Posts posted by softlynow
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2 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said: As a country mouse, y'all ain't the only ones noticing. AR-15, III-ers, Molon Abe iterations and Punisher truck decals which used to be ubiquitous are getting rarer, if not completely disappearing, too.
This is true even in Montgomery County. I've noticed the rate of cars ornamented with such shit dropping from 80% to about 75%.
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12 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:What? No.
One of the weirdest things about this thread is the conflation of empathy, which is merely an effort to understand and accept the reality of another person’s experience and view of the world with some kind of performance, like an admission or apology or explanation or whatever. It’s just super odd.
Considering how little I've posted on this thread, you'll forgive me if I feel you've missed the mark here. Generally, I feel, any person/entity that reverses course first admits, at least internally, to a misstep. That's what I meant. Putting Dem strategists in the stocks, while certainly amusing, and probably cathartic for some, would accomplish very little.
Edited to add: I re-read my post you quoted, and, yeah, I stated that poorly.
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4 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:
Marrying the wrong person is the number one financial mistake for men in their 30s and 40s and dealing with custody issues, child support, and any other financial impacts that come from the result (losing house, alimony etc.)
My firm's bottom line is counting on this to continue. But I feel that a bet made on the premise "pussy is undefeated" is just good analytics.
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1 minute ago, LCHorn said:
It’s also one of the things that @Bozo_Casanova has repeated here and on other threads-we don’t have a great solution for the Jacob Savages of the world but it they will clearly vote against us if we paint them as racist asshole incels instead of admitting “yeah, you got a raw deal in some respects.”
They'll still vote against the Dems even if you make admissions and show empathy, but yeah, the first step is admitting the problem/failure.
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24 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
- I very much do blame our current situation on affluent white progressives for abandoning majoritarian middle class economic interests in favor of narrow social issues and reinforcing their own economic security and social status.
The boldest points to a more interesting discussion than whether the obvious has happened. How does the Democratic Party put supporting the middle class economically at the center of its messaging? When it comes to 30-something white men, I don't think paid maternity leave, health care, increasing the minimum wage, clean energy, expanding child tax credits, and the like have or are going to resonate with the brosephs swayed by Rogan or Jordan Peterson to vote for billionaire tax cuts. Those policies may help them (health insurance is pretty fucking importany, clean energy efforts lead to good jobs, etc.) but the guys we're talking about are going to need those policies dressed up with MMA stars holding some guns and/or enticing ladies with BBLs and tits for them to give a shit.
Like I said, I don't think we need to argue whether they were "lost." Election results and Rogan's gigantic contract tells us they are. What's next? As someone who never, not for even one minute, thought Ayn Rand had something interesting to say, this "lost generation" is simply not my people. You seem to be raising your hand saying these are your folks. How do you think progressives get a couple percentage points of them to even listen to someone outside the meathead right?
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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Well, the first parties injured here would be the techbros and oligarchs, with follow-on effects for the rest of us.
So, yeah, I would expect some sort of government supported wealth-preservation strategy for them.
PPP2 and CARES2 will be huge! Subsequent 15% mortgage rates will force everyone into 60 year notes. Serfdom for most incoming.
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3 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:
I don’t know where to put this so I guess I’m gonna put it here.
Waiting to pick up a part that I ordered online at a Ford dealership, I overheard one of those service-intake guys discussing his knowledge bomb about Bill and Melinda Gates.Apparently, we have all been as he put it “men in blacked” because Bill and Melinda Gates were actually murdered by ‘a tribe back in the day’. He remembers it (I don’t know how he escaped Will Smith and especially Tommy Lee Jones … this was in San Antonio after all) because ‘the President had to get involved’
Why were they murdered? Because the tribe members’ kids kept dying due to the vaccine (which he never specified) that Bill and Melinda Gates were giving administering.
He then challenged his coworkers to go look up Melinda Gates… well actually not. He never used Melinda Gates in his whole truth tellings. He just said ‘his wife.’
He challenged them to look her up because as his theory goes, she is actually being played by Robin Williams who isn’t dead but is playing her as a role / in disguise.So that happened. That really f’in happened.
This man is allowed to hold gainful employment. He walks amongst us people.
This is the kind of idiocy that Trumpism encourages. This man has no shame in espousing his completely bashit theory.
Worse still, no one at his job called him out on his obviously stupidity.
This is why we don’t deserve democracy.I've heard better consipracy theories on campus.
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16 teams, keep the top 5 conf winners bit.
Sure we'll arguments that some 4 loss team should get in over a 3-loss squad with an aggy or ND like schedule. But the easy answer is: don't lose 1/3rd of your games if you want in the playoff.
All these arguments about schedules and realignment are boring. Ain't none of that going to happen.
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11 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
I would argue that you can't fix stupid period and we should stop trying, at least from the standpoint of trying to make them understand facts and reality. I don't know how you go about the process to open their eyes and, honestly, I don't see it as my job, nor do I have the patience. Sadly, I think the most effective way may just be pain.
Dems haven't really tried. They should do that. Every time they're on tv, social media, in a public setting with a microphone in their face, some version of "Donald Trump is a kiddie rapist" should be uttered. Every surrogate should do the same. Every person and organization lobbying for their vote should be told "not until you publicly state 'Donald Trump is a kiddie rapist.'" Every ad they run should end "paid for by [candidate], and remember Donald Trump is a kiddie rapist."
This isn't a hard sell. It even fits on a bumper sticker. Trump Raped Kids. TRK should be a hashtag that trends every fucking day until people get it, and continue every fucking day until that shit dies.
Ultimately, you're correct: we have chosen the way of pain. While they're far less culpable than GQPers, Dems have played their part in the decision, pathetic losers that they are.
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10 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
it's weird that it is what you would deduce from what I wrote. i am not referencing any political party in my statements. this is a fundamental failure at the chromosomal level. we need to figure out what the fuck happened so your children and grandchildren don't repeat or perpetuate the same bullshit.
I know you're not. I'm pointing out that there are some very politically important facts that people do not know, and a whole group of morons whose chances of success as a group would be immensely improved if they did know, yet here we are.
You're pointing out something that isn't going to change. It's important to know - there are a lot of idiots out there - but you can't just fix stupid you have to account for it.
I see the Democratic Party like an organization helmed by a never-ending series of David McWilliams, John Mackovic, Charlie Strong and Tom Herman. You get a 1990, 1996 and a 2018 type of success every now and then, but those are immediately followed by disappointment and despair. The fact that they have no plan to make sure the electorate knows that a kiddie rapist is the fucking president is like going 4-7 with Ricky Williams on your roster or losing 66-3 (also with Ricky Williams on your roster) or elevating Bobby Jack Wright to DC or losing to Rice . . . On second thought maybe John Mackovic is the Democratic Party in human form.
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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
not trying to give anyone cover who doesn't deserve it, but perhaps they didn't know the connection. seems like an amazingly large number of people are just woefully unaware of who potus is and what is his past was. it's something i may never be able to rectify in my brain, but somehow there are two (and likely scores more) streams of information out there and one of them is a complete vacuum of all the misdeeds and misstatements this man has made. I hope someone out there smarter than me is dedicating their life to studying this and a brings a reasonable explanation that I can understand and digest, sometime before I die. that'd be great. kthxbai
You say all that like Democrats are pathetic at messaging. Who would ever believe such a thing?
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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:
He fucked the OL and he knows it and bad enough that he can't really coach around it. He almost fucked Arch in the process.
What happens in this off-season will tell us a lot.
Not really. It will tell us whether we get a chance to show up unprepared and/or crater in another big game like this, or whether we’re an irrelevant mid-pack squad fighting for 6th place in the conference. That’s it. Sarks ability in these games is a known factor. Incapable.
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Even Jerry Jones isn’t that dumb. NFL?They’ve got plenty of coordinators from playoff teams to poach. We’re stuck with this B- choker until the wheels come off like they finally did for Franklin. 8-4 this year, probably improve to 9-10 wins next year. NIL and the portal will keep us with a talent level good enough to keep Sark in the 8-10 wins next year range, until he totally fucks up roster management. Hopefully, I’m wrong, but we could be doing this dance a few more years.
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1 hour ago, bluto said:
covid didn’t exist In the Woodlands in the first place.
It sort of did in TW, and very much so at my Episcopal church. Magnolia, on the other hand, heads totally in the sand. Same with East County, but they don't understand the concept of communicable disease, so that was expected.
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:
That definitely had an affect. Shit, it did for us. We didn't really start attending church again till about a year ago. We got too comfy in our lazy Sunday mornings, just coffee and conversation. It was a good distraction, but at the same time, we ended up realizing that we were missing something. And I'd say church services themselves STILL haven't really gotten over COVID. A lot of leftovers (communion servers wear gloves, people don't hold hands during the Lord's Prayer, lotta little things like that). There's a confluence of factors, to be sure.
I have no doubt in Austin some of the distancing era protocols linger. In The Woodlands we've been done with COVID for a couple years.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
"Drop in US religiosity among largest in world"
Massive drop - 17 points - from 2015 to 2025. Gosh. What major trend took place from 2015 to present. Could it be the rise of the MAGA movement, which has thoroughly coopted Christianity?
In America, 2025, if someone says "I'm a Christian," that is regularly perceived as "I'm MAGA." It has become, first and foremost, a political label. And . . . among people inclined to actually FOLLOW the tenets of Christianity, a most distasteful one. So, in a country where being "religious" largely means "I'm MAGA," it's not a shock to see a big drop in subscription to that religious belief (which remains our culturally dominant religion).
TLDR: Nothing is worse for American Christianity than American "Christians."
I wonder whether COVID played a larger part in this. For months people didn't get to/have to go to church, and I'm betting a large number of folks just didn't miss it, or when they filled that time with other stuff, stuck with their new hobbies.
Do we have numbers on the denominations of Christianity most affected?
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15 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
For at least ten years there have been "evolutionary psychology" weirdos who are obsessed with fertility rates and constantly bemoan that society moved away from impregnating girls the instant they begin ovulating.
Related to that topic, does LonghornLaw/Laphraig/other handles I forgot post here anymore?
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17 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Of course it’s not enough. But you can’t have one without the other.
Lol touchè.
But here’s the thing- all this whining doesn’t seem grounded in fact. I’ll ask you the same two questions I’ve asked others:1) what did the GOP gain?
2) what did it cost them?
In the before times, this is a Dem win. Now? It's noise. If, for some unknown reason, Trump et al. are not planning to destroy the integrity of the '26 and '28 elections, this was a fine result.
I get the whining, to a certain extent. Some felt that maybe prolonging the shutdown until the pain spread to everyone would stymie the coup. Wishful thinking.
Trump’s America
in Cloak Room
Scarcity for the donor class driving up the price, which goes straight to Trumpco. Always be grifting.