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  1. 5 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    Autobashing is not my favorite thing about Surly, and taking Tahoe's post at face value and out of context would lead many to your conclusion.

    The problem is that this standard is only applied along the party line. Another problem is that you can use the standard all the way to the philosophical stance that nothing can really be known.

    Mixed into a reasonable sounding post is the notion that the NY Times prints only facts that they "like." Oh, they're believable and everything except that they're prejudiced as to which facts they want to publish. With that stance about news sources, you can hold out forever that you don't have all the facts. That's the point of this fall back position.

    Oh, I'm a reasonable person who only brings donuts to the meeting. I know the New York Times doesn't lie, but do they really want to print something they don't like? See. We all have to go to alternate sources who print the facts that they like which just happen to be the facts that I like and will support my seeming reasonable position of waiting on all the facts.

    As he did in the Alabama senate race, Tahoe seems like he would stand before the burning building wondering if there really was a fire while everybody screaming from the windows either succumbed to the flames or leaped to their deaths.

    I don't hate Tahoe. Over the years he has been a civil poster even if a very partisan one. I'd never consider putting him on ignore. He represents a lot of lost GOPs who can't tear themselves away from the changing dogma of the party. He stays in step.

    Tahoe is a party hack and lives in the 80s. Party hacks are keeping this country from progressing right now. They are stopping us from solving problems. They are enabling the devils to run the circus. 

    The post in reference is fine. But just like the NYTimes being select in its choices, so is Tahoe (and that post). Same same, but not different. Party hack. I do hate because its holding us all back. Its insanity, its backwards, and it shows a completely lack of judgement and perception about the current world in which we live, the problems our greater society is facing and the fact that the existing government infrastructure isn't going to solve shit. 

    beautiful day out friends. Have a nice, nuke-free weekend

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  2. On 5/3/2018 at 10:50 AM, staboner said:

    rain? what scattered rain. had one evening last week where it actually rained. every other rain event is a misting at best, a cloudy day at worst, and i think is just generally creating an environment where the pollen gets to be buoyed up by all the bitch ass humidity that can't figure out out to become rain. 

    i see 60% today and 100% friday. so maybe it will finally rain if i crunch the numbers right

    100% friday. i thank you rain overlords. i thank you

  3. from what i remember last summer - this is a decline in shootings.

    that place is unfortunately fucked. and every day that ticks by with teh same BS makes it even that much harder to save and reverse. very sad

  4. 51 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    It was wrong by -- literally -- a handful of votes.  It was right by SIX HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND FUCKING VOTES. 

    Only you could claim that the GOP achieved some sort of moral high ground by BARELY -- by 2% -- avoided electing a lying pedophile who openly flouted the law.  THAT is your fucking high ground?  THAT'S where you wanna plant your flag?

    Holy shit.  I'd say y'all have hit rock-bottom...but I know you haven't.  You're still in utter freefall.

    fucking all of this. well said.

  5. China is absolutely frightening. They have strong nationalism (we don't have any unity) and have some smart people across their society. If they get turned onto being aggressive and militaristic - I can seem them really whipping ass all over the place. If they want to execute a cyber attack and take out the US power grid, they can. and they can get 50k scientists working on just that in no time. that shit is scary to me. 

    I know they have plenty of their own issues to deal with, I know. but looking at their unity and our complete meltdown side by side makes my butt cringe

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  6. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Look, gotta give the Russians and the Chinese some credit -- they figured out how to beat the capitalists, and make them destroy themselves: pay other capitalists to do it for them.

    We'll eat our own, so long as we're profiting from it.

    We elected a president who effectively has that as his motto: "I'll fuck over anyone, at any time, if it makes me a buck."

    Capitalism without ethics is the most self-destructive force on the planet.  And we're getting to watch it in action.  In the name of a profit, these outfits will utterly destroy the very system that made their profits possible, and they won't know or care until the self-destruction is complete.

    yeah really. Russia and China should just sit back, plant shit and let us dismantle our own values one by one

  7. 33 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

     

    amazing isn't it?

    All that matters is our division + the faux ideal that people still hold onto 

    Actual things all exist - and us posting them, saying them, doesn't matter. its all pointless. no one who needs to listen is listening

    you don't HEAR JIMI

  8. rain? what scattered rain. had one evening last week where it actually rained. every other rain event is a misting at best, a cloudy day at worst, and i think is just generally creating an environment where the pollen gets to be buoyed up by all the bitch ass humidity that can't figure out out to become rain. 

    i see 60% today and 100% friday. so maybe it will finally rain if i crunch the numbers right

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