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Brisketexan

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  1. ....by CHOICE. We are eschewing, and fully sabotaging, all of our soft power in exchange for an approach that offers only bullying and violence. It's as pathetic a bit of short-term thinking as I think I've ever seen, but man, are we COMMITTED to it.
  2. Sigh. You know how viscerally - and correctly - you respond to folks who just say simple shit like "Iran is bad because Iran is evil," or "the common thread in terrorism is mooslems?" Well....your one-note response of "whatever we're talking about, it all comes back to being Israel's fault" is the other side of the same simple-minded coin. While we should not absolve Israel of responsibility for the chaos and violence that has plagued the region for decades, your responses all come back to making Israel the sole owner and root cause of.....everything. But for Israel, none of these bad actors would have been forced to be bad actors. Fucking bullshit. Iran is a great example of that. There is ZERO reason for Iran to be an existential enemy of Israel. The primary reason it is.....is because it's totally controlled by a theocratic regime that needs a good external enemy to rally the folks around to distract from oppressive fuckery at home (yeah....a play the US is dusting off like crazy these days). As exhausting as it is to hear the usual suspects blame everything on those dirty mooslems, it's just as exhausting, and as invalid in light of complexity, to hear your constant drumbeat of "everything that is bad in the world is the fault of Israel and US support for same." It's all like listening to "Boomer Sooner" over and over again. No variety or complexity, and sister-fuckingly stupid. There's ALWAYS time to abandon the Kurds, of that you can be sure.
  3. Yeah....the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires by Iran-backed Hezbollah puts the lie to the "we don't hate jews" statement. Sorry, that was bullshit. Iran was perfectly happy to kill jews.
  4. You are correct...but also disingenuous. Those groups would EXIST without Iran, most likely. However, they would not have existed as a material fighting/disruptive force without Iran. Iranian support -- dollars, training, weapons -- is absolutely what enabled Hezbollah to wage war for decades (as just one example). Sure, Israel and its bullshit were an impetus for the existence of many of these groups, I don't think anyone has argued otherwise. But the difference between Hezbollah a group of people pissed at Israel and able to cause a bit of chaos here and there vs. Hezbollah a group of people capable of controlling the Lebanese government and waging actual war against Israel is a big one. And Iran was the difference-maker. The world is/would be much better off if Iran's ability to export chaos was sharply curtailed/eliminated. Trump's move in going after Iran was ill-conceived, done to please his master, and in support of his master's own efforts to cling on to power, NOT based on any new urgent/exigent circumstance. But a world in which Iran and its proxies have had their capabilities massively degraded is a good thing. All of those things can be true at the same time.
  5. Our AG regularly spells it "marihuana" in legal documents. For real. As in, exactly the way the referred to it in the 1920s and shit.
  6. I mean, yes and no. If we lived in a rational world, we could have a reasonable discussion about the ease/availability of such products to minors. We have mechanisms in place to make it more difficult for minors to obtain alcohol or tobacco, I don't have any philosophical problem with doing the same for THC products. The Texas THC industry seems to agree: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/23/texas-hemp-regulations-age-restriction-enforcement-thc-sb-3/#:~:text=Currently%2C there's no age restriction,based cannabis business Restart CBD. Of course, that's not the conversation we're actually having. We have a psychotic retrograde asshole arguing that "nobody will do business in Texas anymore because everyone is high." Seriously. That's his position: He also talks about destroying our precious youth and such. Truly, the only thing he left unsaid was "those dastardly weed-smoking negroes and their seductive jazz music corrupting our fine white women."
  7. They’ve got some cosmopolitan types who are mighty fine. But otherwise….yeah. As the boy has described them, with a sigh, “they’re all short, round, and orange.” The fake tan makeup they put on to cover up their paleness…it’s not good. Find a pretty and posh one, avoid the orange ones.
  8. There ya go. As to the question of "so, what is to stop the regime from doing this to US citizens -- say, US citizens who have said things the regime doesn't like?" . . . y'all know the answer. Nothing. Nothing will stop them. Is the reality on the ground now that, if you think the regime's gestapo is grabbing you to send you off to a dark foreign hole from which you will never return, then . . . is there any rational course of action that doesn't involve "whatever it takes, including using deadly force to protect yourself, don't let them take you?" When the Rule of Law is erased, the void is always and immediately filled by Rule of the Gun.
  9. To answer the bolded, because there are birds in the air on an active mission. That's really pretty common regarding ceasefires. It's not a "we just had a call, so it starts NOW" sort of thing. You pick a time in the very near future (often a matter of hours).
  10. Emphasized for truth. Cult gonna cult.
  11. Think of it this way....that is a three minute display of pure personal debasement. Imagine how much she'd debase herself for YOU.
  12. As if it hasn't been said enough....the most powerful nation in the world is being run by a sponge-brained toddler. What the fuck even is that shit?
  13. This. Any Dem running for office should run on a platform of "and all those fuckers who hurt us these past years? I am going to immediately round them up and send them to foreign prisons where they will never be heard from again. Which is perfectly legal now, thanks to those exact same fuckers."
  14. Anyone who thinks that a giant slice of the stockmarket isn't just memes and vibes isn't paying attention. "Rational thinking" and "market value based on share price" of these enterprises are two concepts that never even get close to each other, much less touch.
  15. Both answers are correct. It's the level of "worse" that is the wildcard. This doesn't end without stacks of bodies. That is always the endgame when someone tries full-on fascism. All roads lead to body counts.
  16. Guys, when Iceman figures out the utter fuckery that is afoot . . . . yeah, FFS. It's that damned simple.
  17. Don’t you dare say my folks weren’t worldly and cultured. But they were not immune to the charms of disco greatness. Momma was a NOLA girl, and it showed. Finally, some relics of my youth.
  18. And how smooth are you? Not as smooth as this guy. Wanna listen to some Streisand? They had all the Streisand. You know you wanna party with these BAMFs.
  19. So, still cleaning out my parents' house and stuff. I got to the LPs this weekend. They have a lot of stuff, including stuff that NOBODY is interested in (seriously, you needed 15 collections of Spanish music/bullfighting tunes?) But others that are.....interesting, including a couple from my youth that ended up in their collection. So, enjoy. I need to get a turntable. Will definitely give this a listen:
  20. Again, that's just driving like a typical Austin driver now.
  21. If that's the extent of any counter-strike or terror activity, absolutely. Where that ultimately leaves us is . . . . wondering what, if anything, was actually accomplished by all of this. Did the US strikes really take out/significantly harm Iran's enrichment capabilities for a long term? Did they take out already enriched uranium? Seems like we won't really know for quite some time.
  22. To be fair, if this is truly a "machine learning" exercise, then the machine learning to drive in Austin by watching what Austin drivers do is a recipe for "incredibly shitty driving." For example, I expect Robotaxis to randomly make left and right turns from the middle lane, in order to blend in with the other drivers around Austin.
  23. Imagine the world where the answer to every Chat GTP prompt is "muledick."
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