Posts posted by 'stache
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Gambling is like any vice. Make it illegal and it just goes underground to be managed by criminal elements. I don't like it either, I seriously do not understand the mentality of doing something in which you are all but guaranteed to lose money, but its a thing and might as well be legal. I also support legalized marijuana even though I hate that half the people at the grocery store reek of weed.
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17 minutes ago, Macklemore said: Are you an idiot? Why the fuck would the new regime be another theocracy. These protests are driven by a love of the homeland, rejection of Islam and love of monarchy.
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm. I suspect that Islam will still be widely practiced in the region, the question is if it will be state religion to the exclusions of others with requirements that laws comply with religion, i.e., theocracy, because that to me is a massive problem, not just in the ME, but everywhere, including the US where we are being pushed daily in that direction.
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21 minutes ago, Js1 said: And the Ravens will be hiring their fourth head coach ever since they moved to Baltimore in 96
Don't ask why I went down this rabbit hole a while back. The Browns move has always fascinated me. I always wondered how it worked techincally that Cleveland got to keep its name and history. As a technical matter the Browns franchise was "deactivated" and the Ravens were created as a new franchise, so their history begins in 1996. I hate that it was a unique situation, I think this should have always been the norm. Most notably, Houston should have been "deactivated," Tennessee should have been a new franchise, and the Oilers reinstated in 2002 with all of its history intact.

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1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said: But this doesn’t even require a whatabout. Just because she uses silly language doesn’t transform a municipal land use concept into Maoist China.
If @Incredulity needs examples of actual “socialism”, I would point to the government’s ownership stake in publicly traded semiconductor companies and putting their thumb on the scale in media mergers. But I don’t think he does. He’s just bugging out over branding.
Yup, they lost the narrative over the last 40 years referring to any economic policy left of Reagan as "sochulist."
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1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said: Dude I’m a full-on professional capitalist and a free market-price-discovery absolutist. Likewise, I think real world experience demonstrates that the only housing affordability solution that works at the population level is to allow the market to respond to demand, which is not what we do in American cities.
But, my man- she is talking about things like community land trusts like the ones in Vermont and the kind of long term lease holding they have in Vienna.
I’m not a historian, can you illuminate me on how and when millions of lives were lost in Champlain?
In other words, what in the fuck are you even talking about?
MDS. Mamdani Derangement Syndrome. Mooslim Sochulist Sharia Lawwwww!!!
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Not sure where else to put this since I don’t do recruiting threads and I read he’s going to LSU. What’s the recourse here? If he doesn’t play for them he doesn’t get paid. Schools are doing everything in their power to avoid athletes being employees so they can’t rely on employment law and if they sue they risk a counterclaim that athletes are in fact employees. What damages can they claim if they haven’t paid anything out yet? (I assume if they paid at signing he’d be willing to give it back and take his bag from LSU). UW should probably just take their lumps and move on, still a week to find someone in the portal.

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4 hours ago, Incredulity said: WBMA

Mamdani tenant tsar said home ownership is a tool of whit...
New York City Mayor Mamdani’s tenant director Cea Weaver had a resurfaced tweet come up that said she believes home ownership is a tool of white supremacy.“I think the reality is that for centuries we have really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good,” she said. “And we are transitioning to treating it as a collective good and a model of shared equity.”
"She said that white families and some POC families who are homeowners will have a different relationship with property."

Where are their hijabs? They’re violations the new Sharia Law! Maybe don’t worry, she’ll be stoned to death soon anyway, because Sharia Law!!!!!
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said: This morning after dropping my youngest off at school, I hung out with one of her classmates' dads, who served in the Navy. He was on a support ship for both invasions of Iraq, so he knows how the logistics for major invasions work, even if he was way in the rear and they weren't the full-on traditional Marines storming the beaches invasions with landing craft you think of when you think of this stuff.
Something that is bugging him, and me, and tying into something @Nice Guy Eddie mentioned in another thread - Where's the occupying force?
He (not Nice Guy Eddie) said that the only amphibious assault assets we've really deployed there are The USS San Antonio, Fort Lauderdale, and Iwo Jima, and the first two are apparently more like support docks. He said at max, we are talking 2,500 - maybe 2,800 or so Marines between the three and maybe on some other ships. He said we have around 20 of these ships (two classes) and it feels like we only brought the ones down that happened to be doing nothing. I looked around at lunch as well, and it's not like they can hide a bunch of ships in plain site in such a busy/populated area - all of the ships that have been announced have been spotted numerous times in the Caribbean, with no unknown ships. This is not the middle of the Indian Ocean or Diego Garcia. There were people taking photos of our fighters in Puerto Rico.
Now, to play devil's advocate, once can argue that the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment are not that far away by air, and they always have an alert component.
But Venezuela has 200,000+ in its military, another 20,000 or so Cubans, and millions in militias (which may not all actually exist, but you don't need but a few hundred thousand to make things hard).
It's a country of 25 million people, with 3.25 million in the capital area.
While Marines are badass, as are the 82nd and 75th, we ain't going to take over the country with a few thousand Marines and a few thousand airborne and a few hundred Rangers we fly in.
When we have invaded in the past where we know the target in advance (I don't count Afghanistan as that was pretty ad hoc initially), we do all of the prep work. It's why our operations have worked so well, and why we have a massive logistics chain.
It would seem logical that we would also have the 25th Infantry (Light, my old unit) because they are out of Hawaii and acclimated for tropical conditions (they even have a jungle warfare school out there). We would be staging the 101st Air Assault to Florida or even Puerto Rico and getting their helicopters loaded onto US Navy amphibious assault ships/transports/aircraft carriers or flying them to Trinidad & Tobago, because our troops are going to be using helicopters. We would have the 82nd and their larger gear in Puerto Rico, along with the 75th prepping to take over military airfields/airports. We would most likely have the 25th's airborne component getting ready as well (although instead of Hawaii they are in Alaska, it's a long story). Probably the 10th Mountain as well even though they are not technically a mountain-trained division, but they are a light infantry division. We would have a shitload more Marines sitting on Amphibious assault ships in the Caribbean.
TLDR: There's just so many things that need to happen for us to legitimately control Venezuela and we are doing none of that.
But on the other hand, all of the assets that were assembled were thrown together fairly fast and easy. Almost as if the DOD/Trump realized Congress would get involved in some way if they did a large-scale operation, so roll with something smaller - just gonna transition from drug interdiction to kidnapping Maduro and call it a win and hope the follow-up leadership does what we say.
Which is why, I think, Trump threatened to kill Rodriquez if she doesn't do what he says (fate worse than Maduro who is looking at life in prison). He's currently got no leverage.
So ... no big deal. All we did was drop some bombs, killed some security people, captured a sitting president and his wife, after months of bombing boats and killing people without any process to determine if they were drug trafficers, and even if they were, had nothing to do with the United States, all while sitting on podiums and saying we're gonna run the place and sell off their oil. There's seemingly no "occupying force" so why so mad? Just normal international relations, unless your an anti-maga beta ass pussy. And stop overreacting to threats to invade Greenland, we'll probably also do whatever without an occupying force, stop being so bitchy, right? TDS TDS TDS!!!
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8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said: us taxpayers pay for chevrons expenses
Exactly, they have nothing to lose, the treasury is basically dear leader's slush fund account, as is the mechanisms for taking on more national debt, for the benefit of his rich buddies. The O&G companies won't have to pay a fucking dime and will take in any and all profits (except those going to trumpco and family). They have nothing to lose even if maga ever loses power (which itself is dubious because trans people).
1 hour ago, Buzzrock said: Ok but she’s not wrong. We don’t have enough troops to fight Russia, China, and Venezuela, and that’s what the neocons would love. I have a 16 year old son so I get it.
I predict we will see more of this after the midterms when Trump is much less of a threat to the lifer and aspiring-lifer Republicans. It seems like a few orange lame-duck feathers have already started to sprout. None of these people have any real principles and they will abandon Trump if they think it’s the route to power.
Just one idiot’s opinion of course.
Don't worry, there will be an exemption from the draft if your son votes republican when he hits 18 and if you and all of your family do as well, so hopfully you voted full maga the last ten years. Otherwise its front line, or if he resists, denaturalization and El Salvador gulag. It's only fair, either worship the regime, or fuck you.
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19 minutes ago, Sawbonz said: @Arepa Papi if your dumb ass hasn’t been crowdsourced yet, go ahead and give us your take on this
No need to @ him, here's his thoughts.

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LOL, I guess being a bitchass pussy is endemic at Notre Dame.