Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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16 minutes ago, markstanco said:No, she was appointed by a small group of people, and none of you opposed it. That’s fascism and you 100% know it.
The internal machinations of the Democratic Party are fascism now.
Interdasting.
I'm just gonna bet that you didn't know that there were no primary elections in America until 1890.
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14 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
You call it contempt, but neither one of lives near our lawn crews. Or the janitor at work. Coincidence, probably. I understand you feel better by not saying that out loud on a message board - that doesn't change the fact.
Statistically, almost everyone's grandparents were. Those who weren't are probably mostly wealthy now.
For every story about the guy who started with one pressure washer and became a multimillionaire, there is a thousand that were well educated and continued to build their family's wealth. Neither of us knows who the next pressure washer guy will be, we have a pretty good idea on who will continue to build generational wealth.
You express pure contempt for the poor as if every single one of them is permanently poor and if any of them are striving, they're still fucked up because they left their country of origin, just like your forebears did.
I don't have to live next door to my lawn crew or invite them to dinner to respect them as human beings with a certain dignity.
You can actually strive to better yourself without shitting on people you leave behind.
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5 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:I'm saying that you get to be over reactionary now, even though you claim to have voted for tough on crime (including immigration) for decades (iirc). You get to claim that you've never heard anyone speak with any sense of superiority (classism, racism, intellectualism) while being raised in one of (if not) the wealthiest zip codes in the state, and being VERY well educated by the best public university in the state. I believe both your newfound reactions and your latest claim to both be bullshit. But it's the internet. Maybe you are the one guy raised in a top 5 wealth zip code in Texas who never heard anyone ever say they earned something those across town didn't (classism). Maybe you were the one multi decade Republican voter that never paid any attention past tax rates. And maybe you attended an elite public university for (a decade?) without ever hearing anyone speak about how their intelligence is superior to someone else. But never hearing anyone make a statement that would make you think they are a sociopath? What a charmed life (Park Cities holla) or load of bullshit statement (internetz)
You know, I can do those things without having utter contempt for those beneath me.
Not all that long ago, my grandparents and their parents were at the absolute bottom of the totem pole.
Some of those people are going to work their way up, and some aren't. Neither of us knows which.
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12 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
Probably the funniest thing I've seen someone from the Park cities say. I'm sure you've never met someone who didn't think a bit more of themselves than others. Thank you for the chuckle.
I couldn't gaf less about people from the internet believing this, that, or the other. I'd be more worried you believe everything you read on here. Hell we had the smartest guy in the world, PE player who pulled strings all over UT and Austin among other places that had a fucking go fund me set up for his kids after his death. Let me dumb it down further - not everyone is who they say they are on the internet.
So, what, you're saying it's a bit and you don't really think this?
Or the anonymity of the internet lets your shitheel flag fly?
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1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:L.O.L
People aren't bitching about the immigrants (oh my God, they also happen to be brown, weird??!?) that are filling the university research labs across the nation, or that are training to be our next wave of doctors and engineers. They bitch about the people who's absolute peak in life is washing dishes, a floor, or mowing a yard (and the subsequent 9 fuck trophies that will follow). Newsflash, no one likes the white people (or their trophies) that do those jobs either. It's a reminder that without the laziness of a larger group of people, these people largely serve no purpose. It's why not a single person with any of those jobs live in your neighborhood. Blaming it on racism though, especially if you are not one of the victims (hint, you Brisketexan are certainly not, surname notwithstanding) is just internetz fun or a way to scratch the I want to whine itch.
People see uneducated, poor, and low skill people fleeing to look for a better situation. Well, you were a whole hell of a lot more responsible for what you are fleeing than me. You trashed your first pad, time to move onto the next host? Have no want to assimilate? Meh. Send me some more potential doctors and engineers, I'll get the lawn figured out.
There is a contingent of people who are into it for the hate, without a doubt. But people that want to stop immigration humanely could do it in an instant. Remove their ability to vote, even with citizenship. Go 3 generations deep. Democrats would give less than a fuck about an immigrant at that point. And if your life isn't better here with that as a stipulation, stay home and fix your own squalor.
You are so full of contempt for those beneath you it is really astonishing.
I have never in my life encountered someone willing to air these kind of thoughts. They may have thought them, but they wouldn't say them aloud for fear of being thought a sociopath or worse.
As to your penultimate paragraph, there is a 99.9% likelihood that your forebears fled another nation looking for a better situation.
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16 minutes ago, 'stache said:
People will not know or will ignore that it happened and when their premiums don’t go up they’ll say the librul media lied about the premiums and that Trump saved them from evil Obamacare. That is how stupid people are now. I’m leaning towards let all the bad things happen. There’s no reversing this shit. Let it fucking burn and rebuild from scratch with whatever’s left.
The deadline to sign up is January 1, and was really December 15, so anyone that has attempted to sign up has seen their premium double, at least.
At this point, the lack of subsidy is baked in. Not sure how it changes anything for 2026.
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1 hour ago, satyanash said:
Something of a belated heads-up - if any of you guys live near a Ross Dress for Less outlet, they've been selling Zodiac watches (including the Super Sea Wolf) at dirt-cheap prices over the last month. With Fossil Watch Company's recent bankruptcy they're trying to clear out old stock ASAP. You can get a new Zodiac Super Sea Wolf with a STP 1-11 movement for as low as $125. Might have to do a bit of hunting though.
Haha went to three because that is a deal I just could not pass up. Saw lots of Fossil, but no Zodiac.
Little surprised these would sell out as for non-fanatics, they're kinda uggo and it's an obscure brand.
How belated is this?
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2 hours ago, TexArcher said:
Yes, Trump has charisma that Vance lacks. But a lot of people really didn't like a lot of the things Trump said -- about immigrants, about women, etc. They bit their tongues and voted for him because he got the things they wanted done, and to a large degree because they are so conditioned by their families, pastors, etc, that they could never not vote for the R. But part of them really didn't like doing it.
This does not describe his base. This describes something else entirely, maybe the persuadable middle or something.
I have been told repeatedly that everyone voted for Trump because of his racism and otherism. And I certainly don't disagree with that as pertains to the base.
I concede that Vance has the potential to appeal to a more rational class of voters. But I don't think there are enough rational Trump supporters to get him elected.
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2 hours ago, hookemATL said:
This is an older incident, but goddamn I wish he’d flung some fish guts at this caustic and evil bitch’s face.
She sounds drunk, or mentally handicapped.
Must be rough for her living in Clearwater, where 1 of 5 is Hispanic. And that whole Florida name must be a constant reminder.
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1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:
If Donald Fucking Trump is electable then anyone is electable. ‘It can’t happen here’ is never a true statement when it comes to Republican politics. There are a lot of self-proclaimed “Christian” voters in this country who would vote for Lucifer himself so long as he had an “R” next to his name on the ballot. Most especially if His opponent were either non-white or non-male. But the “D” alone would be enough to turn most of them off.
I’d like to believe that Vivek Ramaswamy could never in a million years be elected governor of Ohio but I won’t be the least bit surprised if he is. His opponent is a woman. Smart, experienced, qualified, and capable, but a woman. There will never again be a Republican candidate so vile and unlikable that I’ll doubt his chances to win an election.
I mean maybe.
We have often discussed that Trump is sui generis and I think that's very true. That 30-40% base he has maintained is almost solely attributable to his peculiar traits that no one else can duplicate.
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9 hours ago, heso said:
What Cuban misses in his post, I think, is that he and people like him are incapable of thinking like a true creative, because all he is able to think in is sellable units. How can I move more widgets, how can I sell tickets at a higher profit margin, how can I get more eyes, more clicks, more conversions? How do I get more iteration?
And he completely fails to understand that the joy of creating, genuine creativity, comes in part through loving the process. The musician, the artist, the writer, they do the thing because they love doing the thing, and they’d do it if there was money to be made or not. The brilliance in the true creativity is born out of a love of the process. But all he can consider is “if I offload the process to AI, I can sell more creativity.”
Excellent post. I meant to extend that out to a criticism of Cuban, but neglected to.
I think you're absolutely correct.
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10 hours ago, Superhero said:
It's amusing that one of the "exhibits" of that display was paid for by a government agency, created by the most socialist president we ever had and no doubt created on the government dole by a drunken layabout artist.
At least he was white.
Well, sorta. Alexander Dux was born in Austria-Hungary in 1898 and immigrated here with his family in 1910.
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18 minutes ago, Orange-4-Life said:
Does it trouble you at all that drug smugglers, common criminals like Juan Orlando Hernandez or El Chapo, are being murdered on the high seas without the due process accorded to at least Hernandez? Or that the actual victims are just ordinary people trying to get by, maybe a bit compromised?
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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
The land. I forgot about that part, when Venezuela stole all that land from the US. I mean, I have no idea what land this is or where it is, but yeah, they totally stole it from us.
The only thing that's even remotely close to that is I believe Chevron or Conoco (C company) had actual leases on Lake Maracaibo.
Chavez nationalized that, but Chevron still operates there although I'm sure it's on lower margins.
Nice to know that Chevron is us and we are Chevron (or Conoco).
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Political Cartoons - The Politics Thread.
in Cloak Room
Funny thing, though. Although most of us of a certain age are used to seeing oil derricks, they mostly fell out of use after WWII.
Unless you want to count the mast of a driling rig as a derrick.
Kind of wild when you think about erecting several tons and a couple hundred feet of steel to drill a well and just leaving it there when you're done.