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  1. Substance matters performative bullshit doesn’t. Dems have been way too beholden to performative bullshit.
  2. The point is there are groups - sorry I was slow to understand the line of discussion - that make certain concepts material that are immaterial. Lantix and the performative pronoun shit are two examples. being inclusive matters, doing cringy pronouns shit and calling people Latinx because someone said it’s inclusive is not helpful. focus on the material, figure out the concerns that most people are worried about and you’ve got your goddamned inclusivity. and why does it make me ragey, because the path to my rights goes through the working class and middle class and this performative bullshit help elect Trump. troph she/her/hers
  3. The whole point is that SJW, cishet white women, “those groups” and others do focus on pronouns. To some extent they matter but for all practical intents and purposes they mean the square root of jack shit and actually get in the way. Venn diagrams are the Dems friends. Find the center that contains the most overlap and go after that identity group. fuck pronouns, fuck Latinx, fuck all of it. If you raise the quality of life in tangible and meaningful ways for the working class and middle class you will improve the lives of the pronoun kings and queens and the Latinx mommas and daddies and the rest of us. the true political intersectionality is helping the working and middle classes, and that’s about as queer as you can get in today’s political climate (multiple layers of meaning intended). Full stop.
  4. fuck you.
  5. re LatinX.... I'll use GASP ... pronouns as an analogy. I FUCKING HATE PRONOUNS. There I said it. And by the way what are my pronouns? Depends, I usually go by ... WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THEY ARE? FUCK YOUR MOUTH WITH A DIRTY CUMSOCK! And on a good day, ME, my gender is ME. but yeah, I'm a she for those that require conformance to the group's demand... Why do I FUCKING HATE PRONOUNS? Because bitch, if you look at me, or see my name in an email and you think for one minute and you can't either (1) make an educated guess as to my gender, (2) tell from looking at me that I'm a woman, or (3) at least assume that's the thing I'm going for, then I'm going to relegate you into the to be ignored, ridiculed, scoffed at and scolded pile. why? because fuck you for being a stupid ass. Why else? Because I have bigger concerns than fucking pronouns. But wait, what about respect? You know what, I demand respect because of my human dignity and where I've been and what I've been through. And I do appreciate those who toss around their pronouns on email signature pages... Talking to YOU Jennifer, Angela, Kristi and all you other cisgender, heterosexual white women! I see you, thank you for the solidarity, sticking your necks out there! REALLY going out there on a limb. Couldn't do it without ya! Yeah, pronouns matter and I do see signature lines with pronouns as a signal of allyship, but pronouns aren't hard and it's irrelevant for what matters. Take that pronoun shit to twitter and SJW the fuck out of the ether, I'm all for it. But politics? Fuck that noise. There are WAY BIGGER issues than fucking pronouns. ... I assume LatinX has it's own backlash culture, but I bet there are some similarities. but no @BurntOrange&White you're wrong. Dems like me, we do love white women with big boobs, even if their solidarity is only found in a signature line with designated pronouns.
  6. the only way you can make this statement is if you state that the GOP is more welcoming to the single largest cohesive group - cisgender, straight, white people. any other way you describe it, that's simply not true. while numbers are trending poorly for Dems, the Republicans are not a majority minority party, they are making tremendous inroads in minority groups but those are not groups that as a whole lean right. 100% this. sigh, I miss that man.
  7. I’m clearly in “one of the groups” and for better or for worse not in the largest demographic Dems should appeal to either - I don’t mean cishet white people - and I can tell you without any hesitation, if the Dems could meaningfully recapture the working and middle class with good policy, universal healthcare, student loan reform, education, pre-k childcare reform, tax reform, and financial system reform that truly improves their lives, then the threat to my existence would end. people demonize me and people in these so called groups because they are threatened and are looking for a cause. there’s a reason why LBJ was able to pass the civil rights act, he was passing laws and establishing programs (like Medicare and Medicaid) for the majority of Americans as well. Well that and his political force, expediency and brilliance too.
  8. I think you mixed up your lubricants - beef tallow for your jeans, EVOO for viscosity when …
  9. Well the only reason we are watching is because we are from here so side interests in remembering all the news reporters and city leaders, and I was basically the same age as the girls. The quality of the film is pretty lackluster in both our views and we wouldn’t watch it independent of our local affinities.
  10. According to the film maker it’s not a who dunit, its a documentary about false confessions. Not sure she’s trying to add more detail to the investigation as a primary objective.
  11. troph

    Whatcha reading?

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  12. That’s Poors milk. Surly 1% bitches
  13. You see dear little Rimbo, when a man really loves a woman, or really loves a man, or really loves a they them or their, they do things that just friends don’t do, well unless they are friends with benefits in which case they do the things that a man who loves a woman, or loves a man, or loves they them or their would do, except they might do it more because, well it’s less complicated, but anyway, one day you’ll know all about it when your 45 years old.
  14. We’d have 9 total. more if we did it as auburn has.
  15. now that you say that I vaguely remember watching on the TV the year before...
  16. I was there also, row 2 of the upper deck, the infamous Jerry Gray chase down. I was at the uga game too. that one is frozen in time (IYKKYK). most painful texas game of my lifetime.
  17. I think we should claim the 9
  18. And then this … Good question. Short answer: Texas could stretch beyond 9 claimed titles, but only if they follow the same aggressive logic Auburn used—counting every NCAA-listed selector, even the very obscure or inconsistent ones. Baseline: 9 Titles Texas currently claims 4 (1963, 1969, 1970, 2005). The NCAA record book credits Texas with 5 additional national championships (1914, 1941, 1968, 1977, 1981). That’s the 9 “legitimate” max if Texas just aligns with all NCAA-recognized major selectors (the same standard A&M used). Could They Go Beyond 9? Yes, if they: Adopt all “minor selectors” that named Texas champion (the NCAA records section lists many fringe systems: Houlgate, Dunkel, Poling, Boand, Litkenhous, etc.). Retro-claim shared titles in seasons where Texas finished #2 or was a top-three team and at least one obscure selector gave them the nod. For example: 1930s & 1950s: Some systems threw out odd picks that weren’t AP/UPI leaders. Late 1970s–1980s: Texas sometimes finished near the top; a fringe rating system occasionally crowned them. By doing this, Texas could probably push their “total claimed” number into the low double digits (11–13 range)—but those would be much weaker claims than the 9 that are already documented by major NCAA selectors. Why They Haven’t Texas has historically taken a conservative stance—only claiming consensus or near-consensus titles. Schools like Auburn and UCF have been more aggressive, “claiming everything the NCAA book lists,” even when selectors are obscure. Texas has the luxury of history: 4 consensus titles plus the 5 major-selector ones already make them a blue-blood without needing to stretch. … without needing to stretch lol.
  19. Yep here’s my ChatGPT friend saying the same thing … You’re absolutely right—schools like Auburn and Texas A&M have recently expanded their official national title claims by including retroactive selections recognized by the NCAA in its record books. Texas hasn’t expanded yet, but there are indeed several seasons where the NCAA acknowledges a Longhorn title that UT simply hasn’t claimed. Let’s break down what Texas could add—and why. NCAA-Recognized But Unclaimed Texas Championships According to the official NCAA “FBS Records” and corroborated by multiple sources, Texas was selected as national champion in nine seasons by NCAA-designated major selectors, but only claims four: Claimed (4): 1963, 1969, 1970, 2005 Unclaimed (5): 1914, 1941, 1968, 1977, and 1981 Here’s a quick look at those unclaimed years: 1914 Texas finished 8–0 and was retroactively named national champion by the Billingsley Report (Margin of Victory version) . 1941 With an 8–1–1 record, Texas received national champion recognition by the Berryman QPRS and Williamson System . 1968 The Longhorns (9–1–1) were selected by the Devold System, Matthews Grid Ratings, and Sagarin Ratings . 1977 Texas (11–1) was recognized by Berryman, FACT, and Sagarin (ELO‑Chess) . 1981 The team (10–1–1) was named national champion by the National Championship Foundation .
  20. so if texas did the same thing, what's our title total? for shit and giggles grins and shit and stuff...?
  21. thank god I shut her down. in the past I've let whaky shit slide. once upon a time she was actually at the cutting edge, shit like "leaky gut" and gut/brain axis and stuff, now she's just a nut.
  22. uh, it's the white house dot gov brotini, broski, brozambino... what a fucking world man.
  23. wft? y'all see dicks everywhere.
  24. I love my mom but she was suffering some shortness of breath, fatigue, etc. from something. went to her quack nutritionist who said, "it's the spike protein." my mom explains to me, "you know how when you sit next to someone who had the flu shot and you can get the flu? He thinks that's how I got the spike protein, from someone's covid vax." I then said, mom, the spike protein IS the coronavirus... sounds like you actually, finally caught the covid. her mind was blown, she assumed the only ones that get covid are those who got the jab. fuuuuuck.
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