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Horace

As for Kimmel, the theory that the shooter is Maga, is crazy enough that a reasonable analogy would have been to blame the jews. It was crazy as of the Monday night taping in question.

Horace

It's shitty that the FCC guy made that threat. Of course any such threat, and to whatever extent it's credible, any such action, only strengthens the opposition.

Mik

The word “buttload,” often used colloquially to mean “a large amount,” actually has roots in old English wine measurement systems.

A “butt” was a real unit used to measure large quantities of liquid, especially wine or ale, during medieval times and into the early modern era.

One butt equals two hogsheads, and each hogshead typically holds 63 gallons (in the imperial system), making a butt exactly 126 gallons.

This unit was most commonly used in England and parts of Europe, especially in reference to shipping and storing wine, beer, and other liquids in wooden casks or barrels.

These massive barrels were known as butts (yes, that’s the actual term), and they often appeared in old taverns and ships’ cargo.

Today, the term survives mostly as slang or humor — “a buttload of something” — but it does in fact originate from a formal measurement that once held legal and commercial significance.

Mik

@LuFins-Dad yeah, that’s pretty elderly.

Horace

That is very cool. Like something out of Middle Earth.

Horace

Disney pulled Kimmel's show just now, over comments he made Monday about how "maga was desperate to avoid admitting the obvious, that the assassin was one of their own".

Yep pendulum is swinging too far. Pretty sure tribal idiocy is protected. Almost every leftist punditry show in the world has similar delusions about the shooter. That's protected. Though of course Disney is free to do whatever they want.

Mik

I’ve e been considering taking up the guitar again, maybe buying a good acoustic.

Mik

Beautiful

Horace

@jon-nyc said in TikTok:

I suppose we’ll find out at some point though likely not soon.

It is already wrong to state as understood fact that there will be no oversight of the code. And without certain cynical biases, it seems unlikely.

LuFins Dad

@Doctor-Phibes said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

@LuFins-Dad said in Glad the free speech folks are in charge:

I’m glad that people on the left are back to supporting freedom of speech. It’s a nice change after the last 16 years.

It's nice to see that a "journalist" can advocate the judicial murder of people suffering from mental illness, but the FFC is more concerned with silencing that monstrous threat to democracy Jimmy Kimmel for making jokes they don't like.

I’m pretty sure that I was the one to point the asshat out and call for his firing. And many conservatives are very outspoken about the administration crossing freedom of speech lines…

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