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Yeah, it might look like a swastika, because it is a fucking swastika and that's an SS tattoo on his arm just in case there was any ambiguity for anyone. I know the Newsmax dude is lying and knows he's lying, but unfortunately, we do such a shit job at educating people that there may legitimately be some that think the Nazi swastika was only displayed tilted. It was also used vertically. It is crystal fucking clear what those tattoos are and why he has them. He's a fucking Nazi.

Hypocrisy would be being inured by a falling tree limb, getting a large structured settlement that still pays you to this day, and then dedicating your career to making sure no one else can ever be properly compensated for an injury, or medical malpractice. Just so we're clear on what hypocrisy actually looks like.

This is a University of Texas board, so I'm sure the vast majority of you will be intelligent enough to recognize that I was criticizing those that use the platitude repeatedly when these situations happen and not the people protecting their own lives and those of their family.

Apparently you are under the misunderstanding that I was criticizing them Rex. I'm not. It's not their responsibility and it's human nature to nope out, rather than risking ourselves for a stranger. Relying on strangers to stop a mass shooting is monumentally stupid and people need to stop proposing it as a realistic solution. It's not. Good guy with a ______ is an empty platitude that makes some of the country feel better, same with Thoughts and Prayers™.

Tripple D Dallas logo on shooter's left hand.

Triple D Dallas logo on his hand.

Video @Dark Horse posted on the other thread. Good guy with a truck and good guy with a car could have run him over, but both chose to save themselves, as is generally human nature.

It's not. No local, or mass extinction event in history has ever done that. WY, MT, SD, ID, UT and Nebraska would be fucked and it would throw so much shit into the atmosphere that it would cause massive crop failures, likely worldwide. The last Yellowstone explosion dumped over a foot of ash in Eastern Nebraska. UT's on campus museum has some wooly rhinos that were buried in the ash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashfall_Fossil_Beds Nothing on the scale of Yellowstone has exploded in recorded history, but other large explosions have blocked the sun and led to massive crop failures. Tambor in 1816 led to the global phenomenon of a "year without a summer" and Krakatoa in 1836 blocked out the sun and lowered global temps by a full degree. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-year-without-a-summer-1773771 https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/krakatoa.htm

Legacy, like history, is written by the winners. Roberts gave up on actual legitimacy and legacy, but he's still angling to be a hero in the history books. The only way that happens is if he makes sure the GQP writes both history and his legacy.

If not for the pudding, that could also be Tucker Carlson. Those two are quite the pillar of emasculinity.

Nothing says strong meme game and a guy who should lecture the Onion on what's funny like having to get your mom, brother and sister to ludicrously fake that they are laughing at one of your cringefest "jokes".

Regardless of it is Trump, or DeSantis, Biden should challenge them at the debate to take off their shoes and stand next to him in socks.

It's absolutely enraging that this obvious gaslighting bullshit is believed by so many people. What an utter condemnation of our morality, education system and collective IQ.

Maybe it's just me, but if I wanted to try to convince people my race was the "Master Race", I'd pick a front man who possesses a chin.

He can't imagine what y'all have to go through. He can't even handle being rejected by this community countless times. He'd fucking crumble if he had to face 5% of what y'all face.

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Jane Goodall is a wonderful anthropologist and her work is foundational for a lot of current primate studies. You can cite her for almost anything chimp related, but she bonded with the chimps in Gombe. She helped us see that chimps are far more complex than we'd thought, but had/has a really hard time seeing them for the violent, shitty creatures they actually are. It's a huge blind spot for her when it comes to aggression and violence. Among other things, Goodall was resistant to the idea that chimps routinely hunt smaller animals and eat the meat they kill all the way to the end of the 1990s, when the evidence became utterly overwhelming. In the mid-70's, she observed a war now called the Gombe War between a chimp troop that had splintered into 2 groups. The chimps had all known each other and gotten along before the split, but the split left one group with very few females, so they systematically killed every male in the other group and forcibly kidnapped the females. This included at least one instance where the chimps killed an older chimp that had previously been friendly with and mentored the younger ones. Barbaric shit. She had spent almost a decade watching this troop and was convinced they were peaceful, so she was not comfortable with the implications, which is certainly understandable. Most of what Goodall has said about the Gombe War has come out in the 2000's, after other evidence clearly showed chimp on chimp hyper violence is common. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/a-brief-history-of-the-gombe-chimpanzee-war Every modern anthropologist I've met that works on chimps is respectfully afraid of them. Chimps are hyper-violent, malevolent, manipulative and flip aggression on a dime. Chimps can go years knowing people, or an other chimp, then suddenly attack, ripping the victim's lips, ears, nose, other skin on the face, hands, feet, and/or genitals off. Evil is a human construct, so we can't test for it. Hate is really hard to test for, so it's really hard to say conclusively that chimps experience either one. That said, we know that chimps form groups to seek out and hunt other chimps (usually an individual separated from their own group) intending to kill them. We know they have wars and raiding parties, where they capture females and kill all the males. They celebrate the kill afterwards hooting, shaking branches and desecrating the corpse. We know that they sometimes cannibalize each other, something that is nearly universally considered evil in humans. In the Nat Geo example below, the former alpha was displaced. He remained on the periphery of their group for several years. When he tried to return, the other male chimps killed him, desecrated his corpse and ate part of it. Murder and cannibalism are usually things we associate in humans with hate and evil. Desecration of corpses is usually associated with hate between groups, or at a minimum, significant animosity. Paleontologists have a principle we call Extant Phylogenetic bracketing. In a nutshell it says if the living relatives of a group all have the same traits, you can assume that the common ancestor of those groups did as well. This strongly implies that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans was a hyper-violent animal that attacked things it considered "other", killed the males and kidnapped the females. We both inherited these traits from a common ancestor. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/chimpanzees-murder-cannibalism-senegal There is also recent evidence of at least 2 unprovoked chimpanzee group attacks on smaller troops of gorillas. Both ended with the chimps isolating and then beating a baby gorilla to death. https://www.livescience.com/chimpanzees-kill-gorillas-first-ever.html Robert Sepolsky has done some fascinating work on the subject. He was looking at stress and hormonal responses of a troop in the wild. The troop he was watching had high levels of intra-troop violence for years where the hierarchy was clearly enforced by casual brutality. The hormonal data he collected showed that it's beneficial for the aggressive and competitive ones under normal conditions. The aggressive members had lower stress hormones and health complications. After years of him observing them, a virus swept through and nearly wiped out the troop. The individualistic, violent and competitive chimps died off at a much higher rate, while the ones that had previously been observed to be more cooperative with the others lived much more frequently. When the members of that group fell sick, the other cooperative chimps helped them. They ignored the asshole chimps and let them fend for themselves. Following this event, the chimps that had cooperated and survived the disease were the dominant group and began to enforce cooperation rather than competition. From then on, if a new chimp tried to join the troop, they would only accept ones who cooperated and cooperatively drove off the competitive and violent ones. FYI, Sepolsky has some awesome videos on Youtube. He puts up lectures from his classes at Stanford. I've mostly focused on violence and this is a long post already so I won't go into empathy too much, but it's very important too, though likely less common. Given the extant data, it's conclusive that the typical common ancestor of humans and chimps was hyper-violent, but there were still members of the species that had empathy that some of us have also inherited. That combination of many hyper violent individuals and some empathetic ones is likely key to our evolutionary success. Elephants also do similar, along with a few other species. It's hard to say why, but some things like the last possibility can be eliminated. Biological instinct and natural selection should drive them to avoid the dead, because whatever killed it is likely still nearby. That's the response of the vast majority of animal species on Earth. Something is overriding that, but it's impossible to test what unfortunately. Studies of corvids (crows, ravens and jays) show they are very intelligent. It's certainly plausible that they are marking the deceased crows passing in some way that is meaningful to them. An aside before I end. There's an awesome study on crow intelligence and how they teach the next generation. Researchers had people wear masks and interact with crows on the University of Washington campus. The initial study had a person wearing the "caveman" mask be mean to them. A person wearing a Dick Cheney mask ignored the crows. The crows started to scold the caveman mask no matter who wore it. They also taught this behavior to hatchlings and to other crows who had not interacted with the mask themselves. The researchers stopped wearing the mask for 2 years. When the caveman mask reappeared, considerably more crows scolded it than had before. The researchers mixed in some other masks and got the same results. Crows remember, they carry grudges and they teach those grudges to other crows. My own take on all the above is that animals are FAR more complex, and similar to us, than we had previously thought, it's just really damn hard to test it. Humans often act like our common ancestor with chimps would have, by being violent, but both chimps and humans have the choice to chose to be better. Violence has likely played a key role in the evolution of both chimps and humans and was likely selected for pretty heavily by natural selection, but is now counter-productive for humanity as a whole. Hopefully we get better at recognizing empathy and selecting leaders that embody it.

Texas Tech wore it better.

The simulation is broken, but at least it's an entertaining glitch this time.

Disney knows how to handle a meatball.

It is astounding that so many smart posters on this board insist on engaging him and pretending he might eventually post something in good faith, or even less likely, something intelligent.

Donkey Cigars/Hamster Hookah has remarkably thin skin for someone who has been rejected by this community countless times, yet pathetically crawls back and goes right back to the same garbage posting style.

Maybe if he wasn't spending $8 a day in toilet paper, he could afford a bidet.

Jokes on them. My diploma already burned up in a fire.