Rolling down rodeo was such an amazing riff, I used to love it before they went back and changed the lyrics.

Are you kidding me? I get that every time something comes up.

There's racism everywhere, the south is actually less racist because there's more segregation in the north, and I don't know what I'm talking about even though I lived in the south and I'm not white.

They get really, really angry about it.

Why did Rage Against the Machine have to get so political? Why couldn't they just stick to their music?

Yeah, I know when I'm just hanging out and meet a bunch of nazis talking about how jews and blacks need to be exterminated, I feel welcomed and understood.

They were racist before, they're comfortable because they finally get to take off their masks, or hoods in this case.

They literally ran out of ideas, like, 20 years ago?

They've just been trying to say random-ass shit to justify their marketing budget since then.

Windows basically stopped around 7 and mostly went backwards, and when is the last time you thought about the version of office you use? Do you even use office, or can you get by with google docs?

OneDrive is by far more of a pain in the ass than anything else, nobody ever WANTS to use it, they mostly get hijacked by it early on and try to ignore it like a masturbating hobo on a subway car.

NO!

But I heard the South was a paradise, and everyone online said they faced FAR less racism than in the north! A veritable rainbow of love and harmony!

Could it possibly be that I was misinformed? Unthinkable.

We used to think the world was flat.

We still do, but we used to too.

This isn't a now thing, what you don't understand is that texas never belonged to you, they just let you work their ranches and oil fields.

It's their state and always has been.

So I'm a McCain conservative, I love kinzinger, but mostly I hate Trump and consider him the antithesis to everything I care for.

Personally, this isn't about ideology, he's just trash, but that's me.

Eh. I’m voting for Trump

I mean.... really?

It's not a question of political views, I was a midwestern conservative growing up, back before the dixiecrats hijacked the party and drove it into a ditch,

Vote libertarian until they finally kick the trash out, sending a message matters more than anything else.

Please stop using, like all those terms.

Texas does believe in their Christian Nationalist Imperialism where all oil on the planet was given to them by God and Brown people should understand that. This should make sense because they were less than a backwater till they realized their black gold finally made them as rich and powerful as they always should have been, and people finally had to accept that God chose them specifically.

But that's mostly it, and Texans are just partiuclarly insane, they literally fought 2 wars of independence because their parent country wanted to tone down slavery, if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have had any of the middle eastern bullshit over the last, basically century. As oil dies down they can go back to being a worthless shithole desert and we can all ignore them again like we should.

Grew up there, I think I would have gotten over it if the fuckers didn't try to follow me and destroy the rest of the country.

And if you try to explain why they're so incredibly stupid, for instance, because their diet doesn't offer enough Niacin (Pellagra), or because they have a catastrophic hookworm infestation that causes developmental damage, they try to murder your scientists for 'insulting muh southern heritage!', instead of just adding supplements to their flour and wearing slippers outside.

I don't think that's the game being played now, the new meta is forcing your enemy to be so busy tearing themselves apart that you are free to act anywhere in the world.

If Russia wins in Ukraine, then the Sino-Russian axis can start taking a more active stance in the middle-east, and Israel has to deal with Iran without a blank cheque from the US, and even Saudi Arabia has to make compromises.

It's in all their interests that the US fall to utter chaos, and Trump is the Lord of Chaos incarnate.

The argument against that is that Iran actually had a chance under Obama to rejoin parts of the global order, and was open to that.

I think one mistake we all make in geopolitics is to see countries as monolithic, I suspect Iran has political factions that want to bury the hatchet, and factions violently opposed to the same, much like every country has different opinions among themselves.

... Why?

I get that Trump was a worse person to deal with, but they were probably still better off with him, he was so erratic the rest of the world edged away from us.

Because China executes at a rate 100x the US, that we know of, believed to be 1000x.

No person, no prisoner. --Stalin

Also, Tibet and Xinjiang.

2 things:

1. It's more the determinacy, a GC randomly fires up and your systems stops for some long amount of time. There are pauseless GCs but that's a different nightmare.

2. The kernel has things similar to GCs. They're used for more specialized tasks, and some (like rcu) are absolute nightmares that have take decades to get working.

Trump's coin dropped already.

It's supposed to be usss, ss is a bit dickish, even with his political alignment.

That's not fair, he didn't run away from the gunman!

Maybe that's just Texas.

Same.

I used the pine book pro for a bit, it was completely viable as a wifi terminal.

But the pinephone is still just more of a cute toy

It doesn't predate the nsa, but the Cia contracted out the work through a Canadian firm iirc.

The nsa doesn't have the mandate for clandestine activities, only reconnaissance.

No, they have many other plans, mostly to try to create legal arguments at the last minute for why the election should happen but was illegitimate.

Basically 2020 on steroids because they have the money for lawyers already.

But also, there's hope this is trumps last hurrah, and after this the party will magically go back to only caring about tax cuts and gun rights, like this was all a bad dream.

I think you massively underestimate how hard paleoconservatives are trying to delusionally rationalize their way out of this so they can both get the votes of the racist, violent dixiecrats, while always pretending they aren't actually a part of the party.

They just want to get back to that again.

Because boomers are on Medicare, and they believe in their principles that socialized medicine via the government is absolute evil!!!

They're not obscenely high, they're obscenely high for our lifetimes, I grew up in the 80s and these are adorable.

But I actually agree with you, our economy has a lot of really f-d up things because we lived on free money so long, we needed to wean slower because otherwise really, REALLY bad things were going to happen (SVB was the tip of the iceberg).

It won't become a civil war.

But what it absolutely will become is a bargaining chip: 'yes we lost but give us this or we provoke actual violence', etc, ad nauseum.

We'll need 'demonstrations' for this to reach maximum effectiveness, so they'll arrange them.

14% admit it.

Closer to 40%, probably more.

The south started the Civil War because they lost an election, they're not that far different now.

Tl;Dr you're declaring war on Lebanon.

Then just admit it, this bs dance is childish.

You're either at war with them or the Lebanese are innocent bystanders where you have to minimize collateral damage, can't have it both ways.

that can’t be employed at scale as readily

Well there's your problem right there:

You're concerned we can't scale up arbitrary killings? Would you prefer something on a larger, more industrial scale, perhaps with large, gas-fueled ovens?

Killing should be hard, and it should be personal, not vaguely waving a hand in a general direction. You should know their name and hopefully have filled out a few forms beforehand.

If you want to kill somebody, when you aren't at war with their entire country, then BE SPECIFIC.

Drone strikes that take out a known Al-Queda leader: ✅

Drone strike that takes out a random Afghan wedding: ❌

The problem with the 2nd amendment isn't that it wasn't updated, it's that it was.

The 14th amendment incorporated the other amendments such that they did not only restrict the power of the federal government upon the states and citizens, as the founders intended, but also restricted the states (so you couldn't have southern states being evil to their citizens).

But the 2nd amendment was incorporated radically under Heller, when it should have been incorporated in a more moderate way, such that regulations were possible, within reason, not the wild-west that Heller imposed.

The 13th should have been reinterpreted by the courts such that many of our current forms of incarcerated service were considered beyond the line and became de facto slavery, particularly when imposed by southern states as they were.

Honestly the fundamental problem with post-bellum American jurisprudence was giving southern states any benefit of the doubt of being remotely human when they repeatedly violated every such standard.

Ok, on the one hand, yes, blowing up Hamas is funny.

OTOH, this is not cool, bombing random people is a problem.

The US has this wonderful system called the Hellfire R-9X which is basically a flying slap-chop that ginzus a single target with 9 pop-out blades. Can we hand a couple over to the IDF and Mossad so they stop randomly blowing up parts of Lebanon?

It's not killing Hamas that's the issue, it's the collateral.

Exponential funeral growth.

Again, great.

First, they have to start following the amendment as written, and we can pass an amendment to outlaw involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes.

But that's 1 clause from a ton of amendments they refuse to follow, in fact Mississippi STILL REFUSES to retify the 24th amendment, and has voted to reject it outright.

Until they sort their shit out, no representative for the fuckers.

Great!

Let's update that as well!

And again, the south can get representation back as soon as they start following the constitution.

We need to take away their congressional representation until they finally start following the post-civil war amendments.

150 years is enough.

I lived there.

I really wonder whether it would open more peoples' eyes, or get her threats of violence.

I could see a lot of both coming :(

That is an epic dick fucking move.

Fire them all, publish their names, and Linda Wilson needs to spend some time in a cage.

God, imagine if Dolly did endorse her.

Listen, China is going to start a war, their overall situation basically demands it, and we'll win.

But if they decide not to, that's fine too.

I'm not bloodthirsty, I'm just not remotely afraid of it, countries like Russia and China need to learn: "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'."

And BTW, they're never, ever, EVER getting Taiwan back.