@HarrisonGarlic1 "Porn should be illegal"

I can't support you in this. Now, please don't misunderstand. I'm not saying that porn is a good thing, or that I'm reject your arguments that Catholics (or indeed, Christians in general) should want nothing to do with it. But this is America, and

(1/2) @HarrisonGarlic1 the First Amendment is non-negotiable. There is to be no establishment of religion. Therefore, any argument for the passage of a law based on spiritual concerns is a non-starter.

The State is not an agent of Salvation. When that shortcut was tried, before, it ended badly.

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@hexclad @GordonRamsay It looks pretty-ish, in a cooking magazine cover sort of way, but this is a perfect example of a bad idea about cooking that gets embedded in a lot of empty heads because of those photos, with the help of social media groupthink.

Look at the photo. What's glaringly wrong? @hexclad @GordonRamsay Bright, white garlic sitting next to and on top of a well browned cut of meat. In real life, garlic burns and turns bitter far more quickly than meat browns, when it isn't being kept moist, and no, basting it with hot cooking fat won't do that.

@Dee_Rob__ @simon4124 @CitizenFreePres "Did you see the overwhelming evidence against the 2 white murderers that killed Emmett Till a young black boy?"

And what part of the country was this in, D.?

"They were set free.. as I said we were just glad to see it happen to whites for once."

For once? @Dee_Rob__ @simon4124 @CitizenFreePres You have the b a l l s to say "for once," as if those two were the only victims of Black on White violence?

The former population of the South Side of Chicago would like to have a word with you.

@DarlingStella88 @CitizenFreePres He murdered his wife. Not a bad cop. Not even a good cop. Just the woman he swore to love and cherish.

If there are a lot of Black people who honestly can't see why that's wrong and needs to be punished, then that's a real problem, a violent civil rights issue. @DarlingStella88 @CitizenFreePres If one were to find out that a Black person living in the Reconstruction Era South had made an attempt to avoid White people, hardly anybody would think of accusing that Black person of racism, or of saying #NotAllWhiteSoutherners were violent racists who needed to be avoided.

@MidThighShorts @JGrantGlover The OP, because his pseudo-progressive neo-Puritanism wasn't being forced on everybody? @MidThighShorts @JGrantGlover This tweet might explain things.



"There's a group of three old men at this coffee shop shooting the breeze and only half listening to each other, and honestly that's all I want in life."

https://twitter.com/JGrantGlover/status/1780983805844533755

@JGrantGlover @paulpope2 Bewildered about what? It's not like we were being packed in like sardines in that 22% of the city. There were midrises and highrises, there, while the less dense neighborhoods were either burned out warzones, or full of single family homes. @JGrantGlover @paulpope2 If one is single, and hasn't run into a horrible landlord, or a lockdown, why is one going to want to have something as expensive and socially isolating as a home of one's own?

@JesseKellyDC Referenced in this Tucker Carlson interview.



.. @JesseKellyDC Comment re: the interview cited, above. I think that Mr. Kelly is being unrealistically optimistic in some ways. Civil war is already inevitable. The only questions, at this point, is how it can be delayed and how to minimize the death and destruction that it will create.

@roadtoserfdom3 That reminds me of the triggering events that sent a small wave of us out of my old apartment building on the near north side of Chicago, into the suburbs, never to return. @roadtoserfdom3 The building manager developed an obsession with Marie Kondo, her co-workers shared it, and they decided to force it on their lower income tenants.

@___magnifico___ @eligaultney @Astro_Wright As one reads my replies to this 🤡, here are a few points to keep in mind ...

1. However indirectly, he's basically asking me to tell him how to detect stealth aircraft, in a public forum that can be read by anybody. Including the Russians. @___magnifico___ @eligaultney @Astro_Wright How much of a traitor would I be if I obliged? I'm going to have no trouble alluding to the practice of a stealth plane "hugging the ground" (ie. flying at low altitude in order to minimize the probability of detection), because that is no secret, but ...

@AlanRLight @AlexanderPayton @Astro_Wright I wonder if he notices that he has been blocked, yet. @AlanRLight @AlexanderPayton @Astro_Wright Solar cell efficiency is under 20%, these days. This means that over 80% of that sunlight is being squandered, just by the first conversion.

@schuttsm @SenJohnKennedy Compassion? Good luck finding any of that for a college graduate, in either of the political tribes. At least, until the United States faces the natural consequences of the arrogant and spiteful choices it has been making in dealing with its own intelligentsia. @schuttsm @SenJohnKennedy A key part of the problem that these thick skulled right wingers have been refusing to get is that a lot of graduates are unemployed, not because their degrees or skills have been inherently worthless, but rather because on graduation, they've run afoul of a rigged system.

@BrendaAv60 @throught_hills @megan_janas @DavidSacks "They can’t even fund their own war."

144 million Russia vs. 44 million Ukraine is hardly a so-called "fair fight," now is it? Nobody imagines that Belgium could drive out the Russian army on its own, yet it remains in NATO and is seen as a contributing member. @BrendaAv60 @throught_hills @megan_janas @DavidSacks Your logic, then, would seem to be a bit lacking, Brenda. You're equating a country being able to drive out Russia on its own with it being able to do its part in creating a collective defense against Russia.

@RedSoledGooner @labradore99 @megan_janas @DavidSacks "Putin knows that a nuclear strike would be the end of the world."

Actually ... no. That's an exaggeration. Contrary to popular opinion, with adequate preparation (including retreat to a remote location well in advance), a nuclear war is survivable. @RedSoledGooner @labradore99 @megan_janas @DavidSacks The largest un-nuked city in the US would have maybe 30,000 people, so life would be turning very rural. Civilization would collapse and we'd get a long dark age, but no, the world would not end up with eight billion dead and a completely glassed surface.

@RajanBarot24 @jk_rowling @IndiaWilloughby Hi, Sparky. India Willoughby is not a woman, never was a woman, and never will be a woman.

If @PoliceScotland wants to arrest me for making that objectively truthful remark, I suppose they can try to enforce their laws here in Illinois and see how that works out for them. @RajanBarot24 @jk_rowling @IndiaWilloughby @PoliceScotland Historically, the US tends to take infringements on its national sovereignty rather personally, but if little bitty Scotland wants that war, it is more than free to FAFO.

BTW, the English could do the same to them, too.

@roadtoserfdom3 I remember when one couldn't directly reply to this tweet or like it. So some of us bypassed that by quote replying to it.



And then the Twitter files came out, and we heard from the new owner, himself, that Twitter had become a state actor.

https://twitter.com/chicagolandish/status/1505833497994444802

@roadtoserfdom3 That government employees had accepted positions at Twitter, and had been allowed to use their positions here in order to censor criticism of the government's actions, in clear violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

To date, there have been no consequences.

@DeptofDefense Today, I see that one of Putin's closest friends (and mouthpieces) has threatened a NATO ally (Latvia). This is hardly a first. Wondering when Washington was planning to REALLY take the Russian and Chinese threats seriously.

(1/3, or something like that) @DeptofDefense Do they have to have boots on the ground in Maryland, Virginia or both before there is an agreement that allowing the US to keep on getting weaker and weaker as the enemy gets stronger is a dangerously foolish idea?

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@Tallguy60530662 @LatinLegacy @dilligas77 @voterprotectpac That's an interstate compact. States do not have an absolute right to enter into those, and as the stated intent is to circumvent the Constitution, an honest court would strike it down. @Tallguy60530662 @LatinLegacy @dilligas77 @voterprotectpac That which is forbidden when attempted directly, must surely remain forbidden when attempted indirectly.

State law can not override the Constitution.

@WenDogeCoin @KeithOlbermann @elonmusk Here is our answer, at the moment.



Keith Olbermann basically laughing about the fact that he is above the rules and can do whatever he wants, while refusing to admit that he said what we can all see that he said, above.

The rules are just for show.

https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1769837783680503952

@WenDogeCoin @KeithOlbermann @elonmusk Worth remembering that this is the same site on which users have been locked out (even suspended) for years in response to offenses that did not exist, and which Twitter now admits did not exist.

The admins just do whatever they feel like. There are no real rules.

@RT_com Putin: "West wants to prevent Russia from developing as nation"

That's an interesting comment, because whether it is true or false depends on how you define "the West." @RT_com If by "the West" one means the governments of the NATO countries and their closest partners, then that's probably true. Look at the Western insistence on "shock therapy" as Russia went from Communism to Capitalism.

This did nothing but turn party apparatchiks into oligarchs.

@Makkim77 @ben_kew "most of this stuff was before anyone knew anything about covid"

No, Makkim, it wasn't. You're trying to rewrite History in order to shield your own political tribe from the undying shame its actions earned it, and some of us aren't going to yet you get away with that. @Makkim77 @ben_kew The risk factors for Covid were established in the first month of the so-called "Pandemic": advanced age, obesity and immuno-compromised status.

There was an early concern that extreme youth might be a risk factor, as well, but this turned out to not be the case.

@elonmusk @shellenberger Hi, Elon. I just noticed something that you and your team did that was just plain, straight vandalism. Before you had the "bright idea" of taking away the ability of non-premium users to create moments, I had created a number of my own. I put real time into this. @elonmusk @shellenberger I created an index so visitors could look through the moments, if they were so inclined. A number of people I know did the same.