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  1. I understand that you are going to fall in opposition to their goal to "promote ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war, toward military restraint and diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace". But it is certainly overrepresented among the posters of this board, and particularly posters like brisket, that such positions are considered indefensible. 

    I’m a huge believer in two concepts: 1) the vast majority of adversarial situations can and should be resolved by negotiation and compromise, and 2) a handful can’t be, and the fight must be fought to completion. It’s not always easy to know which is which…but sometimes, it’s pretty easy.
    Ana thinks that means one favors “endless war.” It doesn’t. Not even close. It means one favors avoiding war almost all the time; even take extreme measures to avoid it. But it also means that when war is the end point of a conflict, then fight it to win it. Because when a conflict has already demonstrated itself as the kind of conflict to explode into war, then a half measure to pause it instead of pursuing a path to end it definitively, it’s often a mistake.
    China is a great example of an adversarial conflict that can and should be managed through diplomacy, compromise, and a deliberate and patient strategy.
    Putin’s Russia has plainly demonstrated that it is a belligerent that will have to be managed - in part - with military force meeting its military force.
    “Peace in our time” appeasement of the wrong adversary is destined to fail.
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  2. Over-priced for sure, but not bad tasting.  At least TD has some ingredients you might find in Mexico.  And Circle C milfs are my jam. 

    Yeah, I’m ok on Taco Deli. There are some tacos that are recognizable as Mexican. And I dig me an Otto with dona sauce. Again…not a place I really seek out, but if we’re placing an order, yeah, I want an Otto on flour.
  3. 38 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

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    You know what's even BETTER than Elmo simply emphasizing a post that has literally ZERO citation to data?  The fact that the data doesn't back that up.  Yes, the murder rate by black people IN THE US (gee, local historical circumstances may have SOMETHING to do with violent crime rates) is higher than the murder rate by white people.  But it ain't 9X the white murder rate.

    Elmo is just a fucking edge lord racist piece of shit who isn't even capable of critical thinking.  He's a fucking moron.  An absolute and total moron.

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  4. Just now, SydneyCarton said:

    And then watch some of them get murdered if he's found guilty and gets jail time. 

    This.  I wouldn't serve on that jury.  No way, no how.  Hold me in contempt, I don't care.  Donald Trump and his minions are doing all they can to get me killed.

    That's where we are, by the way.  One of our two parties and a criminal fucking gang are completely indistinguishable.  Shit, the party's even worse.  At least the mafia would try to buy a juror off before they subjected them to threat of death.  The GQP is too stupid (and greedy) to even try the first step.  They just go right to "juror intimidation."  Fucking.  Criminals.

  5. Because -- and this is very, very important -- the Bible commands that you be as fucking cruel and vindictive against thuh gayz as you possibly can be.  It's right there, in the Bible.  What, you didn't read that part, atheist libtard?

     

    Truly.  It's amazing to watch people fight so hard for the right to be absolutely fucking mean without repercussions.  Why the fuck is it so important to you to have the right to harass and abuse gay people?  Seriously....why?  What the fucking fuck is fucking wrong with you sick fucks?

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  6. Now, yes.  Immediate future?  Yes.  8-10 years now?  Who knows what tomorrow will bring? 
    In 1992, a little known Black Woman who had been all of Ambassador to New Zealand and Somoa came back to Illinois.  Keep in mind, this was when my home state was just tilting barely left of centre.  Not the solid blue it is today.  Everybody said she had no chance, even her own party.  It was maybe a +2 D state at that point across statewide races/presidential elections as an aggregate.  She won the general by 10% points, not 10 votes, 10% points.  She lost her re-election bid but changed Illinois politics for the next 30+ years.  She obviously had urban voters of color in Chicago supporting her, but working-class Irish and Italian and Polish were gonna be dammed if a black woman would win, despite their solid Democratic voting pattern.  And downstate rural/exurban voters hated her.  But she won anyway by 10% points.  Now, Texas is much more entrenched Red than Illinois was Blue at that time in history.  But history remembers her as they will Rep. Crockett.  John Cornyn will merely be a wikipedia entry when all is said and done.  
    Crockett is only going to get more connected, more influential, more money, and more committee power.  Never mind her options on the bench or in a cabinet.  Her story is only just beginning and it helps that she's tenacious, photogenic, and energetic.  Texans will do everything to crush it, but in the end...it's only the epilogue that counts.   

    Your insane optimism is delightful. Truly marvelous. But still insane. This state is getting MORE racist and misogynist, not less. And it will continue to get worse. For a long, long time.
  7. 12 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    @Anastasis Do you think that the U.S. has been giving the appropriate amount of military aid to Ukraine, too much, too little? Don't need to get too specific but it is difficult to understand what your criticism of U.S. policy here is vs criticism of the tone of this board. Apologies if you've stated this before, I may just not be recalling.

    He won't answer.  He rarely does.  He'll say some version of "my position has been crystal clear, if you haven't seen it in a random post from 2 years ago, that's on you.  BRAIN WORMS"....without ever stating what his actual position is.  Because - and this is important - he knows that his actual position is indefensible.

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  8. 3 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    She wouldn't be able to win anything statewide until 2032/34.  But she's got spine, patriotism, courage, and a lotta brainpower.  

    Texas will never elect a black woman to statewide office.  We're busy trying to take our entire legal and governmental system back to pre-Civil War, and you think we'll EVER elect a black woman to anything?  My brother....come on.  

    This state is shitty.  It will only get shittier.

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  9. 2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    But nobody gets their values from their scripture. They just interpret their scripture in whatever way is necessary to support the values they already have.

    Yeah.... a whole lotta this.  For those who do see their values genuinely influenced by scripture, it's a long fucking journey.  It takes a lifetime.  Because you START with the values that are planted in you by your community and culture.  And in American community and culture....the values of actual gospel-based Christianity are quite plainly counter-cultural and radical.  

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  10. Just now, atomheartbevo said:

    So the solution is to encourage more bitcoin people to move here, right?

    atomheart gets it.

    Remember, no matter what the question is, no matter what the conundrum or seemingly unsolvable problem is, there is always one clear answer, one obvious solution:  CRYPTO!

  11. 1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:
    11 hours ago, Smax said:
    first it was jewish space lasers, now its border guarding space lasers, fuck you georgia, fuck you straight to hell

    She is trying to start the prophesied End Times war between Israel and Mexico.  See the Biblical Prophet Billy-Bob speaking of the Jew-Messican war in the Book of Hurr-Durr, a canonical Cowboy Church chapter following Revelation that somehow missed Nicaea. 

    The prophecies were true.....

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  12. 7 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    I call bull on that one.  He'd be more inclined to lower every vote and blast it in attack ads to gain voters from the left. It'd drastically reduce home values to force the City to reevaluate their budgets and trim a bunch of fat.  Overvaluing home appraisals is too much of a gift to the city coffers for him to consider such things.

    Also an option.  It matches up with the current GQP goal of "say gov't can't do anything, then starve it to death and break it to prove yourself right."  Bottom line....nothing good, not a single damned thing, can come from putting Mackowiak and Zimmerman in any position of power.

  13. 34 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    must have missed the thing about lawn grass being the largest irrigated crop in the US which i posted above.

    In Texas, as of 2021 (last year for which I see good date), agricultural irrigation was 53% of our water usage.  And something like 75% of the ag water was groundwater, much of which is from non-replenishing (or so slow as to be functionally non-replenishing) aquifers, like the Ogallala in the panhandle.

    There's plenty of water: it mostly falls in the eastern third of the state.  We just have to catch it.  And transport it.  There's also lots of water in the ocean.  We just need to desalinate it.  And transport it.  Our problem is that we've exhausted almost all of the cheap options.  We're working in the next layer of options that are more expensive, but not brutally so (re-use permits are going crazy now; aquifer storage and recovery is coming soon as well).  But that will only get us partway there.  Yes, conservation has to be a part of it.  But even then, that has its own problems.

    Specifically, the cost of securing supply and building infrastructure goes way up.  So, the base cost for water for everyone has to go up.  Meaning that Joe Suburb, who used to use 6,000 gallons per month and pay a water bill of $40, now uses 4,500 gallons per month....and pays a water bill of $60.  He's using less water, and paying more.  Because most people don't realize that you really aren't paying for "the water I use."  You are paying for the means to capture and have adequate supply, and the infrastructure to deliver it.  But 99% of consumers don't get that.  They get the simple math: I'm using less, and paying more, and that's bullshit (it's attractive math, I give you that).  Water is an increasingly scarce resource -- laws of supply and demand tell us that its price will go up.  And those laws are being followed, and will continue to be followed. 

  14. Just now, atomheartbevo said:

    Why the fuck do we have game day threads for each football game?  Why do we have separate threads for TV shows or movies?

    The abortion battle happened already, and for those of us in Texas, it’s done for the next few election cycles.

    Meanwhile the birth control fight is just starting to rear its ugly headL with the 5th Circuit handing the anti-birth control folks a major victory last month (that flew under the radar in the abortion thread because it wasn’t about abortion).

    [Brisket, pondering whether to start the "Official Thread for when the Christian Theocrats ban Masturbation" thread....but deciding he'll wait, because the panic-posting by this crowd will crash the servers]

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  15. Just now, InkaUtexas said:

    Buddy from school is an engineer focused on green energy. Has his Masters from LBJ/ILAS. Smart dude in school. Wife was tired of him traveling, convinced him to go work at the Tesla plant. So he applies, they tell him he is in, he quits. Gets a call saying well we are not sure when you will be onboarding. So he is properly fucked. Sick kid, no insurance, and no income.

     

    Exhibit 10,000 in "never, ever, ever trust Elon, or anything he touches."  It's truly fucking sad.  Shit, I have a kiddo looking for her first job, and we saw a couple of postings that are somewhat adjacent to her chosen field for some Musk companies.  Didn't even click on the listing.  No.  Fucking.  Way.

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  16. 3 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    So, at a minimum, to appear fair, and avoid going to prison, he’d likely do the same for a large portion of his opposition party. If equal, that would mean up to 60% getting a break. Also, why the assumption this doesn’t already happen. I know one team is pure and all, but they are still politicians. And that should immediately knock off 50% of their assumed moral intentions from the start. 

    The thing is, he wouldn't go to prison.  What he would do is not a crime.  He's not taking a bribe, or receiving any direct benefit.  He's just favoring one type of party over another for bullshit reasons.  Just like any judge could weigh all the factors, and consistently sentence minority defendants to 2X the prison sentence that white defendants get -- not a single law is broken.  Thus, the basis of most of my rants on this board for the past decade+ : the dirty secret about our entire system is that it is really built on trust.  Not on criminalizing all wrongful conduct -- that simply can't be done.  And when one group decides "fuck that trust, I'ma do whatever I want," it all breaks down. And....here we are.

  17. 3 hours ago, deadshank said:

    The tacos at both of those places are so white they could get a fair trial. 

    holy fucking shit.  I'm sure that you didn't originate that, but I don't fucking care, I am going to steal it and use it so often that I may wear the actual words out.

    And seeing everyone here shit on those two places does my heart good.  My wife likes Torchy's.  My wife is pura gringa.  The only thing worth a shit there is the queso.  I eat at Velvet Taco occasionally.  Why?  Because it's a couple of blocks from my office, and cheap, quick lunch options are limited.  I would never choose it as a destination.  

    This town has 11 million places with actual good tacos, from the old-school east side mexican places (hit Angie's or Joe's or Beto's), or any number of taco trailers (the best tacos I've had in downtown Austin?  EASY: when one of the nearby buildings was under construction, a taco truck would show up every day at around 11:45 to sell grub to the workers.  I'd line up with all the dudes in orange vests and hardhats, and get 3 tacos for $6.  And they were fantastic.  Broke my heart when construction wrapped up.).  And I don't mean in a fancy "food trailer park."  I mean in a goddamned gas station parking lot.  Just go to any of them, any single one, and every taco you get will be 1) much better than either of those gringo places, and 2) cheaper.

    Godawlmighty, shitty hipster gringo tacos make me ragey.

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  18. 5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    When they announced the plant was going into Del Valle I sat back and thought. Well shit, few of the people who live there can get a good job for good ole'Elon.

     

    Yep -- Tesla even partnered directly with Del Valle ISD to create a pipeline to decent jobs for kids there.  https://americanconstructors.com/insights/del-valle-isd-tesla-partnership/

    We'll see if that survives.  And we'll see if there are any jobs for those kids to get once they graduate.  That those are questions pisses me off.  We should be excited about a major manufacturer setting up shop here.  Instead, it's a fucking shitshow of a goat rodeo staged inside a dumpster fire.  Fucking Elon is poison.

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  19. 2 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I suffer from a lack of imagination. Can you detail how this could be accomplished?  

    Easy.  Before your appraisal hearing, Mackowiak runs your name against the records of primary voters.  Vote in his party's primary?  Your $800k house gets a reduced value to $400k.  Vote in the wrong primary?  Your $800k house stays at $800k, regardless of any evidence to the contrary.  It's not hard.  All that it takes is corrupt intent, and an already-existing index of primary voters.

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