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  1. 11 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    It’s under-appreciated that this crew has an edgelord meme level understanding of the world.  Witkoff on Carlson banging on about how the Middle East has so much more potential than Europe as a partner but in the real world it’s not a race where they pull even in six lifetimes. 
     

    Europe needs a kick in the ass (and got one) but here’s reality: the Middle East has nothing of value outside of petro chemicals and doesn’t need special care to sell that to us, they can’t eat it.  The entire region with a slight exception for tiny Israel produces no innovation, no science, no culture appealing to anyone but them, nothing but angry young men desperate to get to…..Europe. And it will never do any of those things so long as it retains the stupid and backward mentality of its rulers, which we are desperate to reproduce here.  
     

    We are closer to turning into a failed and angry Middle East style sclerotic autocracy than the Middle East is to catchup up with Europe. 
     

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    TLDR.  Let's translate it to simple MAGA-speak:

    Authoritarian states good.  Democratically run states bad.  We want to hang out with the guys we like -- authoritarians.

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  2. 39 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    The very conservative folks up here are super butthurt about liberal Californians and Texans moving in.

    Counterpoint: fuck 'em.  Fuck all conservatives.  Fuck 'em to hell.  Treat them the way they want to treat everyone else.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Samson's Wig said:

    Obviously, she needs help, but she also has no business on the streets and among the public.  I suspect the revolving door will be in full service for her.

    The revolving door is the only one we have.  We have no coherent plan for dealing with the homeless.  Truly, functionally zero plan.

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  4. 13 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    Don't you be letting the CA off the hook, she's dealing with the Misdemeanor enforcement, which is a bulk of the homeless citations.  

    Yeah, those are a bitch.  Because what do you do, jail them over and over for jaywalking and shit?

    The real problem is making this place a magnet for homeless people while simultaneously not actually offering sufficient real and effective programs to keep them from being an absolute mess.  That's on city leadership and, yes, law enforcement for not making arrests (arrest and short-term detention is really the only practically available short-term deterrent we have).

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  5. 17 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    It's not just homelessness, it's been seen everywhere.  Basic policing in Austin has demonstrated time and time again to be reactive policing rather than proactive.  Traffic enforcement, what's that?  Thefts?  File a report.  You don't want to believe the DA and CA's approach since 2020 has had any effect on APD policy and behavior?!

    Oh, I certainly believe that our PD has had and is continuing to have what is effectively a years-long temper tantrum whereby they are "quiet quitting" and just not doing their jobs, as a "SEE!  If you don't let us do EXACTLY what WE want, and EXACTLY HOW WE want....well, we just won't do our jobs at all!"  Austin is not the only place it has happened.

    Both things can be true (our DA is piss-poor, and our PD is petulant spoiled assholes who don't want any oversight or accountability, it only pisses them off).

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    THIS... semi trucks should be restricted to the right lane under penalty of death (except for emergencies)... Have done two long distance drives on I-10 in the past few months and the amount of times I got stuck behind a truck trying to pass another truck at a 95 year old persons walking pace was absolutely infuriating 

    old man GIF

    Drove to and from Corpus Christi for a meeting last week.  Same thing, multiple times: get behind a truck, and even cars and SUVs, going .0000001 mph faster than the truck they were "passing" in the right lane.  No, fuckers.  Pass him.  Meaning, for around 30 seconds, actually push down on your gas pedal, add 5 mph or so to your speed, complete the pass, then get back over in the right lane. The correct move is not "drive next to a 100 foot long vehicle for 10 minutes as I gain 10 feet per minute on him."

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  7. 28 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

    I think it's gonna be ok. It's just a fat sack of fluid. Doesn't penetrate the bone or muscle tissue. I can move it around. Chicks like to touch it.

    Yea I got some sympathy loving this weekend.

    It's just a fat sack of fluid.

    You're just a fat sack of fluid.  

    Let's not split hairs here.

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  8. The idea of being an Eskimo brother with Donald Trump Jr. would be enough to sicken the normal person. 

     
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    Dude had a fetish for Perkins’ waitresses…there is no bottom for him.

    Respek.
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  9. Owen Wolff was fantastic once again.

    My wife after the match: “and dammit…I’m coming around on Owen. He’s good.” I told her he’s among the top 3-4 players on the team right now, and she conceded the point. He’s got hustle, doesn’t commit stupid turnovers, has shown real vision, and bulked up so he doesn’t get muscled off the ball as much.
    And two of our favorites, Kolmanic and Gallagher, acquitted themselves quite well today.
    Defense continues to be stout.
    Lots to like from BV, but also some inexplicable misses. Bukari continues to frustrate.
    And Danny…has regressed. His turnovers are absurd in number and character.
    That said, I think this win was actually earned and was the right outcome.
  10. Priced in. Here’s the deal- the culture war shit is so potent in part because it’s a way to connect people and places that are better off with moral decay and violence. Incidentally this is also true on the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder in big cities. 
    But outside of the six largest metros and a handful of vacation destinations, things are pretty bleak. And they know it. They don’t need anybody to come up with scare stories on fox to show them the problem. So Democrats in Texas need to be on the ground, in Montague and Bandera and Terry and Anderson and Jasper and Aransas and all the other counties where the suicide rate is double the state average, talking about how shitty things are and pointing fingers. 

    Or, counterpoint: allow Republican accelerationist destruction to do its thing and kill them in droves. An eliminated GQP vote is an eliminated GQP vote. And I’m done with giving a shit about them. What has empathy gotten us? Just taken advantage of.
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  11. Headed to the game.   Our seats are directly in the sun for an afternoon game, so i might find an empty seat near [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention] or wave a flag in the supporters section. 
    ¡LISTOS!

    We’ll be over in 118, row 9. Come say hi…but don’t stay and make us look low-class.
    At Turnstile now.
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  12. Partner countries in USAID co-development projects want to know where their money is.  Calls are not being returned.
     

    So, we’re not just threatening to wage war against our allies, we’re also stealing their money directly.
    We have a lawless, criminal, homicidal regime. If the rest of the world declared war on us, they wouldn’t be wrong to do so.
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    That ain’t wrong. We invited friends and family from several countries to come visit for the World Cup - planning on renting houses, showing them a Texas good time, all that.
    They are already being negatively impacted by this admin (see post above about revoked school admission). They are justifiably nervous about coming here.
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  14. https://steady.substack.com/p/women-in-texas-are-dying?fbclid=IwY2xjawJJXv1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXu9bArcuMQRcEOI-npzF9Xd1zzSMNjGVYkBBfXYH9iBB8E23bvxiI1IaQ_aem_ET_vDBm1u5f4aVDWKtR_Hw
    This week, Republican State Representative Charlie Geren put forth the Life of the Mother Act in the Texas House. A similar bill was introduced in the state Senate. While the new law wouldn’t expand abortion access, it would spell out the circumstances in which doctors are allowed to provide abortion: if the woman “has a physical condition” from pregnancy that puts her “at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced.”
    Who could have predicted legislating medical decisions would end poorly for Texas women?
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    No, Dan. “Women have died” is passive voice. “Because Republicans have killed numerous Texas women” is active voice, and more accurate. Do better, Dan.
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  15. How did you get real black pudding here?  Sneak it home in your luggage?  I love that shit.

    Broke out the M&S black pudding for breakfast this morning. Went full international. Added eggs with red chili and toast with French strawberry preserves.

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  16. What's the next best thing to Momofuku Chili Crunch?  $13 for a 5oz is ridiculous and I'm not trying to give David Chang any more money.
    This is what I'm currently using, but it's not the same.
     
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    It ain’t HEB, and it’s not exactly the same….but I actually may like it better:

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    Made a simple stir fry the other night, sprinkled that liberally on top, and it was amazing.
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