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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!
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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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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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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I fucking love this: "Support the man. Oppose the policy." You utter fucking dumbass....the man IS the policy. Imagine saying "Support the rapist. Oppose the rape." No, dude. If you want to stop the rape...you need to stop the rapist. This guy can't help but enable his own buttfucking, because he's too much of a gutless pussy-ass coward to ever admit he was wrong. There has never been a more spineless, cowardly movement in human history than MAGA. This guy is just another pathetic brick in that dumbass wall of cowardice. -
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. 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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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Brisketexan replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Yep, remember years ago some comedian saying "look, Apple.....nobody ever, ever, EVER intends to write the word 'ducking.'" -
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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....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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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Brisketexan replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
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. -
CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Brisketexan replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
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. -
Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Brisketexan replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
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. -
Had a crawfish boil this Sunday. Leftover sausage and shrimp, and I also had some leftover Cajun grilled chicken I made for the philistines. What to do with that? Duh.
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Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Brisketexan replied to C-Man's topic in Cloak Room
The action of being mexican. Dude, some actions are unforgivable. And in MAGA land, "being mexican" is one of those things. -
The growing Catholic church in Africa would like a word. Seriously, it's easy to look at the Catholic church in Europe and the US and say that it's declining, and the church being retrograde is part of that. But it misses a LOT of the picture of the Church as a whole.
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Brisketexan replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
Also....how did we not hone in on this earlier (or did I miss it)? He's the literal Blues Brother pope - he's from Chicago, and he's on a mission from God. Somebody needs to dispatch 4 fried chickens and a coke, and some dry white toast, to the Vatican, stat.- 480 replies
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Brisketexan replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
I fucking love it. Let me re-state the core criticisms: 1) A man who was just selected to lead a GLOBAL religious body....does not ascribe to a political belief of "America first, America to the exclusion of everyone else." 2) A man who was just selected to lead a Christian denomination - literally the MOTHER Christian denomination - ascribes to ideas like those found in the first book of the New Testament, like "treat the stranger, immigrant, and prisoner, with kindness," and "show kindness to your enemies." Yes. Their criticisms are exactly as fucking stupid as they sound when you put them in plain english. -
This. We've got a pretty good litmus test of "if THESE are the people who hate him, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna like him" going here. Loomer, Bannon, Vance, Icono....keep 'em coming.
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The Blake Lively (Ryan Reynolds's wife) Controversy
Brisketexan replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
I'm waiting to see Lively's and Baldoni's takes on the new pope before I decide which team I'm on. -
Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Brisketexan replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
Continuing the list of "if these are the people who hate him, I think I'm gonna like him." Keep 'em coming.- 480 replies
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Says me, after eating two McRibs on the way back from the coast after a long day of fishing.
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Brisketexan replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
Please, on this holiest of days, the term is cavus gloriosus. -
Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Brisketexan replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
Only because I was never trying to hook up with a hot girl who was attending such a service. My college-age libido took me places I wouldn't go with a gun today. -
Not saying that it WASN'T pulled out of someone's ass, but actually....City garbage trucks actually have internal scales to weigh how much trash they have on board. It's part of the regulatory requirements on landfills, recording daily volumes and such. It's not as accurate as an ag department certified grocery scale, but it's close enough to satisfy regulatory requirements. Now, someone STILL might be bullshitting you, because people do that shit. But odds are they had a pretty good idea from the readings on the trucks as they headed off to the landfill.
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Brisketexan replied to GopherRock's topic in Daily Texan
Pope "Go Ursus! I" woulda been awesome.
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