TwiceHorn

Post more. I always come away educated.

Well, she's broke because she's a fucking moron who thinks Trump gave his own money as stimulus. Geezus jumped-up Christ.

Savor it. I blew through S1-3 like a drunk on a bender. Now I am rationing S4.

Praise bands and worship teams.😬😬

Well, at least she's dressed like a whore and curses a lot. Fine Christian woman.

Last time I had the flu was worse than Covid. But I'm vaxxed for Covid and wasn't for the flu.

I think what this is referring to is subpoenas, mostly.

Greg Abbott (with a dash of Cornyn). 😬😬

I don't think that yellow mesh is fading. It's hair/head mung.

I'd bet something Chinese and cheap. https://www.romlicenwatch.com/a-complete-guide-to-chinese-watch-movements/ That must have been an interesting project. Clean sheet design?

Sheeeit, a Rolex President is under $50k. Most Pateks are around that. What a load of shit.

Black shoes with khakis is . . . a choice.

What a conundrum. On the one hand, you'd like to see the sell-off of Infowars generate some healthy revenue for the plaintiffs. On the other hand, given the shaggy/surly problem, purchasing any of those assets is far from a guarantee of deplatforming Jones. Thus, I think the assets are of little value. The one exception might be the IP. There's probably some value in using "Infowars" to trash Jones and his ideas and followers. I'm not sure, though, that Infowars "subscribers" are as astute as we are regarding finding the new Jones outlet, but I suppose the conspiracy sites might spoon feed them.

TRUTH IS THE ESTABLISHMENT!!!111!! Deep state!!11!!

Mackerel snappers. Papists. Idol-worshippers.

Well, I tend to dislike federal solutions to a lot of problems, particularly when they are pure pandering and something that should be left to the states, e.g, most federal criminal legislation of the last 30-40 years. But NIL screams for a uniform nationwide rule. And it does actually affect interstate commerce in a meaningful way, unlike the subjects of a lot of federal legislation. And, I am not so sure the actual substance of the rules matters so much as there is one set of rules for everyone to follow. On the matter of casinos, alcohol, tobacco, etc. here's Nevada's rule: An institution may: (a) Adopt a policy that imposes reasonable restrictions on a student athlete entering into a contract pursuant to section 6 of this act that provides for the student athlete to be compensated for the use of the name, image or likeness of the student athlete with an organization or person whose goods, services or mission are contrary to the mission of the institution; and Compare with Texas': (2) may not enter into a contract for the use of the student athlete's name, image, or likeness if: * * * (B) the compensation for the use of the student athlete's name, image, or likeness is provided: * * * (iv) in exchange for an endorsement of alcohol, tobacco products, e-cigarettes or any other type of nicotine delivery device, anabolic steroids, sports betting, casino gambling, a firearm the student athlete cannot legally purchase, or a sexually oriented business as defined in Section 243.002, Local Government Code;

Going through the airport in Seoul some years ago, they had cartoons explaining certain things relating to customs and airport procedures, I suppose to enhance comprehension among non-Korean speakers, etc. One of them pertained to prohibited plant and food products. It showed a person sticking a sausage or something in their suitcase and then it went through the conveyor and an inspector opened up the suitcase and this cartoon monster swept out and ate everyone in the vicinity. It was fucking hilarious.

Very good point about IVF, abortion, and contraception. That does seem to be a particularly Christian issue. Nonetheless, the commonalities among the disaffected are such that I think the disaffectation precedes the social groupings or communities. Social groups certainly stoke the anger and direct it in certain ways, but I'm not sure they create it.

Well, unions do involve collusion that has anti-competitive effects. And unions often have market power. There are antitrust exemptions for union activities. But, we adjudge unions to be sufficiently beneficial to grant them those exemptions. Probably because unlike "business," the alternative to unions would be thousands of sole proprietorships, a highly fragmented labor market. There is no intermediate organization that lacks market power, as in the case of corporations or other business entities. Labor actually needs some market power. It might be interesting if there was more than one union representing a segment of labor, so there was competition among labor organizations.

I think there's a bit of chicken/egg question there. Some sects of Christianity have believed for quite some time that the solution to our national ills, whatever they may be, is a more Christian nation. And they worked to break down the wall between church and state. Baptists and SBC, I'm looking directly at you. Ironically, if they really meant a more Christ-like nation, they'd probably be right. So these turds feel disaffected, not a valid part of society. So they seek community. Community in social media and Fox News. Community in Trumpism. Community in a certain type of church with a certain type of leader. Trump, who has no policy positions but likes to gripe, is as willing to accept those as any other disaffected types and do this half-hearted "I'm a Christian and we're persecuted" shit. I think if there were no fundagelical churches, we'd still have this problem. As evidence for this proposition, I'd cite the other western democracies that are much more secular than the US and have been for some time that have similar problems and no real fundagelical churches to speak of. Some of us (not me explicitly although I can't disagree) have been saying that if we continue to refuse to address the issues of the underclass, we'll get a revolt. Well, we've got one, it's just not what people were expecting. It's much stupider.

And, as I said on another thread religion/Christianity is not the cause of the disaffection that drives these fuckers, it's a symptom. A community in which they can find like-minded people led by demagogues willing to exploit them.

I think also that Sark was trying to jerk a square knot in the team's ass. He seems to get frustrated when the team is not performing to its potential and I think it colors his judgment. He did kind of inexplicable shit like that the first couple of years with Herman's croots, who chronically underachieved. Like "if I can only get them to score/convert here, it will turn them around."

Disagree. Christo fascism, like trumpism, is a community, a refuge from the perceived marginalization that drives both of them. And the minority majority issue is reaction - - who to blame - - to the fundamental disenfranchisement/marginalization that whites and rurals perceive. If we can address the perceived marginalization, the morons will return to just being morons.

Well, there are objective factors that make a knife better than another. However, whether those matter to a particular user is completely subjective. If you lose the things immediately, that's a different use case.

Well, sure, it's the "what the hell are we going to do with the morons" question. I didn't really finish my thought, but their rise is directly related to what we have wrought by ineffective, purposely in many cases, government. If we can ever undo what the last 30 years or so have wrought, we can go a long way to eliminating this shit. Starting with reducing income and wealth inequality.