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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
The discussion moves quickly, but not that quickly. I was specifically addressing the American Muslims you identified in your post--the dumb assholes in Dearborn who voted 85% against Harris. There is no fucking "moral conundrum." American electoral politics is a binary choice: either the Republican or the Democrat. One of those two is going to get elected. Voting for one helps that candidate get elected; deciding not to vote for a candidate hurts that candidate's chances of getting elected. It's that fucking simple. I didn't make the choice to elect the candidate who wants to ban Muslims from entering the United States. I voted against the candidate who wants to deport Muslims and strip naturalized Muslims of their citizenship. I voted against the candidate who will allow Israel to kill absolutely every Palestinian it can lay hands on. The Muslims in Dearborn overwhelmingly voted to elect that candidate. There ain't no fucking moral conundrum here. One candidate was going to be elected: the candidate who supports all those things, or the candidate who opposes them. The fine people in Dearborn chose the former. They get to fucking live with that decision. Or not. Either way, I don't give a fuck.- 8203 replies
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Just look at what the markets are doing. Stocks are up nearly 10% over the last week; bond yields are also rising. Everyone fucking thinks inflation is going to bounce back up and corporations are going to use that as an opportunity to make windfall profits. The investing classes are going to make a killing. It's the working classes that are going to be killed. So, you know--the yoozh. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Haha--holy fucking shit. These dumb motherfuckers pulled the cord on the political suicide vest because the Democrats didn't let them have a speaker at the convention? And you expect me to feel an ounce of sympathy for them? And yeah--I did choose that metaphor purposefully. Dumb fucking non-strategic thinkers. Fuck them.- 8203 replies
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I am completely with you. There's absolutely nothing I can do to prevent what is going to happen to the Palestinians. I did what I could to prevent it. But I'm still going to lament it. At the same time, one may plausibly hope that there is something constructive that comes from people seeing the (very, very foreseeable) consequences of their voting behavior. And perhaps that would provide some benefit going forward, which is worth cheering for. It may be true that @BrickHorn is sitting there wringing his hands over the fate of the poor Palestinians. And meanwhile, @Brisketexan is maniacally finger-tenting while hissing "excellent." And they have the exact same impact on what is going to happen in Palestine. When the time for deciding what was going to happen in Palestine was upon us, they were on the same side. But that time is gone, and they're both now equally impotent. The hand-wringer's hand-wringing over the finger-tenter's sinister grimace is a bit stupid. As is the finger-tenter's supposed glee, I suppose. I imagine they're both coping mechanisms. I suspect neither will be terribly effective in the medium- or long-term. That's why we have alcohol.- 8203 replies
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Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
Ghost of LL replied to Patrick Bateman's topic in Football
I think that's right. But at the same time, that doesn't really answer the question--underground infrastructure could've been moved. They moved plenty of roads in that area to accommodate various stadium projects--some water lines and fiberoptic cable shouldn't have stood in the way. I think the real answer is that he wanted it on an axis to open onto The Ballpark in Arlington. Jerry wanted his stadium and its big glass wall to glower down on the perpetually cellar-dwelling Rangers. Of course, now the Rangers have a new stadium that is off that axis. The former Ballpark is now home to some minor-league football team, which really causes one to wonder about a future in which the NFL embraces relegation. This is the answer. This is 100% the answer. -
Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
Ghost of LL replied to Patrick Bateman's topic in Football
This was a rhetorical question, right? Because you know the answer, right? -
This was a completely shit game for 55 minutes, and then just turned amazing.
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Oh, my god!
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My dude—it’s the tritone metallic nonsense that makes them fire.
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I mean, not yet. But that’s not a bad suggestion.
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Jesus—this Maryland-Oregon game may feature the best uniform matchup in the history of college football.
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The Ole Miss student section not really helping their team out but keeping the bottles in the stands.
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Wild holding there.
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Mike Leach is so fucking lucky that he got to die before this shitshow came to pass.
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@Brisketexan will tell you that I pour very good whisky out here on the ledge.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
So yesterday I closed on the sale of a house. Very long story--was supposed to be Mrs.LL's dream house, but interest rates happened and the timing and shit and now it just makes more sense to renovate the current house. So today, I have quite a lot of money sitting in cash in my brokerage account. Here's the thing--Wall Street doesn't understand shit about politics. Mrs.LL was in finance for a long time, and ever since we've been together, I've always been shocked by how little Wall Street understands politics. So much of their business is dictated by what happens in Washington, but they understand fuck-all about it. And right now, Wall Street is expecting 1) a Trump win (and the inflationary and recessionary dangers that come with that) and 2) a period of uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the election as happened in 2020. Based on everything we know, I strongly expect neither of those things. And I think the market is going to react very favorably to 1) No Trump, and 2) certainty (irrespective of who wins) when the race is called shortly after midnight CST. So fuck your prediction thread--I'm putting my money where my mouth is. When the market goes up 5% tomorrow on the strength of a definitive Kamala win, the first round at Chili's is on me. -
I have to tell you--I'm not particularly clued in on the SMU fanbase as a whole, and I certainly cannot speak to every contingent out there. But wouldn't it make sense for them to be focused on Texas right now? Texas is quite clearly the best team and the best program in the state. So I don't see it as fantasizing about some perceived rivalry as much as it is wanting to challenge for the top spot.
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I mean, "can" is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. But if they were healthy (which is to say, with R.J. Maryland), it's not wrong to say that they could win a game against Texas. They wouldn't be favored to win. But if they played that game ten times, they might win three. And really--those aren't terrible odds.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
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Oh, yeah—this is the stuff.
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The best thing about this game is seeing the stands completely full. This may be an attendance record for that stadium.
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Oh my god, it’s amazing.
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There's a piece published from Imperial College, London that humans feel empathy for robots that are bullied. And I thought about that this morning as I was driving in to work on MoPac. Going northbound on MoPac, there's one of the Waymo driverless cars in the second lane. It* wants to get over to exit at 5th Street/Cesar Chavez. So like a conscientious driver, it puts on its blinker and someone lets it merge in. And it immediately occurs to me--if that were a human driver, there's a high likelihood that the driver next to him would've sped up to prevent him from merging in. I followed the Waymo car a fair bit down Cesar Chavez, and it made several lane changes. Each time, it used its blinker, and each time the driver in the other lane let it merge in with no difficulty. In Austin! And it just really fucking bothers me--why the fuck are we more courteous to fucking robots than we are to other humans? Why do we take a car driven by a human wanting to merge into traffic in front of us as some sort of personal affront, but when a robot does it it's just fine? It's the first time I've really felt John Connor vibes: And weirdly, I notice as I type that I anthropomorphize the robots. In the first sentence, I initially typed "robots who are bullied" and then later initially typed "He wants to." Weird.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Ghost of LL replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Jesus Christ--is this what a Yale education gets you these days? London hasn't felt like an English city in 300 years. It's an Imperial capital. It feels like an Imperial capital. It has felt like an Imperial capital for three centuries. When you land at Heathrow, you land alongside flights from the Subcontinent, from the Caribbean, and from the Antipodes. Then when you take the Elizabeth Line in, you're going to be next to people from right across the old Empire. And when you get into town, you'll get some kick-ass Chinese, Jamaican, and Pakistani food--all because many of those families came to London when London was still their capital, too. For its part, New York isn't "American." It was a Dutch colony. Actually, it was an enterprise of the Dutch East India Company. And the Company didn't give a fuck whether you came from the Netherlands or England or Italy. The Company didn't care whether you were Protestant or Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or nothing in particular. The Company cared that you would be economically beneficial for New Netherlands. These weren't religious zealots like you had up in Boston. New York has always been multicultural from the moment it was founded--intentionally so. Do they seriously not teach this shit at Yale anymore?
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