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  1. Same way they reconcile all the other stupid bullshit they say / believe.
  2. Ha. Similar experience here. I was in maybe 8th or 9th grade and visiting my dad’s family one summer. They lived in a tiny farm town of a few hundred people. I usually hated visiting because that meant spending most of Sunday in a Baptist church with no AC. But there were hot girls in Sunday school so I was looking forward to it this time around. We did a Bible reading where the kids in class took turns stumbling through part of a passage, then passing it to the next kid. It got to me and I read the next few lines (it was probably something about smiting some poor bastards), making sure not to fuck up any of the inane textual bullshit so as not to look dumb in front of the ladies. When I finished, the teacher looked at me and asked “Are you a [surname]?” I answered “Yes. Why?” “Because you sure read like one.” Apparently, my family is famous for being the town literates.
  3. Yeah the questions were strangely arbitrary and specific. The fishing question was limited to the last 5 years, so I got no points on that one despite the fact that I grew up going fishing and used to hunt quite a lot. But several questions (Ever lived around a bunch of dipshits? Ever have a moron for a friend?) were not time-limited, so I got points for spending my toddler years in the rust belt and hanging around with a bunch of neighborhood hoodlums 30+ years ago. Also weird that it asked no questions about non-nuclear family. My dad was in management by the time I could understand what he did for a living. But I have a huge extended family and literally none of my grandparents or aunts / uncles had managerial or professional careers. And probably 50%+ of my cousins are blue collar working class. But frankly the idea of a bubble is stupid and reeks of elite guilt. “You may think the views of rightwing rubes are ignorant and mean-spirited, but maybe you’d change your perspective if you hung out with losers and talked about Jimmie Johnson at the bait shop.” No, not really. I’ve spent plenty of time around angry right-wing rubes, including in church, at IHOP, and at the pond digging night crawlers out of a styrofoam cup. I’ve heard their opinions. I’ve even heard them try to justify those opinions. And it only confirmed my view that they’re ignorant and mean-spirited. The problem isn’t that I haven’t seen their world. Fuck, I spent years in that world and came out the other side. The problem is that they’ve never seen anything but their own little world. It’s the rubes that live in a bubble, not those of us who have seen life in both rural dumbfuckville and more urbane corners of civilization and explicitly chose to stay in the latter.
  4. Sark has been working on this pile of flaming dog shit for THREE YEARS?!?
  5. This reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of how fascism works, in my opinion. The fascist reacts to opposition not because it is a genuine threat, but because it presents an opportunity. The illusion of persecution and struggle against an exaggerated enemy is critical to the fascist mythology. Fear drives support for a strong man, and it must be perpetually stoked. Another way to understand it is pro wrestling. Promoters sell tickets by convincing fans that the challenger is a legitimate threat to the champion. No one would care if there was no struggle, no monster to vanquish. So everyone gets in on the act, talking up the challenger, exaggerating his deeds and inflating his reputation in the eyes of the audience. Then the champ wins and it starts all over again with some new threat. There’s a reason Hitler named his biography “My Struggles.” It’s all crowd control psychology. Trump learned fascism from his time in wrestling and he is a master at it.
  6. Turn off your phone. Wrap in aluminum foil. Tape it up and use a Sharpie to write “NOT AN ANTIFA PHONE” all over it.
  7. I agree, 100%. Unfortunately, it’s the kind of misplaced hypersensitivity on the left that leads morons to vote for Nazis because everything is so “woke.”
  8. You expected this pack of liars to tell the truth?
  9. This. I simply cannot understand the appeal of cultural purity. I think it, like most positions at the heart of modern conservatism, is driven by insecurity. Conservatives are terrified of finding out that what they learned as children might be wrong. They fear adapting. Their brains treat new information as a virus. As soon as they are presented with facts that challenge them to reinterpret the world in a new light, the information immune system in their frightened little minds immediately sets to work rejecting it. “You can’t tell me Christopher Columbus was an asshole! He founded the USA and gave us the Second Amendment in Declaration of Independence!” By far my most common reaction to conservative perspectives is this: Grow up. You’re supposed to be adults. The world is more complicated and diverse and beautiful than you were taught in kindergarten. Time to act like a god damned adult and face facts. Or, you know, maybe vote for a bunch of Nazis because Meemaw and Peepaw never taught you about the Requerimiento and tikka masala.
  10. It hasn’t been signed yet as far as I know, and may not be. This is the Reddit thread I mentioned earlier, where the OP claims to have heard that it will be signed: https://www.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/s/dpynqNUzgl Hopefully, he or she turns out to be wrong.
  11. That video could be a perfect encapsulation of the muddled confusion of the MAGA mind. “It would be better if women were not allowed to get an education.” “Trans people should be left alone and not made fun of just because of who they are…” ”…just like [series of racial slurs].” Was this filmed at Joe Rogan High School?
  12. Username checks out.
  13. According to a post on r/UTAustin, UT will sign the compact. Not a surprise, but still depressing. RIP The University of Texas.
  14. Sounds like your partner’s pet issues are… …trivial. YEEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!
  15. Oops. The Fair disorients me, but y’all are right. Either way, it was by far the most sedate Sooner side of the stadium I’ve ever witnessed in person.
  16. What a weird and glorious Texas-OU game. Usually this game involves tons of big plays, where one side of the stadium is going apeshit and the other is dead silent. It goes back and forth over the course of the game. But not today. We had our moments for sure. But I can’t recall even a single time the north side of the Cotton Bowl erupted into anything more than a mild celebration. OU had no big, momentum-swinging plays. They forced no turnovers. They scored no touchdowns. They blocked no kicks. For a game that was competitive until late, the Sooners did absolutely nothing remarkable. Just a really uninspired performance by the bad guys today. I fucking loved every minute of it.
  17. Yep. We need to make “President Miller” trend ASAP.
  18. Much more reasonable and I don’t think anyone could disagree that there will be a desire for vengeance. Cycles of violence fucking suck. But when you get a chance, read up on the history of this conflict a bit. It’s really only about a century old. This notion of some perpetual clash of cultures stretching back millennia is a propagandist canard.
  19. I’m unfortunately prepared to mark down yet another one on Saturday afternoon.
  20. Of course she’s disappointed now that it’s her kids getting crushed by the Republican bulldozer. But back in November when it was all theoretical and she was promised small tax breaks at the low, low cost of pain and misery to other people, she didn’t hesitate to pull the GOP lever.
  21. “Oh shit, this is really bad! Trump is in charge of the conference’s main session, which all attendees are expected to attend.”
  22. imma’s got tailgate tickets to sell and speaker thieves to track down. He doesn’t have time for the collapse of our republic.
  23. Other than while driving, I rarely sit to listen to podcasts. I play them when I’m in the gym, walking, running, doing chores around the house, showering (waterproof speaker ftw), making love to my wife, making love to your wives,* etc., etc. * Just kidding, of course. My relationships with your wives are purely physical.
  24. Then why are you on Surly?
  25. You’re missing out. For every dipshit bro comic spouting inane takes on the dangers of woke and not getting enough beef tallow in your post-leg day recovery shake, there’s an actually clever left-leaning group putting out insightful content. For example: Knowledge Fight - Two (former) standup comics from Chicago mock Alex Jones and other nitwits in his orbit, and they bring receipts. Where There’s Woke - A husband and wife team expose the dipshittery underlying anti-woke culture. Behind the Bastards - Plano product Robert Evans unmasks famous bastards, most of whom you might not have realized were bastards (but they all are). And if you’re looking for a direct response to bro comics, Know Rogan is great.
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