That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
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Musk is definitely in that category. See also: COVID lockdowns.malchior wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:52 amYep I could see that.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Mon Nov 15, 2021 9:47 amAt first I was nodding my head in agreement when I read that, but then there are lots of people out there that just can’t keep their mouths shut, even when opening it is patently against their interests. I suspect Musk is one of those people.
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/10558644 ... -hoax-caseAlex Jones found liable for defamation in Sandy Hook 'hoax' case
I'd still ask how many other jobs in America would give you a formal warning after making death threats against a co-worker and reassign your work duties.BREAKING: The House has voted to censure Republican Paul Gosar, 223-207. He has been removed from his committee assignments.
I'd say it's near 100% contingent on the GOP retaking the House (which is itself 95% likely).malchior wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:35 pm Also what other workplace would have a bunch of people think it is ok to threaten another co-worker with violence. And then get all outraged about how unfair it is to simply chastise him.
Edit:They're also threatening to follow their usual which will be escalation and retaliation. It really does seem to indicate that we will likely ultimately see Biden impeached in 2023.
After the U.S. House voted to censure him for a video he posted on Twitter, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar reweeted the animated footage, which depicts him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.
I guess at this point he’s not going to be put on double secret probation so why not double down!Smoove_B wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 10:26 am In case you were wondering how Gosar would respond to being censured and removed from his committee assignments
After the U.S. House voted to censure him for a video he posted on Twitter, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar reweeted the animated footage, which depicts him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.
As long as you are their kind of ass.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 1:16 pm I know I’m a curmudgeon, but it DOES seem like ‘being an ass in a public way’ is seen as a badge of honor by far too many people these days.
As long as you're being an ass toward the right people.LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 1:27 pmAs long as you are their kind of ass.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 1:16 pm I know I’m a curmudgeon, but it DOES seem like ‘being an ass in a public way’ is seen as a badge of honor by far too many people these days.
A couple of months ago I had a neighbor down the street yell at me because I had my car parked on the side of the road waiting for the bus so I could drop my daughter off. He kept screaming that I couldn't park there and that it was a private neighborhood. I told him I was aware it was a private neighborhood considering I owned a house in it (which shut him up for a hot second).Carpet_pissr wrote:I know I’m a curmudgeon, but it DOES seem like ‘being an ass in a public way’ is seen as a badge of honor by far too many people these days.
What, were they playing Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?Don't forget to remind him to clean up after his dog every single time you see him.YellowKing wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:39 pm I've started calling him "The Mayor" or "The Parking Police" when I see him walking his dog, which makes my daughter laugh.
How swarthy do you look?LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:40 pm
I remember being parked and sitting in a neighborhood, waiting for a friend, in front of his house, once and some angry lady came up banging on my car window "we have children in this neighborhood!"
Go ahead and be suspicious and watch me, that's your neighborhood watch prerogative, but thehell? My taxes are paying for your streets as much as yours and if you don't like me resting here, then ever drive on M-153 cause that's where my house was.
Probably too street looking. And then I would have been young and street looking.Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:51 pm How swarthy do you look?
Also, if you look anything like your avatar, very very sus.
We have a guy like that that lives on our street. Not old, btw, probably my age or younger even. I have literally seen the man wearing what seems to be a Boy Scout uniform, so ??YellowKing wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:39 pm Yeah this is not a gated community and the roads are maintained by the county. I think he's referring to the HOA sign at the front warning solicitors, which really has no legal merit whatsoever in this particular instance.
I've started calling him "The Mayor" or "The Parking Police" when I see him walking his dog, which makes my daughter laugh.
Call 911Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:14 pm At some point this past year, he was driving in front of me, and actually stopped his car (didn't even pull over, he just stops in the middle of the damn road), gets out of his car, walks toward me and does the "roll 'er down!" action with his hands.
The lack of tribalism in American politics is an ideal for which we should all strive.How's this for an attention-grabbing bit of political oratory, delivered in the United States House of Representatives? A Wisconsin Republican opined that Canada and lots of other places are less successful than the United States and offered his theory about why they are "countries that fail."
Rep. Glenn Grothman says it's because of cultural divisions. In Canada's case, he says, those divisions involve language. And he lumped it in with a long list of what he called failed countries.
"I never felt Canada was quite as successful as America," he began in his Nov. 16 speech. "[That's] because, to a degree, their elections pitted the French speakers against the English speakers."
He went on to say it's true in lots of other places, including the continent of Africa that contains 54 countries: "You look at elections in the Middle East, and it is the Sunnis against the Shiites. You look at elections in Africa, and it is one tribe against another tribe."
In other words, he said, when people in these countries "go to the polls, they don't say what is the appropriate money to spend on national defence or what is our roads policy or what should be appropriate criminal justice policy or the length of jail sentences.
"No, in these countries that fail, the elections are a contest of one ethnic group against another."
Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:14 pm .At some point this past year, he was driving in front of me, and actually stopped his car (didn't even pull over, he just stops in the middle of the damn road), gets out of his car, walks toward me and does the "roll 'er down!" action with his hands.
I may or may not be guilty of doing this as well, but only when people are flying down our street while the kids are playing in the front yard (which happens far too often)Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:14 pm He pushes his arms down to try and get people (that aren't really speeding) to slow down on HIS street.
Amen to that. Our neighborhood's most visible Blue Lives Matter, Trump flag in the pickup truck, Gadsen flag flying a-hole (who I've never talked to before) started yelling at me during my run last weekend. There were so many cars at his house that his giant coal-roller truck was parked half in his driveway and half on the sidewalk. He apparently got mad that I had to run over a corner of his grass as I navigated around the truck - because he was parked on the goddamn sidewalk - so he yelled "Get off my property asshole. You wanna get shot?" at me.YellowKing wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:14 pm It's getting to the point where I can tell from the flag you hang outside your house or the bumper sticker on your truck what level of asshole you are. Why are these people so goddamn angry all the time? Jesus Christ, who wants to live like that?
Debated it, figured it wasn’t worth the headache. Also didn’t want to run the risk of him retaliating at me on future runs, since it would have been pretty obvious who called the cops.
It's not worth it and the cops wouldn't be able to do anything anyway.Skinypupy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 7:35 pmDebated it, figured it wasn’t worth the headache. Also didn’t want to run the risk of him retaliating at me on future runs, since it would have been pretty obvious who called the cops.
Will definitely be giving his house a wider berth from here on out though.
It'll be worth it to see how the cops would handle two middle aged white guys in a verbal altercation.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 8:16 pm It's not worth it and the cops wouldn't be able to do anything anyway.
I’m not proud to admit it, but my mind also went straight to “juvenile retaliation” when I read that.
There's gotta be a joke about what they found rooting up the presidents ass hiding in there somewhere. I'm just too unfunny to see it.