Derangeddm

(l)ibertarian conservative. New Texan.

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

Yes, I expect the police to detain and hold a person so mentally infirm that he throws a toddler to crocodiles. This is like the lowest possible bar for saying there are people who are not capable of being in public and there are still those tunneling to get under that bar.

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

Again, just leaving this here for no reason at all.

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[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The rape gang inquiry, carried out by Rupert Lowe, mentions the NHS recording genital injuries, STIs, and pregnancies in children as young as 11, then discharging them back to their abusers the same night

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

The lower class in the UK is not considered actually human.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

The US has 1 trillionaire and 988 billionaires. Their combined net worth is about 8.4 trillion dollars.

If we would just tax these people “fairly,” it would totally solve the $40 trillion national debt. And every other problem in society.

Do the math, guys…

[Derangeddm @Derangeddm1]

@1982VintageNut @alexthechick I made it to 17 on a thinkpad. Now I have HP, but it is a donation.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

A raccoon figured out that if he blocks the drive-thru, they’ll give him a donut to make him leave

[Derangeddm @Derangeddm1]

@Tina22_2 @BudLightSadness @elonmusk The argument can be made that politics is a substitute for war.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

The message of a protest is "we don't like this".

The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it".

People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world.

They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are.

If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence.

And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table.

Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that.

Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power.

(Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.)

When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can.

And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc.

This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight".

They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict.

This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table.

A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care.

A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.

[Fightful Wrestling @Fightful]

Tyler Mane, who is a former pro wrestler and played Sabertooth in the X-Men/Deadpool and Wolverine movies, reveals that he has breast cancer.

“Yep. I have breast cancer. And yep, it’s super rare. Only 1% of breast cancers are men. I’ll be honest, my first reaction was to keep it secret. I mean it’s kind of embarrassing. But then I found out that men are more likely to be diagnosed in advance stages BECAUSE it’s not talked about and not looked for. In fact, my doctors all dismissed it and it was only because my wife pushed me to get the lump removed that I got in early. So let’s start talking about it! 1 in 755 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime and if caught early, it’s VERY treatable. Time to answer the Wake Up Call! Like, Save, Share, Comment let’s spread the word!”

(Tyler's social media)

[Derangeddm @Derangeddm1]

@Kajonnes @TheCinesthetic Self-casted...

[Derangeddm @Derangeddm1]

@MoronPundit The actual soulless (and soul stealing) redhead of myth and legend. Would.

[Derangeddm @Derangeddm1]

@alexthechick RIP Ripper.

[Derangeddm @Derangeddm1]

@richardrahl1086 Belladonna, aka Bellafloof.

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

(Long tweet warning)

Read the below tweet then read ace's post and then wander back here. Back? Let's get it.

There is a fundamental question that those urging that others not be divisive must answer, namely, what, specifically and in detail, are the principles and matters around which everyone is to be unified?

After all, in order to be divisive, you must be trying to divide others from some kind of agreed upon matter.

So. What are they? What, specifically, are the principles that all are unified around that Keir Starmer and the Hampshire Police and all others are saying now, now, let's not be divisive over an 18 year old man being stabbed and then the police handcuffing him and telling him I don't think so, mate, as he drowns to death in his own blood.

I'm not (just) being snarky about this. I want to know from what it is that Starmer, et al, think others are attempting to cause a divide.

What are the principles that are in agreement that are being threatened with division?

I am so weary of divisive being tossed out as if there is no predicate before it.

I want someone to ask Starmer to state, in specific detail, what it is that he thinks people are unified around.

Because it most decidedly does not appear to be that everyone should be treated equally with no concern given for race or religion.

So.

What?

Specifically.

/fin

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[Jack Montgomery @JackBMontgomery]

"We only have radical Islamic terrorism in the West because we keep getting involved in foreign wars!"

Switzerland has stayed neutral in every conflict for the last 206 years.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

a nazi tattoo isn't disqualifying because it implies opposition to israel. a nazi tattoo is disqualifying because it is a fucking nazi tattoo.