Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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1 hour ago, safe sex said:You do this a lot with Trump (and the right in general) and I'm not sure it's something that you actually need to be doing?
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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1 minute ago, Red Five said:
He’s saying that anyone who doesn’t support him deserves to be brutally murdered. Not only deserves it, but that is the actual cause of it. He is really, really sick and deranged. And it’s going to keep getting worse.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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Just now, atomheartbevo said:
Almost makes you wonder if her MAGA stuff was all an act.
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 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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18 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:When I was a kid, I hunted rabbits on my grandfather's farm with a bolt action 410 shotgun. It had a clip that held four or five shells.
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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16 minutes ago, 'stache said:Growing up in South Texas I heard racism of all sorts but never against the Jews. The history of Jewish hate in Europe is complex but I don't see how it applies to modern western societies. Note that criticism of actions of the State of Israel is a different matter that has existed for sometime and is currently at 11 becasue of their actions.
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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4 minutes ago, aggie08 said:
There's literally only two possibilities here:
1: The files are really damning, and he's doing everything in his power to keep them concealed (which will probably work).
2: The files aren't that damning, but he was fed bad information and knows what could be on them (ya know, because he knows his own involvement) and has thus followed the "how to make yourself look incredibly guilty" handbook to a tee. There's no rational explanation for Maxwell's transfer and favorable treatment.
Both possibilities range from 99.9999% to 100% likely that Donald Trump has engaged in inappropriate acts with underage girls. But I understand why some are really grasping at that 0.0001%, pathetic as it may be.
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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8 minutes ago, Brandywine said:
Cornyn will just use the same old ads of Dems like open borders, woke, antifa, pro abolition and they’ll tax you until you’re poor. Plus, I’m endorsed by Trump. Then he’s in. Same o, same o. Works everytime. Only way a Dem is going to win is strong turnout. I really don’t think we’re any closer. It’s hard to get your hopes up.
You forgot trans volleyball players and swimmers.
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8 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:I’m no volleyball expert by any means, but where did I miss that Kentucky got this good at volleyball? Maybe they have been and I wasn’t paying attention. Portal and NIL? The usual big dogs were down this year I see.
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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2 hours ago, dcbc said:
The Body and Shawshank are probably the two closest adaptations of any of Stephen King's works. So much was lifted from the source material. That's not to say RR didn't have a huge hand in making Stand by Me an absolute classic.
/Chopper, sick balls
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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5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
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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4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
I pretty much agree. I think the American teaching that your life goal is to gain as much money as possible in whatever ways necessary has also made people lose sight of any other part of existence. People are sinking into an abyss of selfishness and ignorance and they don't even know why.
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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7 hours ago, Jhawkmvp said:
Well he kind of helped "cure" COVID and almost everyone here probably got that vaccination when it became available. It was one of the only good things he did and he can't even take credit for it because his base turns on him when he does.
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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11 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:
We would have lost to Kentucky for the third time this year in the next round, but still this sucks
Yeah, felt like our only hope there was the "lightning doesn't strike three times" theory.
But it feels like Wiscy put a bigger beating on us than UK or eaTme that one time.
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31 minutes ago, Js1 said:
The “how” bugged me too because every bad habit from like the 2013-2021 era came back last night - ugly passing and slow footed defense
Yeah, as we learned back than, that's generally how it goes when you lose/get your ass kicked. It was bad deja vu, though.
My sense of it, though, is that it was mostly getting abused on serve receive (and not returning the favor) Also, did Emma not quite have enough help?
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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.