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RomaVicta

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  1. I remember reading about them years ago. It limits collateral damage to whomever is in the car. You can see the ruptured roof. In the full screen view, it looks like the windows have blood curtains. I'm glad we didn't blow up the guys on the sidewalk enjoying the Bagdhad evening air. I'm sure they appreciate it and love us for it.
  2. Most Americans errantly perceived the lives of Blacks as far better than they actually were. Thus, self-congratulaion and "well, we're done!" It's the word shameless bearing the weight. The rest of us white people, I think, feel at least some minute particle of shame even if we don't do enough. But you're right.
  3. She seems like a good person. Let's all hate her!
  4. Thanks for posting something credible, but i think it's old political analysis. It's also blatantly obvious to those paying attention. Trump already captured the whole thing in his slogan. I take issue with Donald Trump, as a figure, represents the America they know and love. Applying notions of knowledge and love to Trump cultists is the height of lazy absurdity. In now world did any version of America known and loved allied with Russia since the end of WW2. No version known and loved shamelessly oppressed non white males as an open policy in the adult lifetimes of almost all Americans. The America of that period constantly congratulated itself for tossing crumbs from white hands to hands of color. It's pure hate that sustains the cult. Hate of an illusory enemy. The cult won't break up if the current leader dies. There are still plenty of Moonies fucking things up all over the world. @Neonmoon found the better analysis. I stopped reading after about 20 traits because it was clearly going to be apt through and through. And depressing.
  5. Thank you. I had no idea. My best guess was that it was our entry into the abyss of the SEC grind or some such.
  6. Yep. It makes watching those shows insufferable. But, ya know, ya gotta get both sides even if one is plainly assymetrical and dishonest. Journalism! We have the quotes!
  7. I'd add shouting over the host and other guests to repeat the same shit over and over. For that, they should get the hook.
  8. I see advantages in having a player grow in the culture and build more than a one season relationship with both the QB and the offense. I'd also like to have guys on the team that feel attached to the University.
  9. It could be that. Or it could be that the young man is unimpressed with the influx of Missouri Valley studs and would like to play for a good team.
  10. For a second, I thought your hand was an automatic rifle. Dark humor. Maybe too soon. Anyway, I endorse your message.
  11. Solid discussion going on here. It's a pleasure to read either side. The op stated that rights were God-given and he related it specifically to Christian Nationalism. Although Christian Nationalists neither understand nor attempt to adhere it, they believe God has sent them a Letter telling them who to be and how to act. If you're not obeying The Letter or lying about obeying The Letter, you're dangerous enemy. I and others (I'll presume to say) spoke of natural rights and laws because nature is the only thing we all can experience that may have been created by a god. Nature would be the expression of any rights founded in God. We argue that there are no rights in nature. Rights were conceptualized and generated by the humans. They were supersticious humans who had their idea of the sacred, but it was nothing like the revealed religions which later came. Rights exist as a result of human existence and intellectual development over time. The notion of rights would have been as strange to early humans as they would be to ants, tigers, trees, and birds. To quote from Northern Exposure, a show I didn't particularly like, Adam Arkin's character says to someone wanting to be idealistice about nature: Out there it's feeding time 24 hourse a day.
  12. I agree. Rights must be won and defended after they are declared. Nature is the last place you can expect any right at all to privacy, safety, or happiness. You may discover a place of solitude where you can protect those "rights" (conditions) yourself, but that's about it. God didn't run the British out of the colonies.
  13. People say to me that I have the best words. A philologist came up to me, maybe 5 hoods on his gown, smart guy. I don't know what philologists do, but I'm pretty sure he's the best one. Anyway, this genius with tears soaking his mortarboard, says to me, "Sir, your words are so much better than my words! You're the genius. You must share them! All of them! Remain prolix!" I"m pretty sure prolix is a good thing.
  14. The seriousness of his alleged crimes is easily enough to get anybody else either incarcerated or confined to their home pending results. He was showing top secret documents to just about anybody. He is accused of leading an insurrection. He is accused of tampering with voter processes. He's not in jail because the media, for one, clutches their pearls at the thought of an ex-president being placed (gasp!) in jail. Most people in government follow suit. If he's convicted before the election, he should be in jail for appeals. He will have been proven to be a danger to the republic. He is not remotely remorseful or repentent. To this day he remains the toxic presence personifying the most deplorable things about the USA. His crimes cry out for execution. The obvious cries out for incarceration already. Tut-tutting from Wold Blitzer and his fellow clowns will make a public case about what a horrible precedent it would set. Only we on the internet occasionally mention that his conviction and incarceration would be great evidence that no person is above the law. I'm not concluding anything yet, but do rich, powerful white men lead the effort to keep Trump unpunished? Do they want to keep the foul notion and belief that the rich never suffer so no one really expects them to go to jail? My nascent thoughts don't suggest a conscious conspiracy: more like an appearance of unified action because of common inclinations. My posts are really getting long.
  15. He has something far more devastating in reserve. Ironclad Disclaimer Paragraph "Many people have said it's the best disclaimer paragraph."
  16. I'm glad you recognized the importance of sound scientific knowledge in a post that includes a picture of a couple standing in front of a Honey Wagon. So often the gravity of my tone is missed.
  17. Unless the other people with money see you as a threat.
  18. Oh boy! Aggies discover use of fertilzer to enhance plant growth! Breakthrough stuff. Game changer. Really cooking with gas, now! "Up to" 3/4 moondust mixture with earthworm shit and fungi. Lessee, that's at least 1/4 total weight of soil is earthworm shit and fungi. Hmmm. I'm sure NASA will want to devote precious payload weight to those items. They'll probably dedicate an entire spacecraft to the effort. Below, two assholenauts pose in front of the new space scow. Aggies say that next time it rains on the moon, astronauts can harvest the earthworms that come to the surface and harvest fungus by deveoping athlete's foot on the feet of all astronauts. Further study is needed to determine if crotch rot fungi can used for farming as well.
  19. My friends, I'll remind you of HL Mencken
  20. Slavery? We may disagree but millions of Southerners agree with me. Will that do as an argument? It's an argument for how you feel. Or how you choose to feel. Or how you've been moved to feel by cascading lies from the hate engine which relieve you of having to do anything other than feel. Feel fear and hate. Thank you for your service in dooming the republic and the Constitution to which you swore an oath.
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