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  1. To be clear, she was fired because she discussed white men and violent acts. Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk is lionized, and compared to Christ himself, when he said "prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people." Just to clarify the absolutely insane double standard the "free speech conservatives" actually apply.
  2. Enchubben is fine with this. And Enchubben is fine with this. And see, Enchubben is very, very, very concerned about inflammatory political rhetoric, and anyone who speaks such inflammatory rhetoric is a no good very bad person. ESPECIALLY when that rhetoric can be tied directly to acts of political violence. So, all the people calling Kirk a fascist and a racist are very bad people who fanned the flames of violence. But when Kirk repeatedly and consistently referred to immigrants as invaders., AND a man inflamed by that exact rhetoric, stating as his actual purpose and reason stopping the "invasion" and eliminating the "invaders," drove to El Paso and murdered 22 people for that reason....well, see, that's different. When Charlie says that, he was just speaking his mind, and you know, all those brown people ARE invading 'merica (nevermind that my family has been in this state since it was Coahuila y Tejas). But when other people say "that Charlie dude is racist," THEY are the REAL problem. Enchubben is a card-carrying subscriber to Wilhoit's law: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. That was Charlie Kirk's entire belief system in a nutshell. Black people were better off when they lived under Jim Crow (yes, another thing that Charlie actually said). It's good for that out-group to have been under a system of laws that bound them, but did not protect them. THAT IS A GOOD THING TO CHARLIE KIRK. Enchubben is fine with all of this, because that's what he believes, and what he is. Enchubben will say he's not fine with the slaughter of 22 people in El Paso, but you can't pin that act on the inflammatory rhetoric of Charlie and those like him who used the same terms (even though there is no doubt as to the connection - again, the killer wrote a fucking statement that used the exact same vocabulary). However, you CAN pin Charlie Kirk's murder on the "inflammatory rhetoric" of people calling someone who said Jim Crow was better for black people a racist. It's not complicated. Rules for thee, not for me. Wilhoit's law.
  3. Enshittification acceleration should be the term of the day. It's not just enshittification, it's that it's happening fucking everywhere, faster and faster and beyond the human capacity to keep up. Even my wife, who doesn't really pay attention to grocery prices, came home from a trip to HEB yesterday and asked me "what the fuck?" She'd just bought a single bag of groceries, and spent over $100. Granted, $42 of that was on....coffee. See, we use keurig coffee pods (San Francisco Bay co. breakfast blend), because it's just the two of us, we don't need a whole pot. A few months ago, a box of pods was $14. Today, it's $21. Every single thing she bought has noticeably gone up in price (but coffee was definitely a beating). Prices on everything goes up. Quantities go down. Quality goes down. Experience gets worse. And fuck you, what are you gonna do about it? It's so fucking demoralizing, and to be clear, we have the money, it doesn't matter to us whether a quick grocery run is $70 or $100. But it sure as shit matters to a whole lot of people (and we can damned well remember when it would have mattered to us). But shut up and take it, everyone.
  4. FIF precision.
  5. Yeah....you really haven't realized that this is the plan? See the 13th Amendment. They won't even have to repeal it, just really put it to use: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Make all immigration offenses (no matter how small) a crime. And, because you can't deport everyone, and thus you have to "detain them indefinitely," boom -- you have a convict labor force as big as you want. And here's the fantastic irony: Before, Jose, Jorge, and Mario worked at the meat packing plant earning $15 an hour. Now, detainees Jose, Jorge, and Mario are part of a detainee crew, managed by PrisonCorp....working in that exact same meat packing plant. Except now, PrisonCorp is paid $10 an hour for their labor. The meat packing plant saves $5 an hour. PrisonCorp is making bank on Jose, Jorge, and Mario's labor. And Jose, Jorge, and Mario are essentially slaves to PrisonCorp and the meat packing plant for life. WINNING! 100%. And truly, it's going to be an own goal that blows Brexit out of the fucking water. Taking the economy that was the envy of the world, and completely fucking kneecapping it....for no sane or good reason at all.
  6. It's all a ruse. We've seen this before.
  7. Sure - tankies and left-authoritarians are shitbags all on their own. Shit, the differences between left authoritarianism and right authoritarianism are a lot smaller than I thought when I was younger and naive. Of course, none of them are literally in charge of our current government, and controlling almost all media, and openly promising to use the power and apparatus of the state to punish, repress, and "exile" the political opposition. If and when any of them threaten to do so, I'll absolutely turn my attention to them.
  8. Check another box on "this is what fascist regimes do." Co-opting and working in partnership with corporate interests to advance (and importantly, absolutely protect) the regime's interests is literally textbook.
  9. The reason you aren't getting any real evidence - just hints and intimations - is because the regime isn't getting what it wants, and doesn't like what it's found thus far. If his motivation is anything BUT "leftist violence," we will never, ever find out about it. This story has a real chance of going fucking silent/dark, and right soon. Which will tell you all you need to know.
  10. Dude. Stop with the false equivalency. The shitty, divisive stuff about Kirk isn't his general conservative positions -- support Trump tariffs, argue for more rigid immigration controls, all the stuff. Hasan takes plenty of "liberal" positions, but he does NOT take positions like "white women don't have the brain power," and "we should be able to whip conservatives." He never put out a "hit list" of conservatives he didn't like, who then got subjected to a cascade of death threats. Now, I also wouldn't support putting our flags at half staff if Hasan was killed, or putting his body on AF 2, or any of that shit. Because he is not a government official. But then, I'm not in a fucking cult that requires that men be made into gods.
  11. El Jacalito is pretty good, IIRC. And not far from L&J is Su Casa -- great combo plate El Paso mexican food, and truly like stepping into a time machine to about 1975.
  12. Yeah, went to their IG page, and they are "relocating," last day at the old location was a couple of weeks ago. Bummer, they were really good.
  13. So, by "we got him," he meant "we don't got him, but we also don't got any of the wrong hims." Kakistocracy. Pure and simple.
  14. Dear God, that's terrifying. I wonder if there are any lawyers around here.
  15. Gawdalmighty. Can you imagine if a perfect Surlyite ever pulled such a stunt? The FBI would be scratching their heads over cryptic "NowThis," "muledick," "tree fiddy," and "PM Derka" references for years. When in reality, the shooter's motivation was that Arch's shittacular performances just pushed the shooter over the edge.
  16. This. This is what I said pretty early in the war, when it became apparent that Ukraine wasn't going to fold like a cheap tent in a matter of days/weeks. I've represented parties in plenty of fights against a much larger, better-funded, "heavy-hitter," bullying opponent. And our strategy to win is quite often the same: just stand your ground. The gorilla will charge, kick up lots of dust, beat his chest, maybe even throw a punch or two. He will eat up your time and money. But in the end, after he's exhausted his playbook (beat your chest and act the bully), he doesn't have a plan B. That's when you go on the attack, and he doesn't have a fucking answer for that. And that's when you win. It works. I'm not exactly a genius or novel thinker in using that strategy, it's been around a LONG time. Ukraine knows it.
  17. Alas, I had flown up there and back, so no Allsup's stops were on the agenda. Yet another depressing thing about the trip.
  18. TLDR: they happily let people like Charlie use racism, division, and hate as a sword, then wrap themselves in the flag and the cross as a shield. Because they are reprehensible, gutless cowards too yellow to own their actual beliefs.
  19. FFS, this. You can start with the simple direct quotes: "You [referring to black women Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and others] do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously." The 1964 Civil Rights Act was "a huge mistake." "If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified." "The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different." We should be able to "whip foreigners" in the US. And that's just a start. He was utterly divisive and shitty.
  20. Well, that would suck. I was last there a year ago. But Yelp has reviews from just. A couple of months ago. I dunno.
  21. When I go for work, I usually stay at the hotel Indigo. But bottom line, you’re safe walking a few blocks in downtown El Paso. Seriously, it’s quite safe. And also, I can’t recommend this place strongly enough: Seriously, outstanding stuff, if you like tacos and beer. Which I do. And L&J is an institution, worth a visit.
  22. She preaches several times a year at a church where she is associated. Not formally on staff, but formally associated with it (it’s a particular kind of thing, not found everywhere). I’ll share her particulars via PM.
  23. She was not so sure. At all. She was quite aware of, and anxious about, the risk that the message she was sharing would not be well received. She agonized about it with me the last several nights, always ending up at “this may go terribly, but I can’t NOT say it.” And all I could tell her was “if that’s what you feel called to share, then I have your back no matter what.” Walking up to a pulpit to share a message that may result in you getting run out of the room is a pretty unnerving thing. Who knows, there may have been some people who are upset and angered by it, and she’ll hear about it later. But there were, thankfully, quite a few who found it meaningful and were supportive. It’s a good congregation.
  24. My wife had to preach today. It was really fucking hard, she wrestled with her sermon from the beginning, and come Wednesday, it got even harder. Let’s just say she didn’t go the same direction as your priest. She also didn’t go anywhere near “it’s good that he’s dead.” She spoke to bodily autonomy. And how your life, and physical body and existence are a gift from god. And who are we - or anyone - to take away that autonomy, up to and including by ending a life? But don’t think it’s limited to that. Limiting bodily autonomy is a particular problem in these times. Quite a few people thanked her after, and there were some pretty strong emotions. Anyway, preparing and giving that sermon was one of the hardest things she’s ever done, and she left it all on the field. I’m in awe of her, and her ability and courage to listen to the spirit when called, even and especially when it’s hard.
  25. A cooler revolution would have voted on OnlyFans. Count the number of sharpies up the butt, there’s your winner.
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