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  1. 7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    We are truly expanding the frontiers of mental illness and I am here for it. To be honest I am ready to leave everything and all responsibilities to follow the dictates of an AI that calls me Star Walker.

    https://archive.ph/TjqSr

     

    Loser.  I'm only all-in on this strategy if AI can generate a companion with outstanding tits.

    Wait....

    .....shit.

    I'm doomed, aren't I?

  2. 20 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

    That describes my affluent left leaning circle of friends perfectly.

    Dinner parties with that lot are fucking insufferable.

    But....I mean....there's THREE types of hummus available!

    3 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    Just flew over again.

    Heard em again, missed seeing em again.

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  3. Just now, Larry T. Spider said:

    I mean, you could say the same about Texas but that also screws over the 4,835,250 of us that voted for the opposite of this shit. Red states feeling some maga pain is very leopard/face appropriate though….

    Oh, fuck Texas too.  We deserve it.  Yeah, all of us.  Fuck it, we're in this boat, and the only way for people to get how fucking bad it is, is when it goes down taking all hands with it.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Arresting mayors now

     

     

    "NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW"

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    In-groups, who the law protects but does not bind, and out-groups, who the law binds but does not protect.  Exhibit eleventy billion.  Being lectured on "no one is above the law" by this fucking clown mob is so rich.

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  5. So....something that sounded a whole lot like a low-flying fighter hauling ass just flew by downtown (just west of downtown, I think, I never got eyes on it).  Sounded F-16-ish -- bottom line, it was a jet, close and hauling ass.  Anyone know what it was?

  6. 4 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Ol’ Rosemary tried to “friend” Mrs. Brat on FB, but failed to notice her account was inactive and had never been used after the first day of registration. She was three years behind my wife at Taylor High School back in the day.
    (Mrs. Brat’s cousins talked her into signing up for FaceBook, but when she looked at what goes on there she said “I’m not gonna participate in that bullshit”)

    I look at that inactive account about twice a year to see what Mrs. Brat’s cousins have tried to message her about and check the friend requests. She doesn’t log in at all. She prefers to talk to them on the telephone like a civilized person.

    Now, Mrs. Brat's activity on her Onlyfans page, however......

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  7. 28 minutes ago, immamac said:

    look mother fuckers stop inciting, promoting or otherwise encouraging violence of any kind against anyone. 

    Stop encouraging violence?  How's a fella supposed to make a living?

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    BOXING PROMOTERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Deej said:

    That anti-development shit really worked out. 

    Well, it kind of did....in the central city.  We can thank that broader movement for the fact that our roads and infrastructure suck shit through a straw and haven't changed very much in 30 years, for example.  And we can thank them for making sure no affordable housing gets built where it can actually help (you know....in the actual city).  Instead, all that Austin builds is $500k minimum one-bedroom apartments in downtown highrises.

    Austin's death of affordability and ascent to the World Tech Douchebro Capital owes a giant debt of gratitude to the SOS crowd.

    As does the explosive growth of the environs (Kyle, Buda, Dripping, RR, Hutto, Taylor, Manor, etc.)  Thanks, performative leftist NIMBYs!

  9. 3 minutes ago, hornian said:

    I've never understood why the "Save our Springs" people aren't more up in arms about this. All that trash goes directly into the waterways when it rains/floods. 

    Because...and this is important....the "Save our Springs" movement is 100X more focused on performative, self-congratulatory bullshit than actually producing environmentally beneficial outcomes.  It's much more gratifying to just hate "developers" and all "development" than to actually examine the threats to the environment and water quality and tackle the low-hanging fruit.

    Like many causes aligned with the traditional "left," being performative is more important than being pragmatic and getting the best result reasonably obtainable.  See, e.g., muslim voters in Dearborn, Michigan.

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  10. 4 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    “Up to Scott B”

    It’s not like he’s the President who solely drove this abuse of a loophole on “national security” to levy the biggest US backed trade war in a century, and then threw a tantrum when China punched back. Now it’s all “up to Scott B”. That’ll do it. I’m sure that will absolve him of the consequences 

    4 hours ago, Red Five said:

    "I had nothing to do with the tariffs."

    4 hours ago, Liteitup said:

    "I don't take responsibility at all"

    There is better than a 90% chance that these posts accurately predicted the future that will be here in 60-120 days.

    Except he will ALSO simultaneously claim victory, and that the tariffs worked and were brilliant.....and also, he had nothing to do with them.

    He's not a complex creature.  Just pure, low-IQ id running around, with no checks on it.

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  11. 4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Dismantling FEMA means citizens suffering when disaster strikes and yes, most states would have insufficient means to respond. This (in my cynical view) leads to the transactional nature of this regime. Loyalty, bending the knee, giving in to whatever concessions the regime requests, because otherwise your state is going to be underwater (financially and or literally)

    Correct.  The plan is to turn disaster needs and assistance as a tool to force fealty, loyalty, and surrender of all resistance.

    Disaster hits, and you bow to Trump and call him lord of all?  You bet ad hoc assistance (because none of this, not even a little bit, is about being "wise stewards of federal dollars").  Gobble his crank and call him Your Highness, and you'll get a spigot of dollars that doesn't ever shut off.

    Disaster hits, and you aren't sufficiently loyal/subservient to Trump?  Get fucked.  Your people can die, your economy can crash, fuck 'em, that's what you deserve for your disloyalty to our King.

    4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Buying up land cheaply after a disaster and people are forced out of their homes is not only cruel but allows for the developers to pick and choose what parcel to purchase. I've stated before that some rural areas have turned into a quasi feudal system where locals cannot get healthcare and other needs but can survive by supporting the larger land owners who need certain services. A nation of slumlords and vassals where life is cheap and violent and desperate.

    And this is also part of the plan.  For states (via actions like killing FEMA) and businesses (kill all small and medium sized businesses with tariffs and other economic folly), the plan is to destroy anyone below the billionaire class, and enable the billionaire class to swoop in and OWN IT FUCKING ALL.  It is 100% the plan to create a nation of two classes: oligarchs, and vassals.

    Hey MAGAs....if you aren't an oligarch (and almost none of you are)....then guess fucking what?  The plan is for you to be a fucking serf, you fucking dumbasses.

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  12. 13 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Yeah.  Completely opposite sides those two are on.  The only dissenting voice on the last 10 pages of the thread took a weeks vacation.  Celebration of Texaggy style moderation not on my bingo card today.  

    Wonder how far off we are from imma challenging posters to fist fights in the parking lot of surly HQ.   

    See, that's the funny thing - they're not even on the opposite side of the side that Ana CLAIMS to be on (look to the science!)  Both of them very much support evidence-based reasoning to reach the right outcome.  Neither one of them is claiming that it's a "settled issue!" like Ana seems to be, though.  There is data, evidence, and information that can both support hormonal treatment of gender dysphoria, and to find that it is harmful and/or should be delayed for minors, as well as myriad other nuanced conclusions.  I think most people above would take the position that someone claiming "it's settled!  Any kid who claims to be trans should be given easy access to hormones!" would be an extremist, and is taking a shitty, non-nuanced position.  Those same people also think that "it's settled!  Ban all hormone treatments for anyone with gender dysphoria!/and certainly don't allow them for any minors, even with parental consent and pursuant to medical advice!" is an extremist, non-nuanced position.

    It's a challenging issue for anyone to deal with.  No matter what it is, the goal of society should be to make sure the path is cleared to finding the best ways to treat/handle it.  As we learn more about it and the alternatives, the information and options will change, and EVERYONE needs to be willing to go with what we're learning and new info that develops.  If, for example, it turns out that we get gold-standard research that says that hormone treatment is worse than leaving it medically untreated 99% of the time, then I think most folks here would be comfortable saying "well then, the medical profession shouldn't be recommending that course of treatment."  And vice-versa.

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  13. 16 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Yeah, but the ECHO CHAMBER of love, compassion, empathy, and understanding!!! 

     

    ....and also, rational discussion of the issue and actually understanding and discussing (wait for it).....both sides.

    It's a challenging issue, with evolving information and knowledge.  Gender dysphoria is a real thing, and it's only in the past couple of decades (at most) become relatively safe to discuss and raise in public and medically.  So, it remains an emerging issue in some respects.  It's also an issue that affects -- not many, but some -- families.  It's hard on every level.  So, the goal should be to pave the way for families and medical professionals to make the best objective decisions they can, without political pressure from either extreme.  Which allows time and circumstance to develop even better information and data, so that tomorrow's decisionmakers will be even better-equipped than today's.

    Kinda funny how we can actually legit have a "both sides" conversation (see the very good conversation between MC and Troph), revealing that when a "both sides" approach is working, it's actually just "one side" -- that side being "make space and provide guardrails for people to make the best decisions they can."  Oh, the irony.

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  14. "Paging Luigi to the white courtesy phone..."

    Read the CNBC story on United Healthcare being sued by its shareholders because, in the wake of the CEO’s killing….

    “The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.”

    “Aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” aren’t just a thing we do, they are LITERALLY A LEGAL OBLIGATION. America is fully enshittened.
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  15. Yeah….we live in a purely evil timeline.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/news/s/kdzrs6XHx8

    A group of shareholders is suing United Healthcare over its reaction to the CEO’s killing.

    “The group, which is seeking unspecified damages, argued that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing “the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve” its earnings goals.”

    Giant meteor…get here soon.

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  16. Absolute fucking lunacy. “Actually it’s better that the surgeon general isn’t really a doctor.” 
     
    And regarding the last paragraph, this country had a week-long meltdown because Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden. 
     
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    Dude, there’s a huge difference between her “kids should eat healthy” and Michele Obama’s “kids should eat healthy.”
    You know what it is.
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