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  1. 4 hours ago, immamac said:

    It's finishing up the last batch of updates to the indexes then it'll go back to normal. When a huge indexing job with a thread with 56k+ replies happens it bottlenecks the whole search engine and for some reason the post doesn't reload the page until after the search index is updated even though it's committed to the database, which is why if you hit submit and immediately refresh your post is there but it just takes forever for the page to initiate the reload.

    TFW surly can't handle the shitposting

  2. 3 minutes ago, usmc0331horn said:

    I hate adults who don't do the readings before discussion. Gtfo of here and educate your dumbass.

    That's what he has his YouTube recommendations feed for. Haven't you seen the culture war garbage he's been posting?

  3. Just now, PHLaggie said:

    Then again, Nigerian Americans likely have intact family structures and many other reasons why they don't run afoul of law and order.  America would do better to see how that works instead of getting on the CRT bandwagon.

    TFW racist policies designed to destabilize black families and communities in America have stressed and fractured family structures. Shit, when black folks got too rich the police fucking bombed and burned their neighborhoods off the fucking map. 

    America would do better to see how it's history of racism in legislation and law enforcement has directly led to today's issues instead of telling them to get some bootstraps.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, PHLaggie said:

    that would be the antithesis of CRT-- which posits that race is at the center of lived experience in America...  liberals like James Lindsay in fact bat against essentializing race the way CRT does.  CRT literally undoes the famous quote of Dr King about judging others by their character and not by their skin color-- CRT insists on judging everybody by their skin color.

    What the fuck are you talking about? The central thesis of CRT is that the law treats races differently by the color of their skin, and seeks to examine the relationship between race and law

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  5. 1 minute ago, PHLaggie said:

    Notice that I never referred to the Frankfurt School.  You can deflect and argue via smears, but apparently not on facts. Too bad. There is nothing antisemitic in my posts, not even any intent. To read into it is itself pretty idiotic and lazy.

    My dude, that's the top hit if you Google "cultural marxism". The term of art evolved from goebbels and the third reich ministry of propoganda's "cultural bolshevism". It's literally the same fucking argument. 

    Educate yourself, aggy. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, Johnny Sack said:

    It makes whites feel bad about something they had nothing to do with. 

    If all you've ever known is the fruits and privileged of an inherently inequal system (read: being born on 3rd and acting like you hit a triple), then equality certainly could seem like oppression. 

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  7. 31 minutes ago, PHLaggie said:

    CRT is an evolution of postmodernism and of cultural Marxism-- the modifier "cultural" to Marxism being needed since Marxism deals primarily with issues of money (haves vs have nots) whereas CRT (and certain thinkers in postmodernism) puts the Marxist trope onto race. 

    There is adequately detailed information available on CRT by cogent thinkers online; it's not hard to understand that it is at its core a divisive ideology.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory

    Aggy and antisemitic conspiracy theories. Name a more iconic duo.

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  8. 40 minutes ago, hornfan785 said:

    I was tired of the way Hannah was doing things.

    Hanna was very much part of the group that kept pushing the shitty short tunes like the wolf of wallstreet chest thump. And he was one of the dumbasses who insisted on playing Strong Eyes on 3rd down, only for the defense to crumble and give up the 3rd down - rather than playing it after a big 3rd down stop.

    Here's hoping Dr. Croomes brings a much-needed fresh perspective and new ideas to LHB, and hopefully some better fucking halftime shows than the UIL curly-Q bullshit that Hanna loves so much

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  9. 1 minute ago, DonkeyCigars said:

    I ask because of this article. Where is the line drawn? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/nyregion/vaccinated-masks-cdc.html

     

    For me, it's if I'm going to be seeing any immunocompromised family members in the next week or so, or anyone who cares for them. Being vaccinated protects you from infection, but it's still possible for your body to be carrying the virus if you were exposed to a sufficiently high viral load and your immune system hasn't finished kicking it's ass yet. 

    Situations like the one you linked are the exception and not representative of baseline cautious behavior. Wearing a single facemask isn't the same as wearing two with googles etc etc. But still, who gives a shit if that person chooses to live that way? Contrary to unvaxxed antimask people, his personal decision actually doesn't hurt anyone else or increase their risk

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  10. 7 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    CNN just had a segment on evangelicals that aren’t going to get the vaccine. The evangelical guest basically said they aren’t wasting time reaching out to the farthest right in their congregations because those people are batshit crazy. 

    they just want to meet jesus, whats the big deal?

  11. 15 hours ago, kevwun said:

    I am almost done with The Good Shepherd which is the book the movie was based on.  It has been a really good read.  I haven't read many books were the tension was palpable, but it is in this one.  Worth reading if you were a fan of the movie.

    Dan Carlin of Hardcore History fame actually did an interview with Tom Hanks in which they discussed history and Hanks' adaptation of that book into Greyhound. Great listen and conversation between two history nerds

     

  12. Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border

    (link to tranche of documents in documentcloud)

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    In newly disclosed records, Trump officials cited conspiracies about Antifa to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit. The documents also show that more lawyers were targeted than previously known.

    Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2019. And she didn’t know why she was being questioned by an agent who’d introduced himself as a counterterrorism specialist.

    Levy was part of the legal team representing the father of a girl who’d died the previous month in the custody of the Border Patrol, which is part of CBP. “There was so much hate for immigration lawyers at that time,” she recalled. “I thought that somebody had put in an anonymous tip that I was a terrorist.”

    The truth was more troubling. Newly released records show that Levy was swept up as part of a broader than previously known push by the administration of President Donald Trump to use the federal government’s expansive powers at the border to stop and question journalists, lawyers and activists.

    The records reveal that Levy and attorney Héctor Ruiz were interrogated by members of CBP’s secretive Tactical Terrorism Response Team. The lawyers were suspected of “providing assistance” to the migrant caravan that was then the focus of significant attention by the administration and right-wing media. Officials speculated in later reports that immigration lawyers were seeking to profit by moving migrants through Mexico, and that “Antifa” may have been involved.

    The records were provided to ProPublica by the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, a public interest law firm and advocacy group that received them after filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit about the stops of Levy and Ruiz at the border in El Paso.

    Following revelations two years ago by NBC 7 San Diego that some journalists and others were targeted for questioning when crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, the Trump administration maintained that the incidents were limited to San Diego and a handful of U.S. citizens. But the new documents prove the operation went further — and raise questions about how many others were targeted.

    While the records are heavily redacted, they provide a window into exactly how the targeting worked. They also show that the push was based in part on claims that were simply wrong — for example, that Levy met with members of the caravan in Mexico while they were traveling towards the border.

    “This whole thing is COINTELPRO for dummies,” said Mohammad Tajsar, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to a notorious domestic spying program from decades ago. Tajsar is representing some of the San Diego activists who were stopped. An “intel-gathering apparatus was shared and deployed through a number of different agencies and resulted in a dragnet that ensnared a whole bunch of people.”

    TL:DR - CBP secret police arbitrarily classified immigration lawyers as ANTIFA terrorists to deploy domestic spying against them. Stephen Miller smiles.

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  13. 1 minute ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Any chance Houston gets back to Level 4 in our lifetime?  They are still at Level 1 - Stay Home (Severe Threat)

    https://covid-harriscounty.hub.arcgis.com/

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    I agree, based on their indicators page they should be at least at level 2 or maybe even level 3. Positivity rate is the only thing that's "red", and as discussed previously, isn't really a useful indicator for COVID intensity compared to hospitalizations and to a lesser extent, new cases.

    https://covid-harriscounty.hub.arcgis.com/#indicator-summary-table

     

  14. 42 minutes ago, CDAK said:

    You are letting your politics prevent you from understanding the issue. Corporate America, at least the ones with money that lobby the government, is not interested in spoofing numbers and making robocalls. 
     

    You can sue any company that robocalls you directly. You are entitled to $500 or $1500 per robocall. Numerous attorneys will help you. The FCC has no involvement in the lawsuit. 
     

    You may not care about people being able to receive calls from relatives and friends in India, the Philippines, etc. But a lot of Americans do care about being able to communicate with family and friends over there.

    I think you're missing a bit with your framing. It's not that the major carriers WANT robocalling to continue, but they lack the will to spend the money to modernize their systems to mitigate the problem. It's not that robocalls are some great unknowable problem to solve, it's that the entities who operate the systems don't want to solve it. 

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