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Blow up the whole freaking Kremlin. If that despot is going to keep targeting civilians in Kyiv then get all of your active folks in the field to light that place up like the 4th of July. Nothing and no one in that country should feel safe.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
UpperWestside replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
If he’s neurodiverse, which he says he is, you have to understand that his ability to make sound decisions requires a lot more time spent thinking about the possible outcomes of what he may or may not decide to do. Now this is the point where I’m laughing because he is obviously making very rash and illogical decisions. One of the things I had to massively work on is stringing good decisions together and remembering to keep making them. I think in very black and white terms and unfortunately so does that rabid idiot. Instead of saying to himself “Might want to think this one over first” he just shoots from the hip. Doesn’t matter if grandma catches a stray bullet when he does this. He is not even thinking about the consequences of horribly bad decisions. Long story short is while neurodiverse people can do some really cool things with their intelligence just like a neurotypical person, you can’t give us carte blanche on decisions, especially if the things we do regularly seem to be rashly made choices that were not fully thought through. -
America has had issues with the owners of news media for forever and a day. William Randolph Hearst, a partisan hack of the worst kind in his day, was busy using Hearst owned papers to piss on anything FDR did as president during WWII as well as before hostilities broke out with Japan. We had him at one point knowingly trying to float the idea of national “hero” Dugout Douglas MacArthur to be the Republican nominee in 1944. We’re trying to beat down two separate fascist powers in two vastly different areas of the world and the richest newspaper guy of that time was busy trying to get FDR out of office. If you can actively try to undermine a president that guided America through the Great Depression and three years of war at that point then nothing is sacred with these scumbags. Just a new generation trying to see how much influence they can peddle in DC while lining their bank accounts.
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For a franchise that needs all the attention it can get, well, that pick should do it. Overall the NFL does not hold my attention, but this particular situation does. I hope he has a 100 yard plus game receiving and then shuts down the guy he is covering. Pretty rare opportunity to see the physical limits of endurance of an NFL player.
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I guess it also matters how you get deployed. If you are sending him across the middle consistently to get his head smashed then it will be short-lived. I think the NFL has taken a lot of the contact out of the game that could cause such an injury though. Wideouts and corners come across looking like they are playing flag football with how little contact can be made. I tend to think that if he can get 90 percent of the defensive snaps and half on offense that he’s succeeded. All up to how his body holds up. Hopefully Jacksonville has good team doctors and not a bunch of Dr. Nicks.
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You know they are going to let him play both sides positions though. I say go for it. None of this matters so play both and get as many snaps as you can. I would imagine he will get fewer offensively, but again it’s just football. I might have to actually watch a bit of the NFL just to see how Hunter adjusts to playing both ways at this level.
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How does anyone get mad about this? He was more/less the only Democrat that was on FoxNews giving articulate interviews with answers that shot down all the crazy conspiracies these people were putting forth. Now it's a bad idea for him to give sane views to the same type of audience why again?
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The Worst Trade in NBA History: Luka traded for AD
UpperWestside replied to Derka's topic in Basketball
Nico not shutting up is just strange. Take the all-time L on this trade and just stop talking. -
TFG absolutely sent Vance out there to call them peasants as a way to both demean and humiliate their populace, but also as a means of putting himself above a fellow authoritarian leader. TFG has praised Xi for how he runs China with an iron fist, but one thing authoritarians like him want more than anything else is to be at the top of the chart of despots. The language though is reminiscent of how the United States portrayed Japan in the 20's and 30's. We refused to look at them as equals with the Washington Naval Conference being one of the biggest slap in the face moves given to a country in the 20th Century for no other reason than racism playing a large role. That one naval conference set Japan on a path of getting even that ended with a war between the two countries 20 years later. Just wait until TFG starts to pull out some of the insults directed at Japan during those two decades such as how they can't shoot accurately because of how their eyes look. That one is definitely locked and loaded and ready to be used by Vance within the next year or so in order to further demean and dehumanize them.
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Luka, even in his pudgy form, is the best player in the league not named Jokic. He can slow down a game and it'll play out to how he wants it to. The guy controls a game better than anyone since, and believe me I hate to invoke this player's name as much as anyone else would, Chris Paul in his prime. Minny does have a deeper team. You guys are better. We have a guy who won a Make-A-Wish dream to play in the NBA in Hayes. I think any level-headed Lakers fan realized that this year was going to be tough sledding in the playoffs without a viable center. You can't just ask a 40 year old LeBron to fill that role consistently in a small ball lineup. I like Reaves quite a bit, but this is a step up for him. It's one thing to Pistol Pete your way through the regular season. Now you have to do it consistently when the lights are the brightest. I would say this series will be a litmus test of sorts for him and whether or not he gets included in trade offers over the summer. I think he can play under the brightest lights, but it's up to him to mentally get over that hump. The best players figure it out. The mentally weak wind up playing on lottery teams their entire career. The Wolves are the better team with an ascendant young star in Edwards. I won't bet against Luka mainly because of seeing him carry Dallas on his back last year. I don't need to tell any of the Mavs fans this since they saw him up close for years. I would bet on LeBron having himself a really good game three followed by the bottom falling out in game 4 for LA and then game 5 deciding who ultimately wins the series.
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It’ll go back 2-2.
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What I have learned about Doncic in his career is that there are certain players he enjoys humiliating repeatedly. Booker is one, Gobert is another and the Mavs as a franchise are 3rd, but quickly moving up the rankings.
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I love drinking coffee. Not a coffee snob other than I stay away from coffee that has a definitively bitter and acidic taste. A couple of the brands here have a smooth flavor and the price has not gone through the roof yet. Sometimes I’ll buy Kcup pods that are on sale. One of the good things about working in a restaurant is access to free coffee, especially if the brand they use tastes good.
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Oh the enlisted has plenty of magats, especially the younger guys in their 20’s
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I think we are thinking in terms of the world we live in. The world a soldier lives in is one entirely different from ours. Again they have a very clearly defined oath they adhere to. I trust that the people who can make the order to turn against the populace will not do so. I also think that people like McRaven still get updates from friends on what is going on. That would go for Milley as well. Those guys know exactly what is transpiring inside the branches of service. TFG is a paper tiger without the world’s most powerful military doing his bidding. Dictators rely on the armed forces to carry out atrocities for them. I do not believe this will be how it goes. We may have a period of years of fascist morons running the government, but we’ll see I guess. I think in the end we survive, but the rebuild with the world will be going on long after we are all gone. We are not to be trusted, at all.
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Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
UpperWestside replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
I get all of this too. I sang in the choir in a black church in The Bronx called Parkchester Baptist. It was a traditional Baptist church and I loved it. A woman was the minister and she was great at delivering a Good Word. That church reminded me of singing in the choir at a black church in Oak Cliff when I was younger. I prefer the older songs and love to sing them. -
Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
UpperWestside replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
One of the nicest celebrities I ever met was that faith. Rainn Wilson was so cool to everyone. I didn’t go up to him. He came to me and said hello and shook my hand while I was working. I remember him saying God Bless you to everyone and thanking them for stopping by to say hi while he was having lunch outside on the patio. -
Religiously, I am kind of in a rut (am I alone )
UpperWestside replied to Clintonaldo's topic in Cloak Room
I understand you completely and how you feel. I had thought of spending Easter at a church here. Then I decided that God is everywhere so instead I went to the beach for a few hours, got in the water and swam and just enjoyed the morning and thanked God for another day. I have been in spiritual ruts before. Most of my own making. You’ll get past this feeling, but just remember that God is wherever you are. You don’t need to be in a fancy church building to feel God. Keep doing your charity work and stick to the basic tenets of being a Christian according to what Jesus said. Everyday you get the chance to make someone’s life better that may never be able to return the favor. Feel the joy in that and the rest will follow. -
I believe that our military stays independent of a political party. There are few things to me that are the bedrock of American society. One of those is our military. They are what provides us the opportunity to live in relative peace at home when people like TFG aren’t in charge. I have maintained that when push comes to shove that they will not see against the American people. If it takes them stepping in once TFG crosses that final red line so be it. Take all the traitors with him in Congress and the Supreme Court and drop them off on Snake Island off the coast of Brazil.
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So many cowards in the media. They will be remembered for their complicity when we come out of this eventually.
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And that would be the point where we would see the country descend into complete chaos. I will posit that if history is a guide that that would be the point where our military steps in to stop the further degradation of the country by removing TFG. People can laugh and have skepticism, but the commanders in charge of our military take that Constitutional Oath seriously. At that point TFG is an enemy to the American people. I know, I know he’s been that since the moment he announced in 2015. That is more a final straw type deal if that scenario comes to pass.
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I don’t think Drudge is a big fan of TFG.
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Please rule that presidents can serve more than 2 terms again so he can be pulled out of the presidential “mothball” fleet to defeat dotard in 2028.
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I’d be okay with relocating the two to Oklahoma, permanently.
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Sinners - Coogler, Goransson, and Michael B Jordan
UpperWestside replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Movies and TV
Spent 15 years hanging out in South Dallas. No issues whatsoever understanding anything that was said. That made the movie more fun to watch. However, I would say a good bit of this board should do what you said and wait for subtitles or they’ll be completely lost.
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