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Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#302Since we're all posting our favorites, here's a few more: Situation in Nigeria Seems Pretty Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport https://youtu.be/Pwom49awRKg
Just a heads up, but you've swapped the links and the titles.
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can be liberal / on the left and not be a leftist . Being extreme on the left should be viewed as negatively as it is to be extreme on the right. Extreme opinions of any kind are not conducive to living with people whose beliefs differ from yours. I mean in another comment you refer to yourself as "a radical leftist" so that sort of proves my point. The points above can be held by liberal, left-of-center politici…
So lets zoom in on point 5 on your list: > There are root causes to the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans that do not boil down to "the system is racist." To claim that there are other root causes then systematic racism behind mass incarceration of black people, is placing a lot of heavy lifting on the other . It is reasonable to assume that a person holding this belief means “cultural” or, worse, “…
I never claimed a leftist could or would hold any of these views. To the contrary I'm pointing out that leftism is such a fringe minority belief structure in the US that you can be a wildly popular mainstream Democrat, have a change at being elected President, and have the types of beliefs above and still have most of the country be more conservative to you.
From the very first comment:
> > > > I can think of a handful of things that the moderate American left would do / agree on that the more extreme elements would not
> > > > any of [these beliefs] ... would get you ostracized from [a] leftist group.
You prove both of my points beautifully in this thread as well as my new one that leftism is a radical fringe belief system when you say even suggesting there might be any other cause than racism for #5 is itself racism.
I never said anything was "a moderate version of a leftist belief," I'm not sure where exactly you got that.
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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Further south in the wheat belt, and often called BnS Inseminators Balls with the Hay day being more the late 1980s and 1990s. Lot's of burnouts, circle work, lube slides, burning wrecks, food dye, and actual ball in a tent, fire engines, drinking, limousines (both real hires and "bush mechanic" stretched tractors), etc. Being so far away I either flew in from the Kimberleys or hitch hiked across from Perth to go to…
I'm so square that if I'd tried a pun like that, everyone would've baled. Looks very reminiscent[0] of Carnival[1], except not seasonal, no utes[2], and we have very few bogans or muppets[3] so ours are usually urban[4]. Also, confetti[5] instead of food colouring. (good that Sister Sanguinista has a way to relax; people-helping jobs, like vet practice, seem to be a real ticket to burnout) [0] especially the slogan "…
TIL the food dye might be an ovine thing: https://www.rawlinshaw.co.uk/tupping-time
> If the female is receptive, she will stand for mating. So that we know when a ewe has been mated, we place a coloured liquid underneath the ewe or place a harness on the tup which hold a coloured crayon. We change the colour at certain intervals so we know who has been mated when. This explains why you see sheep with different coloured bottoms all over Yorkshire!
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#305I remember my first introduction to the onion was the print edition at my university. What a great publication- and they authored what has to be the best amicus brief to the Supreme Court ever. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
The Babylon Bee's brief in the same case is also pretty good: https://babylonbee.com/amicus-brief
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#306I remember my first introduction to the onion was the print edition at my university. What a great publication- and they authored what has to be the best amicus brief to the Supreme Court ever. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
The Babylon Bee's brief in the same case is also pretty good: https://babylonbee.com/amicus-brief
They penned two briefs, the one you linked to was never filed with the court (it “sides” with the police). The one they filed with the court is different. You can read about it here and both are linked: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/10/28/babylon-bee-files-amicu...
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Babylon Bee's brief in the same case is also pretty good: https://babylonbee.com/amicus-brief
They penned two briefs, the one you linked to was never filed with the court (it “sides” with the police). The one they filed with the court is different. You can read about it here and both are linked: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/10/28/babylon-bee-files-amicu...
(The real brief is also linked at the end of the fake one)
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
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I have a stack about a foot tall of copies i collected from the Obama era. Anyone idea what i should do with them? Perhaps donate them to the library as a public good? They are still hilarious. My favorite is one where they pretended a Chinese ceo of a fish company bought the paper. It was filled with articles with bad statistics trying to get the common American to eat more fish, how wonderful the ccp is, and how we…
I'm building a free magazine encyclopedia wiki. My email is on my profile. Happy to scan them and upload them if they are not already available in electronic format.
I’ve sent you an email
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
> on a cattle station in the Nor'west. Were B&S Balls a thing there then? (the food dye may not exactly be elegant, but it is reminiscent of Carnival)
Further south in the wheat belt, and often called BnS Inseminators Balls with the Hay day being more the late 1980s and 1990s. Lot's of burnouts, circle work, lube slides, burning wrecks, food dye, and actual ball in a tent, fire engines, drinking, limousines (both real hires and "bush mechanic" stretched tractors), etc. Being so far away I either flew in from the Kimberleys or hitch hiked across from Perth to go to…
A nice essay on circle work: http://www.australianbeers.com/culture/circlework.htm
EDIT: and I guess the B&S was part of the answer to this 1959 question?
> An American psychologist, Mrs Graham Bell, said she wondered how Australian men and women ever got together enough to get married. But it is not true that Ordinary Australians fail to recognise the value of women. Any man will tell you they are indispensable for packing picnic-baskets, and for keeping other women company while you are drinking with their husbands
Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
In recent years one of the two parties was taken over by a reality show host blowhard with no impulse control or self awareness. It would be weird if the media didn't capitalize on that with extra attention. The worst idea of our time is that there's some sort of law or balance in the universe preventing one party from ever deserving more criticism than the other because there's at all times some sort of magical fixe…
“The worst idea of our time is that there’s some sort of law or balance in the Universe preventing one party from ever deserving more criticism than the other.” lol - this sounds alot like the lady who said,"i cant understand how George Bush won, i dont know a single person who voted for him" Hopefully we will see more periodicals, social media, and comics taking on the far left - between the doddering old man, his d…
You're not making any sense.