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Mole

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  1. Early voting started today. I’ve never gone on day one before, but was surprised how busy it was. Regarding the ad with people reacting to Walker’s speeches, I’m not a fan of it. It probably plays differently in different communities, but from a rural perspective, it looks like more city folk dunking on a country bumpkin rather than highlighting the ridiculous things Herschel says. Herschel is completely without substance when he speaks, but I’m not sure if this actually highlights this. If you live in a rural area, you get used to people talking down to you. This ad conjures up a similar experience — people who don’t talk like anyone from around here making fun of someone from the country for saying dumb things. The fact that he’s actually saying dumb things can get lost when the focus is on the mockery. I hope I’m wrong. Maybe it doesn’t matter or maybe condescension plays well with the masses. Surely they’ve tested these ads and studied them, but this is issue that could hide in a huge blind spot depending on your bubble.
  2. “Anyway, happy thanksgiving.” IFB churches are self-selecting for extreme views that make for outrageous videos. They thrive off the negative attention. I’ve heard even committed Southern Baptists express concern about the absurd radical conservatism of IFB churches. That’s not to say there isn’t a problem, but the context of the hate preach is relevant.
  3. Early voting starts Monday. I’ve seen ads targeting Kemp voters pushing the Walker character issue. Something like, “I’m a republican and proudly voted for Kemp, but character matters so I’m voting for Warnock.” Here’s hoping it pulls some over.
  4. My little town had a turkey give away at the high school. Everyone I know has at least one free turkey sitting in their freezer right now. We’re just swimming in turkeys. Is this what turkey socialism is like?
  5. What is one phrase that I would like stricken from my memory?
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    LBGTQ

    I’m confused about the parades. Both are on the same day, at the same time, on the same route, but they are different parades?
  7. Texas 49 Kansas 10 2 punts, 85 yards
  8. So American Bin Laden announced another fatwa against America? Cool. I’ve actively avoided hearing even a second of that demonically possessed evangelical whisper since 1/6 and my life is better for it. I appreciate all of you taking the mental and spiritual health hit to keep me informed.
  9. Has the dunk on MAGA thread migrated over to the Hillary thread? I came here to laugh at sad terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.
  10. That may be the most Illinois-looking face I’ve ever seen in my life.
  11. Today won’t end with a Senator Walker. That one’s going to a runoff.
  12. I gotta be honest, I didn’t expect them to convert that 3rd down.
  13. I’m teaching a world music class this semester. We’ve been looking at music in religious practices and have checked out some pretty wild ones. Next time I teach the class I need to look into a snake handling service - all those cymbals.
  14. For one brief, beautiful run, Shaggy was the worldwide leader for sports and scat talk. Then the scat bros and sports bros couldn’t coexist and those of us in the middle were the real losers.
  15. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/2nd-woman-claims-herschel-walker-paid-abortion-speaks-92470465
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    Classical Music Thread

    Regarding Gould, he was a fascinating classical music communicator. Here he is taking about Bach and Hindemith and then playing Hindemith with a former UT music professor: Speaking of great communicators, if you have about six hours, the Bernstein Norton lectures are thought provoking. The musical/linguistic ideas he discusses turned out to be mostly nonsense at least taken as literally as he does, but it’s still worth the time to think about. Lecture 1:
  17. This is a fundamentally dishonest post. You should be better. Calling what’s happening here, in this community, “being mean” isn’t honest. Calling for “war” isn’t being mean. It’s the stuff of Russian trolls or those radicalized by Russian trolls. If you’re justifiable anger has been inflamed enough that this seems reasonable, check your media consumption. Charlie Strong was a terrible coach, but dead on about social media. This is an emotional, and possibly terrifying event. There are firm ways to deal with it without making everything worse. Whatever happened to the Biden real talk on MAGA fascism? That was great. The false dichotomy of either “start a war” or roll over is dishonest. Your post also isn’t grounded in reality. You don’t stop a civil war by starting a civil war. This is insane. Be mean, call them terrorists, arrest them, arrest their leaders and cheerleaders, and make Fox News lose its mind, but that’s not what happened here. Man gets MAGA radicalized in some MAGA forum and attempts to assassinate the Speaker. Surley poster: hey guys let’s all kill red hats. Other surley posters: totally cool. We’re just some online forum anyway.
  18. Not equivalent, obviously, and no one has said as such. But definitely on the same team. We can’t make Trump and friends stop terrorizing, but we can police our own community.
  19. Agreed. A poster here called for war on the red hats. He’s part of the same side as the red hat who tried to assassinate Pelosi.
  20. 1. MAGA terrorists should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 2. This should extend to those playing the Charles Manson/Osama Bin Laden roles in the MAGA movement. 3. While these events are unnerving and justifiably emotional, calling for a preemptive civil war on red hats — as has been done in recent pages — only makes things worse. Violence leads to move violence; dehumanization leads to more dehumanization; down the drain we go. 4. These kinds of calls for violence, enflaming passions, dehumanizing your neighbors, are either the work of Russian bots or Americans propagandized by Russian bots. Check your news sources and what’s informing your emotions and opinion. 5. The scope and reach of MAGA Bin Ladens is astronomically greater than a message board poster frustrated by bad football, but it’s all the same destructive framework. This isn’t “both sides” but rather an acknowledgment of what’s actually pushing us over the brink.
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    Kanye

    Revealing my ignorance here: is Ye pronounced “yee” or “yay?” I’ve never actually heard it spoken since I actively avoid situations like that. In my head it’s “yee “ but “yay” makes more sense as a shortened version of his name.
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    QB Slide Rule

    Install a flare gun in the QB’s uniform. Whenever the QB wants to give himself up, he just shoots off the flare. It’s clear and unambiguous.
  23. If we extended the window to three weeks, we could get both an expedited execution and a solid week of torturing. Win-win.
  24. Most Ted Talks are for people who feel like they are smart and want to be reminded that the feel like they’re smart. It feels good to feel like a smart person.
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