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  1. The more folks I've talked to about Killeen, particularly Killeen as a Ft. Hood-adjacent community, the more they have convinced me that it may be the single shittiest place in Texas.  The culture of low-tier enlisted soldiers (many of whom aren't that bright, and don't make great decisions), and a town full of predatory businesses and people (including women, and I guess men) who prey on them.....it's utterly toxic and destructive.

    This is absolutely correct...
  2. I called in and listened to the Arizona state case today.  The GOP managed to put up a handwriting expert who, on cross, admitted that she uses the term “Dr” even though she hasn’t actually received a PhD. She lists herself on her CV as PhDc, with the little “c” standing for “Candidate”, her studies are at an online diploma mill.  She couldn’t even articulate what peer review was (she said that she had some friends review some articles she wrote for a right wing organization).   She also has a “PhDc” in holistic healing.  
     
     

    Jesus Fucking Christ. That’s ridiculous and embarrassing
  3. Once it starts in the English dubbed version, back out to the episode menu again and you will see the play option written in Hebrew. When you hit play again it will be in Hebrew with English subtitles. Bad quirk of the app. And yes, Lieutenant Dafna has a phenomenal rack.

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       We haven't given a single Republican Presidential candidate more than 15% of our vote dating back to the 60's. That's why Joe Biden saying that was only a big deal to White America, and like 5 Black people closely related to Herman Cain and Ben Carson. Black America knew it was true. Outside of a couple rich guys, and some real life(often times one and the same) Clayton Bigsby's, or as we call them around these parts BrothaHorns, Black People stick with the blue. I voted Republican a couple times as my Rumspringa, but quickly came back to the fold.
     

    As usual, spot fucking on.
  5. Off topic, but how common is this? Is it getting more common? I used to think these kind of stories were mostly bullshit but as the topic has gained more currency multiple friends of mine have told me essentially the same story and it's always the same profile. 

    I will say that as another large, strong black male that my experience has been identical.
  6.   Let me be candid and honest here my man. I cannot be sympathetic to your comments because this is how adult life has always been. From the moment I stepped out of my home and headed off to college I have always been a small percentage of the population. Outside of Atlanta, the more money you make, the further away from the Black Community you are, and it happens really quickly. Every job you take. Every community you move to. Every school your kid goes to. All the same. So you have two choices. Make people walk on eggshells around you at the office all day long, or crack a couple Black jokes and watch the "oh, I can kinda be myself around this one" expressions as nervous laughter turns to comfortable over time.
       This may not seem ideal from the outside looking in, but it's how we have to operate if we wanna break the color lines for the next generation. As a Black guy out here you realize pretty quick that you are "the Black friend" to your White coworkers, neighbors, and your kid's friend's parents. So in the interest of civility you go out of your way to make everyone in the presence of you comfortable with you, as you are the outlier to their otherwise regular existence.
      If there is one thing Trump has shown me it's this. People can say it's tax cuts. People can say whatever they want. But for a large majority Trump is protecting their fragile view of what America is supposed to be. Where certain demographics are supposed to be in the pecking order, and where they are supposed to live. That is why they can excuse all the bullshit. All the rhetoric. All the illegal activities, and efforts to turn the US into a dictatorship. They want to make sure they don't have to walk outside and look around and see faces that don't look like theirs. They don't want to deal with other cultures. They don't want to have to watch the things they say, or think about how they are offending someone. For a lot it's not so much racism as it is an aversion to tolerism. Trump embodies anti tolerism and they love him for it. Thus they will follow him anywhere, even to the depths of hell.
      

    Fellow upwardly mobile black guy here and this post is spot fucking on.
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  7. If you say “he doesn’t have COVID” they’re gonna come back with “well you’re the ones who said it was real and how bad it was, so are you saying it’s not now?” And if you say “serves him right” then you’re being horrible and hateful.

    And if he comes out fine then he’ll say “I had it, it wasn’t bad, see, it’s survivable”

    He’s off the radar essentially for 2 weeks. Two weeks uninterrupted to prep for debate.

    He’ll say he had it and no one else got sick- “it’s not that contagious”

    And then the whole “I’ve had it, I’m in this with you” unity bull shit...

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