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Brisketexan

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  1. I mean, there are 2-3 posters here who think I'm actually kinda smart, so let's not be so quick on the "not showing off your fake life."
  2. Ahh yes, the "if there's grass on the field, play ball!" moral and legal defense. Remember, there's literally nothing the cult leader can do to lose the loyalty of cult followers. This where Stassney gets mad at me for saying "he could facefuck an infant on live TV, and he would GAIN support," even though we're hurtling faster and faster towards that actually being a true scenario.
  3. Those Savage Blondes were next-level. But recall that for our last crawfish boil, you got some gulf oysters from Whole Foods that coulda gone toe-to-toe with any east coast oyster I've ever had. A good oyster is a good oyster. For raw, you're more likely to get a good oyster from the east coast or PNW, but not always. And as someone who grew up on gulf oysters and has probably eaten a few thousand of them (no kidding), they've got a soft spot. A really good gulf oyster is my platonic ideal of an oyster.
  4. False. True. Stop thinking like a rational human. Rational thought has no place here. Just ask the question "what would a cult do?" and you have your answer. And a cult will 100% adopt the position of the cult leader, even if it is a complete 180. "I used to say that being a pedo is bad, but now I know that it is our divine destiny to have sex with children." "Yes, my lord. This is the way." That's it. It's that simple.
  5. Correct. Nothing he does or says can cause the cult to lose faith. They just turn it into yet another reason that he is indeed the Chosen One. That's how cults work. Full stop.
  6. Galloway really is great on this topic. Plenty of folks have been sounding the alarm on this for a long time (shit, I remember my wife getting wide-eyed and worried about it 15+ years ago, when our son was in first grade - "Jesus, our system is failing our boys."). Now, the results of a societal trend that wasn't purposeful (it all just kinda happened) are being seen....and they're really, really bad. Modern Western society has failed young men. And the cost of that failure is bad for EVERYONE - the young men we have failed are turning to harmful outlets/alternatives. It doesn't excuse the conduct, but FFS, when you set people up for failure and psychosis, don't act surprised when they become psychotic failures.
  7. Perhaps. I'm just doing the realistic thinking of "half of all households subsist on an income that is below the median household income," and this career can put you on a path to being solidly above that. Even the WWTP job alone usually puts the household above the median income, so it's good on its own. It's even better if you have a two-earner household, which is the way of much of our country these days (again, that's just reality). If the big picture is that inflation and our overall economic dysfunction will mean that life sucks for everyone below the 80th percentile of household income, that's real, but it's a separate issue. A lot of us on this board (full of college graduates) really don't realize (or remember) how "the bottom half" lives. Half of Americans live in households of below median income, and it ain't easy. Anything that can boost them materially above that is a good thing. Not great, not living in high cotton, but yeah - being able to be secure in housing and food and such is a win for a shitload of people.
  8. Depends on where you live. A WWTP operator can make around $60-70k. That alone ain't great, but yes, the benefits are usually quite good, and if the earner is a member of a two-worker household (spouse has a job making, say, $50k), you're at $110-120k, and in a mid-sized city, that's decent. E.g., the median household income in Waco is around $50k. Even in a big city like Houston, median is $62k. A WWTP operator job alone can put you above median income, and can put you on track to being materially above median household income (double that) if you have another mildly decent earner in the house. You're not taking fancy vacations or driving high-end cars, but the baseline of having a secure roof over your head, no food insecurity, good basic healthcare, enough money for clothing and some of the nicer basics (furniture, TV, cell phones) is a pretty decent life. I mean....I guess I look at the kind of life I was born into and had for my first few years of life, and it looked a lot like that. And to my mother -- who had grown up in abusive households, and then when her mom fled, a brutally poor household that survived with the help of gov't assistance and charity -- our little life in a tract home, where we could afford to buy meat for most meals, and I could have some new toys, was the American damned dream. Her perspective made a lifelong impression on me.
  9. The sad thing isn't that so many people are willing to sell their souls in the service of evil. It's that they're selling them for fucking rock-bottom prices. FFS, get a real goddamned job, and you'd do better.
  10. Spoiler: we don't survive. The shell and vestiges of the country will persist for a surprisingly long time, but the die has already been cast. It's over. It's been over since we had the temerity to elect a black man to be president of a country that has never reckoned with slavery or Jim Crow, which made half the country lose it's goddamned mind and say "if we can't have it all to ourselves, NOBODY CAN!" and then pull the cord on the suicide vest.
  11. I'm waiting until they put a little SPF 20 in this mix, gotta approach the job deliberately:
  12. Don't sleep on the Camaro mustache and the "murican flag" necktie. He looks like a character Danny McBride would come up with.....which is EXACTLY where we are as a Republic. Fuck, we'd be better off if every Trump official was replaced with Kenny Powers.
  13. TLDR; these dipshits are what losers think a real man looks like.
  14. "IT'S NOT A CULT!"......says every member of the cult.
  15. Most fantastic new Reality TV show idea in years? Yep. "The Real World: Russian asylum edition."
  16. Man....I can't decide what I'm enjoying more: the inevitable poo-flinging toddler fight between two malignant narcissists, or the insanely idiotic MAGAt copium of "no, see, this is all kayfabe/psyop, it's planned!"....nevermind the idiocy of "planning" something like this, not being able to explain what, exactly, would be the goal/accomplishment of such "plan," etc. It's just a tornadic shitstorm of idiocy and all of humanity's worst traits, spinning at F-5 speed and spitting out the debris of our former Republic by the metric shitton. All I ask is that he complete destruction of this country I love at least be entertaining.....and finally, this timeline is really delivering.
  17. Fuck you. George and Tammy contributed 1000X more to humanity than either of the assclowns at issue here.
  18. TACO v MACO.
  19. I do like that AP, of all news outlets, seems to have at least a vertebrae or two.
  20. They all are. That's one of the many awful truths of MAGA-land. There are only two types of men in MAGA-land: 1) Donald Trump, and 2) his simps. That's it. That's the whole list.
  21. Pretty cool graphic. And yeah, our casa was just inside the 65 mph+ area, which checks out.
  22. I'm a big fan of the "enshittification" trend of making it hard to....fucking give a merchant your money. Go to CVS to buy a battery for my car key fob. Go to the self scanner. Scan single battery. Try to swipe card. Nope. First, have to push the button on screen "finish and pay." Then "pay with card." Then "do you want to join rewards, yes or no." Then "do you want to donate to save the gay whales for Jesus, yes or no" then a final button of "ok." Dude. The entire process should be....scan battery. Swipe card. Transaction confirmed, leave CVS.
  23. Exhibit eleventy billion in the indisputable case of "the guys who talk in all sorts of 'alpha male this, and alpha male that' terms are invariably the most pathetic fucking pussies on the planet." Bickering like two 12 year old girls is as far from "alpha/high agency" male as you can get. The fact that there are millions of spineless, pathetic men who look up to THIS as the ideal of masculinity is even more depressing.
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