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Everything posted by Brisketexan
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1) this is correct. 2) this will never happen. Because we no longer have the Rule of Law, we just have the rule of Supreme Executive Power, as decreed by the POTUS and SCOTUS. I will now list the limits on executive power (as wielded by the actual POTUS, so long as that POTUS is a Republican) this SCOTUS will ultimately find and uphold: .... .... .... Yep, I think that covers it.
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So much fucking this.
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Never said it's the only thing, just that it's a part. As with most every social issue, it's a complex picture, many parts of which we aren't even close to understanding. For example, I think that the ubiquity of porn -- and graphic porn -- has a part to play. I've read things about young men's expectations of sex, and what it should be like, and what their partner should be like, that make my jaw drop. Yeah, if that's how you think it should be, I could see how the clash of your expectations and the reality of who willing partners might be creates some issues. And that's just one dimension of the problem. But as to the particular element I mentioned, as someone with a son (with peers and friends of both genders) from that generation, I've heard it first hand. In shorthand, the girls say out loud that guys who are Andrew Tate disciples (to use a shorthand for that ethos/approach) are an immediate no-go. And from the boy's perspective . . . NOT being one of those puts him a class ahead, and the pickings are easy. And yes, these are necessarily generalities, exceptions abound.
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What if the trash is blocking the bike lane?
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I mean....that may be the least hideous part of that book. The girls are like elementary school age in pic one, so 20 years later would make them 25 or better. Those are actually women, well into legal age. How refreshing! I'd have expected the dates to be 183 to 1993, so he's getting some of those sweet 14-16 year olds. And yeah, Jesus....every one of these people knew EXACTLY what Epstein was - a fucking predator - and they didn't shy away from it, they celebrated it. Imagine if one of your friends was into fucking underage girls. First...imagine that you remained friends with him after finding that out. Then, imagine that you wrote him funny notes celebrating the fact. WTF is wrong with these people?
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I truly am not trying to CR this....but look when that upswing really kicked into gear. And think about what's been said to and about women by defining leadership in this country since then, and what has actually happened to women and their rights in that timeframe. Shitting on people and telling them that they are second-class citizens tends to get a reaction from them.
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And...if you want to look into the issue of "young men aren't getting laid nearly as much," that graph plays no small part. Shockingly, women....particularly liberal women, aren't too keen on sleeping with retrograde misogynists who believe that women should be trad-wives and submit to their male betters. Back to the baseline rule we would all be best served by: don't be a dick. Just....don't be a dick. You'll get laid more, you'll enjoy your job more, you'll have more friends (who are also less likely to be dicks). Being a dick opens the door to just one thing: being liked by and friends with....other dicks. We have an information ecosystem that tells young men that THE way to be manly is "be a dick," and it turns out that the downsides of that approach just makes people angrier, more frustrated, and more likely to be even more of a dick.
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Funny enough…a coupla hundred years ago, the Catholic Church in South America declared the aquatic capybara to be a fish…so the poor could eat them on Friday. It swims, so it’s a fish. I dunno how they taste, but they do make an incredibly soft leather.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Cloak Room
Because he IS a tik tok girl. Seriously, that’s the intellect and maturity in action here. Because he IS a tik tok girl. Seriously, that’s the intellect and maturity in action here. -
"Sexually degrading?"
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Read the syllabus. The class is not to teach people about a particular piece of kiddie lit. It's about teaching the concept and application of kiddie lit/YA lit, INCLUDING its themes, authors, audiences, etc. And it EXPRESSLY said it would explore "conceptions of . . . gender." Saying that the prof was fired because discussing conceptions of gender was not in the syllabus is a flat-out lie. The prof was punished for daring to teach the perspective of more than two genders. Period. That was it, that was the reason.
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Bingo as to the narcissism. My wife and I called it "I am the only person in the world" energy, our kids corrected us and said it's "I am the main character" energy. In any case, it's toxic individualism that is not just at the expense of community/any common good, it's directly opposed to it. That is, if something is good for us collectively, it MUST be bad, and MUST be opposed, because that certainly means it's not the best thing for ME, individually. And I am - literally - the only person who matters. The death of the commonwealth, people (leaders, like Elon) declaring that "empathy" is poison, etc. It's fucking killing us. A society of 340 million people, each of whom is vastly more important than everyone else, at the expense of everyone else, is a recipe for collapse. We need a healthy dose of "dude....just don't be a dick." Instead, we celebrate maximum dickishness as the only true measure of whether you're doing good/right. Oh, and the aggy President's statement on why the dean and prof were dismissed is a flat-out lie. He said that it was because the prof was going to stick with teaching something that "wasn't in the syllabus." Yet the syllabus expressly referenced examining concepts of "justice, power, gender": In other words, the pretext -- prof addressed a concept that was not disclosed in the syllabus, and thus "broke his contract with the students" is a lie. The action taken was not because the syllabus was inaccurate. It was because the US DOJ and other very political entities did not like the subject matter. That's chilling as fuck. But, it's the new normal.
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Good post. And I definitely agree that we are in an era of "my authoritarianism is better than your authoritarianism" rather than "the neutral Rule of Law and protecting human freedoms are better than authoritarianism." For a dwindling number of us, we don't see goose-stepping authoritarians in snappy Hugo Boss uniforms as an improvement over (real or imagined) goose-stepping authoritarians with red stars on their hats. For those of us "On Liberty" types, this is NOT our era.
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A lot of this. See @DDD Dad, who IIRC was active in the Fed Soc in law school....and these days, is quite opposed to their actions, mission, etc. Interesting way to tell us you TRIED to have an inappropriate relationship with a pretty young coed, but none were interested. SAD.
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Well, but see, that's why it's more important than ever to run off a huge chunk of our labor force. See, we knew there would be fewer jobs (that's part of the Trump Economic Miracle, don't you see?), so to make things work, we needed to make sure there were fewer workers out there to do those jobs that went away. DUH. 29-D chess!
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People actually available and qualified to build complex plants in the US: Who our leadership wants to build complex plants in the US: Result: ain't shit gonna get built. But Cletus will surely end up collecting 100% "disability" after "working" about half a shift.
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Yes....but...I think that USED to be true. Sponge-brained youth would show up at university, get exposed to utopian (fantastical, unrealistic) ideas which are often raised by voices/authors on the left, and buy into them hardcore because they have little wisdom, experience, or discernment. Frankly, it's a natural part of the intellectual growth curve; many people go through an "ignorant, naive idealist" phase. Such "ignorant, naive idealist" tendencies generally didn't lend themselves to hardcore retrograde/"conservative" thinking; that mostly came from upbringing. BUT....in recent years, with social media, algorithms, and an explosion of often purposefully divisive right-wing online content being streamed 24/7 into those same impressionable sponge brains, young intolerant ideologues of the right-wing persuasion have blossomed. Will they grow out of that phase? It remains to be seen, we're still pretty early in this game.
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TLDR; my pastor wife has a favorite saying that she found on a fridge magnet that has been on our fridge for a long time now:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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":
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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.
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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.
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