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troph

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  1. I’m not pursuing anything, seriously what power do I have. And still, how did this person get this gun, what age are they, what is their criminal and mental health history? Even if this person is as sane and law abiding mature adult as you think they may be, it’s an undeniable fact that deaths and mass shootings have risen since the 1994 assault weapon ban sunsetted and wasn’t renewed. Fact, not conjecture, not opinion, fact. We need gun control regulations and reform, now.
  2. Major stroke at his age (I haven’t been following the news about his health) can absolutely cause a permanent change like that and puts the person in a narrow window of 3-5 years or less to live with mental and physical deterioration progressing. Basically at his age and health he’s not going to get better - long term - from a stroke.
  3. That’s exactly when you exclaim “FUDGE NUGGETS!!!” and throw the remote across the room and storm off.
  4. Demonic ideologies… hey girl hey! I’m so glad im an introvert that works from home.
  5. I have no idea who the shooter is or what he thinks about CK - I'm 99.9999% certain it's a cisgender straight male though. but as to what he thinks? he could be a liberal zealot. he could be an apolitical zealot. his reason could be he just wanted the attention. who knows. but it's also possible, believe it or not, that the guy was a conservative who was pissed about something. that's the thing about advocating for violence as a method of resolving turmoil and conflict, you really have no fucking idea how it's going to happen and for what reason and by whom.
  6. pass the gun regulation and reform we've been asking for for the last 25 years in his honor and the day after Trump signs that law I'll pay for the statute myself.
  7. bullshit words alone with the ability and intent to carry out violent threats can qualify for assault charges in some jurisdictions. now a jury may be hard to convince, but from the black letter of the law, speech can absolutely be violence.
  8. does that make you a purple penis eater?
  9. thank you. said correctly, succinctly and perfectly.
  10. probably is, my yacht master like 15% of that price is both, the band on mine is 100% stainless I'm pretty sure.
  11. fucking A I have another one ... we bought 3 acres of undeveloped land on lake travis - land itself is not on the lake but has views and there is an easement for water access to have a boat dock etc. we paid $1M in 2019. We were offered $3M in 2021 and turned it down thinking we would break ground soon and instead of $2M in profit over another 3 years there would be $5M in profit. RE market tanked as rates and costs went up, we still have the raw land, and see no way to develop or sell anytime soon. it's probably worth $1.8-$2.3M but only on paper (plus we have a capital stack and some debt that makes that close to breakeven on the low side). we are currently self funding costs to carry. shoulda taken that triple in 2 years. wtf were we thinking. pigs get fat, hogs get slaughter my friends. I will never let that mistake happen again.
  12. I'll raise you one, a certain now high flying tech darling of Austin - large company, been around forever and struggled perpetually as the ugly fat bridesmaid to a national tech darling that is now in the shitter - was a frequent landing spot for attorneys from the firm I left. at one point stock was below $10 and it's recent highs (last couple of years) were plus or minus $200 per share. At its low point the company was giving out stock options and RSUs like it was halloween at 10pm and they wanted to get rid of the candy before lights went out. GC is retired and worth over $200M and there are rank and file attorneys there that have made intense money staying put. VPs and Sr VPs which is probably my level at this point are probably worth a cool $20-30M if they played their cards right. I can't tell you how many times I turned down the chance to go in house. don't get me wrong, I'm doing really well for myself and frankly the Dubai thing and this in house thing would have NEVER worked out, just not my style but the money left on the table is staggering.
  13. I am, and more importantly, I’ll remain true to my values.
  14. I get it, conservatives don’t like the hate toward Charlie Kirk. Hey, I’m with you, hate no person, hate no living thing. but if you’re going to condemn those who are too weak on the left and say hateful things about Charlie Kirk, are you going to say anything about the hate Charlie Kirk said about others? This is not a gotcha game, I am here for the radical revolution of kindness LFG!
  15. Here’s my bottom line. The hate has to stop. Both sides. This guy didn’t deserve to die but gun violence needs to stop. The hateful rhetoric against other citizens needs to stop. We need to focus on why we are pitted against each other - the evangelical Christian and I have way more in common than either of us have in common with the corporatists and the billionaires. We need reform up and down across so many areas. We should not let them turn us against ourselves so that they can make our lives miserable while taking from society for their own personal benefit. It’s right there to see. I wish I wish somehow we could figure this crap out.
  16. You come on. I started the trans part when a poster said Kirk was killed because he made too much sense. I used the trans part - which is germane given it was the last topic he talked about which is ironic given his obsession with trans shit and his response was in line with his rhetoric. so no I didn’t just jump in “look at me” … I was responding to an ASININE position that he was assassinated because he made too much sense. stop being an ass. I truly believe in my heart you are salvageable please stop you were so much better than this. Please for yourself and your kids man, do better, be better.
  17. his answer was right in line with his consistent and unrelenting rhetoric. He had consistently and even in his answer demonized trans folk. There’s NOTHING histrionic about what’s happening to us. What is histrionic is the absurd insistence that Christians are being persecuted. You didn’t get me and I’m not running in circles. so kindly go back under your bridge.
  18. GTFO out of here - the entire Republican platform starts with guns, trans, gays and browns. what the fuck is wrong with you? this is my America …. Brought to us by conservative political ideologues. But yeah im making it up and Christians are the ones being persecuted. btw I searched the same phrase for anti Christian legislation to support the proposition of Christians being persecuted and found nothing.
  19. Right because he thought all these years I should have the right to be me, live and love peacefully in this country. what’s wrong with you man? even as a libertarian back in the day the crap you spew now is not only disingenuous it is antithetical to what you used to believe. and you sit and act like the guy didn’t spend his days hating people like me? No end of story is we need to stop this nonsense with gun regulation. No one should die like this, so let’s do something about it.
  20. Line up of games I can support!
  21. He was talking about transgender mass shooters at the time… too much sense? It’s fucking propaganda. I can’t even tell you how many zeroes are in front of the number that gets you the percentage of trans people who are mass shooters. 5 out of 5700 man. too much sense? sorry bud, he should not have been shot. We need gun regulation. But he was not making sense he was preaching hate against people like ME. I will not preach hate, but I will also not let it slide that he was making too much sense. People maybe have liked what he was saying but it was hatred. I will not abide that pile of whitewashed nonsense. now someone please do the right thing and stop this nonsense. Let’s stop the gun violence. We all deserve better.
  22. As I said on the DT thread this doesn’t have to be political. We need gun regulation to protect him, the students, the kids, the partiers and everyone else who has or will be a victim of gun violence. I will cheer on anyone who leads the way.
  23. Percentages of mass shooters that are trans - I already multiplied by 100 to get the percentage. 0.08% percentage of trans Americans that have engaged in mass shootings. Same deal already multiplied by 100. 0.00007% transgender American are an existential threat to the USA. We must stop them now. We must take all their rights way. To protect the rest of us. Do it now it’s the only way to save America.
  24. One of my all time favorites books and movies is Cry, the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton. it’s about apartheid, race relations, justice and mercy in South Africa. my favorite quote … Reverend Msimangu speaks when talking about hating the other side …. "I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating". Look, today I am infuriated that people are upset about thoughts and prayers and not much else. I don’t think a non elected or unappointed political ideologue deserves this attention, he’s not a public servant, a victim of gun violence deserves the attention, sure but in my view for the purpose of real change. I find the hypocrisy so mind blowing I can’t even speak. HOWEVER, I will not turn on my values. The truth is the truth. The right thing to do is the right thing to do. Forgiveness and apologies are the currency of love. I am motivated by kindness, compassion, love and reverence for all living things that inhabit the earth. This guy is one of them, and so were the kids in Uvalde and the queers at Pulse night club. We all deserve change. We all deserve to be free from this fucking nonsense. ALL of us, and I will not close my heart down to what is the right thing because the other side is too far gone or change isn’t happening or isn’t happening fast enough.
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