Everything posted by Saint Austin
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Confederate Heroes' Day - Jan 19
I don’t see much actually happening from this. The only thing that seems like a possibility could be the reinstallation of the Confederate memorial at Arlington.
- Texas @ Missouri Series Thread
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Netflix Recommendations
I really liked Adolescence, too. I thought episode 4 was a rung below the first three (first half of that episode felt frustratingly slow, but the second half was great). I do feel like they left a lot of meat on the bone with only doing four episodes. Would have loved to have seen more from Jamie, the investigating officer, and an English-version of our DA.
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Bye
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Back where we started > Where we were a week ago
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Rodney Terry has been fired
I think we can make the Big Dance if we win three games in Nashville. But that’s also not happening. He gone.
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Ukraine War
What more is there left to sanction? And tariffs against a county we essentially have zero trade with?? Ffs...
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Ukraine War
And still not one fucking concession from the actual aggressors.
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It's a shit sandwich that Trump & Vance are making Zelenskeyy eat, but my hope is that this at least buys Ukraine and his more reliable allies time, and eventually a less imperial president will waive the outrageous obligations.
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Ukraine War
If we're using WWII analogies, a think a better one for Trump is Franco. He's a fascist asshole, but one who puts his personal finances and ego above any ideology instead of completely throwing his lot in with the baddies. If there's a European Trump-whisperer (Italy's Meloni, maybe?), now would be the time for immediate damage control and and a diplomatic reset.
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Ukraine War
FUCK! I mean, I HATE Trump, but Zelenskyy has to make nice and kiss his ass ahead of tomorrow’s State of the Union. Otherwise, Trump will just dig in deeper and the harm may be irreparable.
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Ukraine War
Yesterday was awful. Up there as one of the worst days in American history in my lifetime after 9/11. I also refuse to believe this is the final chapter of U.S.-Ukrainian relations for the next four years, so how do we unfuck this short of POTUS having a coronary?
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Rewatching everything now... as bad as Trump is, it was Vance who seemed to interject himself and derail everything. Why the fuck is he at this meeting, let alone allowed to have talking privileges?
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Ukraine War
FIFY
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Maybe I'm just dense, but if not security guarantees, what exactly is in this deal for Ukraine??
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Putin will agree to stop attacking Kyiv and other cities currently under Ukrainian control... for a while. And then after U.S. troops are gone and Russia has licked its wounds, he'll take another bite of the country. It's so apparent it's like we're living in a fucking Greek tragedy.
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Maybe it's just me, but I'm okay with Ukraine not being in NATO (at least in the near future) as long as we continue to funnel them weapons, even if not boots on the ground.
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HBO MAX: "The PITT"
I’m digging it. First compelling medical drama in a while that’s not nauseating or pretentious like most of the network ones.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Manchurian Cuntidate
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Good God, that woman sucks.
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I mean, I guess this is a step in the right direction, but I wonder if he toned down the pro-Russian rhetoric only because he was interviewing Zelenskyy. Also, "I would like Ukraine to remain a country," is a pretty fucking low bar.
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Trump’s America
Because I see it as the objective taking of a life, and I don't need religion to argue the humanity of an embryo or fetus. But I feel like that debate is for a different thread. That's certainly part of it. There's things I agree and disagree with concerning both parties... I'm sure that's the case with most people. Even when I tolerated a GOP that was less interested in immigrants, refugees, the condemned, or our allies overseas, Trump has ramped up antagonism to all of these to levels unseen in the GOP pre-2016.
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Trump’s America
Hi. Lifelong and fairly religious Catholic here (Mass every week and on holy days, etc). I was also a Republican from the day I could vote until '22 or so before I finally gave up on the GOP. But even before then, I've always been a Never-Trumper. I voted third-party in '16, abstained in '20, and voted for Harris in '24. Before Trump, I felt a somewhat uneasy alliance with conservative evangelicals. While we wanted the same thing politically, I feel like there was still a level of mutual distrust of one another. I was previously a Republican because I believed it reflected Christian values more than the alternative, largely because of the issue of abortion which made things pretty black-and-white in my mind. But now, post-Roe, that dragon is slain, and looking at other moral issues--the treatment of immigrants and refugees, the environment, and capital punishment--not to mention Russian aggression, I now consider myself an independent conservative who votes more for Democrats than Republicans, and will likely continue to do so as long as MAGA runs that party.
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Texas Rangers 2024-2025 offseason
How is this better than Bally? At least with DirecTV, Bally came with it, along with every one of my other channels. Now I have to pay separately for this when the same app shows Stars games for free??
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Realignment talk not going away
Agreed. I don't think it makes sense for any AAC team to go to this version of Pac, but this would be a great move for Texas State while its hot.