PhilipTheBucket

Seriously. I have some politics that are more-or-less similar to some of his politics, so I was sort of predisposed to like him, but almost every video I have seen of him makes him look like such a massive childish cunt that I can't understand why he has a following. Just hearing his voice whenever he gets challenged or corrected on something is like hearing an angle grinder.

I’m guessing he did or you or the video would mention it

Why would you assume that? I have no idea. I would be fine trying to dig up the rest of the clip to see context, although I don't know if I would succeed. Given his reaction I would be pretty surprised if he fixed it.

This video doesn’t show anything like what you’ve described. All I could tell was that the dog yapped at one point and… that’s it…

You can literally see the shock collar box on her at 0:13 when she turns away to go back to the platform. He also claims that she "clipped herself", when he wasn't looking at her and would have no idea why she suddenly gave a big sharp yelp right at the same moment when he reached for something off screen.

If he was telling the truth, he would say "I have no idea why she made that noise, she's a big baby" or something. That is literally the only explanation that he would have that even could be truthful. The fact that he even has an explanation for what happened that made her yelp means he is lying.

People on Reddit have also slowed down and brightened the footage, and it's very clear that she didn't bump herself or anything on any object, that just suddenly out of nowhere she made this sudden yelping noise and also changed her mind about wanting to get off the little platform and go walk around.

You can draw your own conclusions of course but I am not sure why people could see this and come to any other conclusion.

I once saw a bodycam video where they went to a house where the home wifi had been used for sexual contact with a minor, and they asked the dad which of his sons might have done it, and without even hesitating he told them which son.

Like God damn dude. How big of a creep do you have to be to where your own father doesn't even have to take a second to come to grips with the question first...

If I ever turn into a supervillain, my shtick is going to be kidnapping people and then putting them in little Dante's Inferno scenarios like that.

• Hasan has to wear his dog's shock collar and sit in the corner, and someone else is streaming and explaining all the good things that USAID used to do around the world and the Armenian genocide, and if he says anything or gets out off his spot, he gets shocked.
• Dmitri Lavrov goes on an interview program, and every time he tries to say that use of physical military munitions against civilians is justified if Russia says it is, someone off camera shoots him with a 40mm non lethal round in the abdomen.
• Stephen Miller gets to have a pair of handcuffs and a baton, and his task is to subdue and detain an actual vigorously healthy undocumented immigrant one on one, while the clip of him saying "we are so much more hardcore than they are" plays on repeat in the background.

And so on

Sweet

This looks like a tool chest, not a claymore. Am I missing something?

Literally every streamer I have ever seen just interacts socially with their animals when they interrupt the stream, and then whether they were irritated or happy to have them involved right at that moment, they just remove them and just get back to what they were doing. It is okay.

I can't even fathom being such a piece of shit as is on display in these videos. It's not just the physical action (although yes that too), it's how annoyed he sounds that there is another being involved in this equation and now he has to deal with the inconvenience of their needs and actions. And he doesn't even register that it's weird to express that annoyance in such a cruel and entitled fashion on stream. Look at the woman's face glancing at him right at the end of the "collar too tight" stream.

The whole thing is hilarious. The artists asked permission from the park service, which was granted. Then, obviously, Trump's people got mad, and Park Police and some various unmarked vehicles showed up and tipped it over (which broke in Trump's head among some other damage) and removed it. The artist was irritated, because her permit specifically said that it was to be given security and not removed (And also she was supposed to get notice if it was going to be removed, showing some level of awareness of the realpolitik involved I think. She did not receive the promised notice.)

Anyway, she was given back the pieces of the statue, and repaired it, and now it's back. Some of the same unmarked vehicles were hanging around when they put it back up, and lo and behold they put it back up, undeterred, showing a certain level of commendable courage and a good value system, I think.

They are never as strong as they want you to think they are. Everything they do depends on someone else's cooperation, and cooperation is always a slippery thing for certain types of regimes to maintain.

I'm sucking my thumb and heating up some chicken soup right now as we speak.

Bird flu is still out there too, and it seems likely that by the time it figures out humans, the US public health apparatus will be basically destroyed.

Ever lived through a plague in the middle ages? Would you like to?

What's the worst that could happen

The agency suggests that tapping social media and open web data helps identify aliases, track movements, and detect patterns that traditional methods often miss.

Ohh... that's why they are doing it. Because everyone knows, the very first thing you need to do if you're targeting a particular illegal immigrant to deport, is you need to start with a bunch of random social media accounts with various aliases, which people always diligently make whenever they are using something different from their government name, and that helps you find out how you find this person you were looking for. It's basic police work.

I thought somehow that this was a way to compile a list of people who said unkind things about the president and ICE on social media, so that once the plan reaches its next phase, those people can be "deported" too, according to all the different very public statements Trump and Stephen Miller have been saying that anyone who doesn't like him is a terrorist.

I feel silly now, to have been concerned about that second thing.