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  1. What are you stupid? No one is talking about the 1st Amendment. What we ARE talking about is personal responsibility. You asked what generation I am from? I am from the generation where we never knew you were supposed to wear helmets to ride bikes. That same generation knew that WORDS got your ass kicked. If you came home and told your dad that you called some kid a(insert racial epithet) and got your ass kicked, he would simply ask you what did you learn. Your parents weren't running up to your school saying, "but words". When I was a kid you didn't turn on tv and see anyone, anywhere saying the hateful shit Charlie Kirk said. You also didn't have the got-damned President of the United States saying divisive shit while addressing the nation. Words have always been the catalyst to violence. Always. Right wing media is saying that Kirk got popped because the left was calling him a Nazi and White Supremacist. Well, the simple solution is don't say White Supremacist/Nazi shit. Kirk said this-"If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified'" That statement IS White Supremacy. He wouldn't wonder if a White pilot is qualified because the pilot is White. Both pilots got their pilot's license from the same place, but because he sees the black pilot as inferior, he would question his qualification. Someone who was not a White Supremacist would say, "Gee, I hope ANY pilot is qualified". Kirk is dead because HE continued spouting rhetoric like this. He could've stopped at any time. It's not our responsibility to not categorize his rhetoric, it's his responsibility to control what comes out of his mouth. We literally use these same principles everywhere else. When we hear a rapper got shot and killed because he wore a bunch of jewelry in the hood what do we say? Opposing sports fan being a douche in the wrong section what do we say? At some point the onus is on you. I am not going to stop calling people White Supremacist when I literally have dudes doing Nazi Salutes at the Inauguration for the President of the United States of America.
    60 points
  2. All of you are sitting around moping about like someone just shot your dog. Frankly - I'm fucking tired of it. This is Texas football. Back to back CFP appearances. Back to back national semifinals. B12 champs 2023. SEC title game 2024. Back to back 12 win seasons (13 last year). Thorpe award 2024. Outland trophy 2024. 25 NFL draft picks the last two seasons. Get y'all's fucking shit together and quit being a bunch of bitches. If I have to see one more motherfucker post about 2010 Texas or Garrett Gilbert I'm throwing a damn brick through someone's window. I am so, deeply sorry that Arch Manning isn't instantly 2019 Joe Burrow. Why don't all of you relax and watch a couple more games before claiming that this team is going 7-5. These dogs get another warmup and then they all go get to prove themselves. We are going to fuck Florida's shit up. We are going to fuck OU's shit up. Have some fucking faith in what your head coach has shown you and what he has already delivered for this program. The QB is green. They will figure it out. Together. Give them time. Have some God damn faith for once in your life. THIS IS TEXAS FOOTBALL, GOD DAMMIT. Let's fucking ride. 🤘
    55 points
  3. Shit, I feel MORE confident when I see a black person in a position of responsibility/authority…because you know their ass had to not only meet the requirements, but also overcome bullshit at every crucial point in their career while being careful to not piss off the bigots.
    41 points
  4. Charlie Kirk texted me a couple days before his death expressing concerns about Arch Manning.
    40 points
  5. Libs will sometimes dip their bullets in gay so their enemies can't get into heaven.
    39 points
  6. I think grouping everyone you disagree with politically in with the small faction that is openly celebrating is the type of rhetoric that got us here.
    38 points
  7. Let’s be honest, boycotting watching arch isn’t that big of a sacrifice.
    35 points
  8. You dickrode Trump for 4 years, cheered for kids in cages, and talked about wanting to shoot immigrants. Then you realized that all sounded bad and nuked that account and started this alt pretending to be someone else entirely. Nobody has a single reason to believe anything you say and many reasons not to.
    34 points
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  10. I'm not celebrating. But I'm also not canonizing him. And discussing his racist, bigoted, and sexist views -- which were a large part of his identity rather than some harmless off-the-cuff isolated remarks -- is entirely fair game, even on the day of his death. And I have no reason to doubt that he was a good and loving husband and father, and showed kindness to those in his personal and political circle. I don't know him, but I've never read otherwise. However, he chose a public persona and pulpit to spew divisive, demeaning and hateful shit that went so far beyond what his loyalists want to label as conservative policies that big bad universities are stifling. He doesn't get a pass on that just to allow his fanboys a day of grieving. And when yesterday I first saw a comment on a Facebook post comparing his death to MLK's assassination, I thought that was a ridiculous isolated comment. But holy shit, that sentiment has a MAGA tidal wave behind it. And those crazy fucks are even saying Kirk was better than MLK because he never cheated on his wife unlike King the womanizer. Hey, if you want to compare personal lives, fine. I recently read the Pulitzer Prize-winning King: A Life, and along with MLK's greatness, the author also writes pretty extensively on King's infidelities, which were exhaustively taped by Hoover's FBI. If you're going to tell me that Charlie Kirk was a saint who never even thought about a woman other than his wife when he masturbated, okay, I'll assume that's true for this discussion. But however virtuous Kirk may have been in his private life, he chose a message and a movement of divisiveness, hateful, sexist, and antisemitic rhetoric, and a complete lack of empathy. On the other hand, King, for all of his extra-marital affairs, had a consistent mission and message of equality and justice, dignity for every human, love (even for his enemies), and maybe most remarkably, nonviolence, even when others in the Black movement toward the last several years of his life were pleading for him, "King, we need to consider some motherfucking violence!" Back to your post. I'm not happy at all that Kirk was gunned down. I'm sad for his widow and kids, and that another person yesterday was senselessly killed by a gun. And to honestly voice my selfish political reason for being angry at his murder, I'm fucking pissed that someone decided to kill a MAGA figurehead when it's only going to further enrage and energize that sad faction of our country. So we're not celebrating his death (well, at least I'm not). We're just honestly examining his life.
    33 points
  11. 32 points
  12. After the election, I kept asking myself "is this who we are as a country?" It's easy enough to convince yourself that people were brainwashed or the Democrats fucked up the election or shit was just too expensive... but the last week has proven to me that the simple answer to that question is "yes, this is who we are." We are a country that values the life of a conservative podcaster more than the lives of Democratic lawmakers or children in schools. We are a country that happily lives in two different realities curated by the algorithms in our pocket. We are a country where the media is more focused on access than truth-telling. We are a country that is more concerned with our differences than our similarities. I naively thought that the Democrats just had a messaging problem and that the majority of the country would agree with their ideas if they were just communicated better. I thought that many of the Republican voters just did so out of habit or comfort and weren't truly aware of what their party stood for. That's all bullshit. The liberal viewpoint is the clear minority in this country. The Democrats have lost. When the goals of social media align so clearly with one party over the other (outrage!!!), there's nothing that can be done. We have to accept the new reality, complaining about it now is like going to College Station and complaining that everyone is wearing maroon. @Brisketexan - I'm climbing off the ledge. Not because anything has gotten better, but because there's nowhere for us to even jump. Might as well figure out how to live like this. First step is deleting all forms of social media from my phone. Real life is much more pleasant than life through a screen. I only find disappointment in learning who people are behind their keyboard.
    32 points
  13. I had to explain to a friend yesterday how it’s fine to hold these thoughts in our heads at the same time: Violence is bad and murder is wrong and the person who did this should go to jail for the rest of his life…. and also Charlie Kirk was a terrible person who profited off hate speech and demonizing people and the world is a better place with him not in it.
    32 points
  14. go preach this to all of your like minded right wing friends and family who’ve never given a single fuck about political violence or “how we treat our fellow man” one day in their lives. change starts at home. go give this lecture to the people who need it.
    32 points
  15. Yeah, it's not a good look. But damn do I sure wish your half of the country would get this upset about school shootings.
    32 points
  16. Charlie Kirk wasn’t assassinated. That asshole got shot.
    32 points
  17. No. He taught them to be raging bigots, and that it's okay to say vile, racist shit to people. Proof? My daughter is now in another state because she could not take the racism at her school. We've already been in the news once recently for bullying a middle school kid through racist texts. So she is left to finish her senior year elsewhere. Her hispanic friend told us kids at school thought it was funny to tell her they were going to call ICE on her even though her family has been here for generations and her dad is an MIT grad. These are your church going conservative kids that Kirk is grooming.
    31 points
  18. I’m not celebrating his death. If he truly is a Christian he is with Jesus right now and if so, I believe he is having to give an account for his actions on earth. I feel terrible for his wife and daughters. No one should have their family ripped apart by gun violence. I will note that the vast majority of Americans want reasonable laws passed to lessen the likelihood of that happening to more families. And he vehemently advocated against that in his life. No reasonable person thinks we can take that number to zero, but that is not an argument for doing nothing. According to his own words Kirk believed an absolute right to the 2nd amendment is so important that the deaths of thousands of children are acceptable to protect it. He spent his life sowing hate towards marginalized people; people who are my friends and family members, my patients, and my (and his) brothers and sisters in Christ, so no I do not mourn him. But because I am called to love him I am struggling mightily right now. My eldest daughter, who is one of the strongest and most faithful Christians I know, told me last night she is questioning her faith because of all her friends who are posting about what a tragedy this is when they never had a word to say about Uvalde; or El Paso; or the Pulse nightclub; or any of the church/mosque/synegogue shootings; or the MN assassinations or school shootings. Or even the CO school shootings from yesterday. And who attacked her for saying why she does not mourn him. Note she didn’t respond to their posts expressing their grief but felt compelled to post replies to her on her timeline She has never said anything about questioning her faith to me and she has gone through some very trying times. And I don’t have anything to say to her that doesn’t feel hollow and trite. And that breaks my heart I will leave you with a quote from Charlie Kirk, which I can only assume shows us how he would want us to feel about his death, unless his whole professional life was a work: “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.” “I can’t stand th empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.”
    31 points
  19. Our right wing posters have largely justified away any bad acts of their party and affiliates and have flipped flopped on so many issues over the years it is difficult to summarize in a single post. The ones that repeated the lies about left wing extremists were always projecting and hoping they could make even the thinnest of evidence stick. It was reflected again in the shooting of CK, when so many right wingers and leaders within the community called for violence and war, meanwhile the left’s leadership acted like adults and condemned the violence. The president and his lackeys have called for jailing and harassing people who believe differently. You might not have started out as an authoritarian sympathist who believed in this country, but when you looked around and saw your party was taken over by white nationalists and criminals you stood by them. We got rid of Al Franken for a picture where he pretended to touch the boobs. You elected a guy who is a known felon and pedophile. We are not the same. We do not have the same values. We remove our own for being corrupt. We don’t incite violence. We don’t spread lies and misinformation/dysinformation at the same rates. And we have hope for our future through education and inclusion, not exclusionary and repressive tactics.
    30 points
  20. Selected this post, but there are so many others....I'm actually glad Enchubben is sharing his unvarnished thoughts, because it's a good glimpse into the mind of someone who is simultaneously clueless, and thinks they're a good person....who is also a vile racist. He described a made-up "DEI" boogeyman that doesn't exist. It's a straw man for the right to construct and then demonize, which gives them justification for their continued suspicion and resentment of all people who aren't white males (note that white males are literally the ONLY class that doesn't get the "I just can't trust that they weren't a 'DEI hire'" treatment). This is how deeply permeated the racism is. And how he just blows by straight-forward, unambiguous statements like him saying that black women just don't have the brain power. Or, in choosing to criticize the Cowboys, going to the race of their fanbase. What possible relevance could that have to anything or anyone? There are 100,000 reasons to hate the Cowboys and their fans (I can list them, as I share in most of them). But mentioning the race/ethnicity of their fans WOULDN'T EVEN FUCKING OCCUR TO ME, BECAUSE I'M NOT A FUCKING WHITE SUPREMACIST. It's the casualness, and ubiquity, of white supremacist ideology that's being revealed in this discussion. They don't argue that Charlie Kirk didn't say or think those things. They just move the goalposts, and say "racist things really aren't racist." It's not "racist" to think that black women are inferior...it's just true. It's not racist to say that foreigners should be whipped -- that's just a good idea. It's not racist to say that the phrenology of the skulls of negroes correlates to lower IQs, that's just science (see the road we're on? Everything old will become new again). Enchubben doesn't wear a robe and white hood. Enchubben surely thinks of himself as a good person, who doesn't mean any harm to anyone. Enchubben also holds deep-seated beliefs and opinions about how minorities are actually inferior, and likely get any role or achievement through "cheating" (that's what they think "DEI" is), and how minorities are just generally lower class (I mean, look at those little mexican Cowboys fans), etc. etc. etc. That doesn't make him racist, he's just calling it like it is. Guys in klan robes aren't the danger to America and humanity. Guys like Enchubben are. Because the guys in the klan robes are few, and so over-the-top that they are easy to combat. Guys like Enchubben are your neighbor. Your neighbor who, when seeing my last name on the pleadings of a court case, thinks "DEI hire," and that I am probably an inferior intellect. Maybe he's the judge in my case, and he automatically knocks my credibility down a peg because surely, I got where I got by taking a more qualified white man's position. If Enchubben is a banker, he thinks I am something more of a lending risk because again, while my job title LOOKS nice, I probably really don't deserve it, and I won't last long out there in the real world, where skill and talent make a difference. I'm glad that the Enchubbens of the world are so clueless about their racism and contempt for everyone who is not a white male that they state it openly and plainly. Being able to see the force bent on destroying our society right out there in the open is a helpful advantage for the rest of us. Now . . . to figure out what to do with it. Because the Enchubbens have ALSO made it plain that putting objective truth that runs contrary to their worldview right in front of them . . . does nothing. I keep coming back to "they're going to have to see what a shitshow their 'dream society' turns into when they have their way, and all non-white males are put back under the boot where they belong."
    29 points
  21. My wife had to preach today. It was really fucking hard, she wrestled with her sermon from the beginning, and come Wednesday, it got even harder. Let’s just say she didn’t go the same direction as your priest. She also didn’t go anywhere near “it’s good that he’s dead.” She spoke to bodily autonomy. And how your life, and physical body and existence are a gift from god. And who are we - or anyone - to take away that autonomy, up to and including by ending a life? But don’t think it’s limited to that. Limiting bodily autonomy is a particular problem in these times. Quite a few people thanked her after, and there were some pretty strong emotions. Anyway, preparing and giving that sermon was one of the hardest things she’s ever done, and she left it all on the field. I’m in awe of her, and her ability and courage to listen to the spirit when called, even and especially when it’s hard.
    29 points
  22. An Indian dude, and self-professed Hindu, "talking to" an alleged Christian, about a Nordic pagan afterlife. Makes sense.
    29 points
  23. I wouldn't throw Lacey into this hot mess. Caldwell is the perfect guy to throw in there. He is experienced and experienced on undertalented teams so our shitty OL shouldn't rattle him. I would go into the SHSU game with a plan, communicated to the QBs that Manning will start and get two drives then Caldwell will go in. After that it's based on who plays better. Two QB systems can suck and as they say if you have two then you don't have one. But guess what? We already don't have one right now.
    28 points
  24. What this whole episode has taught me is that there are even more idiots in this country than I had thought. It is embarrassing.
    28 points
  25. I’ll never get over us throwing away this country for Donald fucking Trump.
    27 points
  26. And that's the thing, as an ethnic person, I do not understand. What does making an informed decision look like for you? What are you prioritizing? For me I am prioritizing mine and my family's personal safety first and foremost. Is this person I am voting for going to be hostile to me or people I love? If I can check that box then I move on from there. So obviously for me, a black guy with a teenage daughter, the Republican party is out in box number one. I try to imagine what it would be like to be white, and what my first box would be. I feel like I would still be concerned with my wife and daughter's well being first and foremost. How does one arrive at "I am okay with people like Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes being influential to my kids as long as the party does XYZ". I am being honest when I say I do not understand it. I feel like I would want that gross ideology as far away from my family as I can get it. For us black people, conservatives have been a danger to us since 1865. We can be counted on to support whichever party the conservatives ARE NOT in. The few blacks that vote alongside conservatives are largely the self-loathing blacks(Candace Parker). The rest of us vote for self preservation first, and THEN we look at the issues second.
    27 points
  27. My wife’s having an affair with her boss.
    27 points
  28. Also, is bussing people to the Capitol on January 6 just conversations? By January 2021, if you still were going along with Trump's obvious election lies, you were either an incredibly stupid nutjob who truly thought the country was being stolen or a political opportunist who didn't care what riling up a bunch of your nutjob followers could lead to. This week's whitewashing has been insane.
    27 points
  29. Great news! Dr says the tumor is mostly dead and radiation will finish it off then surgery to remove the mass.
    27 points
  30. They are turning this into “one of the darkest days in American history” and I’m like do you realize what happened 24 years ago today?
    26 points
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