Gooby
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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:
So I'm on board with the general concept that cultural purity as a concept is rubbish . . . with one big caveat: philosophy.
Unlike most countries in the world, the United States of America is not an ethno-state. Japan is a nation because that's where the Japanese live. Ireland is a nation because that's where the Irish live. Germany is a nation because that's where the Germans live (at least, it's where they live now after they all got kicked out of Czechia, Poland, and elsewhere after WWII). But the United States of America is different. It's not a nation because it's where some people called the "Americans" live; it's a nation because that's where a group of people set up a government based on certain self-evident truths, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The United States is not an ethno-state; it's an ideological state. And it has been from its foundation.
So when the Cubans come in and bring their hot women and their delicious sandwiches and their rockin' music and their curious take on language and their questionable taste in fashion, it doesn't threaten the foundations of the United States. Because the United States is not an ethno-state. It doesn't matter whether we're eating hot dish or Cuban sandwiches or pizza or listening to R&B or salsa or country music. It only matters that we broadly agree on the basic rights and liberties and obligations enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
So when the Cubans also bring along their love of fascism and try to re-establish the Bautista dictatorship here, then I do object. And I do have a problem with the importation of that bit of their culture. And if they are unwilling to adopt our culture on those points and want to import their own ideosyncratic culture of kleptocratic fascism, then I think they absolutely should fuck all the way off and be deported.
I single out the Cubans on this because that's whom the post I'm quoting is about, but that goes for any nationality. Russians who think Putinism ought to be emulated here; Arabs who think a North American caliphate would be a splendid idea; Chileans who come here thinking we ought to have an American equivalent of the Pinochet dictatorship; or a certain Persian who thinks she shah was just great and we ought to import the absolute monarchy of pre-revolution Iran to the United States--fuck all of them.
Got damn this reminds me. I had the best Cuban sandwich I've ever had two weekends ago at the campus hotel on the Aggy campus...of all places. Fresh pulled pork plus all the usual fixings. Honestly considering roadtripping back for lunch today.
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42 minutes ago, TexArcher said:
I just saw that Turning Point USA is going to have "counter-programming" during Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance.
What a bunch of fucking children. No, wait, that's what they do and cover up. Apparently that's very legal and very cool as long as no one speaks Spanish while they're doing it.
I remember the old days when we didn't need a programming alternative to stuff that we claimed to not give a shit about. Personally, I just didn't watch and went about my day. But, hooray safe spaces!!
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5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Bots have been posting this about many rich or famous people. If you see these posts, the funeral costs have now been covered 100x.
If you see someone posting this, you really should unfriend that person or at least unfollow so you don't have to see their bs. What really sucks is that Google crawls publicly facing facebook posts, so people can google it as a "fact check" and they believe Google has fact checked in the search results. They haven't.
So far, I've seen these for Jose Altuve, Eric Clapton and Elon...none of which are true, to my knowledge
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15 hours ago, Disco Strangler said:
As a reminder, this is the one gal identified in the media with whom Ken allegedly desecrated one of God's Commandments, ruining his "biblical marriage" with Angela. People are saying that he scrambled her guts in ways that Angela would not allow.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/ken-paxton-mistress-laura-olson-18136155.php
So she's a flower arranger for Whataburger?
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20 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:Amidst all of this sometimes I have to stop and think about those poor teens who were acting as counselors at Mystic and the nightmares and guilt they are going to carry forever. And while I do imagine they come from privileged and affluent backgrounds, still to be placed in a position of life or death for people who trust them is not a place to put those kids. There are a thousand ways that could have been different, but there is no reason for a camp that charges that much would not have a trained adult assigned to those cabins. To have to live with the questions about whether you did something wrong, or missed some announcement, or ignored some part of a lecture on emergency response is a lot to ask those kids. Those who survived, that is.
I saw a segment on CBS online Tuesday which called out the commissioner's court hard. They had quotes from Buster and his picture, explaining how he has since passed. But there was no doubt they had done their research and were casting blame on that group. I have also seen other media reports that stop just short of accusing, but lead the viewer to answer the hanging questions. Unfortunately, that just isn't enough for lots of people. They have no critical thought process.
An ex-GF of mine was a legacy counselor and 'camp mom" at Mystic. As a full time gig, she's a guidance counselor in Frisco. We ran in to each other about a year or so back, and she said that when her boys were done with HS in a few years, her plan was to retire to Hunt and go to work for the Eastlands full time. She's been going up there since she was 11 years old and loves the area. I got up Saturday morning to see all the news and I sent her a text, saying that I hoped she was safe. I didn't really give it much thought that she didn't respond right away, figuring she likely was busy. She eventually texted me back on Sunday and said that she was there, but left on Tuesday before it all happened. She included that she knew that Dick Eastland had died.
It's an odd spot to be in. She's an ex, but I still care about her and I know she is hurting like mad right now, but I don't feel like I can reach out, or should reach out.
Sorry for the slight derail. That's just my brush with this whole thing. It's been a really heavy week and I just wanted to get that out there.
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I'm to the point where I feel like I need to give up social media and likely news in general for one reason and one reason only: I am fucking sick of the cruelty and the fact that it is so widely celebrated. It is simply beyond me that this president and his whole fucking party are fucking jubilant at the idea of immigrants...criminal records or no...are being shipped to 'Alligator Alcatraz'. Hot as balls, it took a good deal of water just from a simple rainstorm, and it's basically tents in the middle of the Everglades. What happens when the inevitable hurricane hits? Are these people evacuated out of there or will the fact that they may just have to ride it out where they are just something else these fucking mouthbreathing retards can whip their skippies over. What the fuck have we become?
And where the fuck is Congress? Where are the fucking guardrails that are supposed to be keeping shit like this from happening?
It's not humane. It sure as hell ain't Christian.
I'd like to think that the majority of people are mortified by all of this and it's impossible to believe that all we can do is wait for the next election cycle and pray that the majority of people see it for what it is. But I'm not sure that will happen.
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13 hours ago, Huckleberry said:
Would be funny if as soon as their federal funding is ended Havard immediately expelled every law student who's a member of any Republican affiliated club. Once you remove the funding there's no stick left.
Obviously they wouldn't for many obvious reasons but I can chuckle at the idea.
Toss out the kids and relatives of any Repub lawmakers.
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21 hours ago, Bullneck said:
I'm at work and can't listen with the sound on.
That fucking guy got a pardon and acts like he's bulletproof. There will come a day when he runs up on the wrong guy.
That'll be a good day.
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