Most of the south is not equipped to survive in freezing temperatures without power. You gotta get some propane tanks and pretend you are camping
Example of infrastructure fail. cnn.com/2021/02/16/bus…
It sounds boring but rebuilding other countries vs rebuilding America is worth a discussion. We can do this people.
I say this with full sympathy for people who pay their electric bills and have no...electricity.
Good splainer on why Texas has problems

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18 Feb
Isn't that a $5000 Supreme Rimowa carryon Ted just popped into the bin? You know the luggage that screams "rich asshole"?
I would personally go for the Dior Champagne carrier as I fled Texas for Cancun. news.yahoo.com/dior-men-rimow…
since it's "Hate OnTed Cruz To Avoid Freezing" day. Let's do this. macleans.ca/politics/washi…
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18 Feb
The advice I usually give to travelers visiting Afghanistan now apply to Texas. texastribune.org/2021/02/17/tex…
Didn't Mr Elon "Plug It In, Plug It In" Musk just move to Texas to enjoy the free market capitalist economy and boundless cheap energy? nypost.com/2021/02/18/elo…
Time for Texas Listsicles. buzzfeed.com/mjs538/picture…
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16 Feb
Probably one of the finest fighting forces in the world shows how it is done. I remember when Haftar's men were hiding under concrete blocks and pretending to be house lamps. But boom. No go. The GNA has devised fighting skills that can easily defeat these dastardly tactics.
Some free survival advice: Teaching formation marching in the Era of Drones is not really a good idea.
In America SF instructors bring back lessons learned from their last deployment in the field to teach new recruits how to survive. In Libya they still think parade formations from the Italian colonial are cool.
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16 Feb
Same dynamics and strategy used in political and currency manipulation, now used in stock price manipulation. And to think they used to blame everything on George Soros. wsj.com/articles/keith…
"According to the CIA Guide to the Analysis of Insurgency, insurgent warfare is “designed to weaken government control and legitimacy while increasing insurgent control and legitimacy”. This characterization perfectly explains Chinese behavior" forbes.com/sites/steveneh…
Worth a read to understand the thinking that is being applied to our internal systems by #fuckerists aka insurgents aka terrorists. hsdl.org/?view&did=7135…
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15 Feb
For many years white people thought there was a vast mountain range running across Africa called the Mountains of Kong. Maps drawn in 1798 showed this imaginary barrier all the way up to the late 1880s.
There is some dispute over whether how many people believed that the world was flat. Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth around 240 BC using two different measurements of shadows from sticks. lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/flat…
About 40% of Americans believe in the myth that Donald will be president in 2024. However the vast majority of GOP politicians fear the vengeance of the rotund republican. It is hard to understand where these mental afflictions come from. politico.com/news/2021/01/1…
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13 Feb
The latest grift from Margarine. There must be a faux outrage meter that dials the dollars in. Before that it was AOC is mean to me! Its' a Textiful number designed to build databases for donation hustles. textiful.com
#ImpeachBiden is just more troll shit, @Jack needs to shovel up.
"how the alt-right has brought back into fashion traditional tenets of the reactionary, xenophobic, and often racist far-right, as demonstrated by George Hawley, and how it has managed to make these tenets appear as novel, provocative, and updated" journals.openedition.org/angles/369
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