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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Oh....fucking bullshit.  Nobody has ever said our society or ANY of our systems -- private, public, local, state, federal, etc. -- are perfect.  Far from it -- we have long offered plenty of criticism of their various failings. But you are a the classic throw the baby out with the bathwater burn it down type.  You ignore the fact that all the things you hate....also perform a metric shitton of workaday functions, reasonably well, that make the relatively prosperous life we have possible.  Clean water, sewage treatment, roads, functioning courts to enforce contracts, laws, and the like, a social safety net apparatus that has helped drive down stark poverty (yes, SS really works), etc. etc. ad infinitum.  You 1) dismiss every bit of that with a handwave, 2) focus on only the failings (without conceding that all of your criticisms are valid, presume they are), and propose as a solution....3) burn the whole fucking thing down.

FFS, my wife is an incredibly positive part of my life.  She provides strength when I need it, she co-parents, she feeds me intellectually and emotionally, she helps keep our house running, all of the good stuff.  She is ALSO fiscally irresponsible when it comes to buying purses (she has more than enough, just stop).  She drives me mad with her preference to drive on surface streets instead of taking faster and more efficient freeways.  Her refusal to see any movie that involves lots of violence or horror limits the fuck out of my movie choices.  You would characterize my wife as an unreasonably picky, fiscally irresponsible, inefficient driver....ignoring every single good thing I listed first.  And would thus be happy seeing her tossed out the door and onto the trash heap.

It's fucking insane and psychopathic.  So, now you've gotten what you always wanted: we are burning down our collective house.  And for years, plenty of us have warned about exactly what's happening -- the house in engulfed in flames, with a shitload of people inside, who are going to suffer immensely.  You.  Don't.  Care.

And you do so for the stupidest of reasons.  Because our system is FLAWED.....all of it, the good and bad, must be destroyed.  And damn the suffering.  That was ALWAYS going to be the outcome.  If you burn down the house that 350 million of us live in, lots of people are going to be horrifically burned.  Burned people is what you have always wanted.

 

I might suggest that you workshop your draft valentines day letter with someone.  It could use a little spit and polish.  

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

 

I might suggest that you workshop your draft valentines day letter with someone.  It could use a little spit and polish.  

I just go with a pre-written Hallmark card.

Doesn't change the fact that when you yearn for the entire house to burn, countless charred humans is what you wanted.

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Doesn't change the fact that when you yearn for the entire house to burn, countless charred humans is what you wanted.

You're projecting. 

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Just now, Anastasis said:

You're projecting. 

Am I?

When you root to burn the entire system down - the system in which 350 million Americans live, a system which is interwoven into our lives and livelihood, what DOES happen when you "burn it all down?"

You have run away from that truth around here for as many years as you've been around.  And nobody but you thinks you've put any distance between yourself and that obvious truth: the inevitable and necessary outcome is immense suffering.

Shit, the gutting of USAID alone will, with a 100% certainty, result in a stack of people dying (not even Americans - people who depend on day-to-day food and medical aid that is now frozen). That's a real thing that is happening right now.  And it always was going to happen when we "burned it all down."  You may think you're being clever and fooling....someone, I have no idea who.  But anyone who looks at the dude cheering for the house everyone lives into burn to the ground knows "fuck...a lotta people are gonna burn when that happens."  Then when the dude says "oh, you're projecting"....do you really think anyone reads that and does anything but roll their eyes?

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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

When you root to burn the entire system down

The first time that I posted "burn it all down" was in the days after the 2016 election. And that was mostly a reaction to the point that our broken American political system brought us to. 

The two party system has completely captured every aspect of the American political system and has been on a collision course with disaster and fiscal ruin for a long time. We have an long ineffective congress that has ceded its deliberative legislative process over decades completely to party leadership, allowed for the executive branch to consolidate power of all kinds, but especially notably wrt war making. We have an intelligence community that it totally off the rails and violating the constitutional rights of Americans as a matter of daily business. A entrenched foreign policy/military industry that has destabilized numerous regions throughout the world, directly resulting in blow back that undermines American credibility and costs American lives, while pilfering American taxpayers on the regular. There is no path forward where our dysfunctional two party system is going to do a nice clean but meaningful course correction at the federal level. 

And you think that this about road infrastructure, or the wastewater treatment system and making the poo poo go down the pipes. 

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Posted (edited)
14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Am I?

Oh and yes. Between the two of us you are the only one that has talked about wishing their political adversaries, their friends and family, death and suffering. Pools of blood and shit while the life leaves their eyes. You're broken brisket. Don't project your brokenness onto me. 

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7 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Oh and yes. Between the two of us you are the only one that has talked about wishing their political adversaries, their friends and family, death and suffering. Pools of blood and shit while the life leaves their eyes. You're broken brisket. Don't project your brokenness onto me. 

Just answer the simple question: when you burn it ALL down -- and "all" includes things like USAID and medical and food programs it actively operates on a daily basis in dozens of countries, payment systems like SS that actively fund people living day-by-day, programs that are the basis for the livelihoods of literally millions of Americans both indirectly and directly (example of "directly" -- Catholic Charities in Galveston just laid off 120 people in its refugee resettlement office - they now have no job or paycheck, and the refugees who were in process, promised their assistance, are high-and-dry), etc. ad nauseum -- your "burning it all down" necessarily means that those people are going to suffer, and some of them will die, correct?

I mean, the fucking irony of you actively rooting for a course of action that will necessarily have direct AND collateral damage that = incredible suffering and death, in the name of your supposedly moral high ground of opposing....that exact sort of action.  You beclown yourself, and you think that nobody sees it.  It's the last part that's most pathetic.  That you think you've fooled.....anyone.  You root for something that is metaphorical area-bombing, claiming "hey, I never said a particular person should be hurt," and think that's absolution, when you spend pages here criticizing that exact moral calculus.  It's fucking rich.

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4 minutes ago, safe sex said:

Why the fuck do people still engage with him?

Because evil of the "oh shucks, I'm just for all the morally good things, and will never admit that what I propose will cause incredible suffering" variety is fucking infuriating.

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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Just answer the simple question: when you burn it ALL down -- and "all" includes things like USAID and medical and food programs it actively operates on a daily basis in dozens of countries, payment systems like SS that actively fund people living day-by-day, programs that are the basis for the livelihoods of literally millions of Americans both indirectly and directly (example of "directly" -- Catholic Charities in Galveston just laid off 120 people in its refugee resettlement office - they now have no job or paycheck, and the refugees who were in process, promised their assistance, are high-and-dry), etc. ad nauseum -- your "burning it all down" necessarily means that those people are going to suffer, and some of them will die, correct?

I mean, the fucking irony of you actively rooting for a course of action that will necessarily have direct AND collateral damage that = incredible suffering and death, in the name of your supposedly moral high ground of opposing....that exact sort of action.  You beclown yourself, and you think that nobody sees it.  It's the last part that's most pathetic.  That you think you've fooled.....anyone.  You root for something that is metaphorical area-bombing, claiming "hey, I never said a particular person should be hurt," and think that's absolution, when you spend pages here criticizing that exact moral calculus.  It's fucking rich.

It's always a riot when the death panelist is upset about people dying, or wasteful spending. Like bruh. Know your industry.

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i mean i'm pretty sure 'burn it all down' w/ regard to our current system is exactly what we're seeing.

our house needed some serious remodeling and updating, but fuck it, burning it all down seems a lot more reasonable. oh what's that? the predators are swooping in to cash in on the remains? oh no who could have seen this coming. 

congratulations lol

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Because evil of the "oh shucks, I'm just for all the morally good things, and will never admit that what I propose will cause incredible suffering" variety is fucking infuriating.

I asked him what he would want to replace it with. Of course, no response. He is a shallow bot.

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Posted (edited)
On 1/20/2025 at 11:45 AM, royiv said:

There are a lot more coming at Chevron.

 

On 1/20/2025 at 11:46 AM, Vegas64 said:

More than the 10-15% already announced with the re-org that begin already? I'd love to hear how you have more inside information, maybe we can take it to the O&G thread....

Looks like we both either work for or know folks who work for Chevron. The worst kept secret went public today: 

Chevron to lay off 15% to 20% of global workforce

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/business/chevron-global-layoffs/index.html

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Posted
6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Feature, not a bug.  A married woman doesn't need to vote - her husband, as the head and master of the household, votes for the household.

 

 

 

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Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

"Burning down" the dysfunctional two party system, a totally dysfunctional, wasteful, and bloated federal government apparatus, and all of the related expressions of that apparatus that project death and suffering throughout the world and at home, is not anywhere close to that breath and you know it.

If only I could live in a world without consequences. I seem to recall you mocking the idea that “fire and blood” would be the result. 

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Posted
6 hours ago, Anastasis said:

You can certainly correct me when I am wrong, but was not "Race to the Top" on of the key initiatives driving the linking of standardized test scores to teacher performance evaluations?  I know that some of you think that every bad thing is the world is cause the "right" and every good thing the "left", but with education, as with many other things, both sides should rightly get run. I know, I know. 

"Both sides".... Everybody drink!

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Walters had to get his name back into the news after yesterday:

 

https://www.news9.com/story/67ad1124762b2f4d8649bf7e/superintendent-ryan-walters-former-osbe-members-form-trump-advisory-committee

 

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Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters and former State Board of Education members Kendra Wesson and Katie Quebedeaux have formed the Trump Advisory Committee, Walters announced Wednesday.

According to a press release from Walters, the group will “continue to fight the liberal D.C. swamp that has now leaked into Oklahoma’s Executive Branch.” Wesson and Quebedeaux will serve as co-chairs.

 

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“The United States has shown a desire for transparency in government, proven by the presidential election,” Wesson said. “Secrecy in education hurts taxpayers’ pocketbooks, educational outcomes and, most of all, leaves children vulnerable to predatory behaviors in the classroom.”

“The Trump Advisory Committee is not here to play politics,” Walters said. “We are here to fight on behalf of the hearts, minds, and souls of Oklahoma students, their families, and our educators. The weak will be exposed. The corrupt will be held accountable. And Oklahoma’s children will finally have access to the educational journey they deserve.”

 

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Because evil of the "oh shucks, I'm just for all the morally good things, and will never admit that what I propose will cause incredible suffering" variety is fucking infuriating.

Dude… he is the roadrunner to your Wile E Coyote. 

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Posted

US captain Auston Matthews booed mercilessly in Montreal tonight before the Canada/Sweden game in the 4 Nations Cup.

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President Trump. "OK Elon, X owes me 10M. How about you pay up?"

Elon. "Well Donnie," pausing to wipe his kids snot onto the oval office couch, "Let me get that State contract for 400M worth of Teslas. Think how cool the Diplomats will look driving around Copenhagen in them, or racing across Mongolia. Gonna be lit."

"OK, let me call Marco and remind him. By the way, you get that NAICS code fixed?"

"yep, we are registered to make tortillas," Elon replies, wiping more snot onto a painting.

"OK," says the President. "JD, you want anythimg?"

Vance emerges from behind the curtains, "can I have the couch?"

 

Musk’s X Agrees to Pay About $10 Million to Settle Trump Lawsuit

Musk’s platform becomes second social-media company to settle with Trump after Jan. 6, 2021 riot triggered bans

WASHINGTON—Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that Donald Trump brought against the company and its former chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter.

The agreement makes X the second social-media platform to settle litigation that Trump filed when the companies deplatformed him over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Trump, along with other plaintiffs, filed the lawsuit in 2021 against the company, then called Twitter, and its chief executive at the time, Jack Dorsey. Musk reinstated Trump on the platform in November 2022.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/musks-x-agrees-to-pay-about-10-million-to-settle-trump-lawsuit-a38348f8

 

Posted
48 minutes ago, C-Man said:

US captain Auston Matthews booed mercilessly in Montreal tonight before the Canada/Sweden game in the 4 Nations Cup.

Well that was an easy one for the fighting Duplessises. He's a fucking Leaf.

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3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Oh and yes. Between the two of us you are the only one that has talked about wishing their political adversaries, their friends and family, death and suffering. Pools of blood and shit while the life leaves their eyes. You're broken brisket. Don't project your brokenness onto me. 

I’ve refrained a lot lately from commenting on shit like this.  But you are misrepresenting.  Brisket and lots of us said for years that the hate and demonization of dirty libs, browns, others, whatever that the Republican party feasted on would lead to bloodshed.  It did. El Paso here was the specific reference.  I don’t think it’s unreasonable for those who have witnessed the bloody fruit of the southern strategy steroided by religion and Oakley glasses to wish karma on the perpetrators.

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This is fine.
https://gizmodo.com/i-regret-to-inform-you-that-a-19-year-old-doge-stooge-named-big-balls-is-now-advising-the-state-department-2000562035
Few developments better typify the unique insanity of the current political moment than the ascent of “Big Balls,” a 19-year-old software engineer who briefly worked at Elon Musk’s brain startup Neuralink, got recruited to the billionaire’s government-deconstructionist effort DOGE and, now, in a twist so ridiculous it seems like it was stolen straight out of South Park, has apparently been hired as a “senior advisor” to the U.S. State Department.
In reality, “Big Balls” is Edward Coristine, a high-achieving tech wunderkind, and the large-testicle-alluding-honorific is merely his online username. The Washington Post reports that Coristine, who is also a staffer at DOGE, was recently assigned to the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. It’s unclear what Coristine, who only recently graduated from high school, will be doing at America’s diplomatic hub, but it understandably seems to have rattled senior officials at the agency. The Post notes that, for some reason, a government directory also lists Coristine as working for USAID—the international aid agency that Musk has all but shut down in the span of a week.
Wired initially reported that Coristine had previously worked for Path Network, a cybersecurity firm that was known to hire reformed cybercriminals. Bloomberg subsequently reported that Coristine was actually fired from that firm after he leaked “internal information to the [company’s] competitors.” “I can confirm that Edward Coristine’s brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure,” a Path Network spokesperson told the outlet last week. Coristine, meanwhile, has said that he did “nothing contractually wrong” while at the company.
Subsequently, cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs made the claim that Coristine was also formerly a member of The Com, a loose online affiliation of Telegram and Discord users who have frequently been known to engage in a wide variety of criminal activity. Krebs doesn’t claim that Coristine was involved in any criminal activity, merely that he was a member of the group.
Now, for whatever reason Balls/Coristine has been given a horrifying amount of access to the data and internal systems of the federal government. In addition to Coristine, another DOGE member—23-year-old former SpaceX intern Luke Farritor—has also reportedly been given some position at the State Department. Like Coristine, he is also listed as working for the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. Gizmodo reached out to the State Department for more information on what Big Balls and Farritor are doing for the government and will update this story if it responds.
 

Fuck that guy. What a weak assed username.
Posted
15 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for those who have witnessed the bloody fruit of the southern strategy steroided by religion and Oakley glasses to wish karma on the perpetrators.

Moreover, this pseudo-bright line drawn by projecting fascists like Ana is transparent.  Yeah, motherfucker, we don't really have a problem with you and yours getting what is probably coming.  You're coming for us.  Why should we be held to a higher standard?

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

I'm thinking maybe a guy fired from a cyber security firm known for hiring reformed cyber criminals having almost unlimited access to federal data might be bad. 

he never would be issued a clearance. But then, Elon's should have been revoked.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

The first time that I posted "burn it all down" was in the days after the 2016 election

You might be the most insufferable, pedantic, sad sack of a person that I have ever encountered. You are the epitome of the “Ackchyually” meme. What do you have going other than contrarianism and eating lamb?

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4 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Oh and yes. Between the two of us you are the only one that has talked about wishing their political adversaries, their friends and family, death and suffering. Pools of blood and shit while the life leaves their eyes. You're broken brisket. Don't project your brokenness onto me. 

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"Always Accuse Your Enemies of Your Own Sins" --- Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for Hitler.

 

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i totally believe ana when he says he didn't say something "in such words." dude never says anything specific while he's over there tossing molotovs expressly for the shield of not being quoted.

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32 minutes ago, elfenix said:

i totally believe ana when he says he didn't say something "in such words." dude never says anything specific while he's over there tossing molotovs expressly for the shield of not being quoted.

We have much larger problems than Anastasis can ever dream of.  A leg of lamb and its seasoned and sanctioned church shoulder is a fucking bump in the road compared to what is coming.  I’m up for it.  Everyone dies, but we should have some say in who and when.  That’s democracy.

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1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

I'm thinking maybe a guy fired from a cyber security firm known for hiring reformed cyber criminals having almost unlimited access to federal data might be bad. 

A few years ago, at a dinner with others in this industry we had an argument about whether someone that used video game cheats should be disqualified from being allowed in the industry. I sided with the no crowd. Still, this is shows how seriously people take the trust that is given to us.

We are entrusted with not only access to very important data but held responsible for keeping it secret. The idea that someone has a history of breaking that trust should ever be granted with access is insane. If they lack the ethics they will always lack the ethics.

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14 minutes ago, F250 said:

A few years ago, at a dinner with others in this industry we had an argument about whether someone that used video game cheats should be disqualified from being allowed in the industry. I sided with the no crowd. Still, this is shows how seriously people take the trust that is given to us.

We are entrusted with not only access to very important data but held responsible for keeping it secret. The idea that someone has a history of breaking that trust should ever be granted with access is insane. If they lack the ethics they will always lack the ethics.

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