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  1. 5 hours ago, South Austin said:

    To be fair, he probably has a lot of rape allegations, but the government-controlled North Korean press can't report on it.

    When you’re supreme leader they LET you do it 

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  2. 2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Aqua Texas is the worst fucking company I've ever dealt with.  Far worse than AT&T/Directv...

    Those fuckers didn't even have a backup generator for the water system in Wimberley, so that one time when the power went out, everyone had no water for 2 days and had to boil water for two weeks.

    They also lose a tremendous amount of water due to not maintaining pipes. Their board should all be in jail

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  3. 1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

    Would you remain of the same mindset if rather than pro-Hamas it was Proud Boys joining? Are you willing to acknowledge that illegal activities are occurring above and beyond the protests?

    Do you condone the illegal activities?

    Do you acknowledge that pro-Hamas is antisemitic?

    Are you aware of any efforts by the Pro-Palestine activists to remove or distance themselves from the pro-hamas attendees?

    Do you acknowledge that the point of these activities both criminal and otherwise undermine the entire point and actually take attention away from the issue they and others wish to address?

    Yes and so what?
     

    eta I am purposefully being flippant because your list of question is absurd given the nature of all that is going on. Are you really going to try to tell me that if you were planning a protest, you would have everyone sign a piece of paper, saying what they were for and against and you would be able to screen out the bad actors based on that?

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  4. 2 hours ago, CoTex said:

    Ok, I'll bite.

    If there was a pro-nazi protest at UT, and I went and joined the protest and screamed and waived flags and fucked with people, what would you call me?

    and then

    If there was a pro-Putin rally at UT, and I went and joined the rally and screamed and waived flags and fucked with people, what would you call me?

    and then

    If there was a pro-Kim Jong Il march at UT, and I went and marched and screamed and waived flags and fucked with people, what you you call me?
     

    I'm guessing I wouldn't survive that stretch without being almost uniformly labeled a nazi, fascist, communist, geoncidist, war criminal, and probably some other shit.  Rightfully so.  You march with the nazis, I'm calling you a nazi.

    So, if you go and protest and what not and you're protesting for a group of people that voted for leaders that say things like "Israel has no right to exist," (and I don't have a citation but it's out there), I think it's fair to say you're "anti-those people."  If you don't want to call it "antisemitic," then why don't you try on "anti-jewish" or "anti-Israeli." 

    From where I'm sitting in Texas, there's not much difference.  You want the people that won the war and got the land to give back the land and go the fuck away, or die, and you'll protest and maybe more to accomplish the goal.

    There is a huge difference. Some among the protestors are undoubtedly pro Hamas but it’s not a pro Hamas rally. You are making a false equivalence fallacy. Look at what the Israeli settlers have been doing and where they are expanding. Palestinians have legitimate claims. Now add in the crimes against humanity that the IDF is committing, and under whose umbrella they are committing them. Being against that is in no way anti semitic 

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  5. 3 hours ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    It's fucking gross. Looking at hot consenting women (nekkid or not) is awesome but it sucks to see such approval of shit like this from what is otherwise a reasonable group of people. This same group that (rightly) champions women's right to control their bodies shouldn't also applaud manipulating images to sexualize non-consenting women. 

    No one you have ever jerked off to has given you their consent 

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Probably the manner in which it was done. 

    Why? People in the country put their animals down every day for legitimate reasons. I don’t think her target demo would find anything remarkable about her doing the same.
     

    Unless what she wrote is being grossly misrepresented that’s not what happened. 

  7. 8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Careful this isn’t the opposite of the “Trump is winning young voters” phenomenon. Polling is just broken 

    I get it but I trust NPR more than the others. Also their gross numbers match what the others are showing ie it’s a dead heat, and for the reasons above that have us all worried. If you look at the sub polls and consider historically who gets out and actually votes, it’s very worrisome for Trump. I mean I guess it’s possible that a group that historically doesn’t vote will turn out for Trump in record numbers, but I doubt it. And if fewer of an already small percentage stay home instead of voting for Biden, it’s not nearly as meaningful as over 45 men flipping to Biden and the elderly preferring him by 12 points 

  8. In many of these situations mom has psych and or substance abuse issues. From having friends who foster, I know two who had young children (both toddlers) in their homes whom the court subsequently removed from foster in favor of blood relatives. In both cases they eventually returned to the foster families who were then allowed to adopt them. The lucky one came back with a cast on his arm. The other has cortical blindness from blunt trauma to the head

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  9. 24 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
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    She then told a story of an individual coming into her restaurant and paying for food.

    “Just recently I had a migrant come into my cafe that recently passed through the borders and paid for their food with one of the prepaid cards they were given,” said Gray. “How is that as a slap in the face as a proud American who worked hard, just like each one of you? And to be affected by the food costs, utility costs, to have someone just come and just willy nilly pay for their food, in my cafe, with prepaid dollars that was funded by us.”

    But Gray, according to federal court records, has received her own prepaid food.

    She has filed for bankruptcy three times in the past decade and reported receiving Food Share benefits in the most recent filing.

    Gray, in an interview, acknowledged receiving the benefits, but said there is a difference: she is a U.S. citizen. “I have worked since I was 16,” said Gray, 45. “I paid into the system.”

     

    Lot of right wing vegans are there?

    Also Wisconsin is the Alabama of the Midwest

  10. 39 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Tesla is recoverable but it doesn’t appear that Elon is taking 1 step to do so. He refuses to acknowledge that his actions are the reason for the downfall.

    A few years ago I had decided that my next vehicle would be a Tesla. Now there is a zero chance that I would buy one. I don’t trust that Elon doesn’t have the ability to remotely kill any Tesla just because he gets mad at 3am. And I don’t mean kill my hypothetical Tesla but all teslas.

    He actually thinks they all belong to him

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  11. 25 minutes ago, Slacks said:

    Ok. I'm going to give you the magic phrase to try...

    "Now imagine they're all black."

     

    On a serious note I have a few older black patients who farm/ranch. Very few of their kids have any interest in helping out. They can’t even get their grandkids to come out to ride horses, shoot guns, etc. much less shred the pasture, repair fences, vaccinate and castrate livestock and such. We have the same issue with our family farm. The only people willing to do this work seem to be families from southern Mexico and Central America. And their kids aren’t following in the parents’ footsteps. It’s going to be a big problem in the near future I’m afraid 

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