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Millennials Favor a Republican Congress, Ebola Breeds Quarantine Fever, ISIS Gets More Stuff That Goes BOOM: P.M. Links

J.D. Tuccille | 10.29.2014 4:30 PM

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    Hey Democrats: Millennials aren't so into you. A new national poll of 18- to 29- year-olds finds that a slim majority of the generation that once went wild for Barack Obama now favors a Republican-led Congress.

  • Grab the popcorn! Anti-incumbent disgust is fueling strong independent and Libertarian campaigns and making this year's midterm elections highly unpredictable.
  • Maine state police are keeping nurse Kaci Hickox confined to her home as part of an escalating national battle over quarantining people who may have been exposed to Ebola.
  • Meanwhile, any U.S. troops lucky enough to be sent to West Africa to help with Ebola relief efforts definitely face a 21-day quarantine upon returning.
  • ISIS apparently got its hands on Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles that were intended for non-psychotic Syrian rebel groups. Who could've predicted that?
  • The FBI just can't keep its hands off the Associated Press. The feds admit they created a fake AP article and site to get a bomb-threat suspect to click a link and download malware onto his computer. The news agency is not pleased.
  • A previously unknown species of frog was discovered in New York City. It immediately flipped the finger to scientists and demanded hand-crafted booze in its drink.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    Maine state police are keeping nurse Kaci Hickox confined to her home...

    Isn't being in Maine isolation enough?

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

      Enough for Cujo!

    2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      Oh, you're one to talk about isolation.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

        I AM ONE TO TALK.

        1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

          Yeah yeah, save it for Sasquatch.

    3. PRX   11 years ago

      most of us would permanently lose our occupational license for being that defiant of the state.

  2. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    The feds admit they created a fake AP article...

    Creating fake stories is the AP's job!

    1. Tonio   11 years ago

      The news agency is not pleased.

      I'd believe that more when they sue the FBI or try to get them prosecuted. Until then it's just pro-forma.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    It immediately flipped the finger to scientists and demanded hand-crafted booze in its drink.

    JUST REPORT THE LINKS, TUCCILLE, AND LEAVE THE JOKES TO US.

    1. Aloysious   11 years ago

      hand-crafted booze

      What? No artisanal ice?

      1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

        Hand carved cubes from polar bear dens

        1. Almanian!   11 years ago

          Pfffff - hacker!

          Ice made from the tears of orphans working in my sweatshops who miss their mothers and dread the future in my service, but not enough to commit suicide.

          Now THAT'S a cool drink....aaaahhhhh!

      2. Every Cop is a Criminal   11 years ago

        As long as it isn't chipped off of a madona made of frozen vaginal sweat.

        1. Citizen Nothing   11 years ago

          Bartender, a Sweaty Mary, and make it a double!

          1. Tonio   11 years ago

            Nice.

          2. Restoras   11 years ago

            Is this a thing? If it isn't, it should be.

            1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

              extra salty rim plz

    2. Doctor Whom   11 years ago

      But does it have a hipster pompadour, and what does it think about the issues?

  4. SIV   11 years ago

    How many divisions does the Associated Press have?

    1. Tonio   11 years ago

      Big city dailies, small town dailies, rural weeklies. Oh, you meant...

  5. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

    A new national poll of 18- to 29- year-olds

    ... includes mostly people who weren't allowed to vote 8 years ago.

    1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

      Raaacist!!1

    2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      WE R TEH FEWTCHER!!!

    3. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      Aw shit, it was only 6 years ago. Seems like 100.

  6. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

    Hello.

    Well, Denmark is doing it! $20/hr that is.

    http://yhoo.it/1FWpDa2

    1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      The Nordic model is an example for us all.

      1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

        One day we will have our mOm E nt!

        1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

          Needz moar zen Vikings

    2. Jaybirdmojo   11 years ago

      They're trying to price out the Moose Limbs.

  7. Bam!   11 years ago

    The FBI just can't keep its hands off the Associated Press. The feds admit they created a fake AP article and site to get a bomb-threat suspect to click a link and download malware onto his computer. The news agency is not pleased.

    CIA is barred from using journalism as a cover story but the FBI can steal the identity of the AP?

    1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      We only care about not lying to foreigners.

  8. Bam!   11 years ago

    Meanwhile, any U.S. troops lucky enough to be sent to West Africa to help with Ebola relief efforts definitely face a 21-day quarantine upon returning.

    How To Tell If You're Infected With Ebola In 21 Days or Less.

    1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      Ebola For Dummies

      1. db   11 years ago

        This one weird trick will tell you which of your friends is hiding an Ebola infection!

        1. Almanian!   11 years ago

          My girlfriend's mother made $5363 last month from home using this methood!

          http://www.ebolamyass.com/job/derp

          1. Restoras   11 years ago

            Hey, that's not a real link!

          2. Brandon   11 years ago

            SF'ed the link.

            1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

              Did he?

    2. Tonio   11 years ago

      My friends mom makes 6,200 every fortnight doing ebola screening from her computer!

      1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

        Pics

        1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

          Careful. We have no idea if Tonio suffers from fruit blindness.

        2. Tonio   11 years ago

          Hier

          1. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

            Well played.

          2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

            drunk 5

      2. Almanian!   11 years ago

        ...I was 5 minutes late, but mine was better...

  9. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    Meanwhile, any U.S. troops lucky enough to be sent to West Africa to help with Ebola relief efforts definitely face a 21-day quarantine upon returning.

    In case they have the desert pox. YOU KNOW WHO ELSE...

    1. db   11 years ago

      Patton?

    2. Tonio   11 years ago

      Montgomery?

    3. Almanian!   11 years ago

      Christopher George and "The Rat Patrol"?

      1. Tonio   11 years ago

        Does anyone know where you can get the episodes on shiny disk? There is one episode on YouTube but I can't find the others anywhere...

        1. Doghouse Riley Jr.   11 years ago

          Amazon?

  10. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

    The news agency is not pleased.

    Maybe there's hope that news agencies will stop being the state's press agents

    1. Tonio   11 years ago

      You crack me up, finger.

  11. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    Anti-incumbent disgust is fuelng strong independent and Libertarian campaigns and making this year's midterm elections highly unpredictable.

    NO SPOILERS.

    1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      fuelng? Fondling?

      1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

        Tuccille's got a cold, so you're hearing his phlegm.

        1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

          Well somebody tell the CDC God dammit.

          1. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

            I wish there was a CDC God, dammit.

            1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

              Only if he can turn my quarantine water into whiskey.

            2. Restoras   11 years ago

              Tonio, can we get a ruling?

              1. Tonio   11 years ago

                Honored that you'd think of me, but a ruling on what? Fist was predictably First, as usual. And I'm not seeing a "you know who else" in this part of the thread...

                1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

                  You know who else was first? Well I'll answer that for you: Emile Ouamouno.

                  1. Brandon   11 years ago

                    Usain Bolt?

                2. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

                  ...but a ruling on what?

                  Comma, I assume.

                  1. Tonio   11 years ago

                    Changes the meaning, surely. And goddam(n) is usually one word.

    2. The Original Jason   11 years ago

      I wish I could vote for an independent or Libertarian candidate this election but California has gone to a "Top Two Candidate" system.

      I'm sure it's to prevent "spoilers" from keeping the Chosen Candidate from winning.

  12. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    ...now favors a Republican-led Congress.

    A Republican-led Congress will change that.

  13. Coeus   11 years ago

    Krugman admits that tax increases are actually responsible for lowering economic activity.

    Always knew his "austerity" winging was disingenuous prattle.

    1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

      Comment:

      "I fully share with your view about Japan tax hike, in general.

      However, you seem to me to be still confused about which debt you are talking about.

      Japan does not have net external debts, but has significant net external assets, amounting to about 300 trillion yen (60% of the GDP). In other words, Japan is an external creditor.

      Japan has huge (gross) government debts (2000 trillion yen), but its entire (net) debts are fully owned by the domestic creditors.

      Your cautious and skeptical view on the proposed tax hike in Japan, therefore, could be significantly underrepresented or underestimated.

      I very much welcome your view and keen interest in Japan, nonetheless.

      Tomo Nakamaru"

      1. db   11 years ago

        So the Japanese economy is basically a huge Ouroborotic Ponzi scheme.

    2. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)   11 years ago

      Always knew his "austerity" winging entire schtick was disingenuous prattle.

  14. Doghouse Riley Jr.   11 years ago

    Newton County GA teacher kept out of school after her spouse returns from Sierra Leone.

    Newton County Schools spokesperson Sherri Davis-Viniard says the teacher's classroom has been sanitized as a precautionary measure. Students say the school has closed off an entire hallway for cleaning.
    The teacher will not return to school until the district receives clearance that she is safe to be around students.
    There is no indication that he has Ebola or that either of them have any symptoms, but out of caution the school says they are working with the CDC and state health officials.
    "They're making it a big deal but the teachers say it's not a big deal. I don't think it's a big deal," said one senior.

    1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      Responsible parents would keep their kids out of school for 3 weeks.

      1. Notorious G.K.C.   11 years ago

        Would you rather be in a story on p. 3B about "panicky reactions to Ebola" or in a story on p. 1A about "school officials allow infected teacher to spread Ebola to students"?

        1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

          Ebola is probably the least harmful thing most teachers could spread.

    2. Brandon   11 years ago

      Maybe she should just hold off fucking any students for 3 weeks. Unless she's in a union, in which case that might be a contract breach.

  15. Cytotoxic   11 years ago

    Here is an interesting article about Private Cities from the excellent Pan Am Post. It talks about ZEDEs of course but also about other private cities. It gives short shrift to the two private cities in Nigeria and India but says the really excellent pro-market one is in...Saudi Arabia.

    http://blog.panampost.com/mark.....r-success/

    1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      Everyone wants to live in Riyadh. Commentbot wouldn't let me write that out in Arabic, racist fuck.

      1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

        You can slip some Cyrillic in if you bury it in enough English.

        That sounds vaguely, unintentionally dirty. Go me.

        1. Warty   11 years ago

          Some Cyrillic to bury in your English

          1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

            Sploosh!

            *makes notes to keep change of undergarments in office convenient location*

          2. A Secret Band of Robbers   11 years ago

            I suddenly have the urge to learn Russian. I don't need to learn that many words, though.

  16. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)   11 years ago

    A previously unknown species of frog was discovered in New York City.

    If you kiss it, what does it turn into?

    1. Tonio   11 years ago

      Or maybe someone finally kissed Bloomberg and he reverted to his natural state.

    2. Warty   11 years ago

      Episiarch.

    3. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

      *unzips pants*

    4. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      A smelly Frenchman.

      1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

        redundant

        1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

          I know, Warty beat me.

          1. db   11 years ago

            Phh. Get in line.

          2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

            No, I meant that smelly and Frenchman are mutually inclusive.

            1. Warty   11 years ago

              And Episiarch is a New York French Jew or something. He's some kind of mud person at least. Idiot.

              1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

                You got your facts all wrong, pal.

                1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)   11 years ago

                  Don't call me pal, buddy!

                  1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

                    Come at me, bro.

                    1. JEP   11 years ago

                      Ah, you messed it up.

                      You're supposed to say "Don't be buddy, friend!" or something like that...

                    2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

                      Who's this guy, Bobarian? Your bodyguard? I'll knock you both out, bros.

                    3. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

                      Do you even lift, Bro?

                    4. Los Doyers   11 years ago

                      I SQUAT AND LIFT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

                    5. Warty   11 years ago

                      Someday you'll get to that 315 deadlift, brah. Then you can start that cut and work on your abz.

    5. Almanian!   11 years ago

      Your mom

    6. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

      Quarantine-bait.

  17. paranoid android   11 years ago

    I can't recall seeing this posted here before, but this here is ten different kinds of amazing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI

    Catchy song, too!

  18. DEATFBIRSECIA   11 years ago

    "The news agency is not pleased."

    Then grow some balls, AP.

    1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      The agency was not pleased the secret got out. They were happy to be the FBI's paid dupes.

      1. db   11 years ago

        It's okay, it happened in 2007, so BLAME BUSH.

  19. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

    Two words: Quarantine Sex.

  20. Warty   11 years ago

    Ladytarians: smile, baby.

    How traumatic is it to get catcalled, anyway? I've only been catcalled a few times and it was a little annoying.

    1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

      Well stop walking around with your fucking shirt off and you won't have an issue. Unless you're referring to your dungeon dwellers catcalling for food.

      1. Warty   11 years ago

        Slut-shaming!

    2. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

      I once called my cat... Does that count?

    3. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      I noticed she wasn't wearing a burka.

    4. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

      Time for me to get my consciousness raising on...

    5. Riven   11 years ago

      It's not traumatic; it's just annoying and in poor taste.

      If anything, that guy saved you some time--you can pretty much just write him off after that.

      1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

        You don't plan on meeting your future husband via an expertly executed catcall? Cus it's either that, or Tinder.

        1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

          I almost followed a fellow home based on an expertly executed catcall. I suppose that's a low bar to clear though.

          1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

            You were in the mood for tacos al pastor that night.

            1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

              Wait, I'm always in the mood for (good) al pastor.

        2. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

          Hey baby, wanna go on a series of dates slowly culminating in an exclusive relationship that eventually results in me buying you an expensive token of my attachment for you and paying for a giant party where you wear a white dress and promise to live with me until you die, only to leave me for my best friend a few years later?

          /really bad catcaller

          1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

            Bad cat caller or FACT in your case?

            1. Riven   11 years ago

              They say honesty is the best policy.

            2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

              You learn from your mistakes or some shit.

            3. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

              My wife loves my overly pedantic and not-even-remotely-romantic style. She cries every night when she goes to bed, but I bet it's not related.

    6. Pl?ya Manhattan.   11 years ago

      But we should all be forced to live in high density population centers, right?

      1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

        And wear tight pants and tight tshirts.

        1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

          TEACH MEN NOT 2 LOOK

    7. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)   11 years ago

      I find it totally othering, what with the scads of women that throw themselves at me every day.

    8. Coeus   11 years ago

      rotideqmr
      2:28 PM CDT
      For the ultimate in nasty comments walk around in Tijuana. Noi doubt about it, men can be pigs (with no offence meant towards the real swine who are quite nice). One can "look" without commenting.
      LikeReplyShare
      DreamOutLoud
      2:32 PM CDT
      looking can be pretty obnoxious too. that stop and turn of the head and staring at the person walking away can be just as bad behavior. it all needs to stop.
      LikeReply1
      b.s.
      2:44 PM CDT
      yeah people should be arrested for that and flogged. No looking, no eye contact. It's basically the same as rape
      LikeShare1
      BigPeace
      3:07 PM CDT
      I agree, this whole "men letting girls know that they think they're hot" has to stop! It is very discriminatory to the fatties who don't get whistled at. Everything we do, say, think, or feel has to be perfectly politically correct, ie inhuman.
      LikeShare

      hehe

      1. paranoid android   11 years ago

        DreamOutLoud
        2:32 PM CDT
        looking can be pretty obnoxious too. that stop and turn of the head and staring at the person walking away can be just as bad behavior. it all needs to stop.

        I'm gonna go out on a limb and suppose that the person who wrote this is complaining because she does not get "that stop and turn of the head".

    9. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

      Apparently this only started happening in 2014 and not for the last 11,000 years like I had assumed.

    10. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

      Rufus: Hello.
      Woman: Monster!

      /slaps Rufus. Next man walks up to her.

      Man: Yo, babe.
      Woman (looks him up and down. Sticks tit out): You want some?

      1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

        Is this woman on your lawn?

        1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

          Ha, yeah Rufus, is she trampling your daffodils?

      2. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

        Ah, another entry for the "cheap porno or actually what happens in Canada" contest!

      3. Doghouse Riley Jr.   11 years ago

        I am reminded of this SNL skit.

        1. lap83   11 years ago

          Grr, too slow.

      4. lap83   11 years ago

        1. Be attractive
        2. Don't be unattractive.

        1. JEP   11 years ago

          *Mindblown*

    11. A Secret Band of Robbers   11 years ago

      It's a constant reminder that you're surrounded by stupid assholes who have no idea how to be civil, but it's not that scary if you're packing.

      A woman who's been raped might find it nerve-wracking, though.

      1. Warty   11 years ago

        I once went out partying with some coworkers and was tremendously unimpressed to discover that they liked to catcall women. It's like finding out that someone kicks dogs.

        1. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

          Yep, it's rather trashy, and I know trashy.

        2. A Secret Band of Robbers   11 years ago

          And they're completely delusional about what gets you laid, yes.

        3. JEP   11 years ago

          I read an article last week talking about how flirting in English speaking societies is just awful.

          It revolves around implication and guess work instead of saying what you actually mean. "Negging" is apparently only prominent in English speaking countries.

          Compare to the Italians or the Brazilians who are supposed to be very straight forward with advances, yet still respecting women.

        4. Los Doyers   11 years ago

          It's a Mexican thing. I can say that without fear of retribution because I'm part Mexican.

        5. A Secret Band of Robbers   11 years ago

          I'll admit that I do get a bit of a self esteem boost out of it because I'm newly cute. But there are 12,000 better ways to get that compliment across that might conceivably result in me talking to you/letting you fuck me.

          1. Aloysious   11 years ago

            12000 ways?

            *prepares to take copious notes*

          2. Coeus   11 years ago

            But there are 12,000 better ways to get that compliment across that might conceivably result in me talking to you/letting you fuck me.

            The only time I've ever seen it work is on college vacations.

  21. The Late P Brooks   11 years ago

    Maine state police are keeping nurse Kaci Hickox confined to her home as part of an escalating national battle over quarantining people who may have been exposed to Ebola.

    Let's hope they have snipers to take her out if she tries to escape.

  22. GILMORE   11 years ago

    "A previously unknown species of frog was discovered in New York City."

    I think the appropriate joke here was,

    "Apparently the Frog was part of a DJ-duo at a weekly alt-house-music party at an East Village bar, and was working during the week as a waiter at a SoHo brasserie"

    1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

      Yay, I feel cultured enough to understand this!

      Travel: it broadens your horizons!

      1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

        You just got bit by the NYC bug. Let the east coast kooks make their region-specific jokes while you eat a double double and animal fries to recover.

        1. Almanian!   11 years ago

          You had me at "zen Vikings"

          1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

            I might be easy, but I ain't cheap.

        2. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

          I went to In-n-Out on my way home from the airport and was kinda disappointed.

          I'm going to need a second for my seppuku.

          1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

            Ugh, Gyu kaku before seppuku. They've got 2 for 1 marinated meat deals.

            1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

              My name is jesse.in.mb and I endorse this message.

  23. Coeus   11 years ago

    Cop gets a little aggro.

    As a video showing a Miami Beach police officer cursing out a young man during an apparent traffic stop makes the rounds on social media, the police department is saying it has opened an internal affairs investigation.

    In the 1:02 clip posted Monday on YoutTube, Officer Kenneth MacLeod and Albert Valdes appear to be at the end of a traffic stop. Valdes, who posted the video, says in the video's summary that he'd been stopped and ticketed for having the license plate on his motorcycle folded up and flipped.

    It is not clear from the video what was said before the two are about to part ways, but once Valdes says, "God bless you" to MacLeod, the officer comes back and launches into a profanity-laced tirade.

    Detective Vivian Thayer said Valdes has not filed a complaints, but an internal affairs investigation has already begun into the incident.

    "Even though we don't have a formal complaint, we are being proactive and investigating it," she said.

    1. BiMonSciFiCon   11 years ago

      Even though we don't have a formal complaint, we are being proactive and investigating it," she said.

      "All good! Carry on MacLeod."

  24. John   11 years ago

    http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccar.....d-science/

    Holy shit.

  25. Jerry on the sea   11 years ago

    Alan Greenspan: "Gold is a good place to put money these days given its value as a currency outside of the policies conducted by governments."

    1. Dr. Fronkensteen   11 years ago

      So before and after his tenure he is all for gold. During the 19 years he was chairman of the Fed he simply sold out.

      1. Dr. Fronkensteen   11 years ago

        On second thought, it could also be hubris and he really did think he was a Top Man making fiat money a gold substitute.

  26. Every Cop is a Criminal   11 years ago

    Slovakia has your flying car here:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....-slovakia/

  27. Coeus   11 years ago

    No nerd is safe.

    While it is wrong to suggest any group of people can only be judged by its worst behaved members, it is clear that there is a need for the voice of women and other groups to be heard by people in charge. At the tournaments I sat in, the players were lovely but homogenous: female clientele slunk into the side room to play Boggle as the main room filled up with monsters, spells, and a gravy-like scent of body odor.

    If people are getting into this game at a young age, then there is a duty to make sure they are not only taught how to win an incredibly complex and interesting game, but constructive ideals as well. The rules of the game may not change, but the rules of conduct may need a significant shift.

    1. Bam!   11 years ago

      If people are getting into this game at a young age, then there is a duty to make sure they are not only taught how to win an incredibly complex and interesting game, but constructive ideals as well.

      How about we start teaching people that the world doesn't conform to them? Don't like what an event has to offer, go somewhere else.

      1. Mickey Rat   11 years ago

        If young people like your entertainment you have a duty to indoctrinate them in correct ways of thinking.

    2. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

      At the tournaments I sat in, the players were lovely but homogenous

      IOW, not enough women like what you like, so you need to be reeducated.

    3. This Machine Kills MUH ROADZ   11 years ago

      If people are getting into this game at a young age, then there is a duty to make sure they are not only taught how to win an incredibly complex and interesting game, but constructive ideals as well.

      Levesley can fuck right off. Why do these assholes need to inject their social commentary into every little thing? Just leave well enough alone when it comes to other people's fun.

      1. Warty   11 years ago

        Isn't that one of the things #gamergate is about? SJW types wanting games to stop being about fun and start being about changing the culture or whatever?

        1. Winston   11 years ago

          You Know Who Else insisted that art must be some political weapon designed to attack the establishment and whatnot?

          1. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

            Bob Dylan?

          2. Los Doyers   11 years ago

            Hitler?

            1. Almanian!   11 years ago

              *narrows gaze*

              Way to ruin it.

              1. Los Doyers   11 years ago

                But he was an artist, tho

        2. This Machine Kills MUH ROADZ   11 years ago

          Isn't that one of the things #gamergate is about? SJW types wanting games to stop being about fun and start being about changing the culture or whatever?

          The more I read, the more it seems they want to use fun things as a vehicle to carry their message and in doing so change the culture. Like the "Educational AND Fun!" shit I used to see all the time as a kid. Usually it ends up being neither.

      2. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

        Nannys gonna nanny.

  28. Restoras   11 years ago

    Lena Dunham is even more reprehensible, vile, narcissitc and fucked-up than previously thought...

    Lena Dunham's sexual abuse, specifically, of her younger sister, Grace, the sort of thing that gets children taken away from non-millionaire families without Andover pedigrees and Manhattanite social connections. Dunham writes of casually masturbating while in bed next to her younger sister, of bribing her with "three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds . . . anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying." At one point, when her sister is a toddler, Lena Dunham pries open her vagina ? "my curiosity got the best of me," she offers, as though that were an explanation. "This was within the spectrum of things I did."

    http://www.nationalreview.com/.....williamson

    1. John   11 years ago

      She is a legitimate sicko.

      1. Restoras   11 years ago

        Williamson's last line is gold.

        If she is emblematic of her generation, it is in that her life, in her own telling, is a reminder that being ruined by comfort and privilege is as easy as (perhaps easier than) being crippled by privation and abuse.

    2. Aloysious   11 years ago

      After reading this and Tmans 'witchwind' link in ENB's 4:31 post, I've lost my will to live, or look at women for today. ugh.

      1. Almanian!   11 years ago

        Aw, come on! Lookin' at women instead of Lena Dunham should help! Go get your pr0n on, man!

        1. Aloysious   11 years ago

          Dude, these stories are legitimately awful.

          (if you have any asian pr0n suggestions...)

    3. JEP   11 years ago

      Geez, I'm definitely not going to vote now!

  29. Winston   11 years ago

    So is it for Will Hayes and Joe Breen get their reputations up because of Gamergate? They didn't like how movies were aimed at young men, thought that rape was too sensitive a subject to discuss and wanted to clean up the morality of movies with its lawbreaking and drunk sex.

  30. Stormy Dragon   11 years ago

    SJW vs. SJW fight breaks out at Slate:

    The Problem With That Catcalling Video:

    But the video also unintentionally makes another point, that harassers are mostly black and Latino, and hanging out on the streets in midday in clothes that suggest they are not on their lunch break. As Roxane Gay tweeted, "The racial politics of the video are fucked up. Like, she didn't walk through any white neighborhoods?"

    1. Almanian!   11 years ago

      The derp - it is deep in these commenters.

    2. lap83   11 years ago

      "Pardon me, ma'am, do you have any grey poupon?" just doesn't carry the same political weight.

    3. Anonymous Coward   11 years ago

      As Roxane Gay tweeted, "The racial politics of the video are fucked up. Like, she didn't walk through any white neighborhoods?"

      The woman in the video is barely a 5 and if she had walked through the Upper East Side, she wouldn't have even gotten a look, much less a "catcall."

      And yes, the "racial politics" are fucked up, but then, keep in mind that the original "rape hysteria" in America was directed against the Scary Black Man for the protection of white womanhood (in no small part at the insistence of white women).

      The "sexual politics" are even more interesting. The video shows that any man who shows interest in a woman who is not interested in him is guilty of harassment and should have his rape-stick, I mean, penis, ceremonially removed and cast into the fire.

      1. Almanian!   11 years ago

        +1 "where da whyte wimminz at?"

      2. Winston   11 years ago

        You Know Which Other Democrats liked to chop of black men's penises?

      3. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

        "Ten hours of walking through the crummier parts of Manhattan in tight clothes and all I got was 30 catcalls and 2 creeps following me for a couple minutes each."

        If this woman had actually gotten attacked, I wonder how the directors would have rationalized their stunt.

  31. Anonymous Coward   11 years ago

    newsweek: 7 out of 10 between 17-24 are too fat, stupid, and corrupt to serve the Fatherland in battle

    Health problems, low education levels and criminal histories make seven out of 10 young people ages 17 to 24 unfit to become soldiers, according to the U.S. Army.

    Major General Allen Batschelet, commanding general for the U.S. Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Kentucky told The Florida Times-Union Monday that officials expect the number of young Americans eligible to join the Army to shrink to two in 10 by 2020.

    The Army's increasing reliance on "an ever-smaller group to serve and defend the country," presents a "big national security question," according to Batschelet.

    To deal with this shrinking pool of quality soldiers, the Army plans to redefine "quality"?or define it "in a more precise way," as Batschelet puts it.

    This is not how I expected the welfare-warfare state to die, but I'll take it.

    1. paranoid android   11 years ago

      To deal with this shrinking pool of quality soldiers, the Army plans to redefine "quality"?or define it "in a more precise way," as Batschelet puts it.

      They're not lowering their standards, they're just making their criteria less selective.

    2. John Titor   11 years ago

      "Death by fat, emotionally broken and morally bankrupt cowards" isn't so bad.

    3. Warty   11 years ago

      Diabetic and weak as a little girl? Not the most dignified death.

    4. Dr. Fronkensteen   11 years ago

      Meh, how good to they need to be to be cannon fodder. That said, maybe the governement can create some sort of youth organization can whip them into shape to be good soldiers.

      1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

        That is the entire point. Government hates its subjects.

        Remember, in 1941 the government trope was that American boys were too skinny and bookish to be effective cannon fodder.

    5. JEP   11 years ago

      They aren't really helping themselves by doing stupid shit like using the BMI as a measure of fitness.

      Legitimately fit people get denied promotions because they don't meet the BMI cut off.

      1. Warty   11 years ago

        I calculated my BMI the other day. 34. Ask jesse if I'm obese.

        1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

          Does one call a mountain obese?

          1. Warty   11 years ago

            Excellent, you led me to some crappy music.

        2. JEP   11 years ago

          I've never calculated mine, but for three months 2 years ago I was walking around at 190 lbs. and I'm 5'7". I'm sure I was "overweight" by every metric any doctor would use.

          1. jesse.in.mb   11 years ago

            I'm 5'9" and ~215

            According to the BMI system my ideal weight would be 149.

            If I weigh anything less than 170 I start getting concerned comments about my health because my eyes look deep set, I get dark circles, my cheekbones become very pronounced and my cheeks become hollow.

            I'd be pretty happy between 185 and 195, which would still have me on the high end of overweight.

            1. trshmnster the terrible   11 years ago

              I start getting called lanky and scrawny if I drop below 210 (6'1"). My recommended 170 is downright impossible. I tried. 190 is as low as I can go, even doing 6 hours of manual labor each day.

              1. JEP   11 years ago

                I have a friend who's 6'3", 145 lbs, and eats enough for 3 people.

                He doesn't lift, but I've seen him deadlift 400+

              2. Whahappan?   11 years ago

                That's fucked up. I'm 5'6" with a light frame, and I just weighed myself and I'm 161. Granted I'm 45 years old, but no one would call me fat. Leave it to government to fuck up everything they touch.

  32. Winston   11 years ago

    So has anyone seen the Imitation Game? Considering all the Gamergate stuff will anyone judge it independently of its subject matter?

    1. paranoid android   11 years ago

      I'm not sure I get the connection you're drawing between that film and GamerGate.

      Are you saying that liberal-minded critics will feel obliged to give the movie rave reviews regardless of quality because it's about a persecuted gay man? Probably. But I bet the movie is actually pretty good, I'm interested in seeing it.

      1. Winston   11 years ago

        Are you saying that liberal-minded critics will feel obliged to give the movie rave reviews regardless of quality because it's about a persecuted gay man?

        Yes, that's what I'm saying. People here have been constantly attacking the notion that games should be about Important Messages and that having the right message is all that matters. How are movies any different?

        1. Invisible Finger   11 years ago

          Haven't seen it but I think the point will be missed.

          People will think Turing was crushed by government because he started sucking cock when the reality is he was crushed because he stopped sucking government cock.

      2. Anonymous Coward   11 years ago

        I haven't seen it, but I've read two kinds of complaints:

        A)Alan Turing was gay and didn't suck enough dick in this movie.

        B)Alan Turing was a mathematician and sucked too much dick in this movie.

        I'll need to torre...legally purchase this film from a reputable, licensed seller and view it before I make my own comment on the appropriate ratio of math-to-gay-sex in a this film.

        1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

          And now for the real Turing Test...

        2. Winston   11 years ago

          I'm disappoint there aren't many complaints about Turing being a White Guy and how the film should have been Gandhi or the Mau Maus or some black gay guy who was persecuted.

  33. Almanian!   11 years ago

    So has anyone seen the Imitation Game? Considering all the Gamergate stuff will anyone judge it independently of its subject matter?

    1. Winston   11 years ago

      har har

      1. Almanian!   11 years ago

        Come on. It was pretty good 🙂

  34. paranoid android   11 years ago

    Speaking of movies, if you haven't seen Birdman, drop whatever the hell you're doing and get to a movie theater. It's nothing short of brilliant.

    1. All-Seeing Monocle   11 years ago

      So guns, car chases, hot chix, and martial arts?

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