Wertheimer [any] @ Wertheimer @hexbear.net

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I've been intentionally coughed on twice, both at a grocery store in a neighborhood that had less than 15% of the vote go to Trump. One of them said "Liberal!" as he did it which, you know, was just as gross and disrespectful.

That plan even has several versions already in place:

Several Florida jails and prisons refuse to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton

The Consequences of Sweltering Prisons in the Carolinas

Incarcerated Men Ask Court for Heat Protections for Forced Field Work

This was practically a Carlin bit.

I'm also working for Ill Will Industries. You've heard of Goodwill; this is Ill Will. It's a little different. You give them brand new items and they break them and sell them to poor people.

I'm also helping the people at Big Brother-In-Law. Well, that's for married people who don't have a brother-in-law but really want one. And they send a man over to your house who has two days growth and no job and he sleeps on your couch for about a year. I see some of you have been helped by that program.

The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is also double the OECD average and for Black women the rate more than doubles again. (50.3 deaths for every 100,000 live births, comparable to the overall rate in Kyrgyzstan).

In 2020 the U.S. maternal mortality rate was higher than Palestine's. (21.1 vs 20.4.) The OECD average was 10.9.

dril quilt:

Trying to kill Dr. Venture

Zhao Gao was contemplating treason but was afraid the other officials would not heed his commands, so he decided to test them first. He brought a deer and presented it to the Second Emperor but called it a horse. The Second Emperor laughed and said, "Is the chancellor perhaps mistaken, calling a deer a horse?" Then the emperor questioned those around him. Some remained silent, while some, hoping to ingratiate themselves with Zhao Gao, said it was a horse, and others said it was a deer. Zhao Gao secretly arranged for all those who said it was a deer to be brought before the law and had them executed instantly. Thereafter the officials were all terrified of Zhao Gao. Zhao Gao gained military power as a result of that.

P.S. A great recent film about fascist suppression of leftist film students: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_of_Knowing_Nothing

Thanks for this, I hadn't heard that.

I should watch more Bo Widerberg films to see what '60s left-wing Swedish cinema looked like. This looks like a good one to start with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85dalen_31 .

And Roy Andersson kicks ass; I love Songs from the Second Floor.

Bergman was definitely a Nazi in his youth but he repudiated it when he learned about the death camps. In his memoir he's very open about it (besides maybe exaggerating how young he was) but he mostly blamed his parents and the right-wing milieu he grew up in. I don't know that he really examined what led him to default to Nazism in the first place or used the experience to self-crit. It's been decades since I read his memoir and I don't have it nearby so I may be a bit off but that was the impression I got. In the '70s he was a tax exile but that's all I remember about his later politics.

Godard also had right-wing leanings when he was a teenager but he actually did grow out of them and was constantly interrogating his own politics. Not that his views became immediately pristine or anything - there's plenty to criticize Godard for even when he fully committed to the Left - but the difference seems to me to be that Bergman stopped at "I was lied to" and Godard was more likely to question why he believed certain lies.

Edit - some more Bergman recollections. He was also very open about how shitty and distant of a father he was. (This from an interview that's an extra on the Cries and Whispers Criterion disc.) He tended to be very matter-of-fact about many of his failings, and a recognition that they were indeed failings, but was too much of a fatalist to even begin the work of changing. And if I'm remembering his memoir accurately, even the Nazi confessions mostly had to do with (1) letting readers know that Sweden wasn't as neutral as it pretended to be and (2) an ingredient in what formed his attitude toward organized religion.

They believe Marc Andreessen when he says

We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.

In the face of objections from McDonald's, the term "McJob" was added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in 2003. In an open letter to Merriam-Webster, McDonald's CEO, James Cantalupo denounced the definition as a "slap in the face" to all restaurant employees, and stated that "a more appropriate definition of a 'McJob' might be 'teaches responsibility'". Merriam-Webster responded that "[they stood] by the accuracy and appropriateness of [their] definition."

On 20 March 2007, the BBC reported that the UK arm of McDonald's planned a public petition to have the OED's definition of "McJob" changed. Lorraine Homer from McDonald's stated that the company feels the definition is "out of date and inaccurate".

They will also inexplicably (to themselves as well as others) find the very words "five year plan" and "great leap forward" sinister, to the extent of using them as punchlines to non-existent jokes whenever a phrase travels in that direction.

Pam Bondi: ‘What Is The DOJ Hiding?’

WASHINGTON—Casting doubts on the agency’s recently released review of the late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference Wednesday to ask what the Department of Justice was hiding. “The department’s memo claims there was no client list and Epstein died by suicide—that’s very suspicious, don’t you think?” said Bondi, who told reporters the deep-state swamp was attempting, as it always does, to shield the rich and powerful from the consequences of their depraved actions. “I have it on good authority from someone on the inside that it’s all rigged, plain and simple. The corruption runs deep. The DOJ cannot be trusted. I mean, there’s a missing minute from the tape they released of his prison cell door. Like, come on, if that’s not a cover up, I don’t know what is.” At press time, Bondi claimed the truth would never come out as long as the compromised leadership of the Justice Department remained in charge.

An embarrassment to Minotaur-Americans everywhere

His page doesn't say, but he has eight children and twelve grandchildren, and his "family enjoys rodeos and living out their cowboy heritage, blending tradition and service in every aspect of their lives."

Some of his most recently sponsored bills:

HB 1691 - (3271H.01I) Prohibits the state and political subdivisions from contracting with employers or companies that engage in discrimination against unvaccinated persons

HB 1692 - (3270H.01P) Creates provisions relating to employer liability for injuries from required immunizations

The poster from /r/cth who began every paragraph with "As a libertarian . . ." is probably already a judge somewhere but is somehow being coerced into not breaking character.

I'd like to see what dril does with the Office of Management and Budget.

I'm just sad for all the forgotten shitposters of yesteryear who never got a foreign service sinecure.

@Zuzak@hexbear.net was right three years ago:

It's a real account of a person who is, himself, a bit.

Middle-Aged Man In Gym Locker Room Puts Shirt On Before Underwear

FREDERICKSBURG, VA—Unable to fully avert their gaze as the situation unfolded, sources in the men’s locker room at Capital Fitness confirmed Thursday that a middle-aged gym patron put on his shirt before his underwear. “I swear the guy’s pair of briefs were sitting right there on the bench, but he just ignored them and went straight for his shirt,” said onlooker Mike Housakos, who noted that instead of continuing to dress himself after buttoning his shirt down to his waist, the man then walked all the way to the opposite side of the locker room to deposit his towel in the bin. “And it’s not like he was in any rush to get his underwear on after that. He even picked up his phone and looked at it for a little bit. Jesus.” Sources confirmed that at press time, the half-nude man was putting on his socks.