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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

the department of defense is going to start using grok?

what in the fresh hell is this timeline?!?!?!

It’s no more than we deserve. Skynet is coming. 

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7 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

I found an example from the middle of the decade. Check this shit out. If you were Top 25% in your HS class, you only needed a 1050 SAT to get PRIORITY admission. Top 50%? No worries: score a measly 1150 or higher.

Those are not even remotely elite admissions criteria. 

i was a couple years after that (between hopwood  and the top 10% rule) but thank fuck i scored well over 1100 on the SAT.

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9 hours ago, flatdawgs said:

Deserved or no, highly unlikely. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission is probably the most that can be hoped for, and even that's probably not in the cards. Americans, sometimes for better, often for worse, are a forgiving people who (as you know as well as anyone) tend neither to look to the past nor to learn any lessons from it. 

I don’t dispute we have been fairly conciliatory towards people who either fought against the Union or those who were against Civil Rights, but later apologized for what they had done. 
 

As a nation this FEELS different. Watching American citizens being sent away, the loss of citizenship being openly talked about by the regime (I can’t call them politicians anymore) and people being degraded as being disposable based solely on how they look and that they are a darker skin color. 
 

I would expect those in Schumer’s orbit and ilk to want reconciliation. We tried this in 2020. It failed and fomented an even bigger part of the population to want what we currently have with a fascist regime in control. I think there will be acts of violence perpetrated upon some of the regime. Where can a guy like Miller live at once everything goes south for him except a prison cell? He’s a target for the rest of his life and someone that thinks violent retribution is the answer will likely go and get it if given that target of opportunity.
 

I want all of these criminals to spend life in prison once this ends. I want the young Democrats to grow a backbone and not let these people just resume their pre-fascist life again. My bet is maybe 10 percent of the country will look back into history to see that reconciliation does not work and that it’ll just lead to another generation looking to get even  for their fascist heroes being discarded. You have to completely stamp it out and to do that means at the end of this the Republican Party has to be outlawed and torn apart. 

Conservative folks can go form a new party based on something more modern, but the whole apparatus has to come down. Absorbing these folks back in will not heal divisions. It will just enable more morons in the future and some generation not yet born that we will never meet will have to deal with it and they’ll be left wondering why we did not do more to put an end to these people.

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32 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

I had to see for myself that this was indeed a real post on x.

 

Holy shit the stupidity with her and her followers is breathtaking. 

She's involved somehow (producer?) in J6 documentary that is batshit crazy.  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16252560/?ref_=nmbio_mbio

I didn't realize the guy who played Art Mullen (Raylan's boss) on Justified was such a pudfucker.  Damn.  

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2 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

I don’t dispute we have been fairly conciliatory towards people who either fought against the Union or those who were against Civil Rights, but later apologized for what they had done. 
 

As a nation this FEELS different. Watching American citizens being sent away, the loss of citizenship being openly talked about by the regime (I can’t call them politicians anymore) and people being degraded as being disposable based solely on how they look and that they are a darker skin color. 
 

I would expect those in Schumer’s orbit and ilk to want reconciliation. We tried this in 2020. It failed and fomented an even bigger part of the population to want what we currently have with a fascist regime in control. I think there will be acts of violence perpetrated upon some of the regime. Where can a guy like Miller live at once everything goes south for him except a prison cell? He’s a target for the rest of his life and someone that thinks violent retribution is the answer will likely go and get it if given that target of opportunity.
 

I want all of these criminals to spend life in prison once this ends. I want the young Democrats to grow a backbone and not let these people just resume their pre-fascist life again. My bet is maybe 10 percent of the country will look back into history to see that reconciliation does not work and that it’ll just lead to another generation looking to get even  for their fascist heroes being discarded. You have to completely stamp it out and to do that means at the end of this the Republican Party has to be outlawed and torn apart. 

Conservative folks can go form a new party based on something more modern, but the whole apparatus has to come down. Absorbing these folks back in will not heal divisions. It will just enable more morons in the future and some generation not yet born that we will never meet will have to deal with it and they’ll be left wondering why we did not do more to put an end to these people.

I don't disagree with you; I want to see the rot within the system completely and utterly excised. I personally don't believe that can happen through reconciliation but will take some hard lessons being learned. American history does not show that we will do anything other than "forgive and forget" however, and right now I see no signs that will change. My hope otherwise is in the youth of the party. We shall see.

Regarding your first point - this all has happened before. Many, many lawful Hispanic residents - including no small number of citizens - were driven out of the US in the 1930s (the "Mexican Repatriation"); estimates are anywhere between 200,000 and 3 million people. Loss of birthright citizenship? Oh yeah, we've done that too. My great-grandmother, born in Illinois to American citizens and who probably never left the country in her life, lost her US citizenship because she married a foreign national who had not (yet) naturalized. Yep, that was the law in the 1920s if you were a woman. She had to go through the naturalization process later, same as any alien; I have her naturalization papers. What is happening today feels different to us because in our lifetimes nothing like this has ever happened, but in the long, often ugly and usually xenophobic history of the USA we've always managed to be complete and total shitbags to some part of the population (and no, we're certainly not alone there, then or now).

Stephen Miller and his ilk - why, they can eat a giant bag of muledicks. I hear the mini-mart down at the Esso station might have some, if they hang around long enough. 

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17 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

I don't disagree with you; I want to see the rot within the system completely and utterly excised. I personally don't believe that can happen through reconciliation but will take some hard lessons being learned. American history does not show that we will do anything other than "forgive and forget" however, and right now I see no signs that will change. My hope otherwise is in the youth of the party. We shall see.

Regarding your first point - this all has happened before. Many, many lawful Hispanic residents - including no small number of citizens - were driven out of the US in the 1930s (the "Mexican Repatriation"); estimates are anywhere between 200,000 and 3 million people. Loss of birthright citizenship? Oh yeah, we've done that too. My great-grandmother, born in Illinois to American citizens and who probably never left the country in her life, lost her US citizenship because she married a foreign national who had not (yet) naturalized. Yep, that was the law in the 1920s if you were a woman. She had to go through the naturalization process later, same as any alien; I have her naturalization papers. What is happening today feels different to us because in our lifetimes nothing like this has ever happened, but in the long, often ugly and usually xenophobic history of the USA we've always managed to be complete and total shitbags to some part of the population (and no, we're certainly not alone there, then or now).

Stephen Miller and his ilk - why, they can eat a giant bag of muledicks. I hear the mini-mart down at the Esso station might have some, if they hang around long enough. 

Domestic history is probably something I should read more about so kudos to you for bringing that horrid part of our history into the conversation. It’s so odd, yet so normal that human beings ALWAYS find a group to piss on. We’ve done it with every large wave of immigrants that have come here and as you so starkly pointed out, we did it with American citizens. To me it is the worst of human behavior. We base hatred on skin color, languages used, sometimes singling out groups like the Jews and other undesirables were by the Nazis. We never learn as people.
 

I spend a decent amount of time thinking about am I doing things that will help people out generations from now? Am I doing something to further humanity in a positive way for the millions and billions that’ll come long after I’m tossed overboard into the South Pacific to be shark food? I don’t think it makes me unique to think that way, but I do wish humans would think long-term instead of just five minutes from now and that they’d use history as a guide as to why that would be important to do so.

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You can’t rehabilitate cancer. You can’t coexist with cancer for long. You can’t just part ways with this cancer.  There’s one way to get rid of it. And that way looks suspiciously like killing all of your political opponents, because that’s what it is.  &nbsp
 

once this becomes an us or them situation, that’s what it is from both perspectives.  And that lets a lot of blood eventually. 

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7 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

but I do wish humans would think long-term instead of just five minutes from now

I would argue this is the cause of all of our problems. It is our greatest weakness. I don’t see why though. It’s not hard to do it right. 

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9 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

You can’t rehabilitate cancer. You can’t coexist with cancer for long. You can’t just part ways with this cancer.  There’s one way to get rid of it. And that way looks suspiciously like killing all of your political opponents, because that’s what it is.  &nbsp
 

once this becomes an us or them situation, that’s what it is from both perspectives.  And that lets a lot of blood eventually. 

Speaking of cancer, can it be contagious? Cause fuckhead is going to visit King Charles in September. 

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18 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Completely disagree. Most of what families purchase from American Universities is practically useless, or at best anti-climactic, compared to the education delivered at the best and most rigorous public high schools, let alone elite, selective private schools.

But did you get her numba?

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Posted
1 hour ago, Okie State said:

Watched Terminator 2 last night. I feel like we're close to this timeline. Let's get it over with.

 

machines will always break down, someone has to fix them

 

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11 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

UT is an elite institution and was then too. Surprised I have to remind people, here of all places. 

UT was elite when I went?  I disagree.  Exhibit A: I was there.

(Edit: to be clear, the simple fact that UT allowed me on campus, let alone attend classes, was proof of some kind of scholastic malpractice visited upon my cohorts.  I was straight up stupid).

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Posted
39 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Wild how we’re destroying scientific funding just because.

What could go wrong?  I hope we all die in the next pandemic. Fuck you people. 

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2 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

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He’s a narcissist. He won’t do this.  Still the sentiment of it is on the right track. It’d be great to skip through all of the not fun stuff coming towards all of us. 

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5 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

More than a half hour ago I learned that refusing to give permission for police to search your car is justification for a K9 search. At least in Fredericksburg.

Youngest was a passenger, at that time, on a trip back from NM. Added another 45  minutes to their journey. When all was said and done, the driver was issued a warning, and they were sent on their way.

Edited to add that my daughter was physically searched by police.

If you know, was an explanation provided for the traffic stop in the first place? Such as vehicle lights out, improper turn, speeding, driving too slowly, etc.? Sounds like Fburg PD was profiling and looking for drogas.

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4 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

He’s a narcissist. He won’t do this.  Still the sentiment of it is on the right track. It’d be great to skip through all of the not fun stuff coming towards all of us. 

Hitler wasn't a narcissist?

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1 minute ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I kind of like some of what he said on the Ukraine in recent days although I'm being pretty half full about it.

He's only doing it because Putin has been fucking with him and hurting his chances at the Nobel Peace Prize.  

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Just now, South Austin said:

He's only doing it because Putin has been fucking with him and hurting his chances at the Nobel Peace Prize.  

I'll take it.

Imagine how wonderful it would be if Trump only fucked with true enemies of the US and its people - dictators, polluters, Constitution-haters...

 

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9 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I kind of like some of what he said on the Ukraine in recent days although I'm being pretty half full about it.

Well he's a fucking liar, so his words worthless and are not worth your thought or consideration.

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1 hour ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I'll take it.

Imagine how wonderful it would be if Trump only fucked with true enemies of the US and its people - dictators, polluters, Constitution-haters...

 

Take your hope to the DT thread where the idiots are constantly tricked by Donald's words. This time might be different! Meanwhile a week ago we canceled a shipment of military aid for reasons 

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14 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Take your hope to the DT thread where the idiots are constantly tricked by Donald's words. This time might be different! Meanwhile a week ago we canceled a shipment of military aid for reasons 

You should PM the Ukrainians and tell them this is really bad, not good news.  You seem to be on top of things.

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9 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

You should PM the Ukrainians and tell them this is really bad, not good news.  You seem to be on top of things.

Should I tell them that their military aid was canceled? Or just that they should be happy that Donald is talking tough? 

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8 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Should I tell them that their military aid was canceled? Or just that they should be happy that Donald is talking tough? 

I thought you whole point is definitely not the second sentence.  They should be extra sad when the dotard says anything bad about Russia.

They should ignore this shit.

Ukraine war briefing: US resumes military supplies to Ukraine, Zelenskyy announces | Ukraine | The Guardian

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As I recall during the last year of Fred Akers tenure, admissions was guaranteed if you were either in the top 25% of your class or made 1100 or better on the SAT. 
I remember this because in the 11th grade I made exactly 1100 the first time I took the SAT and proceeded to to screw off the rest of high school and managed to drop out of the the top 25% by graduation.  

I graduated from high school in 85 (olds). Auto admits were top 25% and ANY SAT score.
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17 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Rain? In Florida?

Well clutch my pearls.

And in JULY, at that!

17 hours ago, Okie State said:

Doesn't it rain every fucking day in Florida? It sure does when I've been there.

Why, yes. Yes it does. In fact there's a decent-sized storm right now ... moving from the northeast to the southwest! Weather warfare!!!!

I'm curious. Who do these nutters think is pulling the strings on this weather warfare by the gubment? When Biden was in office, they said he was running that war. So is it Trump now? Why would Trump be trying to kill off Texas and Flawduh voters?

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lovely ....

 

1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I'm sorry, what? I was told inflation was a Biden problem. Where are the poo-flinging monkeys decrying inflation now? Seriously fuck everyone that voted for this ghoul
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/inflation-picks-up-again-in-june-rising-at-2-7-annual-rate/ar-AA1IDVV1?ocid=socialshare

 

it'll change soon, trump wants more control on which numbers are reported 

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Posted
44 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Why was the Club World Cup in the US anyway? It’s not like any MLS club had any chance.

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Posted
15 hours ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

I had to see for myself that this was indeed a real post on x.

 

Holy shit the stupidity with her and her followers is breathtaking. 

Never heard of this bitch, so I looked up her account. In her bio it says "Information War Correspondent".

So, she's the female Alex Jones?

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I'm sorry, what? I was told inflation was a Biden problem. Where are the poo-flinging monkeys decrying inflation now? Seriously fuck everyone that voted for this ghoul
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/inflation-picks-up-again-in-june-rising-at-2-7-annual-rate/ar-AA1IDVV1?ocid=socialshare

The reality is that It's not going to register with most people because it's nowhere near the peaks from a few years ago and, honestly, 2.7% isn't all that terrible even though it's up a bit from last month.

 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, wood said:

Probably already posted, but nsiap ...

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This is fake. 

Maybe that is already obvious, but in this world we live in now, it needs to be stated. 

 

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Posted
5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

This is fake. 

Maybe that is already obvious, but in this world we live in now, it needs to be stated. 

 

Oh yeah, it's fake. But it's spectacular.

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I'm sorry, what? I was told inflation was a Biden problem. Where are the poo-flinging monkeys decrying inflation now? Seriously fuck everyone that voted for this ghoul
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/inflation-picks-up-again-in-june-rising-at-2-7-annual-rate/ar-AA1IDVV1?ocid=socialshare

Dotard has also been saying for months that they completely destroyed inflation and that it’s not a thing anymore.
Posted
34 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

The reality is that It's not going to register with most people because it's nowhere near the peaks from a few years ago and, honestly, 2.7% isn't all that terrible even though it's up a bit from last month.

 

Well, tariffs haven't really been in effect, either.

It's gon get worse.



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