Play Nice Random Chat Thread: Episode III

[Val Keating]

Why would you condemn children to such a lonely life in this day and age?

Lol. At first I thought you meant they’d be lonely because their parents work so hard...then I realised it’s because they’d be surrounded by so many idiots

 

[Nate7]

Jeepers - we couldn't get to $3000 for giantroo's puta.

I don't know if anyone else has picked up on it, but puta is a generic Spanish word for s l u t
GR doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to be crowd funding for visits to the pleasure palace.

 

[Val Keating]

Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists | Monsanto | The Guardian

Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Snake_Baker]

 

[Val Keating]

They’d ban bikes before they’d ban guns

 

[Val Keating]

Just on the US, anyone see the news about the raid by ICE on chicken farms in Mississippi on the first day of school? Pure evil. Heaps of young children went home to find their homes locked and their parents gone. That’s disgustingly cruel

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Just on the US, anyone see the news about the raid by ICE on chicken farms in Mississippi on the first day of school? Pure evil. Heaps of young children went home to find their homes locked and their parents gone. That’s disgustingly cruel

Tells a bit of a different story and this is from a left-leaning news corporation.

ICE raids: 300 people released amid outrage over Mississippi arrests

Half of the 700 undocumented workers are freed as Democrats and rights groups condemn the arrests.

www.bbc.com

 

[Val Keating]

Tells a bit of a different story and this is from a left-leaning news corporation.

ICE raids: 300 people released amid outrage over Mississippi arrests

Half of the 700 undocumented workers are freed as Democrats and rights groups condemn the arrests.

www.bbc.com

Choosing the first day of school is a disgrace. They ****ed up. Shot themselves in the foot by doing that. Stupid evil decision.

 

[Val Keating]

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Choosing the first day of school is a disgrace. They f’ed up. Shot themselves in the foot by doing that. Stupid evil decision.

Choosing any school day would have been evil by that logic.

 

[Val Keating]

What about the poor bloke who was deported by ICE to Iraq? He was born in Greece, moved to America when he was 6 months old. Didn’t speak Arabic, they deported him to Iraq where he knew no one. Just been found dead because he couldn’t get insulin. Disgraceful.

Edited- accidentally wrote moved to Iraq, meant to write moved to America

Choosing any school day would have been evil by that logic.

It would be. These are children. They have to make sure they’re safe.

 

[Del191229]

Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists | Monsanto | The Guardian

Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young

amp.theguardian.com

This kind of stuff is the real story of our times, not silly kids and safe spaces.

The corporate takeover of society.

 

[Del191229]

Tells a bit of a different story and this is from a left-leaning news corporation.

ICE raids: 300 people released amid outrage over Mississippi arrests

Half of the 700 undocumented workers are freed as Democrats and rights groups condemn the arrests.

www.bbc.com

LOL at the Beeb being "left leaning".

 

[Val Keating]

This kind of stuff is the real story of our times, not silly kids and safe spaces.

The corporate takeover of society.

Absolutely. I wonder if in hundreds of years people will be studying these corporations like we study ancient empires like the Romans and the Khans.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

What about the poor bloke who was deported by ICE to Iraq? He was born in Greece, moved to Iraq when he was 6 months old. Didn’t speak Arabic, they deported him to Iraq where he knew no one. Just been found dead because he couldn’t get insulin. Disgraceful.



It would be. These are children. They have to make sure they’re safe.

Sounds like a complete bureaucratic f*** up. Even Republican senators have said the same about funding and processes.

Heads will roll, or should, on this one.

 

[Val Keating]

Bravo Brazil

Brazil’s Supreme Court Blocks “Unambiguous Act of Censorship” Against Glenn Greenwald

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Bravo Brazil

Brazil’s Supreme Court Blocks “Unambiguous Act of Censorship” Against Glenn Greenwald

Judicial branch keeping executive excesses in check and protecting basic press freedoms, as it should be in any functioning democracy.

 

[Val Keating]

Judicial branch keeping executive excesses in check and protecting basic press freedoms, as it should be in any functioning democracy.

Should be, but is it?

 

[Val Keating]

I mean, Julian Assange anyone?

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Should be, but is it?

That’s what’s interesting about the Brazil case study, history and politics in motion.

 

[ferball]

1) What relevance does it have for you?
2) I didn't recommend that you scour her twitter feed.

No. I did that off my own bat. Cos people who might be interesting might have interesting Twitter feeds with exposure to interesting ideas. I have old friends in Portland actually.

You said this:

I am even more impressed with Bret Weinstein's wife, Heather Heying:


I don't really care who posts it... I take name dropping like that as a recommendation to check that person out. Once upon a time that was how good ideas spread.

 

[Snake_Baker]

I mean, Julian Assange anyone?

Our High Court is a wet limp lettuce leaf.

We live in a totalitarian society.

 

[ferball]

Judicial branch keeping executive excesses in check and protecting basic press freedoms, as it should be in any functioning democracy.

Yeah.

Bravo the seperation of powers.

Up yours Bolsonaru you fascist Junta!

 

[ferball]

Our High Court is a wet limp lettuce leaf.

We live in a totalitarian society.

No we don't. We almost do but we don't yet.

Unfortunately the most important element for a totalitarian state - ie the totality - the support from the population for an authoritarian ruler not a government, is in place.

As is the police state powers including arbitrary arrest, unlimited detention and a plethora of rules to encourage secrecy and discourage transparent criticism of government are in place but the general mindset of the population - that we're a free country - is still there. Its only that contradictory nature of our public "national personality" or whatever you want to call it that holds back the tide of totalitarianism.

Plus judicial review.

Should be, but is it?

Ask Mohammad Haneef. He was innocent and would have been railroaded under terrorism charges on the basis of nothing for political gain, in the lead up to a federal election. However the Federal Court (didn't even get as far as the high court) threw the case out amid some brutal criticism of the incumbent government.

 

[ferball]

Revealed: how Monsanto's 'intelligence center' targeted journalists and activists | Monsanto | The Guardian

Internal documents show how the company worked to discredit critics and investigated singer Neil Young

amp.theguardian.com

Monsanto are campaigners. But an even bigger problem is the way corporates are developing intelligence services to match governments and private military organisations like the infamous Dyncrop, Blackwater and Sandline are/were growing big enough to provide them with the sort of military support governments get.