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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Indeed, shame on me. Wish I had made it. That would be huge. I’m not sure that’s true. It’s like DeSantis 2 years ago: Abbott isn’t the most popular Republican in Texas, he’s the most popular Texas Republican in the country, which is different. Donald Trump is the most popular Republican in Texas.
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  3. The first rule of Cafe Caribe: we do not talk about Cafe Caribe
  4. Military use of the Swastika dates to WWI. Finnish and Norse cultural use goes back millennia. Hitler adopted the Sanskrit Swastika to the flag in connection with the bullshit concept* of a proto-white “Aryan Race.” * I fully expect the new Liberty Institute at UT to offer graduate courses on this concept at part of their doctoral program in phrenology.
  5. I’m not downplaying anything. All jokes aside, and with all due respect to your family history, my grandfather shot and possibly stabbed some people wearing it to death in the Ardenne Forest, so I get it. HOWEVER- it seems borderline absurd to compare it to the swastika. The totenkopf was and is historic German military insignia going back to the 19th century and on top of that it’s just not very well known. The swastika, on the other hand, is immediately and universally understood to be Nazi insignia because it was specifically adopted by the Nazis, which is why despite 7000 years of humans using it all over the world, most of them from Kipling to the Navajo to the American Girl Scouts stopped using it. There are some notable exceptions. The Finns have an ancient historic connection and still use it in military contexts occasionally. It’s also used extensively in religious imagery by Hindus. If Ro Khanna has a depiction of Ganesh in his home that features the Swastika, should he resign? Look, I’m not arguing that Platner should be proud of a trashy tattoo. But it is highly unlikely that most Americans would look at that image and recognize it as Nazi imagery.
  6. Leaving aside the somewhat marginal Nazi-ness of the totenkopf, did you think Al Franken should resign for simulating “tune-in Tokyo”?
  7. I stand corrected! Cheerfully withdrawn.
  8. Literally the biggest pussies on the planet.
  9. Have you ever been to Maine? It’s like a colder, less classy version of the Florida panhandle.
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  11. That would be chickenshit. It would also be good for Susan Collins and therefore bad for America. Contested primaries and flawed candidates get attention and are therefore good.
  12. Things ARE pretty fucking grim. These are the punk rock times we were born for. We go where eagles dare.
  13. Contested primaries are good. If he can’t beat MeeMaw he doesn’t deserve the nomination, but going out on apology tour is what sunk Beto against Cruz. Platner should lean INTO his meathead past and shouldn’t apologize for jack shit.
  14. Incredible trip to Southeast Austin Saturday to pick up my wife from the airport and play the Balander short course. I played with this guy Kevin under some incredibly difficult and elite conditions, such as playing with two balls and and the guys behind/ahead of us being very high and playing in the wrong order and Kevin really dealing with a lot right now and do I think he could maybe interview where I work? Shot a +2 not counting my tee shot into the woods from the other ball (game suspended) and a throw-out from the bunker on the 4th while Kevin was looking for his vape. Then I picked up my wife and we got P Terry’s to take home for dinner. Can’t wait to get back!
  15. Underrated brand, in my opinion
  16. I am, but I associate that particular death’s head more with Prussian Hussars and preexisting German military insignia that persisted from the time of Frederick the Great through Weimar to the Nazis than I particularly associate it with Nazis. I’m not making the case that historical usage is redemptive, but the Nazi-ness of the totenkopf strikes me as pretty weak compared to the much more well known symbols such as the Doppel Sigrun or the far more ancient and universal swastika. When I see the totenkopf I mostly think of fat, trashy bikers.
  17. Gimme a break with this shit, it’s 2025.
  18. Greg Abbott and Sean Duffy heard that @texashorne from the internet would rather drive, so what would be the point? They will not allow private risk capital to be deployed towards something he doesn’t want to use. We’re not getting it, still.
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  20. Fair, but that grab bag of legislative detritus and grants of sinecure should never be referred to as a “shrine.”
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