#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-26 12:40 PM | Reply | Flag

That reads like authentic frontier gibberish.

Once Republicans used socialist as a perjorative and some Democrats embraced it to say -- republicans, rational convo on the topic left the room.

And all they're really arguing about is which flavor of capitalism to do? High tax, high service? Low tax, low service?

Finish the thought. What do capitalists always become? It's gotta be something.

#13 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-06-26 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Theoretically, depends on who you ask. Fukuyama? Piketty? Tullock?

Practically, it seems to depend on who's running it. Liberal democratic capitalism, social-market capitalism, state capitalism, corporate capitalism, or hybrids of the 4.

If you find yourself in Houston, there's the Blind Goat (Chef Christine, Masterchef winner), Roostar (perfect & consistent bahn mi), boba tea places in almost every strip center, Di An Pho, Huyhn, and hundreds more. When they refugees arrived in Houston, they community funded the purchase of idle shrimp boats and got to work. The remaining white shrimpers tried to chase them out, the Klan paraded boats up and down their docks to try and scare them. They teamed up with the SPLC and sued the Klan until they faded away.

How much did you pay to be born American?
Not one thin dime.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-25 05:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

How much did his parents pay? Those child birth hospital bills were something.

Not your point, I'm just bitching. Then it's right back to work. In some EU countries they make the father take a maternity leave, and that's a great idea.

Something about Communism. Too bad they didn't know all you had to do was wait a little bit and communists always become capitalists.

I was being more general than the troops. It's never their body their choice. You are probably in the right age group to have had air injection vaccines in the corp.

Absolutely amazing food. If they keep the local flavor it'll be the best food of any Trump Resort he's ever opened.

For a communist country Vietnam is extremely capitalist.

Their body, their choice, but.. when you bring back the measles you really f***** up.

That's how you know they're full of s***. It's always about the MRNA vaccine, allegedly. Then they go after all vaccines once in office. They used to just be a couple f****** hippies, now it is normalized Republican thought to be skeptical of any vaccine to the extent where and regular life they are abandoning child vaccine schedules.

I've never actually seen an ice agent in person. And I live in a city with a taco truck on every corner. I can go to almost any home Depot and whistle, day laborers jump in the back of the truck.

Bunch of poor guys bawling, begging to contact their family that's here so they know what happened to them. NOPE! In the wagon you go! Now some wife is at home with no idea her husband won't be back for dinner. Disgusting.

The tourists have valid tourist visas with plenty of time left on them. ICE isn't an issue. Bigger problem trying to take big ranch bottles past the TSA.

I'd wager most people don't think about ICE, ever, unless they see it in front of them. Sister in law was a Trumper until she saw a lawn crew rounded up in front of her in Missouri of all places. Changed her line of thinking quick.

Food, craft beer scene, Houston summer temps, how great Japanese fans are with stadium etiquette. What Swedish world cup tourists are talking about here. Nice people, funny accents.

My wife & I were at a pub with the Swedish Club of Houston watching the Sweden vs Japan game yesterday evening.

Indefinite detention by ICE is not a topic of conversation.

The United States was an anti-fascist organization during WWII.

#68 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-26 12:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

America joined WW2 to save the Nazis from the Russians.

#70 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-06-26 12:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

Apparently we joined the war to save fascism lol.

It used to be pretty funny. There were some great cosplay Antifa vs Proud Boy light brawls. Tapered off when Covid hit though.