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lgbtqwtfbbq 4 points ago +4 / -0

Also why the "centrist 'liberals'" are powerless to stop them. the only difference between the two is the latter doesn't see themselves as having as much a "divine right to rule" (notable exceptions like enforcing de-segregation at gunpoint aside). But they ultimately want the same things.

So when the "centrist" tells them "hey shouldn't we debate this before it gets imposed on everyone?" the answer is one of genuine bafflement. "Why shouldn't we? 'We might be wrong'? What kind of answer is that? Do you really believe that? What is gained by 'debating' something so obviously correct?"

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lgbtqwtfbbq 4 points ago +4 / -0

Fun (somewhat related to one of the "bad driver" anecdotes) story:

About 10 years ago I get sent to Michigan in December for work and get paired up with this local field rep (who I'd never met but ended up liking quite a bit). We're in the car driving to the customer site in the cold and snow, and me being the native temperate West-Coaster asked the simple question "what do you guys do for 6 months when it's cold and snowy and you can't really do much outside".

He answers "well we do things like this", hits the parking brake on the car and does a J-turn in the middle of the road. I think it's hilarious but also give him a kinda "what the hell are you doing" look just because it was so unexpected. He half-apologizes, I tell him he doesn't need to, and we just kinda continue on our way.

Good times.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 20 points ago +20 / -0

There was a very particular type of Boomer Evangelical I grew up around that kinda did.

I remember my seventh grade English teacher (who wasn't Jewish or related to anyone Jewish) one time say something like "even though the Jews ultimately rejected Christ I believe they hold a special place in His heart, so a Messianic Jew must be just a cut above a non-Jewish Christian."

Even my Boomer neighbor was really hyped about doing this pilgrimage to Jerusalem with her church, and she's just kinda a run-of-the-mill mega-church congregant.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 6 points ago +6 / -0

Red areas also tend to not understand that the left doesn't act in good faith, so they get caught unawares by the left's maneuverings.

Eg. marijuana. A red state might look at that from an economic and jobs standpoint without understanding that there are certain undesirables who will not move to a place where pot is illegal, and now that you've legalized it you will attract those sorts of people.

If you ask your lefty friends "what is the one state you would never move to under any circumstances?" they will always have an answer. May be Texas or Alabama or someplace like that, but it's always someplace they perceive as having "backwards" laws. Strive to make where you live the answer to that question.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 4 points ago +4 / -0

The basic premise behind the Chinatown movie is still relevant 50 years later.

One day when someone writes the book on "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire" there will be a whole section dedicated to "if you ever decide to settle the desert, your number one priority is commanding the political will to maintain and expand your waterworks."

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lgbtqwtfbbq 12 points ago +12 / -0

The average person watching this on TV in 1953 and thinking "oh that's interesting (but if my own son does this I'll disown him)" couldn't possibly understand their buddy Joe at work now wearing dresses and going by "Joan" (while still looking and acting very much like their buddy Joe did), and if you call him "Joe" one too many times you're fired.

TBH I think I would have found that too ridiculous a premise to be good sketch comedy even in 2010, but now it's HR policy at big companies.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 1 point ago +1 / -0

Because when you're 14 and horny and form a para-social relationship with some "hot" twitch streamer who supposedly shares your interests in gaming, you'll look her up online and "discover" that she also does porn.

So when you're a bit older you can expand on the para-social relationship by giving her money to see her naked as well.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 7 points ago +7 / -0

There was a documentary that came out about it around when that article was written that's pretty good. IIRC the state fire department was a few days away from containing the fire shortly after it started, but they had to stop because their funding ran out.

I visited there in 2017. They'd pretty much torn everything down by then. I watched the documentary in the hotel after I'd spent the afternoon there, trying to match photos with locations in the documentary (which had only been made a few years before I went there), and it was tricky. Decay sets in quickly once everyone leaves a place.

The Salton Sea area in Southern California is also an interesting spot. In the 50s-60s it was this big tourist destination, and a bunch of celebrities owned houses around there. My mom had been there in its heyday and was telling me about some parade she went to there. Now it's all desert rat hippies, tweakers, and sex offenders.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 3 points ago +3 / -0

Any recent Mr. Beast video. Watching one must be what having ADHD feels like.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 10 points ago +10 / -0

At least fucking strangers for money provides tangible value to people.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 22 points ago +23 / -1

Looks like a bunch of temporarily embarrassed leftists, just like with GG1

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lgbtqwtfbbq 25 points ago +25 / -0

A friend got a DUI once, and he described it as "if you get a lawyer the DA will make sure you pay your lawyer $10k. If you don't get a lawyer the fines and everything will end up being about $10k. Regardless of what you do, it will cost you $10k".

Same idea.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 2 points ago +2 / -0

Honestly my preference would just be to have some pork shoulder or brisket that's been cooked in the can in its own juices, or some chili; but it's something of a miracle that they can figure out how to produce a shelf-stable pizza.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 3 points ago +3 / -0

Up in my neck of the woods we've had the first nice weather in months, so I've been enjoying drinking Guinness on the porch while smoking a corned beef.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 1 point ago +1 / -0

Where I am in WA they made open carry a "right" in a lot of places because too many property owners where banning the clean-cut men out with their wives and kids from carrying. But that also comes with the "youths" also having the "right" to open-carry.

I like the idea of clean-cut men having the inalienable right to carry into a store since if the store bans it they don't have the reciprocal obligation to ensure the safety of their customers, but I also don't want gangbangers to have that inalienable right.

I think I'm just not an egalitarian: I think one's rights to a certain extent should be in proportion to one's obligations and contributions to society. And I don't like the idea that decent people are forbidden from doing a thing because to allow it means the dregs of society must also be allowed to do it.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 8 points ago +8 / -0

I dunno, I've watched a lot of Steve1989 videos, and the US MREs are usually among the better ones in the world. Especially considering our military actually does stuff (the Western Euros sometimes will have better rations, but their militaries don't really do anything real aside from maybe play for time until they can convince the US to send in troops)

My (ex military) parents have bought me a few, and I would say the ones I've had are probably better than you would get buying an equivalent shelf-stable meal at a grocery store.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 11 points ago +11 / -0

I think one of the only times Steve1989 got seriously ill from eating an MRE was from eating an unexpired Chinese MRE. And this is a guy who's eaten Civil War hardtack, WWI and WWII rations, etc...

Some of the meat in the entre was green, IIRC...

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lgbtqwtfbbq 9 points ago +9 / -0

I think people should be able to open a coffee stand or a bar without having to study/memorize thousands of pages of regulations and get a bunch of licenses and permits. But if you make your customers sick you should be punished quite severely for it, more so if you're making your customers sick out of negligence or are trying to cover up the fact you're doing it.

I also think bums should be "out of sight; out of mind" but also think that if a man in a suit and tie wants to drink a beer while on his way back from work that should be OK provided he isn't causing trouble.

Similarly, "youths" wearing gang colors and flashing gang signs shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun into a store, but a clean-cut man with a his wife and children ought to.

I don't know what that makes me politically.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 20 points ago +20 / -0

Gary wasn't confident that the Law and the State would do this on his behalf. And he was probably right. Certainly the perpetrator's expression isn't that of someone expecting a swift trial and summary execution after an inevitable "guilty" verdict.

For all those thinking the rot set in sometime around 2014, perhaps it set it in a great deal earlier...

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lgbtqwtfbbq 2 points ago +2 / -0

I only know of this movie because John Travolta's character references it in the first scene of Swordfish. Never seen it.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 12 points ago +12 / -0

I just think he's kinda a slimy guy.

Read his old NeverTrump articles from 2016. He was "concerned" about Trump's "misogyny" and "sexism" and "racism" and all those "sensitive male" views that went along with how he looked in that photo. Now he looks like a lumberjack and acts in the exact "misogynistic" and "sexist" manner he used to lambast Trump for.

Alex Jones OTOH...love him or hate him but you can watch his videos from 20+ years ago, and he hasn't really changed much aside from getting older.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 24 points ago +24 / -0

Matt Walsh isn't even 40. He grew up in the Golden Age of video games, so it is highly unlikely he doesn't understand them even if he doesn't (or didn't) play them. I'm older than Matt Walsh, and I played a shitload of video games when I was a kid. Even if I don't like the games they make today, I understand why they appeal to people/kids.

I find it hard to believe that someone who looked like this in 2016 has never played video games. More likely, he's playing a part for his Boomer audience who watched their kids play video games and were kinda confused why they spent so much time playing them instead of playing outside.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 3 points ago +3 / -0

I guess Benji hasn't gotten around to translating his "there's an intrinsic dignity to working on a roofing crew until the day you drop dead of a heart attack" speech to Hebrew.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 21 points ago +21 / -0

I know I like to be lectured by someone younger than me who makes a living ranting about politics on camera.

Dude looked like a Portland hipster back in 2016 and now wants people to think he's a lumberjack. I'm not buying it.

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lgbtqwtfbbq 19 points ago +19 / -0

I wonder what Israel's retirement age is. Do they have Social Security?

Maybe we should demand any recipient of foreign aid has the same retirement/Social Security policy as we have.

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