I'm just insta-blocking the accounts with single-digit & double-digit follower counts now. It just isn't even worth my time to tell them fuck off first anymore.

This kinda sorta seems like an admission from Vice about who is doing most of the crime, eh?

BONE NIGHTTIME AFTERBURNER PASS Hell fucking yeah!!!!!!!! #Freedom250

I know I'm way late to this party, but I just started the DCC audiobooks about a month ago. I was over the moon that @TheCriticalDri2 was making a cameo. And then I made the mistake of digging further. Fuck me, man, why do they always have to do this? Why does it always have to go this way? There's nothing the left won't ruin with their goddamn politics.

Gross, but also good on her being able to do the splits like that at her age.

This is exactly correct. Laws are only effective in so far as they reflect the culture of the people they purport to govern. Introducing millions of people whose values conflict with the culture that created the laws makes those laws an ineffectual governing tool. The new culture does not view those laws as applying to them.

Multiple floors and corridors inside the Pentagon have been locked down, per CNN

Matthew doesn't like pattern recognition.

The message of a protest is "we don't like this". The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it". People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world. They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are. If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence. And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table. Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that. Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power. (Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.) When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can. And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc. This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight". They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict. This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table. A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care. A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.

I really never imagined that the biggest standout of the second Trump admin would be Rubio, but here we are. Every single time I see him, he's being an absolute rockstar.

Still no word from @UtahAG or the @FBI on whether they will be investigating the illegal misconduct of the @afpolice?

If you thought the Bricks and MiniFigs drama was over, nope, and it got even hotter as they threatened Ben with Jail time if he even mentions the name of the company. This isn't isolated. On the QRT, there is a Utah man who posted that the same American Fork PD told him his $527k construction loan fraud was a “civil case”. They told him that they wouldn’t investigate and were told to go hire a lawyer. This person has been fighting it for 7 years... and yes... This is the SAME department that treated Reckless Ben like a criminal while defending Bricks and minifigs. The same Mormon mafia circles... It's the same problem wherever there are parallel societies. They circle the wagons, handle threats internally, and it's far worse than any kind of "small town" mentality. If you browse social media, there are tons of other stories of people losing five to six-figure dollar sums in franchise deals, scams, contractor disputes, property fraud, and family business-related thefts in Mormon hotspots against people who aren't. Every other complaint follows the same pattern where the PD tells them it's civil and they don't investigate... "go hire a lawyer." It doesn't help that there is an overrepresentation of Mormons in the FBI-CIA and many law enforcement agencies that look the other way all too many times. If the Mormons want to squelch the drama, hold the fraudsters, scammers, and the corrupt accountable instead of trying to silence the critics. Or else the Streisand effect is going to get louder.

YouTuber Reckless Ben says he can no longer upload videos about the Bricks & Minifigs LEGO scandal without going to jail "Now that I'm officially served, I cannot even mention this company or I will be in jail ... this company was telling the court I was making bomb threats"

As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride. This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP. Inclusion! WOO! 🙄 The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life. That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature. And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement. The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law. Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together. You know... Normal things. The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included". What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings. Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work. How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement? Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes. Somewhere along the way after the TQ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship. The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all. I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype. If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this. The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline. The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.

Multiculturalism paying its dividends.

This is a cop who covers up for a big corporation stealing 200k from an old man Look how he smiles about it Make him famous Bricks & Minifigs Paid this douchebag to cover up their crimes

At this point, the outcome with Bricks & Minifigs is secondary as far as I'm concerned. The more infuriating and ominous facet of this story is the blatant misconduct of the @afpolice that has been recorded -- on their own bodycams and by others -- in connection with this case. Their behavior throughout has been that of a private security force rather than an impartial tax-supported public police department. Their egregious conduct needs to be investigated by the @UtahAG, and possibly by federal authorities.

I love that the word "chud" is trending. 😆

This is the way.

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