Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The words do not have to be perfect.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Let there be snark.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

This fight is for everything.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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The Internet Is Safe!

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In the much-needed good news category, the Federal Communications Commission voted this week to classify broadband Internet as a public utility, a big win for net neutrality. This means that no content is blocked and the Internet isn’t separated into pay-to-play fast lanes for Internet and media companies that are bigger and slow lanes for small companies that talk about racism, like, well, TWIB:

Tom Wheeler, the commission chairman, said the F.C.C. was using “all the tools in our toolbox to protect innovators and consumers” and preserve the Internet’s role as a “core of free expression and democratic principles.”

Thank god, our fast access to GIFs is safe, am I right?

Team Blackness also discussed a man who tried to pay his bar bill for a rock, the unveiling of diverse emojis, and even more talk on white privilege and dealing with racial issues.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Thank god, our fast access to GIFs is safe, am I right?

    Our ability to doublepost without incurring extra charges has been maintained.

  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Don’t be so sure it’s safe

    The vile monopolist filth that are AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are all planning on fighting this in the courts.

  4. 4.

    Bobby B.

    THE CORPORATION SHALL PREVAIL YE FOOLES. Comcast paid good money for their thralls and will not see their money wasted.

  6. 6.

    boatboy_srq

    @Villago Delenda Est: One more argument for treating Internet access as a utility: in the modern marketplace, if (following the Libertarian model) you don’t like what the purveyor of the service is doing, what are you going to do? Unplug?

    You’d think that every single enterprise that depends on digital sales/delivery would be onboard with net neutrality in a CPU cycle.

  9. 9.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @boatboy_srq: One would think, but the problem is that they do not think any of this shit through. They’re all obsessed with short term gain.

  11. 11.

    boatboy_srq

    @Villago Delenda Est: Apple’s had enough bad harvests that keeping the nestegg makes sense for them (anyone remember the IIsi/Quadra700 days, for example?). Still, the product name has a nice ring to it.

  12. 12.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    Relevant articles:

    Republicans in Congress already trying to overturn FCC’s latest votes

    Bring on the lawsuits—FCC chairman says net neutrality will survive

    FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II

    Net neutrality is “safe”, at least for the moment.

    The Internet, however…

    Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections

    EFF unearths evidence of possible Superfish-style attacks in the wild

    Lenovo promises to cut the crapware in the wake of Superfish debacle

  13. 13.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    Thank you Aaron Freeman for pointing out the fussy child element of Nicole Sanders. That was the first thing I thought of the other day. All the whining by PA defenders of “But she meant well, why she should anyone speak up about anything if you’re just gonna criticize them” sounded just like a bratty 5 year old who’s upset that their parents would point out that they appreciated them cleaning their room but they actually did a couple things wrong/poorly.

  14. 14.

    KG

    @boatboy_srq: depending on where you’re at, you have some “options”. I can “choose” between my local cable provider (Cox), Verizon, and possibly AT&T for Internet services (which they always want to bundle with tv and phone services, neither of which I want because I have satellite and a cellphone). Of course, it not much of a choice since they all end up using the same lines, provide the same speeds and at the same prices…

    And of course, there’s the argument that you need Internet access in this day and age. Looking for a job? Good luck checking the want ads in a paper when everyone else applied yesterday, especially if you’re mailing your resume, they might get it after they hired someone. Trying to find a number for take out? Good luck figuring out what’s on the menu if you do. It’s really kind of insane when you think about it

  15. 15.

    Roger Moore

    @boatboy_srq:
    It makes sense for Apple to keep a lot of money if you’re thinking about it from the standpoint of an Apple CEO or other employee, since they’ll be able to keep their jobs for longer if/when the company’s cash cows dry up, but it’s not obvious that shareholders do well that way. The shareholders might be better off getting a big dividend and using it to diversify their portfolios. That’s not to say that Apple should distribute all of its cash holdings- it should have some cash on hand to spend on acquisitions and investments in future technologies- but the pile they’re sitting on now is way bigger than they really need.

  16. 16.

    Belafon

    @boatboy_srq:

    You’d think that every single enterprise that depends on digital sales/delivery would be onboard with net neutrality in a CPU cycle.

    That’s true, but most of them can’t send lobbyists to DC with the checkbook open.

  18. 18.

    Roger Moore

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    Most companies don’t keep nearly as much cash on hand as Apple does, even relative to their size. Apple has almost $180 billion in cash and securities, which is an absurd amount to keep on hand. It doesn’t serve much of a business purpose and looks a lot more like they’re waiting for a tax holiday to bring it onshore than that they’re keeping it for some more legitimate purpose.

  19. 19.

    Ruckus

    @Roger Moore:
    Didn’t we just have a tax holiday not that long ago?

    I’d bet they keep cash because it makes a lot of sense today if you don’t want to invest in other corps that have holdings that you don’t like, like maybe competitors or possible competitors. Why sweeten the pot for someone else? IOW isn’t it akin to keeping you money under the mattress?

  20. 20.

    Mandalay

    So far Rahm Emanuel doesn’t seem to be getting any heat for his evasiveness and silence on this issue…

    The US Department of Justice and embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel are under mounting pressure to investigate allegations of what one politician called “CIA or Gestapo tactics” at a secretive Chicago police facility exposed by the Guardian.

    Politicians and civil-rights groups across the US expressed shock upon hearing descriptions of off-the-books interrogation at Homan Square, the Chicago warehouse that multiple lawyers and one shackled-up protester likened to a US counter-terrorist black site in a Guardian investigation published this week.

    As three more people came forward detailing their stories of being “held hostage” and “strapped” inside Homan Square without access to an attorney or an official public record of their detention by Chicago police, officials and activists said the allegations merited further inquiry and risked aggravating wounds over community policing and race that have reached as high as the White House.

    Caught in the swirl of questions around the complex – still active on Wednesday – was Emanuel, the former chief of staff to Barack Obama who is suddenly facing a mayoral runoff election after failing to win a majority in a contest that has seen debate over police tactics take a central role.

    Emanuel’s office refused multiple requests for comment from the Guardian on Wednesday, referring a reporter to an unspecific denial from the Chicago police.

    If ever an issue called some leadership, this is it. Step up and tell us what’s going on Emanuel, you vile fucker!

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