Everything posted by Tuco
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Ukraine War
Certainly. No disagreement there. But the oversimplification as the war drums beat concerns me. It’s the basic structure as other pro war propaganda: “our problems are because of them” and “they’ve already attacked us.” When you see that, it’s good to pause.
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Ukraine War
My cousin was a tank commander in the first gulf war. He said the two biggest surprises of the war was how well our stuff worked and how poorly the Russian stuff did. Granted, that was 30 years ago, and the Iraqis didn’t have the latest and greatest, but the Russian tanks were garbage.
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Ukraine War
I think the article is filtering for what supports its thesis. Two major issues I have with it: 1. If you’re counting propaganda/destabilization as WW3, then the Cold War should count. The tools are different in the 21st century, but efforts are not. 2. It is ridiculous to blame the rise of global right wing nationalism wholly on Putin. The article doesn’t mention 911. Consider what followed: the normalization of Islamophobia, the invasion of two countries with brown people, the (added) destabilization of the middle east leading to mass immigration (major effects in Europe), 20 years of war and its glorification of the military. I think people underestimate that last one.
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Ukraine War
That pussy couldn’t stand up to Trump. Not kill him, just get off his fucking knees.
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Ukraine War
Nope. Putin has no end game here. His country of 140M is going to try to control a country of 40M, with most of the first world feeding them weapons. Maybe he thought he would be greeted as a liberator or some shit, but obviously that's not the case. If Putin retreats, the illusion of Russian power is dispelled forever. If he stays, he gets to look at controlling a country roughly twice the size of Iraq when he doesn't have nearly the military might to do so, and no conceivable way to set up a puppet government that will follow Moscow long term. If this draws out, terrorism in Russia is inevitable. His best hope right now is the try to use the fear of mass destruction and casualties to win the "separatist" regions at the negotiating table. But the price he will pay for those regions is massive. We aren't going to risk WW3 to shuffle the deck. Putin has a losing hand.
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Texas Congressman Rep Van Taylor bangs the infamous "ISIS Bride" gets caught
Cumming on the tonsils while being "deep" throated? Hey Van, be careful where you point that 2 1/2 inches.
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Ukraine War
Yeah, I remember a few years ago someone was making the case of how bad the US educational system, and had included some chart that showed us behind Portugal. At the time Portugal had something like a 90% literacy rate. If you have 1 out of 10 people who can't read, your education system is shit. But a relatively high percentage drops out of school along the way, so the comparing graduating student standardize tests, it seems like their education system is pretty good. (They've made a huge effort on literacy, and it is more in-line with the industrial world now.)
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The Rudy Thread
In Rudy's case, he believes "evidence" includes paper copies of Epoch Times articles. The dude is nuts.
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Defund the Police
That's the way I've always heard it.
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2022 House Elections
It looks like this is heading for an ugly primary. State Senator Mike Flood has announced a challenge to Fortenberrry, and picked up endorsements from the current governor and a past governor. Last week, Fart came out with an attack ad against Flood: That is referencing a vote ten years ago to not require legal status to receive state-provided prenatal care. The fact that Fart is swinging this hard, this early shows that he doesn't see himself as a frontrunner. If he did, he would be focused on consolidating the Republican vote, not flinging seriously thin shit about pre-natal care. Still won't matter. Still Nebraska. Whether it's Flood or Fortenberry, it's still the idiot death cult. But fuck it, part of me is holding out hope for a GOP schism to give Patty Pansing Brooks the spot for a term. (I really wish she went by "Patricia Brooks"; she is a lovely women, but her name sounds like it's from a Mary Poppins book.)
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
They frequently reference the Book of Esther. Which, if you know the Bible, is a little terrifying. Short version: Esther is one of the many Jews living in Persia. The Persia king takes an interest in her. She uses him (a non-believer) to thwart a plot to kill the Jews and instead kill the conspirators. So, innocent interpretation is that Christians can utilize a non-believer like Trump. The scarier interpretation extends the prophecy to include the killing of anyone who meant to do the Christians harm - aka, you and me.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
I see you have met Evangelical Christians.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. "may" have a thing for 20 something cock
Yeah, that article is spin.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
Smells like bullshit, but I guess if the editor of the World Socialist Website says it’s true, what am I to believe?
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OSHA Vax Mandate Legal Challenges
Are you anti-draft, in times of war?
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Identifying Trump rioters
Nothing trying to repeat the same adlib conversation several times. Extra’ing is a fun little hobby. Downsizing was the only Hollywood film, but I’ve also done a couple music videos, a low budget action flick, and an art/dance film. Mostly I get a kick out of watching the film making process. Unfortunately I fucked up and missed out on eating a late dinner Payne had with the extras.
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Identifying Trump rioters
Funny you should say that. A few years ago, I was an extra in Downsizing!. The instructions were to wear plain, neutral-colored clothings. One of my fellow extras showed up in a brightly colored dress, and wardrobe forced her to change into something drab off the rack. Later she was getting a little pissy about how Payne always reinforces the image of Nebraskans being boring. I had to explain to her it was because we were extras; the color choice is so we don't get noticed. (Well, and Payne isn't shooting tourism department promos.)
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Identifying Trump rioters
Nebraska traitors, including the frontrunner for governor. Seeing Red Nebraska
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Things Not Going Well for Alec Baldwin
To clarify, are you stating you still believe that Alec Baldwin's production company controlled the production for the movie, or that Wikipedia confused you? I am always curious how much the delusional will double-down on stupid shit.
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Things Not Going Well for Alec Baldwin
After doing a Google search, I see zero sources claiming that Baldwin owns Rust Movie Production, LLC, despite the various sources indicating they are doing an internal investigation and even a FoxNews article that says the company is likely covered by insurance. LA Times indicate it was financed by BondIt Media Capital and CAA Media Finance. Even if he did, the whole point of a single purpose LLC is to protect the owners from financial liability. Care to cite your sources? Or just admit you’re making up bullshit on the intrawebs.
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Things Not Going Well for Alec Baldwin
Ousucks sucks.
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2022 House Elections
NE1 Rep, Jeff Fortenberry, indicted for lying to FBI regarding illegal Nigerian campaign contributions. Doesn’t matter, Nebraska.
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College Football Week 7 - other games thread
Shit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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College Football Week 7 - other games thread
At the Huskies game. First football game in two years. First PAC12 game.
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2022 House Elections
1. The Trump-Biden vote is an anomaly. The current NE-2 is definitely Republican. In the Congressional race, the Republican incumbent won by 4, and the only time a D won the seat in the last 20 years is when a tea-party 3rd part candidate split the R vote in 2014. I think the district is currently listed as R+4, and I'm betting this will likely take it to R+6. It turns an R lean into a likely, or maybe even a safe. 2. I hate this notion that a fair compromise is to hold serve, or slightly lose. The population trends should take bias the district blue over time. Instead, every ten years a Republican Unicameral gerrymanders the district to preserve the status quo from the previous gerrymandering. The census shows the urban population in the district was underrepresented in 2020. The R+4 should have been more like an R+2 (just as a hypothetical). Instead of drawing the lines to pull back from the the rural areas, this map cuts out a central corridor of the metro area, and adds in a Saunders County, which is due north of Lincoln. It is absolute fuckery, and is justified as preserving the previous decades fuckery. I get it that you are not claiming this to be a fair compromise, just an acceptable one. FWIW, it hasn't completely passed yet, just the first round of votes.