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Brisketexan

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  1. Just now, Thatguy said:

    I get it. I guess I am just hopefully to have something other than an echo chamber here. Maybe it's not feasible.

    I agree with you (although Rex's negging and DM stunt with Imma appears to be what got him suspended -- he was being stupid with that).  I'd like more good-faith discussion.  But here's a thing that's happened in the last decade plus: "good-faith" conservative folks are an endangered species.  The entire ethos has become a cult based on trolling and treating anyone not in the preferred group like absolute shit (in other words, following the model of Trump), so....how do you have a good-faith conversation with that?  You don't. 

  2. 9 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Anyway, we started talking about things that were happening when we were kids and when I started telling my experiences they were shocked at how different it was from theirs.

    The American inability to see anything from a perspective other than their own is top-notch.  Think of all of the discussions we've had over the years ("what do you mean people don't have a driver's license?  You need an ID to even get on a plane!"  Yeah, dudes...a huge percentage of Americans never have and never will fly anywhere).

    And to be fair, we're all guilty of it to some extent, but having a decent society starts with acknowledging and accepting that you have a limited perspective.  It goes in all directions, by the way.  I remember in law school, talking to one of my new students casually about me going hunting the next week - she was from Brooklyn.  "You have a gun????"  I mean....yeah, I have several.  "What the hell?  What is wrong with you?  Do you shoot people?  Why do you have so many guns?"  Her perspective - minority female from Brooklyn -- was WAY different than mine, 5th generation Texan with rural roots.  It was beyond conception to her for anyone to own a gun for any reason OTHER than "you're a criminal up to no good."  It was a little eye-opening for me.  I'd seen plenty of zero perspective, limited thinking from conservative types, but I was seeing it from a more left-leaning person.  And yeah, I saw a lot more of it over the years.

    But starting from a point of "so.....the experience of a black person growing up 40 years ago was significantly different than my experience" is damned helpful.  But, you know, we're colorblind, and we're all Americans and whatnot, and why you gotta be so divisive?

  3. 3 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    CSB I had a high school teacher at my (very Christian private school) high school who went to BJU.  He used to tell us stuff about college life there (like how dates were limited to sitting on the same bench, supervised, at an appropriate distance from one another (like at either end).  That guy was one weird mofo.  

    There is a 200% chance that dude jerked off to the weirdest fucking porn you can imagine.

  4. There's a good number of things in my life I'm ashamed of.  I made some bad judgments.  As a young man, I made plenty of quite foolish choices.  

    One of those things is the fact that I had a MASSIVE crush on Shakespeare in Love-era Gwyneth:

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    I did.  There's no getting around it.  I confess, I bear my shame, and that's that.

  5. 2 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    Convince stores started using the machines that grind the beans and they are typically pretty bad and taste watered down for some reason. I just started going to Starbucks occasionally when I’m close to one and it’s not busy to grab a cup.  If you just get one of the drip coffees it’s pretty good and cheaper than a lot of local coffee shops actually.  My local place I use to go do remote work at to get out of the house just closed down and all the other ones close to me have uncomfortable seats. 

    Convenience stores are definitely hit-and-miss on coffee quality.  I try to stick with 1) places I already know, if they are a one-off place, convenience store type (I have places I've stopped on certain road trips and routes before that I trust) or 2) a chain, but not something that is going to have 475 yoga pants moms gumming up the works (I appreciate the scenery, but I've got shit to do).  So, McDonald's and BK are on that list, Whataburger is too, but don't sleep on places like Jason's deli.  Also, even a diner/mexican joint that looks to do a lot of breakfast business?  Walk in, go to the cashier and order a cup of coffee to go.  It's likely to be fresh (as they're covering the breakfast rush) and not too pricey.

    The simple pleasure of just a decent cup of coffee is a good thing.

  6. 9 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    I'd rather do the Sweetwater to Ft Sumner drive. At least that vast barrenness is interesting, the Fl Panhandle is just hours of the same damn tree over and over again.

    Emphasized for mental insanity-causing truth.  Worst stretch of any road trip I've ever taken is that stretch, at night.  All you can see is a narrow band of stars above, with the trees creating a narrow pinch point from either side.  Not even roadside signs or sites (they're all tucked back away from the highway.  It literally drives you insane.

  7. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    At least Trump's health is such that there's a chance he might not complete the playbook.

    #soyouretellingmetheresachance

    You and I both know he's going to live to age 104.

  8. 4 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    That is exactly what he said and what I’m taking exception to. It was a ridiculous statement. 

    Reading back at what you're freaking out about, he referred to one particular attribute and behavior -- how they deal with other state leaders ("berating another leader in a public forum") -- and observed that Trump is worse than Hitler and Stalin and such in that respect.  On that particular issue, in that context, it's a point worthy of discussion.  I don't necessarily reach that conclusion -- I think it's less that he's "worse" than them then it is that he's an utterly incompetent juvenile toddler-stage narcissist, which makes him somewhat unique in that class.  And if he was just the President and Supreme Potentate of the Peoples Republic of Nowhereistan, it wouldn't mean shit.  As the President of the most powerful country on earth....it's a big fucking deal.

  9. 1 minute ago, huge said:

    Man most every white republican I know is pissed off about this.

    They need to get on board.

    It ain't about weed at all -- they'll be able to smoke and pop all the gummies they want.

    It's about control, feeding the prison complex, and making sure black and brown people lose the right to vote forever.  Weed is just the vehicle to accomplish those goals.  They won't actually use it against white folks, no worries there.

  10. 5 minutes ago, bluto said:

    So until he does that, then it’s all good and unfavorable (lol) comparisons are inapt?
     

    I agree with you that worse than hitler is a bit of hyperbole as of today but to say the trajectory or course is pretty well on par is not exactly a reach. 

    Yeah, "worse than Hitler" is not merited at this point in time.  "Following much of Hitler's fascist playbook" is 100% merited.  And an observation that "when people follow a previous playbook, there is a very real likelihood of a similar outcome" is also a 100% valid observation.

    But, you know, this is all hyperbole and hysterics unless and until the full task is completed: political enemies rounded up and shipped to camps/detention facilities (here, in Lower Bumfuckistan, etc.), dead bodies stacking up, functionally declaring this to be a white nation for the white race (whoops, that one has already happened).....

  11. 2 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Yes I find it incredibly embarrassing when Horns compare Trump unfavorably to Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Amin, Mao, etc.  I do not care what you say on your boards and I already know you’re a total dipshit.

    How many jews/political opponents had Hitler imprisoned and killed before spring of 1933?  Hint: it's pretty close to the same number as Trump has done thus far.

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    "Why are you folks freaking out?  That's just a tiny fire.  Y'all are hysterical."

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  12. Finally.  Texas can bet back to what it does best: imprisoning black and brown people at absurdly disproportionate and high rates for a harmless activity that white people engage in at a similar rate, but somehow, are only 25% as likely to be arrested for.  Because at the end of the day, the important thing is that those folks be kept as a perpetual near-slave class (can't get a good job with a conviction) and this is SUPER-IMPORTANT: they can't mess up Texas with their votes anymore.

    Voting is only for white folks.  Jim Crow out front shoulda told ya.  And once we renamed Jim Crow ("the War on Drugs" rebranding was quite successful), it took right off again.

  13. 51 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Agree with Brisket - Little Mermaid statue is overrated, but it's a nice stroll by the water. 

    Our Little Mermaid photo is a family favorite.  There was a cold, driving rain, ultra shitty day.  But you "have to see it."  So, we took a cab...I paid him to wait while we jumped out, took a photo with all of us grimacing and getting soaked with the statue behind us, and hopped back into the cab.  Cabbie just shook his head as we all laughed, and headed out to a nice, warm dinner.

  14. 1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

    Doubling the prison term for possession is insane. Over the past few decades, the reasonable world has realized that incarceration for simple drug possession is a massive injustice and detriment to society. Of course our idiot state government doubles down on one of the stupidest policy mistakes of the modern era. 

    Is it insane?  Or does it absolutely satisfy a key policy goal of the Republican party: ensuring that minorities lose the right to vote (due to criminal conviction) at a pace that VASTLY outpaces white people?  Because the facts are pretty clear: 1) rates of marijuana USE are similar, and 2) rates of arrests for possession are around FOUR TIMES HIGHER for minority users.  Because the mythology is reality in MAGA-land:

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    1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I'll attack this idiocy from another angle: The Pro Business Party is cutting of billions in revenue. 8 billion in taxable revenue, employs 1.6 billion going towards 50k employable people (which is also taxed), and also the downstream effects on the hemp farmers, no matter what patrick says about just banning "high" he's reducing the crops of the farmers. Oh, and the shuttering of probably hundreds of small businesses. 
    https://www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/economic-report-shows-texas-cannabis-businesses-surpassing-8b-in-revenue

    Shooting ourselves in the dick, destroying our future economically, educationally, environmentally, and in every other possible way is MUCH more important than any of your math-y bullshit.  Duh.

  15. I mean....it really is astounding -- and I say this as a fucking cynic of the highest order -- how fucking quickly our entire government and political culture went full-on "unabashed evil racist." 

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