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  1. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I think even the most hardcore, deep red Republican would have to admit that the GOP really brings out the lowest of the low musical talent.   They can scrounge up some decent country talent from time to time but for the most part the Dems have the best talent locked up. 

    They should get the guy who sings Old Town Road.  He’s got a cowboy hat, so he’s  ‘Murican. 

  2. Some of you mocking those old guys with the weird messages....they’ve had a tough week - it’s only been a few days since they discovered some black rapper with a big country hit came out of the closet.   He was their one chance to show their grandkids that they are hip and aren’t racist, and he went and revealed that those rainbows on his albums and posters weren’t there because they were pretty.  

  3. If you want to really cut down on the number of people crossing illegally, go after those who are crossing simply because there's good-paying jobs here.  You don't even have to go after them specifically, you simply mine the Social Security and IRS databases for Social Security #'s that are being abused, and then you go after the corporations that are benefitting from the illegals - the agriculture, constructions, etc.  I mean really go after them.

  4. 15 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    There have been two cities that passed a similar ordinance.

    While the sample size is very small 100% of the known data set is in absolute stark contrast to his position.

    For some reason he believes, based on wishes and hope I guess, that this will have little to no effect on Austin and at worst almost no negative impact.

    No logical person, based any of the data available could draw that conclusion.

    There is nothing in the data from the cities that have tried this to show that this helps everybody out.  This notion that "oh, things haven't really changed in the past 12 days" is absurd - it's not about day-to-day, it's about the fact that over the last 12-24 months, things have progressively gotten worse, and this is just going to accelerate things, rather than to address the problems.    

    Short term, things will get worse, and the City Council and their staffers will say "Oops, we didn't do enough, the problem is still getting worse!"  At which point they will probably try and open up some public parks to camping, or overspend on more properties, among other things.  I think they and their staff are that stupid - making it easier for addict panhandlers to feed their addictions, yeah, that's a winning strategy.  

    Long term, up until now, we;'ve had a lot of people who were either turning a blind eye to the problems, or were ignorant, or were just....polite, for lack of a better word, about the issues of the homeless.   That's going to change very rapidly - arguably, it already is, because these folks have been seeing more and more camps over the past year or two along the overpasses, etc.  and now they are facing the prospect of much more involuntary contact with them.  Like I said, these folks will elect people whose platforms are focused on cracking down on the homeless, and we might very well see things get worse for them.

     

     

  5. 48 minutes ago, sunset87 said:

    One of the most aggy things they do is the whole nickname deal. They literally have nicknames for every starting player on their fball team.  Is this fucking kindergarten??

    Odd as hell.  Bunch of them had hats that said "PTCHR" and the rest had hats that said "CTCHR".

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  6. 1 hour ago, utee94 said:

    This is why their lies and false claims about "revenue superiority" are even MORE stupid.  If you actually believe those lies, then it makes their complete lack of athletic success look even wore by comparison.  But, stupid gonna stupid.

    Not every football team can claim to lose in a half-billion dollar Kroger's.

  7. 10 hours ago, lemonlime said:

    How the fuck does what we do or do not owe migrants have anything to do with treating human beings with basic decency. Not even kindness. Just not abject cruelty.

    We don't treat other human beings as human because we owe them. We do it (or don't) because that's what decent people do (or evil people ignore)

    He's the asshole who, when the ship is sinking, hops in an empty lifeboat and starts rowing away, yelling "FUCK YOU, I GOT MINE".

    We don't need to give these kids $80,000 beds, but we can spare enough for the necessities.

  8. 3 hours ago, Fozzz said:

    This is a great interview with Manuel Zeleya on the Honduran coup that occurred with the support of the Obama administration.  The coup and the events that followed have just a little bit to do with why so many people are currently fleeing that country. 

     

    Thank you for introducing us to Anya Parampil

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Seems that there’s an assumption here that not only will a Democrat win next year, but will have a second term, so that her first opportunity will be in 2028.  What if it’s biden?  8 years at his age?

    She's 29 now, 30 in October.  I don't see 35 year-old AOC running in 2024, at least not at the top of the ticket.

    edit: Js1 has the right idea - she could easily pick up Schumer's seat in three years.

  10. 2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    It’s important to remember what the IRA troll accounts were pushing.  The ones I was following were pumping out some of the most racist and xenophobic messages I’ve ever seen on twitter.  I ended up unfollowing Pamela Moore before the election because her stuff was so offensive/disturbing/misleading.

    This is what her profile page looked like in 2016:

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    This was a Kremlin troll account. 

    It could resemble just about any twitter account from Lubbock.  

  11. 9 hours ago, retread said:

    Maybe this deserves its own thread, but in a lot of the threads in this forum, we see the flowering of all of the ugly, quiet beliefs held by Rs, both politicians and voters. You see a Border Patrol FB page with 9,000 members which derides the immigrants trying to reach the US. 

    Is it just the echo chamber of the internet that is facilitating this and shining a light on it? Was Trump the one catalyst missing from the equation to set off the explosion?

    Back in the 80s, there were bumper stickers that said “Ronnie says fuck the poor”.  Remember the Jack Chick tracts?  Remember all of our meddling in Mexico and South America?  The War on Drugs sure as hell put a lot of “undesirables” behind bars.   People Trump’s age were around for segregation.  Wallace’s segregation speech was less than 60 years ago, and you know the racist assholes around then passed plenty of that down to their kids born in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

    Those are just some random examples pre-internet.  

    The internet and Fox News certainly don’t help things, and neither does it help to have an ever-growing group of people who feel like life is fucking them over, and they need scapegoats, such as scary brown people from below the border.  

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  12. 3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


    I hear you, but how can anyone prove a thing is NOT happening? Isn’t the burden on people saying there’s a conspiracy to demonstrate some kind of evidence?

    $5 million sure seems to point to a lot of evidence.  

    Or maybe the City Council and their staffers are just a bunch of fucking morons who don’t care about wasting taxpayer money.  

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