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BrickHorn

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  1. That was my gut reaction, too. Then I thought about it for a minute. The next guy in line is a puppet of far right plutocrats. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he picks Gabbard as his VP.
  2. I’m not prone to conspiracy theories, but the timeline of events is curious. Especially considering the reports that Trump allies left the summit meeting visibly shaken.
  3. Whoever is ghost-writing these sucks. That reads very close to how Trump talks. But it’s not at all his written style, which is very different. Dude would never use commas correctly to indicate the pauses in his cadence. And he would never type a phrase like “lo and behold” (much less spell “lo” correctly). Something weird is going on. Even weirder than the usual bizarre state of affairs in this janky-ass administration.
  4. My guess? They wheeled out a Madame Tussaud’s wax figure and the forehead was melting.
  5. Spider 2 Y Bananazi
  6. I don’t follow WWE specifically (and really never have). But I am a fan of local indie wrestling. My sense is the fanbase has evolved since kayfabe died. It used to be that wrestling shows were chock full of yokels who thought it was real. There were a few smart fans who were in on the gag (so-called “smarks” in wrestling lingo) and there to enjoy the show with tongue firmly in cheek. But they weren’t the majority. These days, the crowd is all smarks. Everyone knows it’s fake. The secret is out. So the fans who are looking for real combat now go to shit like UFC, which skews right. In my experience, modern wrestling crowds are pretty diverse and open-minded. The promotion in Austin hosts drag shows every so often and openly supports the LGBTQ community. (Okay, it’s Austin. But still…) People don’t go to wrestling for fights; they go to watch performance art.
  7. Same. I realized yesterday as I watched OSU’s defense humiliate Arch and Sark that I just don’t give a shit anymore. College football is morphing into some weird fascist bread and circus cultural celebration. And the massive amount universities and alumni spend to support the football teams (rather than academics) is perfectly symbolic of how fucked up American culture has become. We are not a serious country.
  8. I was in LA the week that shit unfolded. The idea that the city was in any way at risk is laughable. We explored Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo, and literally the only protest we witnessed was a few old ladies peacefully holding anti-ICE signs outside of a Ralph’s in Venice.
  9. Uh… I have some bad news for you.
  10. Sark has always been a terrible game manager. One of the worst I’ve seen. It’s why we have a bad habit of giving up massive leads.
  11. Yeah, yeah. I get it. Fuck off, Da Fino.
  12. Those “usual suspects” are in fact propagandists shitbags.
  13. Not Trump’s style. He doesn’t play defense, only offense. The Mike Leach of politicians. If Trump wants to talk his way into heaven, it will be more like this: ”Jesus is low energy. Really. What God just sits there and lets a couple of Romans nail him to a cross? You have all this power, lightning bolts and floods and all that. Why not use it and save yourself? It’s not very pleasant, having your hands nailed to a cross. Maybe use your God powers to smite those Romans. I’m kidding. But many people are saying maybe I should have been Jesus. ‘Sir, you would never let the Romans nail you to a cross.’ Maybe they’re right about that. We’re looking into it. We have lots of very smart people who are looking at the Bible to see if I can be Jesus. Maybe I can. Maybe I can. We’ll see what they find out, but I think that maybe I can be Jesus.”
  14. It’s not just dumb. It’s dangerous. Heartless. Sadistic. I personally know people whose lives have been saved by SSRI treatment. These fucking jackals are going to get innocent people killed with a witch hunt that makes no sense. But they don’t care because as long as they’re blaming life-saving medication, they can distract from the real issues (the insane prevalence of guns in our society and the lack of social safety nets). Can’t have gun control, so it’s better to fire off an epidemic of suicide and depression. And of course it won’t make a dent in mass shootings. But by the time the world figures that out, these maniacs will be scapegoating some other innocent group.
  15. It’s also not helpful. All that chart could possibly demonstrate is the relative Bayesian probability that a given individual will commit a mass shooting, based on a single measure. And even the highest probably (0.7 out of 1 million, or 0.00007%) is so fucking low that it’s essentially 0%. It literally gives you no actionable information. At most, it says “The chance that any individual regardless of demographic category will commit a mass shooting is vanishingly small, although it’s slightly less vanishingly small for Category X.” You may retort that this chart tells us where to focus our efforts to prevent mass shootings. Maybe you think based on this chart that locking up the trans population (or worse) would be an effective strategy to prevent mass shootings. Well, if that’s what you are thinking, you’re incredibly wrong. Set aside the injustice of punishing over a million innocent people for every one potential criminal. Trans people account for only a tiny amount of all mass shootings (analyses range from 0.1% to 1.3%). So any policy targeting trans people would have almost zero impact on the overall number of deaths due to mass shootings. I hesitate to ask this on the DT board, but anyone care to guess which demographic group is responsible for more than 95% of mass shootings?
  16. Holy shit. He got charged with asspelting?
  17. @Zeus is one of those posters who will retreat to the DT or football board to whine about how “unhinged” the meanies are in the “cesspool” of the CR. But only after he tried to score points here and fell on his face, not smart enough to come to the correct conclusions in the first place and too insecure to admit he may have been wrong and to adjust his perspective accordingly. It’s a tale as old as time.
  18. Start by engaging with the data, moron.
  19. Hahaha. You’re even dumber than I thought. “Yup. Only been five mass shootings in Murca since 2023.” Case closed, Inspector Smoothbrain! I don’t have time to do the math for you, but in the decade preceding and including the Hale incident, only 4 mass shooters identified as trans or nonbinary. That represented less than a tenth of a percent of all mass shooters during the period. A researcher at Columbia had a higher figure: a massive 1.3%! This incident is one more. Even assuming no mass shootings occurred between the Hale event and this one (surely not accurate, but the assumption favors your case), that one additional data point wouldn’t move the needle. Now, let’s talk about men generally. According to the Rockefeller Institute, 95% of mass shooters are male. Considering men represent slightly less than half of the US population, this is astounding. Men are nearly 20x more likely to perpetrate a mass shooting compared to women. So tell me: if you wanted to most effectively reduce mass shootings by eliminating just one demographic category, which one would you pick?
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