Tuesday Links - 23 May

Gun Free Zone starts things rolling with You will not be allowed to call for help

The goal is to make people understand that when they are attacked by thugs from an oppressed group, they must not resist or call for help. They must submit and subjugate themselves. To resist or even call for help makes them more guilty of moral crimes. The black man may be stealing something, but resisting their stealing is racist.

Meep at Stump - Spending Dreams of Mayor Brandon Johnson and Waking to Reality

In which I discuss some of the fiscal plans for Chicago of the new mayor Brandon Johnson and some of his political friends… and the constraints they will labor under: a population that has already shrunk and a significant revenue target that has already threatened to up stakes and move out of Illinois entirely.

Tam at View from the Porch - Top. Men. Regarding Jack Teixeira.

So, basically this kid was caught multiple times and repeatedly told "Mr. Bunny Rabbit, those carrots aren't for you! Or the kids in your War Thunder Discord channel!"

I swear to Vishnu, this is the by-gawd dumbest Clancy novel I've ever been stuck in.

The Other McCain - Math Teacher Goes Berserk

In other words, this guy had been a known problem before he went berserk in the classroom.

Pirate's Cove - FBI Misused Surveillance Tool “Thousands” Of Times In Relation To J6, Others

Remember back during the Bush 43 years, when it was found that foreign surveillance picked up American citizens to a small degree, and the entire media freaked out? Was top news at all the Credentialed Media sites? Not now, and, it’s interesting to see where Credentialed Media outlets, like The Hill, are going with this

Again from The Other McCain - The Romance of Radicalism

Neo-Communists, generally influenced by older leftists who were objectively pro-Soviet during the Cold War, refuse to accept the verdict of 20th-century history, and wish to believe that Communism can exist without producing the kind of totalitarian horrors it produced in Russia, China, Cambodia and elsewhere.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 21 May 2023: Burning Trees Edition

Is the Internet of Things - what I call the Internet of Insecure Pieces of Crap - insufficiently broken? If so, surely the solution is to add ChatGPT. (Atomic14)

Yep. If it's not broken enough now, that will solve the problem.

The Other McCain again - NAACP: ‘Stay Out of Florida, Negroes’

As Karen Townsend of HotAir.com points out, the purpose of this bogus “travel advisory” has nothing to do with the safety of African-Americans — who are far more likely to get killed in Detroit or Baltimore than anywhere in the Sunshine State. Instead, this is about smearing DeSantis