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  1. 3 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

     

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    Blah blah blah -- SHUT UP, SUBJECT!  YOUR INSOLENCE AGAINST THE REGIME WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

    Hey white folks....when they dispense with things like "basic rights," "justice," and "common sense," the dumbest fucking thing that you could think is that they'll STOP at black and brown people, and not apply the new order to you as well.  

    Ironclad rule here: while the Gestapo may START by coming for group X, or group Y....they ALWAYS end up coming for fucking EVERYONE.

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  2. 51 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    It's bizarre, all these really smart people expecting that it'll be different with them.  Pure ego.  Yeah, you're the one person who can do business with Trump and not get fucked over.  Sure.

    The evergreen GIF, applying to rich and poor, smart and dumb alike....really, to anyone and everyone who thinks they will ultimately come out better off for having entangled themselves with Trump:

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  3. 1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

    That is certainly going to have a chilling effect.

    It is like suggesting defense attorneys are obstructing justice and enabling crime.

    They aren't "suggesting" it.  They are out-and-out saying it, repeatedly: attorneys who represent ANYONE acting contrary to the interests of the Regime will and must suffer harsh retribution (see the Exec Orders against multiple firms).  

    It's every fever dream the GQP IMAGINED about the Biden admin....turned into full reality.

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  4. 37 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    Yeah? We'll see. This administration's primary thing seems to be reminding them they are not.

    The admin also appeals to pointless bravado and chest-puffing....which has real cultural appeal.  Even when it's utterly stupid and counterproductive.  Maybe ESPECIALLY when it is.  "Macho" is a thing, and it's rarely a smart thing.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

    These people exist. We have Andy Beshear, we have Roy Cooper and on and on.

    But here is the deal: you can't just find those people and anoint them. They have to step up and take the leadership. So far people like that seem content to just stay in their fiefdoms.

    Because there are only two political veins in this country: bullies, and cowards.  The GQP has taken full ownership of the "bully" contingent.  And not to be outdone, the Dems have gone all-in on "coward."

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  6. 7 minutes ago, fuggled said:

    Apparently the DFW lawyer who advised immigrants of their rights and was then harassed by law enforcement has been fired

     

    The machinery of fascism always, and must, include corporatist allies.  The Regime necessarily includes those elements.

    Remember all the "Free Speech ABSOLUTISTS!" we had around here pre-election?  Notice how not a single one of them has any issue with the Regime taking dead aim and anyone and everyone who dares utter a peep contrary to the desires of the Regime?  Huh.  Guess their internet is broken or something.

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  7. 1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

    I know. There seems to be this weird conflation with DEI efforts and affirmative action. The whole point of DEI is supposed to be to ensure bias and racism doesn't get in the way of merit based hiring.

    And what is most infuriating is we all spent our entire lives being told "it's not what you know, it's who you know" and the importance of "networking". It has always been about hiring people you know and your friends and relatives. The whole idea that hiring has been this pure amazing merit-based thing is kind of ridiculous.

    It's pure idiocy.  DEI efforts with respect to anything related to hiring are literally - as in, by definition - nothing more than ensuring that candidates OF MERIT who might otherwise be missed because they aren't in the traditional connections pool get consideration/visibility.  That is, instead of just considering candidates from your alma mater, or related to people at your country club, you also look at candidates from outside those circles (who, based on the circles of people traditionally calling the shots, will often be from minority communities).  That's it.  No obligation to hire a shitty candidate because of race.

    And it's been turned on its head.  In Trumpland, the only way to truly avoid DEI is to NOT consider or hire anyone outside of your inner circle.  Merit be damned.

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  8. Just now, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    But remember....we got rid of DEI (which is a concept these morons don't grasp on even the most elementary level) for "MERIT-BASED HIRING ONLY!"

    It's just that "merit" means "loyal to the Regime."  That's it.  That's the sole criterion.  You can be a badger-raping drooling idiot with an IQ of 50 and zero experience in the field, but so long as you'll suck orange dick and gargle the gravy, you're a "MERIT-BASED HIRE."

    Dumbest.  Fucking.  Timeline.

     

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  9. Not to pop your bubble but... Pretty sure that's always the case as US bound passengers go through US  immigration and US customs in Canada and fly as a domestic passenger, essentially. So no duty free allowance. 

    Yeah, I’m truly unsure. It’s been 5 years since I’ve flown out of Canada, but even though we clear customs there, I thought duty free was outside of that. But my memory could surely be wrong,
  10. 1 minute ago, DaysOff said:


    Lolz. What has happened to our Brisket? They. Won't. Care. He can still shoot someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue. It's over, man.

    Then cause as many casualties as you can on the way down.  The bonus is that "the only possible strategy that has a chance of winning an election" and "a strategy for destroying American society and the Republic" are pretty much the same thing.

    "The only winning move is not to play."  But....we're playing, and we have no fucking choice in the matter. 

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  11. 1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:

    You think the way to winning over hearts and minds of folks is to....checks notes....lie to them?

    No, I don't think that.  I know it.

    1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:

    We really are broken as a people.

    Gee, ya fucking think?  The only way to convince people to do anything politically is to feed the rage machine/amygdala, preferably with a torrent of inflammatory lies that don't even need to have the air of truth about them.

    Truth, reason, and logic, are poison, and nothing but loser-juice.  Pour them out and be done with them, they have ZERO place in American political action.

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  12. 51 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    So it was a Monday as usual in Southern Europe. 

    True fact.  Tomato Europe, generally not operating as smoothly as potato Europe.  Generally better grub, though.

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  13. 28 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    I think this a bad idea for many reasons, but mainly because lies aren't necessary. 

    They are 100% necessary.  Reality is not inflammatory enough.  

    We are not communicating with people's logic and reason centers.  Those parts of the human brain were destroyed by a quirk of evolution over the last few decades.  We are communicating solely with the amygdala, and those things light up like a goddamned Christmas tree at lies -- the more outrageous, the better.

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