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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • He knows, but he’s saying that on purpose, to make sure everyone who doesn’t agree is lumped into the "other"s and ostracized. It’s the same reason Trump is still blaming the “radical left” for Kirk’s shooting, even though the shooter is by no means leftist.

    Whenever you hear “the left”, think “Emmanuel Goldstein”, except less Jewish (because somehow the Israelis are on the same side as these people)












  • They are apparently talking about the engravings in the news conference. I am not watching but following the NYT feed.

    There were engravings on unfired ammunition left with the gun that officials believe was used in the shooting, Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah says in a news conference. One of them read, “Hey fascist! Catch!” the governor said, adding that another read, “If you read this, you are gay LMAO,” an acronym for “laughing my ass off.”

    One of the suspect’s unfired casings was adorned with the words “Bella ciao,” said Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah. That’s an apparent reference to an Italian song adopted by the anti-fascist resistance during World War II. It is still sung by the Italian left to commemorate the end of fascism.

    So, lots of anti-fascist stuff, but no “trans” stuff unless “U R Gay” is now trans rhetoric.

    The best disinformation has an element of truth in it, so that people can point to that and say “it’s true” and ignore the parts that are false, but bolster the narrative.

    Edited to add:

    The list of messages on the suspect’s casings, as described by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, include apparent references to online culture and gaming. “Up arrow, right arrow, and three down arrow symbols,” as described by Cox, may be a reference a sequence of moves on a controller that release a bomb in the video game “Helldivers.” Another engraving, “Notices bulges OWO what’s this?” is a phrase used for trolling in online roleplay communities


  • Any US Citizen who fails the Peter Griffin in a Fez test should immediately get not only a passport book, but also a passport card. It is only $30 extra, provides all the same proof of citizenship that a passport book does, and it is small enough to carry in your wallet. You shouldn’t have to spend all this money to prove you belong here, but here we are.

    Will ICE take it seriously when you present it to them? Of course not, they will say it is fake and confiscate it (and you). But at least you have your passport book safely at home, and your family can present it to get you out (once they find where ICE has whisked you off to). Assuming they manage to do all that, you now have the privilege of paying to sue the Federal Government for wrongful detention in order to get your card back so it doesn’t happen again.

    Are we tired of all the winning yet?