Posts posted by atomheartbevo
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19 minutes ago, American Swindle said:
You're right, my bad. I'm not entrenched in the board as much as others and mainly hang in the Cloak Room so in all honesty I'm not informed as to the political leanings of everyone on the board that do not post in the CR.
It has been my experience that the CR seems to be more progressive than conservative or libertarian based on the most active users. Call it my opinion from my limited experience.
If you go back to Shaggy, or even before Shaggy, you'd see that plenty of us were conservative, and more than a few were libertarians, but that's to be expected in online communities made up of Texans, and that probably trends older than many internet communities. Plus, libertarians seem to be overly represented in online communities as well, and I can't explain that, but I've seen it since my BBS and usenet days. My guess is that it's the nature of libertarians being overly represented in the IT/high-tech industry compared to the rest of America in general.
Of course we will seem more progressive at times or in certain topics - most of us have college degrees. Take a red state like Oklahoma. Go to places in Oklahoma like Tulsa and OKC where there's more folks with college degrees, and you'll see them trending more towards the middle than to the hard right like their relatives in rural areas.
I'm still waiting on my grant to study it, but I have a theory that Surly, and previously Shaggy, see much more activity in subforms like CR, Movies, Music, hobbies, etc., when the football program has a dumpster fire going in the coaching ranks.
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1 hour ago, American Swindle said:
What tribe am I a part of that spiked the football? The entire Cloak Room is dominated by mainly one ideology.
Know how I know you know very little about your fellow posters?
There's a shit-ton of us here who are/were formerly Republicans/conservatives, and if you had followed some of us through various sites, you'd have seen quite a few of us going from raging Republicans to independents, and even liberals/Democrats for some.
Imagine that, a website focused on following the sports teams of a particular university, composed mainly of people who attended said university who, shockingly, have viewpoints that evolve over time.
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7 hours ago, Casual Encounter said:
Maybe you and your wife can reach out to Jones and see if he’ll “adequately fill that role”. Sorry Samples turned you down but not all dudes are into that sort of thing.
1 hour ago, Llogg said:you are seriously fucking terrible at this.
You have to admit that the username checks out.
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17 minutes ago, hornfan785 said:31 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:So we never did find out who went back for the injured assassin in episode 5 did we? That’s an odd loose end.
I thought it was pretty obvious it was Moff Gideon.
The image of the leg matched Mando. I know we discussed this like 10 pages back and somebody posted it.
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12 minutes ago, workswithseed said:
I get that, but you're buying the gas itself. It'd be like paying a tax to use the graphite in your pencil after buying it.
They have to pay for the roads. You want to drive your car, you're gonna pay that tax. The alternative is every year, you pull in somewhere and somebody checks your odometer, compares it to last year's reading, and then charges you for the mileage. You as a drive are going to pay for using your car.
Sparky McSkintightpants who rides a bike everywhere isn't paying that tax.
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17 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:
I think we will have some small localized uprisings in the rural parts that are so deep red. It's not just the olds who are full blown trumpkins, but it's all the kids too, from high school up. Young guys with used diesel duallies with stars and bars and trump pissing on libs stickers in their windows. I can see them acting much like the Klan has always done in east Texas...but it won't just be POC they will target.
It won't last long, it won't be organized, and it will be put down rather quickly.
There's some nuts, sure, but an actual uprising? Against what? The parts of the country you are talking about are so remote/red, who are they are going rise up against? Are they going to drive to an urban area, or perhaps the nearest state that voted blue and start shooting?
Let's say they show up at the local offices of whatever Democrat is running for whatever offices, whether it's local, state, or federal, and start shooting?
How does that end for them?
Spoiler alert: They will most likely die. No matter how red the area is, the local, county, state, and fed government (and law enforcement) are not going to allow Bubba Dipshit to go around shooting up shit because he's angry Trump lost. The moment Bubba Dipshit starts sending rounds into an office or a crowd or whatever, he is considered a 100% threat by law enforcement and the local, county, state, and fed government.
17 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:But the bigger thing to deal with is the lingering wounded pride of having their dear leader toppled. I just think how demoralized Germany was after WW1 and they were so ripe for someone like Hitler to come along and stoke those fires into Nazism.
So short term, there will be some localized damage, but whoever does take over after trump is going to need some helluva plan to show all Americans we can solve our problems and make the country (even world) a better place for all of us, not just the elite few.
We are less than four years removed from a Kenyan, Indonesian, Muslim, Atheist, Socialist, Marxist, Communist Community Organizer from Chicago named Barrack Hussein Obama, and most of those dipshits lived for 8 years under him, without rising up in rebellion.
When the Democrats win next fall, and these idiots discover that very little will change for them, and in fact, things may improve, as trade relations are repaired (assuming they can be repaired, Trump really fucked us with the Chinese), perhaps better medical care (j/k), and the the sun still comes up, and Rush Limbaugh is still bleeting on the radio and Brian Kilmeade is still pushing his insane theories about genetics and Tucker Carlson is still acting like he was trying to fart silently and instead sharted.
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2 hours ago, workswithseed said:
Why is it that you can pay taxes on a car once, but a piece of land you have to keep being taxed for? Never made sense to me.
Maybe you leave your car parked in a showroom 24/7, but plenty of us use our vehicles, and we are paying taxes as a result of that.
https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2019/jul/motor-fuels-taxes.php
QuoteIn fiscal 2018, Texas motor fuels taxes brought in $3.7 billion, about 6.6 percent of all state tax collections. In that year, they were the state’s fourth-largest source of tax revenue after the sales tax, the motor vehicle sales and rental tax and the franchise tax.
The majority of our motor fuels tax revenue is used for transportation projects. In Texas, gasoline and diesel fuel are subject to a 20-cent tax per gallon. In addition, the federal government imposes taxes of 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon on diesel fuel.
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On 12/23/2019 at 9:20 PM, sachick said:
Got a DNA test done on Toby. When we picked him up we were told he was full blooded shih tzu. We were paying $100 to a guy in a trailer in Taylor so I wasn’t betting on that being true. Well three years later and he’s 27lbs. No way he’s full Shih-Tzu. Got results back and he’s mixed with one other breed. Any guesses?


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Edited by atomheartbevo
14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:OK, it's possible his skill wasn't wholly related to his LEO background, but regardless, he did a good job bringing that particular bad guy down. I don't think there's any harm in acknowledging this.
If it was only one shot, which it seems like it was, it was an amazingly accurate shot, given the circumstances (including the fact that the murderer was oriented towards him), and it showed a helluva lot of discipline on his part.
I was thinking more in terms of many LEOs would have put several rounds into the guy or in his direction, and I shudder to think what Bubba and his buddies in the pews would have done.
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Just now, cactusflinthead said:
He was on the radar. But, who is a shooter and a threat and who is a homeless person you want to try to reach?
I expect things will be much different next Sunday for a lot of churches.
It can be handled as "you appear to be new here and maybe in need of help, and we are happy you chose to worship with us, can we introduce you to <insert other pastor/deacon/whoever here> and can we pray with you privately, and maybe help you if you have any needs, we have a lot of resources".
That's how I've seen it done.

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Again, what do they revolt against? In the areas you are talking about, there's very few things that they can revolt against, that won't drastically hurt them in some way.
If some little area of deep-red folks declare that they are seceding from the US, then the county or state has their power and phone lines shut off, along with gasoline, diesel, natural gas, etc., and that little area will discover that life isn't pleasant when they can't watch their Hannity and Tucker, or drive their dually down to the gas station on the highway to get their smokes. And Momma won't be able to keep her insulin refrigerated or charge her Rascal if the power is out, so that's not gonna go over well.
And if they try to ignore a group of locals murdering minorities and Democrats, then the state yanks their authority, and the state and feds come down on those local cops and civilians hard, and none of those cops wants to see the inside of a prison just to Bubba can murder a black guy or a lesbian
Here in 2020, you're simply not going to find any states who are going to let a bunch of locals go murdering folks they don't like, because, putting aside the criminal (and moral) issues, it's a challenge to the authority of the state.
Not many though. None of these fuckers are going after Democrats right now, even though Trump keeps telling them that the Democrats are running a coup on him, and that the Democrats are gonna try and rig the election.