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It really was. Spray-on Napoleon has now been added to my vernacular.
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Check out our man, @MissingInAction, in that second one. Not only don't he have a soul, but he ain't got no rhythm neither.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Right, and the other function of the police state (the βLawβ) is to protect, but not bind, the upper-class in-groups. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
I mean, it's pretty fucked up when this is your model for a modern society. Just add new labels, substituting billionaire oligarchs (family dynasties of legacy industries and techlords) for the lords and a police state for the knights (currently growing and undergoing an overhaul) to keep the rest of us in line. Among the peasantry, separate the merchant class (nominally citizens with some limited rights, but still peasants...errr middle class, where most of us on this board reside). The pricks-on-high figured out a clever way to make the racist, useful idoits feel special and consequential, even as their rights dwindle, because they now have serfs (you know, "those people") gaze down upon and feel better than. This is where the propaganda comes in handy: "That foreigner is trying to take your cookie, mate!"; "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Serfs and slaves are below all the rest, with very few or no rights. <= This is the reemergence of a class that technically should've been abolished in 1865, but the pricks-on-high keep trying to bring it back: sharecroppers, miners living in company towns, terrified undocumented workers out in the fields, in the kitchens, and at the construction sites. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Gaza isn't the only genocide that the Trump regime is contributing to. https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0 MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) β Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his familyβs food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taherβs little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: βNo one has diedβ because of his governmentβs decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: βNo children are dying on my watch.β That, Taher says, βis a lie.β βI lost my son because of the funding cuts,β he says. βAnd it is not only me β many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.β Taherβs grief is echoed in families across conflict-ravaged Myanmar, where the United Nations estimates 40% of the population needs humanitarian assistance and which once counted the U.S. as its largest humanitarian donor. Now, in Asia, it has become the epicenter of the suffering unleashed upon the worldβs most vulnerable by President Donald Trumpβs dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. And like Taherβs son, Mohammed Hashim, it is Myanmarβs children who have borne the brunt of the fallout. A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030. Taher is one of 145,000 people forced to live inside squalid, prison-like camps in the state of Rakhine by the ruling military. Most, like Taher, are members of Myanmarβs persecuted Rohingya minority, which was attacked by the military in 2017 in what the U.S. declared a genocide. After their food rations evaporated, Taherβs family meals shrank from three a day to one. Taher, his wife and his five children grew so weak, there were days they could not walk. Little Hashim faded. The clever, caring toddler, who loved playing football and whose cheerful chirps of βMamaβ and βBabaβ once filled their shelter, could barely move. Anguished by his sonβs sobs, Taher tried to find help. But with soldiers banning residents from leaving the camp to find food, and with no money for a doctor, there was nothing Taher could do. On May 7, Taher and his wife watched their baby take his final breath. Their other children began to scream. Neighbor Mohammed Foyas, who visited the family after Hashim died and was present for his burial, confirmed the details to The Associated Press. Asked who is to blame for the loss of his son, Taher is direct: the United States. βIn the camps, we survive only on rations,β he says. βWithout rations, we have nothing β no food, no medicine, no chance to live.β [This is a long read.] -
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God's work. Thank you.
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The Dems need to go back to school and learn some shit from this guy.
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Yeah, sorry about that. Just working off a faulty memory.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time Itβs Personal
bolverk replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers Union leaders and Democratic lawmakers say the move would run afoul of a law adopted under President Trumpβs first term. Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay once the government reopens, the White House indicated in a draft memo, prompting broad fears that the Trump administration might try to circumvent federal law to maximize the pain of the shutdown. The memo, which was shared by a White House official, could presage a radical break from a policy adopted during President Trumpβs first term. It appeared to contradict some of the administrationβs own guidance, which by Tuesday still indicated that furloughed employees would receive retroactive pay shortly after Congress strikes a funding deal. Following the longest shutdown in history β a five-week closure that began under Mr. Trump at the end of 2018 β Congress adopted a law that guaranteed back pay for the millions of federal workers who often bear the financial brunt of funding lapses. That measure, known as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, applied not only to that closure but also future fiscal lapses, quelling a major source of uncertainty for federal workers caught in the political fray. Mr. Tump signed that measure into law in 2019. But his administration six years later now appears to have interpreted its guarantees much differently. In the draft memo, the White House budget office said that only the workers who are deemed as essential β military service members, air traffic controllers and others still working while the government is closed β are entitled to pay once the stalemate ends. For those who are furloughed, the White House memo lays out the case that Congress still must explicitly approve funding for the payments. Union officials and Democratic lawmakers quickly blasted Mr. Trump for what they described as only the latest attempt to use federal workers as bargaining chips during the shutdown. The president separately has threatened to fire government workers while federal offices remain closed, prompting labor groups to sue in a bid to block the mass layoffs. Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the White House had offered a βfrivolous argumentβ about back pay and an βobvious misinterpretation of the law,β noting that the government itself appeared to take a much different position in public guidance. In a question-and-answer document posted online by the Office of Personnel Management, the agency specifically says that βemployees who were furloughed as the result of the lapse will receive retroactive pay for those furlough periods.β Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the chamberβs Appropriations Committee, said on social media that the White House memo marked only βanother baseless attempt to try and scareβ federal workers. βThe letter of the law is as plain as can be β federal workers, including furloughed workers, are entitled to their back pay following a shutdown,β she said. Axios earlier reported on the memo. -
+1 on The Decameron. That show was funny as all get out. Edit: @RomaVicta, I think you especially would like it. I'm about to start the second season of 1617, an absurdist comedy set in medieval Poland.
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Wild. West Texas will be more humid than East Texas.
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bolverk replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
Correction. They were fighting as infantry in Ukraine. It's doubtful many are alive today. -
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bolverk replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
I went with the drool one, because he is so fucking stupid. -
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22 minutes of the Democratic Party sucks ass. @pyrohornIII I hope your guy understands how fucking frustrated and angry we are with this POS party's fecklessness and cowardice, which is causing enormous harm to you, me, and everybody else, will result in this country's and our beloved state's downfall. Yes, I understand that the blame ultimately falls at the feet of the fascists who hate democracy, but the sheer ineptitude of the party that's supposed to look out for the little guy is utterly fucking staggering. Since my first vote (1992), I have not voted for a single Republican at any level of government. Holy fuck, I've even voted for Libertarians because they dared put someone on the ballot in opposition to the Republicans, because the Democrats were too lily-livered to even be bothered to put up a damned candidate. I now live in a community that voted about 80% for Donald Trump, and yet, almost everyone I talk to is pissed off about everything that's happening, including those who voted for the orange beast. But, you see, the problem is they don't have anyone to vote for that will stand up to all this bullshit, so they stay on the gotdam sidelines. What the fuck is wrong with you people? @pyrohornIII, copy/paste and send every word of this post, including the clip below, to Kendall. I am your party's wet dream: a middle-aged white guy, who grew up in modest means provided by two Evangelical Southern Baptist, die-hard conservative public school teachers in a small West Texas town, and who has completely rejected all of the shit that Republicans preach, but I still hold my nose at voting for the shit the Democratic Party serves. PS: I figure you probably work your ass off fighting the good fight, Pyro, so I hope that you don't take any of the above personally. I'm just mad as hell and can't take it anymore.
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That kind of obstinate historical revisionism--a result of either being delusional or a fucking dishonest liar--is why I put him on ignore several months ago, but that was regarding the ongoing Gaza genocide. Even if you just limit the accusation to ethnic cleansing by Israel, he denies it and brings up fantasy land bullshit. It's like talking to a brick wall, so I gave up and cut him off, refusing to engage the asshole any further.
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Coach Sark Press Conference 10.6 - 11:30am (LHN app or ESPN app)
bolverk replied to BigOrange1's topic in Football
I think it was during the press conference after the SJSU game when he took a question about Manning grimacing so much during the game while passing the ball, raising the possibility that heβd injured a shoulder. Sark said something to the effect of: "Arch is fine. I don't know why y'all are focused on his facial expressions. We don't worry about the faces y'all (reporters) make sitting on the toilet." -
Where do you rank Switzer on your hate list?
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Pretty much nails it. She's the one with whom I'm the closest to having made that radical transition. To fill in more details, she moved out to El Paso, became a hairdresser (i.e., no education beyond high school), and met this guy who was stationed at Fort Bliss. Got back in touch again, and she's ranting about the liberals killing all the babies. I still love her because she was integral to our tight-knit group of outcasts in a rural West Texas high school, but my gawd, she is lost.
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Absolutely this. Abortion became a reinforcement mechanism for a lot of Blue Dog Democrats who werenβt already happy about their party embracing the Civil Rights agenda, and played an enormous role in the party realignment that occurred from 1965 to the early 1990s. And, obviously, a significant part of that realignment was the infusion of Evangelical Christianity into Republican doctrine, so much so that one could argue that this infusion made Republicanism akin to an actual religion; hence, the religious zeal so many hold for the party as theyβve accepted Trump as their savior messiah and rejection of science, logic, etc. These folks see themselves on an actual crusade. For example, I know this one Hispanic, The Cure-loving chick who was part of my close-knit group made up of the geeks and the freaks of my high school. She was full-on Goth back in the '80s: wore all black clothes and black lipstick, had a partially shaved head with other parts spiky, dabbled in witchcraft, etc. But her dad was an Evangelical minister, so she was kind of messed up with a weird mixture of religious beliefs. Until FB came around, I'd lost all contact with her, and come to find out that she's now full-on Religious Reich and married to an ex-military guy. Anyway, those of us from that same group have maintained a group text chain since the beginning of the pandemic that we put together to keep us all sane. Well, within a few days of Kirk's murder, which we very carefully avoided any discussion of to placate her (I mean, none, as in, not a word), she abruptly left the group without comment. No one noticed at first, and very few of us are active on FB, but I got curious about whether she's okay (she hadn't responded to direct texts from any of us) because she's had some serious health concerns over the last few years. She had posted the flag of the Knights Templar and spouted off about it being time to restart the Crusades with multiple posts about Charlie Fuckin' Kirk. What we seem to realize is that many of these people see themselves as called on a religious quest to fundamentally (pun intended) change this country. Their party *is* their religion now, and they are entirely unreachable by any rational argument. Of course, this doesn't describe every single GOP voter, but I think we downplay how far gone many are. There is no policy, nor any charismatic personality from outside their fucking flock, that will convince them otherwise. They are the impervious core festering inside the Reich. Edited to add: The abortion issue was the single cause for her embracing the GOP, which I failed to mention above.
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bolverk replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
We have a 4-page thread, containing 165 posts and counting, discussing the attempted murder of an elderly man by some famous drunken douchbag. Now, imagine we were to learn that an agent of the State murdered a US citizen while doing horrible shit to other brown people, and the State lied to the public about what happened. My goodness! One would think thereβd be at least 10 pages of Surlyites discussing it. Is this now so normalized that a message board full of ostensibly college-educated adults doesnβt give a shit? Or is that out-of-sight, out-of-mind is the go-to coping mechanism for the dickweeds who are too ashamed to man up to what they wrought?
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