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  1. 5 hours ago, Goredho said:

    There are a lot of great Christians, and there are a lot of people like you describe.  People who are drawn to Jesus mostly for the promise of an absolution of the sins that they willfully engage in.

    Well, the conversation is about those we see and hear and suffer from.  No one is against nice people.  Except maga Christians.

  2. 20 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Presumably, but not necessarily, agreement with this. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A607/295288/20240109144901203_23A607 Response to Application for Vacatur.pdf

    I bet noone here knows that Texas started this by suing the feds for converting (destroying, taking) the state's concertina wire.

    Geezus.  This wasn't about sovereignty or the preemption of Texas law by federal immigration law.

    It was about barbed wire.

    So, further perusal of the case papers reveals that the trial court concluded back in November, against apparently the weight of authority, that the waiver of sovereign immunity in 5 USC 702 does not apply to state law tort claims, so Texas couldn't sue the feds.

    The Fifth Circuit apparently disagreed (and agreed with other circuits that state law tort claims are permitted), thus enjoining further destruction of Texas' barbed wire pending appeal.

    So, federal supremacy and preemption were collateral issues attempting to justify the destruction of barbed wire.

    This case never addressed the broad question of what the State of Texas can do vis a vis the federal government under the guise of immigration enforcement.

    It considered whether the feds could steal and destroy Texas' barbed wire, under any theory.

    JFC.

    Steal?  When Texas installs it on fed controlled land, is that stealing?   I.e in lawful taking?

  3. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    They also fear for their lives.  Do you really think that they haven't each received NUMEROUS communications threatening them with violence, rape, death, etc. if they fail to protect the Cult's Orange God?  They know what's at stake: a ruling that is openly negative for Trump puts their lives at risk.

    That is 100% where we are as a country.  And remember, every single person who votes Republican REWARDS that state of affairs, and thus is 100% okay with it.

    Fear for one’s life seems to trump, pardon the term, the accumulation of rather abstract power.   The former is a more immediate, and salient emotion.  The latter a calculation.  

  4. 2 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    people have been saying this for about a decade, and i really can't figure out why.  but here's a little cheat sheet - if it hasn't happened by now, it isn't going to.  and you know why it hasn't happened by now?  because he's not a racist.  i know that's hard for some of you to hear, but he's not.  the flow chart in his brain doesn't work that way. 

    in life, he likes rich people and hates poor people.  i can pretty much guarantee you he hates poor white people as much as he hates poor black or brown people.  he doesn't want to associate with any poor people and he doesn't want them in or around his buildings.  in politics, he likes people who like him and hates anyone who doesn't.  it doesn't get more complex than that. 

    spur-of-the-moment racism is too complicated for his lizard brain.  he doesn't have a bunch of n-words on the tip of his tongue and is somehow suppressing them.  he doesn't have anywhere near that type of control.

    don't get me wrong - he likes racists and he likes white nationalists...because they vote for him.

    He supports policies with clearly inequitable racial outcomes.  He is a racist.

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  5. 6 hours ago, Incredulity said:

    agreed.

    I always shook my head at the hardcore legalization advocates who would go absolutely berserk around any notion that marijuana was addictive.   Yeah, yeah anecdotal but I have personal experience with many individuals who are addicted to marijuana.  Maybe it doesn't meet some technical definition, but is sure as fuck meets the practical one. 

    Yet the addictive effect is not deadly.  

  6. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    I mean...maybe we're splitting hairs here, but even rabid fandom runs up against reality.  "Hey Fan X, would you rather your favorite college football team win a title next year, or would you prefer to earn a good living instead of a shitty one, have decent healthcare for your sick kid instead of being 25 miles from the nearest doctor, and have your kids go to an actual school where they can be educated and develop life skills instead of a glorified prison box condemning them to lives of being a Wal-Mart shelf stocker?"  First, there absolutely ARE people who would choose "gotdamn, gimme that title, ROLL TIDE!"  I suspect that the overlay of those people on the "Trump voter" circle is near 100%.  But in the end, there likely aren't even that many, as a percentage.

    My strong hypothesis is that college football team "tribal loyalties" pale in comparison to this modern GQP cult tribal loyalty.

    Agreed.   Our experience is just a small taste of what the full blown condition truly is.

  7. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    You must have missed the part about GQP voters consistently, with little to no deviation, voting against their plain and obvious interests.  These are people who would vote for the party that promises to burn their town to the ground in order to deny housing to one dirty immigrant, and cheer while it happens.

    You mean economic or educational interests.  They don’t value these remotely as high as their psychological/emotional interests.

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