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The majority of the population that has carried the popular vote once in the last 32 years.27 points
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No one is asking you to take anything. You wrote a bunch of nonsense and we told you how nonsensical it was and you are trying to tout yourself as some thick skinned internet god king? In reality you are an intellectually dishonest troll, incapable of recognizing that what you say here isn't about a conversation, but validating the pathetic feelings you have about yourself. You are running away from the shame that you feel when faced with the truth. Your vote and your belief in a person has caused the deaths of 5 Americans and has cast a stain on our government that will never go away. Your continued blind allegiance to what you think is a conservative ideology has led you to a place where you can no longer reconcile your actions and belief system so you make up a false reality. You are the worst kind of American. Proud of nothing but yourself, for inexplicable reasons.26 points
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You think that liberals overran cloak room? I think that anyone who even puts themselves near trump's orbit instantly loses any credibility they have. There is no fact based or rational explanation for any of their behavior including the way they voted. There is no way you can tell me they don't come in here because their feelings get hurt from everyone calling on them to shut up. Their feelings aren't hurt, they don't want to seek the truth. They want to live in a world where accountability isn't real, in a world where there are always alternative facts and a world where Ted Cruz actually represents their best interests as a US Senator from the state of Texas. That world is much easier for them to live in, because they are fucking pussies. Because the truth sucks. Because America is deeply wounded and in pain like we've never seen since the civil war. The impeached President (soon to be twice) has literally spouted nonsense about how American schools are indoctrinating children to hate their own country. This radical conspiracy theory trash is a shelter for the weak willed and those of feeble mind.26 points
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I've remitted myself from comment on this. I don't require or want "upvotes" for this comment. This open insurrection against a Constitutionally mandated process is not acceptable. The actions of donald trump and this mob are treasonous. The Constitution is very clear about how to respond to treason and what methods shall be taken. I am one of the many Veterans that post on this board, or the old board, or the one before that. I swore and oath to the United States Constitution. I may no longer wear the uniform; however, I will always honor my oath. This will not stand. As long as I am able to exhale, I will defend the Constitution of this nation.26 points
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Cool. Want to debate conservative policies? Believe in low taxes, unrestricted gun laws, how we engage with foreign countries, etc? Have at it! Go for it! We used to have those conversations on this board and at least two previous boards. All the time. That is, until the GOP went completely fucking insane. Want to spout pathetic, easily debunked lies and conspiracy theories, and support a terrorist movement that openly calls for decapitating our government? Yeah....we’re going to shit on you. The problem isn’t “conservatism.” The problem is when the shell called “conservatism” became completely occupied by the parasite of Trumpism, which is nothing more than a torrent of insane lies of a madman employed to install a fascist authoritarian government at all costs, including murder of duly elected officials. So, stop it. Stop using the word “conservative.” It doesn’t exist anymore. Dozens of former GOP voters on this board (including me) can verify that. The Lincoln Project can verify that. And we can go on. Conservative voices aren’t being silenced...if they remain with Trump, they silenced themselves by surrendering all claim to any honest discussion or debate.23 points
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On a scale of 1-10, 1 being ultra-liberal and 10 being ultra-conservative, I’m probably a 6. The problem is that Trump came along and change the scale to 1-15, so it now appears that I lean left, when I’m pretty much the same guy I’ve always been. I’ll vote for the people who are closest to my number, which means for the foreseeable future I’ll be voting for democrats, because any Republican less than a 12 will not make it out of a primary.22 points
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Horns BBall just beat #14 West Virginia on a three pointer with 1.1 seconds left after being behind for most of the second half (quarter) and Andrew Jones FTW. 10-1 record !21 points
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Bullshit. As pointed out, the popular vote of national level elections puts this point to rest with ease. You're assumptions about the existence of silent conservatives and the reasons for their silence are as ridiculous as your definition of conservatism. One can debate the merits of socialized healthcare versus free market healthcare versus the atrocious bastardized system that prioritizes corporate welfare over all else, but one cannot debate these lunatic conspiracy theories. But only one side participated in an armed insurrection. Which one was that again? Yes, this is what we want. I don't care if someone wants to broadcast conservative policy points and the rationale they use to justify them. I do care if someone wants to broadcast hate speech intended to do nothing but inflame, divide, and mislead. Fox has done that for years. Twitter and Facebook want to pretend they should be treated more like a phone company than a magazine publisher, but the truth is they are not at all similar to a phone company. They provide the end to end experience. They are much closer to cable access television. If a cable company repeatedly aired a show with a lunatic calling for armed insurrection based on made up theories involving dead South American dictators they would have some liability. Twitter and Facebook should as well. At the very least they should have some obligation to society to offer some protection against that sort of disinformation. And just plain fuck Parler. It exists explicitly to foment the kind of inflammatory deceit that SHOULD be disallowed. Fuck them. Neil Gaiman addressed this nicely. I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.” Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening. I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!” Happy Valentine’s Day. —Neil Gaiman This world of their making is frightening TO THEM? You fucking idiot. They are the ones out here hatching plots of violent insurrection, kidnapping elected officials, and generally intimidating the peaceful public by walking around with their second amendment penis replacements. And THEY are the ones whose fear gets to be an excuse for bad behavior? COME THE FUCK ON.21 points
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Wall of text, you’ve been warned. The hassles of the last board switch kind of caused me to minimize and then cease my participation here. As someone who doesn’t do social media at all or participate much in online communities, and who is pretty private by nature, removing myself was kind of inevitable at some point. I also realized, when Trump got elected, that the polarization was only going to get worse, and reasonable discourse was going the way of the dodo, and I actually liked many of you bastards, even if you held views I disagreed with, so I bowed out of the Shaggy/Surlyverse. That said, this community is unique. And discovering it was a necessary outlet and a lifesaver at a time when there was a lot of bad shit going on in my life, so I’ll always be grateful to Bob, Rick et al, and I still feel an affinity to this community of assholes, even as a non-Longhorn and indeed someone who’s never been a TX resident. And whenever there’s been something newsworthy happening in TX, it’s still the place I come to first to lurk and get the best and fastest info. I comment now because of the week’s unprecedented events, and also because I think I can provide a perspective that is not common. I grew up in an old money family, in a place that was always studiously apolitical and regarded as the beacon for free market capitalism. There are too many billionaires in my immediate and extended social circles for me to keep straight. Since becoming naturalized, I’ve never voted for a Democrat for national office (state and local, yes.) I’m the last person a so called Conservative could accuse of being their opponent. I consider myself fiscally conservative and socially pretty liberal. I’m not religious- having grown up in a multicultural world, exposed to many belief systems, despite (or perhaps because of) having been baptized in one Christian sect and being schooled by another, I find monotheistic Abrahamic religions to be hypocritical at best, and extremely harmful at worst (whilst understanding the need for humans to believe in something bigger and better than the world they exist in. But don’t give me the “Christianity/whatever religion gives us the beliefs to do good yadda yadda. Everyone in my family who’s done loads of philanthropy has done so because that was their internal code, and none of them were/are believers in a monotheistic Abrahamic religion. Anyway, I digress.) I’ve also spent a lifetime trying to educate myself on the human condition, why the world is the way it is, why people do the things they do etc.- when you’re going out on the yacht every weekend, or flying off to ski in Switzerland as a child at the same time you’re being exposed to refugees and people in poverty, you either develop a conscience and wonder why things are the way they are or you become well, Donald Trump. I also took advantage of matriculating at one of few unis that offers a course of study that examines how economic systems, particularly post-Industrial Revolution, and systems of government, affect one another. Trump isn’t the reason we are in this situation. He’s just an inevitable product of the world we live in. I blame Mark Burnett. If he hadn’t cast Trump in that show, average Americans wouldn’t think he was a genius businessman, they’d see him the way wealthy people in NY or around the world who’ve had to deal with him have always seen him: as the narcissistic moron who somehow always managed to weasel his way out of any consequences of his (usually stupid) actions. The fact that shameless opportunists have milked this for all they can, from Murdoch, Hannity and such to the Cruzes and Hawleys of the world, shouldn’t surprise anyone. Posters like Loather are part of the problem, but we also have to understand why so many supposedly educated people buy into what Trump et al are selling and unhinged conspiracy theories like QAnon. (And yes, QAnon people, my family shows up on your internet lists of the cabal of elites who are controlling the world due to membership in XYZ organization, or association with ABC person, so clearly this is all an attempt to stop you from exposing us.) No system of governance, no empire, no nation state, no society that humanity has tried has endured forever. Why do we think think Western style Democracy allied to unfettered Capitalism (whilst enabling and embracing totalitarian regimes as long as they buy into the “Capitalism” part of the equation and give our companies access to their markets and/or cheap/unregulated labour in the name of “globalization”) is any different? Especially in a unique nation, where our past has created fervently held beliefs in freedoms that technology allows bad actors to abuse, and that has an unaddressed historical inequity because of slavery? Every single system of a society/civilization we have tried has consisted of tremendous inequities, often initiated by the sword. The East India Company didn’t project the British Empire’s influence peacefully. And all of the great empires of the 19th century and their economic might were built on exploiting the people and natural resources of other nations, whether it was forcing opium onto the Chinese in return for the tea they wanted, or umpteen other examples of Imperialistic gun-barrel “economics” on top of the “diplomacy”. The Industrial Revolution, and every other “economic miracle” we’ve had has been built on the suffering of people and/or resource draining of nations, to the benefit of some at the expense of others, be they factory workers in late 19th century Great Britain or the PRC factory workers churning out cheap goods today for our consumption. Rebuilding after global conflicts provided 20th century opportunities for great economic growth, but at the cost of tens of millions of deaths and great destruction. The one constant, the glue holding it all together, has always been hope. Hope that there’s a better future for someone. Bad shit happened, but we can rebuild and make it better etc. The narrative re: the youth in this country of today not having the chance at the same stable, secure future that their Boomer or Gen X parents had is accurate. But why is that so? IMO, the Democratic Party of my youth, post-Civil Rights movement, had one job: to reign in the worst instincts of free market, small government, every man for himself Capitalism that the GOP catered to. The problem was, from the time Marx and Engels were galvanized to write down their ideas for a better, fairer system by the penurious conditions suffered by 19th century factory workers, human nature has meant that “everyone should have the same” was an impossible ideal. Socialism, or even “liberal” economic ideas, never really worked long term outside of small nations with exceptional circumstances (Norway with their trillion $ North Sea oil funded sovereign wealth fund for 4 million people, on top of not having to spend much on defense etc.) And whether it was Labour in the UK, or the Democrats here, the realization that “unfettered capitalism” seemed to work better than “Socialism”, or even Keynesian theories or whatever, and that’s why they kept losing elections, brought to fruition Blair and Clinton’s pivot to “Globalization” as the answer to keep providing hope since there wasn’t another world war to rebuild from, or industrial or technological revolution to spur growth. The problem is, in the past, the people of First World countries were always the beneficiaries of the system. It wasn’t them being take advantage of, it wasn’t their natural resources being pillaged by a foreign corporation. But our middle class, instead of being the middle of 300 million Americans, and better off than 90% of the world’s population, when the barriers to protect local markets were taken away were now part of an ecosystem that is 7 billion people. And globalization may have benefited the 400 million new middle class Chinese it’s created, but it sure as hell didn’t benefit all the people here who used to be able to rely on a solid middle class future built on manufacturing. And we didn’t have a plan or vision, or will, to fund programs to give those people hope now that there are no more countries to take advantage of to improve our lot as a bubble of 300 million people. I think you see all these white small business owners, and educated white professionals, jumping on the batshit crazy QAnon train because they’ve seen what happened to the manufacturing sector here, and they’re scared shitless that a world where “their people” are losing their privilege means they’re next, and everything they’ve got is at risk. So pointing out the lack of logic in their viewpoints, or trying to reason with them, is pointless, unless there’s a way to address those fears instead of stoking them as Trump, and the GOP with their complicity, have done. When the Haves face the prospect of getting some of their advantages taken away in an attempt to give the Have Nots a chance at becoming one of the Haves, what do we expect to happen? What’s the answer? I wish I knew. I don’t think we’ve ever come up with a system that treats everybody well, so maybe there is no answer. Maybe western style democracy allied with unfettered Capitalism will inevitably fail just like all previous systems of operating a functioning society mankind has tried have eventually failed. We came a lot closer to our Republic falling this past week than I ever thought I’d see in my lifetime. I figured it would be my grandkids who’d have to deal with it. Shit on Loathe all you want. He deserves it by coming here and spouting the same tired BS the self-proclaimed silent majority of so called “Conservatives” spout to try to defend their indefensible views. But unless we figure out a way to address the existential issues at hand, the ignominious (and hopefully peaceful and un-disastrous) denouement of Trump’s catastrophic term in the days to come won’t make these people feel less threatened, and that means the threat to the Republic’s existence still remains. Tl;dr I know. If you’ve all discussed this umpteen times, mea culpa, I haven’t been around. Just be glad I’m not posting my thoughts on this pandemic and how it’s been mishandled, given my health care professional relative who was heavily involved in a major vaccination effort in China and on the front lines of SARS and other recent Asian epidemics, and my other relative who is a Nobel-level award winning doctor in a field that encompasses viruses and pandemics. Nice to see a lot of the familiar Shaggy names still here. Hope you and your loved ones all remain safe and healthy until we get COVID under control. Condolences to all who’ve suffered losses. I need a cheat sheet for the user name changes that have occurred though. And Fitlump is on Austin’s City Council?! That to me might be the single biggest sign of the coming Apocalypse. And when did the Cloak Room become the bastion of sanity and DT the lunatics’ asylum?! Oh, and condolences on Sark.20 points
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He might be THE part. He was Fox News before Fox News. He's why we all change the subjects every time our parents start talking politics. He's why the 12 year old versions of ourselves thought liberals--roughly half the country--were actually evil. Some of us escaped indoctrination. Others, clearly, not so much.19 points
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With a three year sentence, maybe you should stop practicing commercial burglary, and instead consider another profession such as Law or Medicine.17 points
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The ‘hate’ for Golding is completely fucking irrational and is born from a fan base not being able to understand how offensive football - specifically moving into the SEC - has changed the game. Golding has coordinated better defenses, for longer, and has more experience than Arnett - not to mention two years working under arguably the greatest coach ever and certainly a top 3 defensive mind in Nick Saban. But he’d be looked at as a bad hire while Arnett would be home-run. I admit I have certainly been effected by the group-think of the ‘whelmed-ness’ of a Golding hire - but if we’re only looking at the product on the field (the only thing the vast majority of us would know about) then he is a damn good hire. Now go offer Raymond a cool million and let’s get this over with.16 points
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I know, it's a real shame you can't call people faggots anymore or say black people and HIspanics are lazy without repercussions. Such intellectually lazy nonsense. Conservative America is angry because their world is changing and they can't do anything to stop it. That's why they backed an amazingly racist piece of shit like Donald Trump. He played on their fears during Obama's term where they feared a black man in the highest office in the land and then played on their fears of losing power during his term. That's why you saw the storming of the Capitol on Tuesday. A segment of society believes their country is being stolen from them and not that people were fed up with 4 years of Trump's bullshit. It's an amazing job he did to complete snow a bunch of fearful rubes into believing sharing power with minorities is a bad thing.15 points
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Cruz and Hawley must resign. Treasonous behavior and they have been educated enough to know it. This Nation was founded on the ideals of democracy. We test that every four years. It is the hallmark of the United States and Sens. Cruz and Hawley chose to attack democracy in our republic. Time for them to step down. They will be replaced, no doubt, with equally bad actors - but they must go. Time for us to live up to our ideals.15 points
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A simple fucking google search reveals the press release links for Milwee being officially announced at Arkansas State. What more is needed for shit like that. This is just repeating a stupid fucking take from Eric Nahlin who doesn’t know shit about Milwee as a recruiter. No one tracked him as a recruiter at Akron. No one can now credibly report on him from his time at Akron. He was an analyst at Bama that everyone there thought highly of and was the first guy Butch Jones, and then Sarkisian, grabbed when leaving for a position coach role. No one gets to not be aggressive in recruiting at Bama. I am going to start happily negging every post going forward that mentions Milwee as a weak recruiter. The truth is, he might wind up being a shitty recruiter, but that will only be discovered, same as if he’s awesome at it, at Texas. Agreed. The level of stupid and just pure bizarre ignorance on this thread today, after reading and catching up is just stunning, even for this site. Golding has gone from pure fan fiction to the de facto, matter of fact guy that Sarkisian has hired at DC, in roughly 3 days. Further, Sirmon went from a joke on this thread that looked serious to someone that the fucking $9.95ers actually started reporting on. Joseph and Milwee are apparently coming here to be analysts. Joseph is also apparently an underwhelming hire? I mean, get the fuck out of here with this shit.14 points
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I’m not even a fan of Golding, but holy shit you are such a cunty little bitch.14 points
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He can be recalled to duty and subjected to court martial. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/29/military-retirees-can-be-court-martialed-after-all-appeals-court-decides.html/amp And he should be. He took up arms against the United States government (in this context, that’s exactly what those zip ties are). He should lose everything. Everything.14 points
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well shit, here I find myself again and am quite pleased. As some know I had quite a few dogs shown on the previous site. Due to divorce, kids growing up I found myself dogless.... Well not anymore! This my friends is Sucre. A mutt that fell into my lap and exactly what I was looking for. Aussie dad, border collie/tree hound mom. So a good farm/camping/watch your ass dog. I am excited to share his adventures. This was, and remains, my favorite thread on the Surl.12 points
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Ah, so like a pigeon, you flew in, shit on everything, and flew away when challenged. You spout off a bunch of right wing talking points, fail to back them up and then are taking your ball and going home. And I'm laughing at your concern for your kids because Twitter silenced a violent demagogue. You should be more concerned that the Vice President of the United States was being hunted for execution by followers of said demagogue.12 points
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Just stop right there. Nothing should amaze you about Texas fans anymore.12 points
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