Lurker > Tom_Joad

8/10 because of the American cheese.

Try flamengo or maarsdam cheese if you can find them.

https://www.continente.pt/produto/queijo-flamengo-fatiado-nova-acores-4226461.html
https://www.aldi.pt/produto/queijo-maasdam-emmental-em-fatias-692-1-0.article.html#/produtos/laticinios/queijos-e-manteigas

Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_tMD5bTbLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5v_DFN-ARo

Over the past year, Arab and Muslim American community leaders and voters, as well as students and other community members, urged the Biden administration and, later, the Harris campaign to hear their concerns. They urged them to empathize with the mass loss of civilian life in Gaza, to understand the blanket of grief and pain that has fractured their communities. Ultimately, for some Arab and Muslim American voters, Gaza became the force that determined how they cast their ballot.

This is an outright lie. Harris met with their leaders, heard their concerns, and called for a cease-fire. What really happened was that these "students and other community leaders" wanted was a weapons embargo, not empathy and understanding.

Ameen Atta, a Palestinian-American registered voter in Wisconsin, tells Teen Vogue he could not vote for Harris or Trump and was deeply committed to the uninstructed movement. They need[ed] to earn our votes, not the other way around, Atta says. Theyre not entitled to my vote; they need to earn my vote.

This is bullshit. You vote for the candidate that best meets your wants and needs. Regardless of whether they "earned" your vote. This is akin to a customer not wanting to buy something they want out of a store without the storekeeper haggling first.

Attas choice to vote third-party, while influenced by his connection to Gaza, was also about driving forward a political message: This will set a precedent in this country that, from now on, if you have bad policy on issues that the majority of American people care about if you have bad policy, you will be punished on a political level.

More bullshit. The message he and his third-party protest voters delivered was the exact opposite. That having a "bad policy on issues" will be REWARDED, not punished.

After all, the person with "bad policy on issues" won the Presidency thanks to you.

Many Arab and Muslim American voters feel that Harris failed to fully recognize their humanity and to do more than verbally acknowledge over a year's worth of collective grief. The frontiers of a deeply divided country as it enters a second Trump presidency are still in flux. For many Arab and Muslim American voters, questions remain.

Which is, of course, what "Arab and Muslim American community leaders and voters, as well as students and other community members, urged the Biden administration and, later, the Harris campaign to" do. See quote #1 above.

Doing what they asked lost Harris votes. Trump, on the other hand, who campaigned on actively harming them... netted their votes. Which means that the winner should campaign on actively harming Arab-Americans, as it's the only way to really earn their votes. Which is really, really messed up.

There is a lot of uncertainty about what the second Trump term will bring, Saba tells Teen Vogue. Regardless, the same fight continues, because the [war] in Palestine has only escalated. The struggle for justice in Palestine is all the more urgent. That does not stop based on who our president is, because, as we've seen, neither party currently is able or willing or even wants to stop this violence.

This, basically, shows that the "struggle" is more important than the actual goal itself, to these guys. The war in Gaza is ramping down, not up. And note the wording, "the struggle for justice", not simply "justice". And that struggle "does not stop based on who our President is". Meaning that even if there was some magic President that would give them everything they asked for, they'd then say it wasn't enough and demand more.

Quintessential bad faith, right there.

Mashed taters...

https://youtu.be/ihMMw0rnKz4

Olestra... should be banned.

https://youtu.be/2FXp_92-D0g

Quack, quack honk quack waddle waddle quack quack honk.

Not funny enough.

I require this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

https://youtu.be/NVpsmybdas4
https://youtu.be/Ju-MZfP5VTQ

https://youtu.be/SVKKRzemX_w

https://youtu.be/34ag4nkSh7Q

It better have the Beastie Boys "Intergalactic" as one of it's background music songs.

https://youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g

So change the ball to "ovoid lozenge".

Honestly?

Final Fantasy 10

I hated the main character so damned much. And I hated their skill progression system.

And I hated it's combat.

That it still makes my skin crawl so many years later is proof of how bad it was to me.

Good news from South Korea!

Bird?

Bird is the Word.

https://youtu.be/9Gc4QTqslN4

3.97 euros.

Are you squirting air out of your meat flaps, fellow sentient meat?

AM radio is where conservative blovators used to be relegated.

I am old enough to remember when these were played on the radio, with no problems.

https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM

https://youtu.be/H2LQMElLoLs

Well, it is better than the US.

Especially up in the colonial highlands, like San Miguel de Allende.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Miguel_de_Allende

Sephirothe posted...

Im ok with the USA completely scrapping Social Security, with one major condition. The US government pays every single person every single penny (plus accumulated interest) of all money theyve ever been forced to pay into this program over each individuals entire career.

Plus all the accrued growth that the money would have accumulated over time in something like a 401-K or stock market mutual fund.

PeteyParker posted...

I fucking hate this country. Fuck you all once again to all the protest voters and the people who didn't vote because Harris didn't "earn your vote".

Channelling the protest voters: "You're a (checks notes) pro-Genocide, Zionist shill who eats babies!"

themaster627 posted...

Isn't this just Scientology?

Yes, yes it is.

https://youtu.be/LKk3x7w7oGQ

DoesntMatter posted...

that's not even anywhere near close to feeling like Looney Tunes

Yeah, I got the same vibe.

This is Looney Tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJI_gygXsfs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnpWNL7XjXU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0bfURyGJ4I

Bacalhau Narcisa
Papas de sarrabulho
Pudim Abade de Priscos
Tibias

And if this doesn't give it away, I can't really help you.

Cabrito assado Moda de Braga

Full_Pokedex posted...

Yeah well I'm not being pelted by ads like everyone else here, especially Youtube. So I think I'll manage.

Confarbulations.

Neither am I, with Firefox on desktop and for Android.

They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

LOL!

"Flap flap squirt flap flap"... fellow meatbags.

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

They're Made out of Meat

Terry Bisson, 1991

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"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."

"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."

"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."

"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."

"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"

"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."

"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."

"No brain?"

"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"

"So... what does the thinking?"

"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"

"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."

"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."

"So what does the meat have in mind."

"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."

"We're supposed to talk to meat?"

"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."

"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"

"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."

"I thought you just told me they used radio."

"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"

"Officially or unofficially?"

"Both."

"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."

"I was hoping you would say that."

"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"

"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"

"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."

"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."

"That's it."

"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"

"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."

"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."

"And we can marked this sector unoccupied."

"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"

"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotation ago, wants to be friendly again."

"They always come around."

"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone."

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6b2173ef.jpg

You know you need some Dickmann's... and not just in der frischebox!

mystic_belmont posted...

They are going to get nothing.

Supposedly the person that tipped off the police is elderly, and more likely to be denied medical care by an insurance company.

Do you mean... "the person that tipped off the police is elderly, and likely to be on Medicare."?

ssjevot posted...

Men have always been more right. Gen X is the only one where most women are as well.

Gen X is also the smallest of the generational cohorts. So this is less of a problem than is made out to be.

Comparing them to Boomers makes Gen X's voting numbers seem just as powerful as Boomers. And they aren't, not by a long shot.

KFHEWUI posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFdkkjGiEs

\m/

This is an awesome song, especially this version!

This really happened, too.

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f589aa18.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b2528a69.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/be3b773d.jpg

Who actually believes he's the shooter?

I mean, is the shooter even human?

Oh, and here's their famous commercial, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In3SShtQxNY

These are being sold at Aldi's near where I live.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/11c1b95b.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a2d67243.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a02ea825.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/fc326809.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4fa722b3.jpg

The Godfather

Shamino posted...

Seven Seas of Rhye by Queen

That is a good song. Agree.

And "No More I Love You's" by Annie Lennox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSkboTTTmpg

When I was younger, I used to joke that I was the most important person on the planet and that the planet would end when died.

Now that I'm in my early 50s, it seems like the planet is going to die around the time I could reasonably be expected to die.

And the joke doesn't seem so funny anymore.

Garioshi posted...

It's true, everyone in Dearborn voted Trump. It's not like a lot of people that would have voted for Kamala ended up not voting over Gaza. Keep blaming the voters and never, ever, ever look in the mirror.

If we are a government of the people, by the people, and for the people...

...then the people are to blame for choosing what they choose.

Kain_Highwind posted...

Good to see liberals still blaming the left and minorities instead of the leadership that actually cost them the election

Trump voters are not liberals or leftists.

Leaving the country. I'm a lot calmer now.

You don't realize just how tightly wound people are in the US, until you've decompressed and then see a US tourist. They are like an unexploded munition, live and ready to explode at the slightest event.

Faxanadu
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/587273-faxanadu

divot1338 posted...

Big brain move by Republicans to take a massive L right out of the gate on a healthcare bill.

Considering that Americans forgot the horrors of COVID-19 under Trump in just four years... it's pretty smart.

Because they'll take the hit in popularity now; and in 2 years, the American voter will have forgotten it happened.

Tyranthraxus posted...

IDK if they're planning on deporting me I will in fact roll over and take it because that means I go get to be a full time Italian citizen.

"You're being deported"
"SWEET! An upgrade!"

Well, unless you already have Italian citizenship, you currently don't have Italian citizenship.

So you'd go to a detention camp until you received your Italian citizenship. And Italy is under no obligation to provide it, if they don't want to. Meaning you'd be a stateless person and would be put to work in the fields.

After all, the US government isn't going to foot the bill for your incarceration.

creativerealms posted...

Non Europeans That's what it means.

"White" has never been about just skin color in America. "White" is about being, obviously, the "white" skin color... BUT ALSO practicing the right religion and being of the right ethnicity.

"White" in America is really "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP)".

So the Protestant Irish are white. Catholic Irish are not. Italians are not white. Spaniards and Portuguese and French are not. Germans are possibly white. Poles are not white.

And if you aren't from Europe, you aren't white.
If you Jewish or Muslim, you aren't white.

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Trump's voting base wants that back and the rest of his voters enabled it.

Dynedux posted...

Also a weird tangent/thought

my grandmother was born in Italy. My father being the first born here, then me, then my children. My grandmother is long passed away, but theoretically she could be eligible for this neat deportation program where would that leave the rest of the family? Would my father be allowed to stay? His father was also an Italian immigrant. My mothers parents were 2nd generation Americans so I would assume I would be allowed to stay but, like, thats just weird.

granted Italian is not on the Christian-American MAGA hit-list so its all just theoretical but still

I asked this question back in 2016. Because my family is the same, just with my grandparents coming to the US from Ukraine (or, at the time, the Russian Empire) when they were very little.

MAGAts had nothing to say then. I doubt they'll have anything to say now.

Dearborn is super-duper happy.

Nothing changes. I'm already Superman.

https://youtu.be/359J1lC96QQ

Honest!