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Brisketexan

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  1. Yeah…I gotta tell ya, in thinking about “someone who truly contributes to society,” how much they pay in taxes was pretty far down my mental list. For real, it’s not something I visualized at all. A good teacher doesn’t pay much in taxes at all, but goddamn are they worth a crapload to society. And I can do the same thing for a guy who runs a beloved local taco stand, an honest mechanic, a guy who’s pivotal at keeping the water plant running, etc. Our society’s fixation on dollars as the SOLE measure of “value” shows how broken we are.
  2. That…is…fucking….MAGNIFICENTFABULOUSAMAZING. Also, giving off perfect “Corey Feldman singing in the 80s video” vibes.
  3. And you support that. Because you are anti-American.
  4. Cool fact: Grindr profiles featuring the term "beefsteak tomato" spike every time a Republican or CPAC meeting comes to town.
  5. This seems like a decent bet at the strategy. Russia has only so many AA defenses. They have to deploy them among the following competing interests: (1) protecting Russian military operations in and near Ukraine, (2) protecting Russian industrial/refining sites inside Russia, and (3) protecting the key strategic sites of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It seems certain that they do not have the AA resources to fully protect all three. And any attack you launch on any one of those three is an incentive to devote more AA resources to the target (kinda like how the Doolittle Raid caused at least some Japanese forces to be devoted to defending the home islands -- those resources couldn't be used elsewhere). I'm curious about Russia's rate of AA replenishment as well.
  6. Look, motherfucker, if it ain't got a place to pop in my Best of Charley Pride, it's off the fucking list.
  7. "Poorly made points." Pretty solid board motto right there.
  8. If you think I should stop slapping around my wife, just DM me. No need to call me out in front of everyone.
  9. If we start taking out heads of state -- even ones we think are pieces of shit and almost certainly illegitimate -- well, we pissed away a lot of goodwill over the past 25 years, might as well finish the job. We can then sit with Israel at the pariahs' table at future gatherings.
  10. Man. The inevitable cascade of videos of air raid sirens going off in Caracas, followed by videos of Venezuelans crying in basements, followed by videos of buildings in flame and dead civilians covered in blood and dust is SURE to endear the US to all of Latin America overnight.
  11. Probably riding Colin Allred's dick while toting around her helicopter door. Give me one candidate -- just one -- who just says on repeat "fuck these guys, and fuck all their bullshit."
  12. [they're the same picture gif] I'm sick of the party just trotting out re-tread losers. "Hey, I got my ass kicked before, but now I can lose with signs printed in a different font! Whatever the case....be sure to send me lots of money!" Betting on a lame horse two races in a row is just fucking stupid.
  13. Agreed. "Palestinian terrorism" is a classic chicken-or-the-egg puzzle that, well, this thread sure as shit hasn't sorted out. I'm sure not gonna try again. But I do agree with the proposition that "a world without Hamas is a better place." I just ALSO think that if the way you get to that world is by committing atrocities that will echo for generations....you planted the seeds of "like Hamas, but with a different name" for generations to come. Palestinians will refer to this genocide and the nakba in the same breath for decades to come. And yeah, yeah, buckle up for the onslaught of Israel-stans insisting "BUT THIS WASN'T A GENOCIDE, WE DIDN'T KILL EVERY PALESTINIAN," blah blah blah. Guess what, dudes? If the living Palestinians and their descendants view it as a genocide, including for purposes of motive for future actions...then it's a genocide. And when a people think like that . . . the odds of them just sitting back and not seeking vengeance for generations to come are ZERO.
  14. Appreciate the advice on Bazaar Mar, we've thought about it. And Bouchon is kind of a "must" for us. The meticulously perfect execution of simple things is amazing. The quiche florentine is one of the most amazing things I've eaten. Keller's scrambled eggs are what I try to imitate at home.
  15. CORRECT. There are only two possible paths to winning for the opposition: (1) don't hate the player, hate the game. Realize that the current rules of the game are "fear/anger/hate sells, everything else is failed messaging," and play by those rules to win. Fucking LIE if you have to (fuck it, lie even if you don't have to - gild the fucking lily. Accuse every GQP official of trying to rape babies, whatever, say all the things). This is the world we live in, these are the rules of the day. Play by them or lose. OR (2) work to change the rules/order of the day. That is, try to steer society (which steers about as well as the Titanic, and thus far is headed for its fate) towards a more balanced approach. Today, we are 99% "toxic individualism is the only way to be," and 1% "maybe doing some things for the common good, cooperating, etc. is a good idea." If you can get those numbers even slightly more evened out -- maybe back to a 2-1 ratio of "fuck you, I got mine" to "we are all in this together, and we all do better when we all do better" -- then your more nuanced approach to politics will work. Personally, I think that option (2) is the much, much, MUCH more preferable path, but....we have about a 1% chance of getting there in my lifetime, even if I live to be 100. We live in an option (1) world now. It sucks, but it ain't gonna change for at least a generation or two.
  16. I may largely agree with that, but it gets a giant "incomplete." Because what Israel SHOULD be worried about is what comes next. Every person - especially young person - that lived in Gaza during this war is now much more likely to be a future terrorist attacking Israel some years from now. I cannot imagine an outcome OTHER than Israel just radicalizing hundreds of thousands of people against it. And, in the process, losing its positive relationship with functionally all of its western allies except the US. I believe that Israel did a terrible job calculating the long-term costs. I see a world where 10 years from now, young adults who were radicalized by the inhumane and criminal attacks on them as civilians attack Israel and its interests wherever they can. Suicide vests on busses, all the hits. And my kids' generation will see the story on the news, and shrug their shoulders with a "well, what did you expect?" The self-inflicted harm Israel has done to itself will play out for decades to come. It didn't have to be that way. But for Bibi and his short-term political survival, it apparently DID have to be that way.
  17. Assholery. Which, coincidentally, is America's State Religion, so it checks out.
  18. Yeah, we just did a weekend at the Aria for the Eagles show at the Sphere on Saturday night. The Aria is....fine. It's dated, and definitely starting to look a bit run down in places. And on our floor/hallway, some assholes smoked a shitload of weed in their room, and it stunk up the whole hall for the entire weekend. Our room was fine, but the hallway stank. Food was great, across the board, although we need to break out of our routine -- we keep going back to places we love, like Lotus of Siam, Din Tai Fung, and Bouchon. We actually prefer staying at the Palazzo (it's usually better-located for the concerts we come to town for), but the price difference was like $300 a night, and that just seemed stupid. LV sure didn't seem dead to us, plenty of crowds, but then, losing 5-10% really doesn't thin the crowds much, it just crushes the profit margin.
  19. It's like you haven't even been around Texas in the 2020s. It's gonna be miserable hot and sweaty....until one day, we get hit with a massive cold snap and ice storm and the power grid shuts down and HEB isn't even open. Those are our only two options. You get an option of miserable hot, or miserable cold.
  20. It's been over. When one side in a two-party system decides -- and succeeds -- to govern via idiocracy and kakistocracy, it's all over but the shouting. The only choice left is who governs the rubble. "Whether the Republic will be rubble" is a question that's no longer on the table, it's been answered.
  21. No. But then, the rest of us aren't on video defiling the property we stayed in with 4 monkeys, 2 low-rent hookers, and a 50 gallon drum of Manwich sauce. You sick bastard.
  22. It will happen. They will support it. Why? Because...for the billionth time....it's a cult. That's it. Full stop.
  23. Which is why she needs to let Trump know that she set up no fewer than a dozen "dead man switches" -- if she dies of non-natural causes, detailed written statements, with accompanying photos/video, go out to every major media outlet. She has 12 different associates/attorneys/what have you with identical instructions. Make sure I stay alive, it all gets burned. Have me killed, or allow me to be killed? It all goes public.
  24. No Gestapo in Bastropo! But, ummm....Gestapo everywhere else is super-cool-o.
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