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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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Well, committing war crimes shows you’re tough.
I think that’s how this works. I dunno, this is my first firsthand experience with burgeoning fascism, did I get that right?-
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Further proof that boomers don’t give a fuck about this country. The most selfish generation !
Seriously. The coming demographic wave of 1) young voters (shit, even including old fart Gen X types like me) and 2) more heavily minority voters bodes very ill for Republicans in the medium to long term.
That should give us hope, right? WRONG.
What it tells us is that there is no way that shrinking minority will ever give up power. They will not only continue to cooperate with, solicit, and happily accept foreign interference, disinformation, and propaganda, they’ll double their efforts and weaken any protections we have against it. They’ll disenfranchise so many voters it will look like Jim Crow again.
They are not going to give up power peacefully. Ever.
This will end in blood, because they will never allow it to end in ballots.-
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I'm a proponent of a national slavery museum, on the scale of the national holocaust museum. For me this would accomplish several things. Yes, a place that never lets us forget but more importantly that this is and should be in our past. It also would educate those who may not know more of the stories and tragedies such as the one in this thread. I'd say D.C. and somewhere in the south should be where they should be located.
The sin didn’t end with slavery.
Jim Crow.
Lynchings. Pogroms murdering and running entire populations out of town.
Dogs. Fire hoses. Beatings.
Rodney King. James Byrd.
10 year prison sentence for a black kid, white kid gets probation.
Do we want to “perpetuate a victim mentality?” Of course not. But you know what MUST come first? 1) Confess our national sins. 2) Go and sin no more. Shit, it’s freaking biblical it’s so clear.
Here, in THIS nation, we must do those things as they relate to THIS nation. Not what happened to someone in Egypt 1000 years ago, or even in Pakistan or China last year. No, what happened here, by us. That’s all. That’s how we the people - all of us Americans - actually heal and live together. It won’t work right until we do that.
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I did it, solemnly, prayerfully, and with a heavy heart.

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You know there is no answer to how far we go back to recognize people were discriminated. I guarantee there are people on this board that received benefits especially in education that weren’t held back from people of color. Or non-white people were legally not allowed to emigrate to the US until ~50 years ago. At least the numbers were kept at extremely small compared with Europeans.
no one is asking you to give away half of your wealth or future income but you’re barely willing to acknowledge it happen.
This. There’s no path to peace and healing in any relationship - and this country and society is absolutely a collective relationship - without acknowledging the pain caused in THIS relationship.
That’s where it has to start. It’s not about self-flagellation, or punishment, or any of that. It’s about opening our eyes wide, seeing these truths (like Tulsa), and not looking away. Seeing what they did. And having EMPATHY for our fellow Americans, who suffered greatly at the hand of other Americans. Acknowledgment. Empathy. That’s how you begin to build a truly successful relationship and community. It’s basic humanity.-
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How does one fully acknowledge and what is this "we" shit? I'm for it happening so everyone can move on.
I am where I am in life in part - for better or for worse - because of my parents and grandparents and great grandparents circumstances. That’s true for all of us. For many of us, that’s a pretty favorable position. For others, it’s unfavorable - the grandson of sharecroppers is less likely to be successful than the grandson of a doctor.
And for that matter, generations of institutionalized racism still manifest themselves in everyday actions (law enforcement is an easy example).
Black people got fucked in this country. By slavery. By Jim Crow. By open murder and genocide. By brutality and cruelty in the civil rights era. By a legal and law enforcement system that still carries many markers of that history, and behaves that way. Telling them “hey, it’s all cool now, what are you bitching about” is jaw-droppingly awful.
There are literally people alive right now who are not as well off as they would have been had their successful and prosperous grandparents not been violently run off of their property in Tulsa that day. And Tulsa is not an isolated incident.
If WE ever say words like this is MY country, WE won WWII, etc....then we also own this shame. We are a nation, and we are all in this together.-
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What’s happening to Betts?
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A glimpse of history shows the worn out justification that was used: black man accused of harming a white woman. You almost have to believe that those excuses are created after the fact or were used to start an action everybody wanted to take anyway they could.
In thinking about it, I'm reminded again about how Texas A&M is like a time capsule of bad things glorified as good things. All of the riots they started and violence they caused in other ways is always justified by a defense of innocence or the weak.
I didn't know about this massacre or the Slocum massacre.
It makes me sick that it happened.
It makes me sad to read about it.
It clarifies Black rage. This also makes clear why seeking out Black History actually has more of a purpose than I allowed for. My ignorance must support an African American's sense that nobody gives a fuck about what makes generations of American Black people angry and, necessarily, afraid.
I've been embarrassed as a white man that Blacks are treated different in so many subtle and unsubtle ways. Seeing this kind of history covered up or, worse, justified in any way, allows me an inkling of what is behind the way some black Americans feel when when they receive a different look or the hint of suspicion.
They hanged us, shot us, called out the National Guard and bombed us on a city street.
People are alive today who have heard the stories first hand from the survivors. How stunning that the story would be doubted (I would have doubted it) if related outside of a group of people of color.
It happened more than once, you know.
No, I didn't. I'm pretty ashamed of that. I'm ashamed the white people making decisions decided to hide it from my white suburban boy ears. I could have used the insight. I'm tolerant of anybody who doesn't hurt anyone else. I could have been more empathetic had I known these things.
At least we could count on a comic book to preserve and speak important history where scholarship and educational decision makers have failed us.
I don't like living in Idiot World. I can't really very well imagine what it's like for people living in Scary Violent Racist Idiot World.
Edit: Oh, almost forgot:
But, you know, blacks people should just get over it, it’s all cool now....say people who live on a little plot of land their grandparents owned...say people who have lived in the same town safely for generations....etc etc.
Until we fully acknowledge and admit our sins, we will never get past them. And that’s not going to happen. We’re going to keep that poison in our body politic forever, because we’re too cowardly to own it and puke it out.-
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The self-beclowning is nearing the point of singularity.
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Couldn't listen to more than 15 seconds of that. I would love to be put in cage with that fucking pencil neck. Not that it matters but that dude looks more ethnic than everyone in my family and we're Mexican.
Nuremberg.
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You know, it’s the little things that make the parallels to the Nazis so perfect. Like the fact that the “thought leaders” of the movement are complete social and intellectual rejects. These guys are fucking losers of the highest order. But they figured out how to band together, and play some other idiots for fools, and here we are.
It’s improbable that a band of fucking losers would take over a country that most observers would think is sane....but we’ve seen it before.-
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So are we gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission like Germany did? Because I think we will.
Fuck that. We’re gonna need a Nuremberg. And some gallows. -
So are we gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission like Germany did? Because I think we will.
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1 minute ago, Ghost of LL said:
Yes, you did, didn't you? I might visit you in a few to see if you have one in particular that you might be interested in sharing.
Sorry, ledge is full. Moose out front shoulda told ya.
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7 minutes ago, bolverk said:

^^^When we actually take voters into account instead of dirt.
[Rorschach] I don't see why you had to post a picture of your naked mother baking a pizza while having sex with the mailman [/Rorshach]
[Surly] But we're glad you did. [/Surly]
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So only three tiny NW "Blue" states total, the rest are blue cities surrounded by Red states
The judges also would have accepted “economic engines surrounded by drags on the economy.” For accuracy’s sake.-
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5 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
Moscow this time, at FSB HQ no less:
Dude was a security type who might have had some kind of beef relating to the FSB not hiring him. Or he might have been turned by the wily Ay-rabs.
"He done been zombified! And he started talkin' all funny-like!"
Proof that Russians and redneck-Americans are indeed closely related.
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Jeff Drew.
This thread.
The OP.

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:
if Trump wins in 2020, they're going after first generation Americans born to illegals
First? Just to illegals?
If you think this doesn't end in good old fashioned racial purity laws, you haven't read any books.
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23 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Trump can say and do whatever because he’s beaten down the GOP so much a single person cannot hit him back. The very worst criticism that he gets from the right is “well that isn’t what i would have said.”
This. I fucking love the supposedly "respectable" GOP voices who say "I wouldn't necessarily say things the way he does" or "maybe he shouldn't be on Twitter so much." No, the problem isn't that he's clumsy with words, or twitter gets the best of him.
The problem is that he's an utter fucking dick, he's proud of being an utter fucking dick, and you have sworn your undying fealty to an utter fucking dick. Which makes you a pathetic bag of shit.
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Just now, Biff Tannen said:
So perfect. He's such an imbecile.
Jesus. Every time I think he's said the stupidest thing ever.....he lowers the bar. There is no "maximum stupidity." There's always something stupider. There is no stupidest.
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3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
wat
A visual representation of the term "beclowning himself." I like it.
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3 minutes ago, Blotto said:
While I still certainly consider SHS to be a dishonest, rancid cunt, even she had the self awareness to realize that her tweet was a bad look. As a result she deleted it and apologized. No way in hell Donald would have done that. At the first sign of media uproar, he would seized the moment to double down, and switched over to "Stutterin' Joe Biden" for the next few weeks on twatter.
And....this is the important part....suffer ZERO consequences and ZERO loss of support.
Perhaps the worst thing that Trump has taught us and all future politicians is that decency and sincere apologies are for suckers. Never admit any mistake, never apologize for anything. Double down and say fuck you to all detractors. That's the winning strategy now.
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30 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:
State religion implies a Devine right to rule. No bueno.
A divine right to rule is no bueno.
A Devine right to rule might be okay, because Devine is the location of the delicious Triple C steakhouse, and also the final resting place of my grandpa and uncle.
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Official "Fuck this stupid ass-commercial" thread
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Lots of stupid people think that having wealth means you have great merit in whatever you do. So the richer you act, the better you must be. I ain’t saying that’s correct at all - I’m just telling you how a lot of American consumers think.