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Brisketexan

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  1. I don't think they are equivalent in general, but I don't discount the danger of tankie leftist silencing of dissent. Seriously, see the reference to "denunciations" in the Soviet system. It's a dangerous approach, if left to its own devices so it can reach its natural end. Yes, the resistance from the "left" today in response to hard-right government-backed attacks is mostly about standing up for the weak against attacks meant to harm them. But historical hard-left "denunciations" and where they tried to go here (and successfully did in many other countries) is dangerous. Here's a hint: authoritarian crushing of any dissenting ideas is almost always a bad thing. IDGAF if you are a left authoritarian or a right authoritarian. Shitting on academic freedom and liberty, and inevitably personal freedom and liberty, is bad. Except we live in a moment where it is now government policy, and is cheered as good. In fact, it is cheered as the only good thing out there. The only good thing happening in society right now is....owning and silencing and punishing the opposition. That's pretty fucky, and really bad for us.
  2. Being a cruel dick has incredible social and political value nowadays. In fact, it appears to be the ONLY ethos of any social or political value in 2025.
  3. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c741n80ndlxt After facing criticism for corruption and nepotism, the gov't ordered all social media be shut down. Protesters came out. Cops shot and killed a bunch of protestors. Masses rose up and said fuck that. They've torched the Parliament building, PM has resigned. Apparently, they don't really have a government at all right now.
  4. I remember when most of this shit (not all, but most), came from beret-wearing self-important dipshits from the far left (again, I remember the shanty on the West Mall). And, we (rightly in my mind) heard pushback from this about political correctness run amok, "cancel culture" (the more recent iteration of that phenomenon got this name), etc. People who "championed ideas" and said that "freedom of thought" and "liberty" (lotta "libertarians" spoke up) had a lot to say. Turns out....those people were mostly full of shit. Because now that the same approaches and tactics are being used, predictably, with much historical precedent and with much success, by the other end of the political spectrum....crickets chirping. And none of those "academic freedom" and "marketplace of ideas" types are doing jack shit to defend the values they told us were so damned important to them. Turns out, almost all the folks who got pissed off at leftists practicing cancel culture were just mad that they weren't able to do it too. Now they are, with real results, and turns out, they like cancel culture very, very, very much. It's even better when it has the full weight of the government behind it as well. Cancel culture by hippies and shit with little power? That's bad. Cancel culture with the stamp of government approval? That's AWESOME, and we should have more of it. Any of us who actually believe in liberty and a diverse marketplace of ideas? We can get fucked.
  5. I've read it. APD gets a free pass, because you can't expect them to do their job when Garza sucks and also he's mean to them. "Would YOU want to be a cop in Austin?", attributing the implied "no" functionally entirely to the fact that we have a shitty DA. The "yeah but" is no defense of Garza. It's pointing out that some of the problems people are bitching about aren't tied to the shitty DA at all. The DA doesn't decide not to send units to a crime report, APD does that all on its own. Plenty of excusing APD and blaming it on Garza, or at least "it's not APD's fault":
  6. Except....none of us, not a single one of us, has downplayed Garza's shittiness. We've openly and repeatedly called it out. Only one of those two enterprises (Garza and APD) is getting a pass around here, and it ain't Garza. Read the thread.
  7. Oh, don't forget....finding a back door that allows us to re-institute Jim Crow and Juan Crow! Brown people in a boat with drugs, maybe, who knows, we didn't exactly search it? Blow em the fuck up! Black dude with weed? Hoodlum! Toss him in jail for a decade! White kid with weed? Well, he's a good kid, from a good family, no point in ruining his life over a youthful indiscretion.
  8. Seriously. Story, after story, after story, of APD's "policing" priorities (or lack thereof). And they not only get to skate, they get our sympathy and support....because Garza ALSO sucks. Fucking insanity.
  9. France and Italy: two countries that are great at food, and lousy at forming lasting governments. And sexy women. So, they're still winning.
  10. I mean, your post isn't even satire. St. Ronnie, the Most Exalted Republican POTUS ever.....without even trying, I could find better than 100 exact quotes from him that, if I shared them with MAGAts without telling them who said them, they would go apoplectic attacking the soy boy commie libtard who said such things. We live in a world run by people who legit think that Ronald Reagan was a soy boy commie libtard. This is not just the dumbest timeline ever. It's the dumbest timeline POSSIBLE.
  11. Sorry, best we can do is highs in the 80s, and even 90s, until a massive temperature plunge to the single digits in a couple of months, crashing our electrical grid.
  12. Cool. Please provide the proof that the boat blasted was drug runners. And that everyone on board was Venezuelan. Just executing the fuck out of people without an actual adjudication that they are committing a crime is....a problem for societies that have this thing called "the Rule of Law." These are not combatants, attacking or conducting preparations for an attack on the US. They are - even if the accusation is true - just criminals transporting drugs. Do we get to blast any suspected "drug dealers" in US waters? On US streets? When RFK Jr. was dealing drugs in college, would it have been okay to have hit him with a Hellfire missile? What about that guy who someone just accuses of dealing drugs, but really, the accusation is a lie?
  13. Which is why we are beyond saving. It would be one thing if (and bad enough) if 40+ percent of Americans approved of idiocy, incompetence, and moronity. But layer on the fucking performative cruelty and evil, and they also approve THAT. No country comes back from that.
  14. They will. The evil and cruelty has them excited to a near sexual frenzy. Hatred and evil are a real motivation.
  15. The good stuff. One last hunt together before he heads back across the ocean. Enough birds to keep it interesting. Great weather. He shot our last bird of the day, and knocked down a great shot right in front of the game warden, who said “attaboy.” Spicy fried chicken on the way home. Don’t know how many more days like this we’ll have together. Sure glad we had this one.
  16. What if we don’t want to talk about the late Ric Ocasek?
  17. More than that. Imagine most of the attractive, eligible girls on the typical campus. And realize that 70% of them actively hate him. And are likely to be vocal about it. That would make a shitty college experience.
  18. This ends in open warfare. Y’all know that, right?
  19. I’m one of them. My give-a-shit is near zero.
  20. Sure. Like I said, plenty of bases for criticism. But “woke.” Just stupid.
  21. Porque no los dos?
  22. Like or dislike the logo…we are literally, completely, and fully in the “everything I don’t like is woke” era. wtf? Its shitty. Its pointless. All kinds of things. But…”it’s ’woke?’” It’s just so fucking stupid.
  23. Or…who are you spreading it on? And will he not help you? NTTAWWT.
  24. Back when we’d go to Lubys more often, it was my “every now and then” order. When you want it, it hits. Add a good dash of salt and pepper, eat each bite with a bit of griddled onions, and you are L-I-V-I-N.
  25. I mean…but are we even excited about that? We should have been able to do that on the first drive.
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