Sheep Have Wool

I sometimes wonder what would happen if Helo invoked the George Constanza opposite rule with his life.

Look, I'm just here to educate the masses about sheep. You need wool? They've got it. Also, @bolverk got it - apologies if that was unclear. Comedic speech shouldn't be limited. It doesn't always need to be tasteful. It should definitely be funny. Hinchcliffe's comment wasn't clever insult comedy, nor was it thoughtful subversive humor. Read the "joke." It's lazy and terrible and not funny. It was the sort of joke my 10 year old nephew would make if my nephew was a right-wing hatemonger at a Nazi rally.

The same way that you become the richest person in the world: it's never enough. He's pretty clearly another insecure person trying to make themselves feel whole. Also, I suspect you're greatly overestimating Elon's smarts - he's got a lot of intellectual peers there. Did you miss Habba's walk up song?

"There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico." As far as I'm concerned, when it comes to comedy, there is no line - as long as it's funny. Weird apropos of nothing punching down like this is lazy as fuck. He might as well have just put up a slide deck of some of Pronghorn's memes.

Tribalism, and because human brains are stupid. I applaud Stros for his answers, and for being willing to engage, even after he's taken a fair bit of shit. His answers seem a lot like my parents' answers, and his lack of response to some of the pointed questions is also similar. I think he's answering in good faith, but I suspect that those answers are mostly there to paper over the cognitive dissonance of potentially voting for someone who, deep down, he thinks would make a shitty president. That shitty potential president has an R next to his name, though, and Stros probably has a long history of being a part of Team R, along with peers/friends/family. A vote for Harris would be voting against his tribe, and brains are excellent at finding reasons to do things to avoid painful dissonance. Stros, I assume that you think of yourself as a rational person who looks for truth, even if it might feel uncomfortable. I invite you to ask yourself a few questions: It seems like you consider yourself a high-information voter. Do you consume "left leaning" viewpoints as often as "normal" or "right leaning" ones? How do you know which are which? Do you know what Team R propaganda/misinformation looks like? What's an example? How do you avoid falling victim to it? What piece of information would cause you to change your mind about your vote? You mentioned the economy and being willing to vote for Harris in '28 if things looked good in that regard, but people are notorious for delaying painful decisions while they "wait for new information." Both candidates have a history - which better supports a view that they would create a stronger economy? Would you be willing to go explore multiple, independent opinions on that? I'm not expecting answers to these in public, but if you're really interested in looking for truth, these questions are worth thinking about for more than the time it takes to dismiss them. And, to be clear, there are some left leaning posters here who should definitely also be asking themselves these questions, just pointed the other way, especially that one about propaganda and misinformation. Again, Stros, thanks for participating.

The preferred nomenclature is "xenomorph", dude.

Kirby Smart does not look excited to be there.

This seems completely true, and totally in line with the flood of public Republican for Harris endorsements and general makeup of this board. I hate when this thread gets chainsaw'd.

Imagine you've got a very, very small penis. You've been mocked for it in the locker room. Women laughed. Suddenly, someone offered you the opportunity to direct people's attention to something other than your microdick. You don't care if it's true, you just desperately want the focus to be elsewhere. You're looking to cover up your inadequacies and insecurities, not engage in critical thinking. It's the story of MAGA in general and @Stros121 specifically.

Did you not see who posted that? @chainsaw is basically the poster child for the false consensus effect.

This seems self evident, but I thought I'd ask: Do you ever actually stop to think about or fact check the things you read on Xwitter or Truth Social or wherever the fuck you're getting your "information?" Didn't that statement strike you as odd? Here's the actual resolution that passed the House that the Democrats voted against. It's a paragraph. You could read the whole thing! This resolution doesn't call out specific language. It entirely rejects the update to Title IX. Here's the entire update. It's long, and it's probably a big ask for you to read the whole thing, but here's a shorter fact sheet. Can you explain why you think entirely rejecting an update that would keep Baylor from Baylor-ing quite as hard in the future is a good idea? Or do you really think things like requiring timely resolution, preventing retaliation, or anything else in this 15 page list of bullet points "weakens protections for women?" Or you so completely caught up in your weird obsession with trans people that you can see a joke in the lol thread and miss it entirely that it just seems not worth it to have those other protections if you can't also keep discriminating against trans people in schools?

When I hit the ninth nonsensical troll post in less than an hour, it only makes sense to take out the trash.

I'll start working on my Harris/Beshear sign, then.

Surely you've got a selfie or two from when you attended.

Yeah, look at how the crowd is so low energy. You can really tell her message isn't resonating.

I considered creating another Hitler sub for it, but I didn't want to incite political violence.

You just quoted yourself to tell this story. Sounds pretty vegan.

I also just saw that commercial, but people have been doing this for quite a while with pet sitting/walking services.

Twice, I appreciate you as a poster, have learned quite a bit from you, respect your profession, and am impressed with your ability to be patient as you are with the "NUKE THE JUDICIARY FROM ORBIT" crowd. My guy, this is absolute immunity in a wig. Let's maybe not even partially legitimize throwing away what had been a fairly decent run for the sake of a few hypothetical edge cases that haven't ever happened.

Not with that attitude.

No. We don't typically display some sort of homage to the Twelve Tables or the Code of Justinian, and assholes will continue to use the legal precedent to cram their brand of worship any place they can. Ceremonial deism can fuck right off.

Yes. They're made with pea-cans.

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.

Can someone confirm it's after midnight somewhere?