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blackinthesaddle
| Favorite team: | Auburn  |
| Location: | Alabama |
| Biography: | All the non-sordid details |
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| Number of Posts: | 1852 |
| Registered on: | 1/17/2013 |
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re: The platform of the Democratic Party
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/25/26 at 10:38 am to kingbob
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No, but car travel is expensive and highly pollutive. Car infrastructure takes up a lot of real estate. Car ownership is a major hurdle for poor people, especially when they need a vehicle to get to work, but need a job to purchase a vehicle. Living without a vehicle in an area where population density is low enough that basic jobs, groceries, etc are not accessible by a podestrian makes access to a vehicle nearly essential for living. The goal should not be to outlaw cars or punish vehicle owners. The idea should be to, where appropriate, make in-fill development of already urban areas easier. Keeping cities walkable or increasing walkability in cities makes access to services easier. It makes owning a car a convenience and a choice rather than an economic necessity. It is possible to have communities that are car-centric stay car centric, communities that are walkable stay walkable, and communities that are sorta in between to move towards one or the other depending on what the local population wants.
In addition, walking is a huge positive for public health.
I'm reading this as you believing that cars are the problem. Consider that urbanization may be the problem. Should "the poor" exist in an urban area? Policies that reduce land ownership in rural areas and entice people into urban areas to then exploit their labor seems to be the crux of all your issues with cars.
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re: The platform of the Democratic Party
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/25/26 at 10:33 am to kingbob
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Because they are popular wants among democrat voters.
You said what it should be and made the list. Now you're saying what's popular.
The lives of "urban citizens" would be improved by getting out of the city. Where are the proposals that make that possible?
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is that the means of implementing these ends would necessarily be destructive of individual liberty, and would require funding mechanisms that would not be economically feasible or sustainable long term.
Yes, going against human nature and destroying individual liberty is a very expensive process.
re: The Democrats Not Standing For Protecting Americans Was Peak TDS
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/25/26 at 9:50 am to Patato Salad
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If you are not gay, reply to this post with “I’m not gay.” If you don’t, then you’re gay.
It's interesting that you consider this an equivalent statement.
Why are governments formed if not for a handful of bedrock principals? Like:
1. Codifying group beliefs/identity
2. Coordination
3. Codefense
4. Co-welfare
Without establishing a boundary between "this" group and "that" group, i.e. "we" want this and "they" want that, then Coordination of like-minded peoples becomes unobtainable.
Without Coordination, then everything built by the group is subject to the will of those with malice toward the group's projects. Thus, Codefense becomes necessary to defend the processes and achievements of the group.
Without Codefense of the things built/established, there is no safe place for the coordination of care between group members. You end up back at the pre-founding of the group where there was no coordination of effort.
You're not anti-American in your beliefs and false equivalencies, you're anti-human. As taken to the extreme, your ideals would be anti any group: anti-family, anti-tribe, anti-government, anti-civilization. And then what? Everyone is subjugated by the will of the powerful, or the will of trickiest? Might as well just start chucking rocks at one another.
re: The platform of the Democratic Party
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/25/26 at 9:32 am to kingbob
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Reforming immigration to make legal immigration far easier and faster through legal points of entry, with clear paths to citizenship for illegals who pay taxes and don’t commit violent crimes, with strong border control and enforcement.
Harmonizing product regulations with the EU to allow for easier trade relations. The goal would be to gradually move towards a more Schengen like relationship between the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, NZ, and Continental Europe.
Improving nationwide mass transit and building regional high speed rail to connect feasible hubs (Texas Triangle, Pacific Coast, Midwest cities, Florida, etc). Then, integrating those regional systems with AMTRAK and local transit systems to make car-free travel more feasible for more people.
Reforming zoning laws to improve walkability and increase urban density to make cities more accessible and reduce the housing crisis.
Why these? These make no sense.
Why does legal immigration have to be easier and faster? The vetting process should be thorough. That generally means a lengthy process of background checks, compatibility checks, and a period of assimilation. It's like dating before marriage, not something that should be rushed into.
Car-free travel is essential? Are there other ways to achieve that? Why should the government be involved in this process?
Walkability and increased urbanization are good things? Are they things we should encourage? In the internet age when production is not as tied to a singular space, is urbanization still considered a priority?
re: Our President is Officially a Waaaasest!
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/19/26 at 7:45 am to FLTech
The interesting thing about this video is that many of the people calling Trump a racist shake their head in a "no" fashion while they're saying it. I'm not a Trump fan, but that's strange behaviour from a psychological perspective.
re: Establishment Democrats Undermining Jasmine's Campaign
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/19/26 at 7:34 am to The Torch
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“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert is furious that CBS decided not to air an interview he did with Texas representative James Talarico (D) due to “equal time” laws, which require broadcast networks and radio stations to give equal time to all candidates in an election.
Pretending like it was forbidden garnered more attention than had it aired. This is an old play, so don't act like we haven't seen it before.
re: Ex-climate activists tells her story
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/18/26 at 2:02 pm to Rodo
Didn't watch. She's made enough money and garnered enough attention from the grift. Why keep it going on the way down?
re: French President Macron: “Free speech is a pure bull$hit”
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/18/26 at 1:59 pm to Penrod
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English is the world’s language. If you are at least half way educated, and French, you speak English.
And it was French before and Latin before that. Lowering oneself to accept a lower status, even linquistically, was kind of my point.
re: Activists Openly Train on Jury Nullification to Block Convictions in Anti-ICE Cases
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/18/26 at 1:57 pm to TenWheelsForJesus
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If jurors can choose which laws to follow in court, why can't they choose which laws to follow outside of it?
People do this all the time. Heck, the War on Drugs failed because of this simple decision.
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Isn't that also what judges use all over the world to release foreign rapists back into native populations?
No, Mr. Ha-Gotteem. Judges aren't jurors, they are jurists.
As for the rest of your diatribe, please try to stay on topic. Your outrages can be vomited in the appropriate receptacles when present.
re: French President Macron: “Free speech is a pure bull$hit”
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/18/26 at 10:25 am to SPEEDY
If French, I would really not vote for the guy that's lowering himself to speak English.
re: Activists Openly Train on Jury Nullification to Block Convictions in Anti-ICE Cases
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/18/26 at 8:00 am to Jbird
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Democrats are trying to literally end Democracy by destroying the Justice system
The jury system and jury nullification are how democracy is exercised, ya dildoes. Without it, the cover of "law" could be used by a tyrannical government to impose anything it wished upon the public. A juror being able to say "no, this law sucks and no one should be beholden to it" is the tool for the people to enforce their cultural and social norms.
re: Palantir CEO Alex Karp: “I didn’t shift my politics. The political parties shifted theirs"
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/18/26 at 7:45 am to theunknownknight
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I don't trust Palantir at all.
Same. And if that's their CEO, with his performative hair quaff to give him an aire of Einsteinian uber-intelligence and his coked-up seat shifting, I also don't worry that much about them much because they're going to fail so hard that the world's mood will be increased 10-fold by the uplift from the shadenfreude fallout.
re: The intolerance is growing in this country.
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/17/26 at 7:52 am to Powerman
"They should just stop bothering everyone."
re: Somalia gov't official claims land in MN?
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/10/26 at 9:17 am to AubieinNC2009
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sovereign citizen bs crap
The fundamental underpinning of the American Ideal is that all citizen's are sovereign. That no man need labor under a King as all are imbued by their creator with Rights to freedom that can neither be given nor taken away by another man.
While you may find them to be crazy for fighting a larger more imposing force, such as the State or Federal government, the basic premise of their fight; that they are free and that they shant be tread upon, is the quintisential spirit of Americanism.
re: Vols are a sleeping 2026 football giant
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/5/26 at 12:04 pm to GameDay7
re: Mike Benz forecast massive social media censorship leading into the ‘28 election.
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/5/26 at 8:08 am to GumboPot
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unless they implement censorship policies as prescribed.
So they want the entire social media sphere to look like Reddit. Cool. Cool. :rolleyes:
re: Largest plastic surgeon’s org. (now the AMA) changes stance on youth gender-affirming care
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/5/26 at 8:05 am to The Eric
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Frontal lobe development is just then starting to complete.
This is a popular falsity that is intended to push back the age one is considered an adult.
In truth, the brain continues to develop for the entirety of a person's lifecycle; creating new pathways and severing old pathways continuously until the electro-chemical processes we call "life" cease.
Repeating braindead thoughts like the one quoted above, is the neurological equivalent to repeating the myth of swallowing spiders in our sleep.
re: Largest plastic surgeon’s org. (now the AMA) changes stance on youth gender-affirming care
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/5/26 at 7:59 am to Bham4Tide
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While genital surgery is almost never performed on minors
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the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended that surgeons delay breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery
Almost never = it does occassionally
The dimissive language is an attempt to reduce the severity of the thing in consideration. It creates a room subconsciously for one to hold disparate ideas regarding what is essentially a life-altering castration.
re: Vogue love letter to Gavin Newscum is a sight to behold.
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 2/3/26 at 10:32 am to BoomerandSooner
FIFY:
Let's get this out of the way: He looks synthetic, vampire young, head up his own arse as he reads from a teleprompter. "When I'm President...,"admits California governor Gavin Newsom, "secret police, businesses raided, windows smashed, citizens detained, citizens shot, masked men snatching people in broad daylight...oh yeah, that's gonna feel so good to have that kind of power," his tone is desperately aroused, the words almost glistening with sweat drenching the State Capitol's Assembly chamber, a strange venue for his fantasies. “Lining the pockets of the rich; crony capitalism at an unimaginable scale,” he whispers raggedly. “Rolling back rights…. Rewriting history.” Newsom barely resists squeezing a nipple, seeming horny and angry. Seeming, yes, presidential. “None of this is normal.”
It probably grosses everyone out. Newsom: emaciated, impassioned, frenzied, a glimmer of Shinigami in his eye; Mr. Hyde-esque. Add to this his Harvey Weinstein wife and four passable kids, and the cocky strut of the nepo baby that spend a lifetime avoiding his own labor and outsourcing big, complex, and tedious thinking to others. Then there's the stuff that Newsom has been doing. Banning church services, flying down to Mexico after issuing a travel ban, Parrying video evidence of he and his friends partying maskless while arresting beachgoers. Those tweets, or whatever you call this verbal diarrhea, "CNN HATES THAT EVERYONE STILL DISLIKES ME DESPITE MY ALL OUT MEDIA BLITZ - NEVER CHECK MY DONOR LIST AND ALWAYS AVOID THE EARLY LIFE SECTIONS ON WIKIPEDIA!!!... THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. - GCN." There's a video that does the online rounds now and then, a shot of the governor on a black guy's podcast, slouching low. Terrbile posture, like Hey buddy, I eat mac n cheese like a brother. It has seemed at times, this past year, that the only thing standing between Gavin Newsom and likability is Gavin Newsom. He makes good mac n cheese: for real. Both a master of basketball, and in his own way, knows how to impress paid actors on a podcast.
Let's get this out of the way: He looks synthetic, vampire young, head up his own arse as he reads from a teleprompter. "When I'm President...,"admits California governor Gavin Newsom, "secret police, businesses raided, windows smashed, citizens detained, citizens shot, masked men snatching people in broad daylight...oh yeah, that's gonna feel so good to have that kind of power," his tone is desperately aroused, the words almost glistening with sweat drenching the State Capitol's Assembly chamber, a strange venue for his fantasies. “Lining the pockets of the rich; crony capitalism at an unimaginable scale,” he whispers raggedly. “Rolling back rights…. Rewriting history.” Newsom barely resists squeezing a nipple, seeming horny and angry. Seeming, yes, presidential. “None of this is normal.”
It probably grosses everyone out. Newsom: emaciated, impassioned, frenzied, a glimmer of Shinigami in his eye; Mr. Hyde-esque. Add to this his Harvey Weinstein wife and four passable kids, and the cocky strut of the nepo baby that spend a lifetime avoiding his own labor and outsourcing big, complex, and tedious thinking to others. Then there's the stuff that Newsom has been doing. Banning church services, flying down to Mexico after issuing a travel ban, Parrying video evidence of he and his friends partying maskless while arresting beachgoers. Those tweets, or whatever you call this verbal diarrhea, "CNN HATES THAT EVERYONE STILL DISLIKES ME DESPITE MY ALL OUT MEDIA BLITZ - NEVER CHECK MY DONOR LIST AND ALWAYS AVOID THE EARLY LIFE SECTIONS ON WIKIPEDIA!!!... THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. - GCN." There's a video that does the online rounds now and then, a shot of the governor on a black guy's podcast, slouching low. Terrbile posture, like Hey buddy, I eat mac n cheese like a brother. It has seemed at times, this past year, that the only thing standing between Gavin Newsom and likability is Gavin Newsom. He makes good mac n cheese: for real. Both a master of basketball, and in his own way, knows how to impress paid actors on a podcast.
re: Please delete its highly likely bull
Posted by blackinthesaddle on 1/28/26 at 3:47 pm to KiwiHead
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The state of Minnesota says otherwise. Therefore it is a statutory tight and thus a privilege.
The State of Minnesota has no say in the matter by agreeing to abide by the U.S. Constitution in order to be granted admittance into the Union.
If you think it's "gotcha" to pay attention to language, then no wonder you don't understand law.
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