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Showing content with the highest reputation on 05/12/21 in Posts

  1. Maybe if you were a better son you'd have bought your mom some expensive furs, an ATV and a badass dog.
    17 points
  2. Then they all hissed like vampires in the sun.
    17 points
  3. Because no one posts in or checks that stupid fucking forum? It has 7 threads.
    16 points
  4. Whoever photoshopped Prince William and Catherine into this rendering deserves a raise.
    15 points
  5. Found a pic of her mother, who was often assigned to mobile ICBM sites during the 80s:
    13 points
  6. Perhaps - and I'm just spitballing here - a business model in which you can't afford to make a profit unless you rig the system to pay your employees 1/4 of the minimum wage without benefits, but then struggle to attract or retain employees, is a flawed business model.
    12 points
  7. That's a nice fairy tale but it has precious little to do with the established diplomatic record that goes back to the 1970's. In 1971, Sadat offered a full peace treaty to Israel (with nothing as a concession to the Palestinians). Israel refused it, and the US backed them in that refusal. That refusal led directly to the 1973 war. They reluctantly accepted Sadat's offer at Camp David, but by then, the Palestinian question had reached the international agenda and they were also included in it. In January 1976, the US (obviously with Israel's blessing) vetoed a Security Council resolution, which was advanced by the non-aligned countries, the Arab states, and endorsed by the PLO, that called for a two-state settlement along the pre-June 4 1967 borders. They would do so again in 1980. The US has also annually vetoed a GA resolution, which is called the "Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine Question," every year since it started in 1988 after Arafat had issued the Algiers Declaration. Every year, the vote is something along the lines of 165 or so in favor and 5-7 against, the "no's" being Australia, the United States, Israel, Nauru, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Notice, the whole of the Arab League and the whole of the OIC votes in favor of that resolution, as well as in their own conferences. In other words, the Arab League countries convene 3 times in 3 different arenas to affirm their support for the two-state settlement as dictated by UN Resolution 242, 194, and most recently the ICJ's 2004 Advisory Opinion. Israel and the US have, to this day, refused to endorse such a settlement. As to the idea of Israel's goal not being the destruction of the Palestinians, that's a bad joke. Of course it is. I mean since you're here tacitly referring to that stupid ass 1988 Hamas Charter (which has since been rebuked by its present leadership's willingness to join the international consensus more than a decade ago), I guess it's only fair that I directly refer to the charters of Likud and their predecessors (Herut), which explicitly forbid the idea of the creation of an independent Palestinian state and, in fact, calls for their destruction. And they not only put that forth in foundational rhetoric, they implement it in real policy. Nobody who's sympathetic with the Palestinians even bothers to point that out. Nobody serious says "oh they shouldn't negotiate with Bibi because his party has this charter that explicitly forbids a Palestinian state." That would be extremely stupid, and yet as extremely stupid as it would be, it would read like the Declaration of fucking Independence when juxtaposed with these complaints, whines and bitches about the Hamas charter. "This side of the Jordan, that side also." That was a Herut slogan...yet you'll never see a single Hamas leader make any sort of hay about it. Why? He wouldn't have to. The actions of the present are far more important than founding documents. To argue otherwise is to insist on rhetoric over reality. That is the folly of the superficial-minded. That's irrelevant. Neither Mexico nor Texas were created vis a vis a partition resolution by an international governing body in the way that Israel was. You're comparing apples to oranges, and as someone else pointed out, it's not even a flattering comparison anyways. Again, apples and oranges. Yes, Texas and the US together stole about 1/3rd of Mexico, but it is not maintaining that territory via military occupation. Israel is militarily occupying the West Bank, the Gaza, and East Jerusalem. They've been in flat contradiction of international law in doing so for the last 54 years and they're the ones that have incurred the obligation to cease such activities. They have no obligation to leave the West Bank and Gaza. That would be the IDF. That's what you don't get.
    11 points
  8. This post is so stupid onboard repped it. Think on that.
    11 points
  9. Look, this is much more complicated than "people are lazy" or "pay employees more." As a pinko lefty weirdo, even I will admit that it's past time to start scaling back and establish limitations on unemployment benefits. They can't be perpetual and unrestricted. Hopefully that will incent some folks to reenter the labor pool. But since COVID more than 2 million workers have basically removed themselves from the labor pool and instead opted to be a stay at home parent, retire early, etc. And as many on this thread have pointed out, many of those working in service jobs or in other fields that were critically disrupted by Covid have changed careers. I personally know multiple people who worked in food/bar/service/entertainment who have done so. Employers are going to have to be more competitive if they want to fill these positions with qualified people. Which goes back to the point that some people seem to be making, and some employers believe - which is that employers have some inherent right to cheap labor. They don't. The restaurant industry is a microcosm of that greater labor shortage. Good restaurants that are busy and treat their employees well will have no problems finding qualified servers and bartenders and kitchen staff. Shitty restaurants without customers that treat their service staff like indentured servants will struggle to hire and retain qualified servers and bartenders and kitchen staff. And they will fail. That's the way it's always been. It's just amplified by a labor shortage and an entire industry's labor pool that was forced to adapt, many of whom moved onto other opportunities. And we, as customers, may need to accept that we don't have an inherent right to cheap food prepared by trained chefs, taken care of by friendly, thoughtful and attentive servers. The future of the industry seems very unclear at this time. Maybe it'll all "go back to normal" in the third and fourth quarter of this year. Or maybe there will be fewer restaurants that cost more money, but will be of higher quality. Who fucking knows.
    10 points
  10. I understand the initial reluctance to talk about what caused his death. But after today I think it should be discussed. It natural to question why a seemingly healthy 20 year old died. And if the death was not suspicious, I can only think of three things that could have happened. And I think all three need to be discussed so we can all be educated and talk about it so it can possibly help others.
    10 points
  11. 10 points
  12. Fuck it. If you continue to support the GQP, you are anti-democracy and anti-American. It is past time to draw that fucking line.
    10 points
  13. Looks like HBO can start work on Season 2.
    9 points
  14. That's not true, the progressive maximalist Democrats and DSA types are trying to lose elections in completely legitimate fashion.
    9 points
  15. There are a lot of blue collar and rural white people who are well below the peak of the bell curve in terms of income and net worth who 50 years ago would have been closer to the middle. They are struggling and are angry and frustrated that their contract with America is becoming more and more a one-sided affair. A context established largely by economically elite conservative ding dongs who seek to consolidate wealth and power in the hands of a traditional few. Trump showed all those conservative ding dongs that the misery and anger of the masses were being underutilized as political capital. That you don't have to substantively help those people. You just have to tell them your enemies are theirs and then yell at your enemies like hell. Those struggling masses will love you for it, shower you with what little they have to spare, rise against your enemies at your call and, best of all, never connect the dots to who is really responsible for reneging on their American dream.
    9 points
  16. I believe this was in the vicinity of 121 and Preston this past Friday. Protesters were blocking the intersection during evening rush hour. Even though it was pointless to do so, this guy got mad and started yelling about it. He yelled at the fuckheads blocking traffic and he yelled at the manlet cop who was doing nothing about it. That doesn't make him aggy and it doesn't make him racist. Fuck those protesters and fuck anyone on this site carrying their water.
    9 points
  17. We actually do have a crisis of Canucks coming south across the border Ted. Just look in the mirror.
    8 points
  18. I don't know what A&M has to do with this.
    8 points
  19. Hook ‘em Sam. I loved him as QB for the horns despite turtle Tom and the other ups and Downs. He literally bled Orange and he has endured more tragedy than anyone his age should.
    8 points
  20. Dems are too busy sucking each other’s dicks in celebration of the demise of the GOP to realize that with their last gasp, the GOP is gonna permanently take every branch of government through voter suppression, election “monitoring” and “certification”, etc. once they get it, they ain’t giving it back. Ever.
    8 points
  21. It's not up to me to make it easy for you or anyone else. I didn't get to my position by challenging random HF/SB posters as to their sources. I sought them out myself. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_rul_rule145 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/08/mounting-evidence-deliberate-attacks-gaza-health-workers-israeli-army/ https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/11/israel-depth-look-gaza-school-attacks# https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/iopt0309webwcover.pdf http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20010207 http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/200202_policy_of_destruction https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2013/06/14/israel_0694.pdf https://www.un.org/press/en/2004/icj616.doc.htm
    8 points
  22. Some things that seem pretty obvious: 1 -- generous unemployment surely incentivizes some people to stay out of the workforce when their alternative is taking work that doesn't pay a material amount more than UE benefits. 2 -- there are shitload of other factors having a major effect on the labor market, particularly the restaurant industry, where many workers found jobs that either paid more, offered real benefits, better hours, more protection from market vagaries, allowed them to work while caring for their children, and other factors, and/or a combination of some or all of these. I waited tables back in the day. It was a great job for a student who could work 20-25 hours a week and just put money in my pocket. As a living, not so great. The "career" waitstaff and bartenders I worked with had it hard. If they could get a job with benefits and similar pay, and didn't have them working odd shifts, they'd have likely taken it. We have a problem in this economy that a sizable percentage of people have worked shit-pay jobs as their full-time "for a living" gig, as opposed to just students making spending money and such. As many of those service industry shit-pay jobs dried up over the last year, forcing people to find alternatives, many found alternatives that are better (which is actually a GOOD thing), but it exposes a weakness: our economy depends on there being many millions of people who are willing to work shit-pay jobs. When those people need to earn a living, and they see a world beyond shit-pay jobs, they aren't going to go back. This opens up a whole set of issues, most of which we should be able to discuss honestly and objectively, but we can't, so they'll end up in the CR (both here and in society at large), and nothing smart will ever happen to address this weakness in our economy and job market.
    8 points
  23. Also I don't deal in the restaurant industry so I cannot speak to that. What I can speak to is that jobs in the 15-25/hr range have been VERY hard for us to fill due to extended unemployment benefits. That is MY experience and nothing more. If anyone thinks people would rather go to work than sit on the couch for the same money then we live in different Americas.
    8 points
  24. Such courage to challenge him now that he is out of office. This is like joining ww2 the day after hitler died.
    8 points
  25. I strongly doubt kurt cobain’s murderer would be on surly.
    8 points
  26. Jeff Flake defending Liz Cheney in an op-ed is a real Möbius strip of too little too late, Leopards Face Eating party, I didn’t mean for the matches I lit to actually burn MY house down GQP dipshittery.
    8 points
  27. We attended our geezer Happy Hour this afternoon for the first time in 14 months. The masked one is a retired lawyer.
    7 points
  28. 13yo daughter scheduled for 9am tomorrow.
    7 points
  29. A few random notes from other schools sites.. putting it all in this thread - Bama might be a darkhorse (at least as much as they can be in a recruitment) for Abor. Blackshire is helping to recruit. He's typically thought to be a tOSU vs OU battle. Isn't planning to commit until his all american game; Bama tends to do well with late announcements - Malaki Nelson and Arch Manning are the top tier 2023 QBs, with Holstein emerging as the #3, but Iamaleava (fantastic name) is emerging as a 4th name; he's an athletic 6'6 210 lb, and he's visiting Bama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Georgia in June, it'll be interesting to see who pushes - Bama has a silent commit on defense based on a Golding tweet, but no one seems to know who it is - LSU is making up ground on Shazz Preston, I guess which means they were previously lagging - tOSU and OU mods both think their schools lead for Abor; tOSU mods are laughing at some of Drumm's predictions - Ewers is visiting Ohio State the second weekend of June to along with the already known first weekend of June; the second trip with be with Samson
    7 points
  30. Stopped into Truth after finishing up a job interview. Not sure if it was because the cutter remembers me or they are giving out samples (didn’t see them giving away to others), but he gave me a slice of pastrami brisket on the house. It was pretty fucking delicious. I ate way too much.
    7 points
  31. GWB is either a coward, doesn't care about the US or GOP party, or he stands with Trump. Or some combination of these 3. There isn't a 4th option. I can understand an ex-President unwilling to criticize a current President because he doesn't want to cause harm to the POTUS office. But GWB refuses to use whatever voice he has remaining to stand on the right side of history. And don't get me wrong. I think GWB would be newly reviled by the current GOP but sometimes you have to be willing to be unpopular.
    7 points
  32. The brits have a modest proposal.
    7 points
  33. Their drive thru is fast because they have very few menu options with hardly any variation and they pre make all of their sandwiches. The real magic is convincing all those people to show up for steamed sandwiches and soggy fries.
    7 points
  34. I hate to agree with that Donkey dude but many of you on here miss the point of this whole issue. Israel’s goal is not to destroy the Palestinians. The Palestinian goal is to destroy Israel and take it back as their own. Let’s look at our great state of Texas. Many years ago this was Mexico and they lost a war and it became the Republic of Texas and then joined the United States. What if today Mexico decided it wanted Texas back because it is really theirs and said their ultimate goal was to destroy all the Texans living here. What if they started lobbing rockets into El Paso and San Antonio and Houston or sending suicide bombers into those cities? I am pretty sure we wouldn’t as a country just sit back and say, “hey, maybe they should get their land back. Everybody in TX vacate their homes and move to OK so Mexico can have their territory back”. This is the same as if the Native Americans demanded the US get off their land and give it back to them or any number of peoples over the last 1000 years who have lost land during war. The Jews have been persecuted everywhere they have lived in this world so when they were finally given some land to live on I kind of understand why they don’t want to let a group of people who’s goal is to destroy Israel and the Jews to have power in their country. Not saying Israel is handling this situation the best way but those of you that think of it as big bad Israel versus these poor little Palestinians are extremely misguided. Also, if the West Bank and Gaza is so horrible why don’t those people just move to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, etc... Oh, that’s right, those countries won’t let them in and don’t want them either. Interesting isn’t it.
    7 points
  35. Your kids are fucked if Surly is what is driving your 'parental' conversations....
    7 points
  36. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Fuck off. Just straight fuck off. Comparing Vince and Troy fucking Smith. “Let’s compare arrests!!!!” Fucking douchebag. Let’s compare couch burnings on campus. Let’s compare how visiting fans are treated in Austin vs. how they’re treated in Columbus. Just shut the fuck up.
    7 points
  37. he's not very good at his job. no problem. he gets distracted a lot. no problem. he's fucking your daughter. which one? tiffany. no problem. he's kinda short. i never want to see him again.
    7 points
  38. It's a good thing I'm not an elected rep. I would've Sumnered the fuck out of him immediately.
    6 points
  39. This. Again, people who know are definitely in the over 750 rep "top contributor" segment of posters. Everyone can read threads in You Can't Sit With Us. I said you can speculate there. No one is, why do you think that is? It's not because I'm deleting/hiding stuff.
    6 points
  40. just an irredeemable trash party
    6 points
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