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I don't recall this thread either. I probably didn't post in it when I saw it because, like Buddy said, this was just him trying to catch a band for the one millionth time just so he could go back to begging to be let back in. I'm still shocked that no one remembered his early days of being a raging misogynist as well. He kind of filtered it out of his posting years ago but still. Also... Like you remember past like a few days ago.

He forgets that shit like an hour after he says it. Him and Fuggs are both like that.

Just in case we forgot why Herr Bucket ist verboten...

There's always room for more... [Trips] Anyway, we ended up getting a new family member a few weeks ago. One of the ladies at our old vet passed away suddenly and her rescue cat couldn't stay at the hospice, so he came over here.

Happy Birthday, dude.

How dumb people pretend.

Am I reading this thread right? Is Nabs defending increased armed security at schools?

Why do you think he's always in front of the bathroom mirror?

I have a feeling she's metaphorically referring to her default status as a woman.

Last time I got Arbys, there was like 12” black hair in my sandwich.

Probably because they had no idea if the locals already had an operation underway. It can't be understated how colossally inept the local PD had to be to have a federal agency that wasn't specifically trained for these kind of situations move in over them.

I think what Doomy is getting at (without knowing he's getting at it) is that being a virgin is kind of integral to who he is, as a function of his self-perceived problems with connecting with women. Like how he doesn't want to date a woman until he has his own place or how he could never talk to the girl he had a crush on until he found out she was already seeing someone else, it's about him not being confident enough to read body language or to interpret innuendo and how he fears being exposed as clueless by that question.

I'll never joke about an NFL player showing advanced stages of mental decline like Herschel Walker, but it was pretty clear he's not competent well before this latest... whatever that is.

Can't be overstated how police forces throughout the country have swelled their ranks with singularly unqualified people, and, like you said, that's a good thing if you're trying to suppress people rather than help them.

You know... maybe the morale problem with the police is because they know they're a bunch of cowards.

That was probably directed at his own party as much as it was to the others. Again, it's not a question of what he can or can't do, as much as how far he's willing to go. I could be channeling my inner Nabs, but it's really time that team blue starts treating this like a blood sport. Start pushing through draconian laws directed at firearm manufacturers regardless of whether or not they have the legal jurisdiction to do so, and, in particular, do it in a way that allows a state to attack a national enterprise. Newsome had a good idea when he came up with a law that would allow murder victims families to sue a gun manufacturer, in the vein of Abbot's absurd abortion rule.

This thread was not the pay off I was hoping for. As far as tasteless troll bait, there is so much more this could have been.

What does it mean to be desensitized?

I'll allow it.

Not surprised enough, but there are far more conservative western states then one would think.

A lot of those states are already fairly liberal though. I think what we're all dancing around is the choice to go winner-take-all or to be principled. It's no secret that Republicans as a whole are unprincipled and generally craven, and for the most part the Democrats lose out because they're note willing to play. Voting progressive doesn't change that, and ultimately part of the reason Pelosi, Schumer and the Democrats push progressives to the side is because of the belief that saymaintain a relatively malleable center makes it easier to get an Democratic agenda through Congress not for any explicit disdain for progressive causes. But, what that really says is that we as progressive voters don't seem particularly interested reason the same aggressive and craven approach to politics. Say what you want about RAC_G, but her batshit craziness is more in line with current politics than even what most progressives propose for the simple fact she frames it as a true us versus eeveryone else at the voter level rather than a generic us versus "unreasonable" or "bigotted" or whatever socially undesirable people are hiding in plain sight. This is the real dilemma for modern progressives and it poses a rather unpalatable answer to the question of "what do we need to do to change the system?".

Perhaps the goal all along was to outlaw abortion so there are enough replacements when the mass school shootings, wildfire apocalypses, cat 5 hurricane trainss, and maskless pandemic political conventions inevitably cull the great white herd.

One spell is all you need,

You do have a thing for... strong... women.