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  1. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    Except they keep resisting overtures to find a compromise candidate. Every time. They don’t want to work with the Dems on it. They’re no sane either!

    Most Republicans in the House want to send aide to Ukraine. It’s just Johnson (I.e. Trump) and a handful of extremists blocking it. The thing is that any Republican in the House who cooperates with the Dems and goes against Trump on anything will get primaried and lose their seat. So even if they’re sane and moderate they can’t do anything about it because teaming up with the Dems would be a political death sentence. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, 'stache said:

    Whatever sick shit you’re into, there’s a cave painting or ancient papyrus scroll depicting it, I guarantee. It’s the human condition.

    I don’t think they had stepsisters stuck in clothes dryers back then. 

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  3. 14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    This.  This is what will happen.  Lots of people will try to fill his shoes, all will fail spectacularly.  There will be continuing shit as you note.

    It's still shitty, and problematic....but the threat will no longer be existential.

    It will be kind of amusing watching Don Jr. try to fill Trump’s shoes as his successor. He’s every bit as much of a shitty person but with none of the grotesque carnival-barker/snake-oil-salesman charisma that his crooked father possesses. 

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  4. On 4/8/2024 at 5:19 PM, Satchel said:

    It’s annoying to watch her be so willfully ignorant. She’s stupid too.

    I’m not watching that dumb cunt speak. 

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  5. My god. I was searching for a clip from Frasier, the original Cheers spinoff, and came across this clip from the reboot. Holy crap, it looks even worse than I imagined. Does my necro-bump confirm that the show no longer has any apologists? This looks awful.

    (Although Lilith — still would. Don’t judge.)

     

  6. 6 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Maybe you just missed a lesson or two because it seems fairly straight forward 

     

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    Ftr:

    Revelation 13:16-17

    New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

    16 Also, it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be given a brand on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the brand, that is, the name of the beast or the number for its name.

    The chapter concludes with verse 18:

    18 This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number for a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six.

    There’s a footnote to that:

    ”Other ancient authorities read six hundred sixteen

    The full chapter:

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation 13&version=NRSVUE

  7. 3 hours ago, 'stache said:

    From my office. I had a clear view from my window and had my glasses. We had 95% here and it got dim and spooky for a bit. Was kinda cool.

    Ah. You watched a partial eclipse through your office window. No wonder you didn’t get it. Sorry you missed the totality. It’s a completely different experience. There's no comparison. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Dont mistake stimulant fueled nighttime rage with "stress.”

    He also geneuinely beleives it's fake news that not everyone loves him. It's all a minority of deep state actors keeping him from power and adoration. I wouldn't try to justify the behavior of a narcissist through the lense of normal humans. Cognitive Dissonance is the most powerful force in the universe. 

    Judge him through the lens of a narcissist whose view of his own importance, strength, ability, intelligence, and capability is utterly divorced from reality. I’m pretty sure he genuinely feels the threat of potential jail time for his (many) crimes. 

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  9. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I think his narcissism doesn’t allow him to stress. 

    I think his narcissism causes him a lot of stress because most Americans constantly refuse to shower him with the love and praise and adoration and unquestioned admiration he thinks he deserves. Look at how the North Koreans (that he sees) treat Kim Jong Un. He genuinely believes that’s how Americans should see him. It drives him crazy that most of us don’t. 

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  10. 16 hours ago, washparkhorn said:

    In the “no shit” category - lower IQ related to conservative beliefs:

    Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment

    Tobias Edwards, Alexandros Giannelis , Emily A. Willoughby , James J. Lee

    A B S T R A C T

    Intelligence has been found to be associated with a range of political beliefs including liberalism (Carl, 2014), anti-racism (Deary, Batty, & Gale, 2008), support for the EU and NATO (Oskarsson et al., 2014), free speech (De Keersmaecker, Bostyn, Van Hiel, & Roets, 2021), tolerance (Lasker & McNaughton, 2022) and anti-authoritarianism (Choma & Hanoch, 2017).

    Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs. 

    This may suggest intelligence directly alters our political views. Alternatively, the association may be confounded or mediated by socioeconomic and environmental factors. 

    We studied the effect of intelligence within a sample of over 300 biological and adoptive families, using both measured IQ and polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment. We found both IQ and polygenic scores significantly predicted all six of our political scales. 

    Polygenic scores predicted social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within-families. Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. 

    Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs.

    Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs.

    I wonder if there’s a correlation between intelligence and the responsible practice of citing one’s sources when posting on the internet. 

  11. 13 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Aside from an hour long totality being silly and making no sense at all, why wouldn’t all totalities along the center line be the same length of time every eclipse?  Isn’t it just the speed of the moon and rotation of the earth?  

    The proximity of the moon to the earth depending on its orbit I’m sure is a factor.

    (Oh, already covered I see.)

  12. 9 hours ago, Satchel said:

    Somebody help me understand how DEI causes injury to those in the dominant culture college campuses in Texas? 

    Whitey doesn’t like seeing black people being treated equally. They especially don’t like running into black people who are smarter than they are. They really, really, really get freaked out about the possibility of getting beat out for the affections of a white woman by a black man. 

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