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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

i say swears online posted:

the 2008 crash turned half of us into stalinists

Everyone was normal until 2016 and now all anyone does is post about how X media property that they like is socialist, and Y media property they don’t like is neoliberal

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Dameius
Apr 3, 2006

Badger of Basra posted:

Everyone was normal until 2016 and now all anyone does is post about how X media property that they like is socialist, and Y media property they don’t like is neoliberal

Literally the only way that is different than pre-2016 are the labels being used.

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Oh also maybe how X media property they like is classic [astrological sign] behavior

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Badger of Basra posted:

Everyone was normal until 2016 and now all anyone does is post about how X media property that they like is socialist, and Y media property they don’t like is neoliberal

Badger of Basra posted:

Oh also maybe how X media property they like is classic [astrological sign] behavior

Only a Saggitarius would say this.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

trump's introduction of the zodiac into our culture is one of his most egregious acts

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



i say swears online posted:

trump's introduction of the zodiac into our culture is one of his most egregious acts

Hisanus is always in retrograde

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Badger of Basra posted:

Oh also maybe how X media property they like is classic [astrological sign] behavior

Total Virgo energy in this post

Cumdog Millionaire
Jul 21, 2022

Whoever told you not to kink shame had a shameful kink.

Dameius posted:

Oh hey swamp fire egg smell land! Wait, I mean the "golden triangle".

Lol, yep. There's an old saying: "If you are driving though Texas and you smell rotten eggs and poo poo you might be in BMT."

Doom Rooster
Sep 3, 2008

Pillbug

i say swears online posted:

trump's introduction of the zodiac into our culture is one of his most egregious acts

Ted Cruz had been around for years before trump.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

2016 never actually ended, its still 2016

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lol wasn't it funny a couple months ago where trump said we need to punish women who get abortions

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


zoux posted:

2016 never actually ended, its still 2016

No you can't make me go back to that place, they were a terrible boss and drove me crazy.

Old James
Nov 20, 2003

Wait a sec. I don't know an Old James!

Zil posted:

We need to start a posters union.

I'm a member of Shitposters Local 42069

Marxalot
Dec 24, 2008

Appropriator of
Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch

zoux posted:

We're mostly just posturing like a bunch of ML cockerels, our real politics are culinary

The Whataburger Bleu Cheese burger is mid as gently caress.

There, I said it.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

zoux posted:

2016 never actually ended, its still 2016

I always said since the Cubs broke their curse the world was hosed.

Rocko Bonaparte
Mar 12, 2002

Every day is Friday!
The real leftward shift was post-2008. Preceding that, we had a lot of libertarians going on and on about libertarianism. I personally remember all the unironic Ron Paul stuff in his 2008 run. Then the housing bubble burst, the Enron scandal came out, the 2008 recession hit, which never ended for some people. That broke the brains of half of them and they managed to push out most of the other half afterwards. Every once in a while, you'll get some longstanding goon giving some personal variant on that story when this comes up. Personally, I have just held consistently to my beliefs in shitposting.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

LF is responsible for the pink tide in latin america

Lady Homunculus
May 22, 2017

Jiro posted:

I always said since the Cubs broke their curse the world was hosed.

You're not alone in that stance!

gently caress the Cubs.

Blotto_Otter
Aug 16, 2013


Marxalot posted:

The Whataburger Bleu Cheese burger is mid as gently caress.

There, I said it.

i need to go get lunch in a few minutes and it's been a while since I've been to whataburger, have those cowards brought back the monterey melt yet?

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Rocko Bonaparte posted:

The real leftward shift was post-2008. Preceding that, we had a lot of libertarians going on and on about libertarianism. I personally remember all the unironic Ron Paul stuff in his 2008 run. Then the housing bubble burst, the Enron scandal came out, the 2008 recession hit, which never ended for some people. That broke the brains of half of them and they managed to push out most of the other half afterwards. Every once in a while, you'll get some longstanding goon giving some personal variant on that story when this comes up. Personally, I have just held consistently to my beliefs in shitposting.

????? The Enron scandal happened in 2001

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Blotto_Otter posted:

i need to go get lunch in a few minutes and it's been a while since I've been to whataburger, have those cowards brought back the monterey melt yet?

no (but they have the avocado bacon burger (which is better))

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Badger of Basra posted:

????? The Enron scandal happened in 2001

yeah i think otter's thinking of lehman brothers

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006
The pico burger is better than both of those trash options.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

oh the extra-soggy tomato burger? sure

The Bananana
May 21, 2008

This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.



i say swears online posted:

yeah i think otter's thinking of lehman brothers

Also I think the doc on enron came out in like... 06?

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

I heard that the A1 thick and hearty burger is the unhealthiest burger in America, but I have my doubts

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1550511080749035522





e: actually good lord

quote:

The problem, according to Lawrence, is that the appraisers had trouble finding sales-price data for homes as large and expensive as his. The comps, he argues, “are just not comparable in terms of neither value nor square footage. I mean, I think the square footage is like half our house and also the prices are in the $2 million [range].”

But as part of his rebuttal, the representative from the appraisal district counters that sales data indicates that the market in the area was increasing 3 percent per month. Just based on that, the Popes’ home was probably worth $10.4 million—far more than the appraised value.

The executive balks, politely, at the notion that prices for “high-end houses” have risen at the same rate as those in the “broad-based housing market,” arguing: “The people that I’m buying this house from are sophisticated enough to know how much this housing market is moving. They knew what they could get on this house, so that was baked into the price when we bought it.” The only other comparable home on the north shore of Lake Travis had recently been reduced in price, he adds. “I just think there seems to be a lot of subjectivity in this process.”

But the panel chair tells the Popes that the appraisers are bound by Texas law to treat all properties the same; they must factor in the unprecedented surge in prices in the last year in Austin. “They are certainly not out to screw you,” the panel chair says. The panel votes 3–0 to keep the executive’s market value at $9.64 million.

Those in the, shall we say, "broad-based" housing market.

further E: maybe I am a stalinist now

zoux fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jul 22, 2022

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

hawowanlawow posted:

I heard that the A1 thick and hearty burger is the unhealthiest burger in America, but I have my doubts

Pretty sure that's the KFC Double Down.

Rocko Bonaparte
Mar 12, 2002

Every day is Friday!
Yeah I was thinking of Lehman. Can't even keep my recessions straight any more!

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lol gently caress yes TM wrote a story about me

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

quote:

After a representative for the appraisal district counters with a $782,214 value, Lippman offers a counter-counter-proposal: $490,574, in line with the 54 percent median increase of home values countywide. The chair is unconvinced; he plans to side with the district. “I know for a fact that land has been undervalued for the last few years in Travis County. It’s just caught up with people. That’s just a fact of life.” But the other two members of the panel—apparently unimpressed with the “outlier” comp—settle on $490,574, and the chair ends up agreeing. The vote is 3–0.


coward chair

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

so I wasn't on the specific panels he sat in on but all of those stories are incredibly close to what I've experienced. the commercial panels are way better to be on because the cases are drier, the owners don't represent themselves, and there's no emotion. i've had a couple ornery chairs that do not get along with either the owner or district rep and those hearings are torture

for austin-centric politics, I have worked a significant number of those Lake Austin properties that carried a tax exemption up until 1-2 years ago. the owners all represent themselves and it basically goes like the article says:

quote:

He is articulate, composed, and well prepared—and, in the end, utterly unconvincing.

i say swears online fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Jul 22, 2022

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

More like property OWNEDer

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

fuckin' loser with his $10m lakehouse

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Enron was a bigger deal for California anyways, because it caused rolling blackouts there.

hawowanlawow posted:

I heard that the A1 thick and hearty burger is the unhealthiest burger in America, but I have my doubts

It was my favorite thing at Whataburger, and now it's gone now. There wasn't anything exceptional about it health-wise so far as burgers go, just onions, bacon, cheese, burger, sauce, bun. Not like the extra vinegar is that bad for you.

Then they got rid of the mushroom swiss burger and I think Whataburger just hates me personally now.

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


hawowanlawow posted:

I heard that the A1 thick and hearty burger is the unhealthiest burger in America, but I have my doubts

Order a side of gravy to dip it in so you can be certain.


e: oh right, it's gone now :(

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

It's not, they just lost the licensing deal with KH and now it has the generic version (ayonepromozal) under the name “Sweet ‘N Spicy Burger”

Old James
Nov 20, 2003

Wait a sec. I don't know an Old James!

SlothfulCobra posted:

Enron was a bigger deal for California anyways, because it caused rolling blackouts there.

Which got to Governor impeached and replaced with the Governator.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

two tablespoons of a1 on a whataburger double would be about 70% of your daily sodium intake, fries would top off the rest

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ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


Oh, well in that case, if you love your mouth but hate your body order one with a side of gravy for dipping.

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