Everything posted by bolverk
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Ah. I was looking on my phone without glasses and missed the 2018 part by just zooming in on the red.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Good lord! You weren't kidding. So damn happy for y'all!
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2025 LA Civilian and National Guard Conflict
Rich out-of-state doctors from Austin who buy little glass chalets in Montana on the side of a mountain overlooking a lake shouldn’t cast the first stone. You should hear how New Mexicans and Coloradans bitch about Texans "driving up prices and changing local dynamics."
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2025 LA Civilian and National Guard Conflict
Follow-up: A little friction and squabbling isn't a bad thing, imo, but of course:
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The Democratic Party
Meet this representative from LA County. She's pretty good.
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The Democratic Party
Lots of law enforcement, ICE, etc., do training over there for some reason.
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Israel vs everyone war thread
The guy seems like a real straight shooter and a class act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wakeford
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
One aspect of the past was the social pressure that the economic elite exerted on one another to engage in charitable works with their wealth, i.e., noblesse oblige. It seems that went away at some point, likely when marginal tax rates were really high after WW2, and the expectation didn't return during the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s. Edit: Instead, we got Robin fucking Leach and "Greed is Good."
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Trump’s America
From Military.com: Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance It was supposed to be a routine appearance, a visit from the commander in chief to rally the troops, boost morale and celebrate the Army's 250th-birthday week, which culminates with a Washington, D.C., parade slated for Saturday. Instead, what unfolded Tuesday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, bore little resemblance to the customary visit from a president and defense secretary. There, President Donald Trump unleashed a speech laced with partisan invective, goading jeers from a crowd of soldiers positioned behind his podium -- blurring the long-standing and sacrosanct line between the military and partisan politics. As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom -- amid the president's controversial move to deploy the National Guard and Marines against protesters in Los Angeles -- as well as former President Joe Biden and the press. The soldiers roared with laughter and applauded Trump's diatribe in a shocking and rare public display of troops taking part in naked political partisanship. For this story, Military.com reached out to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office as well as the Army and the 82nd Airborne Division directly with a series of questions that ranged from the optics of the event to social media posts showing the sale of Trump campaign merchandise on the base, to the apparent violation of Pentagon policies on political activity in uniform. Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. One unit-level message bluntly saying: "No fat soldiers." "If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out," another note to troops said. Service officials declined to comment when asked about the extent to which troops were screened, whether soldiers displaying partisan cheers on television -- a violation of long-standing Pentagon rules -- would be disciplined or if soldiers who objected to participating in the event, citing disagreements with the administration, would be disciplined or admonished in any way. "This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution," one commander at Fort Bragg told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This was shameful. I don't expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term." cont'd
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Trump’s America
- The Democratic Party
Thanks. I appreciate the link and will check it out. But I'm now embarrassed to say I got his name confused with his fmr. CNN anchor brother. That said, I don't really follow what's going on in other states too well unless it makes headlines on the front page, especially when it's not discussed on Surly.- 2025 LA Civilian and National Guard Conflict
@C-Man Would any of the damage to this vehicle be covered under an insurance claim?- The Democratic Party
Honest, totally serious question -- not a gotcha: I don't have cable and haven't had it since 2009, so the only -- and I mean ONLY -- times I've ever actually heard him talk about stuff are from clips posted on Surly. Could you provide a link to something as an example of what you're talking about? TIA- 2025 LA Civilian and National Guard Conflict
Well, you see, since he has disagreements with those weirdos on economic policy, he could never side with them on foundational democracy stuff like the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights. So, we find ourselves at an impasse as the Regime tests the boundaries of establishing a racist authoritarian police state where US residents lose due process rights as they’re spirited away to foreign prison camps, and protesting that earns you an ass-beating, a horse-trampling, a rubber bullet to the gut, or a tear gas cannister to the head.- 2025 LA Civilian and National Guard Conflict
It's a deflection away from the actual issue.- June 14th - 'No Kings' Mass Protest
If you haven't already and have Disney+, watch Andor. It's an incredibly instructive non-CR series (though the parallels are unmistakable) about fascism and rebelling from it. Apologies if you've already seen it, because I can't recall if you've posted in that thread.- 2025 LA Civilian and National Guard Conflict
I’d also add that learning that other posters with whom we could casually get along and joke around previously are A-OKAY with fascism has put a damper on the fun times.- 2025 LA Civilian and National Guard Conflict
Woman trying to get home to her apartment, standing 30 feet away from cops. We can't hear her but can assume she's likely trying to explain the situation. She gets shot and walks away (crying), cops render zero aid, bystander (filmer) comes to assist hurt woman, and it sounds like cops start to shoot at her, too, at the end.- LA ICE protest escalation
That's just fucking appalling and enraging. That, to me, is assault. In normal times, would there be any possible way for that woman to get any sort of justice or compensation? Also, take note that the victim received zero aid from any "public servants" and that a civilian had to run cattycorner across the intersection to help the woman, and even she was also threatened. (To embed on Surly, just copy/paste the url link instead of trying any share buttons)- 2025 Thread of the Rains
YTD rainfall. This link should allow you to zoom in and hover over your locale. YTD rainfall anomaly. Link YTD Average. Link- Trump’s America
Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.- The Democratic Party
- Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
What the hell are you talking about? We got a speech about green eggs and ham once, about 12 years ago.- Trump’s America
I can understand their rationale, since Russian-friendly Serbia doesn’t recognize their independence and they feel the need to be on the dickhead’s good side. They’re placing a bet that Il Dookie won’t eventually stab them in the back. We'll see how that goes for them.- LBGTQ
I'd lay off Slorch. Yeah, he's right-leaning, and we’re certainly not going to agree with him on everything. But on the fundamental basics of democracy and opposition to the Trump Regime, the dude is an ally. He formally renounced any lingering support for the fuckface years ago, immediately after Helsinki and Trump shitting all over the vets and skipping out on visiting that cemetary in France. That was all well before the 2020 election. Edit: I generally think he's a more live-and-let-live guy who won't offer full-throated support on a lot of social issues. He probably shouldn't be considered an ally, per se, for the LGBTQ community, but I think he'd just rather not have stuff shoved in his face. Call him a neutral party on this front, unless I'm misreading him. I think that's about the best that can be expected for a fundamentally conservative straight white guy from Texas, and I don't mean that condescendingly or as a put down. It just is. - The Democratic Party
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