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Brisketexan

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  1. Texas is 53-47 female to male (and in terms of "the best students," in my experience, it's even more skewed. Probably closer to 60-40). But law schools in Texas still skew white, compared to overall population (in Texas, white population is around 40%): So, from decent schools, your pool of candidates is going to skew white and female, and the pool of better candidates skews even more heavily female. It also depends on the field you're hiring for. The pool of candidates interested in high level M&A work is almost certainly going to skew white, and probably even male. Family law? From my experience, more heavily female and minority. IP? Gonna draw more heavily from people who already have engineering and science degrees, which will see asians at a higher percentage than their share of population. No individual case is determinative -- I'm sure there are brilliant black female M&A lawyers, and I know of lots of great white male family law attorneys. Law is a very variable business, based on the entities hiring, the practice type at issue, etc. What I will suggest that if you look at the top 50 students from any of these schools, they're going to skew even more female than the total female population of the school.
  2. Why do you think @Nicole44 doesn't come by the tailgates anymore? If she's gonna be fawned over by awkward dudes with no social skills, she's gonna get PAID for it.
  3. Does it have AI? Gotta have AI if you want me to invest. AI's the future, doncha know.
  4. Yes. Yes. And yes. Maybe LD wins. I read it in one sitting. 11 or 12 hours straight (can't remember which). I picked it up at night, and I read all through the night. I literally closed the book as the first bells chimed from the Tower to start the day at 8:00 a.m. An iconic Texas moment to end the iconic Texas book. I also read sections of LD aloud to my wife's uncle (beloved to me as well) on his death bed. He was a true Texan, it was his favorite book, and it was but a small thing I could do for a man who was kind and welcoming to me.
  5. Yeah, bruh. Go to the actual Camellia website. Pull up the recipe for RBAR on their site: https://www.camelliabrand.com/recipes/camellias-famous-new-orleans-style-red-beans/ It has a hyperlink to the Camellia product to select. That link takes you to....exactly what I grew up on, and my NOLA mother grew up on: https://shop.camelliabrand.com/products/red-kidney-beans?_gl=1*12ldr37*_ga*NjU3OTA2MzQyLjE3NjY0MzQ5OTE.*_ga_GXGBQM0YK4*czE3NjY0MzQ5OTAkbzEkZzEkdDE3NjY0MzUwMDAkajUwJGwwJGgw I gotta tell ya, I've eaten RBAR in a lotta places, and that's what I've had. Shit, the picture I sent you was the pic of someone starting to make a pot of RBAR.
  6. Huh. We oughta let em in on a secret: I've engage with a crapload of women, including romantically and physically. Been doing so steadily for 40 years. AND WOMEN STILL SCARE THE SHIT OUTTTA ME. CUZ THEY'RE SCARY.
  7. Hell, same response all the way back to the Greatest Generation. Young man, you want some poontang?
  8. Yes. I do.
  9. We had a friend order some from a Catholic church in Corpus Christi (they were gonna be in town to pick them up), and we had them get us 2 dozen. I'll report back on quality Wednesday night.
  10. Yep. And the term you are looking for is - unironically - called "grandfathering." If tomorrow, the City of Austin passes a regulation that as of 1/1/26 no new single-family home can be over 1-story tall, then any house that is not already over 1-story or has not applied for a permit under the current rules, cannot be more than 1-story tall. That is a legal framework that presently exists, is enforced nationwide, and does not result in any taking of property or other actionable harm to anyone. If, on the other hand, the City of Austin passed that same regulation, but followed it with "and we're going to have to tear down 10% of the current 2-story houses," every owner of such a house picked for destruction would have a lay-down taking claim. To bring the metaphor back home, actually firing or demoting people to make room for someone else would curl your hair and everyone else's, and for good reason. Changing the rules going forward, while it might FEEL unfair relatively speaking, is generally considered fair. Changing them retroactively, and actively taking away rights/things you have? Those are universally regarded as wrong and unfair. And as you seem to be hung up on the fact that Gen Z white males are pissed not because the playing field going forward doesn't favor them as much, but because those who played before aren't being penalized, then . . . yeah. My sympathy/empathy is low. That's just our monkey-banana brain at work. "No matter how many bananas I get, if some other monkey got more, I'm pissed." But, again, y'all are missing the punch line that obliterates this conversation: white male grievance has WON. There will never be a better time to be a white male than in this new era. It is official US policy that they are the most favored demographic, and any time any white male loses at anything it is per se evidence of racial/gender discrimination and non-merit-based hiring etc. I have little sympathy for people who have captured all the levers of power, and are actively and proudly using them to favor one small group at the expense of literally everyone else.....and then bitch about how they haven't been able to....what, eliminate all non-white male competition from earth entirely? THEY'VE FUCKING WON. TAKE THE FUCKING W AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.
  11. Thus the white nationalist quest (successful, so far) to ban "CRT" (which they define as "teaching that our society had any race-based problems, ever"). Because the issues arise largely from systemic, generations-long pressures. We kept minorities down, so their kids and grandkids remain disadvantaged. We favored white men, so their kids and grandkids have an advantage. IF we don't talk about that, or even acknowledge that it exists, then yeah...anything that even hints at acknowledging that reality is gonna piss off white people. Because of these generations-long biases, generic white guy was more likely to be born into a middle class or better family -- which, statistically, sets him up for future success -- than generic black or brown guy. So, now that white guy has a 100 yard head start, we want to declare "everyone has an equal chance to win the race that starts right now!"
  12. I don't care about them getting fucked because they've chosen to sign up for the white grievance wars and enlist in the "punch down at minorities and women" squad. So, yeah...based on that, fuck em. And as for your first-hand accounts, groovy. There are still a shitload of fields where being a white male carries an inherent advantage, and I'd suggest that society-wide, it all comes out in the wash, and white men actually STILL have an outsized advantage in comparison to their overall percentage of society. That is, I'm going to bet that among 20-30 year olds, "well-paying jobs" still go to white males at a percentage higher than their actual percentage of the population. Here's my quick find from 2016 - yes, nearly a decade out of date, but I'm betting that the numbers remain pretty close, percentage-wise:
  13. Yeah....it's not exactly news that the GQP is just a white christian nationalist party now.
  14. Very much on our list. Norway is the prettiest place we've ever been, and the locals tell us Lofoten is the best of Norway.
  15. The battle has already been decided. This viewpoint has won, handily. Like "Ole Miss over Tulane" handily. The entire national power structure in our government is dedicated to fostering, stoking, and fighting for that exact worldview: That's it. That's our full national approach now: governmentally, socially, educationally. Full-on white grievance, take every bit of advantage back, and hate/blame/undermine everyone else. Maybe what I don't get is why we're even having this pointless fucking conversation. The whiny bitch-ass author has fucking WON. It's his world now. Complete domination, anything that deviates from that will be crushed by the regime. Don't believe me? So, this whole thread is just mental masturbation. The battle is over. White men won. Completely, totally, and without any exception or reservation.
  16. Tell me more. Are there really? By that kind of job, I meant manufacturing (that doesn't require a degree/advanced training) and agriculture (75+ years ago, a shitload of dudes worked out on the farm). See this: in 1980, 20% of American workers were in manufacturing (and in 1980, most of those were men). Today, it's 8.31% In 1950, there were nearly 50 million farm jobs. Today, there's around 2 million farm jobs. Granted, that hit was more across the board racially (lots of minority farm workers at all relevant periods), but for men in general, it is a blow across the board. Yes, there are good jobs in the trades like plumbers and electricians. And those trades have grown some, but not NEARLY enough to capture all of the jobs lost in manufacturing and ag:
  17. I mean.....SIGH. It's okay to have some retrograde fantasies, fellas....right? Help me out here. And this, I would agree with. "We thought we'd get to start every inning on 3rd base, or at least second, and now, we actually have to step up to the plate and bat - THAT'S NOT FAIR" is closer to the dynamic we're dealing with. And I get why you don't like being without the inherent, unearned advantages you thought you were entitled to, but here's the thing.....you weren't actually entitled to them. Getting white males to swallow the truth pill of "you shouldn't have been, and aren't, entitled to anything other than the same opportunities as everyone else" is one of the challenges of our times. It's not going well for us.
  18. But YOU are missing the point. Today's white males do not "have it worse than everyone else." Instead....they have just as average/shitty a lot in life as everyone else (even that's not true. Come on, it's still better to be a white dude than a black dude, we all know it). What they have lost is SOME of the unfair advantage their predecessors had. They do not want a "fair shake." They want to get back the unfair advantage their predecessors had. Now, if your point is instead "now that we see that in a more egalitarian society, white males also get fucked, because everyone is getting fucked, and we should do something about everyone getting fucked," I'd agree with that. But I'll also observe that a material chunk of young white men is not interested in the "do something about everyone getting fucked" path. Instead, they choose the lazy, convenient path of punching down and blaming women and minorities for taking....some of the unfair advantage away.
  19. You can do one of three things with that group of humans: 1) Realize they are part of society, and help build a system for all (which is why I've asked the question repeatedly over the years) 2) Exterminate them (the Nazis liked this one) 3) Weaponize them as foot soldiers to serve the oligarch class (that's the path we've chosen here....but if they're brown and such, we've chosen a bit of option 2 as well)
  20. On this you and I agree. Parenting boys these days means helping them OVERCOME the structural failures of society that disfavor them. It's not the solution, it's the thing that can help some boys overcome those social failings. I don't put it all on "we let women compete, and it turns out, they kick our asses" - it's more than that. But the bottom line is that society has changed in myriad ways the last 50 years that are NOT good for men: (1) our educational systems are even more poorly designed for them, (2) physical/manual/factory labor opportunities have plummeted (3) better-educated women have better options than "I gotta marry a guy, even a loser, if I want to have a home and food on the table," and a dozen more social changes that hurt mediocre white guys. I've often asked the callous question of "what are we gonna do with all our morons?", but it's a genuine question asked in hyperbolic terms. It used to be that a mediocre dude could get a good job at the auto plant, marry a gal who was happy to be a part of that life, and have a good and fulfilling life. Those opportunities are dwindling, and fast. Everyone should have a life of basic security and dignity (or at least a really good opportunity for that), if we are to have a functioning society. They do not. And instead of spending an ounce of energy at addressing these massive structural challenges.....we allow the oligarchs to pit everyone against each other. And the author of this piece is a happy and willing accessory to that counter-productive bullshit.
  21. Yeah....definitely drawing on my own experience of realizing that the girls were studious and could actually pay attention to and advance their studies, whereas Brisket (who was actually a pretty smart guy) was busy laughing at farts with his buddies and thinking about the boobs of every one of those girls in class. "Academic focus" wasn't something my dumb ass brought to the table in spades. And my dumbass buddies seemed to be in the same boat. We need systems that account for young male development timelines and are aimed to help men grow and achieve -- socially, professionally, etc. -- along those timelines.
  22. More than anything else, it's this. It's cowardice ingrained as a result of a sheltered existence. We don't know how to fail/suffer rejection anymore. You only succeed....after you've failed. Often after you've failed a LOT. I distinctly remember the mental epiphany of "wait....right now, she's not going out with me. If I go up to her and flirt and ask her out and she says no....she's still not going out with me. I've lost absolutely nothing." Which led me to swing the bat, plenty. And the cool thing is, you only care about the hits. Nobody is counting the strikeouts, they don't fucking matter. Their are 3.5 billion women in the world. All but a dozen or so have never hooked up with me, and never will. Yet I'm still winning. Pretty awesome when you realize that's how shit works. And this. Truly, it's interesting listening to my son talk about his peer group, and how the dynamics break down. He has nothing but disdain for the socially stunted losers who just retreated into video games and porn and don't understand why women don't want to get with their socially stunted slightly smelly selves. As he puts it, "it takes so little damned effort. Take a little bit of care of yourself, put yourself out there, and talk with women like they are human beings." That's it. And I remember figuring various elements of that out at his age as well, as I assume most of us did. Is this sort of convention helpful? The sad thing is, it may be. Truly, an experience with an escort, who can actually guide a naive man a little bit into knowing what women respond to positively, really might help some of these guys. I dunno. At this point, a dude in his 30s who's never touched a boob needs some pretty serious measures to get him on track.
  23. This. This is the takeaway. It is the accurate and correct takeaway. The best way that you can tell that white men are being discriminated against is that they are no longer disproportionately dominating various fields and professions. Not "they are not getting opportunities that match their percentage of the population," but rather "they don't have a 10-30 percentage point leg up like they used to." And absolutely this. Do you want to hear me say "white men in our society are fucked and are being fucked?" Because here I am, saying just that. I've been concerned about our young men, definitely including our young white men, for some time. Shit, old-timers here will recall our family alarm bells going off 15+ years ago when my son was in first grade, and we realized that the current educational structures are just poorly suited for how boys are and how they think. We corrected previous biases, and have set up an educational system that's closer to a level playing field for males and females. And, it turns out, on a level playing field....females regularly outcompete males. Girls are better at school (as currently designed), to put it succinctly. They start pulling ahead at a young age, and by the time dumb boy lizard brains catch up, they're already past the college/learn a profession/trade years, and women have put some real distance between them. Then, layer on the fact that our society is doing a great job of poisoning their minds (Andrew Tates and Tucker Carlsons and Charlie Kirks telling them that bitches and minorities are the problem, they need to get back in the kitchen/to the plantation/back to one of those mexican countries) that young men (1) become a toxic presence in society and (2) do nothing to actually improve their lot because hey, it's not their fault. The American Dream was stolen from them by woke trans black mexican amputee women. All of us should be able to be the next Elon Musk (that's right -- they don't HATE billionaires, they IDOLIZE them. How you gonna fix that? When they worship the very thing that fucks them the hardest?) And yeah, I've seen this in real-time and -- importantly -- so has my son. He figured out some time ago that having his shit together, having some social skills, and not descending into a life of just video games and Andrew Tate shit would actually give him a leg up in life. He's not naive. He's a tall, good-looking, white/hispanic man with a broad education and perspective and a charismatic presence. Regardless of what the whiny tittybaby in Bozo's piece wrote, that DOES give you an advantage in the world we live in. And he has much less competition in that respect that he would have 25 years ago, because his peers are falling behind. (Also...him taking a "gap year" to grow up, and figure out how to be a man, was maybe the best thing to ever happen to him. We are HUGE proponents of the gap year for boys, as it lets them "catch up" and mature a bit before they take on whatever is next (college, trade school, doesn't really matter)). TLDR; I actually worry a great deal about our young men. One of the main reasons I worry is that too many of them are becoming whiny-ass pussies who take no responsibility for their lives and outcomes, instead taking a lazy blame approach that ends up pointing a finger at the weakest among us instead of the larger systemic issues that are the real problem. Of course, that's because they have no interest in reining in oppressive billionaires because they want to BE the oppressive billionaires. Weak white men are mad that they no longer have as many avenues to be shitty white men. Waah.
  24. Yeah. Gosh, I may have to stop flying my Clinton flag, and get rid of my Clinton hat, and take my bro-dozer in to get my Clinton wrap-job removed!
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