No one in our family follows sports, so the puppy bowl is a long-standing family tradition. Now that the kids are grown we all get a little buzzed and sit there pointing at the dogs we like the most and yelling about why they’re better than everyone else’s picks.

I would guess they made him cut the palm of his hand to see if he bleeds. It’s too bad they didn’t know that’s not enough proof…

Attacking him ought to clear up those misgivings. I mean, when I’m uncertain about something, being verbally attacked by a person in favor of that thing usually brings me right around to their side.

“I don’t know about all this police brutality, Donny…”

“You’re the dumbest person, a real loser, and not popular with the ladies if you know what I mean.”

“You son of a bitch, I’m in.”

Yeah, there’s definitely something uncanny about that photo.

Yup, and considering everything that’s coming to light right now, it’s hard to say that it isn’t by design.

Expect selective enforcement or even some kind of DHS/ICE reserve officer program as an excuse to keep MAGA voters armed.

I’m kinda the opposite, I want to be Statler or Waldorf, but deep down I’m probably a Grover or a Gonzo.

The message should have been “take accusations seriously…”

Right. Are we doing this yet?

Or are we still just complaining about “the left’s” sloganeering and wringing our hands over false accusations and the woke mob coming for us?

I was there

So was I.

Maybe they seized on one dude being pissed at his ex and making some accusations as a catalyst, and I’m certain well meaning folks got caught up in something they weren’t fully aware of, but that’s sort of the point with this kind of op. No one approaches you online and says “do you want to attack feminist game developers and entertainment journalists as the opening salvo in a culture war that will install fascism in the west?”

Even if it was co-opted, it was co-opted very early on and that doesn’t change what it was for most of its miserable time as part of the public consciousness or the damage it did.

Yeah, but if I misjudge and one of my friends turns out to be vehimently anti-bike, I don’t have to orchestrate a massive cover-up, conduct a decades long propaganda campaign, and install one of my other friends as the leader of the free world in an effort to avoid the legal, social, and political fallout from biking (literal biking, not a metaphor).

Seems like Epstein’s party planning would have required a little more thought than my Sunday rides.

Then again, all the evidence seems to show they were able to operate with a depressing lack of opsec, so maybe they just ask each other or there’s not enough people opposed to child rape in their world.

Yeah, I mean, at one point they were arguing over the legal definition of the word is, that soundbite wasn’t from anything resembling a normal conversation.

But unless he takes the stand and drops a bomb on every perv he can, despite the risk of self incrimination, he can get fucked with the rest of them.

I have to wonder how these guys find each other. Do they crack an off color-joke and see who laughs? Do they catch each other looking at underage girls at a party? Is there a webpage that’s like tinder for pervs?

I can barely get four friends together for a bike ride on a Sunday afternoon, but somehow Epstein was able to connect with just about every wealthy pedo in the western world.

I’m still convinced that Gamergate was a trial run to see if open misogyny could win widespread support in the west and be used to indoctrinate young men into far-right ideology.

It worked.

Killer Mike told us back in 2012.

My boss didn’t know how to use my ergonomic mouse

I use a logitech M575 trackball, people have tried to scoot it like a mouse and yanked their hand away from it as if it burned them.

Little bit late on the draw, but I since I was guilty of more or less the same thing, I edited my comment to read differently. Sorry 'bout that.

Yup. My Mom got these for years to save money and make sure we got enough vitamin C. I hated orange juice for a long time because whatever brand she bought was awful and had an overly sour, almost fermented tang to it. Went on a road trip with friends to celebrate graduation and my uncle served us fresh squeezed OJ at one of our stops. It was almost life changing.

Doing shit like this without consequences is a virtue to his base. Same with hypocrisy. They know this was vile, if they didn’t it wouldn’t be funny to them. They know when he’s being hypocritical. But has the power to do it anyway, and that makes him godlike to MAGA chuds.

If they listen to Elmo, they might develop enough empathy to understand what complete pieces of shit they’ve been. Pretty sure they’d rather die than have that happen.

And the real tell is that the warrior ideal combined with super broad chest and shoulders are meant to denote strength, but the strongest men tend to be thick through the middle and lack the bodybuilder v-taper they give these toys. Not that bodybuilders aren’t stronger than most people by far, but when you look at the people who hold records for lifting the most weight they’re nothing like those toys. It’s just as shallow and dumb as a lot of women’s beauty standards.