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"I'll pull out a Roscoe and shoot her in the face. Nobody will even notice, all they ever look at is the hat."

All monarchs must DIE!
We won't miss you trump.

indigenous says

You have to admit Milo knows how to create controversy and get the leftys riled up.

Robert Sproul says

Milo, and whoever is responsible for his brand, must be ecstatic over this shit.

Ironman says

Apple really appreciates taking your money!!

For sure! But what's wrong with that?

Ironman says

Where I have an issue is to pay 2X - 3X for the same product/function because it has a pretty logo of an Apple on it. That's just crazy, but some people buy "status", and pay handsomely for it.... I buy "function".

I buy "function" but I also buy "looks". My first iMac replaced a PC in the office. The PC was only used for emails, some browsing, printing out stuff and quickbooks...the iMac replaced the PC in that function. But the selling point was that it looked frigging killer. Instead of the INSANE cable clutter. Just one screen, keyboard, mouse. Just one example.

It's a free market - you buy what you want. If you don't like the price tag on an iPhone...get a samsung. It might blow up and burn your house down...but it functions the same way, mostly. Or the chinese "iPhone" killer. Can't think of the name now...H something... - I don't think apple is no longer 2-3 times the price of anything that is comparable.

The watch - I am not a watch person, haven't had one in 15 years. I thought the first gen was "meh". Didn't buy it. But I grabbed this one now because I found use for sports tracking and its water proof which is a big deal as I surf 4 times a week. I can't believe I am saying it...I love this thing. But the most important part - none of the other watches have a "cool" look. They all have the nerdy look. Like 1980 calculator style watches for the nerd in school. Apple just gets the "fashion" aspect right. The design aspect.

But you have to be somebody that appreciates Design. I do. If you are a pure "functions" type then maybe its not for you.

Apologist FOR the Anti-Milo Protesters gets accused of being a University Police stooge-spy by fellow Protesters.
www.youtube.com/embed/zH9D8dQleVw

Antifa attacks a random vehicle with clubs; Driver speeds away
www.youtube.com/embed/sMvWq5XJ2yY

"Milo is working with Holocaust Denier DAVID HOROWITZ"
www.youtube.com/embed/mNGtI3Ezdvo

hahahahahah, you mean Radical Son, Former Red Diaper Baby and Black Panther Employee David Horowitz of Front Page Mag? LOL

A Holocaust Denier?! What a fucking dumbass. This is worse when they attacked Robert Spencer, mistaking the Jihadwatch guy for Richard Spencer of the Alt Right.

T L Lipsovich says

I'm confused.

"I was just trying to improve her krauty pout horse face. Plastic surgery is a waste of money!"

APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says

The PRECENTIALL FACIAL! wins for diplomacy and insouciance!

Trumpligula should love the Queen, since she wears swastika underwear.

Look at those "problem glasses" on the chick in red.

Poisonous animals often have tell-tales. In this case, it's glasses. It's usually hair color.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism

Political Violence is normal when the President and his Followers are Fascist White Supremacists.

Whose side are you on, Liberals?! You're for us or against us!

T L Lipsovich says

Look at those "problem glasses" on the chick in red.

Might as well just have "Permanent PMSing" tattooed to her forehead.

The hammer and sickle is a communist symbol. I don't like them either - they have a very disturbing authoritarian record and trained Vladimir before he "became" Christian. However, most of the protesters were anarchists so it would be inaccurate to portray the resistance as a bunch of communists running around.

The Russians are going to bukake Trump until he looks like a statue of Lenin.

share!

The problem in Berkeley comes down to this: way too much free time for young people who don't have to work for a living.

There's nothing in those videos that is worth getting particularly worked up about. Some slightly hot under the collar students who look like they wouldn't say boo to a goose. I'm sure some bad things happened there, but those 2 videos are hardly damning stuff.
I see ten times worse going down to the pub on a Friday night in England.

Rashomon says

I see ten times worse going down to the pub on a Friday night in England.

Except this is political violence, not a bunch of guys picking a fight for fun.

Should we normalize political violence?

T L Lipsovich says

Except this is political violence, not a bunch of guys picking a fight for fun.

Should we normalize political violence?

No. Should those 2 videos be made out to be more than they actually are? No.

Rashomon says

I see ten times worse going down to the pub on a Friday night in England.

I had lived most of my life in the South.
California is nothing compared to some of the fights I saw when a bunch of Drunk Redneck White Trash
get pissed. Family members,brothers,cousins,fathers & sons draw blood.
Conservatives keeping it in the family.
ENTERTAINING!

SKEET all over his face.
Should have swallowed.

We FILTH MOUTHS should be banned!
One of us doesn't give a F_ _ K.

I've never voted for a republican president. Today's left is quickly making me support Trump 2020

Rashomon says

look at what happened at Trump rallies,

The violence at Trump rallies as well as all the political violence in this cycle, has been committed by today's left. People like you are turning people like me into Trump supporters.

big·ot·ry
ˈbiɡətrē/
noun
intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

You fucking nazis

CBOEtrader says

The violence at Trump rallies as well as all the political violence in this cycle, has been committed by today's left. People like you are turning people like me into Trump supporters.

Using that (low) level of reasoning, presumably I could then say that Milo and his supporters were the cause of the violence at Berkeley (and before you respond, please take note that (unlike you presumably) I don't think that).

The problem in Berkeley comes down to...

Liberal White Privilege.

The only good Republican is a bankrupt Republican.
BOYCOTT ALL Republicans!

Once that guy turns 30 he‘ll marry blondie and move into his rich little suburb, take the six figure job in daddy's company, and put his two daughters in the very liberal and progressive, yet strangely all-white, grade schools.

All that radical minority stuff will be sooooo 2017!

What's with these red and black flags?

FP says

What's with these red and black flags?

Anarchism. Durrutti would have beat these kids senseless.

If only Goldman or Lenin were alive today to see this shit... Stalin would have an apolyptic fit: "FUCKING COSMOPOLITAN LEFT COMMUNIST RUBBISH. Beria, one bullet each!"

TL gets it!

Dan, did you go to FAU that you are so bitter about Berkeley? They (FAU) have a few smart cosmology guys on the faculty, but the students are crap.

Rashomon says

This is the age we live in. There's no nuance anymore. Little debate. Even less reasoned argument. It's simply people glued to their self-reinforcing go to internet sites of often ill-informed or totally biased information, and that's what they cleave to no matter what alternative information they are exposed to. This is how you end up with Trump. People aren't bothered about complex issues. They don't read widely. They want to be amused. They want bite-sized info, sound bites they can latch on to. We are walking off the edge of a cliff not because of branches of the liberal movement or the alt-right, but because people aren't informed and don't care to be - too many are happy to be led no matter what they're told as they simply aren't paying enough attention.

It's always been this way. It's the 1950-1995 era that was the exception, when you had general media consolidation and pretty broad agreement between the two parties on just about everything from the Cold War to Civil Rights. Before that it was extremely vicious, more vicious than today, and largely a battle between some areas of the country vs. others.

T L Lipsovich says

It's always been this way. It's the 1950-1995 era that was the exception, when you had general media consolidation and pretty broad agreement between the two parties on just about everything from the Cold War to Civil Rights. Before that it was extremely vicious, more vicious than today, and largely a battle between some areas of the country vs. others.

It hasn't always been this way. Look at what the papers were and are now. Look at the kind of programs on TV compared to what went before. Look at the amount of books being read. Look at the level of debates this time around and what went before. Look at how egotistical people have become. How fixated on things people are. How short attention spans are. How people are more and more sedated by technology - it hasn't opened minds, it's narrowed perspectives. And on and on it goes.

Rashomon says

It hasn't always been this way. Look at what the papers were and are now. Look at the kind of programs on TV compared to what went before. Look at the amount of books being read. Look at the level of debates this time around and what went before. Look at how egotistical people have become. How fixated on things people are. How short attention spans are. How people are more and more sedated by technology - it hasn't opened minds, it's narrowed perspectives. And on and on it goes.

It hasn't been this way during most of your lifetime. It was this way before WW2, maybe before the New Deal.

You see any actual Communist dailies, run by actual adults and not pink haired kids and a couple of super-scruffy English Lit professors? Socialist Ones? Ultranationalist ones?

The Corporate News (including PBS and NPR) have a globalist capitalist free market, no borders (except for Pharma imports and knock-offs of famous brands like Disney) mindset. Formerly they were modern liberal, but now they are not. They're losing their monopoly on the public mind and getting all upset about it. So the Legacy Media are making doomsday predictions on what will happen if we cut them out as the Middleman.

Let 1000 flowers bloom. Smash the dominant paradigm. Question Authority.

This is the same shit that happened before: Many of the people in the "Free speech fights" became Authoritarian Social Justice Warriors when they realized their ideas weren't being adopted readily.

Rashomon says

Look at what the papers were and are now

See Jackson vs. Adams. Douglas vs. Lincoln. Garfield vs. Blaine.

Goddamn Rum, Romanism, and Revolution, those Fenian Raiding Irish sons of bitches in service to the anti-Christ in Rome!!!

T L Lipsovich says

It hasn't been this way during most of your lifetime. It was this way before WW2, maybe before the New Deal.

You see any actual Communist dailies, run by actual adults and not pink haired kids and a couple of super-scruffy English Lit professors? Socialist Ones? Ultranationalist ones?

Yeah sure, you can pick different countries or go back some random distant time. I think it's pretty obvious what the changes are that I'm referring to. This is recent history - the substantial changes that have occurred in say just the last quarter of a century, for example.

T L Lipsovich says

They're losing their monopoly on the public mind and getting all upset about it. So the Legacy Media are making doomsday predictions on what will happen if we cut them out as the Middleman.

Replaced by shouty opinion or copy and (almost) pasted (and then slanted) articles rather than well-funded journalism most likely, seeing as it has already been happening for some time. The decline of major newspapers isn't a good thing when all they are replaced by are the sort of 'news' websites we see today whether they be Breitbart, Huffington Post or whatever else takes your fancy.

Rashomon says

Replaced by shouty opinion rather than well-funded journalism most likely.

Maybe, but with a thimbleful of effort you can get opinions from among a huge range of biases + the international press.

In the old days you had to go to a major city or university library and spend all day hunting down microfiche records to find alternative opinions.

Rashomon says

Yeah sure, you can pick different countries or go back some random distant time. I think it's pretty obvious what the changes are that I'm referring to. This is recent history - the substantial changes that have occurred in say just the last quarter of a century, for example.

The US has had two full centuries. The 19th and the 20th. The entire 19th and most of the 20th was vociferous, snarling competing multiple daily newspapers - often 3 major dailies in even a small city like Binghampton or Pittsburgh - with their own narratives.

The Consolidated, Multinational Corporate Oligarchical Media Empires of today did not exist.

It's a lot like Free Trade - a policy or situation is made out to be traditional and normal, when it's the exception to the rule. Normal and Traditional, from the 18th to late-mid 20th Century, is a largely across the board 20-35% Tariff on most foreign manufactures, sometimes even books and journals..