A Requiem For January 6, Democracy, And Meat

https://substack.com/@mvario/note/c-84896483?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=68h2g

Here is Zuckerberg pledging to align his platforms with Trump's propaganda needs.

What is most chilling:

—The removal of fact checkers?

—The explicit promise to "work with President Trump"?

For me it's this one: "Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content."

Biff52 vrag naroda

I still had a seldom used account there until I read the "news" this morning. It ain't easy to do, but I managed to delete my account. They asked "why", and I said they're too Nazi adjacent for my tastes.

Ward From Cali

Bullshit. What Zuck wants are fash-friendly courts when the class-action suits start rolling in.

Stranger Than Friction

NEVER SURRENDER. NEVER FORGET.

Zarquon

Peaceful grandmothers are so misunderstood. Who can forget the German granny tour groups of 1939/40 who just wanted to see a little bit of Europe and maybe pick up some souvenirs to show the folks back home? I expect if you did your own research you'd discover that most of the folks at the Capitol on Jan 6 were just there for the afternoon on an AARP sponsored tour.

defpac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth

Just saying: there is a name for this: Stab in the back myth

It was a major factor in the end of the German Weimar Republic 100 years ago.

The fact that Biden wasn't hell bound to find an AG hell bound to go after all the traitors on day 1 ... was the sole biggest mistake of Biden and his government.

I am not talking about political prosecution, but about putting the full power of the US DoJ behind hunting down every single participant and LEADER of the insurrection, without mercy.

Of course without violating their rights, but also without giving them any special positive treatment.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/musk_political_adventures/

Where are those black ops when you need them? You mean all those Mission Impossible movies aren't real?

𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸'𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗲𝗴𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀

Leaders miffed at 'unacceptable interference'

Reply (3)

Why even 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 basement operators and zero accountability covert operations if a country can't assassinate its way out of trouble?

(grumbles)

Object lesson to the world.

This is why you do not let nazis control large platforms under the guise of free speech. This is what you get.

𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 object lesson? Nobody's even taking notes.

I'm just grumbling about why Skum hasn't met with an 'accident' yet.

WannabeWonk

He must not ride in his vehicles

gonna guess it is because billions buy you a shit load of security

Hirightnow

Pierce Brosnan would have had him taken care of before the opening credits.

Well, tomorrow never dies, you know.

Tza

And no, it wasn't the ice and snow that made Rep Foxx fall. She did it inside, on the grand staircase outside the House Chamber. https://www.wxii12.com/article/virginia-foxx-fallhouse-chamber-capitol-washington-dc/63333740

She's fine. But she's also 81 so this is going to lead to a bunch more "Congress is too old" stories, most likely.

Reply (6)

Mavenmaven

"Hillary pushed me!"

Old Man Yells at Cloud

When Pelosi fell, the asswipes at Not-Very-Bright-Bart were having a field day laughing about it. After Foxx fell, I figured they would be all concerned so I went armed with comments I had scraped and saved, but they were having a field day laughing about Foxx falling. So apparently its not political; they just think old women falling down is funny.

I thought it was funny too. When I was nine.

Hamilton & The Crew

Virginia Foxx is a rancid evil piece of fermented sick dog shit.

Gern Blansten

It was the ice and snow that made Faux fall.

It was the weight of her wickedness.

she comes from the land of ice and snow where the critters vote and the pundits blow

ah aaaaahhh ah

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

sn00rk

tek

well, Congress IS too old...

But I'm sure this wasn't her fault.

They've always been too old.

Time for Carousel.

Renew! Renew!

https://www.avclub.com/jon-stewart-cybertruck-bombing-new-year-terrorists

I̶c̶e̶ ̶f̶l̶o̶w̶ Carousel!

(snickers)

The spokesbeard for Corporate Comedy has told us why The Old Terrorists Are Better, we may now all go about our day.

I got distracted when he assumed soldiers are (or should be considered) normal.

And I have to note, the OG KKK domestic terrorists were military veterans. I bet they seemed normal, too.

most soldiers are pretty normal and cover a large swath of life. In my time I've known uber leftie soldiers, uber rightie soldiers, and soldiers from every tick on the curve in between.

Though I would argue that the OG KKK were not normal, even for soldiers, seeing as they were veterans for a cause that only existed to keep human beings as property.

Soldiers are a small proportion of society. The part of it that makes them soldiers is pretty unusual.

No insults to vets intended, I've worked with and known a number of vets, and as you note, they generally reflect society. Still, it's not normal to be a soldier. There shouldn't be some expectation that being a soldier equates to normal, or turns abnormal people normal. Soldier training won't turn people normal, it turns them into soldiers.

That's why we have Airmen!

Well, in that vein, Archaeologists are not normal, because there are not a lot of us, and all it does is turn people into archaeologists.

It's just as normal as any other occupation I should think? Albeit with shooting things and blowing stuff up.

But no, it certainly does not turn abnormal people into normal people. I remember back in the day the old threat if one acted up was Getting Sent To Military School To Straighten You Out because they thought what those kids were lacking was discipline. Which is not of course what it was for the most part.

I'd bet one amero that archaeology has a significantly lower rate of jerb-induced PTSD than soldiering does.

I'll cover you for another $100K.

edit: btw, not not normal because they were on the gray side mind, but not normal because once lost, they had to justify in their heads the upheaval of their life, loss of comrades, and otherwise make themselves out to be the good guys in their story, hence the kkk. It's a human brain thing, in this case taken to extremes

But it illustrates my point that soldiering doesn't equate to normal. Why should we expect it to? Are we ALL supposed to be trained for war? THAT'S normal?

I was hoping for a civilization.

Telling somebody to potentially take a round through the gut IS normal if you look at most countries on the globe.

MRK

"Things were better back in my day," really fucks with your head, doesn't it?

"At least we had vaccines..."

Lotsa things fucking with heads these days.

jamesHatt the Magnificent

Back in my day, we had to walk 5 miles in the snow uphill both ways to get to our re-education camps

.trump’s lawyers re: Jack Smith:

“ The decision about releasing Smith’s findings, they wrote, should be left to Trump’s administration.”

It should have been released a couple years prior to the election. As a sentencing supplement.

Stupid timeline.

Latest Russo-Ukrainian War assessment: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-6-2025

Tza

Jan 7, 2025Edited

We have a delayed start today. Gonna drive in and park at Union Station even with the cost. Makes more sense. Currently looks like Carter will not even be present til 3pm for Congress to start paying respects. We then go thru midnight, close, and reopen 7am for more tomorrow.

Jan 7, 2025Edited

Did anyone show up yesterday?

I'm searching for a reason not to go into town tomorrow. I'm on telework and only have to go in Wed and Thurs, and Thurs became a day off.

ETA: Executive branch offices are closed, with max telework

Tza

Jan 7, 2025Edited

He's not here yet. But some of my coworkers worked yesterday to "help" with the event of Jan 6th vote counting. Mostly wayfinding for new members. I'm told it was boring and nothingburger.

edit: Oh, forgot, Virginia Foxx apparently fell down the stairs. She's fine. Sadly.

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/01/07/turkish-farmer-uncovers-rare-ancient-hunt-mosaic-likely-the-largest-of-its-kind-in-turkiye

Hey, look what some guy found while digging a hole.

Reply (5)

Saviour of Bread

Oooh very nice, out in Anatolia in the arse end of nowhere which is probably why it was forgotten about. Late Roman or Early Byzantine? Now there is a topic for discussion; when is the divide, and did the Byzantines ever stop thinking of themselves as Romans?

They do manage to make a cliff face look homey.

double post: having had time for my brain to turn on a bit, and having read the thing now, they mention "only 50cm of loose soil"

That is like 4 feet, so a pretty substantial hole XD

Half a meter, so ~half a yard.

Saviour of Bread

More like 15 - 18 inches.

ya know, I never find the good stuff

Hamilton & The Crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FlCFRy6O5c

People didn't bury their large hunt mosaics much back in the day.

Oooh.

In keeping with the old saw "The nut doesn't fall far from the tree," here we have Times Radio in the UK interviewing Sunk Mole's dad. You can see where Skum gets his political ideas:

Martin Brundle had a thing to say about Ellunge. Ultimately he stayed.

He wrote: “I’m conflicted.

“I like Twitter/X and it has served F1, Sky, me, and people around me, very well for a good while.

“But Elon Musk is such a daily globally interfering d**k I feel the need to go somewhere else.”

Saviour of Bread

Of course he did, he's a Good German.

Easy, I'm married to one.

"Like father, like son.

Think about it, won't you?"

Ellunge should offer his (very creepy nutcase of a) pappy some ketamine.

From the look of him, I think Mole Senior's been on something stronger for a while.

𝕺𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖉

Jan 7, 2025Edited

Green-box:30 already? Must be time to go to sleep. Alarm clock doesn’t go off for another six hours, and I got a snooze earlier on the couch, so I should be OK. I took the advice I gave to JanuaryClaire, and took a hot bath, and it is working its magic. Serendipity is banished from the bedroom, since she’s the one who usually wakes me up in the night. The stars are aligned.

(mandrake gestures hypnotically) SLEEP!