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  1. Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Mind numbing that we have a ex-President/current candidate that communicates in this manner.

    We really are well into the Idiocracy world.

    Seriously.  Imagine the CEO of a publicly traded company who made such an infantile public statement.  The fucking stock price would drop 25% that day, with good reason.

    And we're about to appoint that man to the highest position on planet Earth.  Fucking amazing.

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  2. How many of y'all think that the lesson cops take from this case will be "well, we shouldn't pull all that criminal shit that Goines pulled?" 

    Vs. how many of y'all think the lesson that cops will take from this case will be "okay, we need to make sure we do a much better job covering our tracks/creating deniability than Goines did?"

    Rhetorical question, we all already know the answer.

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  3. This right here [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention].  You did nothing but confirm to him that he is right and the commenters are wrong.  You of all people should know that the cog dissonant crowd needs the plank pulled out of their eye, then to be whacked about the head with said plank.  Your subtleties are lost on them.

    Kinda thought that just highlighting the leopards are eating his face would start to turn his eyes towards the light. You can’t undo years worth of thinking in one post.
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  4. 7 minutes ago, RPM said:

    Looks like people are listening.

     

    Yep.  This has real Katrina - Rita vibes from 2005.

    Two back-to-back major-ass storms (not a common thing, last happened nearly 20 years ago).

    First storm does epic and catastrophic damage, getting national attention and wide-eyed "HOLY SHIT" from anyone paying attention.

    Second storm comes along, and authorities say "this one looks as bad as the first storm, maybe worse."

    People rightly remember the fresh lesson - from literally days before - of the ass-kicking administered by the first storm, and say "Fuck that shit, I'm outta here."

  5. 13 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Tolerance can be good or it can be bad. It all depends on what's being tolerated.

    This, always this.  It is very important to understand that tolerance is not a moral precept -- it is a treaty/compact:

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    Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.

    The protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms.  That is, I have NO obligation to tolerate your intolerance.  In FACT, by terms of the treaty, I have an obligation NOT to tolerate your intolerance.  You have broken the compact.  I should enforce the compact.

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  6. 13 minutes ago, ABSR said:

    You mean like Ukraine did when they relinquished all their nukes to Russia for concessions and agreement of sovereignty?   Not sure the lesson learned from this is to give up your nukes and it will make your country more secure.

    That's his point.

    One of the worst geopolitical lessons/outcomes of the war on Ukraine is "if you have nukes, never ever ever give them up....and if you don't have any....get some ASAP." Russia is fighting a war of nuclear blackmail, and has asymmetrical power to do so because it has nukes and its opponent doesn't.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Goredho said:

    It is hilarious that the only two possible explanations are:

    A) Government weaponization of the weather against its citizens, or

    B) Act of God

    Well, NONE of these people believe in anthropogenic climate change (including the AF meteorologist).  Because it's clearly preposterous that hundreds of years of pumping carbon into the atmosphere would have the effect that carbon is known to have in the atmosphere, and causes small, incremental changes to climatological patterns that manifest in adding an extreme margin to some weather events.....but it's TOTALLY credible to believe that "they" have a "trillion watt laser" that can create and steer hurricanes.

    These are not smart people or critical thinkers.  They decide on a conclusion, then "rationalize" their way to it, selectively considering some possibilities, while ignoring literally thousands of other data points.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:

    I’m confused by this. I thought MAGA Texans wanted people to walk around freely carrying AR-15s. 

    Oh, they do.  Why, there is no greater symbol of America and freedom than walking EVERYWHERE with your AR.  Walk the streets, go into Chipotle, shop at Wal-Mart, all with your freedom boomstick by your side!  You can practically hear the Lee Greenwood music right now, can't you?

     

    Except, of course, this does not apply if you're not....you know.....a "real" American.  Wink wink.

     

    They don't even try to hide it anymore.  Not even a little bit.

    White guy with an AR?  Freedom eagle Jesus gun freedom stick patriot!

    Brown guy with an AR?  Terrorist illegal murderer rapist!

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  9. 2 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Tolerance is paraded around as "respect" and everyone should be "respectful". That's just simply a bunch of nonsense. Calling someone stupid who is in fact stupid or telling someone they are lying when they have demonstrably lied is not disrespectful, It's necessary for a functioning society and that doesn't require tolerance. 

    So much this.  Call lying liars what they are -- liars telling lies.  Call them on their specific lies, immediately.  Do NOT amplify and repeat them.

    That's not "political."  It's fucking foundational to a functioning society.  Only one political faction thinks that's political, and it's fucked up that they think that.

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  10. 6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Texas League of Women Voters is where I start. 

    Co-sign.  Always a great, and (even though the GQPers complain about it now, because they are deranged nutbars) neutral, fact-based analysis.

    Seriously....they have always been the go-to source, and haven't changed their methodology or approach, but now the GQP hates them and calls them biased when they say something as simple as "Candidate X states that his number one issue is preventing sloth attacks in Texas.  Texas has never recorded an attack of a sloth on a human being."

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  11. The mining thing....hell, let's just pick on how stupid their math is.

    So, the mining company supposedly just got $250 MILLION in grants!

    Cool.  So...to give that company some sort of advantage somehow.....we gin up a storm that will cause $200 BILLION in damage.  Seriously, like 1000X the purported value of the grants, with much of that cost having to come out of the gov't's pocket.  

    So....wouldn't it be incredibly easier and cheaper to, I dunno, funnel $1 billion in grants/bennies to Blackrock, and keep $199 billion in your pocket?

    There is ZERO high-level perspective on ANY of the shit they talk about.  Everything is the result of some elaborate Rube Goldberg scheme, when - IF you accept the premise that there's some cabal out there working towards a particular goal - there are 1,000 more direct, efficient, and cheaper ways to accomplish the same result.  WHY?  Why would anyone craft some elaborate 38-step scheme that costs hundreds of billions, when they could just follow a 2-3 step plan that costs .01% of that price?

    The stupidity has reached a point of singularity, consuming all that comes anywhere near it.

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  12. So, Sunday night, my cousin's husband ---- who is so stupid he makes other people's brains hurt ---- comes out on Facebook saying that his church in Burnet had been threatened by two Muslims carrying AR-15s and that authorities were looking for them.  He's 110 percent MAGA, and this turned into a multi-posted thread about immigrants and the border and Kamala Harris. I didn't engage him because I never do, but other people did.  Naturally, my question was "how do they know the religion of the alleged assailants if they're still looking for them?"  I've long ago learned that trying to talk with him is pointless, but I thought "there's got to be more to the story."

    There was.

    It was all fabricated. 

    https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/church-shooting-fabricated-man-arrested-texas-burnet-county-church-at-the-epicenter/269-d5d85745-596b-42b5-8a85-eee39928af2c


     
     
     

    The report wasn’t just that there were two men armed with rifles attacking the church, they were two men “wearing turbans.” Fucking MAGA and lying go together like peas and carrots. MAGA, lying, and racism? Even better.
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  13. Wow.  In perhaps 12+ years on this and the other site, this is the first post in which we are in agreement.  Bravo.

    Hey, I’ve said that OU sucks, Salma Hayek is glorious, and great barbecue is awesome. So, surely we agree on a few other things.
    Unless you’re a gay vegetarian Sooner. But I’d really only judge you for the Sooner thing.
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  14. 15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Totally normal weather behavior …
     

     

    The boy just moved to Mainz for the academic year.  I got to laughingly send him a "so, prepare your anus for a tropical storm" text.  He asks WTF, then looks up the weather.  Well, well, well.  I suspect the euros won't know what to do, and will flip their shit.

    6 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

    183 knots at the Surface. (211 mph). Sustained.

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    Wait...where are you getting that.  211 mph winds?  For real?  Source?

  15. 24 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Does it reflect poorly on me that I laughed at that old bitty getting tased?

    It's one of the most delightful things on the internet.  Seeing the entitled "laws don't apply to ME!  Just to, you know.....those 'other' people" crowd get the law applied to them is fucking glorious.  The living embodiment of the "I'm someone who the law protects, but does not bind" ethos, and then she gets it shoved up her ass.  It's awesome.

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