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

Vox Day-wearing-a-Vox Day-shirt

“It was like some fucked-up Escher painting, ‘The Perfect Eternal Jackass.’ […] There were layers of meaning there I couldn’t begin to interpret.”

Also, Vox Day looks like a bad photocopy of Scott Adams. “Or is it the other way around in reverse?” (Bugs Bunny, Bill of Hare [1962, dir. Robert McKimson])

The request from Shkreli is super creepy. He didn’t just ask for a hair. He wanted a hair with the follicle attached. He was asking for a DNA sample!

Weird Eddie, let me make it more normal for you:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/bungie-apologizes-for-destiny-2-item-that-resembles-neo-nazi-flag/

Game company get comments that a particular item in their game looks an awful lot like neo-Nazi imagery off the chans. They immediately apologize and push out an update to fix that (and, presumably, have a talk with the responsible artist).

And the comments thread goes wild! Any Ars readers here, spend a whole evening voting comments up/down. I recommend down for the neo-nazi apologists, up for the SJWs.

Huckabee on Cartoon Network? Pretty sure even the writers of “Teen Titans Go!” wouldn’t find him funny

@dr. ej,

Uhm, WHY would Shkelri want Hilary’s DNA for? Is he going to clone her for some nefarious purpose? Or is he testing her for what (perscription) drug(s) she’s on, and wishes to make that public?

I’m sure the goal is just to send the message that this kind of harassment is what female candidates should expect. It’s to intimidate her and put her in her place.

@numerobis

So, that led to this:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/08/what-kek-explaining-alt-right-deity-behind-their-meme-magic

which in turn led to this:

At some point, someone at 4chan happened to seize on a coincidence: There was, in fact, an Egyptian god named Kek. An androgynous god who could take either male or female form, Kek originally was depicted in female form as possessing the head of a frog or a cat and a serpent when male; but during the Greco-Roman period, the male form was depicted as a frog-headed man.

Waitaminnit … you mean the god of the alt-right, that bunch of racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and transphobic jerknuts, is genderfluid?

Bahahahahahahahaha …

I can’t wait for that Free Speech event at Berkeley! Bannon, Coulter, and whatshisface are going to LAY INTO the White House for this! It’s going to be glorious as they raise their voices as one denouncing this attack on a woman of colour exercising her First Amendment rights! And as they do, PewDiePie fans across the land are going to join in, raging against the idea that someone might lose their livelihood for just words, and the world will hear their song of outrage ring around the world like a choir of angry angels that will tear down this assault on freedom of speech!

I know humour is subjective, but every one of Huckabee’s gags that I’ve seen has made me think that he doesn’t really understand how jokes work.

I don’t know what Shkreli’s aiming for. He acts like he thinks he’s the smartest guy in any room, so I suspect he feels he has his future mapped out. But it’s hard to see what he wants, unless it’s “head of FDA in a dystopian USA”.

I can imagine Shkreli defending his tweet in court.

“Your honor, no reasonable person would believe that a) Ms. Clinton is really running a shadowy political murder cabal and b) someone with my reputation would really pay $5000 for a mail-in hair ‘after checking that the sequence matches'”

Arctic Ape:

“Your honor, no reasonable person would believe that a) Ms. Clinton is really running a shadowy political murder cabal and b) someone with my reputation would really pay $5000 for a mail-in hair ‘after checking that the sequence matches’”

“Mr Shkreli, no reasonable person would believe that anyone would pay two million dollars for a Wu-Tang Clan album… and yet, you did”.

@Pagan
I saw that! I mean, we all saw that coming forever ago, but… Given the chance to make their voice heard and get their ideas out about the economic issues about which we’re assured they’re super anxious, turns out it was racism the whole time. If only millions of people and the democratic nominee coulda told y’all