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TwiceHorn

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  1. This is completely true. We're not budging "the base." They've been the same since 2016, but they can't win an election by themselves. But if these fault lines can develop and open up among the true believers, that does not bode well for them in the future.
  2. My inbox is polluted with MAGA shit presumably because my voter registration card used to say R. Or my voting history prior to 2016. That's kind of scary.
  3. To the extent clarification is required, you seem to be arguing that overextension of charity (implicitly through government programs) has increased dependency because it has reduced stigma. I.e. "social programs incentivize laziness and poverty." I argue that the number of dependent people is about the same as it ever was, but they are more noticeable because they're now concentrated in urban ghettos rather than being dispersed over a rural-agrarian area. The poverty percentage in the US has been pretty stable for a good long time now, indicating that there really isn't an increase in the dependent. And, if there is an increase in dependency, it is probably more due to other factors, like wealth inequality and bad housing policy than to "incentivization" through social programs. Now, if you want to extend the discussion to those who view themselves entitled to various government benefits that aren't dependent on them, like corporations, I might buy that.
  4. To be honest, I'm not sure any of that is actually true. It is a story that we have been fed. I no longer trust the motives or veracity of those who told us that story. I think there are certain people that are going to feel a stigma or shame, or at least gratitude for charity private or public. And then there are others that are not. And so it has always been and will always be. I do think perhaps that urbanization has concentrated the latter in ghettos, where they are more noticeable and perhaps promulgate a culture of it. And if anything has increased the latter mentality, it is more likely wealth inequality than social programs.
  5. And popehat's follow up, which is trenchant.
  6. Well, it is a 7-2 red state, so not like he's bullying librul states.
  7. I have the Kanno diver. It runs fast as to be expected from a cheap, unregulated movement. But the fit and finish on the case, dial, and bracelet is really (really!) something for the price point.
  8. If you can override the veto, you can start impeaching and convicting some motherfuckers.
  9. That's why they were trying to get her transferred to federal prison. Goddamn these people are bad at law.
  10. So is most of Larry's wealth. But he is somehow able to monetize it without liquidating it, or paying taxes. Hmmm.
  11. Didn't you read the national security strategy?
  12. Well, my point was, when you start invidiously discriminating (anti-wokeness), it gets kind of hard to stop with just brown people and women. Pretty soon, you're onto blind, deaf, mental handicaps, physical handicaps, fat people, Jews. Catholics and so on. Like the meme says, "everything I don't like is woke," "this engine is woke."
  13. I still use serif fonts and local rules that address it still require serif fonts. I got bored with TNR a long time ago and have been using Century Schoolbook, Garamond, Palatino and others. PTO now requires filing in docx format and recognizes only a limited number of fonts, so Liberation Serif for a lot of things now.
  14. It's a Jerusalem Cross. Became popular or was invented during the Crusades, the original anti-Muslim action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cross And yes, it is a symbol of Christian white nationalism.
  15. I guess it's DEI because it supposedly helps the visually impaired. So I guess we're gonna start deporting and punishing the blind and deaf next, maybe the elderly? But if changing fonts is wasteful, isn't it doubly wasteful changing back?
  16. One of the biggest mistakes of the current era is to assume someone that has a lot of money is smart or in any other way a person worthy of admiration. It is especially easy these days for the unworthy to amass wealth.
  17. In case you needed any further evidence that Dave Portnoy is a fucking dumbass.
  18. Well, to take an action like firing, you need evidence. Witnesses, a cum-stained dress, something. If no one fesses up and no one is talking, there's not a lot to go on.
  19. Yeah about the same except the voluntary/mandatory part. I went to the whitest HS in Texas. We had "club periods" on Wednesdays for an hour every other week. FCA was one of those clubs and I think they also had meetings in the mornings sometimes before classes started. Was at the very most a lame Bible study for jocks and wannabe jocks. Young Life wasn't even that. Met entirely out of school, but had a representative from the local PCUSA church that was popular at the time that would come around lunch and bs with kids in the cafeteria. Really overall non-entities in school life.
  20. Yeah, making a complete martyr out of a political operative was quite alarming.
  21. Well, Longhorn fans aside, particularly the internet ones, college sports have always been heavy on "feels," and anointing special players that in the grand scheme aren't that special, see, e.g. Gaskamp Award. NIL and related concepts are making everything 100% transactional, so there's not going to be many "feels" going forward.
  22. It's pretty fucking crazy. Not sure how this didn't make it on the board in general, much less that the guy was a UT grad right spang in our demographic.
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