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  1. 2 minutes ago, South Austin said:

    C'mon, I have standards.

    Look, man.....just because everyone in this administration lies out their ass doesn't mean that you should too.

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  2. 1 minute ago, troph said:

    with all due respect, long covid is a fucking miserable cunt. and in some cases people have it long term and are only well enough to not be dead. hundreds of thousands of people are so debilitated by it they can't work or function and their only hope was NIH funded research. 

    Oh, I'm not downplaying long COVID at all.  I'm just noting that we're headed for MUCH worse than merely "fucking awful and horrific."

    We are intent on setting back all progress by at least 70-100 years.  Disease and health management is but one facet of that, but man, we're going all-in on it FAST.

  3. No, see, you don’t get it….we need to choose our words more carefully, except then those words get dozens of people slaughtered, get mobs to attack the capitol, are straight-up lies to congress (that just happened in the past 24 hours), etc. All of THOSE words are cool, and good, and we should continue to 100% support the people who choose those words and reward them with near-limitless power. The real problem is calling someone who is an open apologist for both historical Nazi activities and the current iterations of those ideologies a Nazi. THAT is what should make you angry.
    Not blood-soaked Wal-Mart floors, and Buffalo supermarket floors, and perjury, and violent insurrections. Nope, CRITICISM of those things is the real evil.

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Agreed. This is THE opportunity and the Democrats need to draw blood. 

     

     

    Draw blood?  No.  These fuckers need to slash so many goddamned throats that the blood-soaked floor becomes too slick to walk on any more.  Quit.  Playing.  Nice.  The Republic is under full-frontal assault by literal fucking murderous fascists.  Use every tool in your disposal, ethics and norms not only be damned, but be damned to hell.

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  5. Just now, bolverk said:

    Okay, so we have Trump's malevolent sidekick, Ren Höek, telling the group that he *thinks* this is what POTUS wants while there's some disagreement among the principals on the call.

    Did POTUS even know about this attack? Did he authorize it? Who exactly was in charge?

    Nobody is in charge.  A band of malevolent LITERAL internet trolls simply periodically has one or more of said trolls act as if he was the president, and nobody questions it.  That's it.  That is our actual executive branch, as it actually functions.

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  6. 2 hours ago, troph said:

    Having luckily overcome LC I can tell you this is a disaster in the making. It’s a fucked up condition sidelining millions of folks and the more times you are infected the greater chance you suffer long covid. We about to FAFO.

    "About to."  Gosh, you're adorable sometimes.

    We are going to bring back fucking polio, man.  Long COVID is the mildest box of shit we're unsealing these days.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    Posted, not posted - here, have this. We truly are in the dumbest timeline.

     

     

    You know, of the many, many things that are characteristics of the hellscape in which we currently are stuck.....the prevalence of insanely awful women singing insanely awful songs does not get enough discussion.  Lara Trump's Tom Petty Covers, the J6 Choir, some Patriot Babes group or whatnot.....these are musical performances that could 100% be used as instruments of torture by Beelzebub himself.  And we get a relentless stream of them.

    Truly, the giant planet-killing meteor cannot get here soon enough.

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  8. 1 minute ago, Jive Turkey said:

    Jasmine Crockett got the memo. She knows the rules of the game have changed. She has MAGA in a tizzy over this. Good. She’s speaking a language MAGA understands  There’s video out there.

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    Yep.  Be mean.  BE FUCKING MEAN.  Mean gets attention.  Attention is the sole commodity of value in the modern political economy.  Seize it, and don't ever let it go.

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  9. 15 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    You know, I was reading that interview, and many of the things they were saying at the beginning I agree with. I think there's almost a pretentious claiming of empathy where it's actually very difficult to attain. I love the word, personally. I think it's a great word and I'm grateful it's come into our vocabulary. 

    He calls it The Sin of Empathy, and compares it to the sin of anger or fear. He then says there are times when anger or fear are not sinful, just as there are times when empathy is not sinful, but there are times when it is. 

    There's a section in there where the author talks about saving someone from drowning while remaining on the boat or remaining tethered to shore that I absolutely agree with. A phrase I constantly use is "don't keep such an open mind your brain falls out." I do think boundaries can be extremely healthy, and sometimes those boundaries run counter to any aspirations of empathy. That's not always a bad thing.

    Then it got into politics where it started defending the actions of the administration from a biblical point of view and then I couldn't read any more. Just more tribal tripe with a Christian cloak wrapped around them rather than an American flag or whatever other iconography they want to steal for their purposes of power. 

    If someone wants to defend the actions of this administration from a political or societal management point of view that's one thing. My big issue is the annihilation of democratic principles and the threat to future peaceful transitions of power, more so than any specific policy they're implementing. But to come back and try to defend the actions as Christian, or why Christians should be in favor of what is going on, is not biblically sound to me. But that's not the point. Their tribe is in power so the troops of all stripes are going to rally to the cause, and use the tools at their disposal to defend the people from their tribe in power. Anyway, I couldn't make it through the entire article. 

    Damn near my exact take....right down to the "I can't read any more of this utter shite used to excuse the worst behaviors."

  10. 4 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    The brazen lies in the last 24 hours from Hegseth, Gabbard, Waltz, Ratcliffe, etc. have opened a door of opportunity. They all believe they are untouchable. They are fucking daring somebody to do something about it. The battle has been presented, time to sack up and go to war. 

     

     

    This too.  Call them what they are.  "The Secretary of Defense responded to evidence of his treason and utter disregard for our brave warfighters with lies.  Our fighting men and women deserve better.  The ones who sacrificed their lives and rest in Arlington deserve better.  If the SECDEF doesn't resign immediately, he'll end up sending more brave Americans to be buried at Arlington, killed by his mistakes and disregard for the truth."

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  11. 7 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

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    Now moar.  And louder.  And meaner.  

     

    They have to be relentless.  They have to be everywhere, saying this over and over again.  They have to say hot words, like "treason" and "risking the lives of our brave warfighters."  The exact same words, over and over, so they drown out everything else.  

    In a world where all that matters is noise....be a fucking heavy metal concert.

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    oh for fuck's sake

     

     

    Well....doesn't matter now, because the POTUS insists that the entire thread is NOT classified.  So, her cover is blown, as a matter of fact and law....unless, of course, the POTUS doesn't mean/is lying about the thread not being classified.

    Which is it, Whiskeyleaks team.....is all the info not classified, so our asset's cover is blown, or is it classified, so that Whiskeyleaks fucked up and shared classified information?

    God, these people are such giant lying sacks of shit.

  13. Just now, The Ace of Aces said:

    Sent a portal message - my research says my (very good) insurance doesn’t cover that test but whatever. Money grows on trees for a reason.  
     

    FUCK antivaxxers

    Sorry, dude.

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  14. 8 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    Now that Trump and his devotees have dropped any pretense of not being racist, and are having success in re-engineering the actual meaning of words, ( see diversity, equity, inclusion, woke…) the religious right has entered the fray. Empathy is now a sin:

    https://albertmohler.com/2025/02/19/joe-rigney/

     

    That guy...is insane and evil. If you want to get a snapshot of how he thinks (spoiler: everything is the fault of all those bitches), here you go:

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    There is a reason that the empathetic sex that women are barred from the pastoral office, they were barred from the priestly office in the Old Testament for the same reason. Because priests and pastors, priests in the Old Testament, pastors and ministers and elders in the New Testament, are charged fundamentally with guarding the doctrine and worship of the church, of setting the perimeter for what is in and out. That’s the calling. And therefore the sex that is bent and wired towards care, nurture, compassion and empathy is ill suited to that role. So it’s no surprise that in a culture which has become dominated by feminism, it’s deep in the American system at this point, that in that same timeframe you would have an outbreak of empathy that would become the steering wheel by which every institution is hijacked.

    Oh, and there's other stuff in there that's even worse.

    He starts from a premise that is credible: that empathy run amok can be a bad thing......and then proceeds to twist the premise to justify his worldview that utterly justifies and explains away every cruelty to be visited on those he doesn't like.  It's the well-spoken rantings of a genuine sociopath.

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  15. 5 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    I never had any cognitive imp, beyobnd bormal, baseline level of cognitive impairment,

    Well then, good sir -- you need to leave these parts.  As you can plainly see, Surly only allows posts by people with significant cognitive impairment below the baseline.

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  16. As a follow-up, thoughts from someone I know who had rather high level security clearance for over a decade (via the Senate foreign intelligence committee):

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    A couple thoughts about DefSec Hegseth and VP Vance and NatSecAdvisor Waltz using Signal App to plan a military raid on Yemen:

    1) it’s against the law, and HUGE security breach too. Hegseth should be fired. Full stop. Waltz should be fired. All those on the call should be fired.

    Why? First of all…this horrendous security breach violates many laws…including those that demand official communication occur over official channels. What other sensitive issues have officials been discussing on private messaging apps, avoiding accountability and compromising security?

    Second, this highly classified conversation should never, ever, take place on a “low end” (as opposed to classified) communication platform. The fact that signal is encrypted is irrelevant. As we know, the users of the app are numerous, and most have no security clearances or reason to be included, and yet the editor the Atlantic had a front row seat….

    ….This from an administration that called for Hillary Clinton to be jailed for using a secure server and referencing information at the lowest level (confidential) with no national security implications. Talk about hypocrisy…..

    Incompetence. Complete disregard for procedure. Putting lives at risk.

    Who else has ALREADY been granted access to highly sensitive USG classified info? China? Putin? And how would we know, since some have set the messages to disappear after a few days? There is no way even to assess the damage!

    The entire national security team should be sacked.

    Key points, not just coming from us lay people, but from someone who was occasionally in the room as strikes were being discussed, prepared, and launched:

    1) using non gov't apps and devices to communicate official info is intended to avoid accountability and the legal requirements of maintaining records of gov't action.

    2) everyone knows that this is an unacceptable security risk.

    3) failures like this actually put the lives of our "warfighters" (man, the conservatives love that word, so let's use it) at risk.  If news of planned targets and delivery platforms (F-18s) were leaked in advance, the enemy would have had the opportunity to put AA resources along the way, possibly shooting down and killing some of our aircrews.

    It was done for an illegal and criminal purpose, and created risk not just in theory, but to actual lives of American servicemembers, all because we are staffed with criminal rank amateurs. Fucking well-done, Trump administration.  I'd call your entire admin a shitshow, but that would be an insult to turds that actually perform the function of evacuating waste from the human body.

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