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mchookem

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  1. well...here in Denver we did have the old white lady heckling ICE agents raiding an apartment complex from across the street: "what's wrong with you losers?? get out of our community! get a real job!! your mom is ashamed of you!!" which was pretty pointless but i appreciated it nonetheless.
  2. alright now, that'll be enough of that bullshit.
  3. well, okay man. i tried, just giving you an observational perspective, but admittedly i don't stalk you thread to thread like some. my observation has been you throw the word 'clown' around in pretty much every post nowadays. which, fine, you've given your reason, but it's basically a meme now (as seen in several other threads just today lol). i used Israel as an example not bc it's an issue that's 'gone to 11' in my view, but bc i previously recalled active and emotional discussion in the prior year especially (post 10/7)...but your participation seemed to just fizzle post-'let's make Gaza the new Atlantic City!', your last comment was many weeks ago and was pretty much exactly what i quoted. having said that, maybe you just gave up actually arguing, which might be understandable. but it was noticeable, if not intentional, which is what has informed my perspective. anyways, pretty sure death porn violates surly rules, and is not really relevant to the point im making. you're not off on the general abuses of law enforcement, authoritarianism, etc., or really immigration in general...but come on man, we have absolutely gone off the rails, and at the highest levels of our government! im sorry but there's at a minimum a difference in scale between (example) Acevedo's no-knock warrant fiascos* and the fucking PRESIDENT throwing all due process out the window and literally shipping people off to torture prisons in a foreign country. like, come on. more often than not (especially in 'recent months', which is why it's stood out given current events) you've chosen snide condescension and minimalization in response to expressions of genuine fear, outrage, and absolute horror at what has been happening. again, my observational perspective. but...maybe you've just decided nothing matters and gave up trying to articulate any points, certainly plenty here have. kind of an understandable response to the firehose of evil, mendacity and cruelty we've been subjected to nonstop for months now. i purposely and arbitrarily limit my own capacity for outrage engagement just for my own mental/emotional health. and i barely paid attention to the Steele dossier...but i do agree with the sentiment that it would be difficult to say what a Russian asset/agent would be doing differently right now to destroy the essence of American democracy 🤨 *sidenote for anybody that remembers the story of our best friends subjected to one of Acevedo's 'raid before dawn' no-knock warrants in Crestview that resulted in a cop getting shot and our friends high-schooler being sentenced to 13 years...he was just paroled about two weeks ago! 👍
  4. i've only been here about three years, but i think the thing with downtown proper is there doesn't seem to be a huge entertainment/nightlife scene there. some restaurants and bars but definitely not like Austin with lots of nightclubs, live music, people on the streets, etc...more shopping, hotels and such. we go to a couple of restaurants we like down there but it always seems pretty dead at night. having said that, we've never encountered anything overtly sketchy or threatening there. and it is really nice during the holidays with all the lights and such (i love Denver Christmas season... which legitimately lasts until the end of January!) honestly the observable homeless/drug problems were much more obvious in Austin. here... it's mostly Colfax areas that are exciting in that regard...'there's always something going down on Colfax!' 😄 i do think the mayor has done a pretty good job tackling the difficult issues with that, we have actually seen improvement since we've been here. but downtown Denver really seems pretty tame.
  5. use an oven safe skillet. meatballs are pretty standard - ground chicken, an egg, garlic, 1/2 c bread crumbs, fresh parsley, 1/2 t each basil/oregano/red pepper/salt/pepper...and about 1/3-1/2 c finely grated romano, plus a handful of parm for good measure. form balls and brown in skillet with small amount of olive oil, but don't cook all the way...remove from skillet. in same skillet sautée shallot and garlic, one lemon sliced thin and 1/3 c white wine and simmer 2-3 minutes, then add 1 c chicken broth and lemon zest (same lemon lol), simmer another 3 minutes or so, fully deglaze pan...toss meatballs back in then stick the whole skillet in 350* oven for 15 minutes. top with fresh parsley, basil, chives and/or dill (whatever fresh herbs you like) and sprinkle of cheese. i served over rice with steamed broccoli, pasta is obviously good too! 😊
  6. so in all honestly @Anastasis, one of the primary reasons you get so much shit and get called out by everyone is because you have a pretty clear and constant pattern. i'd legitimately and objectively like to try to draw it out for you... you regularly call posters out - rightly or wrongly - for getting outraged and ranting about issue X when they don't or didn't get equally outraged by issue Y, which in your mind should have been just if not more offending and enraging, and thus you deem them 'clowns' and basically worthy of your contempt. most of the examples i've noticed of you doing this have to do with foreign policy, military action, etc. you tend to throw that back at posters a lot - 'where were you when Y was happening, huh??' but...you basically do the same. i think you have gotten selective in the threads you participate in for this reason, and it's a pretty easy observation to see that while you may still feel strongly about about some issues you have gotten very...subdued is a good word, in your protestations or even vaguely mild criticisms of some of the same things that you have previously purported to have a principled stance on. due process (or the complete lack thereof rn) is an example that comes to mind here. or Israel/Gaza...Trump and Bibi have turned it to 11 and you're basically like 'oh well, Trump's genocide now'. or the absolutely stupid level of incompetence leading the DoD. honestly i believe that's why you've garnered such vitriol and 'troll' like status from others...it comes across as not just hypocritical at this point in time, but also like you were never that principled to begin with and that most everything that is happening right now you are pretty a-okay with because you actually support pretty much all of it...but you don't want to actually be lumped in with idiot maga brigade because, well, they are idiots and you are not. you just agree that America needs to be torn down. so anyways man, i've clearly spent too much time thinking about this lol. but sometimes @bolverk and his honest attempts to communicate with opposing viewpoints inspires me. and TL/DR: every accusation is a confession.
  7. might be the first time i've agreed with him lol
  8. ...and add Halsey at RR in June because my niece wants to come in and go to that one... and just found out im going to Metallica* at Mile High a week later! 😮 *my first Metallica show after all these years...i know they're old lol but i'm pretty excited for this one! 🤘
  9. give him some credit, pretty sure that only took 10 days.
  10. so basically every western democracy has managed to rebuff their right-wing/fascist parties but us? maybe we are exceptional lol
  11. spinning on that dizzy edge. of europe.
  12. whatever. it's funny bc you know they wish they could put up that sign at the borders.
  13. this. THIS more than anything else. THIS is why we are where we are.
  14. oh...so were the blurred faces in the end pics guys that were still in, likely special forces?
  15. it was also filmed real time, like the whole thing covered just 90 minutes interesting you use those words...my first remark after was 'jesus, so all that for what? did they even get to do their mission, what even happened to the marines??'' the body language of the Iraqi combatants stepping into the street at the end conveyed the same feeling. this was really good. not for the queezy. not a single one was shot, the casualties were all from the ied. that is remarkable. every one of those guys brains was scrambled, that was almost as hard to watch as the physical injuries. yikes. i couldn't believe that first Bradley just pulled off and left them lying in the street. huh. i don't know if this will make sense, but the style actually reminded me of Anora. no exposition, no narrative, we're just dropped right into a point in time and go! i guess Civil War was like that, too. i mean i realize objectively all movies are like that... but the feel is different, stuff just happens. i like it, whatever it's called.
  16. he forgot his signature...CLOWNS!
  17. chicken romano meatballs with a lemon/wine pan sauce
  18. Mukuba🤘 i hate this song so much lol
  19. i would love this, Barron, and Sam coming here too 🤘 would be fun to root for!
  20. fuck you, you stupid heinous bitch
  21. "picked"
  22. Trump admin backs down on student visa terminations jfc what was even the point? 🙄
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