Open Thread - Friday, June 29, 2018
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 06/29/2018 - 3:20am
If I can’t go to Planned Parenthood for a routine pap smear without being screamed at and harassed by Christian protestors then Stephen Miller shouldn’t be able to eat his fucking salad without being called an asshole.
- Ally Maynard -
Funk the arbiters of civility!
I guess the scolds are saying other people's values are invalid?
Brace yourself, here we come!
No rest for the wicked!
Just saying.
Street action Saturday, shake some funkin' booty.
Have a great weekend! The thread is OPEN.
Comments
It's the free speech
we can afford
And is ignored
Needs some passive resistance.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Passive and maybe active too, and throw in some major
boycotts. Not just the big offenders, but the whole system to the extent possible, which drifts one off towards TAZ land, but, hey.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good Day Mate
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good morning, Funkmeister/Biker Tim. :-)
Figured I would link this tune, too.
It is wicked humid down here in east central FL. Take care. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
I like the flavor of boycotts
but I think since OWS and Ferguson they've been preparing police response strategies to stuff we already tried. A guess might be charging anyone arrested as an accessory to any felony committed during the demonstrations, even sit ins. Kind of like the getaway driver gets charged with murder, even though he was ignorant of the killing. Trumps feint at that for those arrested during his inauguration failed but he's got 2 years to make sure those liberal judges "understand" the law. And the prisoner industrial complex is a growing industry, but it needs raw material.
I'm worried because the answer to "What's Trump going to do about it?" is increasingly "anything he damn well pleases."
Funk that
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Rock on, brother...
Heh
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Civility in the Age of Corpro-Conservatism
Now that Donnie The Douchebag will turn SCOTUS into a Corpro-Conservative body, that means all branches of the govt will be Hard Line Right. Goodbye Pro-choice. No more abortions for any reason at any number of weeks. Goodbye Saftey Net, "Survival Of The Richest" is the new "Kinder, Gentler Nation".
With all these new unwanted babies (probably mostly because the future parents can't afford to feed them) , the Conservatives will have to starve them to death (oh SNAP, no more food stamps).
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Yogi
It ain't over till it's over
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Yo NCTim
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
What the funk is it with the people in that line of work?
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Starve the beast, divest.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Most people don't have investments
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
There are other actions for those who don't have lots of money.
Move your bank account(s) to credit unions or small, local banks, stay out of Walmart, don't use Amazon, patronize locally as much as you can, cut back where you can. Just act as if the Depression is already here (which it is for many of us). In other words, stop being an American consumer.
-Greed is not a virtue.
-Socialism: the radical idea of sharing.
-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962
Get high, rise up !
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Denver hits 105 degrees, ties all-time record high
105
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
And yet climate change denier haven’t changed
Funny how the same people who point to the fact that it stills snows as “proof” that climate change is a hoax are silent when the temps get unbearably hot all over the world.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Some of those snows are proof of climate damage, too!
Some of those snows are proof of climate damage, too! Just as Denver isn't supposed to reach 105, it's also not supposed to hit 30 below, either.
And I've watched it do both since I've been an adult.....
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M
https://www.wired.com/story/exactis-database-leak-340-million-records/
The news is all over nerd land. I was LOLing at the comments on hacker news this morning, it's like the guys who invented the atomic bomb. OMG WTF have we doooone? Assholes.
Wa-pow! LMAO
good luck
spiritual funk thanks
SF
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
When will it stop?
Frankly, it won’t. The genie is out of the bottle and it’s not going back in. And it’s not the senior level government people we have to wait on, it’s the 1%. It’s still cheaper for them to deal with breaches when they happen rather than push for steps to adequately protect data. And, living in a world of “too big to fail”, we’ll never see appropriate (or any) punishments for the guilty.
It’s cute dude thought writing Rand Paul would do something tho.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Stephen Miller
source
Yet another evil we can lay at the threshhold of the NRA.......
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Funk Mr. Punchable Face
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
He is genetically stupid to start with.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Hello
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Collapsifornia gets it in the rear from the Supremes
'Fair share' union fees struck down, delivering blow to California labor
welcome to the club
Heh
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
So, how should union members treat scabs? Pitch them at
every opportunity an not talk to them very much about anything else is one possibility. What else?
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Parking lot passive
Park cars, on either side of their car, so close they can not get into their car. Put their car on blocks, so that it has to be jacked up and cleared to get the wheels on the ground.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
More cowbell. Low rider don't use no gas now
Low rider don't drive too fast...
Low Rider - War (Lyrics)
trippin'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowdown
Happy Fred day!
Get Wobbly! Here are the links...
thanks, I'm with The Aspie Corner, just get one big hairy union for all workers... so that means disband the current Big Labor scheme, tear it down and build a new scheme, for all. IWW unite, pretty please?
https://iww.org/branches/US/CA
Red Card! haha. Also, "Don't trust anyone under 5000 feet", LOL that's what my first b-friend's cousin always said. He lived in Tahoe, above the line. My parents remains are at the bottom of Lake Tahoe, I watched them fall a long way to the bottom. Now, you cannot see the bottom there anymore it is too murky. Too many people, dead and alive. Have fun!
https://www.iww.org/branches/US/NV
--- choices
This is my first b-friend's son, RIP:
Kyle Drake
--- waddya get? boney fingers
Sonoma County Coroner’s Office identifies worker who died in Petaluma soap factory accident
Fuck the bosses! Fuuuuuuck.
love is all there is
Not just Cali
This ruling applies to all 50 states, so we can all share the right to work (for less).
And this would have happened under Billary, too. Guaranteed.
Her VP pick was a national right-to-work shill and her supreme court pick was a Texas Repig. And never forget that for Billary, womens' reproductive autonomy was always on the table. If we can't revive the IWW then we better hope Russia revives the Soviet Union somehow, because that's the only way I can see an end to this capitalist onslaught.
Edited for link.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Good morning all. Final packing and prep here, heading up to
the sierras for a week or so in a couple of hours. Everybody have a good weekend and week to come.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Following you in
Plan is to be in Sequoia 7/16, Kings Canyon 7/17, Yosemite 7/18 and maybe dive back in 7/19. Charted out 7/7 NC departure, out to Sue's brother's place in LA by 7/13. Shaping up to be massive bucket list check off trip. Also too, Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, Canyon Lands, Bryce, Arches, Capital Reef, Great Sand Dunes and RMNP. Probably skipping Zion (shuttle bus; motorcycle unattended), Joshua Tree (makes day from GC to LA too long) and Death Valley (heat).
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Morning all.
Great workout yesterday, making friends and dealing with my demons.
Still working on relaxing and learning to move with throws. I tend towards stiffness, as anybody who is used to using their strength tends to when starting a martial art. It's getting easier to stick those landings without mat burn, and I'm down another Five Pounds as far as my weight goes. (262... Down from 280 two months ago.)
The progress isn't fast, but it's absolutely measurable. I'm still a white belt, and I'm totally OK with that. Judo is slow, steady advancement, and constant drill and practice. There's no secret technique that will render me unbeatable. Just long, hard work to improve myself.
But otherwise, feeling great, going to try to get back to my writing soon, since I have accepted that forcing myself to write when I'm not feeling it results in far lower quality.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Keep on keeping on
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Shiny Ribs coming to Cloverdale
Good time to organize a poors and homeless sing-a-long, eh? I mean, ShinyRibs in the Plaza right in front of the cop shop, it's kinda perfect. I'm gonna transcribe the words for printing at least. omg it would be so cathartic to scream at the pigs "YOU DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ME! while dancing my ass off singing it. lol
Shinyribs - "I Don't Give a S**t"
LOVE
Not love: The permanent porta-potties at the cop shop are padlocked shut when it's not the Chamber of Commerce sponsored Friday Night Live, of course.
Yeah, they are driving me effing crazy. Why not unlock the public/private toilets, you cheap bastards? fuck
Fifteen million dollars later...
Budget passes unopposed at city council
up to my eyeballs in shite
How the capitalist pigs rob us blind
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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Here's something fun
On the left is Klay Thompson, one of the best shooters in the history of basketball.
On the right is a tiny, little Chinese girl.
Who do you think will win?