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Huckleberry

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  1. I don't command that anyone vote any way; I simply do not have that power. I can, however, mock their stupid choices. Which I am doing and will happily do when you guys inevitably don't vote for the only legitimate contender to our racist, lunatic, child rapist president.
    Oh, my bad. I didn't realize your latest misfire was about the 2020 general. I already mentioned I'm voting for the Democrat in the general specifically because of the current state of the GOP.

    It's hard to keep track of the number of things you're wrong about.
  2. 6 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    OK cool you're Latino dumbshit who wants the elderly and poor to die in the street instead of a white dumbshit who wants the elderly and poor to die in the street

    Yeah, that's not really close to accurate at all, but good effort I guess. This is the part of the discussion where you start losing it and start lobbing wild accusations because you know you goofed. If you have anything substantive to add I'll go ahead and listen.

    This is the exact problem with people who need to categorize and label everyone in order to understand the world. In the head of simpletons like you, voted for Gary Johnson = staunch libertarian = wants no government = probably an anarchist in all reality. Unfortunately, there are lots of different reasons to vote certain ways, and there are lots of different people who believe in the varied concept of "fiscal responsibility." Sure, some don't want the government to spend money on anything. Some don't want the government to spend money on anything but themselves. Others think fiscal responsibility means that the government should be as efficient as possible and expenses should be focused on programs that benefit the governed society as a whole. You know, things like helping the poor and elderly instead of spending three times as much as anyone else on the military so that we maintain access to oil that comes from oppressive dictatorships.

    But you have to put down the label maker to figure things like that out. Good luck.

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  3. 20 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    The problem, at least as far as the survival of the Republic goes imo, is that we have undermined the structural balance between the branches of government.  The executive has been granted far far far too much power, and congress has abdicated their responsibilities on everything from foreign to economic policy.  I would argue as well that we have undermined the balance inherent to federalism as well, centralizing too much power in Washington. If you want to discuss the survival of the Republic, I think that those structural issues need to be part of the discussion.  I think the Republic survives the GOP, I am not sure that the Republic survives the consolidation of power at the federal level in the executive branch. 

     

    6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    I don’t disagree with this at all. The problem with creating a dictatorship is that it ain’t always your dictator in the office. It’s a dumb, shortsighted, self-destructive path. Which is also our new national motto.

    Exactly. But we should be careful, soon NowThis will be here to explain how he is the only one who thought of this.

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  4. 1 minute ago, DixonHur said:

    Exactly, we have to remember all the times he's told white, male Christians to "go back" where they came from.  

    Oh wait, it's never happened.

    Does xenophobic sound better to you?

    It's not xenophobic, it's racist.

    3 of the 4 targets were born in the United States of America. They are not foreign. They are more American than the man's wife. The man's white wife, of course.

  5. It's just tuition and it's similar to programs other universities in Texas have. The good news if you're a Texas alum is that it matters enough to get extensive media coverage when it's the University of Texas. A&M and Tech have similar programs and Rice, although not public of course, instituted something similar recently.

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  6. So the pollsters have Sanders somewhere between 2nd and 5th in New Hampshire. So do I and I haven't even thought about New Hampshire since the last time I watched Tom Hanks guess South Hampshire on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy.

  7. I've been to plenty of games, and making noise and being really loud at appropriate times does have an effect on the game. "Creating a hostile environment" or whatever you believe you're doing has zero effect on 99.9% of the opposing players.

    Again, I don't have an emotional response to the horns down from anyone but Sooners. I didn't care about the West Virginia guys doing it other than laughing at them for getting penalized. I suppose I have quite vocally stated that they absolutely deserved the penalty, but that's because we were penalized several years ago for holstering guns in Lubbock. And that wasn't even done at anyone in particular, whether on the field or in the stands. As long as it's officiated the same both ways I don't care whether it is a penalty or it isn't.

    Anyway, back to the point, flashing a hand gesture at a player to make them angry is some really stupid behavior. Being loud is not the same thing as your apparent belief that it's your job to scare, intimidate, and anger the opposing team. That's just foolish and to be quite honest also completely pointless because it doesn't work. You don't intimidate any of the players, man. Sorry to break it to you, but they don't give a shit about you. Your job is to be loud when it's time to be loud and go nuts cheering for your team. Beyond volume you don't have an impact on the game.

    edited to add - Don't take this to mean that I am saying nobody gets mad about it. Plenty of Texas fans get mad about it, and like others here are telling you, if someone gets pissed about it then that's on you. If I am in College Station and yell toward the field that "HEY A&M YOU GUYS JUST COLLAPSED LIKE A BONFIRE!" then I should expect the ass-kicking that I'm about to receive. And it doesn't have to be nearly that bad. If I, as you claim to be, am yelling or doing things that I am doing specifically to create a hostile environment and make people angry, then when emotional fans of that team get pissed and whip my ass then that's on me.

  8. 24 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Uhh, yeah.  That's exactly how it works.  Fans try and create a hostile environment for the opposing team.  That is a different thing from trying to get personal with and provoke a visiting fan.  If I'm at a game in Austin (I have been) and Texas fans are getting into it and getting after the ISU team, I'd expect and not be offended because that's what you do as a fan.  Obviously things like throwing objects into the field of the play, or coming out of the stands are different because there's an actual threat to someone's safety.

    If someone thinks that someone pointing their pointer finger and pinky at the ground is some kind of existential threat, and worthy of physical violence, they are absolutely unhinged.  I think it's amusing how incapable of being rational about this some of you are, but it's that kind of blind passion that makes college football the best sport on the planet.

    Again, you said you do it to create a hostile environment. Then you said someone responding to the hostile environment by being hostile "is unhinged."

    Or is your argument that you're only making it hostile for the huge athletes in full football gear? You're taunting them in a hostile manner? That sounds like being a good fan to you?

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  9. So you think the fans should do it to taunt the team and create hostility, but if someone gets hostile about it then it's unhinged.

    Okey dokey.

    Don't get me wrong, I think it's cute when teams like Iowa State try to join in. Doesn't make me angry, just makes me realize that nobody has any idea what to say in response to Iowa State because their football program doesn't matter. I'm just saying your logic is lacking, uh, logic.

    I get mad when Sooners do it, but that's because the Oklahoma Sooners are the one thing I allow myself to be completely irrationally unhinged about. I hate them all and hope they suffer eternally.

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  10. I'm Latino, so you're going to have to move to another label. I know separating everyone into easily identified groups makes the big world easier for you to digest (earlier in this thread it was generations, presumably because they have catchy names). But you need to improve your accuracy.

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  11. On 7/15/2019 at 9:59 AM, relapse98 said:

    That's a pretty poor take.

    Bottas and Hamilton on lap 4, fighting back and forth.
    Leclert and Verstappen fighting.
    Red Bull vs Ferrari.

    Pretty entertaining race. As always - ignore the top, it's gonna be Mercedes. Look further down, much more exciting.

    Like I said, I've seen all of that now. When investing an hour-and-a-half to watch a full race I like some tension in who is going to win the thing. That was gone on lap 20.

    I certainly went back to watch all of the above and had no problem finding it all.

  12. As I said before, my Johnson vote was because Trump was winning Texas no matter what and it was a wing and a prayer for a third party to hit the 5% mark. And he hit 5% in 9 states.

    To be honest, I thought Johnson hitting 5% was only slightly less likely than Trump winning the whole thing. Turns out I'm wrong every once in a while.

  13. 4 minutes ago, horncyclist said:

    And there's the triple down. Fuck this guy and fuck his party. You can be a conservative, constitutionalist, libertarian, prolife whatever the fuck you want...just don't think you can be those things in the republican party anymore. It is a white nationalist party. Full stop.

    Longorns on the Hill coming up in September in DC. I might go scorched earth there, telling all the hipocryt Texas republicans how I really feel.

    I can tell you're posting angry, and there's good reason for that, so I'll just give you credit for knowing there's a "y" in there somewhere.

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  14. 15 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I don't know about around here, but the list of people in DC aggressively advocating for broad and meaningful cuts in overall spending is a pretty short list. I am sure that we can hobble together various factions who want to trim the military, or trim public assistance, or trim some other pet offense to their being, but the broad types of spending cuts necessary to bring our budget in line, not so much. 

    Well yes, I mean we all know that once elected nearly all politicians switch to spend money to stay in office mode. I'm only taking issue with his silliness where he's the only guy that wants cuts around here. For crying out loud, he cited the military like he's the only one who is so wise as to realize that the American military budget is bloated.

    We are all honored by his presence, apparently.

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  15. 8 hours ago, NowThis said:

    no one on Surly wants to cut any program either. No Democrat candidate has spoken about austerity, no citizen has spoken up about it either in dozens of town halls.  No one on the internet, except yours truly (cut the damn military). 

    I would think this post is sarcasm except for the fact you've shown a tendency to make really terrible posts. So I'm left with the thought that you actually have some sort of hero complex where you think you're the only one around here in favor of any spending cuts whatsoever.

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  16. Just now, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    Just a reminder - Samples leaving is at best an unconfirmed assumption by the board.

    But of course. Especially after reading this thread when he realizes that doing a good job and getting hired to a better position basically makes him unhirable.

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  17. 2 minutes ago, GotThatFire said:

    For me, had he left before all the Dallas to Austin stuff he started putting out there, I'd have thought nothing of it.

    YES! EXACTLY!

    If he had left after not doing a good job for his first employer then I would admire him more!

    I mean the fact that in exchange for making some money he actually did a great job and increased the desirability of what his employer was selling and increased their brand value in a short time on the job makes me HATE HIS GUTS. How dare he do a good job? What an asshole.

    That's why when looking for new employees I scour the ends of the earth looking for people who were shitty at their last job. That's what you want to see in an employee.

    p.s. I think I figured out Giles's username.

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  18. On 7/13/2019 at 2:14 PM, F250 said:

    I don't think they gave up any runs in the district tournament either. I'm curious how many quality pitchers they have on the roster.

    They gave up some runs in the district tournament. 1 to Westbury and 6 to Bellaire. Still obviously impressive, they've given up 7 total runs in 8 tournament games.

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  19. Actually kind of okay with the fact my DVR fucked up this morning. Another Hamilton win with Mercedes alone at the front and the safety car miraculously helping Hamilton. Boring as shit, plus I can watch the Verstappen madness in highlight length clips. The rest of the info and numbers can be digested after the fact.

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