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RomaVicta

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  1. Start what? It's the climate thread. I don't engage in pointless argument. Maybe mind your own business or try to know what you're talking about.
  2. I didn't know what you meant by Greta. I'm a Greta, then. The below is true: She's worth a thousand of me and some high multiple of that of you. I suppose you dismiss her because she was just a girl when this started, and manly manful men don't want to have anyone think they could ever adopt the words of a female. Fuck you. Fuck your EROI. Fuck your devotion to obtuseness. Fuck your part in dragging down the republic. Fuck your face, fuckwad.
  3. We're trying to work up enthusiasm for the nominees. Sad that this thread is way down on page 2, but not surprising. Fuck the studios for not making a little more investment in quality. Saw Emilia Perez last night. Fabulous feat of imagination and filmmaking. I had no idea Zoe Saldaña had such talent. I was moved. I know there's some hubub about one of the leads political comments. That really shouldn't affect the judgment of the film, but it likely will. And what the hell is Saldaña doing nominated for supporting actress? It's her movie as far as I can see. Should be best actress.
  4. Here's a bigger question for you: What is the connection between denying science and global warming? I guess there was no world prior to fossil fuels. How could there be without individual vehicles carrying tens of millions of people to and from the same place everyday? No jet skis, motorboats, snowmobiles, power lawnmowers, leafblowers, ATVs? Existence of a world is impossible without that vital stuff.
  5. Thanks, Biff. I recall it being mentioned in passing back in college. Glad to see the explanation. Solid quote from article: Bingo!
  6. I believe they are also complicit in killing extant mass transit. General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy Thank goodness we now have laws and regulations restraining the robber baron urge! Never again will the wealthy have such sway!
  7. That's it. Most of us are very comfortable. It's human nature not to fiddle with that too much. I think this is why opposition must be unified in great numbers acting at the same time. What if we all decided not to pay taxes on time? Delay for a month, maybe. What if we all boycotted Amazon for two days? What if we all decided to stop all automobile traffic for two hours one day in every city? Those are all things that could be done in unison making it unlikely that many participants will be arrested. Many willing to be arrested could be in the forefront. Note that these are things that demand little from the participants. The greatest physical exertion would be sitting in your car for a few hours. Just trying to be realistic about what large numbers of people might be willling to do. We could all wear ribbons, but that's become embarrassingly impotent.
  8. Big news in College Station. Powerhouse added to 2026 schedule!
  9. Please do. I can't just watch this aspect of the coming fascism unfold without doing something. Thanks and, sad to add, be careful out there.
  10. Reading all of that is more of a sacrifice than I'm willing to make. Of course, joking. Thanks so much. My ignorance is partly remedied.
  11. Oh, don't be so woke.
  12. They are going to hate us so profoundly and righteously. The rusting carcasses of giant pick-ups and SUVs under globally warming skies will be our legacy. The oligarchs will likely come out okay.
  13. You could certainly be right. We'll just have to see. I don't think many are saying this is happening exactly like Germany. We started as a democratic experiment and improved on the model over the generations. I think our general misunderstanding of democracy in the last century has been that it's an evolutionary peak. The wise, pragmatic Greeks saw it all as a cycle. Monarchy, democracy, anarchy, monarchy... (I think that's right). Democracy and liberty as causes to fight for got deformed into Capitalsm and moral law in the second half of the last century. It's hard, apparently, to keep a vision of a country consistent over generations. I'm writing too much, aren't I? Free time and free thought.
  14. We're of like mind, and I know that. Thanks for this post, and you had/have a point.
  15. They will also have generated a new norm with two years to take hold. I think that's also part of the blitzkrieg strategy. I guess that fits with the Hitler metaphor, doesn't it?
  16. That reads like a football recruit commitment tweet.
  17. My point exactly. I cannot figure out a way to use words to change the minds of the anti-republic mob cheering their own subjugation. The firehose of falsehood, a new term to me for what we've all observed*, has effectively destroyed argument/discourse. Total exposure of the wicked intentions of Trump and now his (vicarious led?) team have no impact. Our faith in transparency seems to be a quaint relic of the old republic. I'm totally mystified trying to imagine a civil way to halt this dreadful change. Like others here, I begin to place my faint hope in the notion that the changes will be so devastating that the mob will leave their cult. The thing is, I'm not conviced it's a personality cult. I think Trump is just the personifcation of deeply held foundational beliefs. The GOPs were afraid to say the quiet part out loud and didn't really need to. Their fear, IMO, was based on the mob rejecting openly racist fascism. Trump proves that they love it. The Hate Cult won't die with Trump. I'll still be pleased when he's in the ground, but I don't think it will be the end of things. *Wasn't it called alternative means or something like that? I couldn't find it on google, but it's been referenced here, and there's even a thread, I think. Anyway, firehose of falsehood will do.
  18. Fuck that? I'm looking to join a cause, and I'm not doing it quite well enough? I shall try to be more like you in the future. Please lay out your exemplary ways so that I may follow. I'll try to be a better Aggie Longhorn by conforming. I'll start by becoming an anonymous scold.
  19. Yep, it's old paradigm. Trumpists have been getting shredded by smart people for eight years to no effect.
  20. Ah, of course. Austin's not far and I can support the cause remotely.
  21. It is like he's given us all a double oh.
  22. I don't get it.
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