Politics And Current Events

[columbia]

Sore loser libtards in Wisconsin.

[CBear3]

Last time I did the telemarketer poll it ahead of the election it was:
Would you consider your opinion of person X is:
Highly favorable
Somewhat Favorable
Neutral
Somewhat negative
Highly negative
Which would equate to A, B, C, D & F.

[columbia]

https://twitter.com/reason/status/876892349393018880

[Gaucho]

[Factorial]

[mikey]

PopularBasketballGif.politico

[tifosi77]

And we complain about Trump living in a consequence-free world.

[tifosi77]

In other news, that American college student who magically contracted botulism and fell into a coma after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for removing a propaganda poster in North Korea has died.

"evere neurological injury," with extensive loss of brain tissue and "profound weakness and contraction" of his muscles, arms and legs. His eyes will open and blink, but without signs of understanding verbal commands or his surroundings.

All because he wanted to bring a souvenir home.

[shafnutz05]

Trying again would underscore Clinton's personality strengths—doggedness, her ability to bounce back from setbacks like her husband's impeachment and her own 2008 loss to Barack Obama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwlWgMTCp8w

[Kaiser]

Go ahead, run again. I'll be laughing when you lose otra vez and cant figure out why

[slappybrown]

In other news, that American college student who magically contracted botulism and fell into a coma after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for removing a propaganda poster in North Korea has died.

"evere neurological injury," with extensive loss of brain tissue and "profound weakness and contraction" of his muscles, arms and legs. His eyes will open and blink, but without signs of understanding verbal commands or his surroundings.

All because he wanted to bring a souvenir home.

The docs in Cinci found no evidence of botulism based on the tests they ran, and concluded that the loss of the brain tissue was the result of cardio-pulmonary arrest. Given he was a healthy college aged male, the most likely explanation is that he was beaten and tortured to the point where he either had oxygen cut off or he was tortured to the point of a cardio event shutting off blood flow. They beat this kid to death because he allegedly tried to take a poster off the wall of a hotel.

[shafnutz05]

That is just a horrible, awful story. I really can't think of any good reason to ever want to visit there.

[eddy]

I really can't think of any good reason to ever want to visit there.

Shoot hoops with Rodman?

[Shyster]

but its not gonna stop some nutjob from getting a cheap remmington 700 and posting up somewhere and dropping someone from 800 yards.

I mildly object to calling the Remington 700 "cheap." While there are certainly more expensive rifles, I'd consider it an upper-middle-market rifle these days. If it were a car, the 700 would be something like a top-of-the-line Buick—not as expensive or luxurious as a Cadillac, but nowhere as cheap as a Chevy. It's good enough that the Army's M24 and M2010 sniper rifles and the Marines' M40 sniper rifle are all based on the Remington 700.

[Algernon]

but its not gonna stop some nutjob from getting a cheap remmington 700 and posting up somewhere and dropping someone from 800 yards.

I mildly object to calling the Remington 700 "cheap." While there are certainly more expensive rifles, I'd consider it an upper-middle-market rifle these days. If it were a car, the 700 would be something like a top-of-the-line Buick—not as expensive or luxurious as a Cadillac, but nowhere as cheap as a Chevy. It's good enough that the Army's M24 and M2010 sniper rifles and the Marines' M40 sniper rifle are all based on the Remington 700.

Its cheap in the context that anyone with a minimum wage job can afford one.

Also, I said it was cheap not that it wasn't a quality rifle.

[shafnutz05]

https://twitter.com/danney_williams/sta ... ers-day%2F

Link for the curious http://danneywilliams.com/

[Shyster]

That's true, although I think someone on minimum wage would have to save up. A 700 runs around $650 at the low end to over $1,000 at the high end. Remington's current entry-level rifle is the 783, which by contrast runs around $350 or so.

[columbia]

2B apartment or Remington rifle?

[columbia]

That Warmbier kid ist tot.

[Willie Kool]

2B apartment or Remington rifle?

Americans have choices, and they've got to make a choice...

[Kaiser]

That's true, although I think someone on minimum wage would have to save up. A 700 runs around $650 at the low end to over $1,000 at the high end. Remington's current entry-level rifle is the 783, which by contrast runs around $350 or so.

Save up for what? i dont think the guy shooting at congress needs to worry about his other expenses afterward.

[Shyster]

Good point.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

From 2016
https://twitter.com/Salon/status/705077315559157764

[Freddy Rumsen]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/876772237730349057

[Shyster]

Very significant and satisfying decision of the Supreme Court today in Matal v. Tam. This was the case over whether the Patent and Trademark Office could refuse to register "The Slants" as a trademark on the basis that it was "offensive" to minorities. The Court ruled 8–0 that the PTO could not refuse to register the trademark. While the Court broke into two camps on the precise legal rationale, all eight justices (Gorsuch took no part in the case) agreed that there never has been an exception to the First Amendment for speech that some would find hateful or offensive. Justice Alito (joined by Roberts, Thomas, and Breyer) wrote: “[The idea that the government may prevent speech expressing ideas that offend] strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express the thought that we hate.” Likewise, Justice Kennedy (joined by Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan) wrote: “A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.” The justices made it clear that speech that some view as racially offensive is protected not just against outright prohibition, but also against lesser restrictions, such as the refusal to register a trademark containing a supposedly offensive word.

The bottom line from this case: The Supreme Court reaffirmed that there is no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. There never has been a “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. Anyone who claims that “The First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech” is 100% wrong.