They should take the next step and declare "Oath Keepers" a terrorist organization. Freeze every known member's bank accounts and put all of them on the Do Not Fly list.
Don't forget to confiscate every weapon they own- because, after all, they belong to an organization which has advocated for the overthrow of the federal government *and* actually attempted to do so. It's right there on the 4473 form- and one might reasonably assume that more than a few of them lied on their 4473s to buy firearms, since that's a disqualifying question. Wanna play "guess what's a felony?" If you guessed "lying on a 4473 form," you're a winner!
BATFE, the FBI, and a whole heap of trouble should've been all over these assclowns five minutes after they started posting coup selfies.
I know from your comments that you are a veteran. Reading the post, I was thinking that it's quite insulting to you and the other vets that they call themselves “Oath Keepers” as if you and your fellow vets were “Oath Breakers”. Quite a mouthful from those guys, if you think about it.
The rest of the world pretty much hasn't heard of him. I'm still not exactly clear on what he's done to offend his fellow atheists. But now he's made it to these pages I may well investigate. :)
Not even as stupid as an all knowing, all powerful invisible being who will listen to your problems and help you out for the price of your imaginary soul.
You're welcome. I'm glad you liked it. Current Affairs is an excellent publication, and I've yet to read a badly written article. I particularly enjoy the pieces written by Nathan J. Robinson, though they have a lot of good people writing for them. Considering the shit-ton of crap that is written and published every day, I find it to be the "eye in the daily shit storm", a pause from the snippet and headlines journalism.
"Don’t ask me why anyone would buy an NFT at all. But the obvious problem here is that Silverman is selling something he didn’t create and doesn’t own."
I am selling NFTs of my most recent BMs. Opening bids start at $5,000.
I'd like to think that this time, the COVID-19 will finally prevent him from ever polluting the airwaves (or anyone else's lungs) ever again.
But I'm reminded of the fact that Glenn Beck once admitted years ago that he didn't give a shit about politics; that he was a mere entertainer and a rodeo clown (his own words). He told his own audience "If you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."
Non Fungible Token is a misnomer to me. Most of them are digital certificates for ownership of freely available images that, like this case, have nothing to do with the actual owner or creator of the images. There is nothing tangible to own, there’s no sort of chain of ownership or receipt of purchase or certificate of authenticity. There is no real way to secure your NFT once it is purchased, there’s a big story about some guy who lost all his NFTs of apes, a hacker can steal them as if they were just treasure in your World Of Warcraft chests. Probably easier.
We are doomed if cryptocurrency and NFTs become our actual system. It’s the worst parts of Idiocracy come to life.
This is one craze I just don't understand at all. No matter how secure the transaction is, there is no way to stop anyone from just taking a screencap of whatever shitty piece of digital artwork you bought the NFT for- since, y'know, it's right there on the page to let people know what they're buying- thus undermining whatever claim of ownership you might have made over it. The only thing you can guarantee secure ownership of is the NFT itself.
What's the point of that? You're paying thousands of dollars, sometimes tens of thousands, for what is essentially just a receipt. You're paying money for a receipt of ownership over a thing that's almost certainly already been stolen before you even paid for it. All you get to keep is the receipt. Congratulations, you Did a Capitalism!
At least cryptocurrency pretended to have utility as a means to conduct other transactions- you buy the crypto, then spend the crypto to buy something else, in much the same way as you would buy a pre-paid cash card, but the whole process is digital instead. If you want to buy something, but want to do so anonymously, there's some value in being able to do that (buying and selling crypto just to make money off the crypto being its own separate engine of insanity- but really no different than most stock trading).
But NFTs? Full on end-stage capitalism. They've finally convinced people to purchase a proof of purchase. Part of me wants to admire the audacity- the pure, *magnificent* chutzpah- of whoever came up with the idea, but the rest of me is trying not to facepalm so hard my hand comes out the back of my head.
Remember the end of The Producers when they were in prison, and Bloom was selling shares of the play they were making? I think they sold several thousand percent of the total shares of the play.
The very fact that there are millions of digital copies of the items means that they are not Non Fungible. The fact that they’re pretty much free to use and share without limits means there is no real value for ownership.
The signs are all there, we are living through end-stage capitalism.
Stjepan Šejić and his wife Linda discovered that their artwork has been stolen and was selling as NFTs.
In retaliation, they shared those artwork (which they made available for free to begin with) on social media and encouraged everyone to re-share them as widely as possible. I did my part on Facebook.
Will we next see drump selling all the images made of him both pro and con as yet another way of grifting of other peoples work to make money for himself.
Melania is selling some NFTs of herself. There’s an auction for a white hat she wore at a political function as First Lady with the NFT of a watercolor painting of her wearing the hat (it isn’t the painting it’s an NFT for the painting and I’m not sure the hat will change hands either).
Also, I wanted to mention and ridicule this more. The hat is a plain white wide brimmed felt hat that the description calls “one of a kind” probably because the designer label, or some tiny unnoticeable detail, but this hat was so plain and ordinary that I’m sure you could find them being mass produced for some souvenir shops in Florida. The only redeeming quality of the hat is that she wore it so that it covered about half her face.
Anyway, yes the Trumps are jumping all over this bandwagon.
Welcome to America, Hemant. Why do you hate Capitalism? This is the same country that turned the inventors of pet rocks, chia pets, toaster strudel, and MyPillows into MegaZillionaires, amirite?
Oh, don't talk to me about pet rocks! Once again I woke up to find Rocky, hanging from his leash, which was somehow attached to one of the blades of my ceiling fan, and a circle of sand on the floor beneath him. Where the FUCK does he get the 100 proof lava‽‽‽
"I can’t explain why people are rushing to purchase NFTs (non-fungible tokens)."
"What did the buyer actually get for the purchase? Who knows. Bragging rights, I guess. Welcome to the world of NFTs."
"Don’t ask me why anyone would buy an NFT at all."
Hemant, Will you be happier if the kids take their NFTs with them when they get off of your lawn while they are going to turn down their rock and roll music? Sorry, I couldn't resist and I am no better. This morning I literally had to bite my tongue to keep from telling a kid to get off my lawn. Welcome to the Grumpy Old People's Club Hemant, we'll get you your t-shirt soon. =)
I liked this lie - In response, Paul said that he "never, ever cheated" and did not condone the practice, but added: "But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important."
In 1997 he set up the National Board of Ophthalmology (NBO) to offer an alternative certification system, at a cost substantially lower than that of the ABO. Its certification exam, which Paul completed for his own certification, was an open book take-home test that Paul helped write. Paul appointed exclusively his own family members to the board of directors and registered the Board to an incorrect address.
“I’m not a violent person, I only want you all(her base) to be violent people.”
“I don’t advocate violence, I only want my constituents to shoot people for suggesting healthcare to them.”
I don’t want to see a civil war, so I will call it something else ‘National Divorce’ even though everyone knows they’re the same fucking thing.”
“The democrats are destroying our freedoms while I harass people for not wanting to be shot to death trying to get an education.”
MTG should have been removed from Congress when they excluded her from committees for being violent against other congresspeople. She hasn’t changed other than getting more violent.
The Democratic Party needs to grow a fucking spine and actually hold these barbarians accountable for their violent rhetoric.
Cryptocurrencies and NFTs can go die in a vat of acid, please & thank you.
Gotta have a fake product to buy with fake money.
It's contributing to the microchip shortage, as they burn out processors at a staggering rate to mine new coins.
Also, god help you if you pick up a virus hiding a bitminer. It has been proven to be able to burn out a brand new SSD drive in a matter of hours.
Long overdue, if you ask me.
OT
"Founder of Oath Keepers Charged With Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy"
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/founder-of-oath-keepers-charged-with-seditious-conspiracy/2727441/
#NoQuarterForTraitors
Tucker will have to withdraw his statement that this guy was a FBI plant.
(I crack myself up sometimes.)
(where "withdraw" = "double down")
It about time that we see some of these bastards get treated like the democracy-hating terrorists that they are.
Aaaahhh, the sweet, harmonious sound of prosecutors finally dropping off some Sedition charges! I'ma make some popcorn. Anybody want some popcorn?
With salt and genuine imitation butter?
Only if the salt comes in the form of *delicious* conservative tears!
Conservative tears are bestest tears.
Smoked paprika. No salt, no butter (DM).
Tomorrow I'll have mine with bacon salt.
Do you have any of the 40 weight butter flavored oil that the theaters use?
They should take the next step and declare "Oath Keepers" a terrorist organization. Freeze every known member's bank accounts and put all of them on the Do Not Fly list.
Don't forget to confiscate every weapon they own- because, after all, they belong to an organization which has advocated for the overthrow of the federal government *and* actually attempted to do so. It's right there on the 4473 form- and one might reasonably assume that more than a few of them lied on their 4473s to buy firearms, since that's a disqualifying question. Wanna play "guess what's a felony?" If you guessed "lying on a 4473 form," you're a winner!
BATFE, the FBI, and a whole heap of trouble should've been all over these assclowns five minutes after they started posting coup selfies.
I know from your comments that you are a veteran. Reading the post, I was thinking that it's quite insulting to you and the other vets that they call themselves “Oath Keepers” as if you and your fellow vets were “Oath Breakers”. Quite a mouthful from those guys, if you think about it.
These OK stormtroppers aren't patriots. They're fascists, the lot of them. They hate everything about the Constitution, except for the 2nd Amendment.
Throw the book at them.
"...except for the 2nd Amendment. ..."
Well, parts of it.
They sure don't qualify as a "well-regulated militia."
That requires the government. The same government they are committing sedition against.
And limited parts of the 1st.
#NotEvenADimeOrANickel
#MaybeJustSomeThoughtsAndPrayers?
#RatsAsses
#FlyingBacon
Yet another feel-good story! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Surprised he didn't go with Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
David Silverman is still a thing?
He's more thing now than man. Stupid and hate filled.
It would still fit him though, always ready to sell out to the highest bidder.
There’s no good in him.
The rest of the world pretty much hasn't heard of him. I'm still not exactly clear on what he's done to offend his fellow atheists. But now he's made it to these pages I may well investigate. :)
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/08/12/david-silverman-and-woke-math/
Selling something that's non-fungible sounds pretty religious to me.
To me it sounds like something to buy if you want to stop moss from growing in shady areas.
I like your gif avatar.
Beat me to it.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/12/are-nfts-any-more-stupid-than-everything-else
Not even as stupid as an all knowing, all powerful invisible being who will listen to your problems and help you out for the price of your imaginary soul.
You're welcome. I'm glad you liked it. Current Affairs is an excellent publication, and I've yet to read a badly written article. I particularly enjoy the pieces written by Nathan J. Robinson, though they have a lot of good people writing for them. Considering the shit-ton of crap that is written and published every day, I find it to be the "eye in the daily shit storm", a pause from the snippet and headlines journalism.
"Don’t ask me why anyone would buy an NFT at all. But the obvious problem here is that Silverman is selling something he didn’t create and doesn’t own."
I am selling NFTs of my most recent BMs. Opening bids start at $5,000.
I'll buy. Then I'm going to resell them as "Trump Dumps" and make an absolute fortune off the rubes. First offering goes to Mike Lindell.
"Trump Dumps" - Leave his kids out of it.
(actually, the adult kids are fair game)
Are any of the "fruit of his loins" adults?
So far, 15-year-old Barron acts like the only adult in that family.
Let's see how long that lasts.
We can hope his Secret Service agents did a good job of raising him.
I am pretty sure he gets his direct from the source.
You are going to have to pay me way more than $5,000.
https://youtu.be/452XjnaHr1A
I’ve got a 3-D printer we can make copies with.
Glen beck claims he has covid. Again. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/glenn-beck-says-covid-again-052819993.html
My sympathies to COVID.
This time, I hope it sticks.
I'd like to think that this time, the COVID-19 will finally prevent him from ever polluting the airwaves (or anyone else's lungs) ever again.
But I'm reminded of the fact that Glenn Beck once admitted years ago that he didn't give a shit about politics; that he was a mere entertainer and a rodeo clown (his own words). He told his own audience "If you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."
I've not forgotten that.
Covid caught HIM.
Glen Idontgiveashit.
Non Fungible Token is a misnomer to me. Most of them are digital certificates for ownership of freely available images that, like this case, have nothing to do with the actual owner or creator of the images. There is nothing tangible to own, there’s no sort of chain of ownership or receipt of purchase or certificate of authenticity. There is no real way to secure your NFT once it is purchased, there’s a big story about some guy who lost all his NFTs of apes, a hacker can steal them as if they were just treasure in your World Of Warcraft chests. Probably easier.
We are doomed if cryptocurrency and NFTs become our actual system. It’s the worst parts of Idiocracy come to life.
This is one craze I just don't understand at all. No matter how secure the transaction is, there is no way to stop anyone from just taking a screencap of whatever shitty piece of digital artwork you bought the NFT for- since, y'know, it's right there on the page to let people know what they're buying- thus undermining whatever claim of ownership you might have made over it. The only thing you can guarantee secure ownership of is the NFT itself.
What's the point of that? You're paying thousands of dollars, sometimes tens of thousands, for what is essentially just a receipt. You're paying money for a receipt of ownership over a thing that's almost certainly already been stolen before you even paid for it. All you get to keep is the receipt. Congratulations, you Did a Capitalism!
At least cryptocurrency pretended to have utility as a means to conduct other transactions- you buy the crypto, then spend the crypto to buy something else, in much the same way as you would buy a pre-paid cash card, but the whole process is digital instead. If you want to buy something, but want to do so anonymously, there's some value in being able to do that (buying and selling crypto just to make money off the crypto being its own separate engine of insanity- but really no different than most stock trading).
But NFTs? Full on end-stage capitalism. They've finally convinced people to purchase a proof of purchase. Part of me wants to admire the audacity- the pure, *magnificent* chutzpah- of whoever came up with the idea, but the rest of me is trying not to facepalm so hard my hand comes out the back of my head.
They are easier to sell than any bridge in New York.
Remember the end of The Producers when they were in prison, and Bloom was selling shares of the play they were making? I think they sold several thousand percent of the total shares of the play.
The very fact that there are millions of digital copies of the items means that they are not Non Fungible. The fact that they’re pretty much free to use and share without limits means there is no real value for ownership.
The signs are all there, we are living through end-stage capitalism.
Stjepan Šejić and his wife Linda discovered that their artwork has been stolen and was selling as NFTs.
In retaliation, they shared those artwork (which they made available for free to begin with) on social media and encouraged everyone to re-share them as widely as possible. I did my part on Facebook.
Someone made a pirate torrent of all NFTs.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1632234/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Precisely.
Now that’s an afterlife I can get behind.
Or drumpenfuhrur campaign promises.
Fuck you SuckStank.
Will we next see drump selling all the images made of him both pro and con as yet another way of grifting of other peoples work to make money for himself.
Melania is selling some NFTs of herself. There’s an auction for a white hat she wore at a political function as First Lady with the NFT of a watercolor painting of her wearing the hat (it isn’t the painting it’s an NFT for the painting and I’m not sure the hat will change hands either).
Also, I wanted to mention and ridicule this more. The hat is a plain white wide brimmed felt hat that the description calls “one of a kind” probably because the designer label, or some tiny unnoticeable detail, but this hat was so plain and ordinary that I’m sure you could find them being mass produced for some souvenir shops in Florida. The only redeeming quality of the hat is that she wore it so that it covered about half her face.
Anyway, yes the Trumps are jumping all over this bandwagon.
They are very good at getting something for nothing.
It does take some effort to violate that many laws.
But apparently not very much effort at all to get away with it.
Simply a reputation of wealth.
"Melania is selling some NFTs of herself."
Nudes From Trump?
As long as it's not nudes OF Trump.
I'd pay *not* to see those.
Send me your account information and I won't post them.
Ok then they’re jumping all over the clown car. Or maybe the elephant cleanup crew car.
*inserts Mr. Peabody and Sherman parade sweeper guy gif*
https://live.staticflickr.com/8243/8544164899_d464896c8f_z.jpg
Not surprised that people would actually go for NFTs. After all, people also bought Pet Rocks.
EDIT BTII beat me to the pet rocks reference
Hey, it was the only pet that would play with me!
Can I interest you in my new line of Boyfriend/Girlfriend Rocks? =)
I find the plastic versions a little softer, and more amenable to seduction.
So that what was making that sound the night I told the wife I was too tired, thought the puppy had gotten a new toy.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/13/24AB73ED00000578-0-image-a-33_1421165237087.jpg
The neighbor's kid was so ugly they had to tie a pork chop around his neck to get the dog to play with him.
But rocks don't like pork chops.
Ah, but then there was this:
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2002/01/12
Click on the Next button and check that Sunday's strip.
Welcome to America, Hemant. Why do you hate Capitalism? This is the same country that turned the inventors of pet rocks, chia pets, toaster strudel, and MyPillows into MegaZillionaires, amirite?
Oh, don't talk to me about pet rocks! Once again I woke up to find Rocky, hanging from his leash, which was somehow attached to one of the blades of my ceiling fan, and a circle of sand on the floor beneath him. Where the FUCK does he get the 100 proof lava‽‽‽
"I can’t explain why people are rushing to purchase NFTs (non-fungible tokens)."
"What did the buyer actually get for the purchase? Who knows. Bragging rights, I guess. Welcome to the world of NFTs."
"Don’t ask me why anyone would buy an NFT at all."
Hemant, Will you be happier if the kids take their NFTs with them when they get off of your lawn while they are going to turn down their rock and roll music? Sorry, I couldn't resist and I am no better. This morning I literally had to bite my tongue to keep from telling a kid to get off my lawn. Welcome to the Grumpy Old People's Club Hemant, we'll get you your t-shirt soon. =)
NFTs go in. NFTs go out. Nobody can explain that.
True, but they still have to stay the hell off of the lawn! =)
Coffee goes in, coffee goes out. Nobody can explain that.
Q - What's the difference between beer and piss?
A - 20 minutes.
NOW they are pushing piss as a covid cure. https://www.yahoo.com/news/tweet-kidney-doctor-u-l-181023786.html
Drink enough coffee and you'll have no problem explaining how it goes out.
Í hate it so much when it happens!
I'll buy that for a dollar.
Trying to start a bidding war are we.
And very much like religion.
OT - More proof that Rand Paul is a psychopath.
An old video has surfaced of Sen. Rand Paul telling students that spreading misinformation is a 'great tactic'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/an-old-video-has-surfaced-of-sen-rand-paul-telling-students-that-spreading-misinformation-is-a-great-tactic/ar-AASLjb7?li=BBnb7Kz
Well, he's not wrong. For a given value of 'great'.
I liked this lie - In response, Paul said that he "never, ever cheated" and did not condone the practice, but added: "But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important."
Sabotaging your classmates is a form of cheating.
Cheat? Him? No way.
In 1997 he set up the National Board of Ophthalmology (NBO) to offer an alternative certification system, at a cost substantially lower than that of the ABO. Its certification exam, which Paul completed for his own certification, was an open book take-home test that Paul helped write. Paul appointed exclusively his own family members to the board of directors and registered the Board to an incorrect address.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul#National_Board_of_Ophthalmology
Spreading misinformation was a tactic that was highly-valued by Joseph Goebbels.
Why am I not surprised that Goebbels would find an admirer in Paul?
MORE THREATS from the cons. https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-suggests-second-044702579.html
If she can claim a second amendment solution against us we can use the same against them.
“I’m not a violent person, I only want you all(her base) to be violent people.”
“I don’t advocate violence, I only want my constituents to shoot people for suggesting healthcare to them.”
I don’t want to see a civil war, so I will call it something else ‘National Divorce’ even though everyone knows they’re the same fucking thing.”
“The democrats are destroying our freedoms while I harass people for not wanting to be shot to death trying to get an education.”
MTG should have been removed from Congress when they excluded her from committees for being violent against other congresspeople. She hasn’t changed other than getting more violent.
The Democratic Party needs to grow a fucking spine and actually hold these barbarians accountable for their violent rhetoric.
Didn't she give a tour of the capitol building to the insurrectionists a few days before the insurrection?
She did.
Google MTG and scientists. As usual, she puts her feet in her mouth.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-mad-science-event-2022-01-10
Is Marjorie Traitor Greene so deluded that she thinks only Rethuglikkkans and kkkonservatives are armed?
Far-right ammosexuals are in for rude awakening.
OT but it raises many questions. The first is, your own or someone else's urine? Another wacky 'cure' for covid.https://www.yahoo.com/news/tweet-kidney-doctor-u-l-181023786.html
"The first is, your own or someone else's urine?"
Why not both? And take some Viagra at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aas4S1PLS-c