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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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7 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:
Where have I not demonstrated I don’t grasp this isn’t good government? Try and respond in fewer than 5 paragraphs that I will not read.
Will "this isn't good government" move the needle for "people like you?" Of course it won't. Not even a little bit. Because the alternative -- that is, NOT voting for Republicans, straight-ticket -- is too unimaginably horrible. Why, a trans kid may play volleyball in East Possum Dick on the JV squad, so......nope, "this isn't good government" is just fine, and we'll stick with what we're getting.
That's the point -- this is not just a case of "this isn't good government." It's a case of "what we're getting is the kind of thing that destroys republics."
It's the difference between eating a McDonald's hamburger and saying "this isn't good food" and eating a McDonald's burger loaded with salmonella which will fucking kill you. You'll sit there and keep munching your Quarter Pounder saying "I know this isn't good food," when the point is "dude....that particular burger is loaded with salmonella and is going to kill you."
And your response is the same as all the people like you - "look, we know that mickey d's isn't great for us, but you're coming off like a stick-up-the-butt puritan telling us what we should or shouldn't eat." So, you keep scarfing down the salmonella, and making sure the rest of us have to eat it too. Completely missing the point that what we're warning about isn't garden-variety "make healthy choices," it's "this shit is actual poison and it is going to kill us all."
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30 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:
Blah blah fucking blah. I recognize there is a problem. Your histrionics and hyperbole comparing Mike Johnson or whatever GOP official you want to the Taliban inserted in a cute little meme graphic do you no favors. You don’t need to convince me. You need to convince people (admittedly, like me) that we are heading down the wrong path. You do not accomplish this by comparing the right to the Taliban or Hamas. The people we need to convince are not affected by ICE actions. So, they’ll laugh at laughable comparisons. Anyone with a brain will. Be better.
Which is why we're in full "leopards eating people's faces" land now. Because the only way that people like you will EVER grasp that this regime is not just "not good government," but is actually a grave threat to us all, is when they feel immense pain of their own.
Point out policy disagreements? That ship has sailed. "People like you" like the policies of this regime.
Point out that other people are suffering significantly? "People like you" either give ZERO fucks, or they actively ENJOY it ("other people suffering tells you the policies are working").
Nope. The only possible path (and it's a narrow one, for which I have very little hope) is one where the fire burns enough people - either in somewhat targeted fashion (like a specific policy crushes them/their family) or in an all-consuming fire of collapse of the Republic and descent into full-on authoritarian hellscape -- that they go "holy fuck, that hurts! We should stop that!"
But don't you worry your head, I'm sure that path will not bear fruit. By the time the pain gets intense enough to actually turn people against the regime, it will be way, way too late. We won't be altering course at all, no matter how many of us are up front correctly yelling "iceberg dead ahead!" The rest of y'all will be in your dinner jackets, sipping brandy and saying "I don't know what they're yelling about, we haven't hit anything yet and anyway, this ship is unsinkable." Which is stupid, because we are ALL gonna end up going down and drowning along with Leonardo DiCaprio and that's just stupid because who wants to spend eternity with him?
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19 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:
Nah, I’d just hold off comparing them to Hamas or Taliban. It’s bad enough. Why in the fuck would you derail conversations with ridiculous comparisons that will catch you no flies, and turn people off?
Huh. When I see a fire start, I say "fuckin' a, that's bad, we should put that out." When someone asks "why?", the only sane answer is "because I've seen moderate fires like this turn into all-consuming infernos, and the time to put out a fire is BEFORE it gets that bad." So, yeah....I compare a 1 acre grass fire to the Palisades fire, because.....the Palisades fire was once a 1 acre grass fire too.
We know exactly how this specific type of fire burns. We have literal books chronicling it. When you pick one up, and you realize "holy shit, our current spreading fire looks a shitload like these past historical fires," you get a renewed sense of urgency about how dangerous these fires are.
Yet, we will all burn, because we are a nation full of Rex Kramers who will not agree that there is a problem until the fire covers 10,000 acres with 0% containment....by which point it is far, far too late, and we're going to fucking lose it ALL. It is the same historical head-in-the-sand idiocy that gets us the same results, over and over.
But this time, I'm sure, the autocratic theocracy will be different.
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Just now, Rex Kramer said:
You’ve totally moved the goalposts. Totally. Similarities does not equate with the fact that the Taliban will straight up murder people. Any comparison, as a result, is disingenuous as fuck.
Huh.
I guess we should hold off on raising the red flag on oppressive, theocratic regimes, until they are fully functioning death machines. Until then, there's no comparison.
Because no brutally oppressive, violent, murderous regime ever started off as merely autocratic and erasing the rule of law. Nope, no pattern of that at all.
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3 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:
You’re crazy and I won’t do this with you. You should send longer messages with more words in all caps.
I'm crazy for seeing the similarities between the Taliban and the American Christofascist movement in power in many spots of our government. Yep. I'm clearly alone, out on an island, to be the one person to see the similarities.
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1 minute ago, ChiTownDoc said:Makes a big difference. On a 150k watch original box is worth a few grand. Papers may be worth 1/3 of the watch. As in buying it ‘naked’ loses at least 1/3 of the value. High end watches come with all kinds of shit as ‘the box’. Missing it all costs you thousands.
Thankfully, I kept the papers for my watch. I'm not gonna toss something worth a cool $9.75.
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13 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:
I know they’re morons. People equating terrorist organizations that murder people are a bit different. You lose people with such comparisons.
Ahh, you get lost in the fallacy of degree.
These images can be of the same fire:
Just because one has been allowed to burn longer doesn't mean the other isn't just as great a threat.
"Only somewhat as theocratic and hasn't killed as many people yet" is not a good distinction. Fundagelical theocratic regimes see the "other" as inferior, and almost always view women as lesser (worthy of fewer rights and such). The common threads are in plain sight. And waiting till the fire is burning out of control over 100,000 acres (so you can finally say "okay....NOW it's bad") is a really, really bad strategy.
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19 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:
Thanks. In Copenhagen staying at the Nhym or whatever it's called. Any recs for food there? I'm pretty good on sites to visit (plus we are kinda slow travelers and prefer to just one "goal" each day and the rest play be ear and wander. The Vasa is a must for sure, plus getting out into one of the islands of the archipelago.
You're probably staying in Nyhavn. SUPER touristy, but picturesque, so why not? You'll want to visit Amalienborg (active royal house), Rosenborg palace (cool museum, pretty grounds, although it's going to be early fall so the flowers will be done by then). Walk the Stroget for shopping, your wife will dig it. Illums Bolighus is a Danish department store there....it's one of our favorite stores ever. Seriously, there's just cool and handy stuff there, and it's not outrageously expensive. My wife still wears as her house shoes these great wool slippers we got there 6 years ago:
Don't be afraid to go to Tivoli garden (amusement park) and just be a kid for a bit. There's also a nice food hall next door.
For food, don't be afraid to eat a hot dog from a cart (Stroget, Nyhavn - they'll be around). Nordic hot dogs are a thing.
Torvehallern is an AMAZING food hall, with incredible variety. You have to eat plenty of smorrebrod at a variety of places, but Torvehallern is a good place to try it. They also have an outpost of Grød, which is one of my wife's favorites places on the planet. It's a....porridge restaurant. But trust me, it's all good.
Finally, one of our 2-3 favorite restaurants in the world -- in a city with plenty of michelin-star type places (it does at least get a michelin reference) - is Høst. It is a gem, for several reasons. The space is beautiful, and simple. We ate in the warm basement in the winter, as snow fell outside. The food is a tasting menu, but it won't break the bank - the 5 course menu is $75 a head. Here's a current menu:
Scallops with cucumber and horseradish ( + Caviar 100,-) - Cod with broccoli and trout roe - Potatoes with peas and truffle - Chicken with morrels and browned butter Beef tenderloin (+125,-) Lobstertail (+150,-) - Rhubarb with cardamom and caramel 500 dkk
Seriously, it's all great. On one visit we had dinner in the basement against warm old stone walls. One of the courses was the best mushroom soup I've ever had. Then we walked back home in the falling snow, breaking up the city lights and Christmas decorations. There's also a park right nearby, makes for a nice stroll, just seeing folks out and about living their lives, walking their dogs, etc.
Copenhagen is a cool city.
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49 minutes ago, Colonel Sanders said:
So we've pushed Japan and South Korea to China. Well done dipshits.
Gosh. It's interesting that this large swath of east Asia is banding together for their mutual benefit. Kind of like some, I dunno, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere or something. What could go wrong?
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1 hour ago, The Ace of Aces said:
Bump. Going in September for 5 days (after 5 days in Copenhagen), staying at the Grand Hotel.
Tell me where to eat (open to everything but no tasting menus due to Mrs. Ace dietary things).
Had a great dinner at Den gyldene freden on Gamla Stan (one of the oldest restaurants in the world). Palace and such at the north end of Gamla Stan worth a visit. Vasa museum is a can't miss - there's several museums, including the outdoor one, on that same island.
Copenhagen is f'n cool too.
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8 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:
Because people are fucking morons.
I presume you are speaking of our fundagelical leaders.
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3 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:First, (unfavorable) comparisons to Hamas, and now comparisons to the Taliban. Y’all are on a roll.
Gosh, I can't imagine how people might see parallels between two countries that have heavy fundamentalist theocratic influence in their ruling regimes. It's a mystery.
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10 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:
The scan reports it's localized to the tumor, and I need to lay off the cheese.
I am unsure how cheese is relates to the tumor.
But in any case, I see they didn't say anything about cheez, so you're still good....
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12 minutes ago, bolverk said:
She imagines the worst. “How can girls go back to Afghanistan?” said Nilab, 30, who asked that only her first name be used to protect her identity. “What will happen to us? Rape, forced marriage and death.”
In fairness, that's the plan for the US in the coming years, too.....so turn that frown upside down, Nilab! You're going to be a second-class citizen and chattel in either country soon!
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1 minute ago, crash_davis said:
I played golf at Lions on Friday afternoon. Those motorcycle and ebike dipshits were riding through Lake Austin Blvd and Tarrytown doing the same shit. It's amazing that they kept doing that shit all through the night.
Saw a crew of the ebike types on Lamar Friday night. I presume they were all over town. There was a big gaggle of them, but it looked like they followed the traffic signals, only saw them for a bit.
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4 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
And Paxton will win the primary by 5 and the general by 10+
Oh, there is zero doubt that Paxton is going to be our next US Senator in place of Cornyn. Seriously, it's not even going to be close. That's not doom-and-gloom, that's just obvious.
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Paxton’s corruption is without equal in modern Texas politics. He’s as dirty as it comes. He makes Abbott look like a boy scout. The GOP would be hard-pressed to run someone worse.
Yet…they will.
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Today, we put together some "snack bags" that are given out at a homeless mission we work with. Among the non-perishable items we put in there were individual cans of vienna sausages. We had a table literally STACKED with cans of vienna sausages.
Pathetic bastard that I am, my mouth started watering and looking around for a bottle of mustard. Instead, I added "vienna sausages" to my grocery list.
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Was feeling a bit Scottish (guess I caught a case of it from my wife, who's damned near pure Scot). Didn't go with haggis to make it a full Burns Night supper (two months too late), but went with braised lamb. So, lamb with neeps and tatties (mashed rutabega and mashed potatoes), with gravy made of the pan sauce (browned the meat, then sautee shallots, garlic, and carrots. Add beef stock and thyme sprigs, simmer for several hours. Remove meat and thyme sprigs, puree everything else with an immersion blender, add a dash of kitchen bouquet for color). Fucking fantastic and yes, it tasted just like meals we've had in Scotland.
Oh, and the plate's all schmutzy because I used it to stage the meat when I pulled it from the braising pan.
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1 minute ago, Upgrayedd said:
Start ordering small dollar shit that you can wait on and send it to the in-laws’ address. After 10 package swaps they may get the hint.
Start ordering the most perverse shit imaginable, in the in-laws name, to be delivered to the in-laws house. By the time the second inflatable sheep fuck doll arrives, they'll get the point. And your FIL may lie about "returning" one of them to the sender.
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15 minutes ago, elfenix said:
Apparently Trump is ticked that pooty poot hasn't taken his deal.
Toddler asks, enraged, "why won't everyone just do exactly what I demand?!?!"
FFS, this fucking timeline.
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4 minutes ago, Cousin Strawberry said:
I know this sounds unbelievable but Costco now has sushi and it's good. They have nigiri, sashimi and poke. The sashimi isn't cheap. I think it was 4 pieces of salmon, 4 pieces of Tuna and 4 pieces of yellowtail for $37.
I've had their poke, it's damned good. We got a sushi tray from a Costco in SOCAL a few years ago on a family vacation, and it was at least as good as the HEB sushi, probably better (I dunno, I ate it on the deck while drinking beer and watching the surf, I wasn't being picky).
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19 hours ago, ztejas said:
They've been doing this for a minute.
Yeah....and they're utterly mid. The ones at Asahi imports are cheaper, and damned good.
Sorry, these are a "miss" for HEB.
Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.
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This. If you wanted to pursue a path that incentivized every single country on earth to get nukes of their own, it would look IDENTICAL to the path we're on right now.
Dumbest. Fucking. Timeline.