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Frownland 07-31-2020 08:33 AM

:laughing:

Raime 07-31-2020 01:41 PM

White House condemns Hong Kong election delay

Seriously? It's been one ****ing day, ONE.

rostasi 07-31-2020 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Raime (Post 2128779)
White House condemns Hong Kong election delay

Seriously? It's been one ****ing day, ONE.

Ummm... she is delaying it by one year.
Yeah, I can see the hypocrisy if that's what you mean.

OccultHawk 07-31-2020 05:09 PM

One of the Twitter hackers was a 17 year old from Florida

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He’s being charged as an adult — “This was not an ordinary 17-year old,” said the state attorney — and the press conference made clear that law enforcement is considering how bad consequences of the hack could have been
Not an ordinary 17 year old... lol.

jwb 07-31-2020 05:13 PM

At my middle school growing up down there some kid shot a teacher and they also charged him as an adult. He was like 13. Should be getting out in 8 years.

Raime 07-31-2020 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2128788)
Ummm... she is delaying it by one year.
Yeah, I can see the hypocrisy if that's what you mean.

I meant one day after he touted the idea of delaying elections.

OccultHawk 08-01-2020 03:23 AM

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Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action as soon as Saturday
You know, because America is free but China suppresses the Internet and the Chinese aren’t free and in China one man can control what millions of others can see. Because China no freedom but America is freedom.

The Batlord 08-01-2020 03:27 AM

So America and China are the same. Got it.

OccultHawk 08-01-2020 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2128853)
So America and China are the same. Got it.

Obviously I think America is far worse but I’d be happy to hear people admit that both countries are equally insidious.

grindy 08-01-2020 04:16 AM

America is far ahead of China. China needs to suppress stuff and censor the internet and whatever. The American people are so ****ing brainwashed there isn't even any need for that.

Lucem Ferre 08-01-2020 04:37 AM

Are you calling my country retarded?

grindy 08-01-2020 05:14 AM

No, because retards are often quite nice. Americans are meantarded.

Anteater 08-01-2020 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2128854)
Obviously I think America is far worse but I’d be happy to hear people admit that both countries are equally insidious.

Didn't China elect Xi for life? The closest equivalents we have to that here are Pelosi, McConnell and Biden. :laughing:

jwb 08-01-2020 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 2128855)
America is far ahead of China. China needs to suppress stuff and censor the internet and whatever. The American people are so ****ing brainwashed there isn't even any need for that.

Nah, this is giving the American govt too much credit. Look at the coronavirus response for a perfect example. Americans have to fight over every little thing. We're brainwashed, but in conflicting directions that makes us not even function as a cohesive whole. Where as in China they act as the perfect 1 billion member ant colony. Filled with docile, robotic Asian ants.

SGR 08-01-2020 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2128861)
Didn't China elect Xi for life? The closest equivalents we have to that here are Pelosi, McConnell and Biden. :laughing:

Well, sort of. It was a legislative body that voted to change the country's consitution, not the Chinese people.

SGR 08-01-2020 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2128852)
You know, because America is free but China suppresses the Internet and the Chinese aren’t free and in China one man can control what millions of others can see. Because China no freedom but America is freedom.

They aren't banning TikTok in the US.

Trump's been using the bully pulpit to pressure ByteDance. They're going to divest and Microsoft is going to take over TikTok in the US.

Bytedance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch US deal

Lucem Ferre 08-01-2020 01:13 PM

A couple of people started burning bibles at a protest and now the Trumptards are calling "the left" fascist ignoring the plethora of right wing groups doing organized book burnings including the most heinous one of all, the Harry Potter burnings.

jwb 08-01-2020 06:47 PM

Book burning is just dumb and outdated in general

The guy who shouted a spoiler about Harry Potter to people camped out waiting in line for the book too come out was a much better way to **** on Harry Potter fans

The Batlord 08-01-2020 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2129052)
Book burning is just dumb and outdated in general

The guy who shouted a spoiler about Harry Potter to people camped out waiting in line for the book too come out was a much better way to **** on Harry Potter fans

And he sold shirts with "Snape killed Dumbledore" with the page number on it. That's just pure delicious evil.

Anteater 08-01-2020 07:41 PM

Lolwut

Newsweek - Stephen Hawking Named in Epstein Files as Court Asks For Photos, Videos With Virginia Giuffre

jwb 08-01-2020 07:57 PM

That's amazing. Can totally picture that cyborg raping too despite the strenuous effort it would cost his cheek muscles.

SGR 08-01-2020 08:00 PM

Didn't they list Matt Groening as being there as well (and Ellen)? As far as I understand it - this is all based on witness testimony right? All they have to do is prove that one of these people definitively was not there during the given timeframe and the witness's story and credibility will fall apart.

Anteater 08-01-2020 10:52 PM

My crystal ball tells me we'll get some even crazier names from those files before all is said and done. Get that popcorn ready.

Lucem Ferre 08-01-2020 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2129052)
Book burning is just dumb and outdated in general

The guy who shouted a spoiler about Harry Potter to people camped out waiting in line for the book too come out was a much better way to **** on Harry Potter fans

That's exactly what I said!

Lucem Ferre 08-01-2020 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2129097)
My crystal ball tells me we'll get some even crazier names from those files before all is said and done. Get that popcorn ready.

Something tells me that we will never get the complete truth.

SGR 08-02-2020 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2129100)
Something tells me that we will never get the complete truth.

I agree with you. If it's as bad as we think it its, it will be covered up or Ghislaine will be whacked to prevent the info from coming out.

Maybe in 200 years, after no one cares, the information will be unsealed and revealed to the public.

Tens of thousands protest in Jerusalem, across Israel

Good

Stephen 08-02-2020 09:32 PM

Woman crushed between two humpback whales

Headline looks a little misleading. The story states she was hit by a tail.

rostasi 08-02-2020 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2129100)
Something tells me that we will never get the complete truth.

We don't need the complete truth for there to be the future sound of Maxwell's Silver Slammer.

rostasi 08-03-2020 05:14 PM

BURGER KING
CUSTOMER SLAPS EMPLOYEE ...
Fired From Day Job

Neapolitan 08-03-2020 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2129349)

It's ironic he worked for Harbor Freight Tools, cause that guy certainly has a screw loose.

The Batlord 08-03-2020 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 2129349)

Oh man as disgruntled as I've been the last half year cause of COVID and how insanely busy we've been I probably would have lost my **** and hopped the counter. As degrading as this job is and you want to make it physically humiliating? I think I might have had a bipolar snap and grabbed any one of the numerous heated objects that would have been between me and the counter (ngl I'm not brave enough to fight hand to hand) and beat that ****er down with a metal fry basket just out of the grease. If there was a basket of fries or something down in the grease I'd have probably given an internal evil smile and hurled them all over that ****er.

I'm not trying to sound hard but at any time of day at work I am like THAT ****ING CLOSE to losing my **** these days and this is exactly the kind of thing to put my blinders on and turn my thinking brain off.

jwb 08-03-2020 06:21 PM

shut up pussy

The Batlord 08-03-2020 07:11 PM

Not even denying I'm a pussy, but the commotion of some scumbag slapping one of my people while I'm standing there miserable hating every second of the day could be just the thing to destroy my cool and make me an irrational crazy person. And then I would just be a psycho who wanted to hurl boiling grease at a representation of my day to day misery.

Norg 08-03-2020 07:18 PM

i guess they didnt make it his way

jwb 08-03-2020 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2129369)
Not even denying I'm a pussy, but the commotion of some scumbag slapping one of my people while I'm standing there miserable hating every second of the day could be just the thing to destroy my cool and make me an irrational crazy person. And then I would just be a psycho who wanted to hurl boiling grease at a representation of my day to day misery.

You seen Joker lately?

OccultHawk 08-03-2020 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2129353)
Oh man as disgruntled as I've been the last half year cause of COVID and how insanely busy we've been I probably would have lost my **** and hopped the counter. As degrading as this job is and you want to make it physically humiliating? I think I might have had a bipolar snap and grabbed any one of the numerous heated objects that would have been between me and the counter (ngl I'm not brave enough to fight hand to hand) and beat that ****er down with a metal fry basket just out of the grease. If there was a basket of fries or something down in the grease I'd have probably given an internal evil smile and hurled them all over that ****er.

I'm not trying to sound hard but at any time of day at work I am like THAT ****ING CLOSE to losing my **** these days and this is exactly the kind of thing to put my blinders on and turn my thinking brain off.

I get it.

SGR 08-04-2020 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2129380)
You seen Joker lately?

You trying to give Batty bad ideas?

Psy-Fi 08-04-2020 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2129353)
Oh man as disgruntled as I've been the last half year cause of COVID and how insanely busy we've been I probably would have lost my **** and hopped the counter. As degrading as this job is and you want to make it physically humiliating? I think I might have had a bipolar snap and grabbed any one of the numerous heated objects that would have been between me and the counter (ngl I'm not brave enough to fight hand to hand) and beat that ****er down with a metal fry basket just out of the grease. If there was a basket of fries or something down in the grease I'd have probably given an internal evil smile and hurled them all over that ****er.

I'm not trying to sound hard but at any time of day at work I am like THAT ****ING CLOSE to losing my **** these days and this is exactly the kind of thing to put my blinders on and turn my thinking brain off.


Make sure you're wearing body armor...

Florida man kills Burger King employee after order takes too long

SGR 08-04-2020 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi (Post 2129427)

It's always Florida man, dude gets around.

rostasi 08-04-2020 01:07 PM



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