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Its hard working in a tech office where at least 30% of the folks who work around me were either not born, or too young to remember anything about that day. and even the "kids" that are 29/30 today, they may vaguely remember that their parents were acting weird, that they got picked up early from school/pre-school, and that the TV was constantly on showing the towers falling over and over.... but they processed it differently in the almost quarter century. to them it was something that happened to their parents (unless they were directly impacted). They remember that we were basically at war with the Middle East for the next 20 years, but not the impact of the day it happened we were on a group call when someone mentioned it being Sept 11, and it went quiet for a tiny second, and one of the younger guys just immediately starts jumping in and asking tougher questions about the call topic, and the older guys on the call just had to kind of mentally move on quickly. Im sure the greatest generation dealt with the same shit on Dec 7 1965.... the kids remembered the war, but not the day brought us in it
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Sigh. They were always going to get their Reichstag fire and martyr. Law of averages and all that. They were waiting for it, and now they are running their play. I find FASCINATING the outcry about “we must stop the hateful rhetoric that leads to politician violence!” People like my family are demonized as vernin and invaders (including by the subject of this thread). RESULT: slaughter of dozens in El Paso by a man who openly stated he was killing invaders. Calls from the right to “tone down inflammatory political rhetoric”: zero. Jews are demonized by many of this same voices as engineering an immigration invasion as part of a “great replacement” plot. RESULT: mass murder of Jews at Tree of Life, by a man who stated that was his reason for doing so. Calls from the right about toning down their rhetoric…zero. Buffalo, and the murder of black people who were demonized as leeches bringing down our society. Same situation. Assassinations of sitting legislators in Minn, motivated by their “leftist” actions which harm our country. Same situation. So, forgive me if I find the calls of “dangerous political rhetoric is bad! It must stop!” from the very same people who revel in it as disingenuous. They’re not wrong. They’re just disingenuous. If they actually believed that, they would have criticized the relentless tide of political rhetoric - including by the subject of this thread - demonizing brown people as invaders poisoning the blood of our country. They don’t believe that. And that’s a big problem. It’s why we are where we are, and there’s no going back. This climate is what we want. I’ll remind you of Brisket’s Laws: it only gets worse, and there is no bottom. This relentless plummet never should have started. Because this is always, ALWAYS, how it ends. This is going to be used to repress, through abuse of government power, and outright force and violence, the “evil opposition” (as people within the admin are already calling anyone who opposes them). This is how it ends. This was always going to be how it ends. You’ve gotten what you wanted, what was inevitable when you decided to walk down the road of hate and demonizing rhetoric. Plenty of us said we shouldn’t do that. Our warnings were not just ignored, they were mocked. So be it. Here we are. It’s pretty awful, isn’t it? Don’t worry. It gets worse.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
UTPhil2006 replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
Just gonna snag one piece of your post -- I actually do think we get a rate decrease in a hungry RE market and prices get more fine tuned and RE sees a bump. Especially higher end homes where that .25 lower rate makes a bigger difference. I think lenders then push 1-0/2-1 buydowns and such which sellers will gladly agree to and we have a decent fall season which sellers sorely need -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
Im_smarter_then_you replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
Please let that be bs -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
Willfully Horn replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
The post I made said his platform was peaceful, but not the content of his rhetoric. I can’t understand this for you, so do your best to understand the distinction. If you think racist remarks are peaceful, say so, and stop putting words into my mouth. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
Nicole44 replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
I’ve always heard it be said (About Last Night) a pro is how you think of yourself. So it makes sense on this board that many think the shooter is a professional. -
Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter remains at large]
ImNotMarkinson replied to Laguna's topic in Daily Texan
holy crap. this is only getting worse. -
Texas Football 2025 - Playing With Our Food
Hookem2147 replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I'll post his grading scale when he releases it. It is different than PFF. Anything below 74.5 is considered horrible. -
2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
UTPhil2006 replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
Ha I know. I've been also telling myself the Astros are gonna close the season 17-0. And I'm also a NYG fan but at least I'm realistic there. -
Conservatism in a nutshell. Rules for thee, not for me. Hilarious
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How long would it take to neg bomb Sgt Hulk?
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