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  1. 9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Are you saying American Evangelicals don't believe they're being persecuted, sir?

    Deep in their hearts, most of them know better, but their entire worldview is built on victimhood.  They need to at least feel persecuted, or the magic doesn't work, and more importantly, the money doesn't flow.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

    Well this shit is absolutely real (comments are priceless) and I bet it tastes good. This is not AI or made up. It’s real. And most of you secretly want one. ☝️ 

    Damn.  They've always struggled to fill that tiny stadium, to the laughter of all of college football, but you have to commend them for taking creative steps to try and bring in the local community.  Fort Worth also has a sizable Filipino community, so adobo hot dogs must be on their way.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Parliament said:

    My God the risk every one of those people took.  Go into a hot, emotional, irrational crowd of strangers and just hang out.  SO easy for a second hit.  

    Just go home.  Go home and be sad.  Go home and be mad.  All you gotta do to make it a a little less bad is NOT BE THERE.

    People, on the whole, are fucking stupid.  

  4. 11 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    The shooter getting away after shooting wouldn’t be impossible, but I imagine it would be difficult for the shooter to get away carrying his rifle. 

    If parking access at that campus is as shitty as parking access is at most campuses, I doubt his getaway vehicle was close.   I’m assuming the FBI will create a perimeter and then start working inward looking for either the weapon or somebody with a weapon.  So I assume they have shut off streets and are searching vehicles near campus.

    Or maybe Special Agent Johnson of the FBI is shutting down the power to the whole area. 

    Do we know if anyone still works at the FBI?

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  5. Lots of comments in this thread about how kids spend all their time online, have no face-to-face interactions, etc, and that's why they're intolerant of opposing viewpoints.   I'm not buying that premise for one second.  First, intolerance is nothing new, and if anything, the oldest members of our society are much more intolerant than the youth, just as it's always been.  We are an intolerant culture, and always have been.  If young people are doing it it's because they learned it from their elders.  One dipshit aggie kid who was clearly coached through her attack on a professor doesn't change this.    Kids spend significantly more time in an environment with people from diverse backgrounds, where they must learn to navigate challenging personalities and situations while discussing topics that are prone to being inflammatory, than the vast majority of adults do.   99% of adults are hiding in a bubble and rarely communicate with anyone face-to-face who isn't a coworker or a close friend, and that's only if they actually work outside of their home.  Even then, most companies tend to be filled with very similar people, because that's how hiring works.   Calling out the only segment of our society that actually has to deal with diversity daily rings hollow to me.

    What's going on culturally with political correctness, cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, was not started by young people.  Some young people are influenced by intolerant adults, for sure.  The shouting down of speakers on college campuses rarely starts with a student movement.  This aggie nonsense was clearly not driven by that student, who could barely string a sentence together and thinks that the president has his own laws.  It's outsiders, whether parents, political activists, or just plain old shitheads, that stir up young people.  The mush brains that people under 25 are walking around with aren't coming up with a damn thing on their own outside of how to party and fuck, and even those things are being ruined by adult influence.

    I do agree the Internet has made things worse, but there's a reason Facebook is the big gaping asshole of the Internet.  It's where all the old people are.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

    Mrs. Brat grew up in her grandpa’s house in Taylor 1949-63.
    It has the big upstairs sleeping porch in front, and a smaller one in back. 
    Everybody in three generations of her family slept out on those screened in porches 95% of the time. 
    After we married in 1967, I slept out on the front one several times when we visited. It was an ok experience except for the noise from the train yard a quarter mile away in the early morning hours when trains were being assembled. 
    Her grandpa, a prominent builder, built that big house in 1910.

     

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    I rode right past that house on Saturday, and it caught my eye.  Very cool to read the connection.

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  7. That response can't be real.  If it is, I really hope that kid has a father with a violent streak who can teach that douche what really happens when you aren't fast enough.

    Sadly, he's not wrong about Polish "insult" laws regarding public figures, which is one of the dumbest fucking laws in the world. 

  8. 10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, it's sales, where connections and "personality" can go a longer way than sheer smarts.  And it is inherently a big ticket item, because that's where it's at with sales.

    But it doesn't take much real understanding of the product, unlike a lot of other big-ticket sales jobs.

    And commercial real estate and development can involve some intelligence and skill, but certainly doesn't have to, just the ability to talk bankers or others out of their money.

    No doubt there are intelligent people involved.  It's just not a requirement.  No judgment from me, either.  I sometimes look back at the hard work of obtaining an education and the endless hours put into carving out what has been a successful legal career, and think, "I should have gone into real estate."

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  9. 49 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It's not completely fair, but between Witkoff, Trump, and the January 6 realtors, real-estate people could be the dumbest identifiable group of people that make good money in the country.

    Without question, and it didn't start with these buffoons.  There is no other industry where the barrier to entry ratio between intelligence and income potential is wider.  Financial planners/insurance salesmen are close, but real estate professionals (whether developers, realtors, etc.) take the cake.  If you're a dumbass with loose ethics and you like money, it's right there waiting for you.  

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  10. Went in to pick up some parts and shoot the shit with folks at the dealer, and somehow left with this bad boy last Saturday.   I still have to break it in before doing anything too crazy with it, but it's been a lot of fun thus far. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    He’s trolling. “DC is safer, also I don’t live there”. He’s fucking with you and all of us. We all read how the new US attorney in DC won’t charge people for carrying assault weapons and we’re watching the deployment of US military- not in SE, NE, or Anacostia - but to monuments and tourist spots. Everyone who has two brain cells knows this isn’t about crime.
     

    Oh but don’t say how many federal agents that refuse to identify themselves act like a police force that’s secret. Bc if you accurately compare their actions to SS and Nazis then that’s somehow proving you just don’t understand how to debate anyone.

    Just baiting and bomb throwing bullshit. Next he’ll probably post about trans people in the military 

    Anyways, people need to get better at ignoring trolls

    Maybe. This guy posts so much stupid shit on here, I also struggle to believe it's not an act just to rile people up.  Then I remember who was twice elected to office, and it becomes more believable that people are this misinformed and proudly belligerent about it.  The current state of education in this country is likely to exacerbate this problem, rather than alleviate it.

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