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[deathpunch578]

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I hope ths man dies in a car crash.

[Reelya]

I was thinking that might be a big harsh, then I went back a page and realized it was Dinesh D'Souza referenced. Dying in a car crash would be too kind an end for that man. I'd prefer if he didn't die from his car crash.

Dinesh D'Souza is a real class act. He got his start in conservative journalism back in the early 1980s by editing a right-wing funded private college newspaper known for extremely racist articles such as “Dis Sho' Ain't No Jive, Bro” which mocked African Americans who'd made it to college. Get back in the ghetto, untermensch! This is how a brown-skinned person gets their foot in the door of the lucrative conservative media market: by being more openly racist to slightly darker-skinned people than their white counterparts can get away with. He's used as an attack dog for that reason.

You shouldn't ever give D'Souza any press, because he came out of the same program Ann Coulter does: big oil and the tobacco lobby were funding private right-wing papers on college campuses in order to groom the next gen of "commentators". Getting people to talk about the shocking things they say is their primary tactic, so the best policy is to just stop reading any time you see his name in print.

Also note that he got convicted for election tampering - setting up fake donors to make illegal campaign contributions, so he's a foreign-born election-tampering felon who writes attack pieces on native-born Americans for doing perfectly legal campaigning, and who also calls for other non-American-born felons to be deported.

[CABL]

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What an absolute cuntlipped dickwad! Hopefully he'll get maimed by a thug with an assault rifle, just for the maximum cruel irony.

My own sad:
I'm not sure if I should make a thread in Life Advice, but my cat keeps jumping on the table while nobody sees him or listens. I already tried putting tin foil on the table, so the cat gets spooked (he didn't get spooked at all), and I also tried something smelly, like napkins sodden in vinegar and raw garlic, but he still jumped on the table this night. I'm afraid nothing can keep this cat away from the table.

[Reelya]

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What an absolute cuntlipped dickwad! Hopefully he'll get maimed by a thug with an assault rifle, just for the maximum cruel irony.

We also missed the best bit:

He also appeared to accuse the survivors of "politically-orchestrated grief" as they mourned the deaths of their classmates and teachers. He said their grief “strikes me as phony & inauthentic.”

Seriously? Someone talking about their friends getting gunned down, in front of them, strikes him as "phony & inauthentic"? I think Dinesh D'Souza strikes me as phony and inauthentically human. Somebody peel off the fake skin to reveal the lizard beneath.

One other thing I read about, for more insight into this guy's history, was that when he was editor for his "student" paper at his college (the paper funded by oil barons), his group stole documents from the campus' Gay Students Association and publish an exposé of the gay students on campus, outing them to friends and family (the paper was widely distributed because of the conservative oil money behind it), and the conservatives at the time heralded this as an amazing piece of journalism (he was treated like "royalty", with speaking engagements national young conservatives meetups for this stuff, apparently).

EDIT: Oh and apparently, recently he tweeted a pro-Hitler statement:
https://twitter.com/dineshdsouza/status/916318446387978240?lang=en

Hitler was NOT anti-gay. He refused to purge gay Brownshirts from Nazi ranks saying he had no problem as long as they were good fighters. 8:05 AM - 6 Oct 2017

Yeah, Hitler cops too much flak for killing gays in the concentration camps, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt because he had some "gay friends".

You can't think up epithets insulting enough for this guy. The guy's a walking PR disaster trying to keep himself relevant with shock statements. The Florida statements have already dented his reputation (such as it was). Even Ann Coulter has more sense than this.

[scriver]

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What an absolute cuntlipped dickwad! Hopefully he'll get maimed by a thug with an assault rifle, just for the maximum cruel irony.

My own sad:
I'm not sure if I should make a thread in Life Advice, but my cat keeps jumping on the table while nobody sees him or listens. I already tried putting tin foil on the table, so the cat gets spooked (he didn't get spooked at all), and I also tried something smelly, like napkins sodden in vinegar and raw garlic, but he still jumped on the table this night. I'm afraid nothing can keep this cat away from the table.

Your cat has learnt that it's only doing wrong if you catch him doing it.

[martinuzz]

The perfect tool for unlearning unwanted behaviour of cats is a small handheld device called a plant spray. Fill with water, spray cat as soon as it jumps the table.
For smart cats once is enough. Some persistant ones require multiple occasions of being hit by the Feared Water Jet.

A cat's object memory is pretty good. If you've sprayed a cat with a water jet just a few times, it will recognize the spray can, and after that just showing it will be enough to get it's correctional effect.

[CABL]

The perfect tool for unlearning unwanted behaviour of cats is a small handheld device called a plant spray. Fill with water, spray cat as soon as it jumps the table.
For smart cats once is enough. Some persistant ones require multiple occasions of being hit by the Feared Water Jet.

A cat's object memory is pretty good. If you've sprayed a cat with a water jet just a few times, it will recognize the spray can, and after that just showing it will be enough to get it's correctional effect.

If I put my cat on the table, then immediately spray water at him, will he understand that it's bad to jump on the table, or he'll get confused about whenever it's good or bad thing?
Also, he usually starts jumping on the table somewhere around 5:00 AM, when everyone sleeps, and he is energized.

[scourge728]

The perfect tool for unlearning unwanted behaviour of cats is a small handheld device called a plant spray. Fill with water, spray cat as soon as it jumps the table.
For smart cats once is enough. Some persistant ones require multiple occasions of being hit by the Feared Water Jet.

A cat's object memory is pretty good. If you've sprayed a cat with a water jet just a few times, it will recognize the spray can, and after that just showing it will be enough to get it's correctional effect.

If I put my cat on the table, then immediately spray water at him, will he understand that it's bad to jump on the table, or he'll get confused about whenever it's good or bad thing?
Also, he usually starts jumping on the table somewhere around 5:00 AM, when everyone sleeps, and he is energized.

I'm pretty sure that would just make him afraid of you.... that can happen with these kinds of training....

[Dunamisdeos]

The perfect tool for unlearning unwanted behaviour of cats is a small handheld device called a plant spray. Fill with water, spray cat as soon as it jumps the table.
For smart cats once is enough. Some persistant ones require multiple occasions of being hit by the Feared Water Jet.

A cat's object memory is pretty good. If you've sprayed a cat with a water jet just a few times, it will recognize the spray can, and after that just showing it will be enough to get it's correctional effect.

If I put my cat on the table, then immediately spray water at him, will he understand that it's bad to jump on the table, or he'll get confused about whenever it's good or bad thing?
Also, he usually starts jumping on the table somewhere around 5:00 AM, when everyone sleeps, and he is energized.

I'm pretty sure that would just make him afraid of you.... that can happen with these kinds of training....

My buddy's father had an issue with his cat refusing to use the cat door, and instead climbing up to his windowsill outside his bed where he was sleeping and batting at the window to get in.

So he put foil on the windowsill after trying everything else. Then he wired the foil to a car battery and a dimmer switch. The cat stopped using the windowsill. Important to note that the cat was fine, the amount of voltage was kept low enough to be startling rather than painful. His dad is an engineer, and was quite careful.

[Gentlefish]

I'm surprised he didn't go for a battery-powered pressure-activated zap-pad. Unless he just had the battery and dimmer switch lying around, it would have been much cheaper.

[Dunamisdeos]

I'm surprised he didn't go for a battery-powered pressure-activated zap-pad. Unless he just had the battery and dimmer switch lying around, it would have been much cheaper.

Yeah he was some kind of mechanical engineer/chemist at the time, so I assume he did.

Also I'm sure there was a certain satisfaction to the dimmer switch.

[Hanslanda]

I figured out why depression correlates to humor. Depressed people want to talk to people generally as it can help them feel better temporarily, but we learn at a young age that people are uncomfortable around sad people and avoid conversation. So we develop a personality quirk people enjoy, typically humor. We eventually get good at it because we're always depressed thus always telling jokes to get people talking to us. Hence the high suicide rates for comedians.

Anyway, a Jewish zombie walks into a bar and the bartender gasps, "Oh Jesus!"

[SalmonGod]

I figured out why depression correlates to humor. Depressed people want to talk to people generally as it can help them feel better temporarily, but we learn at a young age that people are uncomfortable around sad people and avoid conversation. So we develop a personality quirk people enjoy, typically humor. We eventually get good at it because we're always depressed thus always telling jokes to get people talking to us. Hence the high suicide rates for comedians.

Anyway, a Jewish zombie walks into a bar and the bartender gasps, "Oh Jesus!"

I think you've got something there.  In addition to humor being an emotional coping method on its own.

[TamerVirus]

"But doctor, ... I am Pagliacci"

[Hanslanda]

I've been very depressed and gravitating toward awful black humor and I started wondering why today. For me, the humor is secondary. It's making people smile that does it for me. Like look, I did a positive thing. I have emotional value to others.