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Brisketexan

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  1. Yeah…Liechtenstein getting outclassed. But dude, their stadium is nestled up against the Alps at the headwaters of the Rhine. Life for them doesn’t suck.
  2. Joke’s on you. Imagine the most terrible thing possible…it still wouldn’t be enough. He could use nuclear weapons against American cities that defy his orders (and thus he deems them to be “in rebellion”)…and his sycophants would just say “it was maybe heavy handed, but you have to follow the president’s orders or face consequences.” You know I’m right. The GQP is a terrorist movement with nuclear weapons. In other words…Russia II.
  3. Whatever, veterans are suckers and losers. They’re getting what this regime thinks they deserve.
  4. And that dude is 100% right. Donald Trump just single-handedly destroyed the American defense industry, and he did it in 60 days. An all-hands-on-desk frontal attack by Russia couldn’t have done any better.
  5. Trump is doing what he was paid to do. And his idiot followers think he’s actually RESISTING China. Fucking morons.
  6. That last part is what makes her “perfectly suited for modern American leadership in partnership with the regime and its ruling family.” She was made for this moment in history.
  7. Let’s read this another way: “oligarch further secured his ownership of the ruling family by bestowing lavish gifts upon its children.” Again…just old school bribery. Remember how we used to have concerns about benefits to children of the regime? Wall-to-all famous coverage of “WHAT ABOUT HUNTER BUDEN???” And now…just open bribes in the light of day, zero concerns. These people are the worst humans to ever walk our land.
  8. ALL of it is. And this is what our resident Trumpkins like, and cheer. They have never, ever had a problem with authoritarian banana republic bullshit....their only problem is that they didn't have it working on their behalf.
  9. A nice blend of being blissfully unaware and being members of the dominant class inflicting the pain instead of receiving it will do that. They are winning -- they are on top, they are inflicting their vision on everyone else. Standing on top of the pile and stepping on people feels GOOD. I mean, non-jewish Germans were much happier than jewish Germans in 1939, as just one little example. White Americans were much happier than black Americans for most of last century, as yet another.
  10. I VOTED FOR TRUMP BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY! (Cheers firehose spilling billions and billions of taxpayer dollars directly to farmers to pay for the damage the regime's idiotic policies are causing). Irony is fucking dead. Yep, all on track. Clearly, whatever our problems might have been, the solution is "end democracy, make the poor and middle class suffer, and install an oligarchy." Don't understand why we didn't try that earlier.
  11. Well, when their pool of potentially eligible mates has decided to 1) retreat to the basement to play video games and jerk off to unrealistic porn for 12 hours a day, 2) are no longer getting out there and building a viable future, and 3) when they DO engage with women, they treat them like objects and/or get pissed off if they don't immediately fall at their feet.....yeah, that could be kinda sorta depressing. Add in the fact that they recently lost the right to control their own bodies, and gosh, it's a shocker why they aren't skipping down the street for joy. Looking out the window and seeing reality is depressing for women these days. Incels and losers as far as the eye can see, except for the domineering assholes who tell them exactly how it's going to be and are working to remove their agency and autonomy at every turn. Can't IMAGINE why someone would find that depressing.
  12. They are literally posting the proven bullshit take of "cut taxes, and people will take that money and turn it into more efficient charitable giving." That's 1) a fantasy that 2) has been disproven, time and time again. But maybe THIS time...."trickle down" will work!
  13. 100% agree. Our young men going all-in on the "I'll just be an unambitious loser" path has 10,000 different consequences. The consequence of "wait, quality chicks don't want to date losers?" is just one of them. And don't give me the "so they don't go to university -- college is a rip-off, learn a trade!" bullshit. I don't disagree with the premise....but that's not what's happening. Men aren't opting out of college so they can become electricians. They are opting out of college to play videogames in their basement and take stupid flyers on "crypto-trading's gonna make me rich!" and any number of other stupid bullshit. Do you remember reading criticism of the "models of success" that were front-and-center for black males decades ago? "NBA star" or "drug dealer?" Sure, shitty stereotyping often stated with shittastic racist intent. But not without a kernel of truth: it's bad news if a whole cadre of men has a vision of success that either isn't available to them (there aren't that many NBA slots) or is socially counterproductive (dealing drugs is bad, mmmkay?) Well, now that same model is becoming the rule for society at large, regardless of race, class, etc. White, black, hispanic, what have you....young men are opting out of reasonably available paths to a good life, and opting for a binary path of "become a crypto billionaire or bust" or some shit like that. And...."or bust" is winning the lion's share of their fates.
  14. Bumping this for discussion of a new Scott Galloway piece that is also relevant to some discussion we just had on the other "US happiness rates suck" thread -- about how GenZ (my wife prefers "iGen," and I think that's a better name that truly captures what they are) 1) ain't fucking, and 2) ain't drinking, and that's BAD. The thesis here is about porn, and the role it plays, but the key points are points much discussed around here. And I'll go ahead and skip to the end: accepting that these are problematic social issues....what can be done about it? What actual, practical solutions/actions can be implemented? https://www.profgalloway.com/porn/ There's lots of gold in there, but here's some key quotes in my mind: "On the internet, everyone has access to everyone, and the digitization of a market results in a winner-take-most ecosystem. Dating apps sort potential partners into a small group of haves and a titanic group of have-nots. On Hinge, the top 10% of men receive 60% of the “likes” — the comparable figure for women is 45%." Brisket's take: this is that "Chads and Stacies" phenomenon, where 90% of the people are bitter because they don't get 10s. "there are fewer economically and emotionally viable men, and too few venues where a man can develop the skills to express romantic interest while making a woman feel safe. Pro tip: Research shows women are attracted to men who signal three primary attributes: resources, intellect, and kindness." Brisket's take: no mystery to most of us. Have money/ambition to succeed, be smart/funny enough, and don't be a dick. When we have a generation with an outsized percentage of unambitious men who are utter dicks if a woman turns them down, that's a recipe for failure. "Show me a guy who is competent in a bar, and I’ll show you someone who can be reasonable in a boardroom. Show me a guy who objectifies women, building an app that pits women against one another, based solely on their physical attributes, and I’ll show you Mark Zuckerberg, and an app whose algorithms encourage girls to sexualize themselves and young people to generally feel shittier about themselves." Brisket's take: Fucking A. This. "Zoomers prefer staying home and scrolling to going out, and when they do venture out they’re less likely to visit a bar, reducing the chances they’ll make a series of bad decisions that might pay off. BTW, I believe the anti-alcohol movement is second only to remote work in the damage it’s doing to young people. The risk to a 25-year-old liver is dwarfed by the social isolation and loneliness epidemic plaguing America’s youth. Think of the most important things in your life: who you decided to have kids with and the friends you still count on. Then ask, did alcohol lubricate the often awkward formation and cementing of those bonds?" TLDR: go out and have some fucking drinks, dudes. A little liquid courage goes a long way. "The key to success isn’t getting an investor, employer, or woman to say yes, it’s putting yourself in situations where you take risks, get a no … and realize you’re fine, i.e., build resilience." Brisket's take: I personally think this one is huge. iGen is not resilient. They can't deal with failure, which is the best damned teacher. "The most frightening data I’ve seen recently is that 51% of men aged 18 to 24 have never asked a woman out in person. I find this so fucking depressing." I don't have anything to add to this, other than....yeah, it's fucking depressing. So, to my question at the top....what the fuck do we do, what is the solution, or even part of the solution?
  15. I mean, I may have just violated this site's TOS by making a grave threat to human life and safety, but fuck it, there aren't any rules anymore.
  16. Already seeing significant local effects. Literally a subject of discussion at our house last night - we're upping our giving and work with some local faith-based efforts feeding the hungry people who literally live around the corner from many of us. My wife and I will be giving more of our time and money to help make sure people don't go to bed without a meal. You know who isn't giving a fucking penny towards that effort? The fucking evil cocksucker who is the subject of this thread. I could give 50% of my wealth and future earnings towards this effort....and Elon could match me with the metaphorical change in his couch cushions. But he won't. Because he's a demonic sociopathic evil piece of shit whose sole act of service to humanity will the moment he dies.
  17. I'll take "what is the perfect thing to say if you want to guarantee that NOBODY will buy your new weapons platform?" for $500. And, that has the twin bonus effects of 1) making our per-jet cost skyrocket (because the fixed development and ramp-up costs will be applied to fewer units) and 2) making Boeing execs - who REALLY needed a financial win -- tear their fucking hair out. "Hey, congrats Boeing -- you just won the right to build something that you won't be able to sell to anyone else, thus torpedoing a major avenue for revenue and profit."
  18. Bingo. The cost to deliver electricity to the sticks exceeds the revenue the sticks pay into the system. Same with delivering mail, and building and maintaining lots of miles of road to serve those communities, etc. If we were to "run the country like a business," we would 100% shed ourselves of the money-losing locations like.....most every rural community in America. The reason we DON'T is because....government is NOT a business. It does many things that COST money, and do not MAKE net money. That's not to say those things aren't/shouldn't be "paid for" (it costs money to pave the road to Bumfuck), it's just that each line-item at issue doesn't necessarily pay for itself. We ALL pay to pave the road to Bumfuck, even though it only serves .0000000000000000000000000000001% of the population. We do that because we've agreed that we want a NETWORK and SYSTEM of roads (as just one example). We are so fucking stupid. The very communities that went Trump at an 80% rate are the communities most dependent on government largesse if you look at a localized ROI analysis. Without the rest of us subsidizing Bumfuck through various government expenditures, Bumfuck would be unlivable. But Bumfuck voted for a plan to "END GOVERNMENT!" Good luck with that.
  19. Love the guy. He's out numbered 1,000 to 1. He's outfinanced 1 trillion to 1. Words and ideas aren't going to move the needle anymore. Those days are over. The Rule of Law (necessary to do things like win elections and such) is over. Stop thinking the old world still exists, and the old rules still apply.
  20. Also.....Elon saying "I can't walk past a TV without seeing a Tesla on fire" is the fucking greatest thing I've seen or heard in MONTHS. Give. Me. MORE.
  21. I actually made it through college without ever buying.....soap. Not because I was a nasty slob (I was, but that's not the reason). My dad road-tripped a lot for work, for decades. He'd always grab the extra hotel soaps and bring them home. We had a big drawer full of them. When I'd go home, I'd grab a bunch of bars, and use those. Finally, I'm in my mid-20s, I go home and open the drawer....and no soap. "Where's all the little soaps?" My mother: "You fucking took 'em all already." And just like that, I had to buy my first bar of soap. Really pissed me off.
  22. Yep. Gonna be hard to fit "Make 'Separate but Equal' Great Again" on a hat....but we'll manage.
  23. Meh. It's closer to "I have enough social awareness to know that I can't say the N-word, openly hate on hispanics, or say "faggot"......I just want to make sure that all folks who fall in the "other" bucket are kept in their place by genteel and otherwise polite means, and for my spot in society to be sacrosanct, even at their expense." I tried out that approach for a while on my journey, out of a naive belief that it could be sincere. And sure, finite resources are finite resources.....but when we make those resources even MORE finite by slashing taxes on the top 1%, stacking the deck so they reap all the benefits of any economic strength/growth....you realize that it's insincere bullshit. If you are genuinely "socially liberal," meaning that you give a shit about other human beings who are not part of your immediate cultural circle, then you have a much more open view of resource allocation/hoarding/direction by the government. I mean, if you have any doubt about the government putting its finger on the scales in favor of one class....don't be looking at the people who are barely getting by. Look at, oh, just as a CRAZY example, the literal richest man in the world, who has the ACTUAL FUCKING US GOVERNMENT TELLING PEOPLE TO BUY STOCK IN HIS COMPANY.
  24. Misstep? Dude.....it will gain them votes. Because if there's one thing we've learned about GQP voters, it's that they LOVE them some dictatorial government shit. Besides, we MUST ban the marihuana, it will make our pure white women dance and cavort with negro jazz musicians!
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