Lying Liars

Diver

Chill Lying Liars

Isn’t it incredibly interesting on a sociological level that the transgender lobby as well as standard-issue liberals chose to present these two completely contradictory items as incontrovertible facts:

1) That there is no such thing as gender. It is completely constructed and is as nebulous and as insubstantial as the wind on Pluto.

2) That the pull of gender and identifying as the “right” gender is such an impossibly-strong imperative that it is worth harming children with puberty blockers, telling women that they should just deal with penises hanging out in their locker rooms, and that anyone who believes that a transgender woman is not exactly the same as a natural-born woman is worse than MechaHitler.

As I said above, those two contentions are 100% contradictory. They do not, cannot work in any unified manner. But for more than a decade we were supposed to accept both of these ideas inherently at war with one another without questioning them an iota.

And people are surprised there was a backlash.

Pot Dan

Chill Annoying, Lying Liars

Women are like, “You’d change your tune about attention if you faced potential danger and violence like women do on rejecting someone!”

Sister, I can assure you, absolutely fucking assure you, I’ve experienced more danger and violence than you have ever seen in your life. Unless you’ve been in combat or something consistently, I can 100% guarantee it. And I’d still — like most men — prefer not to be an invisible chair or a walking wallet.

Bullshit argument.

Putin Got Ya

Chill Evil, Lying Liars

The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine.

Anyone who believes this terrible article is a Putin propaganda victim. I’m sorry for you but it’s true. Russians are masters at propaganda as they spent so very long perfecting it.

And it works. These “peace talks” were to buy Russia time so they could regroup and invade again after Ukrainian defenses were down.

Russian intelligence (FSB) even said that themselves. Believe Putin why? Gawdamn y’all stupid.

Influence

Chill Evil, Lying Liars

I’m sad for my country. We have so much potential here; so much we could do. We’ve never met even a fraction of what we could be and could achieve, but we’re further away now than at any other point in recent history.

And the nation is effectively controlled by China and Russia at the moment. I knew Trump was corrupt and dishonorable but I had no idea the extent to which he and Musk would sell us all out for a bit of money and power. It is not an exaggeration to say that we’re now substantially a satellite state of those two countries.

What do you do exactly when your nation is in the hands of enemies?

Going Aus

Chill Annoying, Lying Liars

One of the reasons the liberals and left deservedly receive a lot of hate is that they play idiotic words and numbers games like this to “prove” how smart they are.

What a fucking assclown douchebag the guy who wrote that tardicle is. He is both falling for the “austerity” propaganda and the perfect vector for said propaganda. Here’s a clue-by-four, goofus: “austerity” was never intended to slash spending — it was always a program calculated very precisely to privatize the resources of the state, to enrich those seen as worthy with redirected government largesse and to enforce neoliberal values both in monetary and ideological terms.

Spending has nothing to do with this, other than it’s important to the neoliberal project that public funds intended for the common weal be redirected to “deserving” private ends and hands and away from public provision.

As someone in the comments points out, during this alleged time of absent austerity the NHS was gutted, uni was made vastly more expensive, and other important services were worsened greatly by diminished funding and by privatization. Which, of course, was the actual goal of austerity — and not any decrease in spending.

Are people born this stupid or does that transformation happen in college? Fuck.

Reckon

Chill Evil, Lying Liars

You just know there was going to come a terrible reckoning when the liberals started claiming crazy shit like that biological sex doesn’t exist, humans have more than two sexes genetically1, that bio men belong on women’s sports teams, and that it’s wonderful for a wild-eyed vagrant to have a little sexual assault, as a treat.

And now here we are. You idiots are just as responsible for Trump and his destruction as the Project 2025 people.

Own it. Of course, I know you will not. Fucking dumbasses.

  1. Yes, intersex people and other very rare conditions do happen. But it’s not common and is absolutely not the human “model.”

Off Lay

Chill Lying Liars

New RTO trick.

This is a lost cause. This company will lay him off within a few months of moving back. This fake RTO was designed to force him to quit so they did not have to do a formal layoff. He should cut his losses and look for another job ASAP.

Never trust employers and always have a large reserve of funds. Never put yourself in a precarious position like this. An employer will screw you over the very moment they think it will make them more money than not doing so.

Off Loss

Chill Annoying, Killin' It, Lying Liars

People like to talk about how it’s impossible to lose weight and always reach for some made-up number like only 1% who try to do so keep it off. The real number is between 20%-30% are successful. (Though that is still not great, admittedly.)

However, I lost a lot of weight and kept it off now for 15 years1. Seemed pretty easy, really. What’s so different about me?

Fat Acceptance bullshit is so clownish and harmful. And greatly contributes to the problem by accepting defeat preemptively.

  1. Though I regained some as muscle by working out a fucking lot.

Insalubrious

Chill Evil, Lying Liars

A lot of people here in the US like to pretend that there is anything at all normal about the US healthcare system. But I’ve lived in other countries and I also have friends in various places around the world. And I can assure you that we have the dishonor of having the worst in the developed world.

It’s two things that allow them to believe this absolute delusion of how amazing and flawless the US healthcare system is. The first is status quo bias and the second is that they identify with the wealthy, who mostly support the current system. Perversely, this is true even if they themselves are not wealthy and would get the usual subpar health care and denial after denial if anything happened to them.It’s true that some countries (usually ones in decline, like the UK and Canada) have long wait times for some exams and procedures. I’ve yet to see anyone explain to me how that was better than denial of coverage, ruinous medical bills and general thievin’ at every layer of the US healthcare system.

When I was in the UK some years ago (before they had started to go downhill so severely), I mentioned to a friend of mine while we were at a pub that my stomach hurt pretty badly. She said if it kept hurting that we could “Pop over to a clinic down the avenue.” And I, being an American, balked — because in the US, there’d be a 2-10 hour wait, it’d cost $5,000 and it’d be just a general nightmare where I’d probably be misdiagnosed anyway.

She laughed and said the wait would be like 10 minutes, it’d cost at most £30, and they were very competent. I told her more about how the US healthcare system worked and she was appalled, as are people in most normal countries are when they hear how it is here. She said it sounded like we “lived like savages.” Which, you know, we do.

I think nearly everyone who is not rich has known someone murdered by the US healthcare system. I know of at least three, and as I’ve said before I don’t know many people.

We have the worst health care system in the world by far of any rich country, yet people still defend it to the death. Which they’ll probably receive if they go to any US hospital and then get denied coverage.

Sort by Likelihood

Chill Annoying, Lying Liars

These people are fucking delusional and are still claiming the near-certainty that phones serve ads based on overheard conversations is a conspiracy theory:

I’ve told it before but I’ll relate it again. I was hanging out with a friend in a hotel room. Neither one of us had used our phones to search for barbecue grills. Ever. She has no interest in barbecue grills and doesn’t own one. I at that time did not own one and had not for a while.

So we were joking around about barbecue grills for some reason. It was all of a 20-30 second bit of a longer conversation. After we were done talking, she got on her phone to look at something and said, “That’s odd. I just got an ad for a barbecue grill. I’ve never gotten an ad for that before and we were just talking about it.” She went to a few other sites and also got some ads for grills. I confirmed with her after that she’d never searched for barbecue grills, didn’t own one, and had never had one as an adult and that no one in her household did or was likely to have searched for one.

Now, what’s more likely — that her phone was listening to her, or that a random ad for barbecue grills (that, again, she had never seen before) just happened to pop up 2-3 minutes after we’d discussed it?

Hmm, I wonder.

People just accept the corporate line without even a single fucking thought in their heads, don’t they?

Siege

Chill Clowns, Lying Liars, WTF

Especiallly since it was those poor, besiegned GoF researchers who almost certainly caused Covid. Insanity.