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
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
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
Aug 232022
 

What does a black hole sound like? I suspect Lovecraft would have recognized it…

 

 

 Posted by at 12:46 am
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
Aug 212022
 

In a now-deleted tweet, Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov kinda lets the cat out of the bag regarding the Kremlins intentions towards the civilian population of Ukraine. In later tweets he claims he’s being taken out of context…. but the dude’s a PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMAT.

When a political actor who wants to hurt you SAYS they want to hurt you…. believe them when they blurt stuff out before they have a chance to really think over their wording.

 Posted by at 12:36 pm