Octopus Overlords

El Guapo wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 6:22 pm Is that really the best picture that the White House social media team had? In addition to featuring bizarro Chinese Gritty, it also makes it look like Biden isn't looking at Xi.

El Guapo wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 6:22 pm Is that really the best picture that the White House social media team had? In addition to featuring bizarro Chinese Gritty, it also makes it look like Biden isn't looking at Xi.

Daehawk wrote: Sat Mar 19, 2022 10:43 am Isn't that Madame Tousou's Wax Museum?

Mike Godwin wrote:Drawing Bayesian inferences after extensive sampling, I've determined that it's 99-percent certain that anyone who uses "woke" as pejorative will turn out to be a fuckhead. Please don't blame me for pointing this out--it's just science.

Holman wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 5:55 pm It's worth asking what's wrong with using "woke" the way users of "woke" use "woke."

1) It's certainly possible to use it positively (i.e. non-pejoratively). Here it means something like "aware of systemic racism/sexism/homophobia/etc." One can say "TV and movies are becoming more woke, and that's good" in this sense.

2) There's of course the opposite tendency, which uses the term to imply that systemic racism/etc are nonexistent or irrelevant and that attention to them in public life is misguided and harmful. This is like when Tucker Carlson et al complain that "American culture has become woke culture," with the undisguised implication that this is part of our Decline and Fall.

3) There's also room for complaining that a certain excessive "wokeness" can go too far when the perceived cultural fault doesn't merit the outrage directed at it. Many of us might, for example, fully support BLM while rolling our eyes at someone's excessively "woke" (in this sense) complaint that Charles Schultz should be canceled because there's only one black character in the core Peanuts gang.

[I made that example up, if you're wondering.]

4) The creeping perniciousness Godwin is calling out (I assume) has to do with the relationship between numbers 3 and 2 above. Proponents of number 2 are perfectly happy to exploit examples of number 3 to imply that there is no reasonable claim of number 1.

Holman wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 5:55 pm Charles Schultz should be canceled because there's only one black character in the core Peanuts gang

[I made that example up, if you're wondering.]

Jaymann wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 7:03 pm Was I the only one who thought the conversation had somehow invoked Hitler?

Jaymann wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 7:03 pm Was I the only one who thought the conversation had somehow invoked Hitler?

Jaymann wrote: Sun Mar 20, 2022 7:03 pm Was I the only one who thought the conversation had somehow invoked Hitler?

Mike Godwin
@sfmnemonic
Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator. (He/him) Retweeting doesn't mean I'm endorsing. My opinions are my own and do not represent my employer.

Max Peck wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 6:55 am Oh, yeah, I knew it was that Mike Godwin when I posted it. That's what made it notable.

Matthew Dowd wrote:I will say this again having worked with Ted Cruz in 2000 campaign: when people asked me why do folks take such an instant dislike to cruz, my answer was it saves time.

hitbyambulance wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:28 pm the race to the bottom:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ohios-gop ... nald-trump

malchior wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 5:53 pm
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1507109438401888263

coopasonic wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:31 am One of my work friend's wife won the run-off and is the Democratic candidate for TX-24 to replace the retiring Republican Congressman (Kenny Marchant). He is both exited and sad (this may be me projecting, he hasn't actually SAID that he is sad) that campaign season continues. If elected she would be the first Afro-Latina in congress. She has a pretty amazing story, but the jump straight from School Board member to US House of Reps would be a pretty big one.

The three fox kits who were found in a den near Capitol Hill after their mother bit nine people and tested positive for rabies have been euthanized, DC Health said Thursday.

In a statement, the agency said the kits “could have been exposed (to rabies) during grooming or other means.”
...
One of those attacked by a fox in recent days was Rep. Ami Bera, who represents California’s 7th District. The Democrat is undergoing a series of rabies shots after the roughly 15-second encounter.

Holman wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 5:23 pm Yeah, that's hilarious.

Presumably The Federalist's assumption was that Dolly Parton must be a reactionary because she did country music.

Presumably The Federalist never met Johnny Cash.