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Brisketexan

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  1. Those are my dudes. Doesn’t get more “real American” than that. Fuck you racist Gestapo fuckheads to Hell.
  2. I’m an American, so I’ve always thought that royals are good for exactly one thing: I’m down. You want to create kings, let’s do some king shit.
  3. The charge is "contempt of cop." It's not in any law book, but it is the central, defining charge in the book of "how to be a cop." Constitution don't mean shit.
  4. I mean...fucking Jesus. I get text spam fundraising bullshit from all sides, and just yesterday I got the Trump version of this about "SAVE LA FROM THE RADICAL LEFT LUNATICS WHO SIDE WITH CRIMINALS" and shit. But that's not grifting, that's just good government right there. LAW AND ORDER. Oh, and that video clip of the AMERICAN hispanics they fucking grabbed in East LA? Fuck yes, those are my guys. Fight fucking back. We are more American than any fucking racist gestapo piece of shit. Want to do unAmerican fascist shit? Go volunteer in Hungary or Russia, but fuck right off from here.
  5. Duh. He only has two negotiating techniques (which are usually intertwined): 1) bullying/threats, and 2) being directly transactional (as in, there needs to be a DIRECT quid-pro-quo, like "we'll support your war effort, Ukraine....if you sign over your rare earth minerals"). There is no complexity, no real mutuality, no long-term vision or seed-planting. It's clumsy, oafish, all short-term, and ultimately, often counter-productive.
  6. I'm thinking of this: AMERICA'S ORG CHART: Also thinking of "ALL men are endowed by their creator with Certain unalienable rights." Or: WE are patriots WE are for freedom WE are for liberty Wife is probably going with a line from Matthew 25 - GOD SAYS: Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.
  7. This. Humanity, across-the-board, has plunged headlong into the full "FAFO" era. Lot of FA. So, need a lot of FO. It's stupid. But stupid is what humanity does best.
  8. FIF accuracy. Ideas don't matter. Facts don't matter. The truth doesn't matter. Who has the better performer who is able to get more idiots to fall in line? That's the only question. I am not kidding, not even a little bit, when I say that all Dem effort should be focused on getting someone like the Rock, or McConaughey, to run. I'm sure there are 100 other good options, but they all need to be celebrities who can say cool shit that makes people feel good. It doesn't have to make sense or be true, not even a little bit. Oh, it's more than scapegoating. The alternative message to the GQP's message of "hate, hate, and more hate" isn't "maybe be decent." Nope. The winning message is "twice as much hate as those fuckers can muster." Hate, and stupidity, are the only commodities of any political value today. If you want to trade in politics, you best get some...and not just some, but more than the other guy.
  9. Pretty sure. And the functional repeal of the 13th is in the offing, so....yeah.
  10. A resource that was brought to my attention. Not spot-on for everyone here, but some good practical and thematic advice: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/protesting_faithfully_-_handbook.pdf
  11. Well, see, you know how cops will beat the everloving fuck out of you if you are an unarmed protester, but 200 cops will stand idly by while children get slaughtered if you are armed? It's the same thing. Going after actual criminals? Scary and hard. Nabbing a dude in the middle of picking lettuce? That's REAL police work. Remember that fascists are cowards and fascism is a regime based on cowardice, and it all becomes clear.
  12. The majority of folks here would agree with that? Probably. Would a sizable chunk of folks here rationalize their way around each and every one of those principles? Also yes (it's treason to protest for foreigners! January 6th was fine! The Feds have a DUTY to remove traitor leaders from power!, shit like that). You have to understand that a sizable plurality of Americans absolutely want an authoritarian government, and they will justify and rationalize anything and everything to support it. Including posters here who will 1) claim that they don't, yet 2) without fail excuse/support every authoritarian act committed.
  13. "I came here to deal drugs and rape, but I just can't pass up this opportunity to pick lettuce" is certainly a take.
  14. Putin's play in all of this will simply be "which angle of chaos is most likely to benefit Russia?" That's the one he'll choose. And he WILL choose such an angle, for sure.
  15. Failure to fully and properly identify as a US Senator, with all paperwork, stamped in triplicate and reviewed by the Office of Regime Vetting? Performative shitheel who should be taken down by law enforcement immediately. Failure to show any identification establishing oneself as an actual badge-carrying cop (or even showing your face) as you storm a fucking taco restaurant? Well, that's just good government right there. Medals all around.
  16. You mean how all of the "libertarians," and "no gestapo in Bastropo," and "no big government," and "no overreaching government," "freedom and liberty!" types can't muster a single peep of resistance to a fucking avalanche of authoritarian actions by the Regime? Yeah...I wish it was a joke. What we now realize is that all of those arguments/values were just pretexts to support the ultimate end: a right-wing christo-fascist police state, subjugating any and all who dare dissent. Every one of those "values" wasn't a joke - it was a lie. At least, coming from the people who shouted them the loudest, it was a lie.
  17. Except if it's by right-wingers intent on decapitating and overthrowing our government. Then 1) it is absolutely a peaceful protest, and 2) anyone who the authorities dared to arrest/charge must be pardoned. The right has absolutely succeeded in creating and imposing a double standard. Not only is the right not answerable for violent conduct, it is REWARDED for it. The opposition should learn. You win by 1) repeated and consistent violence and threats of violence (congresspersons are legit fearful for their lives if they vote against the Regime), and then 2) using that violence and threats of violence to take power. Those are the rules. They've been written, and demonstrated to be true.
  18. So.....you're still black, right? Then...you know why.
  19. i.e., soft intelligence and context. AI is not good at it, across the board. AI reads hard data. It is not good at soft data (context and subtle cues). I had a long conversation with a friend of ours a year or so ago -- he's an AI pioneer type, and as we got to drinking, I asked the time-honored "when does AI become self-aware and go all batshit crazy human?" He chuckled and gave a speech he's clearly given many times before: it doesn't. It's just not able to do the soft thinking that the human brain can do. I see lines of cars parked on the side of Far West at 3:30, and I know - from experience and context - that children will be in the area. And I know that children do stupid things, like dart out into traffic. So, I slow down, allowing me to adequately respond to any unanticipated hazard. The Tesla and I both won't see the kid who darts out from between the cars in that case, but I'm going 20, the Tesla is going 30, I have a better chance of stopping and of doing less damage if I do hit the kid. Tesla didn't do anything "wrong," it just doesn't have the soft IQ to do the right thing.
  20. "Hey doc, I have a problem. I can't bone on a boat unless Kenny Chesney is playing." Yeah, you'd get some therapy for that. Everyone knows that Al Jarreau is the best boat sex artist.
  21. A natural and expected consequence of the failure is not a "dramatic flair." No more than plummeting into a river is a "dramatic flair" when FSD misses the clear "bridge out ahead" sign. The sign and signal is LITERALLY a warning of "there may be kids crossing/darting out unsafely, you should slow down/stop." FSD failed to slow down/stop. Just as it would be with ANY driver who failed to do so, the consequence of hitting a darting kid - the very hazard warned about - is a real thing that happens. Nothing was manipulated. It was 100% a realistic scenario: a schoolbus with warning devices deployed while kids are boarding/exiting, and a kid darts out in the street to do so. The full scenario occurred. FSD missed the warnings, and as a result, hit the kid. Hitting the kid isn't a "dramatic flair." IT'S WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS WHEN YOU DISREGARD THE WARNING SIGNALS.
  22. Jesus fucking Christ. The dummy shows one of the NATURAL consequences of the failure. YES....you cannot SEE the child that darts out in front of you. THAT IS WHY YOU HAVE AND FOLLOW THE SIGNALS AND WARNINGS. THOSE WARNINGS ARE LITERALLY THERE TO SAY "SLOW DOWN/STOP, A KID MIGHT BE DARTING OUT FROM HERE." Jesus tapdancing Christ. The kid is the WHY and the CONSEQUENCE of the shit that Tesla missed. Which Tesla missed both because...it fucking missed a clear signal, AND because it's not smart enough to read context.
  23. This. This is the "soft intelligence" that humans bring to the table. We recognize a situation as presenting a particular kind of hazard, so we slow down to account for it. A computer just reads the hard data. You mean, minus the object that flags any educated driver that there is a risk of a kid running out....yeah.
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