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One of the outspoken voices of the Scottish National Party is a Sikh who wears the full turban…and a lightly colored kilt and sounds absurdly Scottish. Always love listening to him. I think he got “me too’ed” because he’s also a perve. So I presume he posts here.
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In fairness, he was waiting for the lump to get big enough so he could run for city council.
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Oh, you ain't wrong. Shit, closing a single military base with a few thousand personnel has killed entire towns. The cascade effects of all of the idiocy taking place are going to be devastating - many of those effects felt hardest in some MAGA territory, by the way - and they are going to be long-lasting. The odds of a recession are near-certain. The odds of a depression are shooting up every day.
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I mean....say what you will, but that Rosie the Riveter had it going on....
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I'd actually nod in respect to such people. That's some strategic thinking and getting out in front of things. -
She should get a job in one of our new steel mills, or plastic injection molding plants, or factories making cheap articles of clothing. Those are all coming back to the USA, baby! GREAT JOBS GALORE!
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And the less answerable to the rule of law they become. They think that's great. Which it is. Right up until the point where it's not. It is in everyone's best interests for the Rule of Law to govern. There are very, very good reasons to stay inside the lines of the Rule of Law. Because when you step outside them and say "what the fuck are you going to do about it?", eventually someone steps up and answers your question.
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Blah blah blah. They'll cave. There is no government. There is no party. There is only Trump/Elon. They will all get in line. And everyone knows it. You have a better chance of finding a live triceratops than a single vertebrae in the entire Republican party. Of course, if they wanted to obtain a vertebrae.....their Dem counterparts would be no help either. There ain't a spine to be found, as far as the eye can see. We live in the Age of Cowards, which is shitty in that it overlaps with the Age of Cruel Assholes.
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There is a better than 90% chance that Elon and Trump will make a show of having a dinner featuring Attwater prairie chickens as the entree before the year is out. Because the utter assholery, and demonstrating that you can do whatever you want, not subject to any laws, is the entire point. They can eat endangered species, rape an infant on live TV, whatever they want.....and you can't stop them. You best remember the "and you can't stop them" part...you hear me?
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I mean, a purpose would be served. Many years ago, my wife had a minivan, which she HATED. But we drove it until we were done with it, lots of miles in it. I finally sold it for like $5k, cash....to a dude who was promptly driving it down to Houston so it could roll onto a ship and some weeks later, be a nice new car for his sister in Lagos. Power doors, working A/C....she got a pretty nice ride, everyone wins. Especially my wife, who never had to drive a goddamned minivan again. -
Oh.....they realize it. That's why they are doing it. Again, the sooner the rest of us realize that they are waging a hot civil war against anyone not MAGA, the sooner we can start working to set shit straight.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
It's okay. We'll come out with a recommended prevention plan of drinking colloidal silver till you turn blue or some shit. -
Yep. I imagine that a very large percentage of the German people didn't realize that the path they had chosen/allowed was utter shit until they looked up and saw this, day in and day out: The problem is, by then.....you're fucking FUCKED. You really don't have the option of saying "wait, wait! We didn't choose THIS! We don't support him like THAT!" Nope. You just get this, over, and over, and over: And you know what? You had it coming.
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But remember, we are told that kowtowing to Russia and bending over to do whatever Putin wants will make the world safer, and will help avoid war. Fucking up is down, light is dark, all the stupid shit.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
This is how you kill a company. Which is how you kill the financing vehicles and business ventures that depend on that company. Which is how you kill Elon as a billionaire. Sorry, Tesla owners. But it's literally a matter of national security. Get out while you can, because they are headed towards insurability, which is going to be helpful if we're going to have any chance of salvaging what's left of the Republic. -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
I mean.....the bolded demonstrates that RFK does not even grasp the most basic concepts of virology and the risks that viruses present. "Give a deadly virus near infinite chances to mutate into something worse" is.....not a practice recommended by anyone with an ounce of sanity. Because the virus WILL MUTATE. THEY ALWAYS DO. IT'S WHAT THEY DO. Some strains may be less harmful/easily transmitted to humans, others may be more harmful/easily transmitted to humans. You don't get to choose which, by the way. Virus gonna virus. Jesus fucking Christ this stupid fucking timeline. -
...they are doing the things that we're going to adopt to make the US more competitive with China. China....where they pay slave wages and don't have environmental laws. We're not fighting AGAINST China. We're fighting to BECOME China.
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I mean, not true. Plenty of us here bitching about WB's decline and how anarcho/amoral/immoral capitalism is killing it. What we have turned capitalism into is poison. I'm not anti-capitalist, so maybe I will "defend it," but I'll sure as shit say that capitalism unbound by the rule of law, ethics, or humanity is pure shit.
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No disagreement. In fact, GOLL and I were just discussing that issue -- our real-world observation of a plunge in ethics, civility, and decency among members of the Bar and the bench. Judges are increasingly treating the lawyers practicing before them with minimal courtesy. Conversations with opposing counsel that should be cordial, short, and agreeable, end up combative for no good reason at all. Etc. etc. ad nausuem. The point being, the poison here is not in PE, or the legal profession, or fast food restaurant employee policies -- it is an across-the-board social poison. Our dominant values are 1) extract all possible value for yourself, regardless of the cost, 2) fuck everyone but me, I got mine, 3) fuck you, I don't owe you anything, not even basic courtesy, 4) enshittification good, quality and ethical performance bad, etc. We have made gods of our worst nature, and deemed basic humanity and decency the devil incarnate. Once you do that....things are not going to go well.
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I hear you, and I surely have both a "visibility bias" (we see/notice the failures/crashes, we don't notice when things hum along at a functional level), as well as some personal experience with some cases (financial wheeler-dealer types putting together deals that were structured ENTIRELY to earn massive fees.....leaving the actual entity so burdened with debt that the amount of debt it was taking on had to include enough money to pay.....the payments on the debt, because otherwise, there's no way it could make the payments, and similar bullshit schemes that would have fucked over everyone, including the business.....while the dealmaker types and preferred investor types made out like bandits). I've just seen too much shit to ignore.
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Don't worry. We'll be "re-shoring" all of that mining, with the same level of environmental enforcement you see in China and Africa. That's how they want it, it's a key to making such activities "economically competitive" -- you just "remove all unnecessary regulation" (which is defined as....any regulation that costs money to comply with). I've never pretended otherwise when it comes to the costs of battery production for EVs -- it's why incentives have applied to account for harder-to-price externalities like reducing carbon emissions. Nobody reasonable is arguing that it isn't more expensive to produce an EV than an ICE car. We're just going to take care of that.....by reducing costs wherever we can, and you and I well know that complying with regulations -- including the most common-sense regulations you can imagine, like "don't dump your mining waste in the drinking water supply" -- cost money to comply with. Well, enough of that bullshit.
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But, I mean....y'all know what's NOT domestic terrorism? This: Y'all are already in a violent civil war. It's long past time you grasped that fact.
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Yep. We have shifted to becoming an extraction economy. That USED to mean we extract oil, gas, and minerals from the ground for profit. Today, we are extracting dollars from people, adding no value in return -- just like when we suck oil out of the ground, the ground doesn't get any benefit. Human beings exist to serve as sources of revenue at every turn. Extract the maximum amount of dollars from them when providing them with basic needs such as 1) food, 2) shelter/housing, 3) healthcare, etc. How much blood can you siphon out of their body? Note that the question is NOT "how much blood can you siphon out of their body while leaving them still healthy."
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"Longer term than one or two quarters" does not mean that it's not short-term thinking. Buy, extract all value in a relatively short time (a few years), leave behind an empty husk/sell off the body parts to recover your investment -- those are just some versions of the play. The play is NOT "buy and hold, and build it into a well-run, profitable enterprise that can be in business for decades."
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Remember, these are the very people who have spent the past DECADE repeatedly yelling about "child trafficking!" and "Pizzagate!" and all that shit.....but when it comes to verifiable, systemic kidnapping of children......they want to shut down an active effort to locate those children. It was NEVER about caring about children or human trafficking. Ever. Not even .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%.
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