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Brisketexan

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  1. A mob of Israeli citizens, INCLUDING MPs, stormed army bases to free them. There is a SIZEABLE movement in Israeli society that likes, celebrates, and wants more atrocities against Palestinians. Sorry, putting the white hat on Israel makes you a fucking liar. And again, I say this as someone who thinks that Hamas is evil, vile, giant pieces of shit.
  2. When an entire people have been crushed beneath the treads of a massive military apparatus for decades, and that gets no points on your "scorecard," then yeah....your scorecard is uber fucked.
  3. It's not even that. It's arguing that "degree" really matters when both sides have gone well over the line of "horrific." "You raped 50 women, that's far worse than me, I only raped 25 women, why, you raped TWICE as many as I did!" Jesus fucking Christ. "Degree" is relevant when you're arguing that party X raped women, and party Y ran a stop sign. Once you cross into a world where both parties committed multiple felonies, then....fuck em both.
  4. Fucking. FANTASTIC. Now, sit down with some rational supporters of the Palestinian cause who can lay out pages and pages and pages of Israeli atrocities, violence, ethnic cleansing, and the like against Palestinians starting with the Nakba (as the Palestinians see it), and see how that scorecard looks. "Hey, our atrocities are only -300 humanity points, theirs are -375 humanity points!" is a fucking horrific argument. Yet that's the one you're making. Which, again...makes my point with bullseye-precision.
  5. "I get bitched at for being too fast, then not fast enough." Look, dude, you don't need to bring the challenges of your sex life into things around here. We're friends, but we ain't THAT close.
  6. Guess you missed the part where Israeli protestors, including multiple members of parliament stormed the army base where those accused soldiers were in custody, insisting that they be set free. Again, more "see, their atrocities are worse than our atrocities" bullshit, while also not even seeing the actual full picture. Perfection. Couldn't capture this shitshow any better if I tried.
  7. Yeah....way to entirely miss the point. There are stacks of stories about how shitty Hamas is, the awful inhuman shit they've done, etc. There are ALSO stacks of stories about how Israeli forces (and people acting under the protection of same) are committing atrocities, ethnic cleansing, and the like, against Palestinians (including in the West Bank). Again...."their atrocities are worse than our atrocities" is the whole fucking problem here, and my entire point -- there's no moral high ground. Just an argument that the "other guys" have fallen lower than we have. Fucking hell.
  8. Dude. American democracy has looked like this for a long time: The regular lettuce has already won this competition.
  9. The herbs are easy. My wife's giant lemon tree, which a) produced great lemons this year, so we're happy with it, and b) is already starting to blossom, needs to go outside and get good sun, air, and some sexy group pollinator action.
  10. Love the sequence of posts -- masked Hamas shitbags surrounding a single Israeli female hostage.....followed by Israeli forces being fuckholes tearing apart a Palestinian civilian settlement. A pox on both their houses indeed. There is no moral high ground to be claimed here. It's just an argument about who is worse, when both are pretty fucking terrible. Fuck them all.
  11. Man....it's not an every day thing for sure, and certainly not my regular Luby's call. But every once in a while.....a good pan fried liver and onions, with plenty of salt and pepper....it hits RIGHT. I got a pepper mill a while back that let's me adjust my grind, so I can do a couple of kinds at a time, but that does look pretty handy. And I do love those manual mills for lots of spices.
  12. Oh, my sweet summer child. It takes 38 states....if you presume that there are 50 "legal and valid states" from whom ratification is required. See, there are defects in the process of several states purportedly joining the union....and gosh, it just so happens that all of those states are blue states. Signed, 5-4 SCOTUS opinion. Again, y'all keep thinking I'm kidding. Go read opinions like Bruen again. There is no law. There are no precedents. There is only Calvinball. This is the play.
  13. So.....how are the long term forecasts looking for another arctic outbreak? Because I've got a bunch of goddamned plants in my bathroom that I'd like to get back out on our deck, but can't do so if we're gonna get down into the 20s again in another week or two.
  14. Well, again, as I've been mentioning repeatedly since 2016....you need to caveat your points with the predicate of "presuming the Rule of Law applies, which is no guarantee." We continue to be plagued by thinking about things as if the law, rules, and norms apply. Stop. You are facing an opponent who will say "hey, I carried the ball across the goal line, that's a touchdown." And we respond "but...you carried it while driving an M-1 tank, that's not allowed." And meanwhile, they're spiking the ball, 6 points are on the board, and the MAGAts are all yelling TOUCHDOWN!!!! Stop thinking that any rules apply. And start acquiring Javelins, because that's how you play defense in this new world.
  15. Yeah, Norway gets to claim their gas station hot dogs, which 1) are indeed next-level, and 2) one of the cheapest food choices around. When we visited, we probably had gas station polse for a meal no fewer than 5-6 times. Sets you back maybe $5, which is cheap for a meal in Norway. Otherwise....yeah, their food is on par with Sweden's. Oh, they also make fiskesuppe, their fish chowder -- that's actually pretty good, and matches up with the subject of this thread. I still have some of that mix at home, maybe I'll make a pot soon and share it here.
  16. Gotta tell ya....I think a Focke Wulf 190 would be a more fun ride. So, if I'm gonna collaborate with the nazis, gimme coolest ride (I like the piston engine fighters, even though the ME-262 is a sweet chariot as well).
  17. CRS is one of Congress's sacred cows. They protect them pretty well, as they should. It's an incredible resource. Of course, MTG probably thinks they are all (((deep state))) and powered by jewish space lasers, so who knows.
  18. I have a friend who works for them. He is a wild and freaky dude...but he's also super smart and incredibly well-informed.
  19. That scenario is the one I posted before -- the Ma and Pa Ferguson approach - "vote for the Ma, get the Pa!" Vote for Don Jr, and Don Jr. openly says "don't worry, my dad will be the real president. I'll just be his instrument. FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!"
  20. It does indeed. I found that it's one of three things -- and only three -- that the Swedes do well. 1) The meatballs. They are a real thing, and they're legit. 2) Those little pancakes with lingonberry jam. Solid. 3) Pickled herring. Oh, they also make some special cheese, king's cheese or whatnot, and that's pretty good. That's it. That's the entire list of food that Sweden does well. Dear God. It's abysmal. While there, my phone and social media reacted to my location. So, I got what I get on a lot of my social media -- links to recipes and cooking videos. I got pushed a video for some recipe involving a hollowed out cabbage, lined with UNSEASONED ground beef, stuffed with a block of bland cheese, topped with a bland cream sauce (it was seasoned with a tiny bit of salt and maybe a dash of paprika, IIRC). It looked HORRIFIC. Nothing redeeming about it.
  21. Yeah, that deep dish does make you take a pretty massive dump.
  22. The only guarantee here is that two narcissist egomaniacal cunts clashed. The specifics will be impossible to sort out.
  23. I don't think we make it through. You know that about me. But where I take solace is the pattern in prior collapses -- society fractures, and people break down into their smaller family/social units. They take care of them and theirs. That's our aim: we work together with our friends and family to take care of each other. The units that function well together will survive, even prosper, as the overall fabric goes to shit. Life is going to be hard for a LOT of people. What you can do is soften the blow for you and yours. Oh, and if you think like me, pour gasoline on the fire that makes life hard for the people who chose this path. They chose suffering, so they need to experience it. Nothing like burning yourself to a crisp to convince you to say "well....I don't think I want to do THAT again."
  24. That's actually a great step. The night after the eclipse, we ended up with a house full of astronomers (we were camping, but weather was blowing in, so we said fuck it, come to our casa, we have a roof and room to spare). As we were all scrounging up dinner stuff, one of the crew -- a German -- asked me for some pepper, and as he asked, he started saying "and if you don't mind, not that..." and before he could finish, I handed him my pepper mill. He said "oh thank you -- all that most Americans have is the powdered pre-ground pepper." Grinding your own pepper is such a small thing, but it levels up your cooking.
  25. That book is one of the most chilling things I've ever read. It was published in 1996. Its predictions for the post-2010 period have been fucking absurdly spot-on, and horrifyingly so. We're in for a lot more super-bad shit. And, as has become apparent by our chosen path, almost all of it will be self-inflicted.
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