Posts posted by immamac
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I guess I'm failing to understand why 2 or more justices can't be impeached, and replaced and as part of that impeachment the court revisits these votes and basically says yeah we were fucked by criminals into doing this and just undo it.
If the answer is we are fucked because these lifers are just going to fucking sit at the bench and rule forever, then we need to just burn down the government and start over because a bunch of fucking catholic insane people running the country is stupid.
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2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:
Tomorrow the EPA will be gutted. So glad SCOTUS has decided it’s no longer a co-equal branch of government :eyeroll:
How hard is it going to be to reverse the damage done in the summer of 2022, if things go the way of the people in these midterms and in 2024. Is it a decade+ or does shit start moving pretty fast?
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Bump and updated listing.
https://www.trulia.com/p/tx/austin/1904-anita-dr-a-austin-tx-78704--2174580996
Surly special 2600/mo up to 6 months.
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21 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
Republicans on the Supreme Court may help with that.
In 2018, Cruz got 4.26 million votes, Beto got 4.05 million votes.
In 2020, Trump got 5.89 million votes, Biden got 5.25 million votes.
There’s over 17 million registered voters in Texas. Many registered in recent years.
Mexican Americans fucked Texas. If they can get the back blue it's super over for republicans
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41 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:
Sooo... Did surly decide to take an 8-hour vacation?
No I fucked up and the main database server filled up and crashed. I have a service that manages log rotation and the server that manages it had a setting that I forgot to change which caused a crash for the monitoring and alerting. Basically I fucked this up by forgetting to turn swap back on for a server that serves as the centralized monitoring and logging server. This caused services that keep things clean to back up and that back up over 2 days turned into full disks, and full disks turned into database crashing.
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20 minutes ago, Captainant said:
@immamac what sort of file hosting are you ok with? I have some 60fps UHD footage of a BattleBots tournament I saw that I want to put on the TV show thread, and would rather not upload it to YouTube.
Each 4m video is like 900MB, and I don't want to rock the boat lol. Should I down res them? Also, does surly upload strip off metadata?
Yeah EXIF is stripped. You are treefiddy aren't you? Treefiddy have unlimited file storage. You can upload as an attachment or in your own album in the gallery tab/section
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Basically we have a few political shitheads in a radicalized party that need to be voted out of office and the problems will solve themselves. There is a metric fuckton of legislation that is passed by the house that just needs voted on in the senate that will fix a lot of issues we are seeing, the problem is they aren't voting. The reason they aren't voting is because of a radicalized party who has people on record trying to subvert the way the government should work, including Bill Barr who is very on-record stating his belief in Unitary Executive Theory.
The problem is we are stuck in a time before the internet and before the population explosion happened in centralized (read: Urban and suburban areas). We are no longer even relatively an agrarian society and the majority of representation should reflect the industries that we are in (entertainment, technology, industry, etc) - it's also not hard to fucking help "farmers and ranchers" when the rest of the stuff works right. People care about food supply quite a bit and destructive legislation like the ethanol corn subsidy are more to blame than rational policy.
I can see myself running for office sometime in the near future, but the platform I will have is that it will all be driven through robo-vote. If the majority of the constituency doesn't vote then the vote is abstained on any legislation. If the constituency votes for something then the office votes for it etc. Representative democracy at a large scale wouldn't necessarily work, but until we get elected officials who actually represent their constituencies best interest instead of their donors or personal interest we will continue down the path of radicalization.
The solution to this problem is to get the people who don't care about anything to fucking vote.
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6 minutes ago, sportsbay said:
This is correct. We are at the end of an enormous credit cycle. The economic pie has begun to shrink for all people. It's at these times in history when the potential for ecomic growth shrinks that people of differing idealogical world views start to point fingers. That's how war starts.
You want to effect some change, love your neighbor as yourself. This means giving to the homeless shelters, growing food for your red/blue relative, building networks of support, respecting what others believe, respecting life (including the unborn), and sharing what you have. We focus on the political fallout now but there is a time coming when the econmic fallout will erase what we are fighting over and will leave only financial hardship for most. The next 10 years are going to be HARSH. Think of it this way, much of worldwide debt is going to be erased off of the banking ledgers...... how much pain will this cause?
This is incorrect. This all gets solved by voting. Don't help anyone who doesn't vote.
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4 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:Disgusting pieces of trash:
Imagine Thanksgiving dinner this year at the Navarros.
"Brother, I wish you'd never been born because you're such a burden, but it sure is good to see you--you and that other ree-tard in the family who'd be better off dead."The disgusting piece of trash is you, and the person who wrote that article.
Your brain is so poisoned that you think posting propoganda links from the gateway pundit is going to prove any kind of point. Look at the articles ole Cristina has written, all inflammatory nonsense that all have one thing in common. Less than 500 words and filled with that or disgust for those who don't share the same opinion.
She wasn't saying she wishes they were aborted, she's saying that women that know they can't deal with the burden of a mentally retarded child with downs should have the choice to not to and it's a deeply personal choice. She's not saying all downs people should be aborted.
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2 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
This ain't jack shit compared to the Civil Rights Era and even Vietnam.
This shit is invisible in the real world if you get offline or stop looking at the TV. The protests are tiny/non-existent.
Even BLM stuff was a joke compared to what we need to do to get real change.
I was against doing anything to the judicial branch, but now I think it's time to show how much of a farce it really is. Expand it to 40. Confirm them all then pass a law saying you don't replace anyone until at least 33 of them die or resign.
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I asked this question to some folks that I know and trust that lived in DC for the majority of their adult lives. Not politicians, but people obviously close to what's happening at the heart of our government.
They said this is nowhere even close to where we were in the 60s. All that tells me is we need to ramp it the fuck up. What happened in the 60s caused change. We are just bitching in the street and whining on Twitter and the internet.
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3 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:
You did when you voted for clowns like this. Who were perfectly fine with letting judges make law instead of doing their job.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-abortion-interview_n_5d027e94e4b0985c4199c33a
Don't cry now.
I completely agree with you, which is why I'm so pissed off. How the fuck was it this guy or someone pushing an authoritarian agenda for his own personal gain so hard that the country gets sold out for it?
Shit is broken and it starts with the people we are electing in a completely broken system that is controlled by "corporations as people".
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1 minute ago, Brothahorn said:
Such as lazy ass argument. If the constitution flows your way then every thing is fine. If not then it's useless. Until you need it again.
Is abortion outlawed? Or is the decision being sent back to the states where it belonged to begin with.
If you support wholesale abortion, then you are part of the problem. Black Lives Matter, remember?!
Soft serve, weak kneed fear mongering. Yeah because a bad decision was overturned, everything else is 'doomed'.
"Arms"
a means (such as a weapon) of offense or defense
I don't think so, I've argued many times on this board that the current system is failing top to bottom.
Executive branch is way too overreaching and trying to legislate with executive orders illegitimately
Legislative branch is so fundamentally broken we can't even vote on legislation, much less have open debate on possible legislation. There hasn't been a constitutional amendment in so long it's actually absurd.
The judicial branch is a complete farce - completely political and stacked by whomever is in office to get their way instead of an impartial branch to keep the sanity or be a tiebreaker.
Society is breaking in front of us and our elected and appointed officials are doing their best to accelerate the implosion. It's not lazy. It's time for us to modernize our democracy.

The Supremes
in Cloak Room
Basically the problem is the legislative body isn't legislating.