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BrickHorn

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  1. 6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    People here are supposed to believe anything you post now? 

     

    2 minutes ago, King George said:

    Because I posted a pic of an art of Mystic that didn’t flood, amongst everything else I posted yesterday that was spot on?  

    No. Because it’s the 4th of July weekend, almost 250 years to the day after we kicked your limey ass.

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  2. Just now, Blotto said:

    I just checked the timestamps.....25 minutes of ass-kissing with no details. Reporters had to force them to even give an update on casualty figures. 25 fucking minutes of nonsense. 

    These people are incompetent narcissists. They are irrelevant. We have to take care of ourselves.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Hank_Hill said:

    This is literally just a circle jerk

    What clued you in? The Governor and a congressman showing up wearing shirts embroidered with their names? The performative disaster declaration signings? Or the prop cowboys lined up behind these fucking clowns?

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  4. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    Abbott is starting out with the tiresome trope about how locals are somehow more driven to help each other than people anywhere else on the planet.

    I’m glad to hear that his priority is saving Texans and Americans. That was an important, useful point and I’m glad he spent time saying it. 

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Seems like Sequin is getting bombed? Looks like a blob parked there, and a friend of ours just sent a video of her streets running like creeks, with heavy rain still falling.

    Damn. Sequin is usually so sparkly and shiny. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Welp, one of the confirmed fataliies is a 9 year old who was one of my wife's preschool students in Tarrytown.  Her brother is one of my grandson's close friends.

    Damn. So sorry to hear that, man. A close friend of ours also lost a student in this. Fucking heartbreaking.

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  7. I fucking love that song. Outside of LZ and LZII, it’s the best blues-inspired song they recorded.

    But I’d lump it in with Bring it on Home (another favorite of mine) as a hybrid. The front half is heavy, reverb soaked blues, but the original parts are pure rock. 

    The first two albums include some straight up blues arrangements, just with a harder edge. Lemon Song, You Shook Me, and How Many More Times are good examples. 

  8. 2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    So as this bill appears ready to pass, I think it is widely understood that the biggest part of this is tax cuts for the rich. Has anyone even stopped to just ask WHY that is needed?  I don’t think they have, nor do I think there is a reason other than “because we can”  

    Exactly. They don’t even bother with the trickle down voodoo shit anymore. It’s just “Fuck you, this is mine.”

    You have to at least admire the honesty of the current generation of Republican class warriors. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:

    I said this in another thread, but Muslims and Christians in a spiritual sense actually have more in common as an Abrahamic religion than either do with Judaism (again, as Abrahamic) in a fundamental sense, despite the closer political and social commonalities between Jews and Christians.

    In all three cases, if you are actually "doing the religion correctly" as in, actually living out what the precepts outlined for how to live if you are to call yourself an adherent, to put it coarsely, you are going to necessarily be an extremist IMO.

    I think that's the conflict. The conflict with adhering to a prescriptive religion in a secular society and it is, from what I can understand, actually a built-in conflict that is a feature and not a bug.

    At its core, religion is a group identity based on its adherents’ collective willingness to believe a particular pile of made-up bullshit. It creates an inherent Us vs. Them dichotomy. And because abandoning any commitment to logic and empirical evidence is a prerequisite, the religious are uniquely manipulable. Laughably childish concepts like “Because God said so” are accepted as legitimate justifications for a lot of fucked up shit. Couple that with pressure or even rules requiring blind faith, and religion is a recipe for bloodshed and general strife.

    Tl;dr: getting people to bond over mutual belief in fairy tales is dangerous shit.

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