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So....thought it was encapsulated, and they could likely remove it....then sure, zap you with a buncha prophylactic chemo etc.? But then, I ain't a doc.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
1) they will not separate/disentangle in any meaningful way. They aren't following any rules or norms re Elon as a "government employee" now, they won't in the future. 2) GOOD. Tie them together. For eternity. Then tie them to 1,000 cinderblocks, and toss them both, together, into the sea over the Marianas Trench. Attack Elon. Attack Trump. In every possible way, in every arena. Relentlessly. Attack until they are finished, and then attack the rubble. Elon is right about one thing: we ARE in a war for civilization. Do you want it to be a fascist oligarchical hellscape, or maybe, just maybe, have societies that also consider what is good for the people as a whole? Elon, you declared war on us. You don't get to fucking walk that back. You get to lose. -
They do, however, want to hear you talk about how many chicks you banged back in the day. So, plot your course accordingly.
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Disagree. The high-info voters who support P2025 are doing so in service of out-and-out fascism, in which they (mostly correctly) see themselves as the winners in that game (being favored by the regime in a fascist system is a lucrative game indeed). The cruelty is, for some of them, a happy side benefit. For others, it's just a cost of doing business. What is human suffering in comparison to my increased wealth and profits? But the low-info voters....they are the ones who feel genuine joy in their hearts -- I mean, measurable joy, if you hooked them up to a heart monitor, you could pick up the increased pitter-patter -- when "the other" suffers. Libs crying, brown people in chains, people they hate losing their jobs....oh man, THAT is the good stuff. You underestimate how hate an cruelty is the dominant, and only winning, message in American politics today. The only way to beat hate and rage is to hate and rage MORE and BETTER than the other side. Is that awful? Does that mean that as a society, we have already lost, and are beyond all redemption? Well, of course it does. Duh. Kinda what I've been saying for better than a decade. But, here we are. You either completely surrender to the GQP and fascism, or you beat them at the game that is being played -- it's the only game in town.
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Is the Left and the Right wrong about our tax system?
Brisketexan replied to YChang's topic in Cloak Room
This. The real measure is "net burden v. benefit." If we tax our middle class (just using made up numbers here) 10% less than in other economies, BUT our middle class has to spend an extra 20% of their "retained income" on things that are delivered using tax dollars in other economies, then our middle class comes out behind. And same with the net tax burden on the wealthy here - loopholes you can drive a truck through, people like Bezos pay fucking less in taxes than a bus driver does, shit like that. What do you pay? What do you get for that? And how much do you have left over that you need to spend on things you wouldn't have to spend on elsewhere? I don't give a shit how much I pay in taxes (or at least, I don't give a shit about JUST that)....I give a shit about how much I have left, and what I have to spend it on. If at the end of the day, Klaus gets paid, pays his taxes, and gets functioning infrastructure, education, and healthcare, and has $100k left over for everything else, and Joe American gets paid, pays his taxes, pays extra for healthcare, pays extra for education, pays extra to make up for shitty infrastructure, and has $80k left over for everything else, Klaus comes out way ahead, and we should prefer Klaus's system.- 26 replies
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You're almost there, but you're way off on #3. "Who they benefit" only has play for high-information voters, who are a dying minority. "Who they hurt" is the only thing that matters anymore. The rage beast is the largest creature on the block, and it is all-consuming. Feed the rage beast, or lose. Oh, and the best way to do that is to speak primarily in hyperbole and flat-out lies about the other side, so your desired voters are extra-motivated to hurt them.
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H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
Brisketexan replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Real men take it a step further, and just go up to them and take a shit in their grocery cart. "Yeah, how do you like it when it's done to YOU, Karen?" -
Blah blah blah, but fascism isn't real, Brisket. Everything is just fine, Brisket. Billionaires working in league with the state is poison. We are past the point of no-return.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Remember how "out-of-state billionaires interfering in our elections!" was such a battle cry for.....the exact same people who are cheering on Elon? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Billionaires are a virus. -
Fucker lied to us!
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Corey Birenbaum, chair of the “Young Conservatives of Texas” back in my day. He was in one of my government classes. One day, he gives a long harangue against gay people. He finishes, there’s a silent pause, and someone yells “would you just come out of the closet already?” Fucking professor damn near pissed himself laughing, as did the rest of us.
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I presume your answer to that one was "Fellas....you do NOT want to know."
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Can we talk about old-school joints that aren’t “Top 50,” but are great in their own right and place? Because it will surely interest and please y’all to know that it’s the time of year in Wharton county when the ranchers turn their bulls out into the herd (gotta get that spring “planting” done), hay yield has looked pretty good thanks to some recent rains, and hay is actually moving for sale. The prices aren’t great, but bales are moving. The fella next to me only has 20 bales left, even after all that hay he baled this year (according to what he told his buddy, the John Deere dealer sitting across from him). Also, even though he may be going to the county fair this year, it’ll just be to watch, he’s too old to rodeo anymore. Just some of the chat over lunch at Vincek’s in East Bernard, where I stopped to grab a few slices of brisket for lunch on my way to court. Cuisine-wise, it’s very good barbecue, but not in that top tier that gets all the Texas Monthly buzz and whatnot. The brisket is plenty good, nice pecan smoke to it, good bark, could be a bit more tender. But it’s not shiny and new, no hipsters to be found, no glamorous online presence or Instagram account. Anthropologically? Vincek’s is a treasure and a shrine. Community gathers. People shake hands and talk about what’s going on at their place, how the kids are doing, how that new project is going. Old Czech farmers and ranchers, Hispanic ranchers and work crews, constables on break, young, old, all ages in-between. Places like this exist in small towns, old city neighborhoods, and are a focal point of community. They provide a good business and a living for the family that owns them, a good place to work, and a place to be in community and, to use a theological term, communion. I’ve been in places like this all around Texas, the US, and even all over the world. They are monuments and cultural treasures, no less so than the pyramids and the Louvre. Next time you’re near one of these places, - and there are still plenty of Texas bbq places that meet the description - go inside. Soak it up. Talk to the people next to you (like the lady who told me to be careful not to get BBQ on my white dress shirt, or the man who sat next to me, grinning, and said “now let’s not get into any trouble, my wife told me to behave.”). Spend a little extra, you need to bring home some good pecan-smoked bacon and some pork hocks for a pot of beans anyway (that was my move today). So anyway, there I was, attending church on a Tuesday, taking my communion with all God’s people. Amen.
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Blah blah blah words. They don’t have the votes. Unless he’s mobilizing mass strikes and crippling of US infrastructure and economy, it’s a waste of time. Seriously, my pointless posts on this board are just as meaningful.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah, come on, people. I mean, sure.....we're living in a time where satire is dead, and nothing is too absurd to be real, but at least TODAY, exercise a bit of scrutiny. Now, I have to get back to my torrid affair with Sela Ward. She beckons me from yonder bedroom. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Well, our VP lies. It's kinda what they do. It's kinda what they are. Same dude who just said "Greenlanders want us to take over" in the face of an election just a couple of weeks ago where Greenlanders overwhelmingly voted the other way. We need to quit using the term "misinformation" -- they are liars who traffic in lies, it is their very essence. If you took lies away from them, they would have nothing, do nothing, and say nothing. -
“Objective truths.” Please continue as to how the university of Harlan Crowe will be the champion of that value.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
This. If the Trump regime can disappear someone and not be subject to court enforcement because “oh well, we don’t have our hands on him anymore,” they can do and say that as to anyone and everyone. Including you. This is how it goes, and this is how it ends. The Trump regime now has full power - with no accountability or consequences - to disappear US citizens, political opponents, or anyone it doesn’t like. It will use that power. -
Now we’re getting somewhere. Let it out. Say it all. Own who you have become.
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It’s a lie. A complete lie. The terms of our agreement with El Salvador absolutely allow us to repatriate a detainee. If they do not, then the agreement is illegal in that we are sending people to be imprisoned in a separate country with no due process or means of correcting any error. If what they are saying is true, they could absolutely 100% 1) send a non-criminal US citizen to a Salvadoran prison (so, any of y’all), and then 2) have no power to get him back. Of course, if true, the arrangement is unconstitutional as fuck.
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So…none of that bothers you. At all. Perfection.
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Dude. It’s a unaccredited right wing grift. It defines itself as “anti-woke,” it’s yet another outfit that all Elon-like claims that it’s all about “FREE SPEECH” but is a pet project of Harlan Crowe and Bill Ackman and Bari Weiss. Dude. Just put on your MAGA hat and be done with it. At least you’ve given up on the “both sides” thing, so good for you, I guess.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Brisketexan replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
This shit is actually happening. Please stop thread shitting and doing the baghdad bob, Rex. Problem: Rex and “people like him” like this. Because let’s be honest, brown folks like Mr Garcia aren’t real people anyway and aren’t entitled to any legal protection. Want to avoid trouble with the law? Then don’t do stupid things, like not being an affluent white person. -
Plenty of us see multiple huge problems with the current university admissions and education process. Not a one of us is stupid enough to think that “the University of Austin” is the answer, though. We might all agree that there are a lot of problems with assembly line fast food, we’re just not dumb enough to think that a handcrafted shit sandwich is the solution.
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Songs that hit you or someone you love in the feels
Brisketexan replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Music
My father died just over two months ago. Maybe two weeks after, I was running some Saturday errands, driving around town. I decided to pull up the 70s Country Essentials playlist (or some similar list) on Apple Music. 70s country was the soundtrack of my childhood. Lots of LONG family road trips, visiting grandparents in the valley, then Sonora, then Midland, and of course my other grandparents all the way into Mexico. Summer “vacations” were often tagging along on dad’s work road trips to Louisiana and New Mexico. But there was that one trip in June of ‘79, we went all the way to Colorado and Utah. It was a pretty big chapter in our family’s life. And all along the way, we’d tune in to whatever station we could get that was playing Crystal Gayle, Don Williams, Dolly…all of it. So I’ve got the playlist going. Lovin Her Was Easier by the Glaser Brothers. Charley Pride. Linda Rondstadt. The feels were bubbling up. And then John Denver’s Annie’s Song came on. Sounded like Colorado. Sounded like the summer of 79 on the road in my dad’s new Mercury Marquis that ended up begin my first car. And it washed over me to drown me. I just fucking broke. I wept. I don’t know how I finished the drive home, I don’t know the last time I cried like that. I walked in the door, and my wife immediately sees my face and asks “are you ok?” I shook my head, and the tears and sobs came all over again. At that moment, on a Saturday afternoon, in the shadow - or light, I’m not sure - cast by my dead father, the music got me.
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