The Kalwejt Foundation for the Promotion of Atlas Hilarity

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yes, I watch sports and was a Cubs and Cavs and Packers fan. However, since moving to the Sunbelt like CA, I am a Raiders, Dubs and Dodgers fan.

I hate to have to explain a joke, but there are just so many levels here this is some peak content.

>Changing allegiances
>San Francisco=Sunbelt
>Switching the favourite NBA team between the only two legitimate NBA teams that actually exist
>The Raiders will not even play in California in one year, and that was selected as the new favourite team with this knowledge despite three other options existing

I'm probably missing some more jokes in this because this is just so well written it blows my mind.

Also, somebody in San Francisco picking the Dodgers over the Giants.

That's unforgivable (Giants fan living in LA, normal).

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=266257

[Antonio the Sixth]

Context:

It tends to be hot and humid in DC this time of year, but she's probably in a building with air conditioning right now, so probably not too hot.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Dear Mr Allah,

I am writing to inform you that upon examining your religion, I have sadly concluded that many facets remain unworkable to fit around my personal life. Please gracefully accept these humble suggestions to change the religion a bit:

1) update the hajj calander so that one can fix a festival schedule around it. Plus, have you considered a tie-in with Ingress? Think about it.

2) please clarify that under the rules of hijab, women are not obligated to cover - nay, encouraged to reveal - their feet? (I agree that it must be haram for men to cover their feet)

3) why were the Catholics allowed to stay in Iberia?

Yours sincerely
BRTD

[Antonio the Sixth]

Tough call. He's a conservative so absolutely but he's also a colourful people which means definitionally it is impossible for him to be racist because he lacks the mystical privilege power required to transmute racial discrimination into racism. So im going to say no, but with the added caveat that its ok to call him racial slurs like "uncle tom" because he forfeited his blackness by having his own opinion. We need diversity of colours not diversity of thought.

I'll admit this made me chuckle.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I always use ze/zim/zer/zis/zer/zers pronoun for Zr. BRTD. I'm glad to know know I don't have to do that for zer anymore.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Better without context:

^Now I'm imagining an invasion of German lesbians in the Deep South.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I know that Dave Leip doesn't allow posters to change their usernames, but I feel like he needs to make an exception for the poor soul who decided to name his account "ossoff2028".

[Antonio the Sixth]

Norway's, of course!  It contains all flags.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Take the squabbling elsewhere or I'll lock the thread.

[Antonio the Sixth]

(and it is impossible to not be the one that your chromosomes say you are)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Anyone wanna tell me how to change my Username RIP

Well, that is unfortunate.

[Antonio the Sixth]

So what is "AWHS"?  Atlas Women's High School?

That would be the smallest High School in the world.

Yes, and it would be majority trans.

By my count I think it’s actually 4-2 cis-trans balanced. I might be forgetting some people though.

We don't even have a mandate anymore. My God, what has this site become?

The People’s Republic of Cisylvania

[Antonio the Sixth]

The Trump convention also includes insults. Edited a few.

You know what, screw it, if we're doing that, we don't even need to specify states.

"Creepy Al"
"Amy"
"Angus"
"Swampy Ben"
"Cuck Ben"
"Crazy Bernie"
"Bob"
"Lightweight Bob"
"Cartel Bob"
"Healthcare Bill"
"Astro Boy Bill"
"Brian"
"Crooked Catherine"
"Baldy Chris"
"Baby Chris"
"German Chris"
"Chuck Weed"
"Cuck Chuck"
"Claire"
"Corporate Cory"
"Good Cory"
"Dan"
"David"
"Rural Deb"
"Urban Debbie"
"Dean"
"Dianne"
"Dick, the other Chuck"
"Ed"
"Gary"
"Heidi the Good Woman"
"Crooked Jack"
"Awkward James"
"Jeanne"
"Flakey Jeff"
"Crazy Jeff"
"Jerry"
"Gay-Killer Jim"
"Cowboy Jim"
"Fat Joe"
"Thin Joe"
"Four-eyes Johnny"
"Ratface John"
"John Booze"
"John, the other Mitch"
"Mario John"
"Frog John"
"Traitor John"
"Skinny John"
"Fat Jon"
"Joni"
"Kamala"
"Crooked Kirsten"
"Lamar"
"RINO Lindsey"
"Lisa"
"Pocahontas Liz"
"Big Luther"
"Little Marco"
"Maggie"
"Mark"
"Martin"
"Mazie"
"Bad Michael"
"Mike Crap"
"Senile Mike"
"Forehead Mike"
"StateFarm Mike"
"Mitch"
"Orrin"
"Bald Pat"
"The other Bald Pat"
"Pat who won because of me"
"Psycho Patty"
"Rand"
"Richard"
"Richard who's pretending to investigate me"
"Hick Richard"
"Gay Rob"
"Roger"
"Money Ron"
"Won who talkth with a lithp"
"Roy"
"Sheldon not in the White House"
"Coal Shelley"
"Sherrod"
"Steve"
"Susan"
"Gay Tammy"
"China Tammy"
"Lyin' Ted"
"Thad"
"Tom who spelled his name wrong"
"Corrupt Kaine"
"Black Tim"
"Todd"
"Tom who needs a dentist"
"Tom the Deporter"
"Pinkface Tom"

[Antonio the Sixth]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha wow

[Antonio the Sixth]

How my friends from ex-Warsaw Pact countries describe life under communism:



How my friends from Yugoslavia describe life under communism



So either they're totally brainwashed, lived very privileged lives, or things were at least somewhat better there.

(it is factually true, but that doesn't make it less funny)

[Antonio the Sixth]

I’m married with a desk job and a house, interpret that as you will

A polygamous marriage with a concept and an object, that's pretty liberal.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I think we now know the definitive truth.



Greedo shot first...










but he shot himself.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The ratings are inspired by the presidential election results.

Two man race, me vs. the opponent, if I win, that means I would rather say it's good than bad, if I lose, that means I would rather say it's bad than good.

For example, if I lose by 14 points, the month was bad as much as New Jersey is a Democratic state.

January 2018 - 36.60% (26.80% margin of loss)
February 2018 - 36.32% (27.36% margin of loss)
March 2018 - 31.95% (36.10% margin of loss)
April 2018 - 32.48% (35.04% margin of loss)
May 2018 - 31.03% (37.93% margin of loss)
June 2018 - 30.56% (38.88% margin of loss)
July 2018 - 44.24% (11.52% margin of loss)
August 2018 - 30.30% (39.40% margin of loss)
September 2018 - 39.61% (20.78% margin of loss)
October 2018 - 42.48% (15.05% margin of loss)
November 2018 - 40.77% (18.46% margin of loss)
December 2018 - 45.14% (9.72% margin of loss)
January 2019 - 48.58% (2.85% margin of loss)
February 2019 - 47.30% (5.41% margin of loss)
March 2019 - (current) 44.62% (current 10.76% margin of loss)

Maybe if there was a few bad days, maybe that's something to get over, but the average day for me is ABYSMAL as you can see above.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Alright, this megathread is live.

Title is subject to change (ideally I'd like to have a page number giving the most recent big story) but given there's some precedent for leeway with titles of megathreads, I'll leave it as is for now.

What does "Think of the billionaires" even mean?

I get the sense that it's supposed to be mocking people, like me and OSR, who think a wealth tax is unfair and outrageous because it would screw over billionaires by eliminating their wealth.

The implication is that, lol billionaires have it so good, so why am I wasting my time defending them?  Why am I upset that everyone else just wants to f**k them and steal tens of billions of dollars from them?

And going even further than "it doesn't matter if we f**k them, because they can take it" is a sentiment I've seen from some of the further-left posters on here, that "we SHOULD f**k them, for its own sake... because they deserve it."  At this point it's explicitly about revenge and completely disconnected from whatever good Warren claims she would do with the small amount of money a wealth tax would actually raise.

I'm not going to apologize for this, I think the justification given for the wealth tax is fundamentally immoral.  It's saying that you are going to take a group of people, an "other", and treat them totally unfairly, explicitly seek to harm them, ostensibly for marginal benefit (although the benefit isn't really the point), and the fact that they can deal with it makes it OK.


It's like saying, boy I hate WWE wrestlers, I'm going to make a crew to go beat them up with baseball bats and take their wallets.  It's OK because they're big tough guys so they can take the beating, and they're rich so they won't miss their wallets.  And don't worry, I'll give the money to starving orphans, so it's doing good.  Plus, wrestling sucks and they deserve it.

Oh lol John Cena said in an interview he thinks this policy is unfair?  Well of course he would say that, he's a WWE wrestler.  Let's make a website mocking him and call him a crybaby on Twitter!


I mean you could make this same argument about any out group!  Today it's billionaires, because turning people like Bill Gates into the hated enemy is Elizabeth Warren's MO.  Four years ago, it was immigrants who were the out group we were going to solve our problems by f**king.  In four years, who will it be?  I just hope it won't be Jews.

This is the root of Warren's appeal.  It's why I lost my respect for her.  She used to be an actual intellectual.  She was someone who had a reputation for digging into the nitty-gritty details of problems and figuring stuff out.  But as a presidential candidate, she's transformed into a rabid populist.  And all populism is based on an us-vs-them foundation.  To be a populist, you have to pick an out group, demonize them, blame them for all your problems, make policies targeting them, and claim only you have the real solution and everyone else is corrupt and bribed by the out group.  For Trump, it was immigrants.  For Warren, it's billionaires.

Nothing about this is clever or original.  It's a tired strategy that, to my neverending frustration, continues to work, even though history shows us time and time again that it's the road to disaster.

[Antonio the Sixth]

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[Antonio the Sixth]

Eccentric crank (affectionately meant). Brilliant and/but looks at the world sideways and upside down.

Really refreshing because it's hard to predict where he falls on things beforehand. That's not something you can say about many people.

When I offer a refreshing perspective all I get is ridicule and people blocking me to avoid challenging thoughts. What does averroes have that I don’t?