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  1. chainsaw
    The was definitely the F-list broadcast team.
  2. chainsaw
    Some people love me so much, they're voting only for me and skipping everything else. We're seeing it at levels never seen before. That, I can tell you.
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    Remember they knew all this shit back in 2018.
  4. chainsaw
    I'll admit that part is fun to think about. I don't think it will ever happen though.
  5. chainsaw
    The good news is people have largely moved on from Facebook. You're probably right that it was made in Russia or by a useful idiot being manipulated with Russian money. I hope that neighborhood page comment section is also populated with bots, but if these are people you actually know then you might just be in a neighborhood that skews heavily R.
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    I responded to someone else's rightful complaint about the idiotic tiebreaker system these "head and shoulders" intellectual giants created. See for yourself: Some people predictably couldn't accept the hard truth I was bringing and thought this thread was a good place to have a broader debate about the supposed intelligence of the founding fathers. It might make a fine thread, but I prefer to limit the discussion here to the idiocy of the Electoral College and the work Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have been doing in the battleground states to overcome it to save us from fascism.
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    Eggs are the worst example, too, because the truth turned out to be greedflation and price fixing https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231201112056/en/Cal-Maine-Foods-Inc.-Issues-Statement-on-Jury-Decision The avian flu thing was always bullshit
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    These have been huge problems for much longer than just the 2010s. Civil wars are not something that healthy democracies deal with, and the cause of the civil war was not beyond the imagination of the founding fathers. If you want to debate about the founding fathers, start another thread for that. This thread is about the 2024 election and one of the many antidemocratic consequences of the shitty system they left us with.
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    Don't forget Lifetime Longhorn Kevin Durant's movie
  10. chainsaw
    That's PR-speak for "It's undefeated."
  11. chainsaw
    Not to get back at Trump but because she knows he eats ass
  12. chainsaw
    Well, you'd think that a group of guys trying to make a tyranny-proof system of government should be judged on whether the end result was tyranny-proof. I never marketed myself as being speeding bus-proof and would humbly request that I not be judged on that criteria.
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    I am morbidly curious what their pitch is. https://www.atxmlb.com/ That has to be ChatGPT right?
  14. chainsaw
    It's a system that has consistently held us back, allows 50-year established constitutional rights to be taken away on a whim, could lead to even more Trump despite losing the popular vote by a record margin, and even staunch liberals like RBG have said "I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012." https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/we-the-people-loses-appeal-with-people-around-the-world.html If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it's that everything this system has "accomplished" can be unraveled in an instant. If that's true, is it really me that's diminishing those accomplishments? Or is it the precarious foundation on which they're resting?
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    The article says the franchise fee alone is $2B. I sure as fuck would not be willing to pay for the stadium and I doubt Buda or San Marcos would approve a tax hike either. I'd only support it if it's completely funded by the ownership, and I'm sure the Rangers and Astros would throw a shitfit and make things difficult for them.
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    We can hope for and work toward that, but if the system is so rigged that it's practically impossible to accomplish, maybe the greater blame should lie with the rigged system.
  17. chainsaw
    The article said some former UT baseball players would be at this dog and pony show. Swindled by Swindell?
  18. chainsaw
    Fair enough.
  19. chainsaw
    I think you misread what I said. Anyway, the amendments we actually need are going to be a lot more politically unviable than repealing prohibition and regulating Congressional salary changes.
  20. chainsaw
    Yup it's a monorail scam.
  21. chainsaw
    If the defense keeps up the elite play, the running game can get +36 points even if Arch is a bit off his game.
  22. chainsaw
    I hope you are right, but the mystique is a real thing. I can't think of a politician who doesn't at least pay lip service to how great and wonderful the founding fathers and constitution are.
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    That's human nature though, and to their credit I think the founding fathers realized that a great many people are too stupid for their own good and wanted a government that was able to protect them from themselves. I just think they didn't do a good enough job with the constitution.
  24. chainsaw
    We're talking about two different things here. I'm talking about meaningful criticism of the founding fathers and rejecting the premise that the Constitution is infallible and must be followed no matter what. You're talking about something much broader. Of course the internet can bring good things and bad things to life. But so far, it has not actually changed the Constitution.
  25. chainsaw
    It ultimately doesn't matter what you or I think about their intellect. Like Sark in 2021, we're still stuck with the byproducts of our predecessors' shortcomings. The reason I originally brought up this hard truth is because the mystique that surrounds the founding fathers and the Constitution has the effect of shielding it from meaningful debate. By that I mean, the only places it gets talked about with some objectivity are academia and corners of the internet, places that wield no power to actually do anything. It's funny because the same people following this thread who are having to constantly watch these polls, after having to force out the presumptive nominee due to his Jackson Arnoldian inability to win, are only in this position because of the hard truth I've pointed out. I love the good parts of our Constitution, but we are deluding ourselves if we think it's the product of a bona fide brain trust.

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