heywood on 16/4/2024 at 10:24
I would say that's expected considering the activities of Saturday night.
With active wars in Europe and the Middle East and a massive military buildup in China going on, I imagine life at the Pentagon will be busy for a while.
Starker on 18/4/2024 at 11:34
Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again:
[video=youtube;5aFQY6-Mxcw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aFQY6-Mxcw[/video]
Cipheron on 20/4/2024 at 22:13
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/black-undercover-officer-beaten-st-louis-b2531716.html)
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Luther Hall, a St Louis police officer, was present at a street protest in 2017 where he was working undercover. His disguise was apparently so good that his fellow officers failed to recognise him when they mercilessly beat him on the street.
On Monday, Mr Hall was awarded $23.5m for the attack, according to the St Louis American.
Notably they arrest Hall, who is black, and also another undercover officer who is white. They only beat up the black one.
Quote:
In an exchange on 15 September, 2017, just two days before the incident, Myers wrote "let's kick some a**," to which Boone replied "it's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s***heads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!"
Judge Joseph Whyte noted during Monday's hearing that after Mr Hall was assaulted, Hays sent a text message to another officer, saying that if they had beaten a protester rather than a police officer, “it wouldn't be a problem at all.”
Starker on 27/4/2024 at 11:38
In the latest instalment of some more news, the origins of GOP Jesus are revealed
[video=youtube;wHdjjXQHxzs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHdjjXQHxzs[/video]
Cipheron on 8/5/2024 at 14:24
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https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-brain-worm/)
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Third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a startling medical secret, according to The New York Times: Parts of his brain were apparently eaten by a parasitic worm.
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According to the report, Kennedy suffers from a number of other impairments, including atrial fibrillation and mercury poisoning related to the consumption of fish.
Part of his brain got eaten AND he got mercury poisoning.
This might ... explain many things.
demagogue on 8/5/2024 at 15:13
Attacking him just makes his followers circle the wagons & double-down on supporting the guy, as with Trump. They actually get a boost from acting irresponsibly. Well, I don't know if RFK Jr.'s ailments come from irresponsible behavior, but his statements and opportunism riding the populist tide under their shadow (boost?) do.
Trump's legal woe's certainly come from irresponsible behavior. He's on the eve of getting locked up for contempt of court for violating his gag order, and I imagine he'd jump at the chance to get the optics of being unfairly locked up if the sentence is short enough. The guy will probably think he's getting his My Struggle moment.
What a messed up local Nash equilibrium fate has brought us to.
The worse behaved he is, the more they support him.
You can't organize a society around that incentive structure.
Cipheron on 8/5/2024 at 16:57
BTW, The context is apparently from RFK's divorce proceedings, he was arguing diminished earning capacity, to pay less alimony. So we can't know how accurate it is, or if he was lying or exaggerating at the time, but it's from court documents his own lawyers would have filed.
Anyway he has zero chance of doing anything in the election, so it's really a side-story. Trump supporters boosted him because they thought he'd siphon votes from the Democrats purely because of the Kennedy name, but that is some pretty magical thinking there, since the whole "JFK Jr cult" is actually a Republican thing.
So I don't think discussing or not discussing this story makes much difference at this point, but if he is actually still running in November, then some amount of QAnon types would probably switch their vote to him. Which would be pretty silly, but can't be ruled out if you've looked at the alternate reality stuff that is QAnon discussion.
Starker on 11/5/2024 at 07:58
After a prolonged media diet due to real life responsibilities, the first thing I come across when browsing my political feeds was a United States governor bragging about killing her dog. Seems like the dog didn't behave quite like she wanted to because she failed to train it and she took it out to a gravel pit and shot it.
I've trained a few dogs in my life and the first one didn't turn out so good and misbehaved in various ways. You know what I did? I went to a better trainer and retrained the dog under her supervision. I'm not familiar with the dog breed in question, but I looked it up and it apparently is one of the more easily trainable breeds out there plus it was still pretty much a puppy at 14 months old. Instead of taking responsibility and admitting her failure as a trainer by giving the dog to a good home, she instead chose to sweep her failure under the rug by killing the dog.
I don't even get what the point was to brag about it. I guess she was trying to show what a tough politician she is. Well, I have no idea what kind of political culture there is in her state in the US, but around here, even if you have to kill your dog (which from all accounts she absolutely didn't), it reflects your failure as a dog owner more than anything else.
Also, apparently she is trying to turn it into a "you don't know how it is to live on a farm" thing:
Inline Image:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNP4qVgXYAEecvO?format=jpg&name=smallI spent a lot of time on a farm as a child. My father and one of my aunts had a farm for the longest time. With animals that occasionally get killed and eaten and people hunting in the woods for some extra meat. Nobody I ever met around there or on the neighbouring farms had that kind of an attitude towards killing animals.
Cipheron on 11/5/2024 at 10:27
The weird part was the addendum to that story where she said that while she was at it, she killed a goat that had apparently pushed her kids over, messing up some clothes.
So, the dog killed someones chickens, and that was the bar, but after having killed the dog, some psychological bar was lowered and she felt it was ok to kill the goat, too.
It really could go either way. Some people would be traumatized by having to put down their family dog, and less likely to kill, but she ... was desensitized and rationalized further killings for lesser offenses. It probably depends a lot of the person. I'm not sure how that personality type translates into a position of power, but my guess is "not good".
In fact if you read between the lines, the likely truth is that she was *angry* at the dog for making her look bad, so killed it out of revenge, then took revenge on the goat, too, still out of anger.
She included the story to try and prove she's a "do the tough stuff that needs to be done" kind of leader but she misread the room, because she is a sociopath. The account ends with her little daughter asking "where's cricket". Like, WHY would you write that and think it makes you sound tough, and not like a weird monster that just traumatized your child. The only way you could make this sound worse is if she skinned and cooked Cricket then the child found out they were eating him.
