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Brisketexan

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  1. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Well…I mean…except for that time. What the hell? I’ll take it!
  2. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Rigoni is the futbol equivalent of an automatic out in the batting order. He’s just awful.
  3. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    By not being terrible. Which for us, is pretty good. No real runs this half thus far.
  4. Error: the Bandit’s British-made car would break down 3 times en route. And nobody there would say “the Germans ain’t got nothing to do with it” - too soon.
  5. Shitheel narcissist sociopath kids become this way because they have shitheel narcissist parents - the very playpen of parent who will never get involved in a good way.
  6. This. The GQP is going full evil overlord. And instead of facing electoral consequences, it is rewarded. We are an evil, shit state, dominated by evil shit people. Sure, there are plenty of good Texans. But as long as the GQP has us locked up at 50%+1 (which will continue for at least another generation, likely longer as political migration shakes out), we don’t matter. At all. There is zero impulse to govern Texas for all Texans. The only thing that matters isn’t even rewarding their side, it’s hurting and punishing the other side. The only metric of success is “destruction and cruelty inflicted.” And this GQP, supported by a majority of Texans, is wildly successful.
  7. “Going to?” My friend…we are already there. Look around you. It’s mass psychosis. We’ve seen it before. And we know how it ends. There’s nothing new under the sun. Just the same evil idiocy on repeat, at least once a century (often 2-3 times).
  8. I’m hoping that it’s 100% an example and a role model. Let all the deranged conspiracy shitheads take themselves out. Although I read a bit of his manifesto, and I gotta tell ya, one of his foundational points is that crypto is a scam, so…inside every nutbar’s head is a nugget of truth.
  9. Spotted by the daughter today on her bus on a new route in London:
  10. The record of the entire legislative session, everything filed by our AG in the last several years, our governor’s sole “leadership” being a constant game of “look how big a dick I can be to brown people,” and the fact that all of them are rewarded for that with electoral victory after victory. Being a piece of shit isn’t punished. It’s rewarded.
  11. Wait…are we training their cops to not protect citizens and actually abuse and kill them…or are they training OUR cops to do that?
  12. I love Marketplace. And I sweatergawd…I always like Birdnote when I catch it. Dear God, what happened to me?
  13. As many balls as are flying around at 100mph exit velocity at our games, I’ve just assumed one will inevitably take him out.
  14. False. If that were the case, both would have hit Collie Station.
  15. Yes, that’s delicious. But that gov’t cheese made for some kickASS grilled cheese sandwiches.
  16. How about the mother who might not have even been alive but for gov't subsidized housing and gov't cheese that kept her alive, because she happened to be born to an abusive father her alcoholic mother had to flee? No fault of my mom's - she was a fucking child. But without that government help, she wouldn't have even been around to raise a positive economic input (me).
  17. Or, to go capitalist: dividends and returns. Take it next level: calculate the COSTS of the failure to invest. I'd rather spend $6k a year for public school education for a kid than $40k a year for incarceration of that kid when he becomes a failed adult because he wasn't educated. Failure to invest leads to multiplied costs to mitigate the harm caused by that lack of investment. Don't invest in new factory equipment? Spend more both when it eventually breaks down, and lose money when you've suffered lower sales because of your shitty equipment for years.
  18. Well, that's the difference between a soyboy cuck outfit like Mercedes, and an EXTREME HARDCORE den of badassery that is Tesla. DUH!
  19. "College educated parents." You mean my dad, who ended up at A&M by a fluke? And who didn't actually make any real money (he was in a gov't job my whole childhood) until well after I was out of the house? And my mom....who was lucky to graduate high school, and didn't have a pot to piss in till she lucked into marrying my dad (it helped that my mom was a knockout, helped her get a good fella)? The parents who raised me in an entry-level shit house at the end of a barely paved road (well, it got paved when I was in high school)? The ones who sacrificed like hell to put me in those schools? THOSE parents? But nevermind my story. Check out the actual data I linked. It's fucking obvious and intuitive, but maybe that will get through your sociopathy.
  20. "Fairy tales." https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26144/w26144.pdf Just a snapshot from the abstract: Gee, the very kind of things I was talking about -- investing in children and higher ed for young adults -- yield off-the-chart returns. Wouldya look at that.
  21. Your story presents the clear dichotomy: there is one group that thinks of the human capital that is the American people as a CAPEX (an investment that feeds and fuels our future), and there's another group that thinks of the American people as OPEX (every dollar spent is a waste, they should be slashed as much as possible). I too am a product of such investment: my mother grew up on government subsidies (it was the reason she had food to eat for much of her youth). I got two degrees from UT for free (paid for by scholarships courtesy of the people of Texas). I now pay a metric shit ton in taxes, I help fuel our economic engine in quite a few different ways, I give my time and money to others in pretty copious amounts, etc. The State of Texas has gotten a massive return on its investment. Data shows that the investment almost always yields significant benefit within a generation of said investment. It's not just decent and compassionate. IT'S GOOD AND SMART BUSINESS. PEOPLE WHO TREAT THEIR FELLOW AMERICANS AS A COST CENTER, NOT AN ASSET TO BE INVESTED IN, ARE VERY, VERY BAD, NO GOOD, AND STUPID AT BUSINESS. Desert dweller: I don't know why people need umbrellas. I've never needed one even once in my life. London resident:
  22. They ARE afficionados of the flatulent arts....
  23. Hadn't seen that article, thanks. So cool. I get my hair cut up there (Bob's Barber shop), so I drive by all of them once a month. I've stopped and grabbed tacos from a handful of random places, and they've all been good.
  24. Also, they are EXTREME, and HARDCORE. The problem with touting yourself as WORLD-CHANING ZOMG THE BESTEST EVER EVERYONE ELSE IS SUCKY PUSSIES!...is that you've left little margin for getting called out on your bullshit. TLDR; Elon's wounds are almost all self-inflicted, chapter eleventy billion.
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