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April LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of April?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

3 4.84%

John Kelly

13 20.97%

Jared Kushner

1 1.61%

Ty Cobb

6 9.68%

Ben Carson

4 6.45%

Ryan Zinke

1 1.61%

Scott Pruitt

18 29.03%

Kellyanne Conway

7 11.29%

Rod Rosenstein

6 9.68%

Write-in

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04-26-2018 , 03:29 PM

#1276

dth123451

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Cosby judge: "I'm not just going to lock him up."

Uhhhhhhh he just got convicted of rape!?!

America has to be the only place where you get to walk out of court after being convicted of rape*

*if and only if you aren't poor

04-26-2018 , 03:31 PM

#1277

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

It depends on what you want to do with martial arts. Krav Maga is explicitly not for competition. You're often learning how to defend yourself from people attacking you with weapons. You aren't going to pull off an amazing anaconda choke or armbar in that situation. You're going to resort to whatever move is going to remove you from that situation regardless of ethical implications. You don't want to be on the ground in those spots even if you're on top because you're still left open from a person jumping into the situation and attacking you unexpectedly.

04-26-2018 , 03:31 PM

#1278

eyebooger

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 58,684

Quote:

Originally Posted by dth123451

Cosby judge: "I'm not just going to lock him up."

Uhhhhhhh he just got convicted of rape!?!

Yeah wtf is that about?

04-26-2018 , 03:32 PM

#1279

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

Quote:

Originally Posted by campfirewest

When does Kanye get his cabinet post?

Just as soon as they find a second cabinet post with the word "urban" in it

Or perhaps "one of the good ones"

04-26-2018 , 03:40 PM

#1280

fatboy8

journeyman

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 341

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

I'm way too drunk to process everything that's going on here, but I think Ben is confusing Kanye with Cypress Hill's B-Real?

Can't tell if that's supposed to be a police motorcycle or a police car. Ben really got lazy by not labeling it.

04-26-2018 , 04:49 PM

#1281

2/325Falcon

Conehead

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 21,907

Krav Maga black belts aren’t dominating the UFC because they are just TOO DANGEROUS imo.

04-26-2018 , 04:58 PM

#1282

simplicitus

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

He also does the first deep dive I've ever seen on what "police training" actually entails, since you always see people respond to shootings like this with "we need better training" as a broad, meaningless platitude (spoiler: good luck getting 17,000 local police departments in America to agree on how to train their officers).

From what I can tell standard police training is, "If you suspect there's any possible threat, kill it." And if there wasn't really a threat, then lie about it. It's a huge issue and there are literally people making good money who do nothing but "train" police that safety (i.e., eliminating any perceived threat) comes first. Excessive paranoia is literally taught.

For comparison, here's how the cop in Toronto handled the incel psycho.

https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/...27850939736064

04-26-2018 , 05:06 PM

#1283

Trolly McTrollson

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Sumo's great for self defense imo. Partially because you have to move to a country with hardly any gun crime in order to practice it.

04-26-2018 , 05:12 PM

#1284

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

I really recommend watching the first episode of Problem Areas for more detail, but to summarize - it varies a lot. There's ~no requirements or credentials in order to provide training to police forces, and Cenac focused in particular on this one guy who's a ****ing psycho and talks about policing being a "warrior mindset", about being on the front lines of a war, and showed a clip of his seminar saying that the night you go home after killing someone and heroically saving your own life you'll have the best sex you've ever had. It's ****ing ghoulish. And the money shot: Jeronimo Yanez (the officer who shot Philando Castile) took that guy's course.

04-26-2018 , 05:51 PM

#1285

simplicitus

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Interesting article about how they caught the [accused] Bay Area Rapist.http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article209913514.html

Be careful about relatives putting their DNA online.

Quote:

Sacramento investigators tracked down East Area Rapist suspect Joseph James DeAngelo using genealogical websites that contained genetic information from a relative, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office confirmed Thursday.

The effort was part of a painstaking process that began by using DNA from one of the crime scenes from years ago and comparing it to genetic profiles available online through various websites that cater to individuals wanting to know more about their family backgrounds by accepting DNA samples from them, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Grippi.

04-26-2018 , 05:55 PM

#1286

Huehuecoyotl

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We’re the Good Guys, Right?

On the Marvel movies

Quote:

“It’s really great to know that they’re out there, watching over us,” a civilian gushes in the first Avengers film. It’s a rare moment, because a thing that is striking about the films is how rarely ordinary people speak. They scream, cower, and flee, but rarely do they have anything useful to say. They’re there to be protected, perhaps occasionally to gape in admiration at the Avengers.

Whenever they form a government, though, it proves feckless or worse. The “World Security Council,” a thinly veiled version of the UN’s Security Council, is so unprepared for an alien invasion that throws up its hands and fires a nuclear missile at Manhattan (whereas the Avengers defeat the aliens and save New York). The most prominent elected politician in the Marvel films is Senator Stern, played with oily perfection by the late Garry Shandling. Stern tries to get Tony Stark to relinquish his suit, which seems a reasonable request. Yet Stern is quickly undermined, first by the revelation that he’s corrupt, then by the revelation that he’s a deep-state HYDRA agent hoping to kill millions and bring about a New World Order. In this, he’s in good company. Half the public officials in the Marvel films are secretly working for HYDRA. The Avengers dislike HYDRA, but not out of any sympathy for public governance. “I don’t care about the liberal agenda anymore,” declares Tony Stark. “It’s boring.”

There are societies that function in the Marvel Universe, but they aren’t liberal democracies. They’re Wakanda and Asgard, dynastic monarchies run by Black Panther’s family and Thor’s, respectively. Despite the progressive racial politics of Black Panther, it is ultimately a movie about a king who fights off another male heir to the throne. Howard University historian Daryl Scott has described Wakanda as a “conservative utopia,” a strong state protected by a charismatic aristocrat. The same could be said of Asgard. Thor initially mumbles something about refusing the throne, but at the end of the third film, he takes it.

04-26-2018 , 07:02 PM

#1287

simplicitus

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In the absence of material oppression of any kind, one wonders what motivates conservatives to cant toward martyrdom — to seek, perpetually, a marginalization that cannot be measured. Recent research suggests that the Trump-era right suffers from “status anxiety”: to wit, a fear not of losing their ability to speak, but rather that their speech will become part of a chorus of equals. In expressing a groundless fear of being silenced, they reveal their true fear — that of no longer being in a position to dominate the national conversation.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/04...flake-problem/

04-26-2018 , 07:09 PM

#1288

2/325Falcon

Conehead

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 21,907

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Sumo's great for self defense imo. Partially because you have to move to a country with hardly any gun crime in order to practice it.

Hundred hand slap also a very powerful technique imo.

04-26-2018 , 07:19 PM

#1289

Huehuecoyotl

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicitus

https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/04...flake-problem/

That a good read.

04-26-2018 , 08:04 PM

#1290

lycosid

veteran

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,806

Quote:

Originally Posted by campfirewest

When does Kanye get his cabinet post?

HUD should be open soon enough.

04-26-2018 , 09:03 PM

#1291

Trolly McTrollson

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon

Hundred hand slap also a very powerful technique imo.

I was basically unstoppable with E. Honda back in the day.

04-26-2018 , 10:43 PM

#1292

+rep_lol

banned

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 14,900

the first time i ate mushrooms, i defeated street fighter II for SNES with every character on the hardest difficulty setting, usually without losing a single round. it was like i could see every move coming, never experienced anything like it before

04-26-2018 , 10:55 PM

#1293

zikzak

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That seems like a waste of good mushrooms.

04-26-2018 , 10:58 PM

#1294

AllTheCheese

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

That seems like the best possible use of mushrooms and an incredible achievement.

FYP

04-26-2018 , 10:58 PM

#1295

+rep_lol

banned

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 14,900

i was 15, home alone, and didn't know what to do with them

i regret nothing

04-26-2018 , 11:08 PM

#1296

zikzak

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tbh I can't really say I ever did anything better on hallucinogens.

04-26-2018 , 11:17 PM

#1297

microbet

Solar Powered

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 56,515

The one thing you should experiment with on every experimental drug is sex. MDMA is super awesome when in love and bittersweet when not. LSD was pretty bizarre in a good way. I took mushrooms twice and no sex. Once I was too drunk to know what it was like and the other time it didn't seem like anything much happened at all.

04-26-2018 , 11:23 PM

#1298

zikzak

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I imagine sex on ketamine just means lying near each other, and maybe drooling in the other person's vague direction.

04-26-2018 , 11:29 PM

#1299

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2/325Falcon

Krav Maga black belts aren’t dominating the UFC because they are just TOO DANGEROUS imo.

Also a lot of the technique in Krav Maga involves groin strikes, eye gouges and the like. That type of stuff wouldn't fly in a competition because KM is not intended to be used in sports.