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  1. 6 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

    If this dude gets away with it, I'm damming up the creek on my place. Imma get mine.

    This mindset is how we destroy what's left of the social contract. Fuck that rich racist asshole for stealing water from the LCRA, and fuck our state for giving him cover. 

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  2. 7 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    His continued efforts to clarify the law are pushing me closer and closer to believing we should just guillotine anyone who is worth more than a few million dollars.

    truly a credit to lawyers everywhere then

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  3. 5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Christian fundamentalism is by any measure substantially more dangerous to Americans than Islamist fundamentalism. There's many millions more of them, they have the sympathies of law enforcement all around the country, and they hold serious political power. 

    They are blocking THOUSANDS of officers promotions because of fundamentalist extremist christian beliefs. That's materially harming the readiness of our military. 

     

    But mooslims amirite???

     

    It's like a chunk of posters who want to MAGA never left 2001-2003 America. 

  4. @Macklemore your racism schtick about a 5th column of Arabs and Muslims taking down America is outrageous and I'm amazed that @immamac has let you shit on his board in that way for so long. Especially even moreso when YOUR FUCKING PARTY is actively blocking US military promotions and imperiling the stability of our service members lives by fucking with the pay vis a vis budget fuck fuck games. 

    Quit trying to derail the DT thread by interjecting your self hating racism. Stop being a pussy and post your shit in a place where people can reply without Blacklab punishing them

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  5. Japan seems like a ticking time bomb of technical debt and a bunch of over-promoted company men who don't know know what they're doing. Hell it was a big story in 2018 that their minister of cyber security had never even used a computer 

    As more old folks age out, their tribal knowledge of how to maintain the old systems goes with them. I've seen it happen at every sufficiently large and old organization that I've worked with that still has a business critical mainframe somewhere 

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  6. 32 minutes ago, Viper said:

    Not sure why I'm surprised but this whole massacre is becoming a conspiracy theory

     

    That dude's pinned tweet is a 2022 interview with tucker carlson that he's SUPER proud of. Doesn't seem like the sort of person I would trust to be responsible with information and their platform

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  7. 3 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

    Rereading the carrier group movement. Interesting to me that A10s are part of the package. Tells me we are ready for ground support along with air support. 

    USAF is happy to run those things into the ground so they can finally sundown the program - they really don't hang anymore in the modern threat environment

  8. 54 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    JFC, do they just want the entire world to go full scorched earth.  What's the play here?  Any negotiation play they had went out the window

    looking back to history, it's not uncommon for an invading or aggressive force to "burn the ships" through atrocities that fully commit their forces (and anyone else affiliated with them) fully to the fight. Imperial japan used that tactic in WWII to ensure that their soliders everywhere would fight to the last dying gasp AND that their enemies would play their part to give the aggressors no choice but to fight. 

    When atrocities happen, mercy goes out the window and there are fewer solutions left remaining that aren't ethnic cleansing.

    The extremists want to crank up the temperature and increase the chaos so they have a more free hand to be bastards and do their evil.

  9. 20 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    It's unfathomable to me that they thought killing/kidnapping raving kids, grandmas, or just moms would be a productive move.

    Call me crazy, but what if they weren't ordered to do atrocities and it's more a matter of the extremist radicalized fighters making the most of an opportunity to pay back generations of wrongs - real or propaganda. Once that match was lit, no telling what millennia of sectarian violence was going produce in terms of atrocities. 

     

    20 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Like I've said a few times and feel like I've made clear (I hope), I'm generally supportive of the Palestinian plight, but this kind of barbarous, murderous shit goes far beyond what any sort of legitimate resistance should be even considered. They've brought wrath and vengeance upon themselves along with any innocents.

    It was a tactic in WWII imperial Japan to force their soldiers to do atrocities so that it would remove all other options but to fight to the death or suffer reprisals from the enemy. I really do think there's an element of that at work here too from Hamas. Remove all other options for the Palestinians and local islamists, even if they wanted nothing more than to be at peace

     

    Edit: I realize these two things are somewhat at odds with each other. I'm just thinking out loud and seeing what fits

  10. 9 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yeah and also the "two sets of laws" is really done and dusted.

    We'd all be prosecuted for bank fraud if we did what Trump did, most likely.  These loans were all done during the Obama Administration when the beloved Preet Bharara was US Attorney with jurisdiction.

    They completely failed to prosecute him.  And a lot of others like him.  And limitations is long passed.

    As much as we hate Trump, I don't think it's a particularly good idea to try to fix that gross omission with other, non-criminal statutes.

    He violated 63(12).  Good, that's been proven.  I'm just concerned that this corporate charter remedy is not going to stand up on appeal. It may, great.  Fuck Trump.

    But I think there may be otherwise valid reasons that it doesn't hold up.

    Jesus Christ dude it's like you would be arguing against Capone going to prison for tax fraud because the punishment wouldn't match the specific crime he was charged with. 

    Sometimes with uniquely large and terrible criminals, you have to throw the book and the footnotes at him. Miss me the slippery slope counterargument, trump is a historically unique criminal. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    A few have alluded to this, but I am increasingly in belief that the intelligence on how to get around Israel’s defense was one of the many things I am 99.9% certain ole DJT let his buddy Putin know about.  Russia tells, Iran, Iran lets their useful idiots Hamas know, and BAM.  More destabilization.  

    100% aligned on this speculation - we do KNOW that trump shared Israeli intelligence with Lavrov in the oval office, but we don't know what he shared. It was a BFD at the time that was handwaved away and drowned out by the all the other crazy shit going on

    https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/528511980/report-trump-gave-classified-information-to-russians-during-white-house-visit

    No telling what sort of knock on effect that sort of shit will have moving forward - we've already seen a bunch of CIA spooks get got, I wonder if our nuke info left in the shitter had anything good on it 

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  12. 32 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    It's going to get worse.  Much worse.  Your legislature is presently meeting to figure out how to make it so, right here in Texas.

    To that point, the lege has already passed a law to let schools fire their counseling staff in favor of unlicensed chaplains

    https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/24/texas-legislature-chaplains-schools/

     

  13. 1 minute ago, bolverk said:

    Not sure if previous reports that Egypt had sent warnings are true. Once things settle down, I'm sure that's going to be a contentious allegation in Israel.

     

    I've read early commentary calling this "Israel's Pearl Harbor" - considering how much of an intelligence blunder this appears to be, that's a pretty apt name

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  14. 32 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    So while it’s terrible seeing some of the behaviors of Israel towards the Palestinians, ultimately they can stop it, and just won’t. I find it difficult to blame Israel nearly as much as the other side given all of this.  

    I think Israel would have more support if they weren't running an apartheid state - and Hamas would have less material and political support for their atrocities against Israel as reprisals. Everyone sucks here, but ultimately you're right. The root of the problem is a disagreement over Israels fundamental right to exist.

    It's no coincidence that all of this is happening on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.

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  15. 27 minutes ago, BRLA said:

    In a bit of a surprise to me - the principal has walked everything back, apologized to the student and her family and re-instated her scholarship.  I live here, so to see this kind of a walk-back is uncommon, typically guys like this principal just double down and charge ahead.  He must have received an immense amount of blowback from  the school board, or more probably the school board attorneys as he was most likely going to get himself and the board sued into oblivion.  May still happen as the student is not completely pleased with his apology..

    https://www.wbrz.com/news/walker-high-school-principal-reverses-course-on-revoking-scholarship-student-government-position-from-student

     

    Based on the last 2 sentences from that article, I'd say legal action is still coming

    That post prompted a response from Kaylee via TikTok. In it, she rejected the apology and took issue with parts of the principal's statement.

    Kaylee says the matter has jeopardized the scholarship and suggested that legal action would follow.

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  16. 28 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

    Could totally see this being a diversion orchestrated by the Russians through the Iranians. 

    That would be a spectacular miscalculation for russia because Iran is about to see all of it's drone factories get asploded

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