Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
There's a few publications indicating that those drugs may have anti-tumor properties. Nowhere close to human trials or anything statistically relevant, just observations of biochemical properties, legitimate as far as they go. So, some knucklehead cited those on X or YouTube or Gash or Lies Social or wherever conspiracy nuts gather and we're off to the races.
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Trump’s America
I don't care what you do or don't do. What I wrote was a warning/prediction. Here in the aftermath of Trump, I think you're (the royal you) going to hear a lot of "Common Good" political theory. Their analyses of some of the nation's problems are very cogent and some of their solutions are also cogent or at least couched in seductive language free from blatant racism and bigotry. To quote Obama on Patrick Deneen, one of the saner proponents of Common Good: It's going to be presented as a "third way," neither strictly conservative nor strictly liberal, either in doctrine or practice, with a lot of things the current batch of Nazis would call blatant socialism. I still think it's bad shit that at its core involves a shit ton of moralism. What was cited was a thinly veiled bigoted shit. But you could see they were trying to use the "Common Good" rubric.
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Trump’s America
Churches are just an example. There are good churches and bad. Scouts too. Camp Fire Girls, the Elks, VFW, fuck I don' t know. No one joins anything anymore. Even ostensibly secular volunteering tends to self-select political affinity to some degree .
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Trump’s America
I think you missed the "abandoned to the baddies" part. It happens a lot on this board, but you're particularly bad about reading what you think someone said rather than what they actually said. And it is particularly bad when it comes to me. No one joins anything anymore. What used to be community institutions have fallen by the wayside for the most part, in some cases for very good reasons, in others maybe not so much. And nothing has taken their place. And without those community institutions, there's not community knowledge and trust, which leads to parents helicoptering their kids. And, since you mentioned Methodists, American Methodists voted by majority to "endorse" gay clergy and gay marriage. But it's a worldwide organization, and African members voted against it, causing the schism. That was because "right minded" American Methodists didn't abandon the UMC, but worked to make it progress instead of leaving it to fundagelicals. Scouts may have been taken off the board more by the abuse scandals than politics, but now that they're past the legal part at least, they're making a solid effort at being inclusive. Driving Mormons off in droves. But it may be too little too late.
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Texas -- a failed state
Man, I went to HP and had a number of friends, peers at St. Marks. A kid dropped off by a chauffeur would have been abused relentlessly at both places. Back then at least. I suppose it's fairly ordinary these days for a nanny to drop off kids in a family car, but he's not of that generation.
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Trump’s America
Points up kind of a fucked-up thing. Those institutions came under fire as "too white, too male, too Christian" or whatever. And those criticisms were valid as far as they go. But as Zach points out, those institutions were important in instilling good values in young people. And a sense of community. Instead of being "fixed," those institutions were essentially abandoned to the baddies. Although, I think BSA/GSA is making a sincere effort to be inclusive. And video games, social media, and TPUSA chapters have taken their place.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
Riding around like maniacs on motorized vehicles isn't exactly a high level of physical activity. It's also an order of magnitude more dangerous than, say, a bike you pedal, or even a skateboard you push.
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Trump’s America
I want the oil companies to drill baby drill so the price of oil will go down!
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Whatcha reading?
Honestly figured he was done with the Lincoln Lawyer, Bosch too except as he appears in the Ballard novels. I may need to check booksinorder or something to figure out what I've missed.
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The Trump Economy
I suppose even before Trump there was a bit of an assumption that a trade agreement might last only as long as the current administration. But there was still some uncertainty on that.
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The Trump Economy
I'm a little surprised that the trade imbalance worsened, fairly dramatically, in short order. I mean, you knew it would happen. Figured it would take trading partners a little longer to shift supplies. So, by Trump's bullshit metric, we're still getting ripped off, and worse now.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Yeah, no doubt. Because of that I was skeptical of the whole story. But it apparently did happen.
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Can we talk about Zuckerberg?
He really is. Whether it's money or power, he's monomaniacally in pursuit of pageviews and signups, to the exclusion of anything else. Sick fuck.
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Trump’s America
But it was sTaGeD! Quite shocked feds brought a charge. Not sure how they could have avoided it here, but still.
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Trump’s America
I think that's a different account from the parody one. And also has some actual factual assertions to rebut, so perhaps a little more srs than the other one.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
It's real. A snow leopard showed up in a Chinese ski resort, which is a rare occurrence because like most cats they are reclusive. Ol gal snaps a selfie and gets her face eaten. I'm Team Snow Leopard, but in this particular case, the cat pretty much came to the people. Nothing in any of the reporting indicated that they attempted to catch or euthnanize the leopard, which is what happens here all too often.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
I think one of the problems is that a lot of these programs are funded by the feds, but operated and administered by a hodge podge of state and private entities. And the defrauding goes on at the state/private level and particularly at the state/private interface. See, eg Feeding Our Future. So, even though state administration is "more democratic" and "closer to the people," as often as not, state government is less competent than federal government.
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Trump’s America
Yeah this is an example of "common good" political theory. It can be made to sound pretty rational and sensible in a lot of contexts. But in others it's shit like this. "Kids and procreation are more important to society than the freedom of individuals to marry outside of hetero relationships." As if increasing or decreasing the number of non-hetero, or even hetero, marriages is going to increase the birth rate.
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Winter Weather 2026 - I Can Haz Cold Front?
I assume you're supposed to have a DL to operate these on a roadway. I also imagine that a fair number of parents let their satanic spawn run wild on them without.