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  1. 22 minutes ago, slorch said:

    yet they meted out the foundation of the greatest country in the history of the world.   LOLz

    Very repugnant.

    Please stop with the tired trope of American Exceptionalism. We are no better a group of human beings in this country than what resides in any other. Trying to claim any superiority over others is mostly a sad indictment on those who share that worldview that you used. 
     

    And also being a grown-up who uses LOLz on most of your messages is just odd. 

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  2. I voted about 30 minutes ago. I will never cast a vote the rest of my life that will be more satisfying than the one I submitted today. I stood in line behind about 150 or so people, but the line moved fast so it only took about 35 minutes to get inside and out of the rain. 

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  3. 3 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I get the impulse to vote for who you think is a "good" Republican, but you don't kill the cancer by letting part of it live.

    This is akin to listening to people on here or in our daily interactions with others talk about family members who are good people that are voting for Republicans. There is something not well in a person’s psyche right now if they are running as a Republican. The whole lot of them needs to be voted out down to the county clerk in every municipality across this country.

  4. On 10/24/2020 at 8:13 PM, pearlandhorn said:

    Biden literally stood on stage on Thursday and said he wants to phase out my industry in the next 5 years.  That's why I voted the way I did.

    This was not a wise use of your vote and that is not what he said. Your industry will be phased out and you will either be retired by that point or will have done what many in your profession will do and that is find a new job in the renewable energy industry.

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  5. 10 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Trump said

    The kids in cages are treated very well. 

    Immigrants who obey laws are idiots 

    Brought up Biden’s dead son

    Gaslight highlights include:

    The market will crash with Biden

    We are rounding the corner

    Fauci was wrong a lot 

    Biden is a criminal controlled by Russia 

    Joe is not from Scranton 

     

     

    This was only close if you ignore reality 

    The constant lying and just general negativity coming out of his mouth 24/7 is something that I will be glad to see gone in January. 

  6. 8 hours ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    I’m not gonna get into a global warming debate. I’ll just say that a shrinking but still large industry domestically and the jobs therein will trump global warming any day of the week when paired with the abundant nature of the resource and the cost. Particularly in this hurting economy. I’m just saying, there are more opportune times to have the renewables debate. Like, when oil is at $100/bbl and shalecos still aren’t really making money and being bailed out by a functioning A&D market.

    And that will happen again, and sooner than people think. This industry was dead in ‘82, ‘86, and ‘99, and probably more dead than it is now. It then went on a 15-year run featuring $147 crude. Probably best to have that argument then, when, you know, it’s economic. 

    This would be an example of a take that is not good. First sentence out front in it should probably tell ya.

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  7. 36 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    Another person chiming in to thank [mention]Thatguy [/mention] for his posts.

    I hate that that post and the good discussion it spawned is going to get buried in the daily garbage that is the Trump thread.

    Anyone up for a “Hey white people, you probably mean well and aren’t completely racist but you can probably do better!” thread?

    It might be a good time to ask the white people reading this thread to go read the book White Fragility. I read it this summer and it will definitely make you look at the world around you differently. I recommend it for folks who do not fully understand how we make black people feel through our words and actions that we may not even notice.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Thatguy said:

      Let me be candid and honest here my man. I cannot be sympathetic to your comments because this is how adult life has always been. From the moment I stepped out of my home and headed off to college I have always been a small percentage of the population. Outside of Atlanta, the more money you make, the further away from the Black Community you are, and it happens really quickly. Every job you take. Every community you move to. Every school your kid goes to. All the same. So you have two choices. Make people walk on eggshells around you at the office all day long, or crack a couple Black jokes and watch the "oh, I can kinda be myself around this one" expressions as nervous laughter turns to comfortable over time.

       This may not seem ideal from the outside looking in, but it's how we have to operate if we wanna break the color lines for the next generation. As a Black guy out here you realize pretty quick that you are "the Black friend" to your White coworkers, neighbors, and your kid's friend's parents. So in the interest of civility you go out of your way to make everyone in the presence of you comfortable with you, as you are the outlier to their otherwise regular existence.

      If there is one thing Trump has shown me it's this. People can say it's tax cuts. People can say whatever they want. But for a large majority Trump is protecting their fragile view of what America is supposed to be. Where certain demographics are supposed to be in the pecking order, and where they are supposed to live. That is why they can excuse all the bullshit. All the rhetoric. All the illegal activities, and efforts to turn the US into a dictatorship. They want to make sure they don't have to walk outside and look around and see faces that don't look like theirs. They don't want to deal with other cultures. They don't want to have to watch the things they say, or think about how they are offending someone. For a lot it's not so much racism as it is an aversion to tolerism. Trump embodies anti tolerism and they love him for it. Thus they will follow him anywhere, even to the depths of hell.

      

    I would not expect that. I protested for the first time in my life this summer. I went to DC after seeing George Floyd’s death and then seeing what happened to the protesters that were cleared for a freaking photo op for our big, dumb president. What I did at the three dozen or so marches I attended between NYC and DC was just listen. I listened to stories that went into great detail about police violence. Families torn apart by the Child Welfare system. Black women who were beaten and ignored by the system that is supposed to protect them. I just listened though. Listening is powerful in that I learn about how millions of people are forced to operate in America just to survive, more so it gives people the chance to be heard and that is what millions of people want. 
     

    I will never walk a day in your shoes or have to be treated differently because of the color of my skin, but one day when I start a family my children will solely because of being bi-racial. I would like to hope the world they enter into is better than the one we currently live in. I have a friend I have known since we sang in a church choir 20 years ago in Oak Cliff in Dallas and she has two young sons now. Her and her husband are preparing for that day when they explain to their boys about what to do when a police officer approaches. I will never know that fear of the police, but the kids I have one day will have to face that reality. We live in such a messed up country and we have way too many people trying to drag us back to the 1950’s

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  9. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

    This is great.

    Not sure about you but I was taught at an early age to code switch for some of the very reasons you’ve brought up in this reply and your initial post. 

    His post should be stickied to the top of the DT and every single one of those posters hiding in their safe space there should have to read it.

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  10. 3 hours ago, Thatguy said:

       As a black guy in the burbs, I go out of the way to make sure my neighbors are comfortable. That way I can go for a jog in peace and not rest in peace!!!

    I am honestly sorry that where we are as a country right now still has yourself and many, many others having to take steps like this to help ensure your own safety. You should be able to enjoy a nice jog in the evening without having a justifiable fear that someone might decide your time is up.
     

    It upsets me to know how much more progress still has to be made in order for yourself and millions of others to be able to achieve basic equality in this country. We all just have to keep fighting until it happens. Good on you though my man for being proactive and realizing what you have to, or better yet forced to do in this current racially unstable climate, by taking steps to make sure everyone knows you in the area where you live.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Mole said:

    I want to run up the score. The country needs to go full Spurrier in rejecting this stain of a movement.

    I’ll take the Cougar High-SMU beat down from 1989 times 1000 on the beat down scale. This racist party/cult/movement needs to be completely eradicated from American society. The Republican Party needs to be given the same treatment and rejection as the Nazi Party received after the war ended. Letting them continue to exist is absolutely detrimental to our ability as a country and collective citizenry to move forward and progress.

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  12. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    A lot of these people need something to fill whatever need it is that they have.

    It is a need to belong to a group. It doesn’t matter that the group is inherently evil. The need to belong to something they feel identifies with them is what draws them in. Not the first group of people taken in by the words of a cult leader and it won’t be the last.

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  13. I’ll be honest and say this one doesn’t shock me, at all. He has always come off kind of odd when I have listened to him talk. This though is crazy town. I want to say that this would ruin his career, but in this simulation he’ll probably wind up better off than he already is financially.

  14. 32 minutes ago, Gardner Barnes said:

     

     


    Fuck Goya. I used to buy their shit all the time. Fuck them.

     

     

    I didn’t buy a great deal of their products, but I did stop after I saw that press conference. Unanue was within his rights to be an opportunist and get up there and say nice things in order to curry favor with the head moron in charge. He obviously did not care about any negative reaction to what he did though.

  15. On 10/18/2020 at 12:09 AM, Celery Man said:

    i want my fucking tote

    I want a coffee cup! 
     

    I remember a childhood friend whose dad was working one of those PBS telethons growing up and that was the item they gave out. He was on whatever channel PBS is on for the Cen-Tex area and was giving away coffee mugs for donating a certain amount. It may have been channel 46 on the antenna if memory serves correct.

  16. 1 hour ago, Horn Dog said:

      It will suck to be a republican for a while while the party walks the desert like they deserve to do.

    They do not deserve to still be able to have a Republican Party. The party should be abolished and never allowed to re-form in this country in any way that even minutely resembles what it is and has come to represent. 
     

    If you cast a vote for even the candidate for county clerk for this party you should have your ability to vote taken away because you clearly are a detriment to the part of society trying to help this country recover from this colossal mess.

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  17. 26 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Should I just shut the board down? 

    The football board is just an incredibly backwards place to read. Page 7 of the Ehlinger thread about him staying for The Eyes of Texas was some of the worst most disturbing stuff I have read on this board. Everyone who liked that post (Some of the names that liked it are not shocking) should really re-examine who they are as human beings.

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