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I said "challenges and curveballs," not "awesome shit I do that I would totally brag about here." And calling her a wascally wabbit gets her all turned on, I'm not gonna question it, I'm just here to play the hits.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Man....you sure know how to paint a picture of the dream. -
Are you growing? Are you trying? Are you failing anyway, but then trying again? Seems like all of those get a "yes," and honestly, that's all any of us can hope for - in ourselves or others. If we're being honest with ourselves, when we look into the mirror, we see both a good and a terrible person. I do, at least. Your current situation is one of those challenging curveballs that life, other people, and society tend to throw our way. I've shared some of those with this group, some of them I've kept to myself (maybe I'll share them someday, maybe not, maybe some of them, I'm still in the midst of sorting out). But know that everyone has to deal with one or more of those over the course of their lives. I do think that so much of it comes back to empathy. That doesn't need to be a namby-pamby word, or a command to enable bad/harmful/self-harmful behavior, and figuring out where that line is can be a challenge. But making the effort to look at things through someone else's eyes pays huge dividends. That's true whether you are trying to be helpful and kind, or whether they are your adversary you're trying to defeat. Then the next level - at least in social and political things - is to realize that in the long run, "defeating" those you disagree with isn't a great outcome. It may have to be done in the moment, but ultimately..... we're all in this together, and nobody makes it out alive. Or, as a pretty fair guitarist once said, You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other – our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That’s to help each other, not hurt each other. You're trying. You love your kid. Your wife loves your kid. You and your wife love each other. Keep walking. Keep learning and reasoning. Do the best you can. And keep doing the best you can. Help other people along the way with what you've learned, good and bad. Try to be better every day. Know that most days, you won't get it right. And try again the next day. That's all any of us can do. And that's all any of us should expect.
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Cancelling flights to Russia and telling Russians to fuck off? That's nobody's business but the Turks'.
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When a a voice who REALLY tries to be neutral and just call balls and strikes like Kai is using terms like "they're jerking our chain," that should give you some indication of what an utter shitshow this is.
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Dead-on. But, contrast that with the dominant political ethos of the moment: Elon Musk: "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy." Two two competing approaches aren't "different paths to the same destination," they are polar opposites. Metaphorically, we are arguing between "should we douse ourselves in gasoline and light ourselves on fire, bathing in the cleansing flames? Or should we NOT light ourselves on fire?" There's not really a middle ground. And right now (see yesterday's post string), we are in full-on self-immolation, because when I light myself or others on fire, it makes stupid libs scream "NO!", and that means I'm winning. The right approach doesn't mean that hard choices can't be made. It doesn't mean that people won't end up being hurt, one way or the other; in imperfect systems (as all systems are), that's inevitable. My bigger-picture fear -- and current conclusion -- is that we have to put empathy aside for the moment. First, we have to fight back and defeat the monster that is hate and cruelty. And that....requires dirtying our hands. I sure as shit never wanted it to be this way, but here we are.
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Look at MC and Troph (and others) having a real, honest, thoughtful conversation about a genuinely tough issue. Which can happen, in the absence of politicized trolling. Truly, if you wanted a study in contrasts to perfectly illustrate how broken our society is, vs. how it SHOULD be, the contrast between today's post string and yesterday's (but for MC's initial post) captures it perfectly. There's a rational, decent, medically and psychologically sound way to approach this particular issue. No, it will never be perfect (in complex matters, you hardly ever hit the bullseye of "we got it exactly right"), but it will be a lot more so - and create a lot less collateral damage - if it is not politicized, but instead is based on a decent mix of humanity and reason. MC and Troph are impressive, good, and kind people. And it pains me to see them experiencing or even remembering the challenges and pain their experiences involve. I can't want anything but the best for both of them and their families. And . . . shouldn't that be the goal for ALL of us, for EVERYONE? I don't want to be "right" - I don't give a shit, what I personally take from the "debate" doesn't make a shit, as I'm not personally affected by it. I just want the folks who ARE in it to have a fair chance to get it "right" for them and theirs, and to be supported and not harassed/berated by society in doing so. Seriously, what's so fucking wrong with us that we can't simply settle on that approach?
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
There are some really good and key observations in there, though. Not praise for the situation, or Vance, just observations of the current reality. - We thought we could shove the Silicon Valley ethos of "move fast and break lots of things" down literally everyone else's throat. And that is "simply not acceptable to them." - We have utterly fucked ourselves on defense sales. We are not a reliable partner, in any respect. Would you entrust an unreliable, even backstabbing, partner with things essential to your security and survival? You'd be an idiot if you did any more than you absolutely had to. We can't really unfuck ourselves here. - you can broligarch (perfect word for our current government) your way to the highest echelons of power in the US, but apparently that doesn't help you change things in Europe. Not that the system in Europe is perfect - far from it - but it IS at least still somewhat designed to reflect some will of the people and an interest in a common good. That is utterly incompatible with the US approach. - but really, most of the above comes down to this: "the first victim of Trump's disruption was trust. It was a very expensive commodity that was built up through decades of hard work and it will be very tough to regain." That's really it. Every choice is "what do I lose, and what will I gain." Strategic entities make trade-offs. Truly, I don't see much of anything of value that we will gain by Trump's approach. But let's imagine that we marginally improve our trade deficit in the immediate term, and we call that a gain. What will we have lost? We will have lost the currency that allowed us to make favorable deals - trade, military, strategic, intelligence, everything - for 80 years: TRUST. We are erratic, untrustworthy, and frankly, openly hostile (walking back the tone by JD doesn't change what everyone already knows because of the many words they've already said: this admin is openly hostile to and dripping with contempt for Europe). We are not trusted. We will not be trusted again in my lifetime. And that's the absolutely correct decision by Europe. We have lost so much.....for fucking what? To keep with the chess metaphor, we aggressively brought out capital pieces to knock over a couple of pawns, and now we're strutting around the room bragging about the brutality we wrought, we captured two pieces, they captured none! When long-term, we just set up the board in a way that our capital pieces are now fucked in future moves. They are going to spend the next decades either neutered because they will be on the defensive, or they're going to get outright taken out because we stupidly put them in a vulnerable, indefensible position. We just traded our get of two pawns today for our loss of our bishops, knights, and queen in the next 15 moves. Stupid. -
Yeah. Cool. That was fun. They still suck. A lot.
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Puro basura. No gols. No me gusta.
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Jesu Christo. Wow. Muy malo.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Oh, Sweden has the pieces to tell Trump to fuck off. So they should. -
Naah. We're just not biting on your logically fallacious distraction. It's functionally a non-issue, and to the extent it's an issue, it's being played out in all the wrong places, in all the wrong ways. And the fact that it aligns, as a "crisis issue," almost perfectly with the exact same people who want to erase trans people and gay people from society, is a pretty big fucking tell. Leave them the fuck alone. Quit picking on the weak and marginalized. And yes, that includes picking on them by the proxy of "it's their evil libtard parents who are turning them queer."
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Many of us think evidence-based examination of gender dysphoria and treatments should be a thing, and don't have a problem with an honest discussion of it. What we see right through is making something that affects 0.0005% of the population a crisis issue that merits major attention. In the US, 2,000 kids receive such treatment. Again, all with the consent of their parents and under a doctor's care. They're not being killed, they're just receiving treatment that is subject to medical debate. 190 kids died in car wrecks because they were unrestrained. Nearly 4,000 people a year drown. Nearly 7,000 people accidentally suffocate. Globally, around 3 million children starve to death each year. The degree of "concern" for an issue that is, statistically speaking, a non-issue, to the point that those who are so "concerned" about it will toss in their lot with the most openly cruel political movement since the 1940s....well, see, that's where the true colors come through. It ain't about protecting kids at all. If it WAS, the "concerned" people would be in favor of things that actually kept kids safe, and fed them, and shit like that. They aren't. They are willing to SACRIFICE all of those things, to make a stand on their pet issue. Me? I mostly think we should leave people the fuck alone, including families who are wrestling with a goddamned difficult thing involving their child, who they love and are trying to make the best decision for. I agree that there are psychological and medical issues and concerns in play; I think those should be hashed out in, among, and by the medical community (which seems to be happening - it is a process, which is to be expected for a situation that has only in recent years even been accepted as something to be considered by medical practitioners). Let it get sorted out, and know that inevitably, someone may end up hurt by the fact that the process takes time; if medical treatment of gender dysphoria turns out to be a bad thing, then some kids got a treatment that they shouldn't have. Likewise, if medical treatment of gender dysphoria turns out to be a solid treatment...but we've banned it on the political level....then some kids who should have received a treatment that will help them were denied that treatment. But of course, none of that matters. That's not what this is about. At all. It's about item 7,547 in dividing society into "normal" people who get to shit all over "the other" -- we can't shit on those poor kids, of course....so we place our hatred on the evil parents of those dirty trans. THEY are the ones turning people trans! There wouldn't BE any trans people if those stupid evil parents didn't do their evil! Add it to the pile. It's not about caring for the ultimate outcome or kindness. It's about carving out a group, aiming your ire at them, and feeling superior for doing so. That's how we roll these days.
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Correct. See, kindness is found in deciding that addressing that issue....in which around 2,000 kids in the entire United States, with the consent of both their parents and treating physician, are receiving such medication for gender dysphoria....is SO important that you must, you simply MUST, support and elect a regime that will shut off food aid to the starving, cancel food trucks on their way to food banks and schools, stop AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis treatment programs, deport US citizen children, etc. etc. etc. Won't someone think of the children???? No, not THOSE children. Not the hungry children. Not the children with or at risk of deadly illnesses. Fuck THOSE kids. And fucking THOSE kids is all worth it, if we can only tackle this, the most important issue that humanity has ever faced, which affects 0.0005% of the entire population.
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He should have someone say "I don't believe you. The kind of person who holds beliefs that inhuman, that loathsome, is EXACLTY the kind of person who would lie about it today. Give us one good reason that we should think that yesterday's loathsome nazi is today's contrite good guy....instead of what nazis always have been and always are: fucking liars and deceivers."
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You ARE the filthy public. So, that may be a problem.
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Oh, you missed my other tool: fear. See how the Trump admin is going after all of its enemies? Yeah....the opposition needs to do that. It needs to do it tenfold. It needs to go after these people everywhere, where they live, in their pocketbook, go after their families. Not a moment's peace, not a moment's rest, basking in any victory. Only fear of "what's next? And how will it hurt my livelihood and peace of mind?" Trumpism is about relentless assaults on your enemy to cause fear. It works. So do it more, and do it better. Those are the tools of the era. Use them.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
What a fucking LOSER you are. As I understood it, the only relevant TNG question was "Counselor Troi or Dr. Crusher?" And of course, the correct answer was always "both." -
They are legitimized because we haven’t made a concerted effort to destroy them, shame them, and ruin every element of their lives, professional and personal. Which is what you should do with Nazi pieces of shit.
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Sure it is. We HAD to appoint MAGA to save all those poor kids whose parents and doctors are poisoning them. All fallout from that is fair game. You made your choice. Thousands of dead, totally worth it.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Yep. You win by playing your opponent, not by strutting around the chess board. Sacrifice a pawn, rope him into giving you the checkmate you're aiming for as he's gloating over the pawn he "totally destroyed, the likes of which no one has ever seen before!" -- that's a win.
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