Neo-Nazis charged with attempted murder after shooting following Richard Spencer speech: Today in Tweets

@Gussie Jives:

A person’s stance on abortion is one of those tells for me when it comes to people

I agree vehemently, because, you know.

Generally speaking I view people who want to make it illegal as misogynistic monsters and treat them accordingly. This is, I’ve been told, an extreme position and also I should care about their feelings. About their feelings:
The best claim in their favor is that they are ignorant about every single thing concerning abortion. The history. The science. The actual statistics. It’s actual societal impact (which I can’t help but feel is their actual issue).
Which is of course an argument that their feelings and they themselves should fuck right off and get themselves properly fucked, because ignorance and a feeling of “Whaa-whaa-whaa!” is not a reason to kill women.

People who (honestly) propose limits on abortion are generally ignorant and looking to find a middle ground between people who want to kill women, and the ones who don’t. But they shouldn’t be allowed to take that middle ground of 16/18/20/22 weeks, because it’s leverage for the forced birthers, and also, why should we even be able to force women looking for an abortion at week <insert arbitrary number here> to carry to term?
What about this non-sapient, non-sentient, non-neuroresponsive foreign body makes it special? And what about it’s assumed specialness makes it okay to force women to risk their lives to bring it into this world?
And if your argument is ensoulment, I’ve got here an ensouled magnum bottle whose singular desire is a high impact encounter with your teeth, and you can’t deny the desires of something ensouled, can you?

And now, for something completely different:
@Alan Robertshaw:

Came downstairs to find some random stranger sat at the kitchen table with my ferocious hound Sassy having her ears scratched.

@varalys the dark:

Someone tried to steal her and nearly succeeded because while Afghan Hounds are gorgeous and make lovely family pets, they are also as dumb as a box of rocks and will wander off with anyone. Our cat was a better defender of the family home than our dog was.

@varalys the dark:

Me: “Time for a walk and don’t look like that, you need at least an hours walk a day”

Her: “I bloody don’t”.

Me: “No, you DO, the Afghan Hound responsible users manual says so”.

Her: “You made that up.”

Me: “No, look, c’mon I don’t want to do this either and.. please come out from under the sofa”.

While I’m generally of the opinion that dogs are smarter than cats, if forced I’d have to acknowledge that it is a comparison of “bag full of rocks” vs. “bag full of hammers”.

My dog is all of 13-14lbs and she terrifies all the guys that I’ve had out to do work on the house with the near-rabid barking and snarling. The lady who did the grouting in the kitchen didn’t get barked at nor a snarl though.

I told her she needs to get some other women together and start a business. I would hire them to do all sorts of jobs around the house and my new plumber is a woman – she is so awesome and funny even when unclogging things with grossness clogging them. I can’t be the only person whose dog is sexist and prefers women do stuff around the house.

In other news, both Mario Odyssey and Nazi Punching Simulator 2017 Wolfenstein are out today. So, if nobody sees me for a while, there’s your reason. =P

@Msexceptiontotherule:

My dog is all of 13-14lbs and she terrifies all the guys that I’ve had out to do work on the house with the near-rabid barking and snarling. The lady who did the grouting in the kitchen didn’t get barked at nor a snarl though.

I told her she needs to get some other women together and start a business. I would hire them to do all sorts of jobs around the house and my new plumber is a woman – she is so awesome and funny even when unclogging things with grossness clogging them. I can’t be the only person whose dog is sexist and prefers women do stuff around the house.

A question, if I may: is it a shelter dog?
The reason I’m asking is because I’ve heard many tales about shelter dogs who are generally cool but they have issues with men, assumed to be caused by abuse. (By men, as is known)

@Surplus to Requirements, Observer of the Vast Blight-Wing Enstupidation:

I thought Hungary had elected a bunch of Nazis to form its government recently? The Atlantic certainly seems to think so

Have a care, you’re looking to be assailed by avowed centrists who’d feel terribly put upon by that article’s insinuation that responding to an invitation directed at neo-nazis would mean that you are, in fact, a neo-nazi.

From the article:

Arktos originally began operations in India in 2010 when a Swedish businessman named Daniel Friberg absorbed a “traditionalist” publishing house run by American editor-in-chief John B. Morgan.

I knew a white supremacist who worked in India, doing translations, earlier than that. (Him trying to be yon intellectual racist at me was always delightful, what with his near-high-school education and name-dropping philosopher’s names at me in conjunction with some unrelated bit of statistics and I’d just ask: “Cite?” (Him arguing that colonialism was a net gain gain was met with “My actual British friend said that as self deprecating humor, but let me grab a new beer, and then I’ll deal with you” whereupon he showed what the racist’s superpower is: ‘Always be in another room’))

Yes my dog was a shelter rescue from one of the local county system known for a high kill rate. She bonded with me right away, other people…some people she tolerates in time and others she just doesn’t ever. She’s my first ever dog and was 4 months old when I adopted her, the shelter didn’t know anything about her background thus I don’t know what life was like for her before then. Honestly it could just be that men sound scary to some dogs, not intentionally just the voice depth and timbre of speech in men. If it’s a smaller dog that could intensify the experience.

Yes I’m guessing on the last bit though she was with me during the last part of a severely abusive relationship and would try to protect me even at her size – he never hurt her which I think she figured out, if she was in my lap he wouldn’t hit me so she spent lots of time on my lap. The way dogs will do everything for their human, selflessly…I can never repay that debt to her, she’s a special dog for sure.

Since everyone is discussing dogs…last summer, my spouse was driving home around midnight, and a dog happened to be standing in the middle of the street. Spouse stopped the car and opened the door, and the dog jumped right in the car.

Brought dog home, dog had a collar with her owner’s name and phone number on the tag. Dog was a relatively small, white (mostly) mutt, and obviously older. Spouse called the owner. The woman said, very sleepily, “This is the 3rd time this month!”

Apparently, this dog – Daisy was her name – was in the habit of escaping her owner’s house and wandering around at night.

We kept the dog until the next morning, then spouse brought Daisy back to her owner. We kept our bedroom door shut that night, but I could hear Daisy scratching at the door, trying to get in. Our cat took refuge in the garage.

Since when did this become a site where people think dogs are smarter than cats?

Well, corvids are incredibly intelligent, and their skulls are small and most of the room is all eyes and beak, so … 🙂

A friend of mine had, at one point: two cats (an overweight tabby named Henry, as in Henry VIII, and a sleek black cat named Sinbad), two dogs (a german shepherd named Shannon and a big spaniel named Chudleigh), and a budgie. They also had a very large back yard, thankfully. As in ‘riding lawnmower’ large.

Chudleigh (yes, it was a very English family) was the intelligent one and the escape artist of the bunch. My friend said he’d been sitting looking out the front window when he saw Chudleigh run across the front yard despite having been supposedly locked in the back. The spaniel got up to the side of the road, stopped, looked both ways up and down the street, and then dashed across the road.

Omg, Scild, I am so sorry!

There’s a special place in hell for people who willfully poison pets. This makes me so very angry.

Thanks, PeeVee. I am relatively sure that’s what happened because he was not the first pet to be killed by poison over the past few months. A dog died a while ago in the same suspicious circumstances. Someone’s angry about animals snooping in their yard, and apparently feels that justifies subjecting them to a slow, agonizing death.

Ugh. Humans really are the worst animals.

EDIT: @damoflances, Dave is likely just dealing with migraine stuff. He’s still tweeting regularly, so he’s out there! Patience <3

@Scildfrega
I so sorry to hear that. I hope the person responsible is discovered.

@Scildfreja:

D: What a jerk! No kitty deserves to go that way.