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Same way they reconcile all the other stupid bullshit they say / believe.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
BrickHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Ha. Similar experience here. I was in maybe 8th or 9th grade and visiting my dad’s family one summer. They lived in a tiny farm town of a few hundred people. I usually hated visiting because that meant spending most of Sunday in a Baptist church with no AC. But there were hot girls in Sunday school so I was looking forward to it this time around. We did a Bible reading where the kids in class took turns stumbling through part of a passage, then passing it to the next kid. It got to me and I read the next few lines (it was probably something about smiting some poor bastards), making sure not to fuck up any of the inane textual bullshit so as not to look dumb in front of the ladies. When I finished, the teacher looked at me and asked “Are you a [surname]?” I answered “Yes. Why?” “Because you sure read like one.” Apparently, my family is famous for being the town literates. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
BrickHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah the questions were strangely arbitrary and specific. The fishing question was limited to the last 5 years, so I got no points on that one despite the fact that I grew up going fishing and used to hunt quite a lot. But several questions (Ever lived around a bunch of dipshits? Ever have a moron for a friend?) were not time-limited, so I got points for spending my toddler years in the rust belt and hanging around with a bunch of neighborhood hoodlums 30+ years ago. Also weird that it asked no questions about non-nuclear family. My dad was in management by the time I could understand what he did for a living. But I have a huge extended family and literally none of my grandparents or aunts / uncles had managerial or professional careers. And probably 50%+ of my cousins are blue collar working class. But frankly the idea of a bubble is stupid and reeks of elite guilt. “You may think the views of rightwing rubes are ignorant and mean-spirited, but maybe you’d change your perspective if you hung out with losers and talked about Jimmie Johnson at the bait shop.” No, not really. I’ve spent plenty of time around angry right-wing rubes, including in church, at IHOP, and at the pond digging night crawlers out of a styrofoam cup. I’ve heard their opinions. I’ve even heard them try to justify those opinions. And it only confirmed my view that they’re ignorant and mean-spirited. The problem isn’t that I haven’t seen their world. Fuck, I spent years in that world and came out the other side. The problem is that they’ve never seen anything but their own little world. It’s the rubes that live in a bubble, not those of us who have seen life in both rural dumbfuckville and more urbane corners of civilization and explicitly chose to stay in the latter. -
Sark has been working on this pile of flaming dog shit for THREE YEARS?!?
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This reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how fascism works, in my opinion. The fascist reacts to opposition not because it is a genuine threat, but because it presents an opportunity. The illusion of persecution and struggle against an exaggerated enemy is critical to the fascist mythology. Fear drives support for a strong man, and it must be perpetually stoked. Another way to understand it is pro wrestling. Promoters sell tickets by convincing fans that the challenger is a legitimate threat to the champion. No one would care if there was no struggle, no monster to vanquish. So everyone gets in on the act, talking up the challenger, exaggerating his deeds and inflating his reputation in the eyes of the audience. Then the champ wins and it starts all over again with some new threat. There’s a reason Hitler named his biography “My Struggles.” It’s all crowd control psychology. Trump learned fascism from his time in wrestling and he is a master at it.
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Turn off your phone. Wrap in aluminum foil. Tape it up and use a Sharpie to write “NOT AN ANTIFA PHONE” all over it.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
BrickHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I agree, 100%. Unfortunately, it’s the kind of misplaced hypersensitivity on the left that leads morons to vote for Nazis because everything is so “woke.” -
You expected this pack of liars to tell the truth?
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
BrickHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
This. I simply cannot understand the appeal of cultural purity. I think it, like most positions at the heart of modern conservatism, is driven by insecurity. Conservatives are terrified of finding out that what they learned as children might be wrong. They fear adapting. Their brains treat new information as a virus. As soon as they are presented with facts that challenge them to reinterpret the world in a new light, the information immune system in their frightened little minds immediately sets to work rejecting it. “You can’t tell me Christopher Columbus was an asshole! He founded the USA and gave us the Second Amendment in Declaration of Independence!” By far my most common reaction to conservative perspectives is this: Grow up. You’re supposed to be adults. The world is more complicated and diverse and beautiful than you were taught in kindergarten. Time to act like a god damned adult and face facts. Or, you know, maybe vote for a bunch of Nazis because Meemaw and Peepaw never taught you about the Requerimiento and tikka masala. -
It hasn’t been signed yet as far as I know, and may not be. This is the Reddit thread I mentioned earlier, where the OP claims to have heard that it will be signed: https://www.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/s/dpynqNUzgl Hopefully, he or she turns out to be wrong.
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That video could be a perfect encapsulation of the muddled confusion of the MAGA mind. “It would be better if women were not allowed to get an education.” “Trans people should be left alone and not made fun of just because of who they are…” ”…just like [series of racial slurs].” Was this filmed at Joe Rogan High School?
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Username checks out.
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According to a post on r/UTAustin, UT will sign the compact. Not a surprise, but still depressing. RIP The University of Texas.
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Sounds like your partner’s pet issues are… …trivial. YEEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!
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Oops. The Fair disorients me, but y’all are right. Either way, it was by far the most sedate Sooner side of the stadium I’ve ever witnessed in person.
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