Everything posted by MC Fresh Breath
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2022 World Series Thread - Phillies v Astros
sidis, I can only hope you're drinking heavily during all of these types of posts. it has been crazy seeing you make personal assessments of people's lives based on their actions in a sports thread of all things. worrying about fans in the supposedly non-Astro fan thread is just flat out joyless and beneath you. The majority of America is rooting against the Astros. I hesitate to point it out, because there's really no need to hash over the same old arguments again (and who knows all the reasons), but that's how it is. While every Astros fan will disagree, blame Manfred, e.t.c., that doesn't mean that everyone posting non-Astros support is somehow a loser in life that enjoys hating more than rooting for their own teams. As you are aware, there are only two teams left. Should every non-fan of those two teams turn off their TV sets and quit posting? Don't most neutral folks root for the underdog? Does picking one team to root for automatically equate to being a hater? Should they all not pick someone to root for? It seems you and Penelope would have it that way. Which is sad to see from posters I otherwise thought were smarter and should recognize the easy correlation between nutty tribalism in sports and elsewhere in our society.
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The Twitter Debate
It might. The book covers losing time/hours/focus to all the distractions of the internet. Social media gets its due in it, but so does things like binge watching Netflix. There is a bit of Pollyanna-ishness to it (the author has never used a lot of the social media he critiques) but still caused me to evaluate my relationships with tech and media. There is a 30 digital detox recommendation where you cut out all social media/mindless browsing/binging. After that the recommendation is to re-engage in a more mindful and limited fashion. That worked for me for a while (my book reading increased) but like all addicts I easily slipped back into some bad habits. I should probably try it again. At any rate, it’s an easy read and food for thought.
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The Twitter Debate
If you like that, you might enjoy this book: Warning: It will change your relationship with places such as this:
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2022 World Series Thread - Phillies v Astros
lame sauce
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The Supremes
further and further into third world country status.
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
But people have been saying this literally for decades. They all were essentially hollering down a well. They did not have large, influential media companies behind them. Their political allies were at best timid and at worst absent. For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report detailing a resurgence of radicalization in the American military. The entire commingled Republican political and media, led by then-Speaker John Boehner, a reputed “moderate,” lit themselves on fire. The outcry, stoked (as always) by lies and deliberate misrepresentation, caused DHS to run and hide. It withdrew the report. You will note that I did not use the word “forced.” The DHS was not “forced” to do anything, any more than the Clinton administration was “forced” to abandon Lani Guinier. In 2009, the DHS was going to be in Democrats' hands for at least three more years. The department could’ve told Boehner to pound sand and stood by the report. In the real world, political outrage is not “force.” It only has the power that tepid resistance gives to it. Which brings us to this weekend. Paul Pelosi gets attacked with a hammer during a home invasion and as a temporary proxy for his wife, who is the second in line for the presidency. We had Republican influencers babbling about gay trysts gone wrong, and idiot candidates trying to link the attack to their current bogus spin about a national crime wave. And this is the reaction, on national teevee, of the national chairwoman of the Republican Party. From the Washington Post: I just can’t anymore. These people are simply lost and mad. Their political party is simply lost and mad. Their political movement is simply lost and mad. Their candidates are simply lost and mad. We are on the very brink of handing the country over to the lost and the mad. The prion disease has jumped from one subject population to the general public, and in too many ways, it is creating its own reality in the national mind. We are all lost and mad. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41819935/republican-extremism/?src=socialflowTW
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
Pretty wild that somehow the conversations have already moved on beyond a failed political assasination.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
not worried if you do or don't. they were equivalent level posts in terms of substance.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
Sorry to upset you with my subtle, nuanced, grandpa troll.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
well you could always just kill yourself.
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Kanye
ah man. but we'll always have this:
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Joe Biden 2022: Enter Dark Brandon
Midterm elections outlook darkens for Biden's White House https://www.reuters.com/world/us/midterm-elections-outlook-darkens-bidens-white-house-2022-10-25/
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The Texpatriates Thread
Pretty sure we're going to need a plain ol "expatriates" thread in a few years. Every time I check on the SC, I'm reminded that there is no real state in the US you can run to. Given I can't leave for at least 6, I'm wondering what language I should start to learn. Or if New Zealand will let me in at age 60ish.
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The downfall of Lindsay Graham
Cue a lecture from Roberts on how the SC is legitimate. Thomas never should have been on this court in the first place. Thanks, Monsanto.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
https://www.google.com/amp/s/finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/young-healthy-people-may-not-need-bivalent-boosters-offit-155018744.html This is from September. My understanding is this dude is legit. Curious @Anastasisas to what your take is on the bivalent boosters outside of high risk groups.
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2022 Gubernatorial (and other state) races
Nike co-founder Phil Knight says he would do anything to take Oregon’s governorship out of Democratic hands https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nike-co-founder-phil-knight-says-he-would-do-anything-to-block-the-democrats-in-the-oregon-governors-race-11665995971?siteid=yhoof2 Just a billionarie doing billionaire things.
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2022 Gubernatorial (and other state) races
Tina Kotek, Christine Drazan neck-and-neck in race for governor, new poll finds; support for Betsy Johnson waning https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/10/tina-kotek-christine-drazan-neck-in-neck-in-race-for-governor-new-poll-finds-support-for-betsy-johnson-waning.html Not a real large scale poll there.
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2022 ALCS Yankees vs Astros
Not your fault, but that was pretty wishful thinking.
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Alex Jones
Thanks for the non-NYT link. For whatever reason I don't seem to get around the NYT's paywall these days. I'm glad to see some comeuppance for Mr. Jones. But its always tempered by the pictures of those poor famlies. Guts me to think about their loss(es) and the compounding of those losses by all the shit piled on them from Mr. Jones and his followers.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
My apologies for not being clear in my attempt to whine. Is he really "about to be indicted" was what I was trying to ask. So why hasn't he been indicted by now for just that alone? Not holding my breath.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Is he, though?
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The Texpatriates Thread
Why Republicans Could Win Oregon's Governorship For The First Time In 40 Years Goddammit. The R candidate is full Q-Anon too.
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Joe Biden 2022: Enter Dark Brandon
It isn’t just Beto/Abbott. There are other gubernatorial races where the difference stances are being called out. I think the timing and the intentional forcing of “take a public stance on this issue” was a deft move. Opposition to the drug wars as a an issue alone crosses party lines with the voters, no matter what the politicians say.
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Joe Biden 2022: Enter Dark Brandon
The bit about Governors was well timed
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Joe Biden 2022: Enter Dark Brandon
Speaking of GOP. Not one R would ever do what Biden just did today. If only red state voters weren't for cutting their own throats so much.