Some bajillionaire is gonna be PO’ed

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Aug 242022
 

A 129-Foot Superyacht Worth Millions Sinks Off the Italian Coast

It’s not clear who owns My Saga, which sails under the Cayman Islands flag. It was built by Italian shipmaker Cantieri San Marco and designed by popular British superyacht designer Tim Heywood. The vessel, which had a teak deck and could accommodate up to 12 passengers, was one of only 1,068 motor yachts in the 35- to 40-meter size range, according to Boat International.

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Not even remotely related, but substantially sadder:

 

China made their dugongs extinct. Good job, ya commie bastards. And pay attention you brain-addled reprobates who think that capitalism is bad for the environment: putting things into the hands of government is *worse.*

 Posted by at 7:30 pm

A “teachable moment”

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Aug 242022
 

As many have noted, there is a much greater demand for racism in the US than actual supply, so a lot of people simply invent it. This was the case recently where some kids from a little league team near where I currently live went to watch a game in the Little League World Series and caused a bit of a stir. What happened: one of the players on the Hawaiian Little League team, one Jarron Lancaster, has a blond-dyed mohawk haircut. Apparently the kid is good, so some of the players on the Davenport, Iowa, team wanted to emulate him. Being kids, that meant “look like Jarron,” which meant emulating his unique hairstyle. How did they do that? They yoinked the white stuffing out of some cheap stuffed toys and put it on some of their teammates heads in a *vaguely* mohawk-like pattern. They did this, again, to several kids. But what the national broadcast camera caught was them applying stuffing to a black kids head… which image was *promptly* leaped upon by race hustlers desperate for racism, because cotton + black kid = racism.

 

The kids on the Davenport team were promptly vilified by some of the worst, dumbest people online, the kind who are easily led and resistant to facts and explanations. Were the kids racist? Doesn’t seem so. The stuffing-mohawks were applied to white and black kids, in clear appreciation of a kid who appears to be native Hawaiian. This *should* be a vaguely heart-warming moment of cross-ethnicity good sportsmanship. But these kids just got a quick lesson in the realities of woke outrage culture. That might be rough for them now, but if they are smart, it will be a lesson they will learn and take to heart, knowing to never give the woke an inch, and to never, ever trust them.

The supposedly racist incident at the Little League World Series and the surprising truth

CBS Sports Anchor Lies About Little League Players, Calls Them Racists

Ugh.

 Posted by at 6:58 pm

Here’s all you need to know about the student loan thing…

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Aug 242022
 

So… people who didn’t go into debt getting unaffordable degrees in subjects they knew wouldn’t have a good rate of return will get bailed out by poor people who couldn’t afford college in the first place. Got it. This will incentivize not only academically useless students to take academically useless courses pursuing economically ridiculous degrees, it will incentivize colleges and universities to jack up their rates, because now Uncle Sam will be thoughtlessly paying the schools *even* *more.* This will make a higher education even more expensive to pursue, and more out of reach for those who aren’t rich.

The Dems hate you. They hate us all.

 Posted by at 2:51 pm

We need more of this.

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Aug 242022
 

I approve of how this small business owner handled this. Of course, this wouldn’t work in all cases; in the case of multiple thieves, you’re putting your life at risk confronting them. But if you can do so reasonably safely, especially if you have backup… then the more of this that happens, the less of this will *need* to happen.

@itssophiamilan

The cops also found $300 worth of banana republic, stuff from target, and Adam and Eve….Don’t steal from small businesses like mine okay?! #fyp #thief #ftb #womenownedbusiness #karma #iknowilookamess #htx #houston #houstontx #montrose #montrosehouston

♬ original sound – itssophiamilan

 

 Posted by at 2:31 pm

The one Twitter thread for *ALL* your reaction memes

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Aug 242022
 

So this guy says the dumbest thing imaginable:

Yes, it’s a stupid take, and he’s apparently not kidding or spouting satire. But he’s just some random goober, who cares. What makes the post interesting are the *responses* to it. Go take a look. Many a sensible chuckle to be had.

 Posted by at 12:54 am

I bet they wanted us to be appalled.

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Aug 232022
 

A video calling out Republican mid-term election commercials featuring guns:

 

Now, *nobody* should be under the delusion that Republicans in general or these in particular truly have the 2nd Amendment at heart. I accept that chances are *really* good that for at least some of these politicians, the guns they’re shown holding are simply props. But they are holding these props knowing full well that by doing so they will annoy the sort of horrible people who are offended at the idea of American civilians having anything like the sort of right to defend themselves that the IRS’s new army will have.

 

 Posted by at 5:25 pm

This video has it all

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Aug 232022
 

A video that starts with something VP Harris said back in January, something that every American politician *should* not only say, but believe and work to protect:

“Each country has it’s own identity, it’s own culture, it’s own history, and that should be respected…”

Yup. And “every country” includes *this* country.

But bypassing that for the moment, she then goes on to… well, is “lie” too strong a word?

 

 Posted by at 1:54 pm

Oh boy! Mayhem!

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Aug 212022
 

Putin’s inner circle fear coup after war guru’s daughter blown up ‘by rogue FSB agents or Russian resistance fighters’

PUTIN’S inner circle are on high alert after the daughter of the mastermind behind his invasion of Ukraine was killed in a car bombing.

Rogue elements within the Russian security services and resistance fighters who want to overthrow the regime are among the suspects in the Moscow assassination of Darya Dugina, 30.

Oh yeah. This is the sort of thing that *never* escalates.

So what should e expect to see? Enemies of the state hung, shot, disappeared en masse? An expansion of the war(s) to distract attention? Further assassination attempts, perhaps even targeting Putin? Bright flashes in the sky a few thousand meters above major metropolitan areas around the world, followed by a mighty thump and a strong warm breeze?

 

The Wikipedia article on Alexander Dugin makes for entertaining reading… the man is whackadoo at an advanced level.

In June 2012, Dugin said in a lecture that chemistry and physics are demonic sciences, and that all Orthodox Russians need to unite around the president of Russia in the last battle between good and evil, following the example of Iran and North Korea. He added: “If we want to liberate ourselves from the West, it is needed to liberate ourselves from textbooks on physics and chemistry.”

Snerk. But as funny as his nuttiness is, he is a genocidal loon who wants a Russian Empire that extends not just through the old Soviet territory, but into western Europe and American territory. He’d be laughable were it not for his influence on Putin. The fact that he’s close enough to neo-Nazi as makes no difference makes the Kremlins lies about invading Ukraine to combat Nazis even goofier. Kinda makes me wonder if the assassination attempt was carried out under *Putins* orders.

 Posted by at 11:50 pm
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