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Next you're going to tell me that Sinbad didn't star as the genie in Shazaam in the mid-1990s.
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FSV Mainz is at home on January 11. But it looks like Bundesliga takes a break over New Years.
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8 minutes ago, Macklemore said:Massie for Speaker. Best Congressman by miles. Trump’s transition is going better than I could have imagined.
I genuinely don't understand why you post here.
Literally everyone here thinks you're of significantly below-average intelligence. Even the people who agree with your positions on a topic sigh and think "what a dumbfuck" when they read your posts. And why post when everything you write only reconfirms that impression?
But beyond that, you're just a source of humor. On any thread you jump on, people joke about blow jobs and meth . . . because you literally suck dick for meth.
Look, man--I don't want to kink shame. If posting on this board is to fulfill a humiliation fetish, I mean--sure. But if not that, why on earth would you post here?
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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Man. Y'all remember when I was an irrational alarmist out on the ledge, talking insane shit about how bad a Trump regime would be?
I remember.
I really wish that I'd turned out to be an insane alarmist who was totally wrong. Instead, I'm just insane. I'll take it, I guess.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house.
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22 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
In part because of this I think disunion within the next four years is becoming more likely than not.
But I say "in part because of this." The real impetus toward disunion is that the Trump Administration is going to be so filled with idiots and incompetents that it will be unable to forestall it. In a million little legalistic ways, California and Washington and New York and Massachusetts are going to take steps to forestall the Trump Administration's grand plans. And little by little, they're going to be successful.
It's not that there's going to be some grand declaration of secession. It's just that in 2027, the federal writ won't run in California or Massachusetts.
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9 minutes ago, Foosters said:I've cancelled my NY Times and LA Times subs, removed Instagram and reddit my my phone. My profile on this site is all I've really got left and I removed my auto login on my phone as well. Have to do a bit of work to get back on. My goal is to stop by this site maybe 1-2 times a day.
I got rid of the newspapers before the election, and the social media after.
There is no doubt that Trump and co. are a threat to the nation. But I've done this before. I spent 2016-2020 doom scrolling. Every day was a new "BREAKING" news story in which Trump had broken some norm, betrayed an ally, or broken the law. And what did I do with all of that info? Nothing. Didn't motivate me to volunteer, didn't become politically engaged. I just internalized it and it would impact my day-to-do. Part of it was always thinking the "next" scandal would finally wake up my old friends, classic conservatives, and the body politic. Then the resulting frustration and disbelief that none of it mattered.
I actually found the 2020 election perhaps the most demoralizing of them all. I was certain that after 4 years of Trump we'd see a collective repudiation. Nope. Election wasn't called for a couple of days due the margins in the swing states. That's what did it for me. I gave up any and all hope that our future is a place I want to be a part of. This most recent election was more a confirmation of my fears than a surprise. In a weird way, giving up hope has been freeing. Its only been a week since the election, but despite the turn for the worse in the news, I've had a lovely week. My phone pretty much stays in my pocket unless I'm texting or calling someone. Started carrying my Kindle with me again. Would recommend.
So anyways, I'm done. Done reading the news. Done paying attention. I've lived in a foreign country that was, at the time, ruled by an autocratic dictator. Did I spend my days thinking about the erosions of the rule of law or the dissidents that were being tortured and killed? Nope. Just went about my day. Enjoyed life. I can certainly do the same here.
So, burn it down. Or don't. Whatever.
You're not alone brother.
This is where a lot of people are, myself included. All you need to do is look at CNN's ratings. Look at the Washington Post's subscription numbers. People are tuning out. And they need to do so for their basic mental health.
And this is where we'll get scolded because that's exactly how the autocrat wins--by getting people to tune out rather than stand up for their principles and resist.
But at the same time, I just don't care. I don't care about this country, and I care even less about it's people. They can all go to the devil for all I care.
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I have to admit--this one legitimately caused me to burst out laughing.
And I'm now at the @aggie08 school of thought. These bunch of dumbfucks may have the very worst of intentions, but they don't have the brains to effectuate any of their goals.
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59 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:Your take is not “more nuanced.” It’s just less informed. You’re deliberately ignoring the words he directly responded to, which make the meaning of “it” explicitly clear.
You know what--I'm tired of this shit.
You profess to be all pissed off at @Brisketexan because he said he'd welcome the Palestinians getting genocided on an internet message board. But . . . and this is really fucking important and you need to read it . . . what Brisket writes on a fucking college football message board has literally zero impact on whether the Palestinians get genocided.
You know what impacts whether the Palestinians get genocided? Fucking voting last Tuesday.
Last Tuesday, Brisket voted for against the pro-genocide candidate. But you're completely ripshit at him over something that has literally zero impact on the life of any Palestinian.
Last Tuesday, the dipshits in Dearborn voted for the pro-genocide candidate. But you have nothing but sympathy for, saying they faced a "unique moral conundrum."
I'm serious here, man--you're completely upside-down. And I am really having a hard time communicating with you at this moment, because I just don't understand your perspective at all.
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9 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:You sound like a huge asshole.
I think you missed the memo from last week. Being a "huge asshole" is kind of our national brand now.
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5 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:Not exactly. But I do expect decent people to feel sympathy for millions of innocents trying to survive an onslaught in Gaza (and, likely soon, the West Bank).
I know this thread has moved quickly, but this discussion started when a few of our resident assholes cheered on the coming slaughter in Gaza as if it were some sort of karmic justice for the poor choices of Muslims in Michigan. Then said assholes doubled down on it.
We can debate whether American Muslims who declined to vote for Kamala deserve what’s coming. I personally believe their decision presented a unique moral conundrum. But are you really going to defend Brisket and 956 as they celebrate the massacre of innocent non-Americans who had literally no choice to make?
The discussion moves quickly, but not that quickly. I was specifically addressing the American Muslims you identified in your post--the dumb assholes in Dearborn who voted 85% against Harris.
There is no fucking "moral conundrum." American electoral politics is a binary choice: either the Republican or the Democrat. One of those two is going to get elected. Voting for one helps that candidate get elected; deciding not to vote for a candidate hurts that candidate's chances of getting elected. It's that fucking simple.
I didn't make the choice to elect the candidate who wants to ban Muslims from entering the United States. I voted against the candidate who wants to deport Muslims and strip naturalized Muslims of their citizenship. I voted against the candidate who will allow Israel to kill absolutely every Palestinian it can lay hands on.
The Muslims in Dearborn overwhelmingly voted to elect that candidate.
There ain't no fucking moral conundrum here. One candidate was going to be elected: the candidate who supports all those things, or the candidate who opposes them. The fine people in Dearborn chose the former.
They get to fucking live with that decision.
Or not.
Either way, I don't give a fuck.
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3 minutes ago, sidis said:
pre-tax corporate profits:
$2.4 trillion in Q4 2019 to $4.08 trillion in Q2 2024. 68% increase in fewer than five years. from 2019 backwards, it would require you to go back to Q4 2004 to see that level of growth in before-tax corporate profits controlling for the financial crisis (as i did for covid). What took 15 years previously achieved in 4.5 years.
after-tax corporate profits:
$2.12 trillion in Q4 2019 to 3.41 trillion in Q2 2024. 60% increase in fewer than five years. from 2019 backwards, it would require you to go back to Q2 2005 to see that level of growth in after-tax corporate profits controlling for the financial crisis (as i did for covid). what previously too 14 years achieved in 4.5 years.
"in order to continue to provide the same excellent service....."
Just look at what the markets are doing. Stocks are up nearly 10% over the last week; bond yields are also rising. Everyone fucking thinks inflation is going to bounce back up and corporations are going to use that as an opportunity to make windfall profits.
The investing classes are going to make a killing.
It's the working classes that are going to be killed.
So, you know--the yoozh.
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19 hours ago, BrickHorn said:But she WAS the party’s candidate for President. And the party declined a request by Palestinian advocates to speak at the DNC, but allowed pro-Israel speakers (which, by the way, leaders of the Uncommitted movement supported).
From my conversations with Muslim friends, merely allowing a Palestinian voice to speak briefly at the convention would have gone a looooong way. It was about showing a path forward and hope. The party fucked that up as badly as it possibly could have, which is a high bar for our lovable blue losers.
Haha--holy fucking shit. These dumb motherfuckers pulled the cord on the political suicide vest because the Democrats didn't let them have a speaker at the convention? And you expect me to feel an ounce of sympathy for them?
And yeah--I did choose that metaphor purposefully. Dumb fucking non-strategic thinkers. Fuck them.
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21 minutes ago, softlynow said:Yes, fuck that guy. Sorry, though, I can’t cheer genocide. Those victims didn’t do this particular bit of fucking around. You’re missing the bit about other people paying the price for some of our dumb voters.
I get your rage, man, but get some focus. If it comes to real resistance you won’t be useful as a berserker.
I am completely with you. There's absolutely nothing I can do to prevent what is going to happen to the Palestinians. I did what I could to prevent it. But I'm still going to lament it.
At the same time, one may plausibly hope that there is something constructive that comes from people seeing the (very, very foreseeable) consequences of their voting behavior. And perhaps that would provide some benefit going forward, which is worth cheering for.
It may be true that @BrickHorn is sitting there wringing his hands over the fate of the poor Palestinians. And meanwhile, @Brisketexan is maniacally finger-tenting while hissing "excellent." And they have the exact same impact on what is going to happen in Palestine. When the time for deciding what was going to happen in Palestine was upon us, they were on the same side.
But that time is gone, and they're both now equally impotent. The hand-wringer's hand-wringing over the finger-tenter's sinister grimace is a bit stupid. As is the finger-tenter's supposed glee, I suppose. I imagine they're both coping mechanisms. I suspect neither will be terribly effective in the medium- or long-term.
That's why we have alcohol.
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41 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:
Pretty sure it had to be oriented E/W b/c of existing underground infrastructure that would prevent the underground anchoring that the stadium required.
I think that's right. But at the same time, that doesn't really answer the question--underground infrastructure could've been moved. They moved plenty of roads in that area to accommodate various stadium projects--some water lines and fiberoptic cable shouldn't have stood in the way.
I think the real answer is that he wanted it on an axis to open onto The Ballpark in Arlington. Jerry wanted his stadium and its big glass wall to glower down on the perpetually cellar-dwelling Rangers.
Of course, now the Rangers have a new stadium that is off that axis. The former Ballpark is now home to some minor-league football team, which really causes one to wonder about a future in which the NFL embraces relegation.
18 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:He won't close the curtains because the media/fans brought it up first and it made him look bad. He thinks keeping them open is dunking on the media.
This is the answer. This is 100% the answer.
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21 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:
Does anyone in the Dallas, or Texas, media ever challenge the Jones Family and how they have destroyed the football aspect of the franchise all while just stealing money? Or, are they afraid to because their access and credentials will be revoked?
This was a rhetorical question, right? Because you know the answer, right?
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This was a completely shit game for 55 minutes, and then just turned amazing.
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Oh, my god!
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21 minutes ago, heso said:
Without seeing any of the game yet, and knowing the history of these two teams, this had such a high probability of sarcasm.
I’ll give you the Oregon unis. These are definitely the best of all the absurd shit they’ve put out. And I’ll give you half a point for Maryland. If they had just gone with red instead of the tritone metallic nonsense they’d be there.
My dude—it’s the tritone metallic nonsense that makes them fire.
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Jesus—this Maryland-Oregon game may feature the best uniform matchup in the history of college football.
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The Ole Miss student section not really helping their team out but keeping the bottles in the stands.
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Wild holding there.
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2 hours ago, hpslugga said:
“Cuz we can’t fuckin listen, and we can’t pay attention to history, and we only half-assed fuckin pay attention and listen”
-Mike Leach
Mike Leach is so fucking lucky that he got to die before this shitshow came to pass.
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@Brisketexan will tell you that I pour very good whisky out here on the ledge.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
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But on the other-other hand, we're going to need a steady supply of low-skill, low-wage workers if Trump is going to undertake his mass deportation. And I can think of few better places to get those workers than rural Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Texas once the federal government cuts their communities off from the federal largesse that keeps them inhabitable.