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1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

AwardsWatch - 'Say Anything' at 35: How a Boy, a Boombox and a Dream Turned  Into a Timeless Classic [Retrospective]

The sweet sounds of the UCMJ text accompanied by the background music of in your eyes. Arms will be laid down.

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39 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

There's a company that specializes in riot bricks. Sometimes you see their ads on YouTube.

This is the brick that could knock building brick manufacturers totally out of the hurled projectile market! They don't want you to see this video, but keep watching if you're serious about maiming and maybe even killing someone in riot!

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Introducing, RIOTBRICK!

Nice throwing size for the hand! Hollow center for more range!

Delivered by the pallet-load wherever you're wanting to bring down or raise a republic!

 

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Posted
49 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I won't die on this hill for this shitwad, but it doesn't take much imagination to find avenues for ridicule without pointing to someone's physical appearance or disability.

I'm not sure where the bar is for deciding: Oh, now I can make fun of paralysis, blindness, skin tone, etc.

Those remarks address a class of people. Saying that you wish Abbott would roll through an orchard of giant trees about to fall is very specific. I share that wish.

I hate the overextension of sensitive language in the name of able-ism (clearly an invention of graduate school), but some shit justn't isn't proper.

I'd probably agree with you 10 years ago but the civility war has been lost and its bullshit to expect one side to just sit back and take it without giving it back. Also, I don't think "Gov. Hotwheels" is an insult to disabled people in general, just that particular piece of shit. Even still, I don't do it in mixed or professional company, just here among you assholes and with my likeminded drinking buddies.

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34 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Damn that guy looks a lot like Scottie Scheffler.

I have a pretty decent idea where Scottie's politics fall and I don't think they'd really line up with the majority of this board.

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5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

I have a pretty decent idea where Scottie's politics fall and I don't think they'd really line up with the majority of this board.

His views on law enforcement overreach might align with ours.....

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Posted
5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

I have a pretty decent idea where Scottie's politics fall and I don't think they'd really line up with the majority of this board.

What does that have to do with a guy that resembles him?

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I hate these assholes as much as y'all, but I really wish we'd lay off calling Abbott "Hot Wheels". He sucks because he's a bootlicking Trump syncophant, not because he's disabled.
Is okay to say something along the lines of...

I don't know what's more useless, his integrity or his legs?
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Posted
2 minutes ago, Pancho said:

More waste of taxpayer money. I thought you radical republicans were against this waste?

 

waste in the military and security services = good. see, e.g., the entire B-1 program.

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Posted
3 hours ago, bolverk said:

I've had that stupid motherfucking conspiracist, Zeus, on ignore for a while now but saw some of his insanity yesterday because he was being quoted. This board has woken up to a lot of the misinformation that gets spread around and has gotten better at identifying it, but that bullshit still gets floated around a good bit.

That said, I realize that a lot of us have also taken the bait and reposted shit a time or two, including myself. But we also have posters, like Zeus, who are habitually guilty of it, whether they're idiotic rubes or deliberate shit smearers. Either way, I think it's about time that there be some retribution for pieces of shit who insist on posting garbage lies over and over again.

This NYTimes article mentions at least a couple of the LIES that Zeus posted yesterday. This shit is dangerous, destabilizing, and has gone on far too long. Fuckheads like Zeus deserve no mercy and need to get the boot, because consistently reposting lies is not a legitimate form of political discourse on discussion board full of college-educated adults who happen also to be football fans. 

 

Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests
Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation.

Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions.

The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats.

They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part.

There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers and setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the immigration raids.

The confrontation escalated on Monday as new protests occurred and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced — on X — that he was mobilizing 700 Marines from a base near Los Angeles to guard federal buildings. They are expected to join 2,000 members of the California National Guard whom Mr. Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who normally has command of the troops.

The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread — some purporting to show Marines and the military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of Los Angeles of their civil rights. It features a climatic dogfight over the city’s downtown.

Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, said conservatives online were “building up the riots in a performative way” to help bolster Mr. Trump’s claims that Los Angeles had been taken over by “violent, insurrectionist mobs.”

Dr. Linvill said the posts were also “a bit self-fulfilling.” “As they direct attention to it,” he said, “more protesters will show up.”

James Woods, the actor who has become known for spreading conspiracy theories, used his account on X to rail against the state’s elected officials, especially Mr. Newsom, a Democrat. He also reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to former President Barack Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020.

An innocuous photograph of a pallet of bricks, actually posted on the website of a building materials wholesaler in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by nonprofit organizations supported by George Soros, the financier who, to the feverishly conspiratorial right, has become a mastermind of global disorder.

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“It’s Civil War!!” an account on X wrote on Saturday, claiming that the bricks had been placed near the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for “Democrat militants.”

X posted a Community Note pointing out that the photograph had nothing to do with the protests, but it still was seen more than 800,000 times. It was also widely reposted, including by several seemingly inauthentic accounts in Chinese.

The online trope dates at least to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. It reappeared in 2022 after a conspiratorial post by Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who suggested that bricks for a paving project near Capitol Hill were intended for violent protests after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

“These days, it feels like every time there’s a protest, the old clickbaity ‘pallets of bricks’ hoax shows up right on cue,” the Social Media Lab, a research center at the Toronto Metropolitan University, wrote on Bluesky. “You know the one, photos or videos of bricks supposedly left out to encourage rioting. It’s catnip for right-wing agitators and grifters.”

It also fits into the narrative that protests against government policies are somehow inauthentic. On his own platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump also suggested that the protesters were “Paid Insurrectionists!”

Numerous posts echoed unsubstantiated claims that the protests were the work of Mr. Soros as well as local nongovernment organizations or Democratic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Some posts disparaging the protests were shared by accounts with deceptive handles that closely resembled those of official government sources or news organizations.

Mike Benz, a conspiracy-minded influencer on X who last year claimed that the Pentagon used the pop star Taylor Swift as part of a psychological operation to undercut Mr. Trump, advanced an outlandish theory that the mayor had links to the Central Intelligence Agency and had helped start riots in the city where she lives.

He based that simply on Ms. Bass’s role as a board member for the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally mandated organization formed during the Reagan administration to promote democratic governance around the world.

Not surprisingly, perhaps, the theme was echoed by accounts across social media linked to Russia, which often amplifies content that discredits the United States. The Kremlin and its supporters have long accused Mr. Soros or the United States government of covertly sponsoring “color revolutions” to overthrow governments — from the Arab Spring countries swept up by mass street protests in 2011 to Ukraine.

“It is nationwide conspiracy of liberals against not only Trump but against American people in general,” Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, wrote on X on Sunday.

Disinformation in situations like these spreads so quickly and widely that efforts to verify facts cannot keep up, said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an advocacy organization that studies the intersection of media, technology and the law. She described it as part of “a much longer effort to delegitimize peaceful resistance movements.”

“Information warfare is always a symptom of conflict, stoked often by those in power to fuel their own illiberal goals,” she said. “It confuses audiences, scares people who might otherwise have empathy for the cause and divides us when we need solidarity most.”

Adding that one of the Craigslist postings that went viral for "hiring protestors" was literally part of a spinoff of a podcast I listened to where guys do prank calls. They made the Craigslist posting a day before all this shit popped off. They explain it at 9:00
 

 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

Nice to know we've progressed as a society.

Well, apparently not.

Their open desire to "Make America Full Jim Crow/Juan Crow Again" is out there in broad daylight.  They ain't hiding shit, and there are posters on this site who cheer it.  

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Posted
1 hour ago, C-Man said:

I have a pretty decent idea where Scottie's politics fall and I don't think they'd really line up with the majority of this board.

Yep.

Posted
1 hour ago, C-Man said:

I have a pretty decent idea where Scottie's politics fall and I don't think they'd really line up with the majority of this board.

Religious, rich, white Texan who let a shitty cop slide under the "misunderstanding" umbrella, rather than rightfully take him--and, by extension, all jack boot cops--to the woodshed? 

No way!

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Posted
1 hour ago, tchookem said:

Yeah, formatting got fucked up and I couldn't edit it.

I blame Zeus's bootlicking.

I’m somewhere between “dead cops” and “boot licking” 

 

 

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19 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

Bingo

I’m ready to watch it all burn down and hopefully make it to see what becomes of the ashes

 

19 hours ago, 'stache said:

Lefties are limp wristed soy boy beta cucks but also violent mobs of insurrectionists that can only be subdued by the U.S. Marines. 

This country isn't worth saving, it just isn't, let it die already.


I agree, abolish the federal government and Texas secede and rule itself. 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Zeus said:

I agree, abolish the federal government and Texas secede and rule itself. 

Traitor. Not an American. Would give Hitler a sieg heil and probably a little kiss on the cheek. Pussy. 

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4 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Traitor. Not an American. Would give Hitler a sieg heil and probably a little kiss on the cheek. Pussy. 

He should go back to wherever he came from. He’s not an American.

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Posted
4 hours ago, austingirl said:

I hate these assholes as much as y'all, but I really wish we'd lay off calling Abbott "Hot Wheels". He sucks because he's a bootlicking Trump syncophant, not because he's disabled.

fuck that ice cube GIF
Sitler deserves everything coming to him and more.

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18 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Traitor. Not an American. Would give Hitler a sieg heil and probably a little kiss on the cheek. Pussy. 

Well, the last time Zeus showed up in the CR was to defend Elon's Nazi salute. Read into that what you will.

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Posted
9 minutes ago, tchookem said:
28 minutes ago, Zeus said:

I agree, abolish the federal government and Texas secede and rule itself. 

Fuck you, bootlicker.

Cry harder boomer

 

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Posted
25 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Traitor. Not an American. Would give Hitler a sieg heil and probably a little kiss on the cheek. Pussy. 

lol


 

20 minutes ago, bolverk said:

He should go back to wherever he came from. He’s not an American.


Texan before American

Werent you supposed to move to Canada and renounce your citizenship?

 

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Posted (edited)
4 minutes ago, Pancho said:

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Man, it's super embarrassing as a country that they don't even have to give a modicum of effort anymore to try to hide that they're all spun up by the same Russian propagandists.

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52 minutes ago, Zeus said:

I’m somewhere between “dead cops” and “boot licking” 

 

 

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I agree, abolish the federal government and Texas secede and rule itself. 

I'm good with that, I said it already, this country is beyond saving. The senate and electoral college guarantee that the rural racist cunts are gonna stay in charge long term so fuck it, just blow it up already. I just hope there's some time to ensure I can move out west or to my wife's family in the northeast. I'm not sticking around for the right wing theocracy that will become the governing body of Texoma. 

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53 minutes ago, Zeus said:

I agree, abolish the federal government and Texas secede and rule itself. 

If you truly believe this is a real option, 

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Posted
4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Fuck that shit.  Shoulda locked their doors to them, and added hot sauce to the water.

Fascist jackboots must be shamed, shunned, and ruined.  All of them.

The video does a fine job of shaming. And I hope that restaurant remains safe.

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10 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

If you truly believe this is a real option, 

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Texas doesn't need to secede, their allies now run the country. I on the other hand am ready to move west to join a Cali militia to separate from the new evangelical empire.

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