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  1. Just because I know it’s coming, you assholes.
    40 points
  2. I'm a child of the 80s, in some ways a child of Ronald Reagan, who grew up viewing Russia as the enemy of America and its ideals of democracy and freedom, with Reagan as the figurehead of America's use of global power and influence to keep Russia in check. And that pro-America/anti-Russia sentiment permeated throughout our film culture -- Red Dawn, Rocky IV, Firefox, Hunt for Red October, The Day After, Spies Like Us, etc. . . . . Shit, I ate it up as a kid, and before I had any sense of political awareness and intellect, I identified as Republican until somewhere in the middle of college in the 90s. And it wasn't just my generation and the 80s. This was prevalent in the 60s and 70s as well. Think the Cuban Missile Crisis that many of our parents experienced in high school or college. So it's utterly fucking mystifying how that same party of Reagan, those conservatives who grew up with anti-Russian policies and attitudes, knowing that you just cannot get into bed with those communist oppressive oligarch mother fuckers, seem to have no problem whatsoever with (1) Putin's unprovoked, unjustified, and reprehensible invasion of Ukraine, and (2) Trump's gargling of Putin's balls seeking "peace" and an end to the war that doesn't appear at this point to accept any input from THE COUNTRY THAT WAS FUCKING INVADED and may be all or mostly on Putin's terms. This is fucking unreal.
    33 points
  3. I happened to be at a function recently with Mrs.LL, and I ran into @South Austin. I asked, "so how's your mom?" Both Mrs.LL and Mrs.SouthAustin were very confused.
    25 points
  4. 20 points
  5. Fuck her. She realizes she's been lied to, and still she has to interject "I don't want to make this political." She still can't fucking let the talking point go, even as she talks about how POLITICIANS LIED AND USED her and her people. Can it get any more political? Get her into the Daily Texan forum, she belongs.
    20 points
  6. That encapsulates modern American "Christianity" about as well as anything I have seen.
    20 points
  7. 995ers having absolutely no clue about staffing hires is one of my favorite Sark traditions.
    19 points
  8. How subtle of you. Nothing along the lines of, “I’m ______, nice to meet you in real life.” Or, “How do you know the host?” Just right out of the gate: “How’s your mom?”
    18 points
  9. I think it begins with the grooming christians do their kids. Faith. Belief. No proof needed. One of my favorite lyrics is by Jason Isbell. “Don’t question just believe” Once your brain is conditioned to this, it’s apparently transferable to other facets of your life. Breaking out of this mindset requires significant self reflection and self awareness. I was brought up church of christ. We looked at the baptists like they were looney liberals. It was at some point in college where the fever broke, critical thinking set in, and I questioned “the truth”. There’s validity in the conservatives’ position that college drives people away from the church; the reason is that college develops critical thinking. Religion teaches the enemy is the devil. Conservative thought thrives on having an enemy. Republicans’ enemy is the democrats. I went to OU (conservative) and the enemy was texas. aggy’s (conservative) enemy is texas. In my experience, the liberal mindset does not need an enemy to push forward.
    18 points
  10. Turns out Reagan was the worst president in the history of the United States (so far), but we just started to enter the Find Out stage over the past 10 years. Eliminating the Fairness Doctrine is one of the unsung culprits for how we ended up here. It allowed broadcasters like Fox to spread propaganda 24 hours a day. Repeat something enough times and people will start to believe it Mix that with an exhaustive laundry list of horrible policies, stick it in the oven for 40 years and voila you get dystopia.
    17 points
  11. I don't know where to put this, but I just learned that Teslas are now being called Swastikars, and I want to spread that, so here, take it and run free.
    16 points
  12. It's not just Detroit that has frozen over. Hell has. I am in agreement with Mike Pence.
    16 points
  13. Have fun. https://gulfof.mapquest.com
    16 points
  14. Its all about having an enemy. The enemy in Reagan's time was the USSR, communism, etc. Then the USSR fell, we won! and a new enemy was needed. For a while drugs, were the enemy, but drugs were never defeated, so we moved on to... Enter liberalism, the new enemy. Putin and Russia are about as illiberal as it gets, so they are not only the enemy, they are allies, in this new war.
    15 points
  15. "Boris, here are your new goggles to control FPVs. They're far more advanced than what you've been using. Enjoy!"
    15 points
  16. https://apple.news/AWUd3urwoQyqBvug7yc2fog This is truly crazy, how is anyone ok with this. U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as "a dictator without elections" and said he better move fast to secure a peace or he would have no country left. Trump spoke hours after Zelenskiy hit back at his suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion, saying the U.S. president was trapped in a Russian disinformation bubble. "A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left," Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform.
    15 points
  17. Eric Liddell became a Christian missionary in China. Imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp, the U.K. kept arranging prisoner trades to free him. Each time, he told the captor to substitute someone sicker or weaker in his place. He ended up dying in that camp.
    15 points
  18. They went in and changed it to 8b in FPDS. What unbelievable pieces of shit, who are also dumb because the real number is 8m Again: not serious people. /
    15 points
  19. 14 points
  20. Back in the early days of Trump’s first term, I was talking to a guy that wasn't a Trump supporter but was a Republican and a big consumer of right wing media. Out of the blue he started musing about what was so bad about Trump’s position on Russia. This guy was Air Force intelligence in the 80's in the Reagan era and talked shit about Russia when reminiscing about his service. When he mentioned Trump and Russia maybe not being a bad idea I brought up his activities during the Cold War and how he personally felt about the Russians. He acknowledged his dislike for Russia but then followed up with unsureness about where he stands. You could see the cognitive dissonance enveloping him in real time.
    14 points
  21. 13 points
  22. Well, at least we have an easy way to figure out who the traitors are now. If you tell anyone the Republican Party is putting the interests of Russia over those of America, and they argue with you, you have a traitor.
    13 points
  23. When I was working in Columbia, South Carolina back in 2003, many of the convenience stores would have "prayer lists" by the register. You were invited to write the name of a person and what you wanted some circle of weirdos to pray about on their behalf. I would write on there about my friend Jeff Spicoli who needed prayers for his substance abuse. If I ever encounter something like that again, I'll ask for prayers for my friend Avon Barksdale and his legal troubles.
    13 points
  24. I think we all need to understand that the correct historical analogy at this point isn’t Chamberlain in 1938, it’s Stalin in 1939.
    12 points
  25. When you think of garbage, think of Hakeem.
    11 points
  26. Can anyone name one policy advancement in the last 4 weeks that doesn’t happen to align with exactly what Russia would want to achieve if it had control over US policy? -Crippling of government agencies to sow distrust of government within the US -blaming Zelensky for Russian invasion of independent and democratic nation -publicly capitulating to Russian terms on keeping territories -telling Europe we will not enforce their security problems -pledging to reduce our military by half -creating trade wars with our allies and China to isolate US influence -DOJ reassigned or fired those in charge of enforcing sanctions against Russian oligarchs -DOJ disbanded task force on protecting our elections from international interference Its impossible to conclude anything other than Trump has sold out our foreign policy and standing in the world and meanwhile he’s got a meme coin giving him the ability to accept limitless funds from anonymous international actors which I’m sure is a coincidence
    11 points
  27. Fucking national disgrace. A real low point in our nation's history.
    11 points
  28. largest employer in alabama, the federal govt lololololol
    11 points
  29. In the next press briefing someone should probably ask if we're now allies with Russia, in the war where they invaded a democratic country and (former) ally. Seems like maybe an important foreign policy change.
    10 points
  30. fucking told you so, he was going to call Zelenskyy a dictator.
    10 points
  31. @52-80 What are your thoughts on an immigrant who falsified their papers and, by all rights, should be considered “illegal” radically, recklessly, and illegally defunding large swaths of our federal government? Should that person be deported?
    10 points
  32. Ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience for protesting at a Hunting Beach, California city council meeting .... dragged away by police. https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/ex-nfl-punter-chris-kluwe-arrested-while-protesting-maga-sign-at-southern-california-city-council-meeting-223624796.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGIWtbqMg48j9sLSyogboA80pHtLijAQOlLoUL-RhCh8m-JR82pVuCLHcQwXGNceBFbExNgJb8xn3phsN8giV5JtYwaqhOhkqZgyc2-K-vKBXdLDjxVvdm2Ohoe7sY54RyCpHgAt3mfahyemvHBtiNnSwUFA--nvr4jacFNrxPof&_guc_consent_skip=1740024652
    9 points
  33. 'member when all the conservatives and trolls kept getting ultra butthurt when we pointed out trump toadying up to putin? 'member when it was "trump derangement syndrome" to fear what we are watching happen in realtime? I 'member.
    9 points
  34. Well. Y'all know what I think of kings. It's what every good American thinks of kings. If we have a new aspiring royalty, acting outside the confines of our existing laws.....then we're outside the confines of our existing laws. Rule of the guillotine it is.
    9 points
  35. Someone cannot possibly fuck these bitches up enough to satisfy me, I scream into the void.
    9 points
  36. Wordle 1,341 5/6* 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #619 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
    9 points
  37. It's not deportation, but it's definitely cruelty. Another win for the """good guys""" https://www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-texas-girl-bullied-over-familys-immigration-status-takes-her-own-life-575984 Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On February 3, Carranza's single mother, Marbella Carranza, received a call notifying her that her daughter had attempted to take her life inside the family's home in Gainesville, Texas. Her 11-year-old daughter was rushed to an intensive care unit in Dallas but died on February 8, according to a GoFundMe page. "I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately nothing could be done," Marbella told Univision. "My daughter will always live for me, and I will always love her." The Gainesville Intermediate School was aware Carranza was being bullied and mocked by students who told the young girl she would be left alone when her parents got deported. It had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified. Now, Marbella, who discovered her daughter was being bullied only after she died, is working with investigators and the school to determine exactly what happened and why the young girl's family wasn't made aware of what was happening.
    9 points
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