DonkeyCigars

Is that a "Let's go Cowboys" chant going in Raymond James?

I knew TB -8.5 was too much. I'm a wuss.

Y'all remember last year early in the season when Brady forgot what down it was and lost the game? Let's get that energy.

lol what? Connor held the crap out of him.

Those decrying Zeke tonight must not understand match-ups and TB's strengths versus our weaknesses. Zeke has done everything we've asked of him and if we lose this game, it's not on him.

Spoken like a true blue Cowboys fan. You know your stuff.

Are you saying that the rare, unsuspecting case of horror and atrocity is perpetrated by those who would also have been your every day business people losing their freaking minds in the most bizarre public spectacles, brought on by the most minor of offenses? I'm sorry, I don't even think I followed you until the whole elementary school story which really took my confusion into a hard turn into the ditch for me. What point are you trying to drive home? Can you dumb it down for a dummy like me?

Weird that the tweet is gone; are we sure we aren't being catfished. Googled it and maybe it's ethnocentric of me, but the fact that it is a study out of Nigeria raises all sorts of hoax red flags.

I literally LOL'ed. Funniest thing you have ever posted.

She was a Client Director at SAP. That's not a bad job for even like 80% of this board from what I can gather of you all, but especially for someone so...unhinged. Really goes to show what happens behind the veil before it is pierced.

I thought I read that was later debunked (as a lot of pop-psychology/business and gladwellian type stuff goes).

We have an extremely low bar for "trolling" if this constitutes trolling: I mean, people say this to people like Gruhorn and Onboard all those people who only watch FoxNews as well, but that's not trolling? It's a fact that there are some hyper-liberal people who will only consume hyper-liberal news in a bubble, just like those who watch only Fox and OAN or any of those what have you's. The reflexive crying about ticky tack "trolling" would be funny if it weren't so overly sensitive and unproductive-- it's like a basketball player constantly whining and crying for a foul every single time someone touches them, when people here cry 'trolling!' because someone says something that doesn't comport with your beliefs and views...especially if the author is someone who is known to be in conflict and opposition of your specific politics and beliefs. By doing this you are showing yourself to be no better than the LeBron James or Tim Duncan or [insert whiny sensitive baby basketball player that you hate so that you can understand and invest in the metaphor] that we all hate for doing the same crap. Do better.

A scary thing to consider: if the moon landing happened today, Russia could spin up a disinformation PR campaign via our online interconnectedness and insanity, and absolutely convince a not insignificant population that the moon landing was a fake conspiracy and it never happened. Or that the astronauts were infected with a Moon virus to turn them into whatever creature Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton really are under their humanoid skin suits. The Aristocrats! Internet!

Half way between growth and opportunity party and the christian conservative party, in the bottom part of the upper right quadrant (Q1). I think my desire to see slightly more gun control, be open to make it easier for the illegals already here to gain citizenship and see marijuana legalized made me more liberal than a true conservative.

Save your breath. You are too intelligent for half the people who are trying to argue with you. Just be content that you are right, you don't have to get them to understand why you are right and it's just going in circles. But it is kinda funny to see the Ted Lasso show thread turn into a thread discussing the merits of season 1 vs season 2 and more of a debate thread.

Maybe "indisputable" is hyperbole in hindsight, if you are scorecarding everything on the balance. But therein lies the problem-- are we accounting for all things in all areas or just the areas we are biased or conditioned to care about? Are we disinterestedly judging these things or are we a victim to any number of psychological and logical fallacies that ensnare us unconsciously because we are emotional, irrational human beings with egos and agendas and ambitions? Like bad_teammate suggested, we are a fluid, complex people who would probably be shocked at how often and to what degrees are brains betray us. Anyways, I don't know how we got off topic and I apologize for my role in that. Getting back to the point of the thread, AoC is pretty rad. She's a good egg for the left for sure and I enjoy watching her politick.

Sorry I thought I was clear in that first sentence that when I was talking about and using the "world", I didn't mean the world at large, but a more myopic American view as illustrated by American society. I think it's indisputable that American society has "progressed" and moved left with what is acceptable and normalized, which I think you even (or someone else who I confuse with you) admitted by saying my contemporary views come off as anachronistic, as if they were germinated in during the 50's.

You are 100% right here, which is why I pleasantly admit that AoC is a genuine, bona fide politician of integrity to her own intentions and her constituents. And she's darn good at what she does. That's impressive and it's kinda fun to watch even if in the back of your mind you still know intellectually you shouldn't be. It's like when Adrian Peterson was playing. He was so good and impressive that you had this healthy respect and even like for the guy even if he was a dirty Sooner. Beyond all that, it doesn't help at all when people speak in absolutes because as you said, probabilities and mathematics have a part to play in any dynamic system.

The last forty years the world, by which I mean American society and culture, has pretty undisputedly moved left. If we look at the etymological roots of the words of progressivism and fundamentalism or conservatism, the question is begged: Fundamentals and origins are opposed to progress and progressivism. So we have, if not a compelling and instantaneous event, a divergence wherein the river splits in two and slowly over time runs farther and farther apart. That river is objective truth. To answer your question, the liberal version of unreality, IMO, is the reality in which liberals today celebrate as norming, if not normative. That's all pretty straightforward but what throws the monkey wrench in the whole works is when you get down to the business of defining (subjective, you called it) what progress is good and what is bad, because that is where the blood gets spilled and the hay gets made.

To a degree, I do agree with you. Funny riposte, nonetheless.

Contrition? Either I’m really not following or you are a victim of iPhone autocorrect.

That’s spot on. We are fluid; we are complex. We all “code switch”, in different ways and degrees.

Everyone has their own lived experiences in addition to their learned and social attitudes, which combine with a fundamental worldview or belief system, that all intersect and combine to inform a political belief or identity. I don’t discount that “repeated lies from the foxnews squaxbox or Joe Rogan podcast” is a big driver of informing a lot of people’s views which a lot of people feel are illegitimate and based upon lies— but the sword cuts both ways. A lot of progressive, “enlightened”, or otherwise liberal beliefs can also be said to be built upon a framework of lies which can also invite the same range of emotions towards them, the same emotions you or others might feel towards those who disagree with you, from pity to scorn to intolerance, etc. And that’s America; two different tall skyscraper apartment buildings, the slabs poured by two disparate and distinct fundamental views, whose landlords each want the other building for themselves. I’m just proposing we, as tenants, be polite to our neighbors.

And look, I'm a complex human being with sometimes conflicting opinions and feelings. To wit: I kinda think AoC is rad and I love Bad_teammate as a poster, even though he's like the opposite of what I'd want in a leader. Or maybe not. I could get behind a bad_teammate revolution with the appropriate promised spoils-- he's got a strong personality.