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Showing content with the highest reputation on 11/05/25 in all areas

  1. Engaging with idiots is Surly's entire premise.
    34 points
  2. Waking up in NYC to the Mamdani win, the end of Cuomo's political career, and the Bergdorf holiday windows under construction all point to a great holiday season.
    34 points
  3. Cypress will apparently flip the CFISD school board back to sanity. Book banning right wing "Christians" had a 6-1 majority and 3 trustee positions up for reelection. All 3 elections are being won easily by people with brains right now. If anyone wants some hopium then just consider that fucking Cypress just rejected the Christian nationalist takeover of education. Well at least the ones who voted. Between 47-48k votes.
    32 points
  4. CA prop 50 passing in a landslide is a very nice fuck you to Abbott and Trump. Great job guys. As someone who donated to that effort, and as an American who hates fascism, I feel like I won something last night, even though I didn’t cast a vote in CA.
    31 points
  5. The dude that giddily declared the midterms over after Kirk's murder (before he knew the first thing about the shooter) is here to lecture us on the risks of small sample sizes, extrapolation, and the fickle nature of the electorate. Adorable.
    26 points
  6. I am perfectly fine with them rationalizing away the loss and living in denial
    24 points
  7. The only time I’ve ever been to PR was for a baseball tournament that involved one American team, one PR team, one Mexican team, one Dominican team, and one Cuban team. Summer after my freshman year of college. I was 19 years old. Playing with some top tier college kids from other SEC schools. We had a blast meeting all the other players. Most of them admired our top of the line gear. We all partied together, and broke through the language barrier with a general love for baseball, girls, booze, etc. 19-20year olds finding a common ground, and getting along. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life to this day. Then we had to play against each of them. Each country’s team. We. Got. Fucking. Destroyed.
    22 points
  8. That's the same kind of stupid shit that causes Texas counties to turn down federal funds for a flood warning system.
    22 points
  9. Anyone that shows up to a job not handing out paychecks is failing an intelligence test. This moronic American Puritan work ethic is so easy to take advantage of by the ruling class. This shit would be over in France after a week.
    21 points
  10. If you piss off John Rocker that much, you're ok in my book.
    20 points
  11. So there's going to be something really extraordinary based on the SCOTUS arguments this morning. The Supreme Court is going to hold Trump's tariffs to be unconstitutional. Because duh. But what happens then? That decision isn't going to come out until March. And so what happens in March to all the money that has been collected from April 1, 2025 to March 2026? I don't exactly know how that's going to work, but one would assume that illegally collected taxes are going to get refunded. But therein lies the rub: to whom will the taxes get refunded? Presumably to the importers who directly paid the taxes to the Government. So that is to say companies like Apple and Ford will get huge checks from the federal government. But as we all know, Apple and Ford haven't been just eating the cost of those tariffs. They've been passing them along to consumers. So are they going to pass along that huge check from the federal government sometime next year? Fuuuuuuck no. They're going to take that windfall and buy back shares or distribute it to shareholders. In other words, that SCOTUS argument is setting up an absolutely enormous wealth redistribution from the consuming classes to the investing classes sometime in 2026.
    20 points
  12. This reminds me of a famous kids book... "If you feed a child a free meal, they are going to seize the means of production. If you give them the means of production, they are going to request Sharia Law." I think I have that right.
    20 points
  13. And this is a GREAT morning. Fuck you Donald.
    20 points
  14. Hey. Me and the rest of us in California, we have a little message for Texas' Governor and rapey Donny Trump.
    19 points
  15. 19 points
  16. I'm pretty sure everyone that used Facebook at all a single time during the last 5 days knows it was election day. They were pushing a banner thing. AISD didn't have school yesterday, because election day. Everyone I know and not just online people knew it was election day. You are wrong in almost every sense of being wrong here. Democracy is something everyone in this country knows about and should be proud of. Shut your fucking mouth for once when you are flat out wrong.
    19 points
  17. Just wanted to say that I spent the last 2.5 weeks working for Jefferson County elections, and the amount of work and organization that goes into running an election is absolutely jaw-dropping. And any fucking moron who claims than an election is rigged in this country should be required to work on one.
    18 points
  18. The fact that an 18 year old recognizes him at all has got to please Wallace Shawn. That's almost...inconcievable.
    18 points
  19. I just hope people making decisions about the path forward see yesterday for what it was: an indication that people will come out to vote against Trump, if the situation is dire enough. That means: DONT STOP TRUMP FROM FUCKING UP THE COUNTRY. Voice opposition, use the courts where you can, but otherwise get out of the dumb motherfucker’s way. Do NOT help them reopen the government. Let Trump keep fucking up the economy and exacerbating inflation with his kneejerk negotiated tariffs. Let Trump turn Latinos against him by having ICE continually disappear people and arrest with no cause. The worst thing that can happen over the next 12 months is for Trump to change course and we go into the mid terms with lower prices (if Trump abandons the tariffs), a functioning government (if Dems help them reopen and pass future spending bills), and ICE not a problem (with immigration “solved”). The Dems need to do everything they can to ensure the next year is a case study on failure of authoritarian governance.
    18 points
  20. Agree with this. I blame the media slightly more than stupid people.
    18 points
  21. Man, yall were doing so well ignoring him. Was fun to watch
    18 points
  22. My Trump apologist uncle had a big party planned for this Saturday night, his son in NYC is bringing his very serious girlfriend in town to meet the whole family. He's had it planned for months. He just texted us that the party is cancelled due to "travel issues", his son in NYC and another cousin of mine in LA aren't able to fly in. He was laughing about the shutdown last week saying everything was still running normally. Don't think he's laughing now!
    17 points
  23. John Rocker, this fuckin' guy, says New Yorkers are fucked because now they won't be served pork lip hot dogs - only cabrito. Hmmm...
    17 points
  24. I posted this in the Shutdown thread, but it belongs here. Trump is the crazy ex they can't quit for a large chunk of this country. They miss him when he's not in the White House, but then he lights everything on fire and everything goes to shit and they remember why they broke up with him in the first place. As long as he's in office, he reminds people weekly of how terrible he is and they don't fondly look back on the good ole days that only exist in their head. Trump in power costs Republicans elections. It's when he's out of office that he helps them. It doesn't make any sense unless you look at it from the crazy ex angle
    17 points
  25. You know, the people involved are the sick ones. Yes a small segment of one side makes pretty tasteless memes about Kirk’s death. They chuckle but then move on about their day. The involved, his friends, his widow, they are the ones that have turned a tragedy into a freaking merchandising campaign. They are the ones exploiting it for any and everything. I can’t recall any funeral I’ve seen or gone to that had merchandise booths. They are using his death for fundraising, political exploitation, and anything else to gain power and money. But sure a meme that will be forgotten in 5 minutes is the problem.
    17 points
  26. I guarantee that United Airlines is not going to have to cut just a whole lot of flights. But I have to tell you--I'm not exactly sure there's a mechanism for this under the Airline Deregulation Act. The point of the ADA is that the government doesn't get to tell the airlines how many flights they get to operate. There are a handful of exceptions at certain airports that have unique restrictions like slot controls, a perimeter rule, or gate limitations (LGA, DCA, and DAL, respectively). But broadly speaking, I don't know that the DOT has legal authority to tell the airlines to cut air traffic by 10%.* And if you're the airlines, you're telling the DOT "fuck that--tell general aviation it's grounded." It's honestly a pretty reasonable take. It's definitely a take that the industry group (A4A) will take up. But it's also something real and tangible that Democrats can take up. "The Trump Administration made you miss Thanksgiving so that Elon Musk could fly his Gulfstream to Bermuda." That fucking sells. * Cue @Brisketexan jumping on here to tell me that I'm "soooo adorable" for thinking that this Administration needs legal authority to do anything.
    16 points
  27. don't worry about it. I voted twice so I got ya covered.
    16 points
  28. So, it wouldn't be a morning after an election day without my pessimistic take. So, here it is. What this means is that over the next year, the fascists are going to take a super-maximalist, accelerationist approach to cramming their evil down America's collective throat. I'm talking "ram a firehose of fascism down our throat and crank it to max pressure" stuff. AND, they are going to octuple their efforts to suppress voting, shut down polling places, and just flat-out interfere with voting in any place where democrats may be found. The chances of Trump simply declaring a made-up national emergency (or creating one, like by literally going to war with Mexico or some stupid shit) and cancelling elections (enforced by the national guard and ICE, which will see its mission vastly expanded as they function as the Trump regime's STASI) just went up materially. The next year is going to be hell on earth. And if the dems have any fucking brains at all, they should WELCOME it. No compromise. No quarter. No nothing. Stand firm and fight, and make the fascists reveal themselves for what they are: grifting fucksticks stealing our nation for the benefit of their oligarch buddies just to serve the interest of their hateful little egos. Make them amp up their atrocities and theft, and make them do it out in broad daylight. And yield NOT A SINGLE FUCKING INCH OF GROUND. Just stand firm and tell them "no. Fuck off."
    16 points
  29. Why the fuck yall don't Ana on ignore is beyond me? Dude is a fucking idiot and never misses a chance to show his ass.
    16 points
  30. Why do y'all engage that idiot.
    16 points
  31. Oh my god Ana, just shut up
    16 points
  32. First woman mayor in Detroit’s 324 year history
    15 points
  33. Even this cat made it out yesterday to vote....
    15 points
  34. Ana is an absolute beating since Trump 45 but he’s been around since HF. Several posters know him in real life. This is a weird thing to fixate on ps please stop quoting him and thank you for your attention to this matter
    15 points
  35. 15 points
  36. In the late-90s, several UT French professors and a scad of grad students (including moi) put together an interactive French language course with cartoon armadillos, meant for local use: https://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ It won awards and got added to the curriculum of many schools. It's still used today, though as you can see it's long in the tooth now. We are redoing it and updating it. I am the artist again. They are running a fund-raiser. I figured the Surly 1% would want to know: https://give.utexas.edu/a-new-francais-interactif
    14 points
  37. I think people ignore the role Covid played in all this. Covid was a traumatic time, and we all have nostalgia for the Before Times. And I capitalize "Before Times," because we all know what I mean. I could use it completely out of context, and you'd know what it means. And Trump was the president at the end of the Before Times. So for a lot of people, he represents that normality that they'd want to return to. They don't remember how badly he fucked up Covid. Because we all just blocked out a lot of shit that went on during the Covid Times. It was just that traumatic. And really, for a lot of people, Biden is more closely associated with the Covid Times just because when our minds and memories kicked back on as we departed the Covid Times into the After Times, Biden was president. That's my hypothesis, at least. I'm sure there's a psychology thesis in there somewhere. Maybe someday someone will write it. I have a very good friend who is an elected officeholder and who is running for office again in 2026. He was recently asked by a constituent about his position on Israel, and he expressed his frustration to me. He complained that he is a state official; he doesn't have shit to do with foreign policy or the State Department or anything to do with Israel. So why would anybody ask him this question? I disagreed with him, and I'll tell you what I told him. It's not about Israel. Everyone knows you can't do anything about Israel and Gaza. Ok--not everyone. We have plenty of morons out there. But I know. And I'd ask you the same question for exactly the same reason I'd ask a candidate for the school board about his position on abortion or a candidate for the local MUD Board his position on immigration. It's a question about your values. When I ask you whether you support what Israel is doing in Gaza, I'm really asking what are your values. Do you know right from wrong? And does your conceptualization of right and wrong comport with my own. Because if you think that Israel bombing women and children in their homes is right; if you think Israel deplying the military to starve a civilian population is justified; if you think Israel's targeting of journalists and aid workers to facilitate its program of starvation in Gaza is morally correct, then I have my answer to every other policy issue. We don't have to talk about medicare expansion, or tariffs, or transportation policy, because I know your values don't line up with my own. So I'm going to vote against you.
    14 points
  38. Yes, nobody outside the very politically online knew that there was important democrary taking place tonight. So much, so, that citizens of a deep red state contacted their state reps wondering why they weren’t voting and everyone else was not realizing their state isn’t in an election season or a special election.
    14 points
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