Labor Day Tribute to the Grotesque Old Party

Regarding Piers Morgan, I did occasionally read the Mirror under his editorship when it was the only tabloid to oppose the war on Iraq. That said, I also have a broken watch that’s right twice a day, so…

I’m not DanHolme anymore; I re-read ‘Fungus the Bogeyman’ for the first time in 30 years last week and was reminded that my spiritual home is a terraced street in a cold, quiet, dark, rainy northern town miles below the feet of humankind. Or Buxton, as some people call it.

Hi everyone.

Same as Pie about that whole Diana conspiration theory. I think there is no rational reason to believe it was anything but an accident. Especially since she did not have any link with the Crown anymore.

The Diana thing was very comprehensively investigated at the inquest.

I can see why people were suspicious, but perhaps it should be noted that Al Fayed’s own barrister abandoned the claims of conspiracy and accepted they were completely without foundation once the evidence was heard. And that was well known radical Mike Mansfield, hardly a pillar of the establishment.

Hello.

Off topic, sorry.
This time, it is not against women in video games, but it seems that gamegaters are still hating people.
The article is about the backlash a journalist, Dean Takahashi (of VentureBeat), get for having posted a video of him failing while playing a video game. Your dear Gamergate friend Ian Miles Cheong was notably one of the first to criticize, saying that being bad at one video game disqualify the person to be a video game journalist.
Yeah. I mean, i am pretty sure every war reporter can beat with a single hand any commando trooper, because if the reporter can not, that disqualifies the reporter to be a war journalist. And with the same logical fallacy, if a journalist can not draw, paint, take artistic photoshoot, write poems and novels, shoot movies and so on, the person can not be an art journalist.
There are journalism schools, but it is probably to make journalism journalists and certainly not any other topic journalists.
Of course, many “gamers” and, sadly, some other videogames journalists, jump in the bandwagon of acid critics.
Let us remember that they have also welcomed Yannopoulos as a techno journalist.
Alas, like the nazis, the Gamegate beast is not dead yet…

Out of topic 2
Does someone know a good free software to write music sheets ?

Have a nice day.

occasional reader:

Your dear Gamergate friend Ian Miles Cheong was notably one of the first to criticize, saying that being bad at one video game disqualify the person to be a video game journalist.

Good grief. Penny Arcade has been commenting on gaming for nearly twenty years, blossoming into much more than a webcomic, and yet Jerry Holkins (Tycho) readily admits to sucking at many games. Does that make him a fake gamer?

I broke two ribs at a company picnic a few years ago. It was uncomfortable, and I had to be careful how I moved for a couple of weeks, but it didn’t prevent me from working or going about my daily activities. There’s nothing “manly” or otherwise about getting on with things when you’re not in 100% physical shape. It’s just what life is. That being said, it’s dangerous and irresponsible to shame people into ignoring pain and pushing themselves. That’s what leads to boys playing football with concussions, and men not seeking help when they’re depressed.

As for the GOP, they’re within reach of their decades-long endgame to consolidate power and create a permanent Republican majority. They control the presidency, the Supreme Court, Congress, almost 3/4 of state legislatures and governorships, and a sizeable chunk of the military and police. The US electorate is starting to wake up to that and resist, but it may be too late. A lot of outside factors like climate change, peak oil, and NK becoming a full-blown nuclear power are now converging that threaten to create chaos, uncertainty, and social unrest within the next couple of decades – and that’s exactly what authoritarianism needs to thrive.

On the other hand, there are more of us than there are of them, and what we’re fighting against is actually real. The alt-right is fighting against bogeymen, fueled by fake news and manufactured outrage. I don’t for a minute doubt the power of the Big Lie to persuade ordinary people to commit violence, but by and large the alt-right is made up of selfish, venal cowards in khakis who prance around in their fantasies, but snivel on camera the moment they have to pay any real-world consequences for their horrendous beliefs. Push back, and they wilt. Whether any of them would put their own lives on the line for their infantile orange god-emperor remains to be seen.

The one of Trump backed by the Trumpkins is straight out of George Grosz.

Paul Ryan seems to be decaying along with the corpses of butchered horses, yet still look smug.

May the work of these images be done swiftly.

And to all of you, if you have a Labor day, have a happy one.

Piers is at it again….

https://www.the-pool.com/news-views/latest-news/2017/36/john-lewis-abandons-gender-labels-on-children-s-clothes

I think it was Alan Rickman who upon being asked how he can portray such compelling villains, replied “Villains don’t wake up in the morning and say ‘Gee, what kind of evil can I do this morning?'” As despicably evil as Republicans are, they aren’t Snidely Whiplash; clearly they need the esteem of friends and family in order to go to sleep at night and look themselves in the mirror without walking in front of a bus. So I’m wondering what it takes to actually shake these guys out of the self-reinforcing Ayn Rand Chicago School Reaganomics bubble they’ve retreated to.

I mean, which of Paul Ryan’s kids needs to come home and ask him why one of her friends is losing health insurance or is scared about ICE agents busting down the door in the middle of the night? I realize I’m fantasizing insofar as the children of a wealthy Republican being in a public school and interacting with poor people, but certainly somebody these people interact with and care about the opinion of must have a conscience. Whoever that person is… they’ve gotta step up, because whatever “good” these monsters think they’re doing is hurting a lot of vulnerable people and there’s already been too much death and suffering one can place squarely at the feet of GOP greed and incompetence.

The whole party needs to be burnt to the ground and the earth salted.

@Zephkiel re: Piers: If even Jeremy Clarkson wants to punch him in the face…. 😉

@Virgin Mary

The death of Diana was different.

No.

There are a lot of things which do not add up.

No.

The royal establishment are misogynists, and only view their women as breeding stock, seeing their prize heifer with a coloured man made them very angry indeed.

This is exactly why queen liz stepped down and handed over the reins of, uh, her reign, to a man, her son. Because the misogynist establishment wouldn’t want her at the top, right?

And seriously, “prize heifer”? Dude.

I concur: everything actually add up for the official, and true, version.

It’d be nice if we could leave the weird conspiracist thinking to the right wing. Living in reality rather than fantasy will help us defeat the right.