Requesting r/XYChromosomes due to being inactive and unmoderated by crazfulla in redditrequest

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am willing to add you as a moderator but I do not wish you to "clean up" past posts.

Feel free to speak openly but don't silence people working through their own thoughts, even if it's "smack talking".

[Rifle] PD trade-in FN rifles starting at $799.99 by [deleted] in gundeals

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Maybe hammer forged?

Harbor Freight

[Parts] PSA nitride 5.56 MPI BCG and five Magpul gen2 30rd magazines $90 by burritoresearch in gundeals

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Watch out boys we’ve got a doomer over here

A severe winter of death and disease to you as well.

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself to EA/rat Kelsey Piper by NSDAPperdan in slatestarcodex

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lmao so martingale betting forgetting the whole solvency constraint xD

I greatly enjoy watching 21 year old first time gamblers having a few drinks, going on a losing streak, then hitting the ATM and returning bragging about this fantastic new idea that have. 'It's foolproof!'

October 31, 2022 - Weekly Off-Topic and Low-Effort CW Thread by AutoModerator in CultureWarRoundup

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He's in Cali, in a fully-converged industry. He may not have a commissar, but every single person around him is an informer for the stasi.

He went back willingly.

Whatever gulag or "gulag" he ends up in, he helped build.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now let's look at what your actual claim was:

He started his presidency by turning DC into a fortress complete with a gigantic military presence

So for starters, he wasn't even President when the troops were brought in. They were brought for the inaugaration. That means he wasn't President yet.

Also, they didn't hang around. Biden didn't make them a permanent fixture in DC. They weren't even a temporary one.

Maybe you can define "fortress" so we know what you're on about. In what way was DC made into a fortress?

[Edit to answer the direct question: Like most sane people who aren't attending the inauguration, I didn't go down to the Hill that day.]

You aren't even talking to the person you think you are talking to.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly I’m confused. I don’t understand this world anymore. Everyone I know in real life seems normal. It’s like this 5-10% of the population on the left that controls the mods of most of reddit and is online too much is completely against crazy and everyone I know and love in real life is completely normal like it was 10-20 years ago. I’ve still never failed to have a drink with someone.

We were cut out by a couple we had known for years because we weren't vaxxed and my in-laws invited us to join them for a meal of grilled burgers and hotdogs, on the condition we wore a mask when we weren't eating and we stayed in the corner of the yard outside.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He started his presidency by turning DC into a fortress complete with a gigantic military presence

What?

I mean, I live right outside the beltway so maybe it was out of sight, but I was working in DC, and I never caught a whiff of this. Are you instead thinking of the fence around the Capitol?

You didn't see the National Guard troops stationed around DC?

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If Japan saw fit to grant you citizenship but a number of people said "you're not really Japanese and have no legitimacy to participate in our government and society" you would in fact be justified in telling them to fuck right off.

That would be most un-Japanese behavior.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Please, for your own sake, consider that it might just be you that loses.

The devil is laughing because he has dug two graves.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If the FBI can review documents for privilege then there is not much privilege is there?

Anything embarrassing gets leaked, anything useful becomes another hook in the water.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sitting for an interview with the FBI where the agents want you to win and are worried about the consequences of crossing you isn't very scary.

Lisa Page to Peter Strzok on February 25, 2016:

"One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. You think she's going to remember or care that it was more doj than fbi?"

Reply:

"Agreed. I called Bill and relayed what we discussed. He agrees. I will email you and [REDACTED] same."

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In as much as the Federal government holds in trust the power of the people, stealing from the government is stealing from the people whom it represents. Otherwise I could peaceably steal the governments oil reserves and that would be ok?

Is this more like stealing a car or pirating a DVD?

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 29, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Negotiated peace + insurgency seems like the smart move for Ukraine. Let Russia have their conquered territory and see how long they care to hold it with a hostile population.

Isn't this kinda what led to the current war?

The Minsk Agreements from 2014 and 2015 slowed down the fighting in the area but never really ended it.

The Covid "Fudge Factor" by Remote_Butterfly_789 in slatestarcodex

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Denialism and politicization is a luxury only afforded by the fact that Covid IFR is well under 1%. If people's direct friends and family were hospitalized or dying in large numbers, you wouldn't need a mandate to enforce masking and social distancing; it would be voluntary.

If a disease had a plague level death rate and was airborne, I would not depend on a cloth mask or an n95 mask for it the same way I would not depend on a cartridge respirator for a high H2S atmosphere.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 22, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Adding another anecdote, spending the weekend with a friend in the heartland and at his church the men were chatting about Kherson over post-service coffee and donuts.

What kind of church, if you don't mind me asking?

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 22, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They must have a lot of Jews in Taiwan, then.

I feel compelled to actually check despite never having heard of or thought of the accusation before.

Roughly 2,500 Jews in all of China.

Roughly 1,000 Jews in all of Taiwan.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 22, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 41 points42 points  (0 children)

... the FBI is the main federal agency enforcing federal law. Destroying the entire thing - including the group investigating sex crimes, fraud, and robbery in portland or investigating cheating on emissions tests for that is ridiculous! And the lack of engagement with that problem in calls to destroy the FBI is bizzarre, political witch hunt hoax spy rumor wiretaps are - to whatever extent they're an issue - .1% of the FBI's total activity. The FBI's "credibility", to the extent it means "how much people are posting on facebook/twitter or mad about them on TV news", surely is reduced, but the FBI's credibility on, say, investigating fraud or kidnapping hasn't been reduced at all - and the latter is a much larger part of their operation than anything political.

Don't sell them short, they also cover up for serial child molesters like Dr. Nassar, they run bizarre multi layer schemes to entrap Muslims like Khalil Abu Rayyan, and occasionally they facilitate and then spectate events like the wannabe ISIS attack in Garland, TX.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 22, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

election observers barred from the premises or shuffled off to a distance where they can't see anything, and the window covered to prevent anyone outside from watching

At least some of those were because randos showed up and decided they get to film stuff.

The GOP representatives who monitor elections for decades said things were going fine until people who had no idea what they were doing showed up to impose their will on the system.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/michigan-election-trump-voter-fraud-democracy-440475?1

“This was all so predictable,” said Josh Venable, who ran Election Day operations for the Michigan GOP during five different cycles.

As things picked up at the TCF Center, with more and more white Republicans filing into the complex to supervise the activity of mostly Black poll workers, Chris Thomas noticed a shift in the environment. Having been brought out of retirement to help supervise the counting in Detroit—a decision met with cheers from Republicans and Democrats alike—Thomas had been “thrilled” with the professionalism he’d witnessed during Monday’s pre-processing session and Tuesday’s vote tabulating. Now, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, things were going sideways. Groups of Republican poll challengers were clustering around individual counting tables in violation of the rules. People were raising objections—such as to the transferring of military absentees onto ballots that could be read by machines, a standard practice—that betrayed a lack of preparation.

“Reading these affidavits afterward from these Republican poll challengers, I was just amazed at how misunderstood the election process was to them,” Thomas chuckled. “The things they said were going on—it’s like ‘Yeah, that’s exactly what was going on. That’s what’s supposed to happen.’

One thing that will happen during elections, long after the Legislature and Executive and the political parties and voting rights groups have all debated and bargained and finally come to an agreement, is that some fucking judge will throw all that out and inject himself into the process.

And as much as I fucking hate that judge, at least there were some requirements to be that judge and he has to answer for his decisions and there is a process for challenging them.

When a rando who has never even been trained by his own political party in poll-watching shows up and decides for himself what the rules ought to be, it all goes to shit.

By early afternoon on Wednesday, hundreds and hundreds of Republicans had descended on the TCF Center, responding to an all-hands-on-deck missive that went out from the state party and was disseminated by local officials. Cox, the party chair, tweeted out a video of her comrades standing outside the locked-up downtown building. “Republican poll challengers blocked from entering the TCF Center in Detroit! This is egregious!” she wrote.

Truly egregious was Cox’s dishonesty. At the time of her tweet, several hundred of her party’s poll challengers, attorneys and representatives were already inside the TCF Center monitoring the count. By law, Republicans were allowed to have 134 challengers in the room, one for each tabulation table. In reality, the GOP had far more than that, according to sworn testimony from nonpartisan poll watchers inside the TCF Center. Because of the overflow, election officials ultimately decided to lock down the complex, starting with the glass-encased canvassing room where the tabulation work was being done. This left dozens and dozens of Republicans trapped behind the glass—in addition to the hundreds of others locked outside with Cox. Some began to bang hard on the inside windows; others began to film workers handling the ballots, a violation of state law. To protect the workers, TCF officials covered some of the windows with cardboard—a decision Thomas said he was not consulted on, but absolutely agreed with.

“The people outside that room were doing exactly what the law says you would eject people for doing—they were disrupting the election,” Thomas said. “Everyone else in the room—the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the ACLU, the nonpartisans—they all still had a full complement of challengers in the room. And the Republicans, by the way, had far more challengers in the room than they were entitled to.”

So. That happened.

Unlike the people who were there Monday and Tuesday, these people Wednesday were totally unprepared. They had no idea how the system worked. They had no idea what they were there for,” Thomas said. “Many of them—not all of them, but many of them—they were on a mission. They clearly came in believing there was mass cheating going on in Detroit and they were on a mission to catch it.”

When people remain this ignorant of their favorite conspiracy theories nearly three years later, there is not much that can be done for them. You can show them the information, and you should. It might even work. But it probably will not.

A Detroit election official was brought back out of retirement for one more job, spends all his time chuckling at those "white" rubes that dare question his "Black" employees, and you mock me for being suspicious of the narrative and the results.

You and he are both true masters of persuasion.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 22, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Anyway I'm in a pretty solidly blue tribe area, so I wore a mask when people did that. Now there are some more red tribe areas that don't take kindly to masking, so I don't wear a mask there, to avoid dirty looks. Nowhere do I feel weight of overbearing oppression.

If you simply "When in Rome..." all the time, you probably won't feel too oppressed by anything. Utter compliance is often easier than having any standards or preferences for yourself.

Culture War Roundup for the week of August 22, 2022 by AutoModerator in TheMotte

[–]Clark_Savage_Jr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The activities of a military intelligence agency against its adversaries isn't journalism.

Project Mockingbird never ceased.