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Spin Zone / Re: The EV fantasy
« on: September 13, 2023, 07:56:05 AM »
Now that we have a thread for EVs, I have yet to be convinced that such unprecedented necessary battery production will be “green,” and not require child labor to work in some of these metals and rare earth mineral mines.

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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 12, 2023, 06:10:26 PM »
Pizza bowls, unless you just can't do without the crust and accompanying carbs.
Pizza “bowl”?

Not today, Satan! 


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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 09, 2023, 04:46:18 PM »
  I don't want one, not now, not ever.  It doesn't serve any purpose for me, and I'm not buying the hype.
And I think the ecological and geopolitical damage from battery production is being hidden from literally everyone in order to further the Green New Deal narrative. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 09, 2023, 11:30:48 AM »
I agree that EVs are not for everyone, but why do people feel they have to belittle others because they like the advantages of an EV?

I think the only thing we agree on is that incentives and mandates suck and are not necessary.

I think we feel furious in belittling EVs because they are being forced down our throats. Combine the promises for an all electric military, fighting the internal combustion engine and destroying the affordability of fuel, canceling oil leases, etc., and we are getting sick of having the government FORCE SHIT ON US.

The record is clear:  low flow toilets, incandescent light bulbs, unreasonable mileage mandates, shitty washing machines, and most recently the threat to eliminate ceiling fans and gas ranges, all lead to the conclusion that FedGov won’t wait for the marketplace to make changes - they will force it, even without adequate replacements. It’s only a matter of time before EVs get mandated. Well fuck that. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 09, 2023, 11:11:57 AM »
#4 in the USA

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars-2023/
Ha!  I love that the first three vehicles are full-sized pickups (with the F-150 on top) and 870,012 pickups were sold compared the the #4 Tesla at 190,500 sold.

Merica!!

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Spin Zone / Re: 2024 Presidential "Election"
« on: September 08, 2023, 11:09:28 AM »
That is the exact coffee my mother drinks.  When I visit her I bring my own beans and I have a manual grinder I keep at her house.  I also have a pour over device there.  I can’t drink her swill.  To be fair, her drip machine doesn’t get washed enough, that doesn’t help.
https://youtu.be/0mZJ8yjM1Uk?si=yVqLoxP-cfzTkVMl

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Spin Zone / Re: Ukraine Cluster Fuck
« on: September 08, 2023, 07:29:05 AM »
https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1699875389059776669
And if you want accountability for these funds, you’re a Putin-loving traitor.

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Spin Zone / Re: 2024 Presidential "Election"
« on: September 08, 2023, 06:59:08 AM »
Rand Paul doesn’t support Trump?  Serious question, I don’t actually know.  Not gonna google right now because I just woke up and I’m grumpy.
I took the question as “name a non-establishment Republican”,  not whether or not they support Trump.

I answered with Ron Johnson as an example.

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Spin Zone / Re: 2024 Presidential "Election"
« on: September 08, 2023, 06:57:07 AM »
Not for me.  Rand Paul comes to mind.  Name another non-Establishment Republican. 

Who isn't Uniparty in the GOP?
Senator Ron Johnson, R, Wisconsin

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Spin Zone / Re: Basic literacy profoundly affected by school shutdowns
« on: September 07, 2023, 05:59:35 PM »
Sometimes all you have to do is sit back and wait for liberals to showcase their unending hypocrisy...

Teachers Union Pres. Who Conflated Private Education
With Facism Sends Her Son To Elite
Private Catholic School



The CTU president has been a longtime opponent of school choice policies. Davis-Gates helped spearhead an effort to end Illinois’ Invest In Kids Act, which gives 9,000 economically underprivileged children grants for private school tuition, Wirepoints noted.


https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/06/stacy-davis-gates-private-school-facism-son-elite-catholic/
To be a democrat is to be a lying mother fucking hypocrite.

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Spin Zone / Re: Ukraine Cluster Fuck
« on: September 07, 2023, 08:50:27 AM »
Here's how I see it.  Putin is trying to plug up historic invasion routes.  Russia has been invaded multiple times in its history, the Soviet Union had all those blocked.  Putin wants that again, and he isn't alone.  Had his quick war with Ukraine succeeded his next venture would have involved Poland, a NATO ally.  It would have involved us.

From what we now know the conflict would have been quick, asymmetric, and decisive with the Russians losing.  Now here's the really dangerous part.  The Russians would have a choice at that point, either bring the soldiers home or start using nuclear weapons.  This is now existential for the Russians, they're thinking about survival and potential invasion, and I think at that point their nuclear weapons become a viable choice for them.  And once things go nuclear they get really bad really fast.

Better we give Ukraine lots and lots of weapons to fight the Russians.  Better they go down fighting Ukraine than fighting us. Whatever we give the Ukrainians is money well spent in my view.
That is such a massive leap that you think Putin would immediately invade Poland, or any other NATO ally. 

Putin is quite aware of MAD, and he’s not stupid.

Have we not learned our lessons by getting into two proxy wars in the last 75 years?  Neither resulted in a victory for the US.

I would rather the 1/10th of a TRILLION dollars sent to Ukraine be spent on fortifying our NATO presence than having it go down the shitter in Ukraine.

How is it that democrats have become the hawks when it comes to willingness to spend limitless money to protect a non-ally? 

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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 06, 2023, 06:39:56 PM »
I guess if you’re leaning over someone’s open belly you don’t really want to drop spit into it.
Unless the patient is a democrat.

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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 06, 2023, 02:59:58 PM »

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Spin Zone / Re: Basic literacy profoundly affected by school shutdowns
« on: September 06, 2023, 09:24:37 AM »
We should eliminate the FEDERAL department of Education, like DeSantis says.

I'm all for public education, as long as parents have a choice.  But I deplore what government has done to it.
100%, and that’s what DeSantis promised to do. The feds should have zero input into education, which happens at the LOCAL level. It’s paid for by taxes charged at the state and local level. Keep it fucking local.

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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: September 05, 2023, 02:09:57 PM »
Don't know if this is related to COVID or if he just lost it and walked out.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1699148808666366154
What. The. Fuck???

The only reason the 25th Amendment hasn’t already been used is one word:  Kamala

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