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  1. This. If you show vacillation and inconsistency as a negotiator, then your counterparty will spend their time working on YOU, and trying to change your approach, instead of negotiating on the ultimate issue. Don’t walk in the door all loosey-goosey. Walk in firm and with a united approach.
  2. They’re too busy covering his room with antifa paraphernalia. There will surely be a file in there saying “antifa to-do list: sent by Joe Biden,” and shit like that.
  3. Yeah…way to draw out the family’s agony and grief, assholes. Plenty of solid flags indicating suicide. And saying “but suicide doesn’t make sense” is no rebuttal at all: suicide is very often not a rational decision. You could come up with all kinds of reason why the deceased shouldn’t have done so….but those reasons weren’t enough. It doesn’t make sense. Shit, it’s why the word “senseless” exists.
  4. This story is dead-on balls accurate. For most of the infrastructure you can think of. I’ve heard utility types brag about keeping things working in a maintenance budget that was 10% of what it should have been….because that’s what they were told to do because leadership never wants to raise rates. Those guys can keep shit going with duct tape and baling wire for a LONG time, until they can’t. And then 75 yrs of deferred maintenance comes due. And everyone bitches about the rate hike. It’s our national ethos. Opex is the devil.
  5. Bingo. Which is why this regime and its supporters absolutely do not want, and are actually 100% opposed, to "merit-based" admissions, hiring, etc. Because it turns out that white men are pretty fucking mediocre. Talk to anyone hiring higher-level professionals and such. They'll tell you that out of the stack of resumes they get from grad programs etc., a vast majority of the good candidates are women and/or minorities.
  6. "All politics is simp fealty to Trump." - New GQP version
  7. I'd think poorly - as in, so poorly they could never recover in my eyes - of anyone who DID trust those two absolute in-over-their-head clowns.
  8. Good question. I pondered that before myself. "Okay...I came up with this calendar. It starts....RIGHT NOW!" "But sir, according to the oracles, and the solstice, and all that other shit, it's the middle of June. So we just missed the first half of the very first year EVER? That doesn't seem right."
  9. What is sufficient? Being white. That’s it.
  10. Yep, my son made that exact point. He actually told us that he has cited the Bible recently, in the context of discussing text/dogma that has influenced particular positions.....and he cited not just specific chapter and verse, but also third-party sources that validated the assertion that said chapter and verse was a basis for the particular belief. In other words, the basic blocking and tackling of any researched paper. These fuckers are pure sophistry -- their source for damned near everything is "because I say/believe so." It's self-validating. How do we know what you say is true? Well, I said it. Therefore, it's true. I cite myself. Fucking idiocracy.
  11. My son spotted this story the other day. As he is in the midst of writing multiple senior-level papers for his classes, his comment was "I read her submission. It got a shit grade because it was shit research and writing. If I turned in something that poorly written, I'd get a shit grade too." He also commented that he met an OU student on exchange last year (and he's connected with him on social media), and saw he "liked" the main post on this. His comment was "I did a project with him, and yeah, it's safe to say OU isn't a place of intellectual enlightenment. He was quite dull." Even in Germany, people figure out that OU SUCKS.
  12. The cultural messaging the regime has been sending these past months is truly incredible. Bottom line, if you fuck over people on a grand scale: fraud, corruption, bribery, massive drug trafficking.....those things are no longer crimes (if your policy is to remove all consequences for those acts, you have functionally decriminalized the acts). I cannot adequately express how damaging all of this is. The powerful now have license to do whatever they want, with no restrictions or consequences. The image of blind lady justice with scales needs to be permanently retired. It's over.
  13. Look up the story of Kaoru Hasegawa. A pilot attacking American ships off Okinawa in 1945. Shot down. Ended up floating in the water. Rescued by the USS Callaghan. Fucking hell. These fucking assholes who puff out their chests and call themselves "warfighters" and such bullshit, only to commit acts of cowardice and false bravado and power over the powerless....fuck those fucks. They are not fit to be within a mile of the uniform or the US military. You win war with weapons, you win peace with values. We're working on destroying everything we built for a century in a matter of weeks. And Trumpers think that's a good thing. The men of the USS Callaghan - men who actually saw and went through hell, and had just been attacked (that is, they weren't sitting safely in the Pentagon or Florida, watching shit on a screen) - would say differently. I'm with them. Not the cowards who think that a title gives them honor. No, you fucks, ACTING with honor makes you honorable. Nothing else does.
  14. Again....duh. There's never any complexity with this bunch. Imagine the straight-line dumbest/most criminal thing they could do....and that's the thing they do.
  15. Duh. It's been known that's exactly what happened for quite a while. Not really ambiguous. We executed German officers for doing exactly the same thing. The individuals responsible for this should end up in Leavenworth until they turn to ash and bone.
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