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  1. As an American, I"m just devastated and pwned that the world famous LA Scanner twitter person, someone that I look up to and support publicly and personally, is apparently a convicted felon. I'm doing some real soul searching with my beliefs and politics. Thanks, Zeus.
    27 points
  2. You know what? I'd rather eat dinner with an "illegal" than a racist MAGA asshole. One is only trying to survive. The other pledges fealty to a sociopathic narcissist felon who's doing everything he can to wreck this country.
    27 points
  3. There is no "migrant invasion" in LA. Yes, immigrants, legal and illegal, make up a large part of our population. But the overwhelming majority are just woven into our fabric, performing jobs many US Citizens would simply not do- dishwashers, hotel maids, gardeners, construction laborers, etc, etc, etc. Trump is fanning the flames of a false narrative, and then ramping up the conflict he is creating. And he loves it. I wish he would just do everyone a favor and just coronary out.
    23 points
  4. Well, all that and the food will be 1000x better.
    23 points
  5. No, I’ve never held or voiced that opinion. I was born, raised, educated, worked, and raised a family in this state. It is my home, and I will stand my ground against any traitor to the traditional Texan spirit, embodying the notions of 'live and let live,' the 'Golden Rule,' and opposition to authoritarian tyranny. America is also my home, and I believe in the US Constitution and all its Civil Rights, including the inalienable ones: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You don't believe in any of that shit, which makes you both un-Texan and un-American. Go back to whatever shithole your ancestors fled from. You don't belong here.
    21 points
  6. He got crippled by a tree, sued for a huge settlement(which I agree with) then lobbied for and passed legislation making sure that others who have similar unfortunate accidents can't be compensated even close to the way he was. He is disabled, knows the life and struggles of a disabled person, and still shit all over other disabled people. Fuck him, he is Hot Wheels, and that's not even close to the worst we could say about the man.
    21 points
  7. The Lithuanian influx crosses over to football. Hook 'em Mikey! https://www.kohlskicking.com/player-profiles/michael-bukauskas
    20 points
  8. His mama named him Hot Wheels, I’m going to call him Hot Wheels.
    20 points
  9. Some people actually give a shit about their hard-earned freedom and rights. I know that might seem foreign to you, as your posting history strongly suggests you don't. All you've ever shown to be interested in is how fat your billfold is, no matter whatever the fuck is going on or whatever damage is being inflicted on others.
    19 points
  10. Don't know anything about the guy that put it in, but Lamar Brown just got a Texas pick on Rivals.
    19 points
  11. I think about this quote that's attributed to James Baldwin all the time lately: “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh represent the thinking of the people who have deployed United States Marines and National Guard to Los Angeles. It's folly to think there's some middle ground with someone that doesn't see everyone as equally human and deserving of the same rights. Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh, Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump don't see a Somali or Afghani immigrant, a Nigerian, a Black American, or a Mexican American as fully human. They've shown over and over that they want not only want to close the border to illegal immigration but legal as well. To them, Third World is a racial distinction. If anyone doubts this, just remember that they've put white South Africans at the front of the line and revoked legal status to Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans, so far. Without anyone even noticing or commenting, they've been revoking Dreamers and from almost day one been challenging birthright citizenship. It's all rooted in racism. When Charlie Kirk says Third World, he means non-white. They're being open about it now and we hardly even notice. They think of people as categories rather than individuals. There's no compromise with that.
    19 points
  12. My wife and I have been amazed at how wonderful it is to live in a state with a functioning government. That is, one that functions for its citizens. Need a driver's license? Make an appointment online for 4 days later, then go in and get it done in literally 10 minutes. Same for registering a car. Public parks and trails everywhere, and constant investments in their upkeep and expansion. And just a regular deluge of information on things that are happening in town. I honestly kind of hate myself for living in Texas as long as I did. It's like I got out of a bad relationship with someone who didn't actually care for me.
    18 points
  13. 18 points
  14. What's your problem with convicted felons?
    18 points
  15. Newsom just gave an address tonight.
    16 points
  16. https://bsky.app/profile/professorbutts.com/post/3lrbn3bw7422o
    15 points
  17. As I stated on another thread, I will be attending one -- the first political rally I have attended in my life. But that's how serious and fucked up things have become.
    15 points
  18. Some chatter about Michigan and Felix Ojo, so a couple of perspectives. From Streets (Roach) and Steve Lorenz, the Michigan 247 guy. Roach: Steve Lorenz (Michigan 247)
    15 points
  19. 15 points
  20. The fact that you think "boomer" is anywhere near as insulting as "bootlicker" tells us all we need to know.
    14 points
  21. It's insane when I come to visit for a get together. Aunts and Uncles I talk to rarely are so interested and act like it is the worst place on earth and people are just being killed constantly, no one works but it is so expensive which makes no sense but I try to let them figure that out. None of it makes sense at all, especially these fucks who are on every form of welfare and we all grew up in Pleasant Grove in Dallas which was worse than any part of LA I have lived in. We moved when I was 11 to the upperclass (lol) suburb of Mesquite because a drive by happened next door and 2 stray rounds went into our house. These people are insane
    14 points
  22. Just look at those gang member tattoos in the picture.
    14 points
  23. Yep, when you know the full story about how he took full advantage of a huge injury settlement and then worked feverishly to pull up the ladder (that he can no longer use) behind him it makes it really easy to hate the scumbag
    14 points
  24. SEC home field advantage rankings prior to the 2024 season (14 teams): https://usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2023/07/14/sec-football-best-home-field-advantage-winning-percentages/70411680007/
    14 points
  25. Danny Davito fucked my dad’s wife (his first one- not my mom) while he was married to her. Old man claimed she was the hottest woman in every room, so that’s more or less definitive proof celebrity makes up for everything. That’s all I’ve got for famous people.
    14 points
  26. The dipshit Texan's aversion to Los Angeles and California in general always makes me chuckle.
    14 points
  27. I've had that stupid motherfucking conspiracist, Zeus, on ignore for a while now but saw some of his insanity yesterday because he was being quoted. This board has woken up to a lot of the misinformation that gets spread around and has gotten better at identifying it, but that bullshit still gets floated around a good bit. That said, I realize that a lot of us have also taken the bait and reposted shit a time or two, including myself. But we also have posters, like Zeus, who are habitually guilty of it, whether they're idiotic rubes or deliberate shit smearers. Either way, I think it's about time that there be some retribution for pieces of shit who insist on posting garbage lies over and over again. This NYTimes article mentions at least a couple of the LIES that Zeus posted yesterday. This shit is dangerous, destabilizing, and has gone on far too long. Fuckheads like Zeus deserve no mercy and need to get the boot, because consistently reposting lies is not a legitimate form of political discourse on discussion board full of college-educated adults who happen also to be football fans. Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation. Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions. The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats. They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part. There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers and setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the immigration raids. The confrontation escalated on Monday as new protests occurred and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced — on X — that he was mobilizing 700 Marines from a base near Los Angeles to guard federal buildings. They are expected to join 2,000 members of the California National Guard whom Mr. Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who normally has command of the troops. The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread — some purporting to show Marines and the military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of Los Angeles of their civil rights. It features a climatic dogfight over the city’s downtown. Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, said conservatives online were “building up the riots in a performative way” to help bolster Mr. Trump’s claims that Los Angeles had been taken over by “violent, insurrectionist mobs.” Dr. Linvill said the posts were also “a bit self-fulfilling.” “As they direct attention to it,” he said, “more protesters will show up.” James Woods, the actor who has become known for spreading conspiracy theories, used his account on X to rail against the state’s elected officials, especially Mr. Newsom, a Democrat. He also reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to former President Barack Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020. An innocuous photograph of a pallet of bricks, actually posted on the website of a building materials wholesaler in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by nonprofit organizations supported by George Soros, the financier who, to the feverishly conspiratorial right, has become a mastermind of global disorder. “It’s Civil War!!” an account on X wrote on Saturday, claiming that the bricks had been placed near the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for “Democrat militants.” X posted a Community Note pointing out that the photograph had nothing to do with the protests, but it still was seen more than 800,000 times. It was also widely reposted, including by several seemingly inauthentic accounts in Chinese. The online trope dates at least to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. It reappeared in 2022 after a conspiratorial post by Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who suggested that bricks for a paving project near Capitol Hill were intended for violent protests after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “These days, it feels like every time there’s a protest, the old clickbaity ‘pallets of bricks’ hoax shows up right on cue,” the Social Media Lab, a research center at the Toronto Metropolitan University, wrote on Bluesky. “You know the one, photos or videos of bricks supposedly left out to encourage rioting. It’s catnip for right-wing agitators and grifters.” It also fits into the narrative that protests against government policies are somehow inauthentic. On his own platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump also suggested that the protesters were “Paid Insurrectionists!” Numerous posts echoed unsubstantiated claims that the protests were the work of Mr. Soros as well as local nongovernment organizations or Democratic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Some posts disparaging the protests were shared by accounts with deceptive handles that closely resembled those of official government sources or news organizations. Mike Benz, a conspiracy-minded influencer on X who last year claimed that the Pentagon used the pop star Taylor Swift as part of a psychological operation to undercut Mr. Trump, advanced an outlandish theory that the mayor had links to the Central Intelligence Agency and had helped start riots in the city where she lives. He based that simply on Ms. Bass’s role as a board member for the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally mandated organization formed during the Reagan administration to promote democratic governance around the world. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the theme was echoed by accounts across social media linked to Russia, which often amplifies content that discredits the United States. The Kremlin and its supporters have long accused Mr. Soros or the United States government of covertly sponsoring “color revolutions” to overthrow governments — from the Arab Spring countries swept up by mass street protests in 2011 to Ukraine. “It is nationwide conspiracy of liberals against not only Trump but against American people in general,” Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, wrote on X on Sunday. Disinformation in situations like these spreads so quickly and widely that efforts to verify facts cannot keep up, said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an advocacy organization that studies the intersection of media, technology and the law. She described it as part of “a much longer effort to delegitimize peaceful resistance movements.” “Information warfare is always a symptom of conflict, stoked often by those in power to fuel their own illiberal goals,” she said. “It confuses audiences, scares people who might otherwise have empathy for the cause and divides us when we need solidarity most.”
    14 points
  28. This feels like it could be a very important day for the future of our country. While Trump has war machines rolling through his DC parade, there looks to be a well coordinated mass protest throughout the country. The contrast and optics will be fascinating to see unfold. Anyone going to their local protest? 4 days away.... https://www.nokings.org/
    13 points
  29. Don't forget all the Californians who leave because taxes are so high, so they come to Texas because of the bullshit PR campaign about low taxes and then they get their first property tax bill and home owners insurance quote
    13 points
  30. 13 points
  31. I'm planning on going to the Austin one.
    13 points
  32. And then, the next step....what we learned on the streets in Syria and Iraq, we're putting to work HERE. Be prepared for the Regime's Gestapo to Fallujah your ass, disloyal people. 100000000000000000 X THIS. Every single person freaking out about someone flying a mexican or salvadoran flag 1) has no problem when the Irish and Italians fly them on AMERICAN STREETS! on St. Patrick's day or Columbus day, and 2) they REALLY don't have a problem with the fact that millions of Trump supporters, including people who actually assaulted and trashed the Capitol and had a STATED GOAL of murdering members of Congress, flew the battle flag of a bunch of traitors who caused a war that killed more Americans than any other war. And their God-King pardoned every. single. one of them. Fuck. You. Seriously, if you stand in ANY WAY with the movement shown in that picture above -- and if you support this Regime, that's exactly who you stand with -- fuck you right in your treasonous ass.
    13 points
  33. Did I miss the part where he condemned his party's leader for his constant insults of anyone and everyone including their immutiable characteristics? If not, that broke back broke dick piece of human garbage can roll down a fucking hill and straight to hell. The saddest part about him is that the tree failed to finish the job.
    13 points
  34. Fuck Quinn Ewers. Now that he can't win my school a title anymore the fascist hillbilly can eat a dick and break a neck. He'll fit in nicely with the authoritarian loving Cubans in South Florida until he gets cut in August
    13 points
  35. You're right, but it wasn't always like that. What used to be a confident, polite, "mind you own business" ethos turned into a hysterical and beta bitch form of conservatism and masculinity.
    12 points
  36. I wouldn't say I've been missing him, Bob.
    12 points
  37. It was always a lie. Just like how they would claim they would defend free speech. They don't give a flying fuck about America, the Constitution, Jesus, freedom, or anything else. They would gleefully have been Nazi's in another time or Inquisitors in a preindustrial role. They are the same that would claim the old lady that cured their kid is a witch and gleefully watch as she is tortured. Then accuse your daughter if you tried to beat them to the land grab. They may accidentally do something good by circumstance, and then spend the rest of their lives being a pos like the bin laden killer also posting about his desire to fuck and enslave young men. They want guns because they want to play with them or threaten you with them. That is it. The biggest gun owners in my family do not hunt and have never hunted. But they plan on it. Right after they get their ranch style home, forge, and an army of young men to boss around. And a lottery winning cause they ain't ever bothered working for that shit. But it looked cool on TV.
    12 points
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