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Brisketexan

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  1. Science is woke communism, libtard.
  2. CSB: she was my actual landlady when I was in law school. She was pretty good lookin’.
  3. Or…how about this? What is this shit? Either of my parents owned a guitar or ever even tried to play one.
  4. Yeah…there’s just one personality: utter narcissist asshole.
  5. I’d argue if I could. I think their CD and cassette collection has some good country, but dear god…there are probably 1,000 of them. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
  6. Pro tip: sticking your dick into the soft serve machine is frowned upon. Trust me. @atomheartbevo told me.
  7. FIF, umm, other people around here.
  8. Don't worry. The progression isn't done. They're going to go back to the "actually, he was a No Kings leftist" and finally "he is a political prisoner, pardon him." It's an unbroken pattern.
  9. I love how "woke" is now just a word that means "anything that doesn't support the Trump narrative." The MAGA ability to just make up definitions for things that has no tie to reality: woke, DEI, CRT...it's impressive to watch.
  10. "Castrated" would have been a better verb, but the judges will accept "neutered." Oh, and he'll be fine. He has in hand the personal data of every single American, which he will be using to reap enormous profit in the coming months. Big Balls will be doing just fine, don't you worry about him.
  11. I mean....it's like you totally missed the eagle strapped with a gatling gun. It's like I don't even know you, man.
  12. Whatever. None of that matters going forward. There's a material chance that he's going to serve a third term, no matter what. He can do it, for reasons.....wholly-owned SCOTUS out front shoulda told ya.
  13. No, he asked how TRUMP could convince Israel to call off the dogs. The leader of a dominionist fundagelical death cult (sure, he doesn't actually believe any of that stuff, but needs all those believers to love him) is never, ever going to "restrain" Israel.
  14. And what "light" would that be, that I don't yet see?
  15. You might indeed. The analogy is far from perfect, but it doesn't completely miss the mark, either.
  16. Fucking idiots. Steal $100 million? You don't stick around. You GTFO.
  17. Israel calling off the dogs, or sending the dogs in, isn't the play you have to worry about. The only next military step left is a ground invasion, and Israel simply can't pull that off in force (sure, they could send in some special ops troops maybe, but they won't be able to accomplish the goals in play here). Only one possible actor can....
  18. I actually do believe that you believe what you say in your stated conclusion. I just find the "all roads lead to Rome" approach of "nothing shitty happening in the ME happens without bad guy Israel and their butt buddy the US" lazy, overbroad, and thus incorrect. Which is frustrating, because Israeli shittiness and US bullshittery unquestionably ARE material factors in much ME shit, but when everything comes back to those being THE "but-for" cause, it necessarily absolves all the other players of responsibility, no matter how much you say that's not what you're doing. "Sure, Hamas and Assad and the Iranian regime are bad, but, but-for Israeli shittiness, they wouldn't be an issue" absolves the other players. Being a factor vs. being the but-for cause are two different things, and the distinction matters. I am not unsympathetic to you, the things you have stated concerns about, etc. - again, you can read my posting history. I'm just telling you that a one-note message of "sure, X is bad, but but-for Israel, we wouldn't have X" is a lazy message that necessarily dismisses any complexity and absolves all other parties of blame or agency. And that's frustrating as shit, especially from someone who arguably does not believe that.
  19. But renaming it to "Operation In Bed by 8:00 p.m. Rubber Mallet" just doesn't sound as cool.
  20. Cool. You've seen my posts. You know that I am regularly and often "on your side," offer positive rep for a decent take, etc. I'm just telling you that I -- as that same person who agrees with much of your reasoning -- finds the constant "but Israel" shit exhausting and frustrating as hell. I find it no less exhausting than the counterpart "everything Israel does is justified because Israel good Hamas bad" shit takes we see plenty of around here.
  21. We learned a long time ago - and Ukraine has proven a stark example of that in modern warfare - airstrikes don't "win" shit. You don't accomplish real goals on the ground without....boots on the ground. Want to take out Iran's nuclear sites? It's going to take troops going into each of those facilities to do so. Anything less is mostly a show that results in buying some time, maybe. Countdown to Trump being outraged that people are questioning his tactical and strategic brilliance, and ordering a ground invasion because goddammit he said so?
  22. Response for some. Pretext for others. When it comes to Iranian militarization of same, almost ENTIRELY pretext. There is no reason for Iran to be fomenting war against Israel (and save me any "well, Iran really cares about the Palestinian people" -- that's utter bullshit and everyone knows it). I just find perpetual victim-blaming -- which your hatred of Israel inevitably becomes and is -- infuriating. Note that goes for Gaza too, and the people who shrug their shoulders at the ethnic cleansing there saying "well, they shouldn't live where Hamas is" or some shit. A lot of fucking excuses for hatred and atrocities, with zero fucking ownership of any human solutions. It's fucking sickening and exhausting, and it's only going to lead to more dead Israelis and jews (because the Palestinian cause and grievances are "righteous") and more dead Palestinians (because Israel's defense against/response to attacks by Hamas etc. is "righteous"). Gonna "righteous" themselves both right into fucking extinction, so one of you can claim moral superiority over the blood-soaked rubble. What a victory to look forward to.
  23. ....by CHOICE. We are eschewing, and fully sabotaging, all of our soft power in exchange for an approach that offers only bullying and violence. It's as pathetic a bit of short-term thinking as I think I've ever seen, but man, are we COMMITTED to it.
  24. Sigh. You know how viscerally - and correctly - you respond to folks who just say simple shit like "Iran is bad because Iran is evil," or "the common thread in terrorism is mooslems?" Well....your one-note response of "whatever we're talking about, it all comes back to being Israel's fault" is the other side of the same simple-minded coin. While we should not absolve Israel of responsibility for the chaos and violence that has plagued the region for decades, your responses all come back to making Israel the sole owner and root cause of.....everything. But for Israel, none of these bad actors would have been forced to be bad actors. Fucking bullshit. Iran is a great example of that. There is ZERO reason for Iran to be an existential enemy of Israel. The primary reason it is.....is because it's totally controlled by a theocratic regime that needs a good external enemy to rally the folks around to distract from oppressive fuckery at home (yeah....a play the US is dusting off like crazy these days). As exhausting as it is to hear the usual suspects blame everything on those dirty mooslems, it's just as exhausting, and as invalid in light of complexity, to hear your constant drumbeat of "everything that is bad in the world is the fault of Israel and US support for same." It's all like listening to "Boomer Sooner" over and over again. No variety or complexity, and sister-fuckingly stupid. There's ALWAYS time to abandon the Kurds, of that you can be sure.
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