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BrickHorn

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  1. This is the crazy thing to me. Let’s be honest: the people crossing the border from Mexico are unlikely to fit the modern American leftist mold. They are far more likely to be religious, socially conservative, traditional working class folks lacking a higher education. You know: the kind of people who tend to support Trump and the GOP. Republicans should be welcoming the influx of potential new allies and courting them to their vile cause. Instead, they’re obsessed with the fantasy that their Spanish-speaking equivalents are flocking here to vote illegally for the party of tolerant atheist intellectual types. Because Trump voters are stupid and will believe anything the TV shouts at them without thinking through whether it makes any fucking sense whatsoever. Meanwhile, liberals react to immigration with compassion, because humanity and basic decency is more important than political calculus.
  2. …or at least Baha’i curious.
  3. NTTIAWWT. (Except for the fact that he’s a Nazi apologist who spreads hatred.)
  4. Looks a lot like Austin after Arborgeddon.
  5. And Alex Jones was caught surfing for trans porn. Fascism is fueled by self-loathing.
  6. In what world is that meant to intimidate anyone? The dude didn’t ring the doorbell. He didn’t knock on the door. He didn’t vandalize the house. He didn’t confront anyone (Acker didn’t even wake up until over an hour after the visit) or even make any attempt to do so. He didn’t brandish a weapon or leave any threatening messages. If you want to understand why he went to the house at a time when no one was likely to see him and he wore a mask, read the letter. One of the complaints the students have is being persecuted for expressing their pro-Palestinian views. He didn’t wear the mask to be threatening. He did it to remain anonymous. Yall fuckers are running some bizarre post-apocalyptic horror movie in your heads. But this is real life, not the fucking Purge. People come to your door without trying to murder you and your family. Even people who disagree with you. So calm the fuck down and stop being such nancies. It’s embarrassing.
  7. It leaves us with a bunch of DT crybabies shitting themselves with fear because someone they don’t know came to a person’s door, delivered an anodyne letter, and left without attempting anything even remotely violent or intimidating. It’s pathetic.
  8. For Christ’s sake, @Willfully Horn, read the letter. There was no threat, veiled or otherwise. The letter laid out basic “demands” of a protest movement and suggested “further dialogue.” You’re too smart to fall for the paranoid fantasies of the DT pants-wetter brigade.
  9. ITS JUST LIKE THE GODFATHER OR MAYBE MY COUSIN VINNY!!!
  10. Holy shit, just catching up on the Masked Intruder and his SCARY THREATENING NOTE that was exactly like one of those subtle mafioso threats you see in the movies and is probably exactly how real life college aged protesters work. Anyway, a big thanks to all you paranoid dorks for the lulz this morning.
  11. You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about. See, e.g., Pickering v. Board of Education and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.
  12. Hat tip to Rex and Euro for executing an all-time great moron-to-moron alley-oop.
  13. The proposal that humans will ever sustainably colonize Mars (much less in the next 30 years) is painfully stupid. Never mind the obvious issues that Mars has no food and virtually no oxygen or water, so we would need to haul all that shit out there just to set up a small enclosure that could support life. The bigger problems are geological. Mars has no global magnetic field. Couple that with the thin atmosphere, and the sun would bombard any human on Mars’s surface with ionizing radiation. Even assuming we could eventually set up a colony there, its inhabitants would need to be artificially shielded (in spacesuits, under ground, etc.). And Mars has only 38% of Earth’s gravity. Living in reduced gravity long term could have all kinds of negative impacts on human health and could potentially fuck up our ability to reproduce. And the low gravity coupled with the lack of a magnetic field means any attempt to terraform Mars (i.e. create an Earth-like atmosphere) would be doomed to failure - the Sun would eventually blast it away. Can we solve this problem? Not in our lifetimes. You’d have to somehow slam Mars with asteroids or some shit for millennia, and wait for it the resultant composite to form a solid planet of sufficient mass. We’re talking about geological time scales here. And even then, there’s the problem of how to get a global magnetic field going on Mars. And further: even if we could do all of that, compared to Earth, Mars is 50% further from the Sun. Which means we can’t just add an atmosphere and some water and hope to replicate Earth’s climate there. (This problem would be exacerbated if we don’t go to the trouble of scaling Mars up to Earth’s size and mass). It’s fun to ponder extraterrestrial colonization and space exploration is important if for no other reason than it expands our knowledge. But talk of a near-term sustainable colony anywhere outside of the thin little habitable shell on our home planet is fucking idiocy.
  14. Yes, in the case of public employees the analysis is a bit complicated. For example, courts have to balance first amendment rights against the government’s interests in functioning efficiently and maintaining legitimacy. My point is more broadly about the nature of freedom of speech - it’s just freedom from (some, but not all) consequences.
  15. I often see this point made, but it reflects a misunderstanding of the first amendment. Freedom of speech is freedom from consequences. In fact, that’s pretty much all it is. The state cannot enforce consequences against someone on the basis of their speech.
  16. Maher has the most annoying combination of personality traits: he’s both condescending and extremely dumb.
  17. One guy single-handedly dropped two points. Hard to pin this on the entire team. Seemed like everyone else was doing their jobs.
  18. Worst single game I’ve seen from a Pool player since Karius in the 2018 CL final. He’s been dreadful and the last two goals are entirely on him.
  19. Let’s stop talking logic and discuss actual data. This article claims the 400 richest families in America mad $1.8 trillion in income between 2010-2018 (the chart posted above is actually from 2018). That equates to an average annual income of $500 million. Stop wasting everyone’s time with bullshit distractions.
  20. Your view is that it is possible that, on average, the 400 wealthiest Americans earn less than $75k in annual income? And you believe that view is not fantasy? Okay.
  21. And you and 399 other randos could all fuck Sydney Sweeney, but the chances of that happening are vanishingly small. Your point is based on an irrelevant fantasy world.
  22. That’s unrealistic and you know it. If you have $4.5 billion and aren’t making at least $200 million in annual income just off investment returns, dividends, rents, etc., you’re an idiot and don’t deserve your money anyway. And no billionaire should ever be in a situation where their annual income only qualifies them for the bottom 50% on that measure (which would mean less than $75k), much less the 400 richest Americans as a class (which is what that chart measured). Your criticism is pedantic and ultimately meaningless. It’s a pure red herring.
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