Post #424,916
7/29/18 4:21:33 AM
7/29/18 4:22:10 AM
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Signs of the pre-Apocalypse
The Hate Report. It's Harbingers, the folk who yearn for a Oligarchy/Theocracy deliver their message to the innocent grandkids Here. Still seeking that word beyond ludicrous ummm.. preposterous? Got those loins girded yet?
Dear Cthulhu:
Please next Choose THIS *One to join you in your Work.
(in another Galaxy, far, far.. Away.)
OK then: * take the whole Tribe; put them with Sisyphus, helping with rolling that big Rock?Your Obedient part-time Servant/I am not worthy. Carrion; there's a fresh batch every Hour, now.
Edited by Ashton
July 29, 2018, 04:22:10 AM EDT
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Post #424,919
7/29/18 11:52:09 AM
7/29/18 11:52:09 AM
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freakin wierd on the ok hand signal first I have heard of the issue
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #424,922
7/29/18 4:13:09 PM
7/29/18 4:13:09 PM
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PS: weerd be one o' those back-assards Exceptions to i-before-e Rulez, aka
Weird is.. well, weird! is the only way I can ever remember to do it Rihgt, y'know? ;^>
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Post #424,941
7/30/18 10:47:07 AM
7/30/18 10:47:07 AM
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Good example of culture jamming
We all know the "innocent" and "circle game" uses of that sign. This new use us designed for deniability, which means it's designed for trolling. They were pretty explicit about this: "To any who haven’t seen the original thread, our goal is to convince people on twitter that the 'ok' hand sign has been co-opted by neo-nazis."
I predict (if it hasn't already happened) someone is going to troll the OK and in their defense they'll cite the fact that the swastika was appropriated from eastern religions where it was a symbol of auspiciousness, and that you can't hold the symbol accountable for the bad people who have decided to use it. And/or you can't hold the cross accountable for the KKK who burn it in their ceremonies.
Here's the difference: For all those cops flashing the sign in that photo, I challenge you to find a single photo of any of them doing that prior to the 4chan thread that started this meme. If it doesn't exist - and it doesn't - it proves the cops are trolling at best, actual white supremacists at worst. And when your best-case scenario is that you're not actually a white supremacist, you just think it's funny to pretend you are ... that's still pretty bad.
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Post #424,936
7/30/18 9:50:54 AM
7/30/18 9:50:54 AM
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The first thing we do ...
I was chatting with an English friend of mine the other day and we were discussing the Russian "hacking" of our election. As I've posted here, I told him that the Russians had merely used our social media in precisely the manner in which it was designed: to advertise a product/position/person without fear of anyone or anything questioning the truthfulness of the message. Then he asked me why I thought Americans were so vulnerable to such propaganda. In that moment an idea came to me which I may have always subconsciously suspected, but had never articulated clearly. I said, "I think its because of the number of churches we have and the fact that they are regularly attended." He said, "Why is that?" I said, "Because if you can convince yourself, in the absence of any evidence whatsoever that an imaginary invisible friend can cause you to live forever, you can convince yourself of anything."
The first thing we do is not kill all the lawyers, it's burn all the churches. bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #424,937
7/30/18 10:03:14 AM
7/30/18 10:03:14 AM
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Can't disagree with that!
Can you handle a double negative? :) But, I would start with taxing the churches as if it was a business venture, which it is. And they do have alternative uses as shown here: Where Churches Have Become Temples of Cheese, Fitness and Eroticism. MONTREAL — For generations, parishioners whispered their sins in the dark wooden confessional booths of Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours, an imposing Roman Catholic church in Montreal.
But on a recent day, the edgy Quebec comedian Sugar Sammy was being filmed inside one of the booths, the latest intimate celebrity confessional on the talk show “Y’a du monde à messe,” or “The Church Is Packed.”
“I made a sex tape in order to be famous, because I thought it was the path to glory,” Sammy said with mock seriousness, as the camera zoomed in on his face, seen from behind a grill. “It didn’t work because no one watched it,” he continued. “I was the only person on the tape.”
The once-hallowed space, now illuminated with a giant pink chandelier, has been reinvented as the Théâtre Paradoxe at a cost of nearly $3 million in renovations. It is now host to, among other events, Led Zeppelin cover bands, Zumba lessons and fetish parties, as well as the talk show that Sammy appeared on.
And it is one of dozens of churches across Quebec that have been transformed — into university reading rooms, luxury condominiums, cheese emporiums and upmarket fitness centers. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #424,940
7/30/18 10:25:35 AM
7/30/18 10:25:35 AM
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Nor I with that. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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