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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
and this is one of the few cases where "both sides" actually applies
We have an incredible amount of work to do as a society. I am in no way shocked by what I have read in this thread from people who dislike Dr. Fauci, but the reasoning is just out there. It's still incredible to see this 9/11 truther style of thinking so permeating certain segments of society, specifically the origin of COVID since that's what is being written about here. I kind of feel sad for these folks who go down these rabbit holes that will wind up leaving their mind in somewhat of a mess with all the attached conspiracies they will read about along the way.
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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
I mean, really, it's a perfect GQP thing. It involves blame, racism, name calling, and diversion from Trump.
Witnessing some of those things within this thread is something else. There is so much work to be done to get people pulled out of the death cult's alternate reality.
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Hoo boy I just saw the score! My guys are taking a real beat down tonight. I think we all have realized a long time ago that if they can’t stay healthy they won’t win much of anything.
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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:
I am on some level somewhat thankful that some of the people I saw on TV growing up did not make it to the social media age. Someone should probably unplug Chuck’s Twitter machine and put him on a fishing boat and just leave him there to ponder these random thoughts by himself.
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4 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
“Socially liberal but fiscally conservative” was NEVER a Republican thing.
That’s bullshittery marketing to make decent people buy GQP garbage.
The Republicans spend and waste WAY more money and wreck shit to leave for a Democratic President to fix.
See - Clinton, Bill and Obama, Barack and Biden, Joe.
You want “Socially liberal but fiscally conservative”?
Then you vote for a Democrat.What state can we all chip in and move you to so you can get elected to Congress?
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On 5/27/2021 at 7:25 AM, Bullneck said:
I went to many marches last summer that had no police protection whatsoever. One in particular was the protest march across the Brooklyn Bridge about a week before the end of July. That march began with police interference at the rally that proceeded it when the chopper overhead lowered to not far above the trees at the rally in Brooklyn right when Eric Garner’s mother started to speak. That was a coincidence I am sure. Then as a few thousand of us shutdown the bridge there were a few dozen NYPD blocking access on the other side to the park by City Hall. Not real sure why they decided to do that because the march was headed over to the west side where it ended on the Hudson. So no police protection that day and most protests had chants about us protecting each other anyhow without relying on police. I was in one on one occasion that shutdown the Westside highway for around 40 blocks because there was no entrance for police to get on to stop it. That was a pretty fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon. That one started in Times Square and ended on the UES in Carl Schurz Park near Gracie Mansion.
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15 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:
That’s also bullshit since multiple major cities have defunded their police. It has absolutely effected change
I absolutely believe it has effected change in the ways and amounts that police departments are funded. I just wanted to know what that poster thought. I want to see fewer police officers and more psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists on staff in every police department across the country.
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23 minutes ago, softlynow said:
It’s a statement that has failed to affect change. It didn’t spur discussion of its underlying ideas beyond the choir. The first step to progress is admitting failures.
If less than a year to enact change is a failure I would like to ask you this question. Would you then also consider the Civil Rights Movement a failure?
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On 4/26/2021 at 8:33 PM, Biff Tannen said:
These are sick people. Cops should be forced to have regular psychological evaluations.
I would advocate bi-yearly mental health screenings as well as a mental health wellness check for any encounter they are in that turns violent. The Wild West era of policing needs to come to a screeching halt.
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On 5/27/2021 at 7:27 PM, Lobo said:
But what does one leave at a memorial site for a person he's glad to see is dead? I wouldn't defame the White House with such a thing, but likely at Mar-a-Lago or Trump Tower? What do I leave there to indicate that I'm glad he's dead and hope he went painfully? How does one express that in public through physical objects?
A recording of Nipsey Hussle’s anthem dedicated to Trump playing into perpetuity.
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I remember when I first saw him play on TV in 1988. He made Kareem look small and Gobert looks much smaller than he actually is in that picture of the two of them. He looked so intimidating with the beard, but off the court he was apparently just a normal guy who enjoyed life thoroughly. Rest in Peace big fella.
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I know some of y’all read Defector. David Roth is one of the writers that makes that site worth every penny of the subscription. His articles are long, but he always conveys his message clearly. The ending is spot-on in my opinion. He really delves into the minds of those who have been swayed by the message that a con-man spread to the masses.
SpoilerCaitlyn Jenner’s role in the culture is not an especially demanding one, which generally seems like a good fit. For many years, she played a sort of goofy comic relief role on a cable reality show about rich Los Angeles people going on vacation and doing Facetime calls. Now, she is a sort of utility famous person, the type of celebrity who gets photographed on red carpets and at airports without ever really seeming to be urgently on the way to or from any particular thing. She went on The Masked Singer and covered a Kesha song, badly. As a life, it seems frictionless and airless and dull, an utterly glamorous and toweringly vacant inconsequentiality. But it is not without some hardship. Recently, for instance, while in her own airplane hangar, Jenner witnessed a person packing up his own hangar nearby. “And he says, ‘I’m moving to Sedona, Arizona,'” Jenner told Sean Hannity, in an interview filmed in Jenner’s hangar. “‘I can’t take it anymore. I can’t walk down the streets and see the homeless.'”
It is because of harrowing real-world experiences like these, and her passion for issues like the complaints of other rich people, that Jenner is running as a Republican for Governor of California. A bunch of other people are vying for that nomination, but Jenner has the distinction of being both the most famous and the most belligerently and lazily anti-trans candidate in the field. Some of this is surely just what it looks like, which is a dim and incurious rich person who watches too much television and lives, dimly and incuriously, in a milieu defined by the vague gripes and abstracted grievances of other dim and incurious rich people. A lot of the rest of her campaign, though, reflects the influence of the Trump veterans that Jenner brought in to join her in her quest to make it so that her friends—or, anyway, people at the private airfield with whom she might have brief cordial conversations—no longer have to walk down the streets and see the homeless.
Delivering this kind of curdled grouchy campaign rhetoric is not a very difficult thing to do, in the abstract, although Jenner lacks both Trump’s greasy drive and the advantage conferred by decades of being the living metonym for the idea of Rich Person Who Doesn’t Get In Trouble. The lines themselves aren’t terribly hard to memorize—Trump took naturally to the challenge of bullying the least powerful people in any situation and otherwise just kind of made whatever reactionary TV news sounds were popular at that moment back at an audience whose minds had been conditioned to receive them as devastating truths—but if you clicked the link above to see Jenner’s performance of Kesha’s “Tik Tok” you already know that there is a difference between knowing the words and knowing the music. Which is how you wind up with shit like this:
It is both an uneasy and an incredibly easytime to be an ambitious Republican politician. A generation of hothouse freaks bred for and molded by the conservative political ecosystem are running up against the realization that their base cares nothing about the ludicrously shitty and unpopular policies they’ve been pushing for generations, and also hates their tricksy and smug debate-club rhetoric, and also hates them, really, mostly for the usual reasons that people dislike Yalies but also because they are boring. But what has replaced all that professional stuff is just trolling and recrimination and bile; there is no real reasoning to it, or with it.
What this base wants to see is itself,reflected in shades of gunmetal and gold, because it does not trust and cannot care about anything but that reflection. This is the language that Jenner is trying to learn to speak, the uncanny patois of sunburned small-business tyrants and seething but secretly bored bosses and aggrieved middle-management. The task before Jenner is to learn the things that the deranged hornball grifters and serial antagonizers of customer service professionals and sloppy hair-trigger affluenza cases hear all day from their televisions, and then learn to say it back to them. Trump was able to do this because, for all his wealth, he was exactly as small of spirit and vacant of principle and jealously selfish as the people that idolized him, and just as voracious a consumer of the same terrible television. For all the other things that might hold Jenner back as a candidate, she does at least seem to have all that going for her.
But she is not there yet. It is something like the point that Canceling The Cancel Culture and Waking Up The Woke don’t really mean anything. They’re statements made up of recognizable words, but they’re more about the sound than the shape. It is a way of saying “I, Caitlyn Jenner, am as upset about whatever these things might mean or be, as you are, in something like the same
way,” and loading that I Would Also Like To Express My Fondness For That Particular Beerfalseness up with a barely implicit promise to hurt their shared enemies. That it comes out so clotted and clanging and strange—that it somehow looks so ugly on the page, what with the random capitalization and that grating extraneous comma between the two consecutive “cancels”—is part of the point, both in how it consciously apes Trump’s own grandparental syntax and copy and because of the specific way it is trying to pander. It is a message from a candidate, but that candidate is both vapid enough and advised by sufficiently cynical professionals to know that the message will land better if it looks like a Facebook comment left under a Fox News video by a senescent shut-in, or like a text message from one bored rich grump to another.
This would all be a lot easier to laugh at if Trump hadn’t won, and if his presidency hadn’t ended the way it did, and if his legacy wasn’t being carried forward in the ways that it is. But Jenner is bad enough at this, both in terms of her wholly absent talent for the game and toweringly checked-out rich person’s laziness, that there’s still a certain bleak comedy in watching her flail away at trying to appear as aggrieved and fatuous as she is. “I will wake up the woke with an alarm clock called reality,” Jenner will read, robotic and blinking, from some teleprompter somewhere, at some point. “And there is no snooze bar.”
And some rich people will clap, and some aides will hoot, and she will continue to the effect of “this culture can’t be canceled, in fact the ratings have never been higher and we’ve been renewed for a second season. And by the way this culture is also an active culture, and it has no expiration date. And that’s why, as governor, I’m going to open a little cup of Yoplait, whose flavor is American Freedom, and I’m going to serve it to Antifa one spoonful at a time. And no one’s getting dessert until the whole thing is finished.”
And there will be some more applause, and then it will peter out, and in the moment before she starts speaking again, the absently vengeful and proudly vacuous people listening to her, all these little tyrants wrecked by leisure and softened unto death by their own laziness, will perk up—less because of anything the candidate might say and more in the hope that they might catch some glimpse of themselves in the blank, reflective surface of it as it goes by.
https://defector.com/caitlyn-jenner-as-governor-i-will-cancel-cancel-culture-and-wake-up-the-woke/
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8 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:
A few years from now we'll all be in a trench and UpperWestside will be waxing poetic about the Democratic women coming to save us and at that moment Brisket will have an aneurysm and die, then the whistle will blow and the rest of us will run towards the Maga machine guns
I just see a lack of evidence that the men will get things done. I try to direct my attention towards people who have a positive mindset and actually want to get things done. The toxic negativity I see here regularly is just not healthy and does no good for anyone posting it. It doesn’t make me think less of the people who post it. Man of them are posters I agree with on a variety of things. I will not be negative or pessimistic just for the sake of fitting in.
If there were a group of men that were young and vocal and came as prepared for their jobs as the women do I would be glad to add them into the mix. Ted Lieu would be one.
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37 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Her time has come and gone as well. I am looking at Warren and many of the young firebrands in the House. The younger generation will be the ones to right the ship and it’ll be women leading the way. I saw too many bright and intelligent women speaking last summer at dozens of protests in DC and NYC to think otherwise. The younger generation just gets it and they aren’t going to wait for actions to begin on the terms of a generation that just sits in a sandbox arguing all day because they do not have the capability to move things forward due to a lack of leadership.
I would have put Warren in charge of the senate. She is one of the few older members who would be getting stuff done if she was fully in charge. In the house I would have Porter in control along with Cortez. They would not tolerate the blatant obstruction taking place.
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5 hours ago, B00M said:
36 going on 66.. Meth must be one helluva drug
The drugs that woman has taken have definitely aged her. Combine that with some form of mental illness and there’s a whole bunch of reprogramming to be done with her going forward.
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1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:
A democratic woman is a stumbling block to killing the filibuster
I am aware. I am also aware that the Democratic women interested in getting something done will figure this out. I trust them to do the right thing no matter what obstacles they have placed in front of them.
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Alright Democratic women it’s time to get done what the Democratic men are unable to do. We will get a commission of some sort and it’ll be the women who do it. We have reached the FAAFO part of things.
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3 minutes ago, threesheets said:
You motherfucker.
I've been a rabid Mavs fan since they came into existence, but during the showtime years I was a big Lakers fan/Celtics hater because my dad was a gambler and always bet on LA. Things were better when they won.
I have a friend in Dallas who is a HS basketball coach and lifelong Knicks fan (He goes back to Bernard King with them). He used to sneak into Reunion to watch games when he was a teenager in the 80’s. He told me before the playoffs started that the Mavs will be in the West Finals. He was pretty adamant about that prediction.
I still remember the 88 series against Dallas. That was a wild series. We were that close to not getting back-to-back titles. That was probably the best Mavs team I saw until the one that won it in 2011.
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Just now, threesheets said:
Fair enough, and good for you @UpperWestside There are a lot of "I'm not a Lakers fan, I'ma wherever he at fan" motherfuckers out there.
Mind sharing how you came to be a Lakers fan? I'm in my 40s and only know one that actually grew up in SoCal.
Sure why not. I did not have cable or satellite TV as a kid due to living in the country in a small town in Texas. I saw Magic Johnson and the Showtime Lakers in 1987 and was hooked. To add humor to it CBS used to put the graphic up when they showed the score and it said LA LAKERS. I was so young and the only reference to the LA abbreviation I knew was Louisiana...LOL. I still have my Magic jersey from the 3rd grade and attended both of the victory parades in 2009 and 2010. I drove from Texas to there both times. I tried living in SoCal briefly. Beaches were awesome, but I need seasons so NYC it is.
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2 minutes ago, threesheets said:
Putting a qualifier on what would make the conference finals fun might be the most Lakers/Lebron fan shit ever.
I am a Lakers fan, not a LeBron fan. Wanting to play Utah goes back to series played as far back for me as the late 80’s.
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Just now, totallynotabuttpirate said:
Hey now, Vogel's probably top 1-2 defense coach in the league.
Like most Laker fans I thought he was a curious choice. He got my respect with how he transformed the Lakers into a cohesive defensive unit that became elite on that end of the floor. Obviously having Davis plays a big role in the transformation, but the guys seem to really like him.
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Just now, Sbbruin said:
The Suns were a cute story. NEXT!
We have a fairly easy first two rounds. The West Finals will be fun, especially if we get Utah.
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Crowder is getting Gritty’d out there right now by James.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci Appreciation Thread
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We have millions of people who seem hard-wired to accept some form of this conspiracy theory. I kind of wonder what it is in their personal life that is so troubling that they spend an inordinate amount of time making the construct of their life built around an alternate reality where things like this make perfect sense to them.