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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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2 hours ago, Gap03 said:
Jesus Christ, Texas ... so many fucking embarassments.
I have stopped telling people I grew up in Texas. That right there is a good reason why.
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I have a friend at work that is making plans to possibly leave for the UK if the 2024 election has Trump elected again. One of his sons just graduated from the Royal Conservatory in Scotland this summer and now lives in London. He said if there were a way to go now he would. We have talked at length and the amount of crazy is not worth dealing with for him and his family.
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2 hours ago, Helobious said:
I think it is probably time to waive Gallo. He has turned into Chris Davis at the plate. Putting him in the lineup hurts the offense. Kinda similar to having to watch Higashioka bat as well. Find a good backup catcher to replace him at the deadline.
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1 hour ago, Helobious said:
Jesus, Chris Sale just got completely fucked by a line drive. Looked ugly. Dude can’t catch a break at all anymore.
Aww man that just sucks for him. You never want to see guys get injuries. I am sure Hicks, of all people, can greatly empathize with injuries derailing a season.
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9 hours ago, Helobious said:
Funny thing to post on a night they won 14-1.
Yankee Stadium is a perfect place for Carpenter to play. To go from the couch to the best team in baseball and being a big contributor is pretty cool, especially after how his tenure in St. Louis ended.
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Just to clarify here. Mexicans are evil and many should be sent back to Mexico because, reasons, but the second a comparison is made to the best breakfast food ever invented now they are people and deserve respect from what was, by all accounts, a positive statement. Do I have that correct?
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1 hour ago, Bullneck said:
Oh unknown, huh? Let’s take three guesses on who ordered the text message sent and the first three don’t count.
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Just now, Mdhorn said:
and Mitch, who appointed them.
Go after him too. He shares responsibility for the destabilization of our government. He put it right there in the storefront window by lying to a camera. I would have those justices removed and replaced and who cares what a single cult member thinks. It is going to take some drastic action that President Biden is not interested in.
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7 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:
Trump also left the march to the capitol portion out of his written draft and added it during the speech, even though pillow guy and others knew it was coming. The fear was that it would mobilize others to shut it down.
If Trump has any evidence of fraud, now might be the time to come out with it. At this point, he can't continue beating that drum without proof. He built a whole case without any evidence, creating a riot where lives were lost. He's destabilizing elections going forward and raising campaign money on the lie, but surely his followers would require something? Are they that damn brain dead that they blindly follow a fat fuck that doesn't even lead--just points to a cliff.
It’s a cult. Had two guests at work yesterday that said it pretty distinctly. Everyone here knows it is a cult, but the people in it don’t know until it is too late.
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27 minutes ago, immamac said:
If the DOJ doesn't indict after all this stuff then America is fucked and the people who can do something about it are choosing not to do anything about it.
DOJ should prosecute under the fullest extent of the law and let the Supreme Court get exposed, don't just refuse because you know that the SC will toss it.
The excuse that is routinely given is we all need to come together as a country. In this case that doesn’t fly, at all. Every single person involved needs the book thrown at them.
As far as the Supreme Court, we’ll, they are a lost cause. Justices lie under oath with no consequences. The Democrats need to find a firebrand that’ll go after those justices.
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7 hours ago, CooterBrown said:
Everyone is crazy. This was solid. Thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. There were a few cringy things like Bao or the head and foot god but those were few and far between.
I really enjoyed it. If you go see a movie directed by Taika Waititi you should expect the movie to be funny and silly. He’s a grown up kid living out his dreams. These movies are not just made for the adults and I think that is where there is a disconnect. This movie was as much for kids as the adults. I left the movie happy and in a great mood because it was uplifting and positive.
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I think that most of the reasons stated here that didn’t come from Qanon sites or Fox News have merit. The social safety net will collapse sooner rather than later and when that happens good luck to any country that is standing on that bridge when it blows up.
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I enjoyed this movie and I got what Taika was doing with it. It had an intentional 80’s vibe to it, which again I get, but that made it enjoyable. I like everything he does though. I did enjoy this movie and it made me smile and feel good which is kind of the point of a movie like this.
Those goats though! Hoo boy!
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39 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
If a specific gun is the problem, and it's been available for the last 60+ years, why has it only been an issue in the last 10?
The short answer is with the rise of white nationalist propaganda that spreads to people susceptible to it, there is an almost naturals rise in violence when it comes to guns like these. As with anything a situation evolves until it reaches its natural conclusion. The NRA helped put us in the position we are in. Congressional leaders helped put us in this predicament by never having the courage to take a stand against guns. Many of them wanted looser gun restrictions. Congratulations you got what you wanted. A country flowing with guns where no community can ever feel safe anymore is the result. The internet, holy sweet Lord on this one, did far more than just the propaganda heavy lifting. It made a whole bunch of people who have delusions of grandeur feel like they have a support network for the violence they want to inflict. This is why the last ten years have been more and more violent with this and similar weapons. We are just in the beginning stages I believe.
All of this has come to a head now and it is like trying to take on a hurricane with a rowboat.
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Just now, Celery Man said:
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Look I don’t want to say it’ll take a four digit number to do the right thing. I, like most here, do not believe anything will change things. We have guns everywhere. Unless the government outlaws these weapons to f war and forcibly takes them away with threat of going to prison for years and years nothing is going to happen. If children being gunned down in school doesn’t move the needle nothing likely will.
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4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
How about "guns that blow people up"?
Getting there, but going to need more imagery for the folks who do not comprehend how horrific that is.
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All of these deaths are tragic. Anyone with even a smidgen of sanity knows that. None of these deaths move the needle at all on real gun reform laws. If I were to take a guess I think it’s going to take a mass casualty shooting where the number of deaths is in the triple digits for something to be done. We are sharing a country with millions upon millions of people who value guns over people. Outside of the government passing laws to confiscate these weapons of war nothing is going to change.
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:
I'm not sure which team's "style of play" is a good fit for D'Lo.
And that’s fair.
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7 hours ago, aggie08 said:
There's nothing inadvertent about it. KD did Golden State a solid agreeing to a sign and trade. He could have signed with Brooklyn straight up, but Bob Myers convinced him to help them out one last time. With the Warriors bloated salary, it was the only mechanism available to ultimately add another star next to the core 3.
The inadvertent part was being able to turn Russell into Wiggins. The Warriors looked at that trade as a home run. I was on the fence about how much was Wiggins going to help them, but Kerr was adamant at the time that Wiggins would be a better fit for their style of play.
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Warriors fans should probably now thank Durant for leaving because it got the ball rolling on this latest title. Acquiring Russell from the Nets led to the trade for Wiggins. Without Wiggins they do not win the title this season. He inadvertently kept that title window open for the Warriors so he deserves some credit here.
Obviously they still would have been in the small group of teams that would have had a legitimate shot to win a title had he stayed. Just kinda funny how things work out at times.
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On 7/2/2022 at 5:58 AM, slorch said:
My response to these people, including some in my extended family:
1. If God left the schools, it was by personal choice of the individuals attending. I never left my faith at home. Why do you? You require a prayer be read to you every morning and call that "God in the schools?" WTH ever....
2. A well rounded education MUST include different POVs and perspectives than what the individual experiences at home.
3. If your child is such a delicate flower( or you are such a negligent parent as to be unable to be an example of your beliefs or follow-up on a regular basis on the materials your child learns at school) well the child is going to have their beliefs/ ideals crushed in short order anyhoo. Stop blaming public schools for your failure/ fear.
I disagree with the approach by Arizona. I have long felt that private schools should be above and beyond what the citizen still pays for public schools. Public schools are a base level expectation for our whole society that we made years ago. It still is the right commitment. Education, along with employment are two of the biggest factors in social mobility. Some folks seem hellbent on knocking out one of those planks. The deceit and deliberate assault on equality makes me angry.
I agree with all of this. If you have to make a public display of your faith a central point of your child’s public school existence you are doing so at the expense of others that may not share that same faith. I did not grow up with any real belief system in a higher being, but I do remember citing the Pledge of Allegiance and the Texas Pledge as well as the Star Spangled Banner on Fridays in elementary school. Looking back it’s a bit odd to have done all that, but that’s thankfully a bygone era.
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Okay, cool. I have only actively rooted against one Laker during my fandom stretching back to the 80’s. He’ll be number two if he puts on the purple and gold.
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Charter schools are an inherently evil consortium. They are pillaging the public schools and I am 100 percent against their existence. They are destroying public school education here. The students are nothing more than a paycheck and a nice profit at this point.
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4 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:
Right? Yo KD, why don't you take the next four years off and come back when you're 37. Great fucking plan.
Also, let's not forget that the Nets took a pretty huge gamble on him, signing him to $160+ million for 4 years (one of which they knew he couldn't play) coming off an Achilles injury. And then he comes in and brings that batshit crazy Kyrie as his running mate, and then has them sell the farm for James Harden. And now, he wants a out? And he would prefer Phoenix; it's a dry heat. If I'm the Nets, I'm pretty sure my response would be, "How about go fuck yourself?"
This is probably where I sit on this. He created this situation. He teamed up with someone who thinks the earth is flat and had the franchise bend to his whims. If I am the Nets I just give him the money and say to heck with all of this and that he either plays for them or no one.
I can also only imagine what the Warriors players must be thinking right now about this. Feel pretty certain they are getting some good laughs out of this.
Buttigieg/Secretary of Transportation Thread
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I won’t put a ceiling on him. So much of his future in the political realm will be determined in the next 5-7 years though. If he were married to a woman he would have a cakewalk to the presidency. If society ever moves past that ridiculous hang-up about who he loves then the top office in the land is within his reach. It’s sad that that still can determine his future and the impact he can make on this country.