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Goredho

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  1. Well, on a purely inhuman level, murder could be considered a form of expression.
  2. No se. I can maybe find out from someone, though. Any specific questions?
  3. I can really only speak to rural Colorado, since that is where we wound up. Colorado is solidly blue-leaning at the state level, but varies greatly in its political leanings county-to-county. And county presidential voting trends tell you an awful lot about the quality of government services in that area, including schools and public education. That is at least true in the rural counties outside outside of the I-25 urban centers. El Paso county (contains Colorado Springs) leans red, but I am sure it has some good schools within it. But if you are wanting to be out of the city, I would pay attention to this map: The counties that are rural and red will have the local politics dominated by libertarians with conservative, small government views. These counties will have relatively low property values, relatively low taxes, relatively little money available and thus relatively poor government services. The schools will not be great, and if your kid's education is important, you'll want to not rely on public education in these areas. If I was looking to raise a family outside of the cities in Colorado, I would target La Plata County in the Southwest (Durango area) or Chafee County in the center (Salida/Buena Vista area). The resort areas like Breckenridge and Vail are wealthy and have good services/public education, but in my experience with my family, they don't feel like real towns with families and community. 90% of the population are vacationers, seasonal workers and wealthy second home owners who are only there part time. Great to visit, but you and the rest of your family will feel isolated in a sea of transient passerbys if you live there. Durango and Salida are great rural communities and my two favorite towns in Colorado. Both are politically moderate, place value on things like public education, are priced within the reach of someone coming from a suburb of Austin, and are near everything you think about when you think of Colorado (mountains, skiing, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, rafting, etc...). They are small, but big enough to have most of the things you want like a hospital, some decent restaurants, etc... Durango is larger (19,000 vs 5,800) and is a bit more accessible to the outside world as it has a small airport with commercial flights. It's a college town (Fort Lewis). Salida has a small community college.
  4. Eh, I dunno. Maybe he's a gateway drug to other conspiracy theories. But these specific lyrics do not seem to line up with the kid-trafficing adrenochrome conspiracy messaging of say Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard: I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere Anyway, I don't really see anything offensive in any of the lyrics of this particular song. It doesn't resonate with me, and I think some of it is kind of silly as noted in my previous post, but I am not sure why anyone is taking a culture war stand over it.
  5. Eh, I don’t really get the outrage over the song. It’s a poor working man’s blues lament as far as I can tell. I certainly wouldn’t lump it into the same category as Aldean’s song which just wants to exploit hate and division. Some of the lyrics are peculiar and misguided, though. I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere He is certainly not trying to appeal to adrenochtome kid trafficking truthers. Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground / 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down. Ok, I can understand that sentiment. I know a lot of rural blue collar types who accurately feel like they are working harder for relatively less. But he preceded it with this inaccurate targeting: Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat / And the obese milkin' welfare / Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds Is the struggling blue collar worker really being held back by fat diabetics on disability? They didn’t cause urban migration. They didn’t make the strategic decision to automate away jobs or move them over seas. Further, are hurting blue collar workers going to be any happier with their lives if we took the fat diabetic off disability and gave that money to a skinny homeless person with a will work for food sign?
  6. That's the thing about the MAGA grift game. If you are going to play it, you've gotta go all in and push your soul into the pot.
  7. How I picture @atomheartbevo and @MillerEP right now...
  8. Yeah, but he had to know he was dead within a few months when he just decided to call off his march to Moscow and go home without even trying to see his coup through. Remember, it wasn't like they were stopped by Russian resistance. Something put a fear in him worse than his own personal safety/death and he decided to abruptly abort the uprising.
  9. It needs to be a Coen Brothers movie. A political version of "Raising Arizona" with all of its crime, absurdity and stupidity and the 2020 election being the kidnapped baby. Except Anton Chigurh makes a cameo at the end to kill everyone.
  10. I would like to announce my intention to become a citizen of Datazzakstan.
  11. Hahahaha, we actually got one of them to get "The Shocker" as a tramp stamp. We can quit acting like the horns down is irksome now.
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