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Goredho

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  1. I know its not the present topic, but I don't understand the bizarre prevalence of bad plastic surgery among the denizens of the MAGAsphere. There could be a whole thread about the physical transformation that these people have undergone. It almost seems like a pathological right of passage for attaining some rank within the group. Like a demonstration of one's belief and loyalty to the cause. Like gang tattoos for the right combination of sociopathy and narcissism that allows someone rise to the top of a giant heap of gaping assholes.
  2. I'll be voting against Trump on November 5th because of about 85% of this: Project 2025 envisions widespread changes to economic and social policies and the federal government and its agencies. The plan proposes taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Commerce, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), dismantling the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and reducing environmental and climate change regulations to favor fossil fuels.[16][19] The blueprint seeks to institute tax cuts,[20] but its writers disagree on protectionism.[21] It recommends abolishing the Department of Education, whose programs would be transferred or terminated.[22][23] Funding for climate research would be cut,[24] and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be made less independent, stopped from funding research with embryonic stem cells or using quotas to promote equal participation by women.[25][26] The project seeks to cut Medicare and Medicaid,[27][28] and urges the government to explicitly reject abortion as health care.[29][30] The project seeks to eliminate coverage of emergency contraception[27] and use the Comstock Act to prosecute those who send and receive contraceptives and abortion pills.[30][31] It proposes criminalizing pornography,[32][33] removing legal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,[33][34] and terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion(DEI) programs[5][34] and affirmative action[35] by having the DOJ prosecute "anti-white racism".[36] The Project recommends the arrest, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants living in the country.[37][38][39] It proposes deploying the military for domestic law enforcement.[40] It promotes capital punishment and the speedy "finality" of those sentences.[41][42] You may or may not be a racist bigot in your personal dealings with others. I don't know you, so I have no clue. But if you know and care for a Latino, an African American, a homosexual, a woman, an elderly person who hasn't attained great wealth or any children who must rely on public schools for their education, then you will be voting for the quality of those people's lives to be reduced. In my life, that is well above 50% of the people I know and love. So I would encourage you to think about that between now and November 5th. Think about the line between your vote to those people you know who would be directly and negatively impacted by the societal changes Trump and his controllers are poised to make. Consider if their hardship is really what you want to be responsible for ushering forth. If after such consideration you still feel like such an agenda is what you want to support, then you still may not be a racist or a bigot. I don't know you, so I have no clue. But you will have certainly proven to be a sociopath who cares about little beyond yourself. Is that who you wanted to be when you grew up?
  3. Diatribe.
  4. Just saying there are more embarrassing and salacious details that can/will be exposed. That’s a teaser. The tip of the proverbial big black iceberg.
  5. That’s just a warning shot. People don’t go to those places to just watch porn, especially in the age of the intardnet when you can watch all the porn you want for free at home.
  6. Somewhere on another plane of existence, YGIFs/Lobo is looking at this thread like…
  7. Holy shit, the Surly legal eagles ain’t got nothin’ on the Surly O&G scholars. Stay loquacious, my dudes.
  8. Live by the tard, die by the tard.
  9. I agree. I will be sitting down with my 16 year old this year to review my ballot, research candidates and measures I’m not familiar with and fill it out so he’s familiar with the process of how to not just be a voter, but how to be an informed voter. Or as some would characterize such citizens: a threat.
  10. They can ignore the effects of climate change, gut the EPA, and thus indirectly increase risks for home insurance companies so that they no longer can offer affordable rates or have to avoid insuring homes in drastically affected parts of the country like Florida or California. Oh, wait…
  11. You make it sound like polling is to politics as $9.95 newsletters are to college football.
  12. Pessimism, realism. Optimism, naïveté. Again, our intelligent species has been around for 200,000 years on a single planet. The universe has existed for 13.7 billion years. The average star is orbited by 10 planets, the average galaxy contains 100 billion stars, and there are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. And you are optimistically postulating that the only path for an intelligent species is inexorably forward to greater achievement, overcoming every existential obstacle encountered every time to the end of time, even as their problems become planetary in scope. And yet, for all those places and for all that time for intelligent life to birth and grow and surpass our own limits and make itself known, none has. The only evidence we have of an intelligent life in the universe is our own. If what you are suggesting is accurate, the universe should be overflowing with intelligent life that we couldn't help but observe in some way. But we don't. We just observe a vast and empty void. I'm all for the looking, and if we wind up with scientific observations that suggest a different conclusion is more likely, I'm happy to change my views. But what is most likely given what we know at this time is that simple life is likely out there, and fairly common. But intelligent life is rare and either hasn't developed or has hit some cap in its advancement before its disappearance from the universe.
  13. I had almost the exact same experience.
  14. I pretty much completely disagree. Civilizations collapse all the time, generally with a big dose of hubris and self-inflicted wounds. Look at Easter Island, the Anasazi, Mayans, Incans, Norse/Vikings, etc... All of those people had a chance to course correct or invent solutions to the problems they were faced with and did not. Within about 200,000 years, humans went from cavemen to being able to annihilate all life on our home planet save for maybe a few hardy cockroaches. Our population growth is outpacing our ability to solve the problems associated with overpopulation. And we're not close to putting a foot on our nearest neighboring planet in our solar system, let alone reaching across the galaxy to contact anything else that may be out there. Not because we aren't capable of fixing our problems or developing technology given an infinite amount of time, but because we'll argue over what the fuck is a problem right up until it becomes insurmountable and takes us out. Could another form of life follow a different trajectory? Sure, but there's no evidence of it. I believe the far most likely scenario is that primordial life is fairly common, but intelligent life gets snuffed out long before it could really make itself known in the vast ocean of the Universe.
  15. Gotta get my 2:30am cardio in.
  16. I’m starting to think the October surprise in this election cycle will be the lack of an assassination attempt.
  17. I’m trying to do my part!
  18. Gonna be at the Half Step tonight if anyone wants to buy me a drink. Whatcha say, @Nicole44?
  19. Imagine what we could do with the wreath fund!
  20. That’s the big thing to me. The trajectory of our own species show that it’s far more likely that “intelligent” life destroys itself before it learns to conquer the laws of physics and vastness of space.
  21. Hard to know what the real story is. The family of one of the Americans (Tyler Thompson Jr) says that they and their son had no idea he was going to participate in a coup. They say it was sold just as an amazing trip abroad. Maybe, I dunno, but you can help support their fight on their gofundme. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-tylers-freedom-and-safety
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