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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Variety:

    The Connecticut families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that had sued Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, backed the bid by The Onion to purchase Infowars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, “enabling its success,” according to lawyers for the families.

    So like also some cameras, contact lists, trademarks etc.

    The real thing they bought was assurance nobody else could buy it. Especially those customer lists. Lists like that built the modern Right.



  • I am having a hard time visualizing this… What does the glued lock contribute to the firework situation, or vice versa?

    You can’t exit through the door… but also there is a firework going off so seems like you would probably go in a different direction, maybe to a different room.

    I’ve always liked the superglue idea because it could really fuck things up but the prankster is far away by the time its discovered. Setting off an explosive at the same time sort of diminishes that.

    maybe I am missing something?




  • Someone is going to have to step up to be Dr. Morgentaler

    On October 17, 1967, he presented a brief on behalf of the Humanist Association of Canada before a House of Commons Health and Welfare Committee that was investigating the issue of illegal abortion. Morgentaler stated that women should have the right to safe abortion. The reaction to his public testimony surprised him: he began to receive calls from women who wanted abortions. Robert Malcolm Campbell and Leslie Alexander Pal wrote, “Henry Morgentaler experienced the [abortion] law’s limitations directly in the supplications of desperate women who visited his Montreal office.” Morgentaler’s initial response was to refuse:

    “I hadn’t expected the avalanche of requests and didn’t realize the magnitude of the problem in immediate, human terms. I answered, ‘I sympathize with you. I know your problem, but the law won’t let me help you. If I do help you, I’ll go to jail, I lose my practice—I have a wife and two children. I’m sorry, but I just can’t!’”

    For a time he was able to refer the women to two other doctors who did abortions, but they became unavailable. There was no one to whom he could send them, and some of them were ending up in the emergency department after amateur abortions. He has said that he felt like a coward for sending them away and that he was shirking his responsibility. Eventually, in spite of the risks to himself—loss of career, a prison term for years or for life—he decided to perform abortions and, at the same time, challenge the law. …

    He knew that he could prevent those unnecessary deaths, so he determined to use civil disobedience to change the law.

    In 1968, Morgentaler gave up his family practice and began performing abortions in his private clinic. He devoted his clinic to performing abortions on women as well as providing birth control and contraceptives, though it was illegal at the time.

    Read the rest of the article to learn about how as a child in Poland he was incarcerated in nazi concentration camps for being jewish. Then as an adult in Quebec, incarcerated for performing abortions.



  • this lady was on the street handing papers to people. I could tell it was some jesus shit due to the accessories so walked by quickly, suppressing my urge to debate her. but then in the corner of my eye I noticed it was a small horizontally-oriented comic. I had to turn on my heel and walk it back a couple steps.

    “is that a jack chick??!”

    “sure is”

    “oh sweet, I looove those!”

    she handed it to me on impulse though I think after 1-2 seconds of taking in my general vibe she understood I was only mocking her. Her expression changed as I took the thing from her. The godly document barely singed my heathen fingers.

    I couldn’t wait to start reading to see if it would be about some friends of mine like OP

    but it was one of the new ones, lacking the (limited) creativity and empathy demonstrated in the above. It sucked.


  • I mean there is a reason why Israel hates the UN. Because as much as it would be to their benefit to adhere to the US line, they can’t help themselves but to appoint people like this. For all it’ll do. One big puzzle for me is why this isn’t a more concerning aspect for libs. Shouldn’t this be their problem?

    I didn’t actually bring myself to read the report yet. I only opened it and zoomed out. Look at the footnotes (purple) vs text ratio in the report: it is allllll citations. The mark of a writer who knows they will not be believed when asserting the sky is blue.

    I’m surprised at her pep. I felt tired on her behalf watching.

    I only notice at the end she is wearing a gray and black kufiyyeh.

    I think you found the only good italian.



  • hmmm interesting. If I understand the story, bin Mahram Kufi had a camel renting business. al-Rashid would just show up and take whatever camels he required for his Hajj. Assuming he returned alive, he would then pay the market fee for the use of the camels. Therefor, bin Mahram Kufi was in the position of hoping for the healthy return of al-Rashid although (I infer) he was considered to be a bad dude between these friends. I guess, absent the hostage camels, they’d be hoping the whole party fell into a ditch and was never heard from again? Is there some value in preventing a bad dude going on Hajj? I’m of the impression that every Muslim goes on Hajj and I’ve never heard of anyone being barred from it.

    In he rest of the story, included in the link, bin Mahram Kufi responded to this by ditching all his camels. He ?pretended to be too old to run a camel business. But al-Rashid saw through the pretense and knew he was under the influence of the bleeding heart lib Ibn Ja’far. And says that if they weren’t such good buds he’d be in deep shit. the end

    Obviously I am missing lots of context. I see how it is related. Especially when I search for Surah Hud 11:113 and found a slightly different translation

    And do not be inclined to the wrongdoers or you will be touched by the Fire. For then you would have no protectors other than Allah, nor would you be helped.

    I find the overall story to be a bit equivocal because it is only the prior relationship (of providing the camels) that saves bin Mahram Kufi. If indeed it saved him at all; narrative just stops. What ought he have done the first time al-Rashid requisitioned use of the camels?

    But point taken anyway. Do not incline to the unjust.




  • there is an American asshole from I24 at one point. It gets a bit confrontational.

    He tries to “force” her into admitting her point of view that Israel is and has always been an occupier. As though it would be some sort of get. Hello her title is “UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory”

    auto subtitles of part of this interaction with light editing; please consult original video for accuracy

    Mike wagenheim with I24 news (it’s been a while since we’ve last spoken) a couple questions for you. in your report you have a line in here that says that since its establishment Israel has treated the occupied people as “a hated incumbrance and threat to be eradicated” and you go on uh listing other items — we’ll leave aside the contextual and factual debate about that — based on that statement it seems to infer that you believe that Israel has been an occupier since the day of its birth is that your position you said since its establishment Israel has treated occupied people Etc are you inferring that Israel’s been an occupier since 1948?

    let me elaborate. Israel has taken, and we can I can concede that it has done it with with the recognition of the general assembly, from a human rights law point of view and as I take a people centered approach I cannot forget it the creation of the state of Israel has meant the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians of who have been kicked out of their homes and never allowed to return.

    it does make an occupier. it makes a state of Israel a state who has forcibly displaced significant part of the native population and this is the past that has never been addressed


    the guy looks like a fool, honestly it isn’t upsetting for what he says so much as he has the smug look on his face like a conspiracy nut observing “sheeple”





  • If you want to be perfect about things like that, then you really, really gotta check the ingredients and not take anyone’s word for it. There is no other choice but to learn about all those kinds of things. Gotta go online and read up on less obvious sources of nonveganity. Scrutinize every single item you pick up. Check each brand and each variety/flavor with a given brand. And even if you read the label before you have to re read it now n again in case they change something.

    At least now you have a phone you can bring shopping with you to look up anything even slightly questionable. Or take a picture for later research.