Remember Milo Yiannopoulos, the At-Rightish Breitbart “journalist” who used to call Donald Trump “daddy?” He apparently wants the world to know that:
- He still exists
- He’s no longer on the Trump Train
- He’s one of the worst people to walk the face of this earth
In a recent statement to Mediaite, Milo explained that he was breaking with his former political idol over his missile attack on a Syrian airfield — but hasn’t yet given up on calling Trump “daddy.”
“This is not why people voted for Daddy,” he told Mediaite. “It’s the opposite of why people voted for him.”
Yes, who could possibly have foreseen that the guy who wants to increase our military budget by $54 billion while cutting funds for Meals on Wheels might have a hankering to use military force?
But don’t worry! Milo’s opposition to “POINTLESS FOREIGN WARS” — as he put it, in all caps, in his brief message to Mediaite — doesn’t mean he’s suddenly become a decent person. Far from it!
Here’s why Milo says he’s against intervention in Syria in particular:
I’m as troubled by violence toward innocent children as the next sociopath, but those kids are only growing up to be oppressors of women and murderers of homosexuals anyway.
So everyone in Syria who practices a certain religion deserves to be killed, even the children? Milo Y may no longer be a Trump fan, but he’s still a fascist at heart!
@ Sinkable John,
have you considered a mini piñata delivery system?
I’d suggest a mould about the size and shape of a Rubik’s cube, or something else non spherical , deliberately not strengthened on corners.
Only one or two layers of a brittle paper like newspaper or tissue, minimal strengthening via criss crossing layers, use a brittle flour and water glue, a good long drying period under desiccating conditions.
To weight it well enough to throw hard enough to burst on impact, a small rubber ball along with the glitter.
If I had space to experiment at home right now, I would be seeing what I could achieve myself.
Alternatively, theres the traditional Easter craft of making a small hole in an egg shell, blowing out the contents. Refilling with glitter might be the most painstaking part, a temporary seal with candle wax should work nicely. Something that small should still fly well when lobbed…
Ooh! Now I’m contemplating using candlewax to form a wireframe type exoskeleton for a shape, then overlaying with a tissue paper skin, and filling with glitter…
You can buy (or make) spring loaded glitter bombs easily enough; it’s not like blast radius is a major concern. If you want to go down the gas route, airsoft suppliers sell gas powered grenades. Normally you fill them with plastic BBs but you could probably stuff glitter in there.
WHTM : come for the mocking of misogynists, stay for the DIY antifascist glitter funsplosives.
Here’s another idea : tea balls. Plug the holes with tiny polystyrene balls or some such, something that’ll come right off as soon as pressure starts building. Then find out what gas can expand brutally under circumstances that can be reproduced as a trigger – bearing general stability in mind. I’m sure no one wants to experience premature glittersplosions.
@Croquembouche
I understood about half the words you used there, but that does seem like a pretty sound and safe design.
Uh, I did say I ain’t no engineer, not to mention how ESL fails me as soon as things get technical.
@Alan
The problem with spring-loaded glitter bombs is that they rely on being traps. Not exactly something you can throw at nazis in the middle of a march. Airsoft grenades are pretty close to the kind of result I figure is needed, the problem is that those things might be a bit too expensive, considering there’s very little chance of being able to recover them afterwards.
Though I might just be heavily biased in favor of full DIY, discardable stuff.
Chuckable glitterbombs can probably be made by taking a leaf out of the playbooks of Stonewall and Fathers for Justice. Members of both groups made a burstable flour bomb using a flour filled condom (mixed with couloured powder paint to personal taste.) The colour can easily be from glitter.
@ sinkable john
One of my favourite things from military archeology was finding out that Roman sling-shotters used to write their names on their favourite ammunition so they could claim it back after the battle.
Sometimes they also wrote curses and insults too (a tradition you still see today of course on bombs and the like).
Thinking about it, I have a sneaking suspicion that you could use a leafblower and a funnel to make a magazine-fed glitterthrower.
@Sinkable John
A lightweight container with sufficient gas pressure will result in a bit of jet propulsion. There are some designs of tear gas bomb that do just this with an offset exhaust port. This causes the bombs to spin and bounce around on the ground, making them harder to pick up or throw back. The trick would be to set them off after you threw them, of course… a trigger on a bit of string would perhaps be the easiest system, like ww1-era hand grenades (which, admittedly, had a reputation for being a bit rubbish when it came to going off when you wanted them to).
http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/riot-skillz.gif
@ EJ
You can buy these things; they take both confetti and glitter. And can either fire in one go or blow a stream. They work pretty much on the principle you describe.
http://www.iwasthere2.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/glitter-cannon.jpg
There’s also some one-off pyro versions:
http://www.hfmgroup.com/img/glitter-large.jpg
@Sinkable: I don’t know what sort of tea balls you have in your area but I’d be worried about metal fragments that could actually be injurious. (Quite a few are also mesh around a metal frame and I’m not sure how you’d stop them up.)
@Alan: those big mortars seem like they’d be better to spray over a large rally or march rather than targeting individual assholes.
@EJ
There’s a thing called a vortex ring gun (or vortex cannon, or hail cannon or a bunch of other silly names) that might be useable. If it worked with glitter, it’d probably look pretty awesome, but you might need to use a very finely divided lightweight glitter in order for it to stay entrained in the vortex for long enough and that sort of thing might end up being a bit of a fire hazard…
@ pie
You can get some pretty impressive vortex cannons for raves and the like.
http://thegrue.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Look-at-that-smoke-ring-Imgur.jpg
I doubt they’d work with glitter though unless you ground it so fine it was neutrally buoyant in air; and by that stage it would be literally explosive.
@Alan Robertshaw
Its hard to say. There was some research back in the 80s on using vortex guns in riot control, with the option to have them deliver gas or marking dyes. The devices they were using would have been fairly powerful, but it evidently was possible to deliver liquids with them. They were ditched because they weren’t particularly precise and tended to make quite a lot of mess.
@ pie
Was that the project that used this thing? Basically a blank 40mm cartridge pushing a load of gas or liquid through a modified muzzle.
@Nequam
The tea balls I’m thinking about are basically metal eggs with a bunch of holes poked in them. The way I see it, it’s gonna take a lot of force to blow them apart into shrapnel, much more than is needed to pop the plugs out – so it should be safe.
Also with these you could teaball teabaggers.
there is also the risk of the airsoft grenade being mistaken for the real thing.
The far-right Islamists in the Middle East have basically the same views as the alt-right. They’re racist and sexist and support authoritarian fascist governments, but they’re not “white enough” for the alt-right.
The alt-right has taken the arguments that Islamic theology plays a role in terrorism and gone to ridiculous-land with them. They only care that they’re making people more bigoted, so it doesn’t matter how much they lie to their audience.
A big part of chan culture is the idea that “the truth” doesn’t really matter. It’s about deciding you hate people and going after them “for teh lulz.”
Ya’ll are over complicating things.
Or just put glitter in water balloons. Also food coloring. Put different food coloring in each balloon for more extra rainbowy gay goodness on top of the glitter. Summer’s coming up and you gotta ruin homophobes white shirts somehow.
@Jack
… okay, you win.
Also this. Hadn’t even thought of using anything else too. Talk about over-engineering and losing the essentials.
Re: eye danger
Don’t use craft glitter! Get makeup-grade stuff instead. Craft glitter is way cheaper, but some of it contains glass shards, which can have some pretty brutal consequences if it goes in your eyes or is inhaled. I can’t guarantee that the makeup-grade stuff is 100% eye safe, but it’s at least been produced with the explicit intent of being applied to your body, which makes a big difference in the materials used, making it far safer for indiscriminate applications.
Source: I’m friends with a number of burlesque performers, aka. walking glitterbombs.
Cheap, flimsy condoms filled with a mixture of water and glitter. And maybe some fabric dye (pink for extra misandry points.)
Sugar is also pretty good to put in water balloons or home made slime or glue or add milk, onion powder and vinegar to make a stink bomb on top of it. Something that makes them extremely uncomfortable and have to get away to change and get cleaned. Cheap flowery perfume may work for any protest anticipating those with fragile masculinity. Only thing is that you have to be careful with allergies then.
Of course, if you don’t care about them getting physically hurt or not, grind up some extremely hot pepper on it. Basically homemade pepper spray in water balloon form.
But the best part of using water balloons is that there’s already a large variety of launchers for them. Launchers can be easy to make at home, too, with gallon milk containers and broom handles or strong paper tubes and rubber hose, depending on whether you’re better with launching with a lacrosse stick or sling shot.
There’s also biodegradable water balloons, but I can’t be 100% if the quality is as good as regular plastic based water balloons but it’s something to consider.
Basically, water balloons are pretty awesome.
@Handsome Jack
For extra fun, put glitter in there too!
For Christ’s sake, what a stretch.
I know it is common practice to assume the worst about your opponent, in politics especially, but it’s time to be the bigger person.
It is not the case that Milos beliefs about the victims of violence in Syria is why he opposes intervention in Syria*, nor are these beliefs equivalent to “kill all the Muslims”(if anything, the sentiment was “kill all sexists and homophobic murderers”).
*If anything, his statement suggests the opposite, where good old fashioned ‘Murican Freedom getting carpeted over Syria makes everything nice and jolly.
If Milo did kill all sexist and homophobic murderers, he would have no friends left.
Since we aren’t bigots and trolls who start harassment campaigns against people, we’re already bigger people. By a lot.
And why is it on us to be nice to bigots/trolls/Trumpkins? I keep hearing this and I don’t understand it. Why should we be nice to people who are pro-rape? Why should we be nice to people who think that all brown people are subhuman thugs who don’t deserve to live?
When Obama won in 2008 and again in 2012, we heard all about how we had to be nice to conservatives and reach out to them. Now that conservatives won, isn’t it up to them to reach out to us? Why is it that no matter the outcome of an election, the people who support the misogynistic, racist, homophobic etc. platform have to be coddled?
I thought it was the left who were special snowflakes that need trigger warnings and safe spaces to protect us from anything we don’t like? Trumpkins went out of their way to mock the very idea that they ever be expected to act with any kind of decency at all. The consequence of this is that they get absolutely no benefit of the doubt at all.