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Brisketexan

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  1. Probably can't be done. But they're the largest voting block in America. Don't think we can do that, either. Because there's just two kinds of stupid -- Trump voters, and people who are completely uninvolved. Either way, we need to speak fluent stupid to get em.
  2. Suicide is painless indeed.
  3. "Dear ChatGPT....write me a manifesto explaining my desire to kill all one-legged Bolivians, in the name of veganism, and in a way that will impress Jodie Foster." That shit is absolutely coming.
  4. It's among the stupidest things imaginable. So of course that's what has happened.
  5. There will always be collaborators, because there is always profit to be found in collaboration. The problem is, both can be true (collaboration vs. integration) -- as any culture/ethnicity matures in a particular society, that culture will become more and more like the overall dominant culture. Which is fine. The children of Pakistani cricket fans growing up here will grow up to be baseball fans (either instead of or in addition to being cricket fans). That's not "selling out," it's a natural evolution. And sometimes, it's hard to tell the difference between selling out/butter biscuit/coconut and just being successful in a pluralistic society that nonetheless has a dominant culture. I love that some of the most enthusiastic Scottish nationalists.....are sikhs wearing madras plaid kilts. They are both sikh and Scottish. Striking the balance where our plurality is a strength, while also not being a source of outsized division, is hard. Black Americans and black american culture make America richer, by far. They are indeed a big part of what makes us - dare I say - great. Yet, our failure to ever really deal with our original sin of slavery followed by Jim Crow, continues to poison us all. It harms not just black America, but ALL of America. Fucking hell, man. We're all in this together. We have different experiences, different perspectives, and different things to bring to the table. That's a good thing. It shouldn't be a source of division. It should be a source of pride and strength. And we're going completely backwards in that respect. If it ain't mainstream white, it ain't right. That's the openly stated mission of this Regime, and it's going to kill us. Including the people cheering for it as we speak.
  6. Should find out who their lawyer was....
  7. I have a beat-up POS 1999 F-150. Missing hubcap, faded paint, dents and shit. It is now over 25 years old, and eligible for "Classic" license plates. I kinda think it would be funny as shit to do so.
  8. No. Has to be a straight, generic white guy. And he can't come across as smart. Smart is "elite," and "elite" only pisses the dumbs off. And "dumbs" are the only demographic that matters, because in America 2025 and going forward....they're pretty much the only demo, period.
  9. So....about the same performance you get from current technology company management.
  10. Finally picked this up (long story....had to go twice, because my ID didn't match my federal ID name, because DPS decided to gringo-fy my middle name). Not sure when I'll manage to get to the range to shoot it. Been a LONG time since I've had/shot an autoloader (never been a big handgun guy). My wife sees it last night. "What are you gonna do with it?" I looked at her funny -- "umm, shoot it?" She wanted to make sure I wasn't going to keep it in my car or something (I'm not, not big on carrying....although I have carried from time to time when work situations seemed to require it). In any case, looking forward to getting it out and putting it through its paces. Last time I shot one was my uncle's -- it was his service weapon as an ATF agent (he got permission to stick with it when they switched to 9mm).
  11. But because computing speed is much faster than human speed, that virtual company goes from "successful and growing" to "looted of all value with massive bonuses to the AI officers right before it collapses into bankruptcy" in about 3 hours. It's a real time-saver. Near-instant enshittification is so much more efficient.
  12. This. She could run on a platform of "I am personally going to murder 1 in 4 of my constituents.....and also, I am going to ban trans people from ever using a public bathroom," and she wins by 5 points easily.
  13. Who gives a fuck. Don't make a shit. He/she is gonna lose. Because the Dems can't nominate a safe white guy who's not 1,000 years old. And for better of for worse, "safe white guy" is all that this country is comfortable with. We tried "safe, bland black guy," and that experiment may yet prove to be the end of the Republic. Also....what election? Dude. There's far from a guarantee we'll even have one, and even if we do, it's all but certain the Regime is going to suppress votes, outright cheat, etc., just like every other autocratic regime like theirs has done since time immemorial.
  14. We do. Because, see....they are NOT important. In fact, each one of those things is BAD. Because for every recruiter you send to a HBCU....that's a moment of recruiting that would otherwise be spent at a majority white university. For every minority who would otherwise not be on an employer's radar screen, who then beats out a white candidate....that means a job that white candidate used to be able to take for granted now isn't his. For every second spent trying to understand and eventually include different cultural perspectives....well, that's a second not spent further cementing the "Leave it to Beaver" lily-white cultural perspective that dominated American life with no competition for....ever. Paying attention to those values means opting OUT of the value system of "the way we've always done it....only talking to and hiring white folks, making white middle-American culture the only culture," etc. It's not at the expense of white American's EQUALITY, mind you. It's at the expense of their ADVANTAGE. And white people losing their inherent ADVANTAGE pisses them off even more than minorities get pissed about not having an EQUAL shake.
  15. Ain't gonna sign up for that site. Copy and paste the gist, por favor.
  16. It's still a good idea. Just not here. Remember the days of.....just a few months ago....when many of the brighter minds from all over the world would come and study in the US because we had great scientific research and research-based university programs? Well, flip the script. European, Canadian, Australian, Asian, etc. universities have quickly turned their eyes to the US and bright students with potential from the US. In fact, many of the professors leading the programs your kid might have joined here in the US have left or are in the process of leaving for some of those universities. Yesterday, you could study biology under Professor Smartypants from Harvard. Now, you can study biology from Professor Smartypants, who is now teaching at the Sorbonne. Our loss will be the world's gain. And that's part of being agile for your kids. Follow the research and funding if they want to study science. Odds are increasingly high that their path will take them somewhere other than the US. Unless, of course, your kid wants to be a government-funded drone working for 1/10th of the market rate for Elon Musk or some other oligarch who has wrangled government-funded research programs to do his business's work for him.
  17. So, wait.....generative AI performs the way that most wives want their husbands to perform?
  18. There needs to be a concerted effort on that front. Don't let nazis live without being constantly shamed. They chose their path.
  19. Hell yeah I am, man!
  20. The new American Gestapo, that's who. These are people who ENJOY doing what they are doing. They aren't reluctant, they aren't "just following orders." If you told them that the next step was to send these subhuman browns to a gas chamber, their smiles would get BIGGER, not smaller. Anyone who works for ICE is full-on evil. They take pleasure inflicting suffering on the weak. They get a fucking hard-on when they get to punch down. Seeing the fear and pain in the eyes of their victims? It causes them immeasurable joy. That's what we are dealing with.
  21. Yeah....nobody in a same-sex relationship has ever been pregnant. WTF? There's this thing called "science" - it allows for such things. Happens all the time, in fact. It is an undeniable truth that it is more dangerous to be pregnant in Texas than in a jurisdiction that allows the full spectrum of care for women. You don't have to worry about that. Yippee for you.
  22. Flew to Dallas for a meeting two weeks ago - morning flight for an afternoon meeting. Meeting locale was slightly closer to DFW, so I booked on American instead of SWA to Love Field. A couple of hours before my scheduled flight, I started getting notices...."delayed 30 minutes." Then "delayed 45 minutes." No biggie, I'd built in plenty of cushion. Then "delayed 90 minutes." Nope, that ate too much of my cushion. Ditched the reservation, bought a ticket on SWA for a flight departing 10 mins after my original departure time. Easy-peasy, no delays, got there in plenty of time. Meanwhile, I'm actually IN my meeting, and still getting text messages - "your flight is now delayed three hours." Then "your flight is now delayed four hours." I don't know when it ever fucking took off, I don't care. SWA has slipped, it's not what it once was, etc. But by and large, I don't have experiences with it pulling shit like that, which I've had with American at a much higher rate. Most of my travel is short domestic routes. Take off on time, get me to my destination when scheduled. That's 99%of what I'm asking for. And American can't seem to do that with regularity.
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