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Brisketexan last won the day on December 3
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All I know is that one year, the only year ever, my wife was SO frustrated with our moderate coverage, with HSA, and the PITA of administering all those expenses, that she insisted we do the "buy-up" expensive plan that had low-as-hell deductibles (but the most expensive premium). Cost me an extra couple thousand in premium that year. BUT...it was also the year my daughter had a critical infection and had to be hospitalized for a week, then undergo extensive treatment for months. Total bill was $180k or so. I wrote one $1,000 check for my deductible, and never worried about the cost of her treatment again. Lucky timing. If that happened today, we'd be out $6k or so (I think), at least. Our system is completely fucked and fucky, and the GQP "fixes" are nothing of the sort.
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Cold hard truths. My family has been here since it was Coahuila y Tejas, you fucking newcomers. And one of my dad's first jobs was driving shuttle vans to get braceros (migrant workers) to farm work sites in S. Texas in the early 50s. Raging against hispanics in America is as fucking stupid as raging against descendants of englishmen in America. We were here at the inception. And we've kept coming, just like the English, and Germans, and Irish, and Chinese (oh, remember - we hated the FUCK outta them too. And the Irish. And the dirty dagos. Sense a pattern here? Lazy xenophobia much?). What I love about this reactionary "MUSLIMS ARE EVIL AND WE HAVE TO EXPEL THEM ALL!" is that it is literally identical to....the shit that islamofascists say and are demonized for. "JEWS ARE EVIL AND WE MUST EXPEL THEM FROM THE HOLY LAND!" And according to our right-wing thought leaders, the right response to the fact that a small percentage (seriously, it's a very small percentage) of muslims are of the "we cannot tolerate the infidel and must use violence against them" variety is.....to act exactly the same fucking way AGAINST them. Personally, I say we expel all hateful assholes. That way, we get to boot both islamofascists AND Christofascists. If we got to put an islamic terrorist and Tommy Tubberville on the same plane outta here, it would be a massive win for society.
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Oh, my friend. Hope is for suckers. Despair following the rules of (1) it only gets worse, and (2) there is no bottom, is where it's at these days. You should join us out on the ledge. I think there's even room for you to lie down.
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My great hope is that all of them seem to be pouring all of their energy and wealth into AI.....so when it collapses, it will take them down with it.
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"Stupid shit yelled loudly and repeatedly" is perhaps the most valuable commodity of the past 20 years or so.
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At this point, an increasingly larger percentage of Americans -- from various spots on the political spectrum -- feels similarly. The hubris of the billionaire class will be their undoing. The problem is, as if often the case in such situations, their well-being is too wrapped up in the functioning of the rest of society, so the collateral damage will be significant when it happens. Plenty of folks have been shouting these warnings for years, including some intelligent and self-aware members of the billionaire class, but human ego, narcissism, and hubris are unstoppable forces. They will stop only when they meet their brutal destruction, by which point it is way too late.
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THESE. The problem isn't that there are no good ideas. The problem is that we've created a system where (1) the only ideas deemed "good" are those that will increase the flow of the firehose of money to billionaires, and billionaires only, and (2) ANY AND ALL OTHER IDEAS, because they either serve the common good or create smaller profits and/or profits only for people below the billionaire class, are not just not favored, they are condemned as evil and socialism and we must disband the EU and pass laws against them etc. etc. If you want to know how you get guillotines, this path is exactly how you get guillotines.
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Say what you will, but “The Summit of Grifting Cunts” was the best prog-rock album of 2024.
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Yeah…that one sucks. Dammit.
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This. Short truths: If AI turns out to be all they are promising, we’re fucked (social collapse, job losses, super intelligence that escapes our control, etc.) If AI turns out NOT to be all they are promising, we’re fucked (massive economic collapse with domino effect. AI shit accounts for literally all of our positive GDP right now).
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I mean…this is spot-on.
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Brisketexan started following Shooting at Brown University
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This. Because this is the truth, and always has been: Trump supporters fucking LIKE the open assholery, shittiness, and cruelty. They don't like him in spite of that, they love him BECAUSE of it. They wouldn't be supporters WITHOUT those things. Because remember, the cruelty/shittiness/evil IS THE POINT. And the irony is perfect. If you wanted to produce the most anti-Christian (defining Christianity as "the lessons and teachings of Christ," which is, you know, the actual definition) movement in global history, it would look EXACTLY like MAGA. FFS, even during the Crusades, the islamic opposition had more respect for the actual values of Christianity, and the practice of same, than the MAGA movement does. Indeed, today, in terms of "walking in the way of Christ," 95% of the practicing muslim world walks the Christian way better than MAGA does.
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Yeah. And I particularly loved that very Christian era in DFW (and Texas as a whole), when they lynched black people. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lynching You could really feel Christ's loving embrace as they grabbed and tortured black men before they executed them in public. WWJL? Who Would Jesus Lynch? Fuck these pieces of shit. Fuck their fake Christianity.
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Yep. In a functioning Republic, 99% of Americans should be able to go a week without even remembering we have a president, or hearing a single word from him. Just like any other large organization. You should just go about your day and do your job. If the CEO is shouting in your ear three times a day about every little thing down to the brand of coffee creamer in the break room, you work for a shitty, shitty, REALLY shitty company.
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