Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ dad’s jokes are a fireable offense: Today in Tweets

@Podkayne Lives

Her health is now irrelevant to the public.

If she dies of the alzheimers she aparrently had during the election campaign, or of the psychic pneumonia juicebro gave her, how will she face justice for the buttery males?

I thought of a fractal joke. It gets funnier the closer you look at it.

Coincidentally, “Shrekli” sounds like the words for “terrible” and/or “horrible” in German/Dutch/Scandinavian languages…

If Shrek means horror or terror, and let’s say it’s paired with the Swiss/Austrian diminutive ending “li”, he would be called Little Horror, or Little Terror.

Nominative determinism strikes again.

Re: Cargo cult jokes:

Why is an apple red and yellow?

Because it’s got a purple tail.

(A friend’s 4-year old)

@History Nerd
I don’t think there’s any ‘correctly’ about it, because even in the US there are at least some laws about what you can and can’t say, and there are more here in the UK. More importantly, though, it’s kind of standard for Universities not to invite any old random, it’s reasonable to challenge stupid invites that should never have been made in the first place, and that’s not the same as preventing them from speaking. Otherwise I assume my invite got lost in the post? I’m being prevented from exercising my frozen peaches!

So VoxDay has a t-shirt with his own face but the caption “Supreme Dark Lord”. Like we should all be impressed that this two-bit internet shitweasel anoints himself the “Supreme Dark Lord”?
These guys remind me of a 4 year old. They present Mommy with a picture they drew, and when Mommy says “Oh, it’s so beautiful, honey!”, the 4 year old says “Yes, Mommy. Because I’m the bestest drawer in the WHOLE WORLD!”
NO VD, we aren’t buying that you’re the bestest dark lord in the world because you put it on a t-shirt.

But you can libel a whole group (“they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime”) and get away with it … and even run on that as your election platform and win public office. Bleah.

A major, and rich as hell, pharmaceutical player putting a goddamn bounty out for DNA from a hated political opponent. Wow. It really is the future.

And fuck all these news outlets painting him as asking for a “lock” of hair: he’s specifically asked for a follicle. It just highlights how incredibly disconnected they are from advances in genomic technologies.

You can libel a large group and get away with it. The more members the group has, the lower the probability that a defamatory statement should be construed as applying to a specific person, so the court presumes that there is no claim by default. It’s a different story in the UK, where it’s a crime to make statements that insult or malign members of a religious group. Many speakers are careful to make statements that are legal in the US but would be illegal in countries with stronger laws against hate speech (in those countries, they could usually make the same point, but they’d need to use less incendiary or insulting language).

The speaker list looks like Milo’s press people trying to troll left-wing students. UC Berkeley said the student group didn’t have a speaker’s contract with Steve Bannon as of Friday at 5 pm (only three speakers have contracts), and the group hadn’t paid rental fees for the spaces. Charles Murray said he wouldn’t be at any event organized by Milo Yiannopoulos. Murray is a #NeverTrump conservative and he hates Milo.

Most of the people who want to forcibly shut the events down are autonomist anarchists who support using direct action to deny any public platform to anyone with far right beliefs, but that’s part of a larger plan to get in a position to overthrow capitalism. They view capitalism as the main problem, rather than Trump necessarily, so some of them don’t care if they damage businesses owned by anti-Trump people. People used autonomist “black bloc” tactics at anti-war rallies in San Francisco in 2003 and allegedly have engaged in violence against police and property destruction in various protests in Oakland and Berkeley over the past view years. The extent to which autonomism is Leninist or associated with terrorism is pretty controversial.

I feel like a lot of support for militant tactics and de-platforming comes from thinking in terms of what people think right-wingers deserve rather than what’s effective or will lead to a positive outcome. Those tactics aren’t really how you organize protection for groups of people who feel like they can’t trust the police.

de-platforming

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That’s not a thing. It’s something the far right made up to try and silence dissent all the while pretending to be fighting for “free speech.”

They already got the media to treat fascists and evolution and climate change deniers like they’re credible by inventing a liberal bias in the mainstream media (Pat Buchanan admitted that they manufactured this claim to shift political discourse to the right). Let’s not treat no platforming like it’s a legit issue. It’s not. It’s a blatantly obvious tactic to get moderates and liberals to defend their “right” to be given major platforms to spew hate speech.

@PoM

I feel like sticking to the high road has caused the left no end of grief.

And a notable lack of victories. Indeed, in practical terms, ‘taking the high road’ looks an awful lot like ‘abject surrender’.