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Captainant

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  1. On that note, at least suppressors may finally come off the NFA. It would make range trips and hunting much more pleasant
  2. You are doing the exact same schtick as the mayor of Kerrville is by shaking your finger and say "SHAME ON YOU" to shout down anyone you see as opposition and smaller than you. But its your board, so ultimately you're right and I'm wrong and we're gonna do it your way.
  3. And if the rules are "facts are for the Cloak Room" then ok cool, let's just be fucking honest and not lie to ourselves.
  4. This is exactly why I disagree with imma's assertion that he doesn't "control the message, [he] doesn't shape the threads". He absofuckinglutely does. He rolled out the red carpet for Pronghorn to blast racist disinformation and known foreign agitprop as a news source, and then the mods swung their dicks around on anyone who points that out. Because "nobody cares if it's lies, it's not against the rules to be an idiot". Yeah, TOTALLY not shaping the narrative or controlling the message to say that they are above reproach and their dogshit and frequently recanted sourcing doesn't smell like shit. It's very literally creating a safe space for disinformation and those who want to disseminate it. And look, I understand that it would just be easier if we like all got along man. But that requires a common set of facts and a single reality. And the way DT is ran, you can simply cry "CR!!!" to paper over any factual vacancies you might have pointed out to you.
  5. Now imagine this happening at the executive level at pretty much every big enterprise. Hey, at least it means more job security for me when everything breaks and they need someone to untangle their mess that they lack the comprehension to even describe, much less optimize
  6. And it remains to be fully explained what exactly Kerr County did in response to the flash flood watch and warning alerts sent out by NWS, you're absolutely right that the camp itself may be victim of the county's negligence in all of this. But Mystic was also the folks operating a camp in the most flood prone area of the country during flash flood conditions, with nobody standing watch for hundreds of souls. Who knows if their emergency planning even had a watch stander, or if one is even required by the State? More questions to be ignored and shouted down with accusations of politicizing things, I guess.
  7. I've talked to folks at a bar who have said shit like "I didn't like my doctors opinion, so I fed my x-ray to grok and it diagnosed me" and thought that was a totally normal and smart thing to do. There's millions of people just signing over their executive function to a large language model because critical thinking is hard. They are so incredibly vulnerable to the sort of mental tuning that musk and zuck excel at with their algorithmically driven platforms and LLM-driven assistants
  8. The issue I have here is that the State kept no records as copy of the evac plan. They were all on-site and likely destroyed in the flood. So there isn't really an authoritative record of their plan that was approved aside from "trust me, bro" I have a hard time believing that the plan was acceptable, given the empirical outcome of its execution. And yet, expressing that opinion is somehow political in the eyes of the overlords.
  9. The imma crash out last night was legendary. Facts are political on Surly now. Or at least, facts that make conservatives no longer comfortable with keeping their heads happily in the sand are political. He claims to not dictate conversation, and here he is again building a fucking safe space so they can avoid the ugly truth of how badly their history of (R) votes failed hundreds of Texans on July 4th weekend in Kerrville. Fucking ridiculous that facts and investigative reporting are considered CR by the aggy in chief. It's giving cover to "it could have been worse" and preemptively justifying doing nothing to prevent future deaths. But goddamnit, they can post as much racist hate filled immigrants ragebait as they want in DT!
  10. [County]Well, I'm sure the local taxpayers were all fine and knew what to do. Fuck them tourists! [/commissioner]
  11. I'm not claiming you did! Show me my words where I said that. You said: So I read that as you threatening to memory hole more shit in a "I'll fuckin do it again" way. Apologies for misreading that. And dude. You kidding me? It was more having a laugh at how pitch perfect the critique is and how good Lucas' vision was 50 years ago. You do know that Star Wars ('77) was modeled after the Vietnam War, right? The rebels were modeled after the VC, and America was the Empire. George Lucas himself said Star Wars is supposed to be anti-colonial https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-vietnam-war-inspiration-explainer/ That's pretty explicit and direct from the creator. Edit: Well, I'm not sure why you're taking slorch's word for my posts in the Andor thread. He's characterizing me as some zealot in the thread (and I'm pretty sure he just plain doesn't like me). I'm not. I'm contributing to the discussion and talking about the show and what's on screen. Go read it for yourself since you have such a strong opinion.
  12. You're setting a standard here that objective facts like meeting minutes that explicitly say WHY a critical warning was not delivered and reporting from the Associated Press is verboten outside of the Cloak Room? I don't disagree with a news thread being a news thread, but I don't see how what I'm posting there is anything but news. Yeah, it's pretty much all shitty news. Don't shoot the messenger.
  13. I'm literally getting better news updates from the CR thread. DT is great if you want more updates from Facebook posts and Mystic text chains. The transcripts and meeting minutes? The fact that the State of Texas had just validated their emergency planning two days prior? It's not that they're being an idiot, it's that they're politicizing the tragedy by refusing to look at the fucking causes for hundreds of people getting killed in the most flood prone valley in America. You're setting the Overton window at the point where asking "why our government approved a plan that gave zero warning to a camp full of children" is """PoLiTiCaL""". For real?
  14. Pretty shocking find from AP:
  15. Lol I thought the board was broken from so many posts disappearing so I posted in the borked thread, and he deleted that too! Classico
  16. wow-eeeeeee crashing out via your large language model is a pretty impressive feat
  17. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dune-3-title-imax-cameras-1236448953/ "Dune: Part 3", not Dune Messiah as previously thought. Still gonna be shot for IMAX though which will be allsome. What a wonderful time for a cautionary tale about messianic leaders backed by religious extremists
  18. this isn't even a political thing!!! It's just that we're so culturally fucked that even the MERE FUCKIN IDEA of climate change is inherently political and therefore, VERBOTEN! And rather than address the idiots who are reflexively claiming that objective facts are political, it's like he's getting mad that there's a confrontation about it at all. If you don't want people arguing with idiots on your board, don't make it culturally protected and tacitly endorsed to use "CR!!!" as a "get out of a losing argument for free" card.
  19. This is America. they're rolling into LA like it's fuckin Fallujah. DOD has confirmed US soldiers are being deployed domestically. Fuck the Posse Comitatus Act amirite? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-troops-ground-la-immigration-enforcement-operation-dod/story?id=123542308
  20. that's what the video caption said, at least
  21. "laws signed and proposed" is the same thing as "previous decisions made by people who are in charge". They're both public policy. By your yardstick here, should I be banned for citing meeting minutes when the county leadership decided to not invest in sirens? That's critical context to WHY this mass casualty event was primed and filled with children to sacrifice on the altar of MUH TAXES.
  22. fucking WHAT? The first thing that "John" says in response is "Obama's president."
  23. truly some "let them eat cake" shit, talking about gold leafing your furniture while childrens bodies are being picked out of trees in Texas.
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