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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. You forgot Phrenology
  2. @Brisketexan, you aren’t wrong. A WWII Veteran once told me a story about killing a German soldier with a bayonet when they ran into each other on foot, quite by accident, in the Ardenne forest. He told me the German was a boy his own age, and that sometimes he prayed for the boy and his family, but didn’t regret it because β€œthat’s why I survived.” For several years I’ve been arguing off and on that a second civil war isn’t some future scenario, but rather an ongoing reality that most of us are just waking up to. It is a civil Cold War that is very gradually warming up as intensity and violent episodes increase in frequency and magnitude. It needs to be understood in those terms and contested in those terms. But we also need maintain the moral clarity to see who has the agency and understanding in this conflict, who doesn’t, and how those people got left behind. If we can’t tell the difference we give up any hope of a world worth living in when the dust settles.
  3. I would take the over, but at the moment Paxton +5 seems about the right line.
  4. I get it, trust me. That’s my default setting. But I’m trying, Rico.
  5. In all seriousness that is a very broken person whom society has let down. People need community and they need a sense of purpose and belonging to something bigger than themselves. Organized religion, for all of its many flaws, once filled that need. So did bowling leagues and Freemasonry. For some of us, volunteering or work or even this board fills that need. For some of these people MAGA fills that need. I see those people as victims in an epidemic of isolation and loneliness, even if they aren’t blameless. When Talarico was on Rogan he said something to the effect that you can only love god as much as you love the person who you love the least. That’s a a Christian perspective. But regardless of the Christianity involved, can we honestly look at that person and not see someone in pain? I can’t.
  6. It wasn’t. That’s the kind of high value partnership you still have to pay for. That is extremely well put. Good post.
  7. Do you think that’s still true? Over the weekend I used Google Geminiβ€˜s deep research function with an intentionally vague prompt to test capabilities when given a complex market research and analysis task. What it produced, along with the methodology it used, were on par with a two person MBA team with 3-4 years of work experience assigned to a McKinsey consulting project and supervised by a partner: the facts were correct and abundant, the strategic insight was superficial and demonstrated no ability to discern counterfactual industry knowledge, but overall the output was very interesting and modestly useful, like a very high quality, custom-built Wikipedia entry. what used to cost $200-300k and 6 weeks can now we delivered in 30 mins
  8. Welp, the guy that proclaimed himself a fascist has been fired. He then set up some kind of Temu GoFundMe to raise $15k, on account of having been β€œFired for My Political Beliefs” He has raised $21k so far, and the comments are … interesting. Christ is King, Retards!
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  10. Kama Sutra, A Tale of Love. fun fact- that movie was directed by Mira Nair, the mother of NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
  11. Is there a way to make it smell like Indira Varma’s thong? That seems preferable.
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  13. Fleshing out the point for clarity: For various reasons the Federal government wanted to build bases in the south. Politicians wanted to name those southern bases after confederates to garner support from southern people, who had been lied to systematically about the past. Part of the β€œlost cause” myth involved rehabbing some pretty terrible officers like Bragg and Hood (who were reviled in their own time and survived the war to die in or near poverty) into heroes. So, when the politicians told the war department and the army to name bases after traitors, the army gave them bases named after the men whose mistakes and failures were key moments in losing the war. Good bull.
  14. When the army does it, it’s irony. When the local school board does it, it’s ignorance.
  15. Multiple can be true at the same time. It’s widely understood why they named the bases after confederate generals. But naming them after two southern generals who were both famous and had been reconned by tradition into something other than the failures both on and off the battlefield they weee understood to be in their own lives is exactly the kind of ironic genius that institutional bureaucracy produces when politicians force it to something repellent and contrary to its mission. Are you honestly saying that naming bases after John Bell Hood and Braxton fucking Bragg were good faith attempts to honor the gallant conduct of the confederate forces? Come on man. That’s Lost Cause bullshit.
  16. I am like 85% sure that naming the southern bases after John Bell Hood and Braxton Bragg was done to poke fun at the south.
  17. I’m just glad the children are gone, right @greggym?
  18. Of course this is very silly, but how common do people think bar fights are? Of course there’s occasional pushing and shoving. I think I have seen a total of fewer than 20 actual fights inside bars in my entire life, and I was literally a bouncer in Texas for 5 years.
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