Gotta tip my cap to this dude. We need more of him.
Hmm maybe this is a joke? “McAnally”?
Krayz
August 14, 2023, 6:13pm
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If that’s true I hope FA meets FO for these shit stains
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Surf
August 14, 2023, 8:18pm
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goofy:
separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to “give away” to 20th Century Fox Studios the life rights to his story “without any payment whatsoever.” The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him
If he did sign that contract would there be legal wrongdoing here? Obviously completely morally/ethically bad but sounds like the “family” just negotiated a better deal than him unless his alleged contract was fraudulent?
They tricked him into signing conservitorship papers shortly after his 18th birthday when he was certainly too naive to understand them.
They never actually adopted him despite all claims to the contrary.
If allegations are true these people are pure scum.
goofy
August 15, 2023, 7:06am
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This is both deep and depressing (if you think to apply it to, say, living under a conservative Supreme Court like we have for my entire lifetime )
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they really should bring back stud though
Truly astonishing how quickly Tucker disappeared into the ether once Fox stopped platforming him. Rupert Murdoch set society back decades, can you imagine what the world would be like if he hadn’t given these fascist clowns a soapbox.
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goofy
August 18, 2023, 10:29pm
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I forget which thread we were discussing the Rich Men North of Richmond guy in, but here’s a good related article:
“Do not let the rage of the populace become focused on the capitalists” is the number one rule of capitalism’s perpetuation of itself. In fact it is more accurate to look at a large portion of what occurs in our nation’s political sphere as “systematic redirection of rage towards false targets” than “governing.” Governing is a small minority of what occurs in our political system. As an institution, the Republican Party (and a significant part of the Democratic Party) and all of its supporting tendrils have as their primary project not enacting political policies but rather the digging of a narrative channel through which popular rage can flow away from the rich. It does not help that Washington DC is, in fact, a shiny bubble of disconnected elites who view themselves as the True Knowers of What Is Good For Everyone and who are, in fact, to a large degree, funded by interests with ulterior and extremely self-serving motives. It’s easy to hate the government. And it’s easy to hate the damn welfare people. Billions of dollars have been spent and vast architectures of think tanks and media companies and insincere intellectual traditions have been built to keep a grand spotlight pointed on those things, so that the capitalists can function comfortably in the shadows. This is the whole game. “Rich Men North of Richmond,” the viral smash hit, is just evidence that the game is still being won by the wrong people.
I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. And those of us who understand this trick—a group I’ll call “The Left,” for ease of reference— have a job. The job is not to say: Fuck you Oliver, you fat fuck, fuck you and your ten million fans, take your shitty song and go the fuck back to Cracker Barrel. No. That doesn’t really help. The job is to say: Oliver, my red-haired brother, I know your rage and I have felt it and while you’re getting mad about how much tax comes out of your check, have you ever thought about how much your boss takes out of your check? Have you ever thought about how much of what you produce never shows up in your check in the first place? Have you ever thought about the fact that your boss’s boss’s boss’s boss is not someone in DC, but rather some very rich man in a penthouse high above a city that you will never go to? A part of an entire class of staggeringly rich people whose penthouses are paid for by scraping off the streams of wealth produced by millions of hard working people just like you? Have you ever thought about the fact that while you are getting angry about a poor person getting a pittance in food stamps, there are people who make more in a year than you and everyone you know will make in your entire lifetimes, and they make it not by working hard like you, but rather by taking the money that your hard work creates? Have you ever wondered how it is that someone can make a billion dollars when you, who work so hard every day, make only fifty thousand dollars? Is it because they work twenty thousand times harder than you? That seems impossible. Have you ever thought that perhaps there are some shenanigans going on? That perhaps you and me and your friends and neighbors are suffering not because of someone on food stamps, or because your taxes are too high, but rather because rich people are taking all the money ? If they don’t work harder than you then how the fuck did they get so rich? Is that fair? Is that not even more egregious than a person who has no money and no hope buying a fudge round? Isn’t it possible, Oliver, that there is something wrong with this system that forces you to work hard and then takes all the wealth and delivers it to Aspen and Davos and Central Park South and then, when you get angry, points the finger at another poor person and tells you that they are the ones you should be angry at? Let’s talk about this, Oliver. Let’s talk about how it all works. Because you are not the first person to think that this whole damn system sucks. But we know how to change it. We can tell you how much wealth you make and how much your boss is taking and how much faraway investors are skimming off and how little they are leaving you. We can tell you how all that works. And we can tell you how to fix it, Oliver. Look at this: It’s a union card. Let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about who the villains really are. We don’t want you to live your life as a patsy doing unpaid PR work for a hedge fund titan, Oliver. We want you to fucking fight back in a way that matters.
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It feels like “sum total of money spent on welfare vs. the amount of money an idiot like Elon Musk makes in a year” should be a winning message, especially when explicitly quantified, but the myth of rich people deserving what they earn is too deeply entrenched.
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Celia Criswell, a 70-year-old retiree from Des Moines, said a Republican candidate needs to be staunchly anti-woke to earn her vote.
But what does it mean to be anti-woke?
“People say, “What’s woke?” I know what woke is, and I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who can tell you what woke is, but if you say it out loud, you might get in trouble,” Criswell told me.
I asked Criswell to hit me with her definition anyway.
“Well, I’m not gonna say,” she said.
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744?s=20
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