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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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12 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
That's pretty much how I react to posts made by certain Surly members. Works for me.
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30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
I’m obviously sad my girls went to college so far away from home because I miss them, but I worry about them far less in Edinburgh and NYC specifically because they are almost never in a car.
100%. Seriously, have had that conversation with friends. Realizing 1) how inherently dangerous travel is by car, and then 2) how EXTRA-dangerous it is/was when young, stupid, often drunk college students are involved (yeah, I was at UT in the late 80s), it is an inescapable conclusion that based on just the fact that they are hardly ever in a car (Ubers sometimes, and occasional road trips on highways that are much slower and safer than ours), my kids' safety risk in college was WAY lower than ours.
And I still break into a cold sweat when I stop and think/realize that you can be doing everything right, and then a fucking dump truck jumps the median and kills you dead, you never had a chance. That....fucking bothers me. A lot.
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1 minute ago, UpperWestside said:
Better to make the best of things and see the best of this world than to grow old and miserable and think nothing and no one is worth saving.
One can do both. I intend to make the best of things for me and mine.
Everyone else can get fucked. That's the path they intend to charge down, and I'm not going to waste any more energy trying to stop them. Stop having faith in humanity. You're just lying to yourself.
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Counterpoint: name your dick "leaf," and just sit back and wait to be blown.
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1 minute ago, HornPhD said:
Listening to NPR this morning and they mentioned a DoD memo from last week that specifically warned of using Signal
Ahh, but perhaps you missed the central -- and coincidentally, ONLY -- rule/law for MAGA: "RULES FOR THEE, NOT FOR ME."
I'm not being hyperbolic. That is literally the only governing law/rule in our government right now. Everything else follows from that.
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8 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:
Again the more you say this the more water gets carried for idiots. This is absolutely destructive to keep repeating it over and over. Bigots repeating this over and over is how a narrative becomes a "fact" instead of just something an idiot bigot believes to be true.
We are a nation with 77.3 million clowns. That is not all of us. We are also not cooked as a country. I am exiting stage right from America at some point, but not because I think this country won't do a 180. I think that it will and I think that the stigma that surrounds sexual orientation is on its last legs. Pete and I are attracted to different sexes, but I share his love of the country and I will no longer repeat what someone like him (or a woman married to a woman) can do when given the opportunity. His popularity is only going to go up the more stupid stuff this administration does and it's because he has a grasp of the issues and has found a way to communicate using social media that connects with people.
Ahh, I see. You have faith in "the better angels of our nature."
I, on the other hand, believe in evidence. And the evidence is...we are a shithole country. Our dominant ethos is a blend of "cruel, vindictive, and hateful," and "just fine with cruel, vindictive, and hateful." There are good people in this country. We are hopelessly outnumbered, and evil wins. It always does.
We are the country of slavery, genocide, lynchings, Jim Crow, attacking trans people, going backwards on acknowledging that gay people can exist, etc. We have never even fully acknowledged that those ARE sins, much less sought forgiveness and reconciliation for them. FFS, we're trying (and succeeding) to outlaw even mentioning them in education.
Your faith in this country and the people in it is entirely misplaced, and you are setting yourself up for even more disappointment. This country is beyond redemption, which works out well because it is also not worthy of redemption.
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If I have to hear that goddamned Lainey Wilson "in a 4x4 by U" fucking song in a goddamned motherfucking Ford truck commercial again, I'm gonna choke a bitch.
It's fucking relentless, I hate her, I hate the song, I hate all life on this planet if this shit is the end product of billions of years of evolution.
And I say that as someone who has had a Ford 4x4 truck for over 25 years.
Total planetary destruction by massive meteor is a fate too good for us.
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5 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:
We're not doing this anymore. YOU STOP saying what someone can or cannot be based on who they want to be with. It is not a true thing. It is carrying water for bigots who will not stop saying it. I look at my own life and think that I used to carry that water too by going right along with that thinking. Once upon a time in this country the armed forces of the United States would not let African-Americans serve as anything but cooks. A narrative got pushed into people's heads that they weren't smart enough as a race to be trusted to fight with actual weapons. Then they got weapons and did some incredibly heroic things in Italy. That doesn't even take into account Doris Miller's heroism at Pearl Harbor three years prior.
This is so stupid that in 2025 people will posit that "This person can't run because of their sexuality." This crap has to stop. By 2028 the horrors that this group of morons will have unleashed upon America and the world will be stacked so high that we won't be looking at his sexuality as a reason not to vote for him. That we ever even considered it as a black mark against him is due to our own ignorance.
Dude. I am JUST. COUNTING. VOTES. I am not commenting on whether the REASON for those votes is meritorious, evil, or in-between.
Maybe SOMEDAY, this country will be ready for a gay man (spoiler: that someday, if it ever occurs, will be long after we're dead, if we even have a USA then. Sorry, but we've gone so far backwards so fast, you don't even grasp it yet). But that day is NO day soon.
I'm not saying he can't run because of his sexuality. I'm saying that 1) HE CANNOT GET ENOUGH VOTES TO WIN 2) BECAUSE TOO MANY AMERICAN VOTERS WILL NOT VOTE FOR A GAY MAN. You don't have to like that -- I don't like it. But it's fucking true. It is true because we are a stupid, shallow, and hateful nation. YES, you are right, that it is a black mark IS due to our own ignorance.....but our ignorance, which is of near-infinite breadth and depth, is a real thing. We have seen our true colors this past decade. It's horrifying. But it's also ACCURATE. We are a sick, cruel nation. That's the truth. Accept it, and work from there.
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1 hour ago, UpperWestside said:
I am not putting that label on him. If we can elect an incompetent clown 2 out of 3 times, well, anything is possible. I don’t believe we should bow to a bunch of morons who would have an issue with his choice of being married to a man. This stupidity has to be met and shouted down so to speak. He is what we need leading us. No more recycled old white guys. We have had plenty of them and it’s time to move past that. His last video he posted about this leak shows he’ll take the nice guy gloves off and hand out some FAFO when a serious breach of incompetence occurs.
He can't win. America will not vote for a gay man. Just stop.
You don't have to think that's a GOOD thing. You just need to realize that it is a 100% TRUE thing.
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6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Tulsi Gabbard is dumber than a bag of hammers.
That's the great thing about this timeline: with most of these people, it's genuinely impossible to discern where the dumb stops and the evil starts, or vice-versa. Every one of them is just a pot of dumb and evil all mixed together, like when you piss into your own diarrhea.
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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
And even if Trump states that the info wasn't classified, it speaks to their incompetence.
But it WAS classified. By its very nature. There was no "declassify this" order beforehand. Maybe he can declassify it NOW, but it was classified at the time.
1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:Also has the govt cleared that Signal can be used for confidential or classified conversations?
I highly doubt it. But even if it had, what the gov't and gov't officials CANNOT do is set communications by gov't officials about gov't business to be automatically deleted in 4 weeks (which this chat was). That is a violation of the law, and a crime. Records of the people's government belong to the people, and may not be destroyed. Even having them out in "unofficial" channels, where they cannot be archived and kept by the government, is a crime. This is EXACTLY the problem may people had with Hillary's emails (me among them -- those emails don't belong to her, they belong to ME and my fellow citizens).
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18 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/round-rock/alert-i-35-in-round-rock-closed-after-major-crash/
Not technically Austin, but another crash on I 35.
Chatter on this one is that a northbound dump truck was driving at a high rate of speed, got cut off by a car, and in trying to avoid it, jumped the median and ate a car heading southbound, killing the driver.
Fucking I-35 is a deathtrap, and I hate every minute that I have to drive on it.
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Just now, washparkhorn said:
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
— The Origins of Totalitarianism, “The Temporary Alliance Between the Mob and the Elite,” Hannah Arendt, 1951.
Yep. Again....THE PLAYS ARE LITERALLY WRITTEN DOWN IN BOOKS ABOUT THIS VERY THING. THEY AREN'T DOING ANYTHING CREATIVE OR NEW.
Also, I love this quip I saw about the latest utter fuckup -- "Whiskeyleaks brought to you by DUI hires."
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5 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
In what world would private conversations between the VP, Sec of Def, intel chiefs not be confidential?
Conversations about....military strikes....that specifically identified targets....that specifically discussed how we would strike....two hours before the military action was launched.
The absurdity is that they are saying that "conversations about surprise military strikes ahead of time are not classified." It's the dumbest fucking lie imaginable, they expect the masses to swallow it....and they're probably right in their expectation because FOX has already downplayed it and repeated the lie, and that will be the end of it.
We are committing national suicide, every fucking day.
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10 hours ago, landman said:
Eddy V's and ask for Luigi's section. Let them know it's your anniversary and he should take great care of you for the evening.
I just looked, and Eddie V's has reservation spots open for Saturday night. No, it doesn't get all the buzz, it's not as trendy....but man, it never disappoints. Great seafood, and do not sleep on the steaks -- they're some of the best in town.
If I were you, I'd grab a spot at Eddie V's so you have a really good option locked in. Then, you can look around to see if some other spots open up (Este is great, plenty of other good recs).
But for real, you can just have a solid, standout meal with great service (don't forget that....plenty of the trendier places are still a bit iffy on that front) at Eddie V's.
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What we REALLY need is for that whole blob to bump up to the NW about 150 miles. We won't get it. Shit, what it's projecting will probably peter out.
For those of you paying attention, this drought is already creeping and picking up speed in the "drought of 2011" direction. But now, with even more demand on our water resources than back then.
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^^^^ Blah blah blah, brown people -- they're not even REAL AMERICANS, so this is just libtard fake news!
Also, CSB....my G G grandfather was the first sheriff of Maverick County. Per accounts of the time, he ran a tighter ship than this. Granted, that was back when some of the job involved evaluating the situation of a local shopkeeper shooting a belligerent drunken outlaw trying to break down his door, and the sheriff telling him "hell, I'd have arrested you if you HADN'T shot him." So, you know, slightly different times.
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2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:
Cue #bothsides clown to give us racial equivocations.
Yes, but counterpoint....those aren't really people. They are women. They are vessels and property. Read yer Bible, LIBTARD!
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9 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:
Boom, roasted.
I mean, the lies aren't even plausible.
Which, by the way, is part of the point and purpose in telling such lies. Telling outlandish, preposterous, clear lies sends the message of "we can say and do whatever we want, and nobody can stop us." If you testify today and say "today is not Tuesday, it's Saturday," and nobody holds you accountable, what you just accomplished is demonstrating that you CANNOT be held accountable, no matter how absurd the conduct.
It's a version of "shoot a man in the face in the middle of 5th avenue and not lose supporters." The point is not the act, or the lie. The point is to demonstrate, in full view of all who are watching, that you are not accountable, and cannot be touched, no matter what you do.
These are all textbook authoritarian plays they are running. Again, I haven't observed or predicted anything that requires a crystal ball. All you have to do is pick up any of the books (history, commentary, whatever) on "what does a rising authoritarian government do?" and read the fucking plays that are plainly laid out.
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I gotta say, selling US Treasury gold bars in order to buy more Bitcoin is just about the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard of.
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People that call other people Nazis.
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Just now, immamac said:
No dude, it doesn't work like this and you know it. It would take fucking forever to get this done and I'm sure it's not even really going to be nearly as easy or convenient.
False. 1000X, FALSE. US gov't officials have had classified communications conducted properly in the cell-phone era a billion times. No wheel needs to be re-invented here. YES, it is LESS convenient than clicking open your personal device, opening an app, and sending all your buddies a picture of titties. Tough. Fucking. Shit. Having to be cleared for security clearance is LESS convenient than just "tell me all the shit." But hell, we've dispensed with security clearances, too, so fuck it, why not. Let's just dispense with OPSEC altogether.
1 minute ago, immamac said:That is fine, but really just falls back to these people being deeply unserious morons. Not maximum evil intentionally hiding comms 5head fucking genius criminal masterminds
I never said they were genius criminal masterminds. I said they were criminals. "Moron" and "criminal" are a MUCH more common pairing than "genius" and "criminal."
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1 minute ago, immamac said:
They are doing it because people wanna use their god damned phones to send text messages instead of having to do whatever the fuck shit you are describing which is antiquated as fuck and inconvenient as shit.
They are not "people" any more. They are officers of the US government, acting in that capacity. If they are unwilling to do so, including following all the laws that entails, then they should GTFO of MY government.
Sorry that "governing is hard." If you don't want to do it, then fucking quit.
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4 minutes ago, immamac said:
My point is that it should be extremely convenient for them to do this in a legal way and then we can go with your conspiracy theory of everything being maximum evil.
Your first clause reveals that what I am saying is not a conspiracy theory, it's a fact.
There are ways to handle such communications. All they have to do is ask any of literally hundreds of people inside the government "set me up a secure way to communicate with these people about this mission," and it will be done. They didn't do so, precisely BECAUSE they want all of their communications - in a governmental capacity - to take place "outside of the government."
Which is -- say it with me -- a crime.
They are criminals. It's not what they DO, it's what they ARE. People who have complete contempt for the rule of law are the exact people who are.....CRIMINALS.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
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I'd rather burn in at 200 mph and have some laughs, then to eat it in a car accident, I mean thats a really dumb way to go. No, really, you see like the one thing I wanna do before I join the cosmos is to hang glide off of Mt. Everest. Yeah, but wait, this is the best part: NAKED!