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  1. 10 minutes ago, MontereyMX said:

    are you an actual attorney or a play pretend? you appear to be fascinated with play pretend…

    I dunno, man.....I have been told incessantly that drag queens are grooming our kids to go all pedophile on them, and we all need more Jesus.....but goshdarnit, it seems like the Jesus crowd are actually the real groomers molesting our kids.  I'm just floored by this turn of events, and it has me all topsy-turvy and discombobulated.

    But I do on occasion pretend to be an attorney.  I even bought a proper suit, so I could dress the part....

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  2. 15 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    The difference between your "good" friends and co-workers who will nevertheless vote for Trump and truly good people is that the "good" people you're thinking about at a very fundamental level don't regard people who aren't like them as fully human. It may not even be an entirely conscious belief system, but they don't regard a black woman or an hispanic man or a white atheist as deserving of the same fundamental rights and dignities as they are (and usually they don't think white women are either).  

     

    15 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    As I and many other posters have noted here countless times the past few years, the nazis themselves weren't all comic book villains, most were normal, decent-seeming people who loved their families, helped out friends, etc. That's the lesson we should've learned from WW2. Instead we mythologized them as some sort of unique, ultimate evil that the world would never see again.  But they weren't, they were just regular people who tended to lean reactionary in their politics and personality, who had they been born in another time and place could've been Rockefeller Republicans.

    Bolded the killer takeaways.

    As just one example, people with a last name like mine aren't...you know.... "real Americans."  And with that judgment/decision, we can be cast to the depths of hell without a second thought.

    Hannah Arendt's observation of "the banality of evil," and how evil outcomes were made possible by a lack of empathy, was and remains dead-on, balls accurate (EDIT: Twice even beat me to the Arendt reference by a second):

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    Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’. He acted without any motive other than to diligently advance his career in the Nazi bureaucracy. Eichmann was not an amoral monster, she concluded in her study of the case, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). Instead, he performed evil deeds without evil intentions, a fact connected to his ‘thoughtlessness’, a disengagement from the reality of his evil acts. Eichmann ‘never realised what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’. Lacking this particular cognitive ability, he ‘commit[ted] crimes under circumstances that made it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he [was] doing wrong’.

    Arendt dubbed these collective characteristics of Eichmann ‘the banality of evil’: he was not inherently evil, but merely shallow and clueless, a ‘joiner’, in the words of one contemporary interpreter of Arendt’s thesis: he was a man who drifted into the Nazi Party, in search of purpose and direction, not out of deep ideological belief.

    A dehumanizing lack of empathy for our fellow humans who don't look exactly like us, or don't think or worship God exactly like us, is absolutely how we have ended up where we are, and it's why we are inexorably heading towards an inhuman hell that none of us can or want to imagine.

    In the end, we are going to implement and empower a movement that will do inhuman things to other humans because they simply don't believe that those other humans are actually human.  A tale as old as humanity itself, and we are doomed to repeat it on a loop.  Oh, and that those fucktards DARE to stand on "antisemitism is wrong!" as some supposed principled stance they take (as members of their own movement actively attack jews and (((globalists))) and the like) is the fucking cherry on top.

  3. On 3/6/2024 at 5:21 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

     Nikki Haley will reportedly suspend her campaign today. Press conference scheduled for 10 AM. They say she won’t immediately endorse Trump. Per the morning news. 

     

    On 3/6/2024 at 5:30 AM, South Austin said:

    She’ll endorse him in less than 48 hours.

     

    On 3/6/2024 at 5:46 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

    That wouldn’t surprise me. I know it will happen. The Ohio primary is in two weeks. I’m sure it will happen before then. 

     

    On 3/6/2024 at 6:23 AM, YGIFS said:

    Suspend at 10am

    endorse Thursday 

    blow Trump Friday.  
     

    Got it.  We’re gonna remember this Nikki and not in a good way. 

     

    On 3/6/2024 at 7:03 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I fully expect that she will say that while she has some problems with Trump, she endorses him because she doesn’t want Biden to win.

     

    On 3/6/2024 at 9:49 AM, Red Five said:

    Haley has already said that she is "more concerned" about four more years of Biden vs four more years of Dotard. So I'm sure she'll endorse DT at some point.

    Also, I'm pretty sure if you gave her truth serum, she'd say something along the lines of "Of course I'd prefer Biden. You think I'm crazy or something?".

    Just a selection of a few posts calling the obvious long ago (although South Austin's timeline was a bit...premature, but that's what all the ladies say about him anyway).

    Anyone who didn't know that she'd endorse Trump is too dumb to continue to walk this earth, and should immediately drink hemlock.

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  4. 30 minutes ago, WBT said:

    https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/23/texas-gop-matt-rinaldi-republicans/

    I'm still surprised how cheaply those 2 shitbirds were able to buy Abbot and the party.  I keep thinking there will be a Rinos strike back at some point.

    There won't be.  The Nazi party will never de-Nazify.  Stop hoping that it will.

    Stop hoping that Repuglicans will ever come to their senses.

    Stop hoping that ANYTHING will appeal to the "better angels of their nature."

    Just.  Fucking.  Stop.

    They are full-on, 100% committed to fascism.  It is all they are.  There is not an atom of anything else remaining.  There is no bringing them back, no reforming them, no "they'll eventually come around."  They are intent on hurting, punishing, and flat-out destroying everyone who doesn't agree with and support them 100%.  It's a fight to the death, that's what they've chose.  The only question you need to answer is which death you'd like it to be, theirs or yours?

  5. 14 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Agree, and there are plenty of Trump voters who are exemplary in that arena, as uncomfortable and contradicting as it may seem.

    i think this is basically the entire premise of "The Zone of Interest."  Obviously the main characters in that movie were legitimately running Auschwitz so not comparing apples to apples here, but there were absolutely individuals in Germany who checked all the boxes of a stereotypical "good" person (helped families in need, rescued stray animals, donated blood).... and also voted for Hitler.  I'm in no way saying those are "good" people, but I think painting a caricature of "evil" oversimplifies the situation to a dangerous degree.

    To be very clear, I'm in no way trying to defend a Trump (or Hitler) vote, nor the people who cast them.  And I'm sure there will be replies that state that a vote for Trump outweighs any other good deeds a person may do, which is probably something I agree with more than I don't.  These are merely the confused ramblings of a man who is trying to understand how most of the people who he loves most in the world are able to see the world so differently.  

    I hear you, and feel you.  And it's really hard.  It's REALLY fucking hard.

    The hardest part is reaching that final conclusion: that on balance, these people have chosen evil.  For whatever the reason, they have chosen it.  And that is, in the end, unacceptable and unforgivable.

    6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I understand, and I wasn't trying to be critical of you or how you view the people you've grown to care about. 

    What I was attempting to do was simply to color the situation with a comparison to one in which we 100% have the advantage of hindisght. Becaue we do. Another way to look at it is, if 20 years down the road, where the country is a shitshow and women, non white people, and certainly LGBTQ+ rights have taken massive steps back, as well as a move towards a theocratic autocracy...if all of those worst fears come true, will look back with such understanding of those who facilitated and allowed those changes to be ushered in? 

    Or would you curse their names becuase you had a daughter who died because of an easily preventable medical procedure?

    Great post.  And yeah, the bolded -- or 1,000 questions like it, like "when your child's spouse, who is tainted with minority blood, is rounded up and deported to a country they've never even been to even though they are a natural born US citizen but the future regime has abolished that retroactively and a crooked SCOTUS happily went along with it, how will you feel?" or "when the man who gunned down your child and her entire family when he went hunting 'invaders' at the local Wal-Mart is pardoned by the Regime because he was doing God's Work, how will you feel?"  And on and on and on.

    Evil shit like the Holocaust didn't happen because Hitler and a few dozen bad dudes had some really shitty ideas.  These things happen because millions of people EMPOWER, EXCUSE, AND PROTECT those evil fuckers, so that they can do their evil unimpeded.

  6. 2 hours ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    Clearly the cop who filed the report lied. He wasn't dragged 20 feet, he didn't rip his clothes or sustain injuries. 100% lies.

    The type of Police reform this country needs to start restoring faith in police would require:

    • This cop to be fired.
    • This cop to go on a National Registry of Not-Eligible-For LEO positions.
    • If a felony charge was fabricated (it was in this case). Charges should be filed against the officer.

     

    Until we get changes like that, FTP.

     

     

    A cop 1) lying on a report to 2) support a specific criminal charge should 3) be automatically subject to the maximum sentence for the charge his lie tried to support.

    Lie to get me charged with felony assault of an officer, with a max sentence of 50 years?  Automatic - no discretion, AUTOMATIC, MANDATORY - sentence of 50 years.  You tried to get me tossed in prison, and you did so by LYING, UNDER COLOR OF THE LAW.

    All.

    Cops.

    Are.

    Bad.

     

    ALL OF THEM.  What is it going to take for everyone to understand that?  There are only two kinds of cops in that video: 1) the liar, and 2) those who backed him up on his lies, 100%, never once even ATTEMPTING to stand up for the truth.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    This is something I've really grappled with over the last year or two.

    I think there's a desire to create simple "good" and "bad" labels for everyone and it's just not that simple.

    I have friends who would drop everything at a moment's notice to help me, no questions asked.  They are generous, donate to charities, and are raising what seem to be solid, well-adjusted children.  They are also almost assuredly voting for Trump.  Does this make them "bad?"

    My parents would give up their lives in a second for those that they love.  The household we grew up in was full of warmth and love and is the example I am trying to replicate for my family.  They are also almost assuredly voting for Trump.  Does this make them "bad?"

    I have brilliant co-workers who are phenomenal at building up a team, always make sure to share credit, and thrive in a culturally diverse work environment.  They are also almost assuredly voting for Trump.  Does this make them "bad?"

    Meanwhile, I know plenty of rude, self-centered Biden-voters who couldn't care less about those around them and take no responsibility for their actions.  Just because they pull the same lever as me in November, does that make them "good?"

    The closest rationalization I've been able to conclude is that some people are able to treat politics kind of like sports.  There's a team they root for and they'll continue to root for that team, regardless of the players involved.  I obviously don't agree with this and wish they saw what I see, but simply labeling all Trump voters as bad people oversimplifies the issue to a degree that ensures it will never get fixed.

    But... on the other hand, how can a "good" person look at Trump and not be immediately repulsed?  Even given what I said in the paragraph above, this still seems unbelievable to me.

    I don't have a solution, just a rant from someone who has struggled with this since he realized that the list of people who my wife and I would trust to raise our children if something happened to us is almost exclusively comprised of (likely?) Trump voters.

     

    28 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    If you replaced "Trump" with "Hitler" how do you feel about your statements? Honest Question. 

    This.

    Make the phrase even more pointedly accurate: "They are also almost assuredly voting for the man/party that has promised to deliver a 'final solution' to the 'jewish problem.'"

    Yes.  It makes them bad.  In fact, if the point is that they aren't REALLY for mass extermination of the jews, they just like the other things the nazis are for, so they're willing to put the nazis in power (where they will commit genocide) because hey, lower taxes.....that is actually fucking WORSE.

    If you kill me because you think you HAVE to in order to protect your family and way of life, I can at least UNDERSTAND that.  It's wrong, and super-bad, but I can at least grasp it.

    If you kill me because your income will go up 2%....Jesus Tapdancing Christ, that's some sick fucking shit.

    And if you 're willing to do the above....foolishly thinking that they won't eventually turn on you (for being too close to jews/mexicans...for being a secret jew/mexican, as they alone decide....for being insufficiently loyal to the regime...for pissing off the Supreme Leader by failing to deliver his coffee hot enough, etc.)....you're sick, evil, AND breathtakingly stupid.

    Evil and stupid.  That's what Trump supporters are.  All of them.  Yes, including your family.  

    There's plenty of stories of nazis commiting acts of kindness....Mengele was a decorated combat medic.  He was outwardly kind to many children in the camps.  Before he conducted horrific medical experiments on them, of course.  We grade people in the balance, and there are some things that cannot be overcome.  Supporting Trumpism and fascism, specifically this Trumpist regime that is built on a proud foundation of who all it is going to hurt, punish, and exact retribution on, is one of those things.  I don't give a fuck if Rudolf Hess went out in the cold rain to save puppies, was scrupulously honest in all of his business dealings, treated all women he dated and married with respect and decency, was a prince to his household staff, regularly stopped to help strangers change a tire, donated lots of money to charity, etc.....he fucking commanded a goddamned death camp.  He facilitated pure evil.  If you knowingly facilitate pure evil, your personal balance sheet will ALWAYS end up in the red.

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  8. 1 minute ago, Rex Kramer said:

    You’re not wrong but you have GOT to snap out of the multiple year Eeyore Funk you’re in, you Berating Bald Bombastic Blowhard Bolivian. 

    As soon as I get a compelling reason to conclude that we're not on a shitboat captained by shitheels heading to Shittown floating on a river of liquid shit, I'll be HAPPY to do so.

    So far....not seeing any such reason.  In fact, the river of shit just keeps rising.

  9. 1 hour ago, mdmost said:

    But of course to all the people of Hispanic origin who vote for Trump and the GOP, you will be fine. You have nothing to worry about. They won't bother you or your family. You're one of the good ones. 

    Hispanics voting Trump - Leopards eating peoples faces party voters, example eleventy billion.  It's. SO.  FUCKING.  STUPID.

    I have had my loyalty as an American questioned plenty of times in recent years, based on my last name.  There are "real Americans" (white folks, with obviously white names), and then there's....not real Americans (me and my family, and everyone like us, or with a similar "foreign sounding" name).  Why any of us would vote for the party that is proudly racist, xenophobic, and white supremacist (and don't tell us the lie about "no, it's just about whether they're here legally" -- the fucking leadership behind Trump wants to end ALL immigration, and has pushed to end LEGAL status (including citizenship) for anyone they can catch up in their sick process (like challenging my US citizen father, who was born in a border town back when hospital records weren't perfect)).  They are racist pieces of shit, and they ARE coming for you, they WILL attack you....so don't be stupid and vote for them.

    2 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    That lady has zero place in the GOP; WAY too introspective, intelligent, and reasonable.  She seems smart enough to figure it out soon enough.

     

    I think there’s a common misconception that when Trumpism inevitably dies, the GOP will do some kind of pendulum swing back to the party of Eisenhower and anyone who openly supported Trumpism will be denigrated and cast out.  In my opinion that is extremely unlikely.  Yes, they might (MIGHT) embrace less destructive policies/candidates, but theyll just shrug off Trumpists as a blip and not-representative, without at all alienating those voters.  They may not pander to the crazies, but they’ll do enough to keep them in the fold.

    And this.  The GQP will never reform/moderate.  They are too far gone.  It's over, folks.  There's no going back.

  10. The audiobook is fantastic (and horrifying). Took me about a month to get through it all, but well worth the effort

    The cool thing is that you can just read a collection of newspapers from the last few years to get the same story 2, electric boogaloo.
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  11. I disagree with this.  These people aren’t all Fascists and they all don’t want bad things to happen to the groups you mentioned.  Some are like that but many unfortunately and simply just watch Fox News and believe the country is falling apart because of the Democrats and Biden. Are there racists that vote for Trump?  Yes and they are pieces of shit.  Are there people that vote for Trump that are greedy and just care about their personal possessions and making more money?  Yes and they are pieces of shit, but to lump everyone that votes for Trump in one category is actually incorrect.  There is a large group of Republicans that have a different/incorrect view of the world because Fox News, right wing media, and the Republican politicians push that on them as the truth.
     It has probably always been this way but now it is amped up even more with social media and media in general but it’s quite amazing to see propaganda and lies and how it steers the views of people in this country.

    Sure. They’re not fascists who want to exterminate minorities and the opposition. They’re just willing to support fascists who want to exterminate minorities and the opposition if it will reduce their taxes by $1.
    That’s even more evil. That’s our point. It would be one thing if they wanted to kill my family because they truly believe that we are an existential threat to the American way. It’s even sicker that they’re willing to have us exterminated to save $1.
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  12. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Sorry for the most peaceful and prosperous 60 years of world history, I guess.  

    A whole lot of this.

    Can we find a metric shitton to criticize the US, the West, etc. about over the past century?  Fuck yes.  But to do so to the exclusion of the undeniable metrics of how life on this earth improved, in large part and often directly in connection with mechanisms and measures emanating from and delivered by the US and the West, is foolishness.

    I'm a good guy, I've done an incredible amount of positive things that have improved my community, have made my family and many others more prosperous, safe, and secure.  BUT...if we want to focus on "how that dick Brisket is a hypocrite, and how he does something dickish to someone at least once every fucking day," we can certainly do that, and it would be accurate.  I do many dickish things.  I have lied.  I have betrayed trust. I have acted selfishly.  I have been mean.  If you describe me and define me solely by my negative traits, then I am unquestionably an awful human being, who the world would be better off without.  If, however, you consider me as a complete human being, who has faults and has often acted badly, but who also has some great strengths and has done much good, on balance I think I'm a pretty solid net positive for the world and for my community.

    The rules based international order is flawed.  As any human-driven idea and institution will be.  That approach has also led to the most peaceful and prosperous period modern humanity has ever known.  That doesn't mean we overlook the bad, and don't try to remedy any harm done, and aspire to be better....but it sure as shit also means that we don't overlook or minimize the good.

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  13. During the deepest depths of 2020 I was being recruited for a very big job with a very big company that would have been a giant pain in the ass but also a huge increase in income. 
    Around that same time I was deep diving on the time between the world wars and rereading contemporaneous histories of the period, ie Churchill, Shirer etc.
    The recruiting process was secret, so things went out of order. I had a very promising discussion on zoom with the external recruiter, then an NDA, followed by a nearly two hour love fest with the hiring C-suite officer, followed the next day with a discussion of process and management styles with a global HR exec. All on Zoom. 
    During the HR discussion there was a strange moment where her face and tone changed sharply and went very much from a conversation between future colleagues to an awkward and uncomfortable encounter- from that moment she could not end the call soon enough.
    Even more odd given the need for secrecy- the process ended immediately with them going dark, which is not usually the case with executive hiring discussions. I found out they made a hire when the press release dropped. I wasn’t offended, I was almost certainly the least senior person they were talking to, and honestly they made a great hire. 
    That said, I moved this book off my middle shelf to avoid any possible future confusion.
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    But…for future reference…you also decided to wait until AFTER Zoom calls end before you jerk off, right?
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  14. I was going to make a reference to this looking/sounding like a Phil Collins boxed set.  But then i remembered all the dead children.  
    I wonder how a "leader" can look at photographs of blood so deep that multiple mops couldn't get it all out after several hours and think, "Meh, could be worse."  

    All you have to do is be an evil sociopath who only cares about himself. From the looks of our stateside leadership, that’s pretty easy. In fact, it must be damned near impossible NOT to be that kind of person, based on the data I’ve seen.
  15. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    When did/does she graduate, and what major?

    She graduated last may, double major from McGill in Linguistics and German.  Didn't really plan her graduation exit/post grad plans well.  She came home, was a bit lost.  Ended up doing some decent work here in the Linguistics field, so not a blank spot on her resume.  Her real hook is that she's multi lingual (English, fluent German, close-to-fluent French and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish).  She's got experience starting organizations and projects....but it's all student-level.  It's hard to get a job when you are in the "no real-world experience group," which includes most of her peers (outside of some small jobs she's had).

    Bottom line, she's looking for most any gig that 1) will use her language skills, and 2) will hire her.  The heck of it is, while this job technically calls for her to be fluent in German, they revealed that they really won't be leaning on her using those skills that much.  And so many of the reviews of the place use the word "toxic."  She can be strong, and can work her ass off, so she can put up with the pressure of a hard gig....but she in particular doesn't need "toxic."  She's really wrestling with this one.

  16. Just now, Satchel said:

    From Merriam Webster:

    Dumb: lacking intelligence STUPID

    Intelligence: the skilled use of reason

    The people you describe manifest a deficit in the skilled use of reason and could reasonably be described as dumb.

    Correct.

    They think that what happened to people exactly like them, who facilitated the exact same shit in the quest for personal power, in Germany nearly a century ago.......won't happen to them.

    Leopards eating the faces of fucking idiots.  I hate them.  I hate the milquetoast enablers the most, because they actually KNOW THIS SHIT IS WRONG, but they're willing to go along with it for some incremental gain of power/money/vengeance on people who they hate for no fucking good reason at all.  It's so fucking stupid.  So yes, they are dumb.  Very, very dumb.

    Maybe they are "smart" when it comes to one thing or another, but they're really fucking dumb when it comes to this.  I don't care if you're the most brilliant heart surgeon the world has ever seen, if you think that makes you qualified to fly a jet with an engine flamed out, you're fucking dumb.  And you're going to crash and burn.  These fucking idiots have mistaken the fact that they've figured out how to do X means they are super-smart when it comes to being fucking nazis.  But....in the end, they're just fucking nazis.  And they're going to take all of us down with them.

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