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Serak The Preparer

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  1. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Here's the part I LOVE about this absolutely batshit insane narrative these nutbars are running with....of all the things that are completely nonsensical, the MATH doesn't make any sense.  If TWO FUCKING MILLION kids per year were being snatched and drained of their blood and somesuch, you know what we'd see?  Something reasonably close to FOUR FUCKING MILLION parents screaming from the highest mountaintops about little Johnny or Jenny being kidnapped and drained.  You know what ELSE we would see?  A shitload of former little Johnnys and Jennys who escaped/aged out of this massive child blood farming operation telling us all about it.  With the kinds of numbers we're talking about (again.....TWO FUCKING MILLION, PER YEAR), it wouldn't be one or two.  It would be HUNDREDS, likely THOUSANDS.

    I mean, if I want to tell the story of Guatemalans who got deceived into working for shit wages in the US (functionally enslaved), I can find hundreds of them, right now, with little effort, who will tell us about that happening to them.

    The numbers, the fucking numbers, they are the capstone that tells us how absolutely batshit insane disconnected from reality these nutbar fucksticks really are.  They might as well say ONE BILLION CHILDREN PER YEAR are taken for such purposes; it would be just as plausible.

    It's even more insane than 4 million parents screaming per year. It's 4 million NEW parents screaming per year. Even if this massive pedophile ring just started 5 years ago you're talking 20M parents screaming / 10M kids missing. It's just so bonkers to think about.

  2. 13 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Where does Aliens fit in the conversation?

    On 5/7/2023 at 11:00 AM, Serak The Preparer said:

    Agree with others that Raiders of the Lost Ark is in a different category than Die Hard, Terminator, etc. I also think everyone is sleeping on the best action movie - Aliens. The cast, the music, the pacing - it's all perfect. Nothing tops it for me.

    It fits on the top of the list. Alien is definitely sci-fi horror but Aliens is action in the same sense that T2, predator, etc., are.

     

  3. 8 hours ago, Horn of Gabriel said:

    So aside from the absurdity of relocating 23M+ people to "somewhere else," there may be a nugget of goodness in here.  We could offer a completely streamlined green card/residency program for Taiwanese nationals and their families who have a certain education level or are in certain industries that we want to absorb (chip manufacturing?).  Of course that would: 1) really piss off the government of Taiwan for brain draining their population, 2) signal that we see their country as a lost cause and those who can had better get on the lifeboat and if you can't, "sorry," and 3) doesn't do anything to replicate the extensive infrastructure in manufacturing that TSMC and others have built up there which will take a decade or more to rebuild elsewhere.

    But other than that it's a solid 10/10 

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  4. 12 hours ago, JBJ said:

    It is this.  400-500k of those homeless won't be homeless in a year or two.  We actually do a decent job turning homeless people into not-homeless people (thanks in no small part to christian-lead charities and initiatives).  The growing homeless population has more to do with the next wave being larger than the last than it does with chronic homelessness.

    I am not an expert on the homeless problem but you are saying that of the 600k homeless population, >2/3 of those will be homed in a year or two? That is surprising to me, but if pressed I wouldn't have a different number to defend. I would have guessed closer to 20% but like I said, not well educated on this issue. Is there a good place to go for data like this?

  5. I still don't see this going back to Sacramento but it would be a cool scene if it did. I'm not a native Sacramentoian or whatever so not super invested in team, but I live just 30 minutes from the stadium, need to see if there's any outdoor watch parties.

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  6. 30 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    Parlay for Warriors and Lakers to both win is even money bet $100 win $100. Seems automatic.

    Are you aware that there is a gambling forum which includes a specific thread on NBA gambling? No offense but nobody gives a shit about your live gambling updates. It's like hearing someone talk about their fantasy team. Good for them but nobody else cares.

  7. 16 hours ago, safe sex said:

    The Fox poll listed above is a nice little ray of sunshine, but wtf does public opinion matter when the public doesn't punish the officials who engage in bigotry? 

    We need a new Civil Rights Bill, and there is no member of Congress that I'm aware of with the skill, clout, and will to push one through. Nor does Biden have it in him to put forth much of a firewall. 

    It'd be cool if the DoJ would sue to stay some of this legislative action (and maybe that has happened and I'm not aware of it), but I'm not going to hold my breath

     

    It boils down to the fatty platform. Just like I do truly believe he doesn't want kids to get killed in school, he wants his guns and boat more than dead kid reduction.

    I do believe that a significant number of Republicans would prefer to cool it on the grooming bullshit, but not at the expense of guns and boats. And since their vote is taken care of, the truly hateful are the drivers of the Republican bus. None of the passengers care enough to take over the wheel because it's still getting them to the gun and boat store, even if they run over a few gays and kids on the way.

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  8. 11 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    i guess that was a poor question on my part, as none of us work in a profession like prow desafío al sports, where getting very angry and combative with your coworkers only to quickly move on and move forward is commonplace.

    Don't presume too much. I work in prow desafío al consulting, and I think it's pretty comparable.

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  9. 55 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I believe a but but but Harlan Crow would be more apt?   With nearly identical foot stomping and huffing and puffing, of course. 

    Wait wut? Just after C-Man claims "you know better" you equate the reaction to Harlan Crow with George Soros. Obviously Crow and his relationship specifically with Clarence Thomas has received a lot of press in the last month or so but I don't know how you even begin to equate the left's view of Crow vs the right's view of Soros as ultimate boogeyman of everything wrong with America.

    You may want to revisit your stance there @C-Man.

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  10. 18 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    What a shittily written tweet / headline. From the source: "Maria Bartiromo & Jeanine Pirro To Be Fired From Fox News As Rupert Murdoch Moves To Be Less ‘Vulnerable’ After $787.5 Million Defamation Settlement, Critic Predicts". From the article: "Byers also indicated that, if the two reporters are not fired from Fox News, Bartiromo and Pirro will be warned to “be careful” regarding risking committing libel in the future.".

     

    Ok, so they may get fired. Or they may get warned. Or maybe go fuck themselves.

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  11. 35 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    I think everyone on this board has had some run-ins. I don't know if these run-ins are more likely to lead to violence these days, if it is just the increase in centralized populations that lead to increased violence, or if it is simply just reported more because of social media. My guess is that all three things are happening simultaneously.

    I'm not sure what you mean by "had some run-ins". If you mean had a gun pulled on you, then I suspect the majority of this board has NOT had this happen. In the context if this thread (and the similar one on the kid who got shot going to the wrong door) I also don't think the majority of this board has had a confrontation after pulling into the wrong driveway / knocking on wrong door.

    I agree that the large majority have had some level of general confrontation with someone but that is incredibly vague. The reason these cases are drawing increased attention is because these are situations that shouldn't have had any run-in / confrontation at all.

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