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Brisketexan

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  1. No, see, those folks are incompatible with western society. These people? Well, they're the bedrock of good Western society.
  2. Well, see, he's a fascist. It's kind of their thing. Claim they are the bulwark in favor of democracy, free speech, and liberty....while they mount the most effective attack on all of those things we've ever seen in this country. It's kinda their thing. Kinda like how "libertarians" are the exact opposite of what they claim to be.
  3. Congratulations, your support of fascism has helped us get there today, right here in the USA. I'd rather deal with muslim immigrants than my own countrymen who want to end our Republic from within. Burn in hell.
  4. I still possess my testicles, so we know that has never happened. However, she has slept in the same bed with me after I spent all day tailgating eating BBQ, tacos, chicken wings, and drinking gallons of cheap beer. So I assume her tolerance of chemical attacks is off-the-charts.
  5. Neither do you. Go to hell.
  6. A pepper ball would only piss her off. Trust me. And she has participated in several exercises like this. And (1) you're damned right she wears her collar, because she is called to bear public witness, (2) they have extensive planning and training on how to deal with just this sort of thing. In fact, at some events, they wear color-coded armbands to indicate where they should be in position in the protest, and who is willing to be arrested if necessary. Honestly, the book on non-violent resistance is one of the only hopes we have. Make MAGA shoot and beat members of the clergy, publicly. AND, have a plan to make those images go worldwide and be amplified instantly (this is where "the resistance" is failing). And ultimately -- and this is important, and hard to stomach, but true -- it's going to take US troops, or paramilitary forces (and that's exactly what ICE is) opening fire en masse against members of the public. When there are images of a dozen dead Americans in the street, including a grandmother, a pastor, etc.....then you have a CHANCE to break through and break the nerve of the fascist-adjacent and apathetic people. Of course, there's also a tipping point that we're going to face as well: when the US military is ordered to slaughter Americans in America....what do they do? I am not optimistic about that. I do not trust them to honor their oath, or I at least fear that those who would do so will have been removed from the equation, and craven bloodthirsty fascist-sympathizers will have taken their place.
  7. And....there you have it. The policy of the new right is quite simply "white supremacy now, white supremacy forever." It all -- every single fucking thing -- comes back to that. The whole proxy of "no, we're just against ILLEGAL immigration," and "just do it the RIGHT way" has been tossed in the trash. See the simple example of the right having a conniption fit over....a US citizen who is one of the world's most popular artists being picked for the SB halftime show. He's a citizen. He's hugely popular. But....he's a dirty beaner who talks all messican and stuff. These people are just good old fashioned racist pieces of shit. We've had to fight them for the entirety of this country's existence, seems we're gonna have to keep doing so.
  8. Republicans are indeed being brutal and fighting among themselves.....over who can be at the front of the line in order to The only battle is over who can bow the lowest and pledge the most fealty to the Lord God King And Ruler Supreme Over All, His Majesty Lord Donald Trump.
  9. Bullshit. God never told me to stop touching myself. Not that I heard, anyway.
  10. Yeah, well...Candace Owens came to me in a dream. You know, that dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? I think she was one of the gals throwing pickles. Or am I the only one who has that dream?
  11. Joke's on you. The conference was in San Diego that year, and I ditched the main session to watch an afternoon game at old Jack Murphy between the Padres and Stros. It was glorious. (That's a true story, by the way - first conference I ever went to, I was still a law student, and fuck yeah I ditched and went to a baseball game in 70 degree weather)
  12. This is the video I was thinking of. Tell me that Milei isn't Corey Feldman:
  13. If that comes to pass, the university will never get another dime from me. And truly, I'm getting closer than I ever thought to unplugging from UT athletics. It's just not worth it. How can I cheer a flag of a fascist collaboration outfit?
  14. Well, that will have to do until they can get the right case before the SCOTUS telling us that the 13th amendment really doesn't mean that slavery is illegal. Actually, that's hyperbole on my part. They're going to use the 13th Amendment as it's already written: "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." Bingo-bango, easy-peasy, here's the plan: arrest all the brown people. Charge them with immigration crimes. Convict them en masse. Incarcerate them in "camps" near agricultural sites. Bus them to the farms, where they will do the exact same work they were doing before, except THIS time, they won't be getting paid. The farm corporation will pay the government for their labor (paying way less than they were getting paid before). Winner: Trumpco, which will collect payments for the brown convict slave labor. Winner: Ag corps, which will get the same labor as before, but at a reduce price. Loser: dirty brown people, but who cares, they aren't human anyway.
  15. Here's the thing....is that outcome a certainty? Of course not. Is it even "more likely than not?" Probably not. But....do we live in a world where there is a non-zero chance of it? Yes. Yes we do. "Bad outcomes" are a matrix involving degree of certainty and degree of harm. For example, a 10% chance of bruising your knee this week isn't a bad outcome. A 1% chance of a nuclear detonation in your city this week is a fucking horrific outcome. "Put to death for speech against the regime" at a .0000000000000000000000000000001% chance (in other words, what it has historically been in our lifetime) is fine. "Put to death for speech against the regime" at even a .01% chance is a really, really, really fucking bad outcome. We are in such fantastically deep trouble, and the incurable part of is is that our population is 40% in favor of it and 40% indifferent to it. That leaves maybe 20% of us who have an inkling of how deadly the fire we're playing with really is.
  16. Depends on how hot your girlfriend is, I guess.
  17. Kenny Loggins is releasing a Charlie Kirk tribute album? Ok then.
  18. TLDR version: Sergio has been a better American than probably 90% of Americans. BUT....Sergio don't got a 'murican sounding name, so he's not a real American, he should GTFO. See also MAGA freaking out about an actual US citizen who speaks and sings in spanish, and saying it's really really bad for him to be an entertainer at a big American event. The movement is about America being for white people only, they aren't trying to hide it.
  19. Bingo. Are his proclivities something that an actual functioning State Department could use to their advantage in some respects? Sure; you play the cards you're dealt, and "hey man, I don't know what he's gonna do or say next, why don't we make a deal?" is a real-deal play. See the wisdom of brilliant negotiator Crash Davis: But crediting his batshittery to some grand strategy....well, that's something.
  20. All those kids should pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Also, what a solid strategy for making people all over the world hate us for generations to come. Well-done.
  21. Yeah…I gotta tell ya, in thinking about “someone who truly contributes to society,” how much they pay in taxes was pretty far down my mental list. For real, it’s not something I visualized at all. A good teacher doesn’t pay much in taxes at all, but goddamn are they worth a crapload to society. And I can do the same thing for a guy who runs a beloved local taco stand, an honest mechanic, a guy who’s pivotal at keeping the water plant running, etc. Our society’s fixation on dollars as the SOLE measure of “value” shows how broken we are.
  22. That…is…fucking….MAGNIFICENTFABULOUSAMAZING. Also, giving off perfect “Corey Feldman singing in the 80s video” vibes.
  23. And you support that. Because you are anti-American.
  24. Cool fact: Grindr profiles featuring the term "beefsteak tomato" spike every time a Republican or CPAC meeting comes to town.
  25. This seems like a decent bet at the strategy. Russia has only so many AA defenses. They have to deploy them among the following competing interests: (1) protecting Russian military operations in and near Ukraine, (2) protecting Russian industrial/refining sites inside Russia, and (3) protecting the key strategic sites of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It seems certain that they do not have the AA resources to fully protect all three. And any attack you launch on any one of those three is an incentive to devote more AA resources to the target (kinda like how the Doolittle Raid caused at least some Japanese forces to be devoted to defending the home islands -- those resources couldn't be used elsewhere). I'm curious about Russia's rate of AA replenishment as well.
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