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This: If you are a democracy-loving American and what's happening now makes you uncomfortable.....start popping the Tums, because what we'll have to do if we ever get a chance to try to fix this will likely make you fucking puke. Once doesn't cure a horrific case of cancer with almond milk and good thoughts. You do it with brutal chemo and radiation that comes within a hairs-breadth of killing the patient. We are dying right now. And the only cure to what's killing us may also kill us. That's just reality.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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We'll get fewer votes than Jill Stein did. The problem isn't just the leadership we have to choose from. It's that our leaders are a reflection of who we the people are and what we want and believe. Turns out, "we the people" are really shitty.
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The baseline for our collective level of mental illness is because not only do we not foster community and collective well-being, we demonize them as evil, communist, etc. Other countries give a shit about collective well being and the community. America cares about the individual, and only the individual. We have made a god of the individual, and worship that god at the expense of all others, to our great detriment. Mental illness will exist in any world. It will be worst in a world where you are told that you are on your own, that's a good thing, and if you dare suggest otherwise, you're an enemy of our society and everything we're about.
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Well, there seem to be two schools of thought on that. One school -- the one that is winning, and presently governing our country -- is that "allowing minorities to exist, and women to have agency and rights, REALLY pisses white men off, so we should get rid of those irritants." Another school is that "maybe we shouldn't tell white men that nothing is their fault, it's really the fault of minorities and women who don't know their place, because that inevitably motivates some of those white men to be violent against the various 'others.'" That school of thought is toast, and has no chance of even being influential, much less prevailing. So, there we are. We are following path 1. We will stop stoking the flames that piss off white American once we finally purge America of the people who are -- and these aren't my words, they are literally the president's -- "poisoning the blood of our country" and such. So, we'll accomplish that goal, and white men will be happy once again.....once my family and I are purged from this great nation.
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Then maybe....just maybe.....we shouldn't reward and empower movements that enthusiastically shovel coal on those fires, like telling people over and over and over that brown people are vermin and invaders and the cause of all problems in America. And maybe.....just maybe....we shouldn't demonize people for what they are, driving them to desperation and psychosis (mostly manifesting in suicide and self-harm, sometimes manifesting in outward violence). Instead.....both those things are cornerstones of modern American society. We are defined by, and enthusiastically reward with empowerment, both approaches. Call brown people vermin who need to be exterminated, and trans people who are abominations who should not be allowed to walk among us, and you're on the fast-track to holding high office/being given a public microphone to disseminate those views. We are all capable of wickedness. Maybe stoking those flames with utter assholery and cruelty is a bad idea.
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Bolded for emphasis. We think that crime can and should be addressed with a single tool: aggressive, typically violent, policing....and the highest level of imprisonment in the developed world. Which we've tried, for a long-ass time.....and has been proven not to yield positive results. But....if we just stick with it for another 50 years, surely it will work. By NO means should we treat crime as a complex outcome that has many factors and can be be addressed by multiple adjustments.
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Running Alt-Right Thread of Mockery and Hypocrisy
Brisketexan replied to bad_teammate's topic in Cloak Room
That's not true. They care about shit that retrograde, caveman-thinking shitheels care about very much. Women should be subservient to men, in all respects. America should be a white man's paradise, and any minorities that are allowed to exist here do so solely at the pleasure and by permission of white men. Etc. etc. Just utterly backwards-ass bullshit but oh yes, a lot of people care about that very much. -
Yep. And it's the perfect example of the logical fallacy of "correlation = causation." Trans person commits a horrible act: it is 100% because of what they are. Trans people are evil abominations, this is proof! Angry white person commits act of extermination of minorities (El Paso, Tree of Life, Buffalo, Charlotte), both stating their intent to get rid of leeches/vermin, using the EXACT language of the nativist/"America First" movement that repeats those things in the anger-sphere: crickets. Hate rhetoric from the right is not an issue at all, why are you being all political? Allowing trans people to exist is evil. Fomenting race-based hatred and violence is free speech. Get it right, libtards!
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Running Alt-Right Thread of Mockery and Hypocrisy
Brisketexan replied to bad_teammate's topic in Cloak Room
This is what the MAGA movement believes...and 53% of white women still voted for it. When we know that probably half of them will be ripshit pissed when the regime rolls back the rights they've grown up with. Pulp fiction I didn't vote for this yes you did meme for them, and they'll never get it. These people are gleefully chugging the poison that will kill them, and then don't understand when they get sick and die. -
Why do you hate American Exceptionalism? The bullet-riddled bodies are what tell you the America is working.
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I mean, Satan as what looks to be a bathroom attendant confuses me. I always kinda figured he'd be employed in consulting, or private equity.
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Oh, I have no illusions. We are in the era of "be as childish and selfish as humanly possible....and then find a way to be more childish and selfish than that." So, we're getting the product of our times. A society, culture, and system of governance in complete freefall will produce this sort of outcome. The fix isn't any one thing. The fix has to be foundational, and we have no interest in doing that.
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Of the many, many things that amaze me about this regime and its rise and functionality is the absolute total debasement that otherwise proud and accomplished people (maybe disagree with that, but a senator is a senator, man) are willing to undertake. And continue this series ad nauseum, ad infinitum. That so much of our "leadership" is actually soulless, gelatinous slugs with zero guiding principles other than "I want some power" still shocks naive Brisketexan. I mean, sure...I want some power. But it's ALWAYS been so I can use it to accomplish goals driven by my guiding principles and beliefs. If you told me "Brisket, you can be a senator, and get the cool greeting of 'senator Brisket, your table is ready' at the Old Ebbitt Grill, but you'll have to vote for things you loathe that will hurt a lot of people to get and hold your seat, and you won't be able to accomplish any of the things you actually believe in," I'd fucking decline the offer. And I LOVE the Old Ebbitt Grill, they have a great oyster selection. But if I can't use my position to actually help people and serve my values, what's the point? These spineless slugs? They'll compromise everything, and turn themselves into knob-gobbling simps, and for what? Seriously, for fucking what?
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In short, we the people are caught between two shitty forces in play: 1 - Garza is not a competent DA. I'm talking the day-to-day, nuts-and-bolts parts of being a DA. He's bad at them. 2 - APD is acting like most cops, in that they are ripshit pissed and being petulant juveniles at receiving the message of "hey, maybe don't fucking shoot and hurt civilians with wild abandon." Their response is full-on cop "fuck you, we get to do what we want how we want, and if you don't let us, then fuck you, we just won't do our jobs -- see how you like that!" 3 - and in between those is a move by Garza and the city to actually hold police accountable. It's a good, and very important goal. That is problematic because a) Garza's office isn't doing a particularly skillful job of implementing it (see point 1 above), but also b), it doesn't matter how well it's executed, because the attitude of policing is totally fucking broken (see point 2 above). As a result, we get shitty policing AND shitty prosecutorial performance. Everyone needs to fucking grow up, put on their big boy pants, take responsibility for what they need to do, and do their fucking jobs right.
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Leaving off "APD petulantly quiet-quitting their jobs because city leadership dared to tell them maybe they should be accountable for abusing citizens" as one of your factors is telling. I'm no Garza defender, I think (I actually KNOW, from friends inside the DA's office both past and present) he's a shittastic DA. But putting the white hat on APD here as goshdarnit, they just don't have the numbers and resources, they're really trying, is utter bullshit. APD is absolutely on a semi-strike to try to re-assert control and be able to do everything they way they want to, with no accountability.
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So....is the best play with someone like Modi (of whom I am no big fan) to be a bully and use blunt instruments? Or, are there other plays (flattery, giving him paths to an ego-boosting "win," etc.) that work better? Come on, man. Oh, and the take I shared is far from just something in the Economist - I just cited to it because I have a subscription there. You can find similar discussions on Bloomberg, the WSJ, etc. It's a pretty widely shared take right now.
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As I've gotten older, I've found myself a lot more tolerant of different approaches to burger condiments. I'm all about a classic American approach of mustard and a bit of mayo. I also like a smashburger with burger sauce. I also like a burger with bbq sauce, jalapenos, and cheddar. Mayo and green chiles. All kinds of things. Eat what you like. I think that as a society, we'd all get along better if we just let people be, and just eat the burgers they want.
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Who are you to question the miraculous and glorious ways of our Fundagelical Christian God? Maybe it's easier to get them through the pearly gates when they're in smaller pieces. Maybe it gives God more pieces to hug in his warm, fatherly embrace.
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All things that might have been true a few days ago. But when you are trying to strengthen your relationship with a large nation state, and then take a huge dump in their cheerios, that pathway can be dramatically altered. Don't listen to me, listen to experts all over the world: https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/08/28/a-defining-test-looms-for-india Using a singular blunt instrument (war -- either threats of kinetic war or blunt-instrument trade war) as your sole tool....well, it's sub-optimal. I'm not saying that our goal of getting India to further dis-entangle from Russia and reliance on Russian oil isn't a good one, shouldn't be pursued, etc. Just suggesting that perhaps the US response to everything of "TARIFF!" is not wise, and in many cases, counter-productive. It's as if our diplomatic manual was the equine medicine manual with just one treatment:
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You might not want to look at US fertilizer sources anytime soon, then. Also…is this “strategy” helping us persuade India or be our bitch, or could it perhaps be pushing India into a closer relationship with countries we ain’t so keen on, like China? Read up on it.
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Realistically, yes. A good number of the ingredients they use are imported from India. But, you know....we need to make domestic cardamom production great again, or some stupid shit.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Brisketexan replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
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