congrats, Workers World Party and fellow travelers: like your ancestors of 90 years ago, your idiocy has helped foster an equally idiot fascist response.
Yeah, this video is quite a number of years old, but it’s still a hoot. I’m pleased that the attempt at the end by the human to sow additional discord backfires.
As recent events show (not only in public, but in the comments section of this blog and *all* *over* the media today), there are a whole lot of people who see the world in extremely black-and-white terms… at least when it comes to politics. You’re either full-throated hyperventilating in support of Side A, or you’re a supporter of Side B. But the reality is different: sometimes when presented with “two sides,” you realize they both suck. And thus, this headline is the greatest wisdom that I wish people would learn:
A pox on both their houses. Both “sides” are filled with irrational hate-filled reprobates. The media today is yammering on about there’s no comparison between neo-Nazis and Antifa, because Nazis murdered millions of people; but the commies murdered millions *more* people. Anyone who glorifies the Nazis is either a dumbass or a jackass (and likely both)… and the same applies to anyone who glorifies the communists. The big difference between the two is that supporters of the Nazis are extremely few and nobody who’s not a Nazi wants to associate with them; while there are a whole lot of folks who think that Communism and socialism are just awesome, and there a lot of people who may not agree with them, but who will run alongside the commies without second thought.
Plus:
OK, so let’s say I have a whole bunch of files… because I do. I can of course scan through them via Windows File explorer. But let’s say I want that data… say, file name, file size, date, etc… into an excel file. Or I want pages and pages of the “large icons” for lookin’ through purposes. Any ideas/suggestions?
Here’s an ok video about the Davy Crockett nuclear weapon. This was a dinky device… a recoilless-rifle launched projectile with a simple mechanical timer and a yield of around 25 tons (not kilotons… tons). It was really only meant for one thing… tormenting the hordes of Soviet infantry and armor that was expected to come pouring into West Germany Any Day Now.
I’ve been wanting to make a 1:1 scale replica of the M388 projectile for years, but I’ve never found the time.
Aww. Ain’t that adorable?
Also: