After Hillary puts them in the spotlight, Nazis Nazi-splain the alt-right on Twitter

@Axecalibur: Oh, someone beat me to it. That’s what I get for not reading all the comments.

EDIT: Oh fuck, it’s in the middle of David’s last post.

In my defense, I’ve been knackering myself with Pokemon Go.

Shouldn’t people who claim to champion freedom of speech also champion “shaming?” Why are you allowed to say sexist, racist, or homophobic bullshit but I’m not allowed to call you on it? How does verbal criticism silence you? It’s just ironic how the people who disdain sensitivity are this sensitive.

I’m not sure why Professor Stockphoto up there is going on about race in front of a chalkboard full of differential equations. That could be an interesting class. (Or maybe he just forgot to erase the last lecturer’s notes, I suppose.)

Won’t someone think of that poor pug?! Pugs are not for eating! 😛

I’ve started to obsess over the food on that table now. It’s… eclectic. I see salad vegetables, pecan pie, charcuterie with crackers, pumpkin pie, potato salad and an assortment which defies description. The last plate screams “5 mins before the guests arrived, I panicked that there wasn’t enough food and emptied the contents of the fridge onto a plate”. Who hasn’t done that?

So I think the processed meat is the pug’s next target.

I applaud that pug’s self restraint. Any of the pets I’ve owned would have dove head first into that tray of cold cuts.

(So alt-right is coldcuts and crackers, crudite, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, a giant bowl of mashed potatoes, more cold cuts and crackers, and is that macaroni salad in the back?)

OT: Trump Doctor Wrote Health Letter in Just 5 Minutes as Limo Waited

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-doctor-wrote-health-letter-just-5-minutes-limo-waited-n638526?cid=sm_tw

@ Sinkable John

I think you’re right. I’m a novice at this but their feed isn’t a screed of awfulness, plus there’s this from Aug 23:

“When is the straw man that tolerance means “putting up with literally anything without a fight” going away? It’s lasted soooo long”

ETA Also on Aug 21 they retweeted a sign in a shop saying there was a surcharge for anyone wearing Trump propaganda, with no negative comment attached.

Sorry for not sharing screen grabs or what have you. I haven’t worked out the tech quite yet, despite the useful how-tos I’ve seen here.

ETA Plus their name is French for “fizzy drink” which is not the kind of name I’d expect.

@Weatherwax:

https://youtu.be/ivmng_vCKx4

@Falconer

Yes! Thank you!

I think there was a dog food ad a few years ago in the UK which inspired me. Dogs were working collaboratively to break into a vault containing said food, involving the Tom Cruise move. But I think it was a Jack Russell rather than a pug, and I don’t know if the music was used.

Still, hamsters would be better.

@Alan Robertshaw

Consider Road names. When we say, for example, Oxford Street we put the stress on the first word, but when we say Park Avenue we put the stress on the second word.

Anyone know why that is?

It all started with Della Street . . .

Something I’ve been pondering for years now is how we know that a proper noun (for example, Della Street of Perry Mason fame) is a person’s name and not the name of a roadway is the emphasis:

Della Street
vs.
Della Street

By the way, have you ever noticed that many of the names in the Perry Mason books and TV series are also nouns?

Perry Mason
Della Street
Hamilton Burger
Paul Drake
Lieutenant Steve Drumm
Gertie Glade (My favorite character — she’s the receptionist who’s always filing her nails)

It’s good that I have something to occupy my mind while I’m doing dishes and such.

Speaking of explaining the alt-right, a few days back Vox Day gave it a go, trying somewhat harder than the Tweets above. It’s the usual alt-right dross, but a few things leaped out at me.

The Alt Right is scientodific. It presumptively accepts the current conclusions of the scientific method (scientody), while understanding a) these conclusions are liable to future revision, b) that scientistry is susceptible to corruption, and c) that the so-called scientific consensus is not based on scientody, but democracy, and is therefore intrinsically unscientific.

Vox Day: A creationist who demonstrates his scientific prowess by pulling words out of his ass.

The Alt Right doesn’t care what you think of it.

This is a movement that begins screaming incoherently over any and all criticism, then starts jabbering about free speech and censorship.

The Alt Right believes we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children.

There’s nothing classier than paraphrasing a terrorist (in turn paraphrasing Mein Kampf).

The Alt Right is a philosophy that values peace among the various nations of the world and opposes wars to impose the values of one nation upon another as well as efforts to exterminate individual nations through war, genocide, immigration, or genetic assimilation.

Aw, Vox only wants peace! Any race wars are the fault of those damn multicuturalists because “diversity + proximity = war!” Vox said it, so of course it’s true!

Remember though, this is only a work in progress! I’m sure Vox can improve it immensely over time!