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BrickHorn

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  1. I tell people this and they look at me like I’m fucking crazy. Which… I am. But not about this. It’s clear as day what’s coming. We aren’t having free and fair midterms next year. Gerrymandering is only one part of it. At the very least, I expect rigged processes and machines, limited polling times and locations, and an armed (and probably masked) military / LEO presence at the polls. Trump may even nullify Democrat victories.
  2. Agreed. But I’d be surprised if most Americans on the center or left even recognize this as a possibility. Normalcy bias is a helluva drug. Most of us have lived in a rule-of-law bubble our entire lives and have no conception of just how shitty things can be. So when you suggest that even a basic fascist phenomenon might happen here, you might as well propose traveling through the extra 6 dimensions of string theory.
  3. This is a rather clumsy instance of something that worries me: the incentive to rat out neighbors or competitors and scoop up their property at a massive discount. Right now, it’s immigrants. But they’ll eventually start jailing leftists, homosexuals, atheists, etc. And all it will take is one phone call from a shady realtor who’s had their eye on your house. I fear this is coming. The administration will keep their cult happy by redistributing private property from enemies to allies. Because that’s essentially what fascism is: an opportunity for We to take power and wealth from Them.
  4. Sometimes it feels like America is on the brink of a civil war against Branson, Missouri.
  5. Imagine being so fucking stupid that you think “I know who will stand up to the injustice of predatory real estate development: Donald Trump.” It’s amazing these fuckers have survived this long without drinking bleach or licking a power outlet.
  6. That’s a perfect description of my parenting style.
  7. Needs narration from these guys:
  8. That sounds about right. Similar for Texas. Lots of kids who didn’t get into UT or one of the Public Ivies are picking CU. Hell, we know a girl who picked CU over Columbia a couple years ago.
  9. Compared to the other schools on your list? Sure. Oregon has been particularly generous lately. But I know several kids who got decent help at CU, and it is probably the overall best school on that list (or at least is moving in that direction). In my experience, the net price for out of state public schools is inversely proportional to their academic ranking. All-in, CU Boulder is significantly less expensive than the UCs and places like Michigan or UVa, for example.
  10. Colorado is on the rise. They’re attracting more competitive students and talented faculty. I think it’s in roughly the same position UT was back in the 90s or early 2000s. So, you know, pretty equivalent to the UT education many of us got.
  11. I know of kids who were rejected by UT, but admitted to UC-Irvine and admitted or waitlisted at UCSD for the same major.
  12. I appreciate the half-assed effort to black out James Casey Wade’s name.
  13. Anyone who can make the world chuckle at the adorable antics of a lazy, lasagna addict cartoon cat is good enough to run the state’s flagship university, imo.
  14. Hey at least ze trains are running on time, amireich?
  15. My deep skepticism of magical thinking has me going all-in on crypto.
  16. Well, well. If it isn’t my old nemesis, echeese.
  17. Looks like someone woke up this morning with a massively inflated sense of self-importance. Your opinion on the matter has been noted and duly disregarded.
  18. The two are inextricably intertwined, unfortunately.
  19. Anyone who was around in the old Hornfans days knows how I feel about this subject. Certainly @softlynow can recall those discussions. It’s fascinating to learn how distorted, incomplete, and misleading the story presented as orthodox Christianity really is. I mean, it’s obvious on its face that the narrative is nonsense. But what isn’t so obvious is just how inaccurate the Church’s autobiography is. And the fact that so few bother to look under the hood and challenge the basic ideas on which they base so much of their lives is depressing. There are so many lies to unravel; it feels like wack-a-mole.
  20. In a world full of Karens, we need more Alans:
  21. For the most part, Americans on the left have too much to lose. We’re educated. We have careers, nest eggs, families, plans for a cozy retirement. We don’t want to lose what we’ve worked so hard to obtain. So we let them take a little bit without pushing back, thinking it’s not worth risking it all. And then they take another little bit. And then another. And then another. And before you know it, everything’s gone. The math of opposition never makes sense at any one step, and we’re too blinded by normalcy bias to see that we’re tumbling down a staircase all the way to the bottom, little bit by little bit. Gov. Newsom’s approach is the right one. Dig your heels in, now. Tell the fascists to fuck off and do not yield. Never settle or cut a deal, because there is no deal to be had. Fight like hell until you win or die trying.
  22. What’s that? Freedom? Never heard of it. Signed, The Freedom Caucus
  23. That’s a great idea to recommend he seek answers from one of the Top 5 stupidest posters on the site.
  24. To be fair, 86% of Wyomingites is only like 37 people.
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