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RomaVicta

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  1. I just came to check in. My opinion about paradigm shift means I likely don't add much value to the thread. However, I did browse linux examples of supposed representation of the toxic "wokies." One is phone video of a woman I don't know screaming at a man I don't know due to an overaction to a word used in an inane conversation. linux presents another one above. He rants Like his first example of woke-ism, the article from a reputable source that never uses the word "woke," he shares another highly influencial public announcement. Just gaze in awe at how it spread like wildfire to rouse the loathing of whoever linux is talking about. Are you a Limbaugh clone? This was his main technique. Somebody nobody knows or cares about said some crazy shit about how there should be armed negroes at every polling place! The guy's a registered Democrat. Folks, this is what we're up against. Liberalism seeks to turn you all to dependents of the state lorded over by thugs with guns on every corner! You seem to be hunting outrage to generate fear. You say "us" when you mean democrats. I know you're talking strategy to gain power rather than philosophy. That seems to be the way the GOP got where it is today. This will be especially true if we shun the targets of fascist Trumpism which would amount to acquiescence to whatever fate the fascists subject them to. That's capitulation IMHO. I won't be a party to that. The Dems will have diminished what distinguishes us. Should that happen, I'll be like the refugee conservatives on these threads. I'll have no home.
  2. I got a bigger version of the photo now. It's Milton Bradley's Abu Ghraib Twister!
  3. It was torture porn for the masses. Vicarious badass shit. I like the way the documentary leaves it for the viewer to decide. I was persuaded by the analyst and operative who resigned. It's sort of like the death penalty for me. If you could trust those responsible to apply correctly, I think there are plenty of monsters who deserve to die. I'm just troubled by how bad our record is for getting it right. I think the same with torture. It probably can be an effective tool if applied carefully. I think what we get is an American sadist circus.
  4. If they were underperforming, he'd have a point. They're losing. Don't get me wrong, nobody has better losses than A&M, but they are still losses. So, continual losing indicates they are capable of being as good as Texas any year. They use underperforming instead of losing so much that it's like the mandatory t.u..
  5. You guys win. I'm an idiot. Well done. Keep in touch!
  6. I had no idea of my influence or even my place among whatever you think the left is. I've dispensed with great concerns about the next election. It's not really much of a part of the new paradigm. The new paradigm is those destroying the republic versus those who'd like to keep it. I'm on the second side. I know some conservative thinkers here who were once GOPs that feel the same way. Hell, I'm sure plenty of reds, greens, anti-abortion folks are in the group as well. Left and right are way out of the picture. Wake up! Oh noes! Then you might get called woke! Idiot World is winning big.
  7. @linux I'll go dig a bunker in my backyard today!
  8. They also don't have a unified following of hateful zombies anxious for the next idiotic comminiqué to fill the rotten hole where their human brains used to be. They have this: For a war, got to go with the image at top. For a civilization, go with that on the bottom. We're in deep shit!
  9. I did a search in that article for the word "woke." You're applying the notion that allows you to hate to your vision of whatever you think reality is. I have profound objections to grad student thesis/dissertation tyranny over the language. I'm sure one of them came up with the notion of "able-ism." They represent a third party of naive, ivory tower dullards believing they are making a better society by protecting people they never talk to. Retard, a word I love for comedy, is clearly derogatory and hurtful. I'm not sure that "mentally retarded" is offensive or was offensive until the language overlords stepped in. They give us Individual with Developmental Deficiencies which is awkward grad speak. Did anybody bother to talk to that community? That evidently happened with Latinx which came and went under my radar. So yeah, I see a problem with do gooder grad students presuming to explain the world to me. It's not some horrible Wokie crime of the type that seems to get your bowels in an uproar. No intellectually balanced person could conclude from your link anything about being woke. You tried to pull Rush Limbaugh by somehow thinking you justified this bit of hysteria: By accusing a generation of virulent fascism, you show a pitiful imbalance. It's obvious to everyone but you and your fellow travellers, but I'll say it anyway, irony-deafness is a pretty good tell that you're talking to an Aggie, a Rush Limbaugh worshipper, or a Trumper. You sorta lied by saying your link had something to do with defining a wokie party full of evil doers. I won't neg you because it's all so pathetic. Thanks for wrecking my republic. Don't fall out of any windows!
  10. That's a great ad. I'm glad he won. I don't see any relation between this and the dynamics of national politics. The hate engine uses a very general "other" as fuel. The liberals and liberalism to start with. Limbaugh got to be the one to define what that meant to people and that definition led to people seeing another political opinion as willfully malicious. Those libs. Those feminazis. Those environmental wackos. In the 90s, I heard Rush start with a story about a lumberjack badly injured when his chainsaw hit a metal spike driven into a tree by eco-terrorists. Here's how the chain went over the next few minutes eco terrorist > environmental wackos > ebil liberals > Democratic office holders. Pretty slick sophistry. To the voters of Omaha, I venture to speculate based on no knowledge BTW, know this fellow who won. He is specific. He is not some general other. You can get that across in a local election and actually shine a light on the familiar idiot you're running against. I don't think it plays in the new paradigm. If this man goes national, he will drop into the vile vat of Socialists as described decried by the rabble rousers for the right. The Dems are a political party not a counter-revolutionary movement willing to use any means to win. Snappy mean ads won't work with people who sat out the last election with little qualm about for whom they were paving the way. The acquiescent are as responsible as the MAGAs. What could be more motivating to make someone vote than to keep a lying, raping, felon out of the White House? What the fuck are you talking about? The "Wokies?" There is no such thing as a Wokie movement speaking with one voice or holding one opinion. That's a figment created in the same way that Rush created his version of ebil libs by changing the meaning of liberal. Woke originally referred to well-meaning white men like me becoming aware of the real world for everybody else. Waddaya know, the cops really are murdering Black men. Waddaya know, sexual harrassment is pervasive. Waddaya know, there is institutional racism that I didn't see. BLM and Me Too triggered this desire to be woke (I so desire it myself) and recognize that there are many things that remain invisible to people like me. Woke is great shorthand for that. Tolerance and respect are the clear tenets of being woke. You surely don't find those repellent? The repellent part is having the feculant traitors to the republic using the term to say those who wish to be woke are all for the homo teachers grooming kids for later fucking or for transexualism paving the way for invasions of rapers to our holy bathrooms. (I was almost amused that nobody raised the issue of monitoring admission to women's bathrooms. ICE-like swat teams training their guns on any mildly masculine looking woman daring to want to pee? Get on the ground! Get on the ground! Nobody is doing that now to stop the actual rapers.) They're the anti-tolerance and respect party. The woke are not a party. They're (we're) just trying to open our eyes to troubling situations for fellow citizens. Common good and all that Wokie shit. Musk will outbid us.
  11. I'm reminded of the Arts and Sausages absurdist campaign back in the 70s on campus. Jay Adkins and Skip Slyfield ran for President and VP of student government. They won by sending up how worthless the whole thing was and how it was just a resume padder for whoever won. They were pretty brilliant. The one change they promised should they win was replacing the Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free with Money Talks. Smart guys.
  12. Yea, Sark is losing all kinds of sleep thinking of where A&M ranks among recruiting competitors. I'm not crazy. Really. I'm not. Me, neither. I'm perfectly normal.
  13. When that pie descends from the sky, we'll feast like kings!
  14. It's not all dumbness. The hate engine, with Brother Rush as conductor, set these narrow-minded fuckwads against the illusory "liberal" as in a war. In war, if your side suffers a setback, you don't go over to the enemy. No. You just keep fighting with faith in your leader who will surely defeat the evil you've heard about ceaselessly for decades. Policy discussion is no more than the sound of a guy selling beer in the aisles of a death match. They are argument proof. Even if they turn on The Donald, they will never lose sight of who the real enemy is: the queens and the coons and the reds and the Jews and anyone so abhorently woke that they tolerate these blights. The Flying Palace bribe is being done in broad daylight. Many just accepted the premise that Air Force One is worn out. The Saudis (or whoever) are doing Donald a favor. Play back the tape. Wait. Stop right there. Air Force One is inadequate? It's worn out. It's the best maintained plane in the world. The finest airforce in the world sees to that. The Fuckwad in Chief wants to shit all over that so he can fly like a king. Flimsy sophistry, the mainstay of "conservative" thinking, pays off in just such ways. "It's okay, he gave me a reason that I didn't consider because I'm brainwashed." It was peaceful. It was Antifa. It was just an impromptu tour. The news is distorting this. The election really was fishy. The rational are completely disarmed. Will we find a way to re-arm?
  15. I'm sure Donald and Elon funded the hell out of that.
  16. I've stated my basic philosophy regarding the behavior of others. I don't care what you do as long as you don't hurt anybody and I don't have to watch. She shatters the first part. I don't care about the second regarding her appearance. It's not nice, but it's none of my business.
  17. Like Alabama, NIL might be ending A&M's glorious history pre-bag. Again, spend what you will. Your view won't change. It's what everybody is saying. Beating Texas and playing in national championship games? Great days ahead for the Texas A&M Fightin' Texas Aggies from Texas! Howdies all around! 1. Find another phrase. Maybe it will accompany an original thought. 2 Yea, before NIL, everbody was making the obvious choice and going to A&M. They were fine men. Now? Mercs. You fucking whiny bitches. It's the norm whether you're winning or not. It's also the norm when you're outspending us. NIL provides them the perfect narative. Back when virtue reigned, the Ags were contenders and loved by all for their special ways. Now? Where have all the flowers gone? Just mercenaries.
  18. I'll presume to add to that another related observation. When you read their boards you see a recurring notion about what brings success: emotion. Their baseball team is pressing too hard and tight if you still love them while they lose. They just don't give a shit is the reasoning of the disappointed who begin to despise all but a few of the players (the real Ags!). Earley should be loosening them up or inspiring them to care enough to achieve easily attained victory. The don't give a shit appraisal is true of all major sports where the teams fail. The dullards' main technical concern in football is "adjustments." Seems they're not being made at halftime. Nobody elaborates beyond the lack of adjustments. Why get involved in the details of strategy or tactics when all that really matters is squeezing your gonads in the ultimate display of emotional support? When they loved Jimbo, his problem was stubborness. When they turned on him, they decided he didn't give a shit. All of this, in my opinion, is tied to their whole culture of redass expressions of gung-ho-ness no matter how inane or fatal. If they yell loud enough, the good ol' Texas Aggies will have the strength to vanquish their opponents and assert the power of Aggie emotion. They're basically addicted to hysteria. Hysterical love for all things Aggie. Hysterical hatred of all things not Aggie (virtue) in the form of t.u. (ebil). We get to be hysterical in the sense of extreme amusement.
  19. Are you referring to QBU? They stack five stars.
  20. I'm late returning to the thread, so forgive me for the late response. There's a lot of money to be made in a rollercoaster market. I'm sure the usual suspects are doing quite well. I find the focus on amount of wealth lost on a drop as being too narrow. Sadly, that's the focus of MSM. Insider trading, I'm guessing, should be the story. It happened before when Trump was president and actually had a few humans working around him. How much is a tip about a 100% tarriff being levied worth, Mr. Futures Marketer? Same with a heads up about withdrawing tarriffs. I have no financials training, but it appears sort of obvious to me. Be nice if some hotshot college-boy journalists could dig into such a meaty story and line everything out for me. Actually, there likely is a solid reporter looking into this. He'll get published and we'll hear the bright pebble tapping downwards into the rocky void of Idiot World.
  21. I think the legacy you describe is safe among all persons who can define legacy without referring to a video game.
  22. Hard to make a moron look more foolish than nature has provided, but...Donald, a thoughtful man, sits to ponder a question of the ages. He writes: He selects just the correct and subtle means of emphasis: Always the intellectual, Donald finds a new use of the question mark. Grouped in three, they signify exclamation and coming philosophical inquiry. To wit: So states Donald who never explains anything preferring lies, has no sense of shame so is never embarrassed, and gives no more consideration to correctness or right than a tapeworm. Next, Donald takes his shot at explanation. He lies. Ever the subtle man, well, let's let him describe himself, "not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!"... ...Donald's valediction is layered as is the onion. It sounds like a dunning letter: Our Donny boy.
  23. I haven't the previous few pages. Is this serious? Nevermind.
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