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  1. We live near Conan’s, and it’s a fave. As is Top Notch.
    I dig our green belts, we live on one now. Hike it, hunt for fossils and arrowheads, listen to the water running.
    The Little Longhorn has changed, but it’s still a damned fine beer joint.
    The Asian food scene in this town has EXPLODED since we moved here 35 years ago, lots of great places now.
    Taco trailers on N. Lamar. And my old school barber shop, Bob’s, is up there too.

    There’s plenty to love in this town. Still…it ain’t paradise.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Just date the slightly overweight fun girl in the group for a bit. You learn how to use the parts effectively, enjoy going out with another human, make mistakes, and then move on to prime targets. 

    Truer words have rarely been spoken.  It's a win-win.  Hell, maybe y'all really end up hitting it off and stay together.  People are meant to connect and enjoy each other's company.  Relax, chill, and enjoy the ride in life.

    1 minute ago, Zepol87 said:

    Solid advice until the insecure chick asks where you learned that

    "I do a lot of reading.  I wanted tonight to be good for you."

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  3. 1 minute ago, Zepol87 said:

    Getting laid is really fucking easy but god damn it’s so annoying to hear all the I know my worth single mom bullshit over and over. Just tough that out and agree for a bit and they give it up. Whatever the woman version of Andrew Tate, slay queen you deserve this life bullshit is very annoying though. 

    Like there wasn't DIFFERENT annoying shit from women that you had to wade through back in our day....

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  4. Just now, Js1 said:

    Protest using your first amendment rights = banned from campus…

    Only if you take the wrong position.  Remember, Governor Abbott made it crystal clear: this was not about any actions actually taken by protestors, but rather was motivated by THE CONTENT OF THEIR SPEECH.  You know, the literal ONE THING that cannot be the basis for repressing speech.

    If this group had been protesting on an issue the Governor agreed with.....there wouldn't have been a single DPS trooper on the ground.

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  5. 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Substitute the word “loser” for virgin. It’s very fashionable for some folks to proclaim themselves as victims because of circumstances they claim are out of their control when the reality is they won’t man up and go talk to women.  Dating and social media sites in the late 90s and early 2000s made it easier to hook up than ever. Much, much easier.  And now it’s even easier with a ton of such sites literally available on your phone.  

    We old farts have said it on here multiple times: bathe.  Dress decently.  Learn how to carry on a conversation with another real live human being.  Get out of your cave and be able to discuss something other than your latest Call of Duty escapade.  There.  That's it.  Do that, and you've already vaulted into the world of "dudes chicks will consider going out with."  The bar is pretty fucking low....but you still gotta clear it.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Esto. I'm sympathetic to "the next person will be worse" theory, but it's not really true. One of the first rules of dealing with fascists is you don't try to appease them; you don't surrender to them preemptively because you think it will buy you time or room to stand firm on other issues. Fascists succeed much more easily when power is given to them freely, because they actually suck at seizing and wielding it. If Hartzell is replaced by some dipshit obvious fascist, they'll actually be less effective long-run than they would be with a more "moderate" president who is constantly attempting to appease them.  

    This.  Fascists are bullies.

    And since the beginning of time, there is one, and only one strategy for defeating bullies: stand up to them and punch them square in the fucking nose.

    I don't think that Hartzell is a fascist.  I think he's worse.  I think he's a pathetic little bitch with no spine who happily sacrificed the very people whose interest he is supposed to protect at the demand of fascists.  He could have been the hero who told them "no.  Not here.  Not on my watch."  Instead, he'll just go into the dustbin of history with all of the other spineless cowards who have enabled fascism along the way.  In the interest of protecting his own ass, he destroyed it.  Dumbass coward.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    highly available porn is the #1 thing that changed

    Generations before Gen Z had to really work to find porn.

    No arguing that point. AND, we largely had to develop our own fantasies around it.  Pictures in a magazine?  Well, if you were gonna fantasize about having sex with her, you had to construct a scenario in your head.

    Now?  Any scenario you want, or could possibly imagine, no matter how insanely unrealistic, is out there.  Seriously.  I don't get the whole "stuck porn" genre.  How many people were begging for videos of women stuck in a dryer so they could walk up behind them and bang them?  That never would have even occurred to young Brisket.  And trust me....LOTS of things occurred to young Brisket.

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  8. 1 hour ago, mdmost said:

    You can probably chart the rise of this and the rise of guys like Andrew Tate and the male entitlement he's selling. Maybe that's a part of it. Maybe some ladies don't want to deal with guys like that. Maybe those guys have such unrealistic ideas of what woman should want or how to get them. I doubt Covid helped with that. It's probably worse now. 

    I do think there really is something that needs to be figured out on this front.  We can have all kinds of hypotheses (and I certainly do), but it's almost certainly 1) a combination of things, but 2) one or two large factors are largely driving the bus.

    My hypothesis, by the way, is similar to yours -- the Andrew Tate approach of telling young men they are entitled to any and all the women they want is poison.  I freely confess to basing that hypothesis largely on my son's anecdotal experience.  He describes a world where having even a modicum of game, and just being able to treat women with basic respect instead of contempt and entitlement, gives you more options than you know what to do with.  I also think there's a factor of it being easier than ever for young men to live their entire lives in front of a video screen, alternately playing video games and jerking off to wildly unrealistic porn that gives them completely unrealistic expectations about sex and relationships.

    And yeah, I don't get it.  As a GenX dude....my quest for female contact dominated most everything I did from age 12 to.....well, what time is it right now?

    But I ain't a psychologist or sociologist.  I'm curious what the work on this subject has to say.

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  9. 1 minute ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

    Some were starting to set up tents

    Presuming that to be true.....then arrest the people who were breaking the law.  Them.  Only them.  And not other people nearby who were not breaking the law.  Stop the people who are breaking the law.  Do not deny the constitutional rights of the thousands more who were not breaking the law.

    Jesus tapdancing Christ, this is not hard.  

    By Billy's argument, the cops should run every UT football fan off of campus under the hooves of warhorses, because "some of them were starting to [break the law.]."  We know for a fact that numerous fans BREAK THE LAW, and get publicly intoxicated and belligerent on game day.  So, by Billy's logic, the police should drive ALL fans off of campus, because "some of them" are breaking the law.

    OR....just spitballing here.....the cops could arrest those fans who break the law, and leave the other thousands to go about their business.  I know, what a WACKY idea, I'm clearly a hippie libtard communist or something.

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  10. 9 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

     

     

    That is bad juju.  That random protester seems like a real piece of shit.  Anyone who calls for genocide is a piece of shit.  Thus, I presume that you are similarly outraged and inflamed by these pieces of shit calling for genocide, and the organization/state they ACTUALLY REPRESENT:

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    "Bring down buildings!! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability. There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room for mercy!," wished Revital Gottlieb, a member of the Israeli Knesset.

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    Israeli military soldiers, too, have also been caught showing genocidal intent and collective punishment ambitions in Gaza.

    An example of that was an image taken by an IDF soldier of an artillery shell that had a text written on it in Hebrew: "God Willing, it will hit innocent people."

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    Some of those calls for genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians came from Israeli decision-makers, including President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other extremist ministers in the far-right government.

    "There are no innocent civilians in Gaza," Herzog said on October 14.

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    "Those are animals, they have no right to exist. I am not debating they way it will happen, but they need to be exterminated," argued Yoav Kisch, Israeli Minister of Education.

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    Knesset member and former Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distal Atbaryan posted on Facebook that Israeli officials must invest all their energy "in one thing: erasing all of Gaza from the face of the Earth."

    "That the brave monsters will fly to the southern fence and enter Egyptian territory," Atbaryan continued, an apparent reference to Israel's reported plan to permanently expel Palestinians who survive the assault to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, imposing a "second Nakba" on the population. "Or let them die... Gaza needs to be wiped out."

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    “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” Dichter, a member of the right-wing Likud party, said Saturday, in comments widely reported by Israeli media. “From an operational point of view, there is no way to wage a war — as the Israeli army seeks to do in Gaza — with masses between the tanks and the soldiers,” he said. Pressed on his use of the word “Nakba” to describe the situation in Gaza, he said again: “Gaza Nakba 2023. That’s how it’ll end.”

    If you are upset by some demonstrators using genocidal language - and you should be, calls for genocide and murder are morally indefensible - then you must be ENRAGED when actual leaders and representatives of a State, endowed with real power, do so.  I expect that you are, like many people are.  And many people choose to speak out against that State, its genocidal actions, and its stated genocidal goals.

    But our governor thinks those people should be crushed under the boot before they even say a word, because to speak against those quotes I just gave you is impermissible.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    Damn.  This is spot on. 

    Except....you know....not entirely.  Sometimes, it's important enough to exercise your rights that the choice is fuck the police.

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    In fact....I'm pretty comfortable saying that "fuck the police" should be the default choice.  Those fuckers work for US, under OUR rules.  Look at the org chart, you jackboot shitheels -- you work for ME.  And they need to be reminded of that.  Frequently, and with zero subtlety.

     

  12. 1 minute ago, Frank Drebin said:

    Yep.  There is just one.  That's it.  it is not a common sentiment at all at Ivy League cess pools.

    Since we're concerned about institutions embracing, and not rejecting a sentiment....

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    Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

    ....since we're SUPER-concerned with institutions that embrace and refuse to reject anti-semitism, after all.

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  13. 17 minutes ago, troph said:

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    Man, I dig the crowd.  But that whole "Bramily" vibe totally dominates anywhere it's found.  We went to the Allison Russel show a few months back (discovered her at Willie's picnic a coupla years ago, we really like her).  Small venue, maybe 400 people for the show.  And it was 90% Bramily, wearing their Brandi shirts, etc. (Allison got a big break touring with Brandi, so respect to Brandi, who I also dig).  But man....that's a possessive and needy bunch.  They were all over the stage, and gave a vibe of "Allison is ours, but I guess we'll let y'all be here too."  

    I get it.  An excluded group gets something that is truly theirs, and they want to be as possessive as they can be, having been pushed out of plenty of other places.  It just kinda dulled the enjoyment of the whole thing.

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  14. 51 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    You're talking about Nazi rallies.  That wasn't Austin. 

    Tha fuck?

    https://www.texasobserver.org/homegrown-neo-fascist-movement-marches-in-austin/

    Shit, fucking nazis demonstrated right around the corner from my house a couple of years back:

     

    I know, because I showed up nearby to tell my neighbors "fuck that shit and fuck those guys, we've got your back."

    Our governor cares DEEPLY about anti-semitism....when it comes from a group not likely to support his regime.  But when it IS from a group likely to support his regime.....well, let's see how committed his regime is to not tolerating anti-semitism:

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    Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

    Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.

    Those are your boys, man.  They had a chance to take a stand.  And boy, did they take one.  "Anti-semitism will not be tolerated!" indeed.  Not tolerated.  But affiliated with, working in close association with, and working hand-in-hand because they share the same goals?  You betcha!

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  15. Yeah, I guess code-switch would be the closest thing. My mom kinda does it in Spanish.  One accent/vocabulary with her relatives and then another for strangers/public who speak Spanish.  We all subconsciously do it in English as well.  
     
    my wife is a multi-degreed SLP and has met a handful of clients who had articulation issues and would switch languages on a dime to avoid the struggle of trying to complete the sentence in the other language.  It’s a really interesting phenomenon when you get to 3+ languages.  These are people who are relatively “regular” intelligence wise.  But have this one particular skill that allows them to blend together languages that have no construct similarities.  The few encounters I’ve had and some her stories just boggle the mind.  

    My daughter’s gift is languages, it kinda humbles me. She was excited to tell us about an interview she had with a recruiter in London last week (the recruitment is for multi lingual jobs). During the interview, the recruiter shifted into German, and my daughter followed. Then she shifted into French, same thing. The recruiter commented on how she was impressed at how seamlessly she did so.
    I speak mediocre Spanish, and my shift is awkward as hell. So, point to the daughter.
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  16. 5 minutes ago, yoladu said:

    it's incredulous to me that a white man who sits on the US Supreme Court would feel that he has somehow been wronged in any possible way. He has the fucking brass ring.

    The problem is, there's only one amount of power and control that he wants: ALL OF IT.  Anything less means society is not giving him the due and respect that he deserves.

  17. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    None of what you are talking about is descriptive of what happened on Wednesday at UT. Why do you insist upon talking about everything EXCEPT what happened at Texas?

    And this.  Painting a movement/position that you don't agree with as necessarily anti-semitic is not doing anyone, including you and your cause, any favors.

  18. 1 minute ago, Bevo said:

    That is actually a good question - I don't think I've stated where I stand. Hate rallies when they are a minority are good for free speech. Hate rallies when they are a majority are problematic. You went to the BLM rallies. What if there were rallies that BLdidn'tM? Fine. Now what if those rallies were 20 times larger than the BLM groups? We have a problem. I hate to play the Nazi card, but that has actually happened to jews in the recent past - when my parents were being born and when some of my grandparents were of fight or flight age. So, when there is now a mix of anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiment, is it just the current conflict or is there something deep seeded? It is debatable. So when the jewish fraternities and sororities side with breaking up the rally and preventing some of the shit that is going on around other college campuses while having to increase security at their houses - all I can say is that I'm conflicted. Some of this needs to be nipped in the bud before it sprouts - leaders should be leading. In the absence of that, I'm not sure what is the best way to make change happen. How do you feel if things get out of control around the US? What about around the world? When do you stand up?

    The simple answer: you don't solve that VERY REAL problem with the boot of the government.  You have to solve it by doing the work against it.

    And yes, I know that those things can fail, because THEY HAVE FAILED, AND THEY ARE FAILING.  I have no problem with people on Jan 6th standing outside and protesting an election result they don't like.  When they entered the Capitol, they should have been shot.  But in between that is the problem with their message -- lies about election fraud, meant to undermine our entire civil society and government.  We HAVE to fight back against those with everything we have.

    When you see nazis, you stand against them.  Every time.  You show society this is not okay, we do not condone it, we will stand and fight against that.  I did just that a year or two ago when the nazis showed up in my neighborhood.  I wanted my neighbors to know that they were not alone, and that we have their back.  So I went out there with my own statements and sign, on my own.  That was not an act of the government.  It was an act of the people to take back our society.  That's what we have to do.  The nazis I protested were abhorrent slime.  But I did not call the cops on them, nor would I have wanted that to happen, as they were being peaceful.  Slimy and evil, but peaceful.

    We have to do the work.  WE have to do the work.

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