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BrickHorn

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  1. The nutcases with guns all voted for Trump* and are still in desperate confirmation bias mode. * except for @Brisketexan
  2. Yes. And it doesn’t help that our state generally and our alma mater specifically are growing ever more aligned with the fascists. I feel myself not only less enthused about college football overall, but also less inclined to root for our team. It’s a fucked-up feeling.
  3. Did they shut it down for the shooting or was it just part of the general construction mess up there?
  4. Oh great. AI PBS educational content. “One too three fore five, sicks seven ate nine twelve, unleavened welt!”
  5. It’s going to be interesting when, as promised, all those obnoxious small government constitutional purists exercise their Second Amendment rights to fight tyranny. Correction… *hand to ear, listening intently* I’m being told the small government zealots will instead be joining a boat parade in enthusiastic support of tyranny.
  6. MO SALAH! LA LA LA LA LA! THE EGYPTIAN KING!
  7. Seems pyrrhic at best. “Haha! Israel is discredited in the eyes of the world. And all it cost us was our homes, our lands, and our lives.”
  8. Good grief. The cops stumble onto a gruesome scene of unequivocal evil, and immediately their wheels start spinning in the moral muck of fairytale land. Grow the fuck up, Sheriff.
  9. I was going to make the same joke, and thought “Nah. Nobody will remember that old Big 12 broadcast hilarity.” Glad I was wrong.
  10. I see you are unfamiliar with the concept of Internet Points.
  11. Yeah, my Canadian model girlfriend probably won’t be able to visit now either. Because of the politics. So that’s why y’all have never met her.
  12. Five Or Six Dudes Jump Out Of Nowhere And Just Start Whaling On This One Guy
  13. This. I think we could all stand to feel funkified these days.
  14. International applications are expected to drop significantly. That could increase admissions rates for US students, especially out-of-state applicants (as universities will be looking to recoup the lost revenue).
  15. Or think of it as an action movie or Western or something. No one goes to the theater and thinks it’s weird that the audience is so invested in seeing Luke Skywalker win a choreographed fake fight against a walking cartoon character in a goofy mask.
  16. The narrative psychology of the business is fascinating. A good live wrestling show has you suspending disbelief and consciously participating in the scam at the same time. Because I grew up watching wrestling as a kid, I immediately understood what Trump was doing back in 2015 and how he was working crowds. As noted upthread, he’s a carnie. A damned good one, too. He used the crowd psychology of wrestling to get a shitload of people rooting for him and against everyone else in a way that is simultaneously both very real and entirely tongue-in-cheek. Wrestling fans root for their guy NO MATTER WHAT and they’re entirely comfortable distorting morals to justify the bad behavior of their hero while denouncing the other guy for far less. They know what they’re doing; they just think that’s what they’re supposed to do. Trump basically telegraphed that politics isn’t a serious thing that they have to apply their rational brains to, but can instead approach it with the kind of shameless hypocritical bias that wrestling fans employ. Ironically, wrestling fans seem to understand this better than most groups, and they fucking hate Trump and others like him (Hogan, McMahon, HHH).
  17. I’ve been to both (several times) and I much prefer AAPW. Wrestle Circus was more polished and they brought in some established talent. But it always felt like a one-off event. There were no promos, no storylines, etc. You were just there to watch two people fake fight each other, with no narrative context. Kind of takes the fun out of it. AAPW is rougher in terms of the actual wrestling. It’s a school, and the performers are students with varying amounts of experience and talent (some are really talented, though). But they put more effort into creating storylines and characters that make the show what it should be: a stupid soap opera that allows you to enjoy the obviously fake fighting as a work of immersive fiction. Hell, there was a turn at a recent show that even my wife was fucking stunned and upset by — jaw dropped to the floor, gasped, stared at the screen in shock — and she thinks wrestling is stupid nonsense (which… fair enough). Plus, it’s like $20 and BYOB. Definitely worth checking out if you’re a fan of the territories from the 70s and 80s.
  18. This. There’s a pro wrestling school in Austin that puts on shows every two weeks or so, and the style reminds me of the old territories.
  19. And in particular, in a WH staffer’s internet browsing history.
  20. Is that the Party whose members make terrible decisions that cause serious harm in our actual lives based entirely on make-believe fears and misunderstood jokes?
  21. There are federal regulations that define the maximum allowable radioactivity of a wasp nest?
  22. Sounds awesome. You can save a whole 7 minutes on the airport commute, which is totally worth the 30 minutes it will take you to get in your car, drive to the tunnel station, walk to the terminal, pay for a ride, and wait for a car to pick you up.
  23. Same deal in Austin. But it was a dry 70 degrees on the drive into work this morning. Felt like October.
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