Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
That's not what he said. But since you asked. https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2024 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-data-shows
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
They said last night that 45% of Texas points came from freshmen. Im guessing 30 or so of that from Spears, rest from AVW, maybe a tiny bit from Harvey. Then what another 30% from Stafford? A few from Devin, and a smaller few from Bunton and Ames? And random points from Ella throwing over?
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Point taken, but we didn't set middles much all year.
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Trump’s America
I didn't say you did and it doesn't happen all that often with Trump anymore. But there are various allegedly outrageous things posted on social media that just really aren't or are for different reasons.
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Trump’s America
If I do, it's because I don't trust my subjective interpretation of what he said. I'm biased against him, even if I/we may be right. If what he actually said was horrible, I like to point that out. Even at this stage of things, there's a fair amount of misquoting and taking things out of context, especially on social media.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Rough, tough, real stuff!
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Trump’s America
Im just contrasting what he actually said with what he strongly implied, not arguing with you. His literal words were bad enough.
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Trump’s America
He didn't say that explicitly. He did, however, say that "he was very bad for the country." Which is just astonishing talk. Somehow, I continue to be astonished by what a piece of shit he is.
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Trump’s America
Signs and wonders. It's vanity, is what it is. The dismal tide.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
Well, you have far more claim to Longhorn-ism than Christianists do to Christianity.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
I guess the word is gonna be "Christianist," like "moralist," not moral and "Islamist," not Islamic.
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Trump’s America
Possibly both "ends" of it are an act because she's a sociopath that doesn't know how to relate to others except through a facade. But it is interesting that she has and can carry out a totally irrational Trumist act as well as a normal, reasonably empathic human being act.
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Trump’s America
Trump and Trumpkins really piss me off. Like get me cursing and wanting to break stuff. They're responsible for cunt being a totally acceptable word on this board. His "leadership" hasn't just brought out the worst and coarsened the dialog in his own followers, it's brought out the worst in the rationals, too.
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
Yeah I know of bolt action shotguns, most prominently the Marlin Goose Gun. Some weird things on these, though. First tube mag, as most seem to have box mags. Second, the extended tube (seems like extended mags in a gun control country are weird). Finally, the footage shows what appears to be a straight pull type action, with the shooters cycling the bolt with a straight pull. And that's a pretty uncommon type of bolt action until pretty recently. Do some gas autos have something that cuts off the gas system and autoloading? If so, that might explain all. Then again, if you have autoloading and you're gonna do a mass shooting, why turn it off?
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
The booted, often-hatted, Wrangler-wearing, Copenhagen-dipping South Texas Jewboy was one of the more interesting phenomena I encountered at UT. I lived next door to some during undergrad. They had a mounted deer head (treif) wearing a prayer shawl over their fireplace. I think most of them came from Germany through Galveston along with other German immigrants and generally as merchant-class, were a bit higher in the pecking order than the non-Jewish farmers.
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Epstein and Maxwell
I pick option 2. But not that he was fed bad information, just that there would be a lot of association and innuendo and he has a guilty conscience and gave that more credibility than perhaps it deserves.
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Trump’s America
And probably prosecuted, at least until the grand jury no-billed you.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
You forgot trans volleyball players and swimmers.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Skinner is evidently a pretty good coach. Although they tend not to be as perennially good as us, do recall that they put us down in the National Championship with Madi and her sister (and others) in 2021 before Elliott had his DS and serving epiphany.
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Rob Reiner found stabbed
Definitely. Green Mile also. Darabont seemed to pick up the gauntlet laid down by Reiner. And Reiner apparently had a hand in Shawshank, as well.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
This raises something interesting. I abandoned a career in engineering because I didn't believe that I was sufficiently creative to make a living or a career out of creating solutions to problems. My lack of genuine creativity is probably a pretty accurate self-analysis. What I perhaps failed to take into account there is that a good bit of "innovation" or at least engineering problem-solving is recycling and re-applying known ideas and solutions to different problems. Which is about all that AI is capable of doing. I think real creativity, most obviously seen in the arts (music, visual art), is different from that sort of "problem-solving." Maybe I am wrong on this. There is certainly a continuum or spectrum.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Yep. The oligarchs have convinced themselves, perhaps understandably, that their wealth means they are intellectually and morally superior to everyone else in every field of endeavor. What's nuts is how many peons actually believe this too.
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Trump’s America
Yeah it really should refer to Trump's derangement, not to those who note it and call it out.
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Epstein and Maxwell
He can't take credit for it because he had nothing to do with it. The closest he came to having anything to do with it was Operation Warp Speed, which was a bit of a mixed bag, and, again, not anything he really had anything to do with.
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Epstein and Maxwell
That is a complete load of shit. Roll that tape, I double dog dare you. We scoffed at him taking credit for it, but that's it.