
VABuckeye
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I believe our current foreign policy consists of a blindfold, a dart board and a catheter.
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Flying from DCA-JFK-MXP tomorrow. Could be me.
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2 minutes ago, PGFrog said:
and why is the summer break so late?
Because large portions of Europe shut down during August?
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Nice to know we've progressed as a society.
Well, apparently not.
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19 hours ago, 4th and 5 said:
happy hour - rooftop of Hotel Secreto, trust me here bro be there an hour before sunset
Hotel Secreto has a rooftop bar now? My, how things have changed. We always stayed there and loved the hotel and staff. Sadly, the staff we knew and loved were victims of COVID. Not the sickness, but the loess of business during that time.
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My wife is 1/2 Cuban and 1/2 German. She most definitely identifies as white. Olive skin and freckles.
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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Excellent post. If you want to make a protest sign that actually might be effective (when you are facing off with members of the military), this one might be a good one. Just a reminder to them of their legal duty, straight from the UCMJ:
"A general order or regulation is lawful unless it is contrary to the Constitution, the laws of the United States, or lawful superior orders or for some other reason is beyond the authority of the official issuing it."
United States v. Calley: carrying out manifestly illegal orders subjects you to criminal liability. You have a legal duty to refuse to follow an unlawful order.
An order to take violent action against unarmed civilians-particularly on US soil-is a facially unlawful order. Follow the law. Follow your oath. Protect and defend the Constitution, and the People.
1) That's a lot to put on a sign.
2) You're assuming they can read.
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1 hour ago, bolverk said:
I've had that stupid motherfucking conspiracist, Zeus, on ignore for a while now but saw some of his insanity yesterday because he was being quoted. This board has woken up to a lot of the misinformation that gets spread around and has gotten better at identifying it, but that bullshit still gets floated around a good bit.
That said, I realize that a lot of us have also taken the bait and reposted shit a time or two, including myself. But we also have posters, like Zeus, who are habitually guilty of it, whether they're idiotic rubes or deliberate shit smearers. Either way, I think it's about time that there be some retribution for pieces of shit who insist on posting garbage lies over and over again.
This NYTimes article mentions at least a couple of the LIES that Zeus posted yesterday. This shit is dangerous, destabilizing, and has gone on far too long. Fuckheads like Zeus deserve no mercy and need to get the boot, because consistently reposting lies is not a legitimate form of political discourse on discussion board full of college-educated adults who happen also to be football fans.
Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests
Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation.Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats.
They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part.
There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers and setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the immigration raids.
The confrontation escalated on Monday as new protests occurred and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced — on X — that he was mobilizing 700 Marines from a base near Los Angeles to guard federal buildings. They are expected to join 2,000 members of the California National Guard whom Mr. Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who normally has command of the troops.
The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread — some purporting to show Marines and the military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of Los Angeles of their civil rights. It features a climatic dogfight over the city’s downtown.
Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, said conservatives online were “building up the riots in a performative way” to help bolster Mr. Trump’s claims that Los Angeles had been taken over by “violent, insurrectionist mobs.”
Dr. Linvill said the posts were also “a bit self-fulfilling.” “As they direct attention to it,” he said, “more protesters will show up.”
James Woods, the actor who has become known for spreading conspiracy theories, used his account on X to rail against the state’s elected officials, especially Mr. Newsom, a Democrat. He also reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to former President Barack Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020.
An innocuous photograph of a pallet of bricks, actually posted on the website of a building materials wholesaler in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by nonprofit organizations supported by George Soros, the financier who, to the feverishly conspiratorial right, has become a mastermind of global disorder.
“It’s Civil War!!” an account on X wrote on Saturday, claiming that the bricks had been placed near the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for “Democrat militants.”
X posted a Community Note pointing out that the photograph had nothing to do with the protests, but it still was seen more than 800,000 times. It was also widely reposted, including by several seemingly inauthentic accounts in Chinese.
The online trope dates at least to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. It reappeared in 2022 after a conspiratorial post by Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who suggested that bricks for a paving project near Capitol Hill were intended for violent protests after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“These days, it feels like every time there’s a protest, the old clickbaity ‘pallets of bricks’ hoax shows up right on cue,” the Social Media Lab, a research center at the Toronto Metropolitan University, wrote on Bluesky. “You know the one, photos or videos of bricks supposedly left out to encourage rioting. It’s catnip for right-wing agitators and grifters.”
It also fits into the narrative that protests against government policies are somehow inauthentic. On his own platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump also suggested that the protesters were “Paid Insurrectionists!”
Numerous posts echoed unsubstantiated claims that the protests were the work of Mr. Soros as well as local nongovernment organizations or Democratic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Some posts disparaging the protests were shared by accounts with deceptive handles that closely resembled those of official government sources or news organizations.
Mike Benz, a conspiracy-minded influencer on X who last year claimed that the Pentagon used the pop star Taylor Swift as part of a psychological operation to undercut Mr. Trump, advanced an outlandish theory that the mayor had links to the Central Intelligence Agency and had helped start riots in the city where she lives.
He based that simply on Ms. Bass’s role as a board member for the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally mandated organization formed during the Reagan administration to promote democratic governance around the world.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, the theme was echoed by accounts across social media linked to Russia, which often amplifies content that discredits the United States. The Kremlin and its supporters have long accused Mr. Soros or the United States government of covertly sponsoring “color revolutions” to overthrow governments — from the Arab Spring countries swept up by mass street protests in 2011 to Ukraine.
“It is nationwide conspiracy of liberals against not only Trump but against American people in general,” Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, wrote on X on Sunday.
Disinformation in situations like these spreads so quickly and widely that efforts to verify facts cannot keep up, said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an advocacy organization that studies the intersection of media, technology and the law. She described it as part of “a much longer effort to delegitimize peaceful resistance movements.”
“Information warfare is always a symptom of conflict, stoked often by those in power to fuel their own illiberal goals,” she said. “It confuses audiences, scares people who might otherwise have empathy for the cause and divides us when we need solidarity most.”
Wasn't the same photo of the pallet of bricks used as "evidence" during the BLM protests?
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7 hours ago, midtown said:
Bump.
Closing out my last Central American country. Honduras specifically Roatan.
Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua and Guatemala all checked off.
Staying down in West Bay at Infinity Bay. 5 nights. 4.5 days. I will have a rental car. Fishing the first day and doing a snorkeling trip on the 3rd day. I'll have two days to either do nothing and sit by the pool or wander around. I am trying to find an ATV jungle kind of thing but they all require min 2 people and I'm doing this solo. Any foods, tours, dive bars, etc I should hit up?
Cal's sadly closed so that's out. Great food there.
Iron Shore Grill was very good when I was there. The zip lining is also legit.
All the way at the eastern end of the island is La Sirena which is the diviest of dive bars.
Avoid Coxen Hole like the plague. It's a hell hole.
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Just now, jimmyjazz said:
I wouldn't ordinarily laugh at the idea of a 78 YO man wearing a catheter.
Then again, these are not ordinary times.
TACO Smell.
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Tiananmen Square type protest of the parade without any deaths possible on Saturday? Just block the fucker with tens of thousands of people.
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This fuckstick. Two terms which now have had huge protests across the country. What is the one thing in common? The fuckstick in the White House.
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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:
Is that Vincent D'Onofrio?
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Down by Punta Sur? The Joint is just around the corner.
Breakfast mojitos!!
It's been quite a few years but a taxi ride used to be $5 anywhere on the island. Eat at Bastos!
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Italy next Friday. I'll be in Ortisei (Dolomites) and then Bologna with side trips to Modena and Parma. Pleny of old world wine will go down the hatch.
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1 hour ago, Macanudo said:
And Bingo was his name-o
Why'd she have to be attractive?
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That is awesome.
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Implosion would be amazing to watch.
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No one burns bridges like Trump. WINNER!
Fucking idiot, he is.
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Seems like "I Fought the Law" is just as appropriate.
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You know why.
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Driving over top of Hamilton was pretty bad.
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Ohio
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33 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:And they all move to Florida when they retire. Coal to Newcastle.
Then don't make it so advantageous for tax purposes. You brought the northern migration on yourselves.
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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
Also, reality is completely uncoupled from reality. The market doesn't react to Trump's tariff statements anymore because they don't mean anything unless and until a tariff is actually imposed. Which maybe it will be. Maybe it won't be. Who knows?
The hell they don't. He announced a pause with the EU until July 9 and VOO went off. I swear he's just doing this shit so his cronies can make a killing.
LA ICE protest escalation
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I think he's more of a Hungry Hippo type of guy. 😀