Comments on: Who was that masked man?

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:44:32 +0000

A cursory glance at MPD masking during the St Fentanyl uprising shows maybe 10% at most with masks. "But masks are ineffective" you say. Doesn't matter. It's all about the jury pool.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:25:36 +0000

MINNEAPOLIS — “Say his name!” protesters chanted late Thursday night, as police officers in riot gear lowered their face masks and gripped their batons, preparing to move toward the crowd. “George Floyd!” Face shields perhaps? Were they masked under those shields?

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:03:33 +0000

For now, only in the Big Apple: NYC to Pay George Floyd Rioters MILLIONS, Because Cops Didn’t Wear Face Masks Other blue cities with like-minded jury pools take note (lookin' at you, Minneapolis).

By: Griffin

Griffin — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 17:08:59 +0000

Slightly off topic but not far off. This is a great investigative report on the extreme lengths Santa Clara county undertook to spy on a church that dared defy their totalatarian lockdown orders. Spying, mining cell data and much more.

This is a great piece.

https://davidzweig.substack.com/p/when-a-renegade-church-and-a-zealous

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:09:10 +0000

It was all for naught

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/lockdown-files/

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:36:44 +0000

The funniest response to the mask mandate at the height of the covidiocy was a woman that I saw at the regular weekend open-air market at the Pearl Brewery – a woman in a business suit, wearing a belly-dancer’s diaphanous and spangled veil over her nose and mouth. I giggled, and gave her a thumbs-up. If the covidiocy and mask mandates had gone on much longer, I was considering doing the same.

By: Banned Lizard

Banned Lizard — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 10:17:19 +0000

My fantasy solution for masked robbers and rioters begins with the quick use of a firearm and ends with a wood chipper at the community compost.

Heavily armed and unmasked societies are polite societies.

By: neo

neo — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 04:03:36 +0000

Aggie:

Excellent point.

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 03:32:27 +0000

Then there’s the Lenny Bruce version:
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Narrator: Here’s a bit. It’s about a good man, a man who was better than Christ and Moses: The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger was so good that he never waited for a “Thank You.” He cleaned up the whole town for you and split —

–Lenny Bruce, “Thank You Masked Man (Live)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXy_GeL93u0

–Lenny Bruce, “THANK YOU, MASK MAN”
https://www.notbored.org/mask-man.html
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I think it’s one of Bruce’s best, but Mama dropped me on my head when I was but an infant.

By: PA+Cat

PA+Cat — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 03:20:12 +0000

Kate said, “Early in the panic my husband enjoyed going around with a bandana on his face, looking like the Unabomber.”

I thought about borrowing a catcher’s mask (the newer type that looks a lot like a hockey goalie’s mask) from the local MiLB team (the Hartford Yard Goats, formerly the New Britain Rock Cats) for shopping trips, just to make the point that the stupid cloth masks we were required to wear during the pandemic were just as ineffective in stopping virus particles.