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Having a Mexican wife doesn't make you not racist. Just like having a woman wife doesn't make you not a misogynist. But that's neither here nor there. I don't know your wife, or your relationship with her. I'm not calling you racist. I am saying that I believe based on observation and experience that in your mind, whether you admit it or not, California's policies on social spending and immigration are a bigger problem than the bullet train and solar. But you use the Bullet Train and solar projects as a proxy for your discontent about California's budgetary priorities. That's why you're so johnny on the spot to be an apologist for an objectively idiotic and wasteful move with these water releases. You're so mad at California policies. And Trump represents rejection of those policies -- specifically, social policies. Otherwise, you'd be more mad that Trump is basically doing what CA conservatives complain about (dumping water, wasting it, for political reasons) and you wouldn't be willing to go to bat for the decision because, you know, the actual money spent on policies out of the CA budget show that the real spending isn't on the Bullet Train or solar projects. But that's more xenophobic and classist than racist. There's a difference. Again, it's a completely reasonable assumption. And even if it's completely untrue, you should be aware that you are doing the work for the many, many, many, many people in California for whom that is true.
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Yea, and I believe you actually have something on it. But I also believe you're unwilling to think about how your own feeling about liberalism and general liberal social policies in a liberal state make it harder for you to make a reasonable case here. Notice how I said believe here... It is my opinion, based on observation, that this is the case. As opposed to many of the other things posted on here which are facts.
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You know, when someone touches a nerve it usually means they hit on something. I've been around a whole heap of California conservative media, and around a whole heap of relatively well informed conservatives, over my life. It is a completely reasonable assumption that when someone points to the bullet train as the best example of folly in spending when the money should be spent on infrastructure projects, they actually mean spending on California's social policies. It is what it is.
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Well, let's hold the super-duper-latives here too. Ive seen some dumb shit on this board and its predecessors over the years. The stuff on this thread is boilerplate. Like, I say that state "investment" in water to conservatives is just storage, and then a conservative posts as an example of smart water spending a list of storage projects (2 of which are federal). Or I just literally describe the hydrology of a region and the physical limitations of infrastructure, and I get an idiot button. Pretty standard.
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LOL, there it is. You should have kept with the idiot button. No ad hominems, though. All my arguments have been on the merits of the other arguments. You just don't like them, because you seem to only like it when people make completely inane statements that actually prove my own points -- statements on how California is incompetent in its general spending priorities because you don't like what CA spends money on (like, you know, resources for brown people who speak Spanish). But when the rubber hits the road on actual water issues, there's nothing. Because that shit is more complicated than the narratives they've built up in their head. Or at least that seems to be the case, and I will assume so until proven wrong. I would actually like to talk water with you. You actually seem to know a bit more than the average bear. But alas, it's just grumpy gus, butthurt feelings and general hate for Democrats just because. As you have been one of the board's chief shit posters on this side since your boy got into office, I'm a little disappointed. LOL.
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LOL. Someone is a busy bee this morning. It's the old MWCBoard adage - if you don't have anything smart to say, don't say anything at all ... and just spam the guy who knows what he's talking about with the idiot button. LOL. Edit: That was quick, @AztecAlien! LOL.
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Nah, that kid got where he is through the meritocracy. Take away all the DEI, and we finally get the best people doing the most important jobs.
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North Dakota Republicans take aim at the Constitution
smltwnrckr replied to retrofade's topic in Politics
So to these people, "real liberty" is complimentary with "well ordered discipline?" Not a shocker. This is what happens when you only teach Jesus in school instead of actual thinking skills. People think liberty and state discipline are, like, the same thing. -
"In the history of all enterprise of mankind" is the kind of thing no one should ever say or write, ever. I get you have a hard on for the guy, but let's withhold the super-duper-latives while we're withholding judgement.
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You better not call Musk "They." He'll disown you and blame the liberal something or other.
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So, the foreign apartheidist is making a show but only doing easy, low hanging fruit and not anything meaningful? Fun.
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Nah. It's just sad cat ladies who care. Just ask the geniuses on this board.
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God forbid the farmers actually pay for the water, and not just the taxpayers of the state of California. Sites is not even that good of an idea. It's gonna be another empty bath tub that is useless in the midst of a major drought, especially since its completion will give farmers and developers reason to further expand their production as if Sites actually means a significant increase in available water (which, mark my words, it won't) Why? Why should the state of California beg the feds to flood more land on the backs of taxpayers in Ohio and New York so that a few farmers in the valley can continue to grow orchards on arid lands? Deans don't become deans because they're great at their disciplines. So, maybe you shouldn't take his word for it. A lot of smart engineers thought that Teton Dam was a good idea too. But the engineering aside... again, Auburn is BOR. So don't complain about California. Complain about Congress, Reclamation, the Amry Corps, and your boy over in the white house. They can start moving on Auburn Dam tomorrow if it's such a good idea. Why aren't they? Maybe Tom McClintock isn't as right as you think he is.
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LOL, yea this post makes a good point I never quite put together until now. Trump said he "sent the military." When in reality he just called the Army Corps of Engineers. LULZ.
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Lol. No, but we had our eye on some properties we could afford and opted to hold off trying to make it happen until we see how things go.