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  1. They're armed and ready to ensure every neighborhood becomes a soulless clone of walkable, yet still unaffordable, communities across the country. With enough vigilance, we'll all be living in an undifferentiated hellscape of brightly painted cheap building materials stretching from one coast to the other. This nine-fingered hero is doing us all a service, really.
  2. It's the epicenter of where people who didn't grow up in Texas (and therefore are less likely to learn how to handle firearms growing up) live around these parts. Makes sense to me as a self-inflicted wound story. If she had shot someone else, then yeah, I would be surprised.
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  4. It's helpful when you hear a solid lament about Rainey Street changing. It reveals a great deal about the person. I love this analogy.
  5. I can at least somewhat understand the appeal of Trump to certain people, even if it's lost on me. He says what they want to hear, has a certain kind of confidence, and has been a public figure for a long time, which carries weight for some people for whatever reason. In short, he's a populist. It doesn't do it for me, but I can understand it and the tactic has been used successfully throughout the history of democracies. What I will never understand is how these same folks are not concerned that someone like RFK Jr. has his hands in anything meaningful. That man couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag if you gave him a knife. How is this shit even possible? Outside of the absolute dumbest motherfuckers alive, who listens to this man and thinks, "Yep, that's the guy for the job!" I just can't wrap my head around it. Anyway, back on topic. Fuck AI, fuck tech bros, fuck private equity, and fuck anyone who profits from any of it. Go find work that actually means something before your humanity is completely lost. A fry cook adds more value to society for fucks sake.
  6. White collar uprisings, historically speaking, are what we more commonly refer to as actual revolutions. The idiots in charge, along with the tech bro asswipes, should be doing everything they can to steer away from that situation. It hasn't ended well for their kind in the past.
  7. I agree with both of these statements, so I'm simply adding to this with no intention of being contrary. Setting aside the ethics of the death penalty in general, the notion that it is what's best for the survivors/families has been largely debunked. There's plenty of data out there that victims' loved ones, even those who support the death penalty and want it for the perpetrator, find no solace in it once it's done. Most of the time, it merely drags the case out for years, or even decades, delaying any closure and extending the grieving process for an insanely long time. I know I would likely want the death penalty were I ever in those shoes, and I completely understand the impulse. Still, I hope that I would be able to find a sliver of rationality about it in the moment and recognize that the death penalty is ultimately just further punishment for the surviving victims than it is anything else. The main reason we have the death penalty at all is to satisfy the vengeance lust of the community at large. We know it doesn't deter crime, it doesn't bring peace to the victims' families, and it doesn't serve the state's needs from a financial perspective or any other perspective. Setting aside any moral/ethical discussion, there aren't any rational arguments for the death penalty that hold water. The nations in red on this map are the ones with an active death penalty. We can draw some pretty obvious conclusions from it in terms of what factors drive the desire for the death penalty, both from the perspective of the state and its citizens.
  8. This is sustainable so long as we allow grifters to dominate our economy. This is nothing new, as we've been gobbling up shitty tech for decades now with little to show for it outside of PE jags laughing all the way to the bank. Profitability? What does that have to do with anything anymore?
  9. Evangelicals are every bit as weird as Mormons, but lack the introspection to see it. Indoctrination of the young works.
  10. That's a lot of work to get rid of a mediocre QB at a football program that isn't exactly miles ahead of Utah. Not to mention, that even if BYU suddenly sucked this seaon Utah still has almost no chance of finishing in the top third (or even half) of their conference. Every fan base is delusional.
  11. I understand what you're saying. My wife was here for decades as a permanent resident, but after the first Trump term ended, we quickly got her naturalized. While I'm relieved about it with everything going on now, I also wonder if we've just trapped her on a sinking ship.
  12. I don't want to create an account to read them. Are they threatening not to vote for Patrick or Abbott?
  13. Southern Baptists, and evangelicals in general, hate Catholics so much that they were pro-choice up until the 90s or so, to make sure no one thought they were in alignment with the Catholics on any issue whatsoever. Most of the brainwashed cult members of today seem to be operating in ignorance of that reality. They are a political cult, not a religion.
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