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Goredho

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  1. @NowThis is funny.
  2. Knowing the prevailing mindset here, and the prevailing mindset among conservatives that I know, I just think the opposing party is dead to these people. I don’t think there is anything that can be said or done to convince them otherwise. These people see an R or D and their decision is effectively made, and little else matters. I think Talarico’s message would need to come from an independent, or perhaps a new party founded by people who are eschewing both parties. If he could find a like mind from the Republican Party and get some monied people behind them, start a new party focused on de-escalation, unity, preserving the Republic and populist economics. That might pull a decent number of people from both parties that currently have been essentially forced to choose between two warring factions. The problem when people make their decision between R or D right now, they fall into an information bubble provided by that side that has more to do with motivating them to join the fight than it has with promoting any sort of common ground. You are presented with the best of “your” side and the worst of the “other” side. And outside forces (Russia, others) contribute their weight to ensuring that half the people view the other half as a mortal threat and vice versa. I fully know one or both parties would be trying to undermine these efforts of a new, upstart party and it very well might fail. But the alternative is a continuation of current trends, which likely means the extinction of the Democratic Party and 20th century liberalism. It might mean worse than that.
  3. While I applaud the sentiments in the post (didn't watch the video), I don't think that is a message preachable by someone with a D or R associated with their name. I mean, there is no way half the country doesn't see it as completely disingenuous.
  4. You are going to give Imma an idea. Dumping fees for bodies at Town Lake.
  5. Doesn't ayahuasca make you lose control of your bowels and shit all over yourself? I think we've seen quite enough of that from Arch already.
  6. We've got 3 games of really subpar to abjectly shitty QB play after which Arch is mopey and says, "I played poorly. I've got to play better." It doesn't take much of that for people to lose faith. And by people, I don't mean fans who are always going to be ignorantly fickle. I mean coaches and teammates. And if a head coach insists on testing the definition of insanity by trotting the same non-performing player out there as a starter without seeing if someone else can be more than shitty on Saturdays, well, it doesn't take much of that for players, other coaches, recruits and those fickle fans to lose faith in the head coach, too. Compare Arch's postgame demeanor and subsequent performance after subpar/shitty play in these 3 games to this guy's. If this is an example of the intangible "it" that the best players have, Arch right now is a void of "it". I wish it was different for him.
  7. I think you announce publicly that Arch will start, but his backup will be prepared to play early in if Arch does not perform to a starter's standard. And fucking mean it. Give Arch the warning, the chance to man up and play but be prepared to see if someone else does not suck in game situations.
  8. This should really be everyone’s response and the end of the discussion.
  9. You dumb mother fucker. You need a new pastime because you obviously don’t know shit about football.
  10. You never forget a first love.
  11. The virus, its mutating.
  12. Everyone so eager to pounce on the thing that validates existing views. HE'S ANTIFA! HE'S GROYPER!
  13. Fuck you for making me aware of what #MomTalk is.
  14. Correct, not overt. Its not so much that oh, there would be a neon MORMON sign over the mantle as all the pictures of families engaged in activities would show activities provided through the church. They would be talking about their kid's mission, their work for the church, their kid's baptism, social functions and sports leagues, all organized by their church. If you are a mormon in Utah, you're a mormon in Utah. You aren't just a casual member of that church. Your life is centered around it.
  15. Yeah, other thing I saw in her FB feed was one post where she was praising Tyler (the dude in custody) for his 4.0 GPA.
  16. No religion in Utah is sorta significant. It means you are a minority and isolated (not intentionally, but just because the mormon to your left and right is involved in their church 5 evenings a week). We lived in SLC city a couple years when our kids were young, I felt more isolated there in a suburb of densely packed houses than I do in a town population 173.
  17. That kid could be either super far left or right of center in Utah.
  18. I agree. Someone in the king's court was assassinated. If he can't administer justice for that, it kind of undermines his shadow of power and authority. He was always going to be directly involved as a figurehead.
  19. I wish Charlie Kirk were alive. I wish he was less divisive when he was alive. I wish people would eschew being radicalized to political violence, whether they are drawn to it from the left or right. I wish there wasn't a machine that has been erected to mass produce them. I wish we had leaders who were more intent on fixing vs exploiting -- maybe even engineering -- our problems. I wish the people who are using this sad event as a platform for moral or ideological oneupmanship could see they are part of the problem, again, whether they are drawn to it from the right or left. I wish everyone would calm the fuck down, focus on their proximal lives and concentrate on the shit they can directly control, affect and make better. I wish I had taken my own advice sooner. I wish Charlie Kirk had, too. I wish Charlie Kirk's daughters had their dad. I wish the dad's of the kids shot at the Catholic school in Minneapolis 2 weeks ago and the public school in Evergreen, CO yesterday had their kids. I wish this world was worthy of my own kids. That is all.
  20. This 100%. This is how you become what they say you are.
  21. Assuming that is true, what are you going to do with that knowledge? Like, are you someone with expertise and authority to be in a position to do anything about it? Or are you just a dude who likes to watch YouTube about UAP? And if it's really an internal technology that we possess but have been keeping quiet, how is it in our best interests to advertise our otherworldly amazeballs technology to the world? The government holds secrets all the time. Rightfully so. We don't release nuclear secrets because someone feels it's their right to know and screams about it on YouTube or in congress. Which also undermines that there is this vast government conspiracy to keep you (as important to the balance of the world as you apparently are) in the dark. When real secrets have been leaked, like how to make nukes to the USSR, the people doing the leaking weren't free to just keep posting YouTube videos about it. They were executed.
  22. Do you believe the government is engaged in a conspiracy to withhold information from the public about aliens and/or how we are outclassed technologically by some unknown entity?
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