Recent content by Big Huck

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    Middle East

    Ports, refineries, army/navy bases, missile silos.
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    The Steross Market and Investing Thread

    WTI opens up another 14% at $104/barrel. When Russia attacked Ukraine we saw oil shoot to 120 over fears of oil supply being cut off. We're now seeing massive chunks of the world's oil supply actually being cut off. I'm not gonna be surprised if we see oil at $150 in the next few weeks. Edit...
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    Trump 47

    Remember the time Fox News invented riots in Portland and the president sent in the national guard based on a lie they ran 24/7 for weeks? https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-fox-news-coverage
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    Political and Economic Theory Thread

    Capitalism without a conscience is what I call it. Now paired with an addiction economy.
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    Political and Economic Theory Thread

    The thing is that conservative news likes to pretend the socialist drift is happening in a vacuum. They refuse to acknowledge (for obvious reasons) that as capitalism works for fewer and fewer people, those people will be forced to turn to alternative forms of governance.
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    Middle East

    I don't trust those ellipses at the end of your sentence...
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    Middle East

    I'm glad we've collectively decided to bring turd back as an insult. Really a great descriptor for the people of our times.
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    Political and Economic Theory Thread

    How many of us are former conservatives ourselves? Definitely me before the Trump years.
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    Middle East

    Can you please show us anything from Tennessee Holler that isn't just factual reporting of events that run counter to your belief system.
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    Middle East

    Unfortunately MAGA goes to this playbook time and time again and it works like a charm on their base. They put out twelve different versions of the truth on just about everything they do and their followers get to choose which truth they want to believe. Other countries pay the tariffs. We pay...
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    The Texas Democrat Joe Rogan wants to run for POTUS

    Texas Senate race by the numbers. -2,252511 Democrat Primary votes for Senate -2,108,301 Republican Primary votes for Senate. In 2024 only 967,503 Democrats voted in the Primary. 2,239,958 Republicans voted in the 2024 Primary.
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    Middle East

    You were all teeth and we know it!
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    Middle East

    Rob responds to accusations of strawman by posting the most strawman of strawman arguments. No idea how you guys are trying to reason with him in good faith still he's clearly just here because his mother bottle fed him as a child.
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    Middle East

    So we should be bombing ourselves instead?
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    Middle East

    So your argument is that we preemptively bombed Iran because of a shooting in a bar in Texas?
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