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UpperWestside

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  1. 2 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    It’s like when you were in elementary school and there was always some kid who ran to be first in line to go to lunch. It did not matter that everyone was going to the same place. They just had to be first. 

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  2. His brain is just stuck in a never-ending loop of saying the exact same thing no matter the topic when he’s asked to provide actual ideas. Millions of people will hear that same statement and say ”See that? Trump always has a plan and won’t let anyone in on it! That’s one smart fella to hide his knowledge about the war from the libs!”

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  3. On 2/25/2022 at 12:59 AM, ztejas said:

    Not sure I'd kill an octopus and eat it but I'll let someone else kill it.

    I would also pass on the killing part. I have had it once. It tasted good. Calamari ( Calamaar if you’re eating at an Italian place in the city or especially Long Island) is alright, but not quite my thing. 

  4. 12 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Ukraine seems surlier than . . . surlyhorns.

    Seeing an entire country mobilize against an aggressor like this in real time is stunning to watch. I feel bad to find this fascinating to see because here I am sitting in the comforts of where I live while several million Ukrainians are fighting for the survival of their nation both day and night. There’s only one paper tiger in this conflict and it isn’t the one being invaded. 

  5. 3 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Traitor 

    Traitor to the country he has grifted from his entire adult life and a traitor to peace-loving people the world over. I think Bulls hat guy and my suggested avatar both would like a word with him right about now.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    ^Prime Minister of Estonia 

    Seeing these countries and their leaders do whatever they can to support Ukraine is pretty amazing. None of them want to go back to Soviet-era life after seeing what democracy is like.

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  7. I know this has probably been mentioned, but seeing the Klitschko brothers both say they are taking up arms to defend their homeland is pretty amazing. I knew about one being the mayor of Kyiv, but man this is on another level. All I can do is sit back and pray for them and the rest of the Ukrainians from afar. 

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  8. 47 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    #5 is gonna be a problem for all neighboring countries

    I think they’ll handle it well. I think we will see the best in the people and countries opening their doors to all these folks. 

  9. 36 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    Why do we have to compare them, can we not just say both are not the best choices?  Just cause one is better than the other doesn’t make the other great.  Also come on man speech and motor skills not a challenge for Biden?  Now you’re just fucking with me right?  Our standards are very low on both sides right now evidently. 

    This isn’t an episode of First Take where Stephen A. gets to yell at whatever pour soul is there to be the counterpoint. There has not been a presidential election where Trump would be the better choice. Not one and that includes Andrew Jackson’s forced death march of Native Americans whose only sin was existing on land that white people coveted.

    You can feel free to keep this up. No one is going to stop you. It would be my hope that at some point you would realize there is no comparison to be made or that neither were the best choice. One guy sent us down a very dark path towards whatever whim or narcissistic thought he had that day. The other guy is having to attempt to fix a list of disastrous choices by his predecessor that’s longer than the Bible. 

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  10. 26 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    UEFA has pulled the Champions League final from St Petersburg. That should show Putin. LOL

    I was honestly shocked they’d do it, but it’s mostly inconsequential to do so. The better move would be to remove the Russian clubs from UEFA. Not that they are all that successful in the CL or Europa, but just remove them all. That’s about as much as they can do.

    It would be nice if Russia was just banned entirely from any international sports leagues as well as competitions going forward. Authoritarians love using sports to promote the agenda. It isn’t going to stop this crazy man from what he’s doing, but it would be the right thing to do.

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  11. 42 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    So, what is Putin's endgame here?

    He obviously doesn't want Ukraine in NATO so close to Russia.  But if NATO were ever going to let Ukraine in, it would have been during this build-up.  So he could have accomplished that goal with a bluff.  And he invaded anyway.

    And he's not just taking the "separatist regions" in Ukraine's east.  That alone would've given him more of a buffer, if that were really all he wanted.

    No, this is a full-scale invasion.  It looks like he's going to take all of Ukraine.  And he's using his proxy Belarus to make it a multi-national invasion.  Cruise missiles are hitting the capital of a European country, for fuck's sake.  

    And after Ukraine falls, then what?

    Is he going to round up Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the others?  Put the whole band back together?

    Or is it going to be worse than that?  Is this his Sudetenland move?

    I honestly have no idea.  I think we all knew something was coming, but this feels really big, really consequential and probably beyond Ukraine.

    Any reasonable speculation out there?

    Is he stopping at Ukraine? I have my doubts. However, he is going to need his friends in China to join if he really wants to go further than Ukraine. That seems highly unlikely that they would also make themselves an international pariah, even with their own imperialist ideas.

  12. 7 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    And then Shannon Bream in the studio has her usual smiley cheery demeanor.   I mean, at least pretend to be concerned for your own reporter if nothing else, you sociopath.  Bret Baier keeps trying to steer her into being more somber, saying things like prayers for the Ukrainian people and their correspondents on the ground, and she just keeps on with the vapid beauty queen tone.  It is just weird.

    I googled this to be certain because of the last name, but sure enough Sid Bream is her brother-in-law. The first baseball game I ever saw in person in 1988 at the Astrodome had him starting at 1st base. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Fuck.  I vote in one of the whitest, richest precincts in the state 10 minutes from my home, if not in my former elementary school (RIP).  I always wait in line at least an hour.

    I have had mixed results in places I have been. Texas was the longest wait I had in an election back in Dallas. When I voted here in 2020 the line was pretty long and was encircling the block. Primary voting is usually walk in and walk right back out no matter the location. 

  14. 9 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    That was the crux of the link I placed in the post several above that one. Steady diet of propaganda and gaslighting has an effect.

    The gaslighting has a more direct effect at times with people who are genetically predisposed for this kind of stuff. There isn’t a party line in the brain that says only one side can do it. Right now we just happen to be seeing the consequences of years and even decades of gaslighting towards people who are easy marks.

    What triggers a lot of people who are in the GQP to commit terrible acts upon their fellow human beings is that they will think far more impulsively and when someone says to head to the Capital like we saw last January they act without a thought about possible consequences. In short many people who F around have and will find out. Gritty comes for all of them at some point.

     

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