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  1. I think the populace has been this stupid for a long time (possibly since the beginning), but technology (social media) made it incredibly easy for ill-intended authoritarian super-wealthy shitbags to take advantage.
  2. When I read this post it’s actually amazing me. He’s literally taking money directly from the Treasury and putting it into his bank account and nobody is making any meaningful effort to stop him. Im off the ledge. Its over. We are all just living in the epilogue.
  3. This is the type of thing that should spark something. Ideally it would superjuice democratic voter turnout everywhere. The motherfuckers are trying to intimidate people into not voting. That HAS to be met with an overwhelming response of people asserting their rights. If not it’s over. It’s probably over. For awhile I have thought the final test would be Trump trying to remain President beyond 2028. But now I think that’s too late and it’ll be the mid-terms. If there’s not at least some kind of evidence that people are uniting against authoritarianism in some meaningful way, our democracy is finished.
  4. If the Astros traded Jeremy Pena, Jake Meyers, and Mauricio Dubon and came away from the offseason adding Luis Arraez, Drew Rasmussen, Merrill Kelly, Victor Caratini, and 2 really good (Cam Smith level) prospects, how would we feel? CF Smith 3B Paredes DH Alvarez SS Correa LF Altuve 2B Arraez 1B Walker C Diaz RF Sanchez bench: Urias, Caratini, Melton, Matthews SP: Brown, Rasmussen, Kelly, Javier, Arrighetti, Pearson RP: Hader, Abreu, Sousa, King, Okert, De Los Santos, McCullers
  5. I was lucky that back in 2007 I read The Art of the Deal when I was in a period where I was reading a shitload of biographies. At the time I remembered Trump from being on a segment of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, and I figured “there’s got to be more to this guy”. Reading that book cured me of that notion, and so going into 2016 I knew Trump was nothing but a smarmy trust fund baby douchebag. So I’m proud that I never voted for him even though in 2016 I was still pretty conservative on quite a few issues. That said, I never in a million years would have guessed that Trump would do as much damage to our country as he has done and is trying to do. My experience with talking to MAGA or MAGA-adjacent friends has been wildly different from yours. I have found it to be a completely hopeless, depressing endeavor regardless of who I’m talking to and how delicately it is handled. For the most part, I’ve ended up just learning more and more shit about my friends that makes me question whether I can sustain our relationship at all. Even the friends of mine who I assumed were pretty level headed and intelligent and just voted for Trump because they were going along with the folks in their bubble turned about to be total shitbirds. Honestly one of the most depressing moments of my life over the last decade was when one of my best friends, a great guy who was a groomsman in my wedding, who has a masters degree and is not someone I would at all have considered a complete dumbfuck, suggested on our group text thread in all seriousness that Donald Trump Jr. might make a good GOP nominee in 2028. Fuck me running I still cringe when I think about that. Anyway, I’m glad you’re making headway with people in your circle but I’m not holding my breath for any kind of mass conversion short of an economic depression forcing everyone’s hand, which I don’t think is certain but is possible. Otherwise the best realistic case is that he dies and things slowly go back to “normal”, so all the MAGA/Trumper fucks just stop talking about it and we can hopefully forget that so many people close to us are morally bankrupt morons.
  6. I purchased 3 regular sized candy bars (Butterfinger, Reese’s Stix, Peanut Butter Snickers) at the Cstore last week. $11. wtf?!?!
  7. Demographic shifts and flight to suburbs. Lots of childless people moving into Austin and lots of families moving out to Dripping Springs, Lake Travis, Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock, etc.
  8. As I transition into an old, futurism is something I have become very interested in. I’d love for this thread to revive and have regular dialogue. Anybody have any links/books for recommended reading on futurism? I have read The Next 100 Years by George Friedman; I think his prediction of Turkey as an increased regional power will come true. And depending on how the next 10-15 years go, I think his prediction of the US as a continued superpower will be correct. I’ve also read Homo Deus by Yuval Harari. It was very interesting but I dont know how much of it will actually happen. One thing I was looking at today via AI is what % of current workers/workhours we would need to sustain the standard of living of various points in the past given current technology. This is what it/we came up with: 1750: <1% 1950: 10-20% 1980: 15-30% 2000: 40-50%
  9. Winner Just got back from Disney World and they have a ride called Living With The Land, which takes you through their onsite farm. They had vertical farming there on a small scale that they use to supply some of the restaurants in the parks.
  10. I was wondering exactly what your theory was here, and it looks like “GOP CIA recruits Nazi to run as Democrat for Maine Senate”. That is fucking stupid. This guy got a stupid tattoo while drunk, didn’t know it was Nazi shit, found out, and is having it removed. Now, getting that tattoo in the first place was not good. And not finding out what it meant before now and having it removed was also not good. Both of those things are really stupid and enough reason for a lot of people not to vote for him. Nobody is “stanning” for him. We just aren’t flinging ourselves into conspiracy theory idiocy.
  11. I know the party didn’t have to approve him entering the race. But he didn’t come completely out of nowhere. Even if he did (he didn’t), the party should have immediately sniffed this out and called it out. “Whoa whoa whoa this dude is not one of us, he has a Nazi tattoo, errbody take a step back from this mf” is not that hard to do. It’s especially important because now the guy’s campaign has momentum and dollars that could have gone elsewhere. If the tattoo is affiliated with nazism and he didn’t get it removed immediately after finding that out, he is an epic dumbshit and should be out of the race, for being too stupid to be a Senator. But there is no reality where he is a secret Nazi.
  12. Nobody gives a fuck about info from Jewish Insider. The tattoo story got legs right before the podcast interview so the guy had to ask about it. They might’ve discussed it before the interview but it’s extremely unlikely that the Jewish Insider piece was why he went on the podcast. If the tattoo really does have nazi affiliation, and the dude was made aware of it anytime before 2 weeks ago, and didn’t get it removed, then he’s an epic dumbass, and that would be what would disqualify him as a candidate. And it’s damning of the Democratic Party leadership that this wasn’t sniffed out before he even announced his candidacy. But it’s really not plausible that the guy is some secret nazi or ever actually held nazi beliefs.
  13. Oh fuck off. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1601632024549399&surface_type=vod&referral_source=vod_deeplink_unit
  14. “The GOP controls the Senate, the House, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. Anything wrong with the function of the federal government is THEIR FAULT, and it’s not debatable. If folks want the way the government is operating to change, they should vote accordingly in November 2026.” - the fucking ONLY thing any democrat should be saying when asked about any current political issue Dems need to quit making any attempt to keep these dumb motherfuckers in charge from flying the fucking plane into the fucking mountain. An economic depression might be the only way to cure this shit.
  15. Astros prospects showing really well in the fall league. Janek has been one of the best overall players in the whole league so far. Sullivan is playing really well. Hicks and Brito have been extremely good thru 2 appearances each. I expect that Wohlgemuth and Leach will be like Danny Meszaros but overall Houston’s farm is looking good based on what we’ve seen in Arizona so far.
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