OT: Hrricanes Lounge XLVII: The return to obeying Rhules

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Statists at their finest

Taking the clip at face value (I’m not a tax lawyer and wouldn’t know the accuracy of her statements) NC state law doesn’t permit a waiver for natural disasters. The county has no authority to change that law or make exceptions to it.

Republicans hold heavy majority in both houses of Congress, so it’s as simple as watching whether they think this situation is the right way to run things
 
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Taking the clip at face value (I’m not a tax lawyer and wouldn’t know the accuracy of her statements) NC state law doesn’t permit a waiver for natural disasters. The county has no authority to change that law or make exceptions to it.

Republicans hold heavy majority in both houses of Congress, so it’s as simple as watching whether they think this situation is the right way to run things
Two wings of the same bird.

Libertarians would however do the right thing. We don't get to play in their yard though so....
 

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I was finally able to actually get a VPN to work properly without ads and malware warnings. Such that I could blissfully use the BBC iPlayer and watch the new seasons of some of my favorite programs without the usual 6-12 month wait for them to come across the pond. Just in time for the arrival of the polar vortex!

In these ever increasing uncertain times, sometimes it's the little things.
What's good on the BBC these days?
 

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Lol I can't stop laughing about this.

So if any of you had a Rax fast food place around their best sandwich was a bacon beef and cheddar. So back than BBC at least around here didn't mean that, and that's how we always order them.

So long after the last one around here closes a the owners son comes to work with me. I'm 50 he's in his early 30s. We started talking about Rax and how awkward it would be to order it now. We all go out to lunch. We all go out to lunch one day and we start joking about putting a BBC in our mouths and his mom not liking the fact that she doesn't understand what's so funny makes him explain to her why us talking about BBC at lunch is funny
 
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Behold the paragon of conservative values.
 

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Also that Greenland/Canada/Panama take is insane.

It’s not insane if you understand how his mind works. He’s literally wrote a book about this strategy (well, a book has been written about him using this strategy. I doubt he actually wrote it.)

Hes going to ask for the most insane thing he can think of, simply to get people talking about it. And he’s going to appear to stick to those negotiations, because he wants his opponent in the negotiations to think he’s serious.

And since you can’t really negotiate with a crazy person, the other party is going to offer him something simply to be done with the interaction. And that something is going to be some they probably wouldn’t have ceded if it were normal negotiations, but it seems like a reasonable secession compared to “We want your entire country.”
 
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It’s not insane if you understand how his mind works. He’s literally wrote a book about this strategy (well, a book has been written about him using this strategy. I doubt he actually wrote it.)

Hes going to ask for the most insane thing he can think of, simply to get people talking about it. And he’s going to appear to stick to those negotiations, because he wants his opponent in the negotiations to think he’s serious.

And since you can’t really negotiate with a crazy person, the other party is going to offer him something simply to be done with the interaction. And that something is going to be some they probably wouldn’t have ceded if it were normal negotiations, but it seems like a reasonable secession compared to “We want your entire country.”
Oh Russian negotiations. Just say nah.

Ze line must be drawn.
 

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FYI - Libertarians are pro Cannabis. Elon is more Libertarian than anything else. Though many of us are being driven further right these days. Not really sorry. Thats the only team that embraced us in any way.

Edit: Nah, not worth getting into.
 

MrazeksVengeance

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FYI - Libertarians are pro Cannabis. Elon is more Libertarian than anything else. Though many of us are being driven further right these days. Not really sorry. Thats the only team that embraced us in any way.
Elon isn’t libertarian. He is a narcissist.

He is an autistic manchild who loves yes-men and sniffing his own farts. He was either bullied too much or not enough. Or both somehow.

By the by. I was mostly pointing at him being a furry.
 
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Elon isn’t libertarian. He is a narcissist.

He is an autistic manchild who loves yes-men and sniffing his own farts. He was either bullied too much or not enough. Or both somehow.
Okay. He was yall's guy up until he bought twitter. Remember that? When everyone thought he was a lefty?
I mean the dude literally built the first viable electric car company, and the first private space company that fielded the first re-usable rockets.

Not sorry he destroyed an echo chamber be giving the other side a voice. Meanwhile zuckerburg just admitted that independent "fact checkers" were "heavily biased".

Seems the bill is finally due.

I like you MV, I do youre a cool dude from a cool place, but let's be honest here. Elon IS a libertarian, and has been for some time. Just like anything else, the cancel war on him has begun, but this time, its a couple years too late.....
 

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Okay. He was yall's guy up until he bought twitter. Remember that? When everyone thought he was a lefty?
I mean the dude literally built the first viable electric car company, and the first private space company that fielded the first re-usable rockets.

Not sorry he destroyed an echo chamber be giving the other side a voice. Meanwhile zuckerburg just admitted that independent "fact checkers" were "heavily biased".

Seems the bill is finally due.

I like you MV, I do youre a cool dude from a cool place, but let's be honest here. Elon IS a libertarian, and has been for some time. Just like anything else, the cancel war on him has begun, but this time, its a couple years too late.....
No he wasn’t. I wasn’t buying Tesla BS, because I was thinking about what the engines are made of.

I was stoked for the space exploration part though.

I liked Starlink for UA, because only good Russian soldier in Ukraine is a dead one.

And truth be told, his public persona has changed during the last couple of years.

As you know I am not the exact example of the person to dislike him.
Never said I liked Zucc either. FB is rife Russian propaganda, dead internet, AI slop and echo chambers. I will give Twitter that it least forces discussion. In a faitly toxic way, but it’s better to confront than to ignore so there is that. And Community Notes are fairly nice.

Musk cannot cry he is being cancelled. He IS THE establishment. And I don’t buy his act of standing up for the little guy.



You are cool too. I like that this forum specifically actually allows for a clash of opinions.
 
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Okay. He was yall's guy up until he bought twitter. Remember that? When everyone thought he was a lefty?
I mean the dude literally built the first viable electric car company, and the first private space company that fielded the first re-usable rockets.

Not sorry he destroyed an echo chamber be giving the other side a voice. Meanwhile zuckerburg just admitted that independent "fact checkers" were "heavily biased".

Seems the bill is finally due.

I like you MV, I do youre a cool dude from a cool place, but let's be honest here. Elon IS a libertarian, and has been for some time. Just like anything else, the cancel war on him has begun, but this time, its a couple years too late.....
That’s why I like the main Czech subreddit. It’s a place where you can actually talk about Israel/Gaza as a supporter of either camp.

You can’t really say that about English speaking/International reddit in general obviously.

I want perspectives not to read “ye you are 100% correct”

I want to read your struggles against healtz care. I want to read @Bunch of Jurcos take on Kenosha and his own experience on the matter. I want to read from @Negan4Coach about fixing disasters.
I want to read from @Svechhammer about shootings given his personal experience.

That’s how get moving.

Here we can pull this off. Twitter is… much bigger. That being said I don’t think all the steps taken were good.
 

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That’s why I like the main Czech subreddit. It’s a place where you can actually talk about Israel/Gaza as a supporter of either camp.

You can’t really say that about English speaking/International reddit in general obviously.

I want perspectives not to read “ye you are 100% correct”

I want to read your struggles against healtz care. I want to read @Bunch of Jurcos take on Kenosha and his own experience on the matter. I want to read from @Negan4Coach about fixing disasters.
I want to read from @Svechhammer about shootings given his personal experience.

That’s how get moving.

Here we can pull this off. Twitter is… much bigger. That being said I don’t think all the steps taken were good.
I mean for a deacade, twitter and facebook crushed any kind of dissent, or non-liberal opinion as "disinformation" and now everyone is admitting it, even zuckerberg.

Would they have admitted so if Harris won? IDK, but I doubt it.

Would twitter still be what bluesky is (a leftist echo chamber akin to what say truth social is for the right? ) if not for elon buying it? Absolutely.

I mean - is ABSOLUTELY hilarious to see all the people that were formerly dominating twitter running for bluesky claiming bias, but that it was never the other way around. How do you think truth got started, or rumble? LMAO. Twitter banned the f***ing POTUS LMAO.
 

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