Lurker > KodyKeir

They talk about personal responsibility and then go nuts over wearing a mask.

If we all took the personal responsibility to wear a mask for a couple of years, we could not only eradicate COVID but the common cold as well.

I check in on their instagram every now and then just to make sure they are still alive, seems to be living their best life considering.

Straughan posted...

I've never figured it out. Lurked here for years and never understood their little club. It seems to be loosely based on leftwing politics anti-religion and a few other check boxes like being a nerd or into certain shows like The Simpsons.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Who are you

Lokarin posted...

So why hasn't NATO deleted eastern Ukraine/the staging area yet?

Ukraine is not in NATO so article 5 hasn't been triggered yet and America would have to take the lead, which runs the risk of nuclear war (not that Biden has the support he needs in congress anyway)

BoJo might make a push in parliament, but it's very likely he doesn't have the support to declare war on Russia.

Entity13 posted...

Even much of Russia is against him at this point.

It will get worse as the casualties mount; if it goes bad enough in the next few days I could see him being coup'd by his own generals.

SeahorseCpt89 posted...

Is that Harley Quinn show any good?

It's hilarious. Eagerly waiting the third season.

I went out and bought the first season on DVD, while we were waiting to hear if it was renewed, after watching it a dozen times online. Need to get the second season...

The word you are looking for is: "Fascism"

Conflating the two is ignorant but then...

Unbridled9 posted...

I don't believe in democracy

Revelation34 posted...

Fearmongering delusions

Russia threatened to use their arsenal:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/putin-waves-nuclear-sword-in-confrontation-with-the-west-1.5795596

Levity in a time of crisis is a ancient tradition.

Wonder what they are going to do now that the can't have their sweet sweet oligarch money.

Looks like Ovi won't be able to go home again, unless he wants to develop a spontaneous case of defenestration

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/russian-star-alex-ovechkin-please-no-more-war-1.5796461

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/1/AAQwHjAAC96j.jpg

My mum was just reading that to me yesterday...

Watched through the entire series in January, still a great show.

Newgrounds had their own Flash version of Portal, and it was pretty good.

I remember a guy in England that had access to the Japanese editions of Dragon Ball and was translating it on his site, but hosting images was prohibitively expensive so he wrote the entire series out (OG through Z and into GT) so the first time I read Dragon Ball was through him.

Dikitain posted...

Catcher in the Rye

At one point I had three physical copies of it (good thing I have more then three names) but could never get past a certain point before I got sick of Holden's entitlement.

Hejiru posted...

North Korea is 1984. America is Brave New World.

The Big Brother surveillance network is pretty much global at this point.

Also, we've almost fully achieved Fahrenheit 451

Unbridled9 posted...

Heck, what even IS your argument?

That those who criticize communism often no nought what they talk of.

And on cue, as if summoned by magic to prove my point

Unbridled9 posted...

communism is bad

Ozmose posted...

This is probably the best info you're going to get at the moment.

https://youtu.be/Xuwr3EkUkPw

kind9 posted...

He doesn't sound like a retired anything to me

I've seen a few of their videos and though I can't speak to their specific credentials, they seem pretty legit with actual sources for the intelligence they are producing.

Source: I'm 36 and a retired Operator for the Phone Company. The churn is nuts, especially since they started contracting a lot of things out that really should have been kept in house.

Ozmose posted...

The news is bullshitting about a lot of it. Odds are a large amount of communication coming from Ukraine is getting shut down

The Canadian media has been doing a decent enough job though a CNN reporter did have Russian paratroopers land behind him during his live shot, and he talked to them briefly on air.

Muscles posted...

I think it should be required reading for schools honestly

It is in Canada.

Was told the other day it is the most banned book in the US.

It seems unclear if he has actually lost the ability to hibernate or if the wild swings in temperature are disrupting his sleep cycle. Been having thirty degree temperature swings every week for the past couple of months in Southern Ontario and it's going to wreck havoc on the orchards to say nothing about the wildlife.

Ogurisama posted...

https://youtu.be/A6Zk-tkPsgI

heh, that reminds me of this thing that happened last year:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/21/south-africa-says-gems-found-in-diamond-rush-are-quartz

adjl posted...

He's gone largely unmodded for so long that I really didn't expect a suspension.

darkknight109 posted...

I have no idea why he wasn't booted sooner given the misinformation he spreads.

FrozenBananas posted...

Lmao, had him on ignore for almost 2 years now,

^ Probably on quite a few ignore lists to the point they were *almost* in their own echo chamber

Judgmenl posted...

Hopefully he doesn't come back. That last thread was absurd.

The trucker convoy threads were not much better.

Not exactly a fortress, would be a nightmare to defend from dedicated armed attackers.

KarsUltimate posted...

What would happen if he could be assassinated?

Depends on who is doing the assassinating.

If it's a foreign power, it will start a war, provided it doesn't create a free for all power vacuum that would destabilize the region even more then it already is.

If it's a coup, it could create a free for all power vacuum that would destabilize the region even further.

Basically Russian Roulette with all the chambers loaded.

I just typed in the url for a porn / conspiracy "news" site from back in the day, lands on a for sale splash page offering the domain for $7k

acesxhigh posted...

early Reddit was good compared to what we have now.

old.reddit and get an adblocker; your welcome. Might even still be an option in settings to force old reddit. I never switched over to nureddit, the closest I get to using nureddit is modmail.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Is it a music file? A virus? Porn? A snuff film? Download the file and find out!

Oh, Yeah! Those were the days!

OmegaM posted...

I feel like people on Usenet were more intelligent than people on later message boards.

Because they actually knew how to use a computer, shit started going downhill when AOL started spamming their free trial disks to everyone and their mother.

Full Throttle posted...

terrible haircut

It's a little shaggy but I wouldn't call it terrible...

Sarcasthma posted...

I'm saying that apologizing would've been the nice thing to do regardless.

Definitely would have been the polite thing.

Full Throttle posted...

We learned last night that Creegans character came face to face with the madman who then used a device to turn creegan into a bloodthirsty killer

We actually learned that weeks ago; Wednesday night we got to see the OG actually do it (no shots of the jokers face)

Metalsonic66 posted...

Hamill > DiMaggio > Romero > Spiner > Ledger > Leto

Where does Tudyk fit in there? His performance on Harley Quinn has been superb.

https://youtu.be/6RKrI0cOjpY

mrduckbear posted...

now he's going to SUE

And have his media appearance's used against him in the counter suit as proof of their frivolity.

He should do it, sue every single person in America that dissed him, or what I will call the "fuck around phase"

The depositions will be fun, as will the discovery process. I doubt the next judge will toss his social media posts where he fantasizes about killing people.

TaKun782 posted...

expect the oil prices to go tits up.

Jason Kenney (Premier of Alberta) has been having a non stop orgasm since Russia went in.

His political fortunes rest on the price of oil, oil companies (and by extension the province) don't make any money off the oil sands unless oil is above $80 a barrel, so even though his poll numbers are in the toilette right now, if the price of oil continues to rise the voters will call him a genius and re-elect him this year.

It also likely that instead of investing in Alberta's future and safeguarding against the eventual crash in oil prices, he'll use the money to legally bribe the voters by handing out another round of "royalty checks"

BEERandWEED posted...

When a nuke sends us back to the dark ages, I wish you the best of luck with useless switch.

Jokes on you; it'll take me a day and a half of pedalling to charge it up, but it'll be worth it.

Heck I can start a basic economy around power generation and switch usage; I'll be King of the Wasteland!

Blightzkrieg posted...

He's out of line but he's right

Like Vlad invading the Ukraine, I just couldn't help myself.

Street Fighter

Any WWII game where you can play as the Nazi's

papercup posted...

If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die historic on the fury road

I will die Shiny and Chrome!

WITNESS ME!!!

The_Viscount posted...

"Cold War II"

This is what the general public doesn't understand: the cold war never ended it just got colder for a while.

Yes the wall fell and relations started to normalize but the stockpile of nuclear weapons remained as did the tensions between militaries.

Unbridled9 posted...

Animal Farm

Speaking of failing to read, if your take away from Animal Farm was "Communism = Bad" you grossly missed the point.

(Orwell was a socialist btw)

Unbridled9 posted...

I have no knowledge of Communism because I haven't read that book

All you've done is parrot radical right talking points while you refuse to actually learn what communism is.

kind9 posted...

Out of curiosity do you consider socialism and communism to be the same?

No. Socialism can be a step toward communist ideals but still requires a form of capitalism to function.

kind9 posted...

Is there something wrong with democratic socialism that you prefer full on communism?

No, and I never said I prefer communism over democratic socialism.

KodyKeir posted...

Capitalism will one day end, the choice we have is whether it will end with the destruction of the human species, or with the concerted effort to shift to a new economy. Communism is merely that shift from our current state to some new paradigm more aligned with a civilized society.

We will never achieve a communist economy in my lifetime, but we can have a more socialist one as part of the process of shifting away from capitalism.

Yes there is a certain irony about Federalist Society members using states rights as an argument to advance their agendas.

pionear posted...

Then he would be accused of Censorship

If the taliban wants to put an app on the app store, it would would be blocked; should be the same for a terrorist organization like the GOP that implicitly supported and funded an insurrection on their own capitol.

Lokarin posted...

fun fact - a microwave can double as a faraday cage, albeit a 'leaky' one

I just use the metal cookie tins you usually get at Christmas

Using "States Rights" as the guise to go after reproductive rights, the latest tactic of the Federalist Society.

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Fridays debate also tackled another issue that figures prominently in GOP politics, namely conducting a so-called forensic audit on Michigans 2020 election results. Despite over 250 state and local audits of those results which have confirmed President Joe Bidens more than 154,000 vote victory over former President Trump, persistent unproven claims of widespread voter fraud remain a core message for Republicans seeking office.
Theres legislation sponsored by state Rep. Stevc Carra (R-Three River) for a so-called forensic audit and theres also a ballot measure. Earlier this month, there was a small protest at the Capitol attended by GOP leaders including Michigan GOP Co-Chair Meshawn Maddock.
Leonard, who lost to Nessel in 2018, said he fully supported such an audit.
I was a prosecutor in Flint for three years. There were times when tragic things would happen and you had to conduct an investigation to protect the integrity of the system, he said. When I look at a forensic audit, to me thats what a forensic audit would be doing, is protecting the integrity of this system. Our republic can not function if 50% of our population no longer trusts that when they go to vote, its not going to count or its not going to be accurate.
Berman burnished his credentials on the issue by saying he sponsored a budget amendment for $5.5 million to conduct a forensic audit, which would include interviewing voters themselves.

In fact, its broader than that because it included canvassing and going out there and asking people who havent voted in 20 years and all of a sudden showed up in that election and ask them, Hey, was this you? Did you vote? I called it a comprehensive statewide election integrity review. Who can be against an integrity review? We should all be secure in knowing our election cant be compromised.
Berman indicated, however, that the amendment was ultimately shot down by his partys leadership in the House.
DePerno, who was involved in Arizonas sham audit by Trump supporters, was much more specific in what he wanted a forensic audit to include, saying that in addition to taking a deep dive into a computer system he also wants to examine the paper used in the voting machines.
You cant do one without the other, he said. Doing one without the other is essentially meaningless. You must do both. And I tell you, thats why they always say to us we cant see the paper ballots.
DePerno also falsely claimed that it was pointless to determine what happened in the 2020 election.
I know what happened because I did the work. I examined these systems. I know how fraud occurred in this state, he said.
Those same assertions were dismissed last year in a report issued by the Republican-controlled Michigan Senate Oversight Committee, which determined DePernos conclusions were demonstrably false and based on misleading information and illogical conclusions.
DePerno also led the charge when it came to investigating Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her policies toward caring for COVID-19 patients in state nursing homes, indicating he would seek charges and have her arrested.
We will investigate and prosecute Gov. Whitmer for what she did with the nursing homes. She sent people to nursing homes against the medical advice of doctors who have said that it was dangerous. People would die. She did it anyway. She did it for political reasons, make no mistake. That is misconduct of office at the very minimum, he said.
Whitmer administration officials say they were following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines when they allowed nursing home residents who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 to return to those facilities as long as they were housed in separate units. While a state auditor general report later determined there were nearly 2,400 more long-term care COVID-19 deaths in Michigan than had been reported by the Michigan Department of Health & Humans Services (DHHS), Director Elizabeth Hertel argued that the tally included facilities that were not required to report their COVID-19 deaths to the state.
While Leonard and Berman also said they disagreed with the governors nursing home policy, both indicated that they would conduct full investigations before deciding whether or not to press charges. Leonard also used the discussion to take a shot directly at DePerno, saying that his statements would prejudice any investigation before it started.
Any person thats running to be the chief law enforcement officials in the State of Michigan to stand here and say they are going to arrest someone on Day One, does not respect our system of justice, said Leonard. In fact, if there were ever charges brought against that individual, I can tell you the first thing the defense counsel is going to do. They are going to play the videos of that attorney general on the campaign stump making political promises that theyre going to arrest somebody and throw them in jail, and that case is going to be thrown out and that person is going to be acquitted.

Last month, DePerno sent out a graphic of Nessel in prison demanding to Lock her up in a fundraising pitch after she said that the fake Trump electors who attempted to enter the Michigan Capitol where the real Electoral College was meeting in December 2020 could be charged for violating the law.
Other issues in which there was consensus among the candidates included Enbridge Energys Line 5 pipeline which runs under the Straits of Mackinac. All three said they were in favor of moving forward with having a tunnel built around the aging line, while Nessel continues to pursue a lawsuit in federal court that would close it down.
The trio also made clear they would lift any state or federal COVID-19 mandates still in place when they take office, although most restrictions have already been lifted.

https://michiganadvance.com/2022/02/20/gop-attorney-general-hopefuls-seek-to-overturn-landmark-contraception-law-push-for-election-audit/

GOP attorney general hopefuls seek to overturn landmark contraception law, want election 'audit' Michigan Advance
By: Jon King - February 20, 2022 9:19 am
It may have been the last question of last weeks debate for the three men seeking the GOP nomination for Michigan attorney general, but the inquiry seeking their stances on a 1965 Supreme Court ruling has garnered the most attention.
The question concerned the high courts decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, a landmark decision that struck down Connecticuts ban on the sale of contraception. Citing a right to marital privacy, Griswold helped to pave the way for 1973s Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion that many experts expect will be overturned or gutted by the right-wing-majority Supreme Court this year.
However, at Friday nights forum at Alpena Community College, all three candidates Former House Speaker Tom Leonard (R-DeWitt), state Rep. Ryan Berman (R-Commerce Twp) and Kalamazoo-based attorney Matthew DePerno, indicated they thought the issue was wrongly decided and trampled on states rights.

After seeking clarification as to what the Griswold decision was, Leonard was the first to respond. This case, much like Roe v. Wade, I believe was wrongly decided, because this isit was an issue that trampled states rights and it was an issue that should have been left up to the states.
Berman then echoed that, after indicating that he was unaware of the decision.
You know, what? I wasnt familiar with Griswold vs. Connecticut, but Im an advanced legal researcher, so I pulled it up real quick to look what it was about, he said. And it says the court ruled that the Constitution did in fact protect the right of marital privacy against state restrictions on contraception. Again, I would have to look more into it and the reasoning behind it, but Im all about states rights and limiting federal, and especially federal, judicial activism.
DePerno followed suit, saying, I didnt know we could have our phones up here.
The line drew laughter from the audience and prompted Berman to quip, You gotta be quick.
DePerno then continued, saying that the Griswold and Roe decisions were states right issues and predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court would rule that the privacy issue currently is unworkable.
DePerno, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump and is known for espousing conspiracy theories, then finished with a flourish.
We need to start defending state rights as attorney generals, across this country, he said. Too many people, even in our own party, too many people have lost the idea of what states rights means. They havent read the works of our Founding Fathers. They havent read The Federalist Papers. They continue to push the idea that we need to give rights away to the federal government. We dont. We need to take state rights back. We need to stand in our borders. When the feds come and try to take our rights, we need to stand as citizens in Michigan and hold the line and protect states rights.

While that drew a hearty round of applause from Fridays audience, it prompted a less than celebratory response from the woman all three candidates are hoping to replace this November. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, tweeted out afterward it was terrifying that the three Republicans running for Michigan attorney general just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception.

I know Florida has a child services, do they only take children away from people of colour?

Full Throttle posted...

she could never have imagined her innocent posts would result in a stranger showing up at her door

pfft, that's on the parents. I think every one of us here was warned back in the day by our parents about posting on this very forum.

Honestly, if any one of you degenerates manages to track me down, wade through the swamp and show up at my door, you will get a drink and a joint and we will play smash bros until we pass out. It's easier in winter when the trap door alligators are still logy from the cold

http://arcana.wikidot.com/trapdoor-alligator

Metalsonic66 posted...

Man I want Joe to call his bluff so bad but we all know he won't

Someone ask midget how they feel about Ronald Regan's full blown alzheimer's presidency. Even if the FauxNews propaganda on Joe was accurate, Jill is a far better proxy president then Nancy the throat goat.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Tsar Bomba incoming

It's too big, risks cracking the mantle.

Unbridled9 posted...

I don't believe in democracy

Democracy is inherently a socialist concept; you don't believe in democracy and you don't believe in socialism. You see fascist states and mislabel them communist and scream "Communism Bad" while never actually knowing what communism is. You only double down on your misinformed position while ignoring everything else

There is no way to have a good faith argument with you, so I won't bother to try and hold one.

BEERandWEED posted...

If all electronics get fried tonight, having a functional switch won't help you survive.

Having some hamms would be more useful.

I can build a radio, I can't build a (Nintendo) Switch (I might be able to build a telephone switch though)

Muscles posted...

I'm not sure how serious I should take that article, it definitely doesn't scream impartial

I would not say it's exaggerated, but it's definitely exasperated.

It's a press release from the Human Rights Council; it's not meant to be comprehensive and in depth look at all sides to the issue; it's meant to raise alarm bells.

Though on that note, the push from organizations like NewsCorp for a "fair and balanced" "both sides" look at an issue has become a cover to give credence to indefensible positions.

Lokarin posted...

Just a reminder that if a new nukes go off - even if they don't hit anything - just their passive radiation could be enough to end satellite technology as a whole

A single air burst at the right altitude would cause an EMP that would fry electronics for an entire hemisphere.

I might put my switch in a faraday cage before I go to sleep tonight.

Did they actually order in more than a couple of copies?

adjl posted...

Nevertheless, you are correct that characterizing the whole thing as a bunch of Nazis to discredit them is not reasonable.

Debatable. There is a German expression that goes:

If you have one nazi sitting at a table and ten people join them, you now have eleven nazi's.

I know it was not as simple as looking around and finding yourself in a crowd wearing immaculate Hugo Boss uniforms with skulls on the collars and Adi Daschler jackboots, but some basic diligence of a quick google search could have saved them the endless grief they will now face.

Judgmenl posted...

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1496678639911510024
Putin just spoke.

He's one to talk about support for neo-nazi's considering he regularly rides with the Night Wolves Motorcycle Club.

SinisterSlay posted...

Do we think that's the "rebels" still or main force vs main force and open war?

Hard to say, on the one hand we know that Russian troops are there, on the other, Putin would rather not use his own forces and risk losing the support of the Russian people (or his generals) due to heavy casualties.

The public intelligence indicates this is the regular Russian forces.

Lokarin posted...

the conspiracy is that Putin is behind all the QAnon stuff as well as the anti-vax movement

Although we don't know who the the original Q is, (*cough* Michael Flynn *cough*) it was very clearly co-opted by 8chan admin CodeMonkeyZ (Ron Watkins) and his father and site owner Jim Watkins.

The anti-vax movement predates the pandemic, but there has been amplification from many groups looking to destabilize western democracy, which does include Russia.

But yes, to say it's all Putin is off base.