The Simple Truths Silver Mine

[traininthedistance]

It says a lot about the NYPD that they can be the victims of an absolute tragedy and I end up having a worse opinion about them by the end of the night.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Supporting George W. Bush = HP

[Oldiesfreak1854]

"Winner-take-all" remains the least-messy way to assign electoral votes.

[SPC]

The Farentholds are, and always have been, a colorful bunch in South Texas society.

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Uh...how does the father being horrifically murdered and discovered make the family a colorful bunch?

Blake's dad was something of a Prodigal Son. He spent most of his time turning his inheritance into booze and cocaine and had plenty of notoriety in Corpus Christi. I realize getting the ol' cement shoes treatment may be par for the course up where you come from, but down here it's just not something that happens every day.

Uh, first of all, your bigotry is noted and isn't funny. Secondly, your assumption that I think it's common/no big deal is disgusting. Finally, your original post said nothing of the guy's history and even so, the fact that he was killed shouldn't be justified with your "Eh, he had it coming to him" attitude.

None of this is in defense of Farenthold or the people that put the "cement shoes" on him (which you undoubtedly think I am doing because I called your stereotype disgusting and because I supposedly think that act is common). It's just that you shouldn't paint his family as colorful simply because his father was murdered and give zero background on it.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Being pro-life doesn't have much to do with women's rights. I know that statement goes against today's popular politicking, and you can put it in the deluge if you want, but it's what I believe.

[Lief 🗽]

Being pro-life doesn't have much to do with women's rights. I know that statement goes against today's popular politicking, and you can put it in the deluge if you want, but it's what I believe.

Please stop spamming.

[Oakvale]

Context -

You are "that guy".

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Being pro-life doesn't have much to do with women's rights. I know that statement goes against today's popular politicking, and you can put it in the deluge if you want, but it's what I believe.

Please stop spamming.

For once, he made a valid contribution.

[Lief 🗽]

Being pro-life doesn't have much to do with women's rights. I know that statement goes against today's popular politicking, and you can put it in the deluge if you want, but it's what I believe.

Please stop spamming.

For once, he made a valid contribution.

Well, maybe, but he posted it in the Good Post thread too.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Being pro-life doesn't have much to do with women's rights. I know that statement goes against today's popular politicking, and you can put it in the deluge if you want, but it's what I believe.

Please stop spamming.

For once, he made a valid contribution.

Well, maybe, but he posted it in the Good Post thread too.

Yeah, it'd be spam there as it's too short to belong there.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Yes, because that's a ridiculously unnatural cross-segment of the population that can only really be attained if a church is going out of its way to not be universal. By the same token, churches that are ~90% over forty aren't as creepy, but are far more depressing.

Indeed. Churches that target specific demographic groups are not good. Not good at all.

Don't all churches target specific demographics to one extent or another?  Just because some more openly go after non-traditional, less normative groups doesn't really make them existentially different in any way, I'd say.

There is no "universal" church; there are only churches whose particular demographic slices are read as "normal" by dint of having more prestige or history or maybe being a little wider or whatever.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I don't get the knee-jerk dislike for these guys. They at least have a sense of humor and I admire them for there smartass/irreverent personalities. Also if there's a women's rights movement, why can't there be a men's rights one? Lastly, its not like there some fringe movement. Yes a small percentage of the population call them red pillites but many people are red pillites without even knowing it (South Park to me is a red pill show).

BTW, why does BRTD hate South Park? Is he a closeted white knight?

We men already have rights, you see.

[IceSpear]

Never thought I'd put a Snowstalker post here, but...

The problem with the "men's rights" movement is not that men still don't face injustices--they are more likely to be the victims of violence, more likely to commit suicide, and more likely to face longer prison time for committing the same crimes, face stigma in careers like nursing and elementary education, and are liable to face stigma and even mockery for being raped, especially if they were raped in prison.

The problem with the "men's rights" movement is that it has chosen to blame all of these injustices on feminism, and spends far more time attacking feminist causes than actually helping men.

[traininthedistance]

One of the 100+ Sufjan Stevens Christmas songs probably. Love that crazy son of a bitch.

This one's pretty rad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd9F-xDIbgg

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Silver's criticism of PPP is a useful corrective to the PPP love-fest here.

[TDAS04]

Context: 

The fact that they're blaming the Mayor for what a (probably) mentality ill man did is beyond stupid.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

The map really shows how difficult it is to project federal results to state elections. Too often I read analysis that looks at gubernatorial and other state races as if they should automatically reflect the political disposition of the state at the national level. State races have their own sets of drivers that may not always tie in to the national agendas of the parties. Those differences set the states apart from one another. You generally wouldn't need to see the state lines to know where they are from Miles' map.

[Simfan34]

^ So then ultimately what is the point of having any kind of denominations?  Why not attend a Catholic mass?

Can't speak for Bushie but the reason I'd-

Nobody asked you, and this isn't about you.  Your life and your beliefs aren't interesting in any way, so stop trying to inject it into a thread dedicated to one that is.

[MATTROSE94]

Clinton and Congressional Republicans were the ones who destroyed the economy by repealing Glass-Steagall.

[Simfan34]

Clinton and Congressional Republicans were the ones who destroyed the economy by repealing Glass-Steagall.

Oh? This is surprising.

[TNF]

If a Democrat spoke at a far-left Commie group...

Can we not pretend that's the same thing?

actual neo nazis are less tedious to talk to than the average breitbart poster

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

"My enemies must be just as racist as me" is a common line of thinking among racists.

When I was into the bad stuff, this was my exact line of thinking. It was my biggest justification, in fact.