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I’m sitting at the bar in a hotel in Boston last night, minding my business with a drink and waiting for my wife to come down. Drunk guy sidles up in the chair next to me and orders a Sam Adams. Turns to me and introduces himself, so I do the same. He eventually introduced himself 3 times in a brief 5 minute conversation. He starts asking me questions about where I’m from, etc. Random bar conversations are not my thing but okay. I eventually say that I live in Texas, both Houston and Austin at different points, and he immediately says “you didn’t go to that school did ya?” I ask what he means. “The one in Austin.” I say, yeah, I went to Texas. It’s at that point that he pulls his top coat back to reveal that he’s wearing an ATM pullover. Then proceeds to tell me he’s from a family of longhorns and he’s the black sheep. I simply say “well, hey, not everyone can get in” in a joking manner. Guy then says “all of you guys are assholes”, grabs his unoriginal beer and stalks off to a table. These guys are insecure and humorless anywhere on the planet, and they’re always tripping over themselves to show it. It’s really weird.

Let’s be very clear here. We all know what happens with Derka he often takes criticism of his opinions as an attack and overreacts. He has mental illness, that he freely acknowledges. Everyone here knows that. There are certain posters who go out of their way to bully Derka. We need to call this what it is. It is not trolling. It is bullying someone with mental health issues, and it is not acceptable behavior. There should be a zero tolerance for this kind of behavior. If a mod has had to address this bullying multiple times from a single poster, that poster should be gone from this website. I don’t care who they are, I don’t care if they’re the owner’s best friend, or contribute substantially to the ad revenue, or other aspects of this website. Bullying has a high correlation with self harm and suicide among the mentally ill. Fuck all of you who have participated in that. eta this post has nothing to do with whether I think Derka should be allowed to continue to participate in the website, but this behavior toward him has been going on across multiple websites now.

Hell yeah

Hope Chris Christie didn't hurt himself too badly with that fall.

I have probably posted this before, but… about 20 years ago, I was in a cross-functional meeting to plan a major new project. This one guy starts, “Let’s go around the room, say our name, and where we went to college. I’m Mike, and I went to Texas A&M”. The next guy, a respected company leader- “My name is John, and I got my GED in prison”. And that was the end of that foolishness.

How do you think this gets captured in their internal polling? since I did not click on the link

i read the whole thing. it took longer than 5 minutes. i'm having a lot of feelings about what i read, none of them good. i sincerely hope certain people from this story experience debilitating pain, anguish and loss in their lives, physical and emotional, and that it crushes their soul. unlikely, but i fervently wish it to happen. i am most definitely not Christ-like. so fuck them. RIP, Bubba.

Jokes aside you’re a good dude. We shouldn’t bend over backwards to protect every drive by loser. But you’re in the family here and deserve better (and you’re not a loser). That being said, spend more time laughing at people, and less time worrying about them.

This thread is not good for me and I’m bowing out. Two of my children lost friends to suicide caused by online bullying. One was friend of my eldest daughter’s friend and was a trans girl with a very supportive family and friend group and the other was my eldest son's best friend who was a wonderful boy but who was very insecure and lacked impulse control. Both were bullied online. Derka you are a wonderful person and I wish you nothing but happiness in your life.

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This might be the most accurate top 10 list ever created.

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That's the title of my new sex tape.

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If true this is huge

The real kicker is the end where neither of the churches in his hometown would accept his body for burial. Just in case anyone labored under the misapprehension that the 1819 people were outliers.

It took me 5 minutes to scroll through that.

Per Gerry, OT Lamont Rogers is a last minute addition for this weekend. Was originally going to visit LSU. https://www.on3.com/db/lamont-rogers-155815/

It must explode some Christians' heads to realize that the very first account of a Gentile being baptized and receiving the Spirit occurred with a non-binary individual - the Ethiopian Eunuch. And I wonder how they deal with the story of Joseph and his "coat of many colors", knowing from the story that Joseph was very "different" from his brothers and that the Hebrew word for the technicolor dream coat (ketonet passim) was only used one other time in scripture, and that was referring to a bridal gown. At a minimum, Joseph was brash and flamboyant, but a rational inference can be made that he was a cross dresser. There are plenty of examples in Scripture of people that didn't fit the mold who were called, accepted, and blessed by God. "What God has cleansed, no longer call unholy."

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I agree the ignore function isn’t perfect. It’s hardly a good solution here. I know, once I came out I had to go from none to about a dozen on ignore, and some hateful and disingenuous fucks too. Shit it wasn’t until the LGBTQ report feature was installed that I felt I could come back after I left. For the record I haven’t used it. Shit gets real here sometimes. Thankfully that was done within a very short time and I was very grateful for it. Leaving suuuuucked. But derka you have been given choices. Maybe in the future the choice will be better but now it is what has been offered. I would have done what Blacklab did. But you also have to let shit go and use the ignore function. You gotta train yourself to let it go. I get OCD you need to know but think of it as part of therapy, I did. And I don’t check anymore. most importantly you gotta stop repeatedly telling the owner he’s wrong, it’s not a good plan to get what you want. you have a clear desire for justice and look man, it’s not going to be the way you think it ought to be. But being here is better than not so adjust, I’m pleading with you. but I’ll swear to god, this isn’t the internet it is IRL. I’m with blacklab’s original position - fuck me running if anyone of our people harm themselves. Loree changed my views on message boards forever. So I now have zero tolerance for bullying and I’ll call mother fucker out on this board for doing it if I come across it, but I’m not on every thread so I don’t see it all the time. Bottom line, I’m on derka’s side on this one, fuck bullies. 100%

This is my first and last post on this topic. Imma owns the site, I'm just a moderator. I can do things but in the end it's imma's call. I banned motown for 30 days and planned on permabanning him if he trolled you anymore. Imma removed the ban and told him to put you on ignore. All you had to do to prevent getting banned is put him on ignore. But for whatever reason you refuse. I've tried to help you all you can but if you're not going to do a simple request then sorry, I'm done.

There have been a lot of studies about what liberals and conservatives respond to. Basically conservatives respond to fear. Immigrants are coming to rape and kill your family, teachers are turning your kids LGBTQ, democrats want to take your guns, etc. Liberals are more motivated by inclusion/bringing people together. Probably when we were tribal they both served a purpose. More liberal members of the tribe want to bring in new people and ideas, while conservative tribal members were like be careful, maybe this guy/idea is not going to help us. So the tribe was selective in what they brought in rather than accepting all and maybe destabilizing or risking the tribe by bring in the wrong people/ideas. I saw a survey a couple of weeks ago that showed Biden/Trump and who people would vote for based on the issues and what they had said about them. Most were pretty dead even, but where Biden crushed Trump is when they told the voters what Trump and Republicans have said about Social Security vs. what Biden wants to do with it. Biden jumped out to like a 15 point lead. Abortion is the same, they need to hammer that and play up the coming for birth control stuff, no exceptions for rape/incest/life of the mother - what if that is your wife or daughter? If you can make more conservative people fear something more than the fears the GQP is spreading you have a chance to bring in some votes. Trying to message conservatives or conservative leaning voters with messages of hope or positivity will not resonate with them like it does more liberal voters. You have to make them fear something. Probably how you can reach some family members/friends in the Trump cult if you know the fear buttons that might motivate them to turn against him.

Maybe, just maybe, you can show some compassion to someone who is going through some shit in real life and this place means a lot more to him than it does to the rest of us. And you can make some small accommodations for him (like actually doing something when he is being bullied - and everyone here knows damn well it does happen regularly). It doesn't seem like much to me, I dunno. The older I get, the more I see the value in helping others and being kind. But maybe that's not you and this is your toy, so do what you want.

Nothing about what you said will ever change the immutable fact that the average federal criminal trial takes from 12 to 18 months from filing to trial. This is not an average case, so you would assume, even the sans Trump Fuckery, that the trials would be more toward 18 months than 12 months from indictment. -Bragg NY State Stormy Trial 3/40/23 -Stollen Records Trial 6/30/23 -J-6 Trial 8/13/23 -Georgia Rico Funfest 8/14/23 The first trial is set for April 15,2024 The second trial has a wildcard of an absolute moron Trump friendly judge, and we are waiting to see when that will go to trial The Supreme Court will hear the stupid immunity defense Trump is floating on April 25 of this year. With his biggest defense out-of-the-way that should speed up the trial date. I have no idea how the recent self-inflicted wounds will impact the Georgia Rico case. Is Trump getting away with saying things that if other people said a judge would throw them in the slammer for contempt? Seems like a yes to me. But then, your average mouthy felon will not have an army of mouth breathers attacking people if this happens. It is like World War II resistance fighters in France. You have to weigh killing a couple German soldiers with the Nazis wiping out whole villages in response. Its not like German soldiers did not need killing. Sometimes you pass on killing a couple German soldiers to protect the innocent. is Judge Cannon a problem? Absolutely. But she is being dealt with. Fortunately for us she is dumb as a brick. My small point is that the federal trials themselves are not in anyway being substantially delayed when you look at the average length between indictment and trial and federal court. When you throw in the fact we are trying to convict a former president, it would be literally foolish to think that would be a quicker trial. Should they have brought these indictments quicker? You are goddamn right - and that was a mistake. But folks need to chill a little bit about the length of time after indictment (“still walking free..”) because it’s not that bad of a timeline people.

I prefer to ask election deniers if they also deny all their down-ballot victories.

Interior design is not the same thing as interior decorating. Source: interior designer girlfriend.

Correct predictions?

This also underscores what I’ve come to realize in the past few years. Conservatives think humans are inherently bad, which leads them to being fearful. Liberals think humans are inherently good, which is why they respond to hope and inclusion. It’s a fundamental difference in how people view the world around them.

Bottom of a bag of chips mixed in with French onion dip topped with hot sauce for after work snack…