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Dems are imo trying to actively fill the void "left" by the republican party going far right. they pick up some donors here or there, but fail to realize the donor class has at least in part also moved far right. it's completely fucked up. the answer to lying republican populism is a real working class, middle class party on the left.
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this is my whole "label argument" ... without consent labeling hispanics "Latinx", cishet white women with their fucking pronoun tags on emails, calling those who don't have a home to live in the unhoused, all of it. look, it's well meaning, and in a vacuum the intent really matters, but the fucking problem is that there is NOTHING behind these intentions other than labeling. definitions, word choice and academic masturbation. Biden was FAN-FUCKING-STASTIC but he was two decades too late. He was starting to implement a progressive policy agenda but public perception was well past the tipping point and his desire to stay out of the limelight because of what Trump did before him, Biden's fear of speaking / stuttering, and his poor health only made it worse. Chuck Schumer and the rest of these assholes pander to the labeling lobby and then do absolutely jack shit. you know what the labelled needed last time Dems had a monopoly? Voting Rights Act, Federal Equality Act, legislative student loan reform, and much more for working class and middle class PEOPLE .... ALL PEOPLE. We did get the infrastructure/inflation bill which was monumental as well as the CHIPS bill but we needed much much more. The fact that they couldn't get these so-called priorities done is proof of their apathy, hypocrisy and ineffectiveness. Yeah yeah the other Joe from WVA was a wolf in sheep's clothing and that attention whore but Sinema is a fucking bi-sexual woman for fuck's sake. Don't even get me started on a DOJ that had the fucking balls to be aggressive in prosecutions. That's just the tip of the iceberg with the problems of the Dem party. so instead of taking the label movement and being grateful (which I used to be), I want to shove it right up their asses and say, IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER. WE NEED REAL CHANGE ASSHOLES. and nuance can be lost here - as between me and my neighbor, labels do matter, I appreciate my friends using their pronouns to signal allyship, and I do think it matters to stop calling hispanics Latinx and I do think unhoused or experiencing homelessness is important (I am involved with these folks in volunteer service) but when it comes to the political class? they can get fucked until they cause real change to occur.
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Leach’s teams whipping the the whoopers year after year was blissful.
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Because I said I’m partial to the ladies? Because I’m married to a woman?
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I missed this but think I made my point - both are performative - not the desire to be respectful or inclusive - but the forced label on Hispanics and the assumption that all is good if you just put your pronouns in your email footer and make people state their pronouns in a meeting. Honestly it’s in the same ball park as honoring indigenous tribes that once lived on the land, look I get it but you feeling better because you made those references to cultures long since forcibly removed is more offensive in my opinion than saying nothing. Dems spend WAY too much time on labels and performance than actually doing the next practical right thing to do. so in the end, yeah I kinda find the performative pronoun ritual - often dutifully employed by cisgender heterosexual white women - to be kind of offensive. Not because of their well meaning views but because in the end, well it was paired with nothing else.
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I once used it’s when its was called for. I mean that’s the worse example I can come up with. Sorry I’m lame.
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beat laugh I’ve had all day. These dudes are fucking dumb.
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
troph replied to Reagan1k's topic in Business and Markets
Mootopia from HEB for the win. Ultra pasteurized, lower sugar, lower fat, with an end result of a better protein to sugar/fat ratio. Add some omega 3s and I’m good to go. Don’t know the cost, takes us 10 or so days to drink a whole gallon. -
I don’t know if you have individual standing - that’s for an HOA law geek - but I can say if you or the HOA don’t get in front of it before too much longer the equity (fairness) side of the scale will start to heavily tilt toward the new home owner building such a monstrosity. From there the rule starts the slide toward unenforceable given past waivers. If it matters to you, someone should do something.
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The all encompassing mid century modern appreciation thread
troph replied to Patricio Swayze's topic in Hobbies
We have a pretty nice house, has some mid century elements, more modern but a blend, butterfly roof, shed roof, transom windows in two places. I love it. but this house in old Lakeway (our last hood and we live not far from there now) has me absolutely in drool mode. https://www.redfin.com/TX/Lakeway/821-Malabar-St-78734/home/31284740 Absolutely stunning. -
yall know how you all like to say she’s got a hot body and you’d you know shag her with a bag over her head. This is pretty much the dude version of that, those ears ack. I generally think tennis athletes have the best physiques and I’m also partial to the ladies, but holy fuck this guy has a sexy as fuck body. Carry on.
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Neither me nor my wife tolerate excess poundage very well, but a certain amount must be allowed as part of the fun and uncrazy quotient. Flat stomachs and perfectly sculpted thighs are the tune of the sirens, be very wary.
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If I could sacrifice my own life with the simple guarantee that this alone would change forever, I would. It wouldn’t even be a difficult choice. I’m so fucking mad about all this shit right now.
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Fuck this guy he needs to be shown the door. I’d do a better job than this POS.
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God dammit yall.
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Substance matters performative bullshit doesn’t. Dems have been way too beholden to performative bullshit.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think you mixed up your lubricants - beef tallow for your jeans, EVOO for viscosity when …
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