Wednesday, May 14, 2014

"I don't know how to express myself..."


"May your social media presence be so off-putting that it causes your real-life friends to distance themselves from you."

"May your partner never be awake when you whisper “Are you awake?” because you desperately need a sign that someone or something cares about the anguish of your heart, that connection is possible. May your partner feign sleep in order to avoid intimacy with you."

"May you never be understood in the comments."


That... looks good.  I live in hope. 


"If the United States' status in the world is dipping, let's not spare the previous administration for all it did to show that America was not only incapable of winning wars but incapable of admitting when it had massively screwed up. Have you thought about Donald Rumsfeld lately? There's a guy who acted like a pre-teen, for god's sake. None of this is to let Barack Obama off the hook for his disastrous foreign policy. It's to point out that there's a nearly perfect consistency in foreign policy between Bush and Obama. And you know what? Starting dumb wars and then prosecuting them incompetently is no way to earn respect from around the globe. Throw in ongoing drone attacks of dubious legality and various sorts of secret spying programs and more, and well, there you have why the U.S. is tough to take seriously...

The Obama administration isn't immature because it won't follow through on threats of violence (it did by dropping bombs on Libya and droning the hell out of Yemen and other spots), it's that it made them in the first place. The ultimate teenaged fantasy is that the U.S. can actually be globocop."





Enforcing the law, unless they don't feel like it or it'll make them look bad.  Despite court rulings, people are still getting arrested for recording on-duty cops
"When you see one of these stories, please remember that it is perfectly legal to record on-duty police in every state in the country. That includes states that require all parties to a conversation to consent in order for that conversation to be recorded. Those laws all also contain a provision that the non-consenting party has a reasonable expectation of privacy. So far, every court to rule on this issue has found that on-duty cops in public spaces have no expectation of privacy and that recording them is protected by the First Amendment. "
  





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