DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021
You can’t build a shit nation like the USA unless you have a lot of pieces of shit to assemble into the final product. One giant piece of shit is, of course, the Previous Guy, but he had help from many, many shit humans all along the way. One of those shit humans, Mark Zuckerberg, cut a deal with Trump: No fact checking his posts in exchange for no regulations on Facebook. Zuckerberg denies this, but why should anyone believe a talking piece of shit? Trump repaid him as he usually does — with a “lock him up” chant at his NurenburgGeorgia rally.
Former Trump henchman Michael Cohen has a simple explanation for why Donnie Dotard’s threatened lawsuit against his niece will never go anywhere: His lawyers won’t let him sit for depositions because all he does is spout gobbledygook.
China has done what the Western world lacks the balls to do — banned cryptocurrency, including the “mining” of bitcoins. Given that Mongolia is the world’s bitcoin mining capital, this is bound to have a deleterious effect on the scam.
Yes, the Gabby Petito story is tiresome, and yes, only missing-and-found murdered white women get this media treatment. But you know what? Currently there are 17,000 missing persons in the U.S., including 58 in Delaware, plus 13,000 unidentified bodies. A tiny fraction of one percent of these cases ever gets publicized. The Petito case got all this publicity not because she’s white, but because there was so much documentation of the couple’s trip leading up to her disappearance, and it’s proceeding like an episode-a-day serial novel. The part that makes it media catnip is that we all know the boyfriend killed her, and it’s just a matter of time until he’s found — though if it takes long enough, the story will be forgotten until he is. The cases that get publicized are those with a compelling narrative. Cases with few details — she was last seen here with so-and-so — don’t make for compelling narratives, and so get little or no publicity. Remember Susan Ledyard, the teacher whose body was found two years ago along the Brandywine? She got stories when she disappeared, when her body was found, and on the one-year anniversary of her body being found. Without details, narrative or leads, her case has been forgotten, even though she was white.
I heard this joke recently. Q: How can you tell someone’s a vegan? A: You don’t have to, they’ll tell you. That joke makes this bit of research, which found that people don’t like vegans because they find them to be moralistic twats, a statement of the obvious.
The floor’s yours.
“You can’t build a shit nation like the USA unless you have a lot of pieces of shit to assemble into the final product.”
I feel like that covers it. Need I read on? Of course, I will. But DAAAAANG!
I have a good friend who takes pains to avoid telling people that he doesn’t eat meat. He said “People take my not eating meat as some kind of an accusation, when in reality I don’t give a fuck about what they eat or don’t eat.”
The article goes into that. The most interesting thing, to me, was that “flexitarians” — people who eat a little meat but restrict their intake — are seen by others as “lacking commitment.”
What’s most disturbing, of course, is that too many people don’t share you friend’s attitude — I don’t care what you eat as long as I can’t smell it from where I’m sitting (that is, I don’t want someone eating a durian next to me).
Sadly, it only takes one proselytizing vegan to poison the well for all the rest.
‘The Proselytizing Vegans’.
I’ve got the name, now all I need is a band…
Ha, that would be some insufferable straightedge hardcore band but I’m sure I would listen to them.
The Smiths already beat us to it:
http://www.feelnumb.com/2017/02/11/the-smiths-meat-is-murder-album-cover-soldier/
No need to be concerned about finding Gabbys husband – dog the bounty hunter is on the case
Apparently the Band Name Game is spreading to non musicians, you will find it rewarding and at time hilarious. Should note that my start up band, The Evangelical Atheist, went nowhere, other then straight to hell of course.