Social WR Lounge v214: RR, will it be Meth?

[Trotsky]

What are the fucking cons

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

What are the fucking cons

I think it's a good question to get out there.

Please tell us the cons?

I think it's a good sign by Manchin tbh.

 

[tonni]

how ugly?
Like from 1 - 10
10 being really really ugly.

7

 

[lsa]

7

If she pays for dinner I'll do it!

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

That is a rough looking 45 year old

 

[lsa]

That is a rough looking 45 year old

Damn dude must have seen and done some shit looking rough like that.
Or it was the water supply.

 

[Falsedawn]

What are the fucking cons

I think it's a good question to get out there.

Please tell us the cons?

I think it's a good sign by Manchin tbh.

Cons:

-Gotta tape a star to the flag.
-Puerto Rican food would be called American food, which is confusing.
-I don't think they eat tacos.
-Nobody has explored the social effects on Mississippi to have yet another state better than them.
-I hear Florida may have some territorial issues, there's been talk of the Swamp Navy doing a coastal survey.

 

[Ruprecht]

Really? Are you on drugs? The purpose is precisely to shed light on the truth that not all protests/riots are morally or logically equivalent but I don't know how obvious that is to many.

Let me put it to you this way. On Jeopardy a while back, I noticed what I considered a mistake when they said that accuracy and precision were synonymous. In a casual interaction between parties, the two terms could be considered synonymous for the purposes of their discussion but in any context where the individual terms are consequential to some outcome or other, there's actually an important difference between them. It's all about context.

To whatever extent the riots that occurred in the name of BLM are actually their responsibility is up for debate, but the difference between them and the storming of the Capitol is not. They didn't assault the seat of government in the course of their riots, and they didn't have a 5-year campaign all about how they would not permit their chosen one to lose, for if he did, "there would be a blood bath." Their words, not mine. There's a significant difference and it isn't quibbling at all.

Violent rejection of police (or judicial) authority is also technically "insurrection". Public violence and intimidation to achieve political goals is also "terrorism". I wouldn't use either description for the majority of protests/riots in the US though, because it'd be pejorative hyperbole. A matter of the terms common associations.
That's why media coverage here puts "insurrection" in inverted commas.

I really don't care if people are stupid enough to equivocate between Qanon and BLM because they both stage protests, I'm not going to insist people refer to them and their actions by different (more loaded) terms on that basis.
Does anyone really think the Qanon Shaman, Baked Alaska or Adam Johnson (podium guy) are the next Guy Fawkes or Che Guevara?

I mean feel free to engage in whatever semantic quibbling takes your fancy, just don't expect me to join you.

 

[Gregolian]

FedEx confuses me.

Place on order on the sixth, estimated ship date of the 7th with estimated delivery on the 10th (today). It's still showing estimated delivery today but still hasn't left Memphis, TN..... Uuuuuuhhhhh, not sure how it's going to make it from Memphis to SLC in a day and be delivered but OK.

 

[Prokofievian]

I crushed him like a can of baby carrots. He's never coming back.

TIL, baby carrots come in cans in Belgium.

 

[Prokofievian]

Violent rejection of police (or judicial) authority is also technically "insurrection". Public violence and intimidation to achieve political goals is also "terrorism". I wouldn't use either description for the majority of protests/riots in the US though, because it'd be pejorative hyperbole. A matter of the terms common associations.
That's why media coverage here puts "insurrection" in inverted commas.

I really don't care if people are stupid enough to equivocate between Qanon and BLM because they both stage protests, I'm not going to insist people refer to them and their actions by different (more loaded) terms on that basis.
Does anyone really think the Qanon Shaman, Baked Alaska or Adam Johnson (podium guy) are the next Guy Fawkes or Che Guevara?

I mean feel free to engage in whatever semantic quibbling takes your fancy, just don't expect me to join you.

Kristallnacht and Stonewall were the same thing, and to suggest otherwise is semantics.

 

[The Diplomat]

FedEx confuses me.

Place on order on the sixth, estimated ship date of the 7th with estimated delivery on the 10th (today). It's still showing estimated delivery today but still hasn't left Memphis, TN..... Uuuuuuhhhhh, not sure how it's going to make it from Memphis to SLC in a day and be delivered but OK.

I ordered a CB antenna for someone on Dec 21st, and it got lost by the USPS in South Bend, Indiana. Had to get a refund.

 

[lsa]

I ordered a CB antenna for someone on Dec 21st, and it got lost by the USPS in South Bend, Indiana. Had to get a refund.

I took it.

 

[Gregolian]

I ordered a CB antenna for someone on Dec 21st, and it got lost by the USPS in South Bend, Indiana. Had to get a refund.

Mine all the FedEx tracker says is the label was created. "Shipment Information sent to FedEx".

 

[The Diplomat]

I took it.

 

[lsa]

 

[Allosaurus Fragillis]

@Allosaurus Fragillis

This poll was made for your input, breh.

I named my account off Allosaurus, but T-Rex is the king. Although Spinosaurus is a close second because of it's unique appearance, but because it was the first semi-aquatic Dino.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

I might get banned for this... but I dont approve of ISIS.

There I said it.

 

[tonni]

TIL, baby carrots come in cans in Belgium.

 

[Ruprecht]

Kristallnacht and Stonewall were the same thing, and to suggest otherwise is semantics.

Are you going to insist that the Kristallnacht riots aren't called riots and are only referred to as a pogrom, because otherwise the distinction would escape you?