Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, it’s door #2)

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

White supremacy is terrorism.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Optimism opens the door to great things.

People are complicated. Love is not.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    Arguably not as stupid as planking or owling, both of which I think have gone to the great fad graveyard.

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    Baud

    This is what happens when you take away people’s guns. They start shooting things with their feet.

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    Jerzy Russian

    @dmsilev:

    Arguably not as stupid as planking or owling, both of which I think have gone to the great fad graveyard.

    I don’t know what any of this means. Get off my lawn!

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    dmsilev

    @Jerzy Russian: Wikipedia can help:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planking_(fad)

    The article lists the following variations:

    3.1 Hadoukening
    3.2 Vadering
    3.3 Teapotting
    3.4 Owling
    3.5 Horsemaning
    3.6 Batmanning
    3.7 Springing
    3.8 Football-related
    3.8.1 Tebowing
    3.8.2 Gronking
    3.8.3 Bradying
    3.8.4 Griffining
    3.8.5 Kaepernicking

    Just shoot me. With a leg, of course.

  10. 10.

    WereBear

    Teens mimicking each other with opaque rituals that have no meaning to outsiders.

    I think Socrates got in trouble over something like this.

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    MikeJake

    Is it possible that Ai Weiwei is just kind of a loveable jackass, but China is so stuffy that he really stands out? It cracks me up that he could scratch his balls in public and launch deep debate about free expression and the regime.

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    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    I like it.

    Ai Weiwei is an important voice in China and it’s good that he’s continuing to push for freedom of expression and the right to criticize.

    Here’s a direct link to his Instagram page.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    Mike in NC

    Pretty sure you can’t walk into a Walmart in China and buy an assault rifle, so this is the alternative.

  17. 17.

    RSA

    @dmsilev:

    Arguably not as stupid as planking or owling, both of which I think have gone to the great fad graveyard.

    I hope gang signs and duck lips are already there.

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    tom

    This will never catch on in the US because our kids can’t lift their fat legs that high.

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    Elizabelle

    Oh, a weapon.

    Was wondering if Chinese youth had developed a national foot fetish.

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    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    It’s based on something from an artist, so interpretation is always dicey. But since it’s Ai Weiwei that started it, I take it to be a commentary on who has real weapons in China and who has bodies that can be used to fight real weapons. People have more power than they realize.

    It’s commentary that can be taken as subversive, but it’s not overtly so, so how can the State stop it? It’s like replacing Chinese tanks with big rubber ducks. If the State cracks down on it, they look ridiculous. “The mighty Communist party is afraid of a rubber duck!!” If they don’t, people realize that there are many who have similar feelings and views that are outside of State control.

    That’s my take anyway.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  23. 23.

    John Revolta

    You can have my cold, dead feet when you pry them out of my……..no, wait.

    I’ll come in again.

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