There are lies, damned lies and there are statistics

Yes

https://www.reddit.com/r/savedyouaclick/comments/5ud3vh/you_wont_believe_which_world_leader_watches_the/

Anyone want to put on the foil hats?

@DanConway where did you find that crazy shit?

Put on the hat

you took the tin pill?

kek

oh my lawd, reading https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol10/4800/2017/en/ is like reading the news articles that sargon reads during TWIS

"Amnesty International Report 2016/17: The state of the world's human rights"

it has a dedicated section per country, I'd be interested to hear what people have to say in reaction to their own

here's their paragraph about "Violence against women and girls" in Norway
"Rape and other sexual violence against
women and girls remains endemic. The legal
definition of rape in the Penal Code was not
consent-based. Serious concerns remained
about attrition rates in rape investigations and
prosecutions, and in the lack of gender
sensitivity among lay judges in hearing rape
cases. There was systemic failure to ensure
women’s rights to legal protection and
equality before the law. The number of rapes
reported to police increased by 12% from
2014 to 2015, according to police statistics
published in May."

here's that same paragraph for Sweden, now the rape-capital of the world:
"In October, the 2014 Sexual Offences
Committee inquiry into sexual offences
presented its proposals to the government.
They included the introduction of a consent-
347based definition of rape, and liability for
negligence for sexual offences."

wow

talk about "systemic failure", these fuckwads are part of the system that is failing

fucking christ, when is norway going to remove swede

Lol

Of course

https://np.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/7kp9i4/im_a_starving_venezuelan_ama/

Looks like the Little Man with the Big Eraser has been visiting that AMA

so here we go, another site ruined by sjw history https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/amazing-nazis-killed-her-husband-she-bought-drove-a-t34-then-went-on-a-rampage-m.html

I wonder how the fuck she "bought" a tank

hint: she couldn't

"Mariya Vasilyevna was born on August 16, 1905, in Crimea as one of ten children. Coming from a family of dirt poor peasants, she was a serf"

but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom_in_Russia

"Russian serfdom was finally abolished in the emancipation reform of 1861"

Because the article is completely made up

btw if anyone wants to invade germany, there's a window of opportunity now it seems https://warisboring.com/every-german-submarine-is-out-of-action/

"Low readiness rates afflict other branches of the Germany military as well. For example, Germany is currently expanding and upgrading its fleet of Leopard 2 tanks. However, according to NTV, out of 244 Leopard 2 tanks already in service, only 96 are combat-ready, ..."

"Of 14 new A400M transport planes, sometimes none are in operational condition."

quick, someone call erdogan

Meanwhile, over 70 years prior in peak wartime

https://i.imgur.com/Tn56xgr.png

^Panther Tanks in a single regiment, 1943

This is a bit misleading

Parts do not become priority unless getting the tank back up on readiness. There is an incentive to place gear in non operational status to get parts that would take longer to get of it was not priority

`Net neutrality repeal: everyone is dead.
Cutting taxes: everyone is dead.
Cutting foreign aid: everyone is dead.

Democrats should support those policies because we all know that dead people always vote Democratic`

"My prediction, which I hate and which I'm sorry for, is that the #MeToo backlash will be far more powerful than the #MeToo movement. And that's because the backlash from all these other movements was more powerful than the original. And I'd say that social media driven by the so-called advertising media is fundamentally incapable of doing anything positive for society as it stands. "

https://amp.businessinsider.com/jaron-lanier-interview-on-silicon-valley-culture-metoo-backlash-ai-and-the-future-2017-12

Not sure Microsoft is an improvement.

AFAIK they didn't get rid of the backstabbing culture implemented by Ballmer.

yeah the mid level management in MS is horrendous

but I mostly wanted to highlight the quip "And I'd say that social media driven by the so-called advertising media is fundamentally incapable of doing anything positive for society as it stands. "

I guess he's in a cozy enough job he is immune to it.

I think the most interesting part is:
>Sergey [Brin] told me, “We don’t want people writing all of these controversial essays,” because I’ve been writing tech criticism for a long time. I’ve been worried about tech turning us into evil zombies for a long time, and Sergey said, “Well, Google people can’t be doing that.” And I was like, really?

indeed, I forgot about that part

it's interesting also because during the james damore "scandal", there was someone that asserted that sergey hated the SJW culture but felt powerless to stop it without destroying his company

and this does not really support that claim

Hi guys I am part of the skeptic community

I am so skeptical that I say we need more government control

These slimy corporations are the problem and the only fix is too have more government power

Please join us as we fight the corporations

That are the real problem

aw, and just when I was cheering for the apparent imminent dismantling of the EU project

almost literally, after reading https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/12/eu-launches-disciplinary-proceedings-against-poland/ and more than I care to admit of http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/just/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=49108

lol

so I guess I won't be joining @ethan

destroy eu when?

I mean, I understand that I am a fool, and that my mind is incapable of many things, but if the EU actually adopts the councils recommendation and starts literally sanctioning Poland, the only outcome I can think of is that both Poland and Hungary trigger article 40

50*

@folk they make it hard to leave then disapline them

and czechia and slovakia does it in solidarity

@Deleted User exactly

I don't understand what the scientist says

yeah

and also since I recently became an advocate for the dismantling of most of the UN, that's another reason I won't be joining someone who thinks we need more government control

I think the scientist is a troll

or atleast not being sincere

also he didn't provide any ways of "joining" him, whatever that means

that too

That's one thing CRP got right. The EU should be France + Germany, nobody else.

@folk we are the skeptics™ we are elightened. Do you know horseshoe theory™

that is why we are the best

we need to give the goverment more control to deeal with the corporations

@folk definitely a troll

lol

Still funny tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaYdi2lIWCI

kek

Nothing new, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkW2EocBvzs

i would vote for her

Same

same

BUT SHE'S A PUPPET FOR DA J00000000000000Z

lol

https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/944591068041015296

I love how half the replies to his tweet are socialists complaining that he doesn't do enough to make big daddy government look after them

and then calls *him* selfish

fucking cunts

Rand<:think_woke:378717098681171988>

@Legiondude Rand Paul has always been the Senate's greatest shitposter.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/812359825044672512

Rand paul is my favourite senator

There's another guy who does a pretty good job

name eludes me atm

Trey Gaudy?