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Brisketexan

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  1. Yep. Does this sound familiar? And what are we the people doing? Biting on the divisive idiocy fomented by those same "wealthy and well-connected," to distract the 99% from the structural buttfucking we get from the 1% (truly, the .001%). The enemies of our stability and prosperity aren't college grads, they aren't immigrants working in restaurants, they aren't drugs, they aren't gays, they aren't religion. The enemies are....the things in the paragraph above. And structurally, we're there. We are in the climax, and we are doubling down. The market will eventually take its beating, as most every other indicator already is.
  2. I also like how that info - that AOC is "tied to the DSA's leadership" - comes from "internal FBI documents." Bitch please, that's not exactly intel or secret. AOC has long been associated with the democratic socialist movement, by her own statements.
  3. Incorrect. They're okay with some minorities around. Just so long as they are appropriately cowed and subservient. Ain't nothing wrong with black folks, so long as you can call them "boy" and they don't talk back to you or demand equal pay, equal rights, or any of that shit. Just toe the line, boy, and you'll be fine.
  4. Art Briles stadium, where the other team always gets fucked, whether they want it or not.
  5. Brisketexan

    Pizza

    Pretty good. When I got home, I did my trick of crisping up a coupla pieces on the griddle, and they were pretty damn fine. Again, I wish they offered anchovies, that woulda taken it up a notch. I’d get it again, but I also didn’t think it was a material upgrade from Eastside Pies.
  6. Yeah, dudes. It was a direct shot to the neck. No ricochet, no body armor. Just stop.
  7. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Wait…yeah… Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Man, yall are funny.
  8. Angie’s does a decent version. But the best in town are the ones I make at home.
  9. It’s really the classic mistake when dealing with authoritarians. “If I appease him, I’m safe.” That is never, ever true. You have to add “until he inevitably decides that he’s done with me, which is when I’m fucked.” All that appeasing an authoritarian does is buy you time. Only fighting AGAINST the authoritarian has any chance of securing you actual freedom. That’s it. It’s the only path.
  10. Ahh, you remember the case that established that Texas doesn’t recognize a negligent infliction of emotional distress tort. You get an A for today’s participation grade, gunner.
  11. That’s ok. I’m sure all of the “inflammatory rhetoric is bad” crowd that was just born a week ago is going to rush out there and condemn this….actual open call to lynch black people. Yep, here they come. Any….minute now. What’s that? They’re not coming? Shit. Does this also mean that Ann Margret’s not coming?
  12. Brisketexan

    Pizza

    Picking up Pedroso's for the first time in a bit. We'll see how it is. Fuckers don't have anchovies (I'm getting this one without my wife, so I like anchovies when I do that).
  13. It's okay, Troph. Add it to the pile. The rhetoric and dual systems of justice are already okay with it being open season on messicans (El Paso), black people (Buffalo), jews (Pittsburgh), LGBTQ (Colorado Springs), and Democrat politicians (Minnesota). We'll just keep adding to that. But....do you notice how THIS is the shooting that has certain folks flipping out about "inflammatory rhetoric" and its connection to violence? Not when it was people being hunted for -- as expressly stated by the shooter, in most of those cases -- reasons directly quoting that inflammatory rhetoric. When those murders/mass murders happened....crickets. We're going to get "justice" here. We're going to get it good and hard. But then again, that's largely like we've been getting it already. The good thing about having a completely broken country is that it's hard to tell when the rubble breaks some more. Yeah. I mean, there is a negative infinity times a million squared chance of that happening. Come on, man.
  14. Dude. America 2025 has more viruses and completely fucked up pop-ups than your dirty uncle's PC picked up from him hitting all of those Albanian porn sites. A simple unplug-plug in move ain't gonna fix that shit.
  15. So....he's a Surly poster I presume.
  16. Dear God I love machaca. Haven't ever been to Kiki's, although I've heard great things. Last couple of times I've been, locals have taken me to Carnitas Queretaro. It's a bit "nice and shiny and new" for my tastes, but the food is really pretty damned good. And, if you're traveling with a lady friend/wife, she might appreciate that atmosphere more. Man, I love carne adovada. And I will forever miss the greatness that was H&H car wash.
  17. I am certainly using "nutbar" in the broader sense. Not hearing voices and shit, but broken-brained, having gone down at least one (probably multiple) rabbit hole, and really fucking mentally lost. Delusional is surely a good word to describe at least a part of where these types are coming from. And the "loser-in-life" status as well -- anger at that, and/or wanting to do something important/make a big splash, often plays a role. The El Paso shooter? Loser: "According to his LinkedIn page, Crusius described himself as not “really motivated to do anything more than what’s necessary to get by” and that he spent most of his day on the computer.* According to reports, Crusius was unemployed and recently moved out of his grandparents’ house at the time of the shooting." Buffalo shooter? Loser: "Former classmates of Gendron who were interviewed by The New York Times claimed that Gendron was quiet, had rarely attended in-person classes, and exhibited a range of idiosyncratic behaviors, including wearing a hazmat suit to class." These types are susceptible to WHATEVER infrastructure they find themselves in. In the present case, it seems that infrastructure is even weirder than usual.
  18. To be fair, Joe Rogan is impressed by the talking Zoltar fortune telling machine.... "HOW DID HE KNOW THAT??"
  19. This. The decline in American religious life and the negatives it brings aren't so much about a "loss of faith" as they are a "loss of community." People's "church group" and "church friends" are important in keeping people grounded, and believe it or not, even offer some diversity (more than you have in much more insular community). I grew up in a Catholic parish, and am involved in a Presbyterian church today. In both groups were people of different experiences, different socioeconomic groups (grew up with some pretty rich kids, and some whose families were just scraping by, but we were all at the church picnic and our first communion together). But the point is, they were a community. Our "Bowling Alone" problems have only become more acute, impacted by both the COVID experience and the increasing ability (and incentive) to engage online only. Having a church community is a counter to that phenomenon, and by losing that community (along with all the other communities we've been losing), we've become even further adrift. The truth is that "we are all in this together." But the "truth" we are trying to live (and failing at, by the way) is "fuck you, I'm all that matters, and I can't be sure I'm winning if I don't see you losing." Zero-sum thinking is almost always destructive, and we've elevated it to a near-holy rite.
  20. au contraire. Ingratiating yourself with the subject so you can observe them more closely is top-notch fed work....
  21. Seems they usually are. And remember, for every one of these types who actually pulls something off....there are a shitload more that get caught beforehand, chicken out at the last minute, or just try and fail. Because the Occam's Razor of this timeline is that when shit like this happens, it's never a complex, well-planned conspiracy ("it's a professional hit, by a well-trained team"). No. It is pretty much always exactly what we have here, and have had going back to (and past) Oswald: a single fucking nutbar doing nutbar shit.
  22. Yeah, there's surely some smoke there. But nothing released that's even close to definitive enough to reach any firm conclusion. Let's see what the actual facts are, not what they are rumored to be or even preliminarily reported to be by local authorities. It certainly seems odd that a black man would choose to commit suicide by hanging, outside, from a tree. But, it's not impossible, it's a fucked up world and people do fucked up things.
  23. Yeah....that's a brain in self-defense mode. You don't process -- you refuse to process -- the larger horror, because it's more than you can handle (even though you are the one who did it). So, you fill the space with the mundane. See the videos you can find online of cops interrogating a drunk driver who just killed someone/a family, even after the driver knows that is what happened. They'll talk about stuff like "but I need to pick up my dog," or "okay, but my phone was in the car, I need to get my phone." We're watching thinking "WTF? You just killed someone, and you're worried about picking up your dog from the groomer?" But that's what the human brain does. The more we see and learn, the fucking sadder it is. And the more it fits into an odd grouping that is all-too common: fucking lost souls. Ending up in a way that they didn't need to end up.
  24. They don't mistrust it, they demonize it. Believe that maybe, just possibly, we should look out for each other? You are an evil communist socialist and, per the rhetoric of the regime this past week in particular, you should be "exiled" from this country. Seriously. That's literally what Stephen Miller said. We don't come back from this. We were never coming back from this. The United States as even a potential force for good and a world leader is not just a dead idea -- we are destined to be the opposite. We are going to be Russia, with more tech oligarchs and less vodka.
  25. Which is probably for the best. But no worries, the MAGA Utah authorities seem to be doing their best to present a pre-cooked narrative of the shooter being a leftist, omitting and ignoring any mention of the groyper/fucked up complex and unbalanced worldview that looks to be the actual case. We are going to get a curated narrative that matches up with the desired story by the MAGA team running things, and nothing that muddies it even in the slightest. Which is what they want, and need. They have desperately wanted this event to provide them what they've been longing for: the opportunity to pursue both legal and physical extermination of anyone and everyone who does not swear 100% featly to the regime. Don't listen to me. Listen to what they've all been saying for the past week.
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