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2 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

If the GOP splits in two..why would moderate democrats ever move right?

I don’t know that “move right” is the correct framing. Maybe - move back from the far left a bit?

the far left has had some control over certain topics because the dems couldn’t afford to lose them and the gops lurch to the right created a shrinking middle area to fight over 

but some of the more progressive social issues the left wing pushes aren’t super popular with everyone else but gain support when the alternatives are what MAGA wants. 
 

Biden isn’t as pro choice as the far left. But he does have to cater to those people. When the other side offers banning abortion outright, there’s not a lot of success to be found staking out the middle ground. 
 

the Israel Hamas stuff is another topic where it’s easy to see the dynamic. There’s lots more. 
 

6 hours ago, CjSuAvE22 said:

What did I do that makes you think I’m some kind of “nazi sympathizing fascist”? Something was posted that was not true plain and simple I was just calling that out. 
 

 

Guilt by association/you are the company you keep

When it comes to Nazi fascism you’re either against it; or you’re for it. There really isn’t a middle ground. 
 

the republicans that speak out about it wind up kicked out of the party. 
 

🤷‍♂️ 

2 hours ago, Bang said:

it just really seems unfair that the rest of us have to play in reality while some folks can traipse around in la-la land

This is exactly what I told my wife when we were arguing the other day (she was the one in la la land)
 

it didn’t really go over very well. 

2 hours ago, CjSuAvE22 said:

Believe what you want.

I’m well aware that twitter is a  cesspool  of misinformation and people unintentionally running with bad information. And I’ve seen it get posted here before. It’s funny because if you go back to the page it’s on a day or two latter, the embedded tweet will have a newly included “community comment” about how it’s misinformation. 
 

i really don’t care who is on the side of the road cheering for whom. It has no impact on what I think about any of them. Although lying about it that way is absolutely on-brand for Team Trump, regardless if it’s true. 
 

but if you’re going to point out 3 things, the easiest thing to do is pick the one easiest to verify and check it out. If it doesn’t - why spend a second on the others? If you can’t get the easy one right why am I supposed to believe it’s possible you got the harder to verify stuff right?

the tweet wasn’t deleted. I’m not interested in arguing about for whom those people were cheering and when it was shot. Just wanted to give you an explanation for my comment.  🤷‍♂️ 

44 minutes ago, CjSuAvE22 said:

Why? That is proven to be Trump not Biden, the person who took the video has already called most of the libs/dems out…and the tweet claiming it was Biden has Been deleted….

Well the tweet claiming it was Biden has not been deleted

not really gonna invest in the other two points given you couldn’t get the simple one right 

There’s very few things about the law and litigation that I have any confidence that I understand. 
 

but one I absolutely am confident of is that it’s very, very bad to get caught hiding/withholding/destroying evidence

This game is nuts 

dudes flying around everywhere 😂 

Crazy ending so far 😂 

Yeah. I thought it’d be neat to do it. 
 

then they sent a novel for me to fill out with the 5$. I laughed and threw it in the trash. They then spammed me for years. 
 

It’s the most backasswards method in modern days. Just partner with the providers it’s all digital what people watch. 

2 hours ago, PleaseBlitz said:

 

Maybe if they were given more than one news cycle to think about it, they would arrive at outrage.  Under our current way of doing business, we'll never know. 

He’s like a gish gallop of controversy 

Honestly I assumed people still wearing watches (under the age of 60) were doing it for style purposes. Because it fit their outfit and how they wanted to look. 
 

I figured it was a small % that actually just prefer to check time that way 

@PeterMP

ok so you’re saying the same thing that’s been known for a long time. I’ve got a buddy and a wife I’ve been telling them both this for years. If instead of being extreme and doing something they can’t stick to (because it’s really hard and backfires as you said), they need to be more reasonable and consistent. 
 

yes. It’s going to be hard. Yes, it’s going to take time. And yes you need reasonable expectations and to accept where you are and how you got there and what you can get to with the effort you’re willing to put in. 
 

it’s the same reason we have poor people win the lottery and wind up poor again. If you want change you have to be honest with yourself about how you got there and what it takes to get where you want to be. 

4 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

Are people poor because they made bad decisions or do they make bad decisions because they are poor?

Or are they poor because of external factors? Or do they make bad decisions because of external factors (bad/absent parenting or single parenting which is very hard, or bad schools)?

to me the problem is the need to paint with broad brushes. 
 

to me there are lots of reasons why any individual may be poor - and it could be any combination of those reasons. 
 

where it gets interesting is what they do about it. Just like there are many possible reasons for why someone is poor, there are many possible reasons why someone remains poor. 

Edit: and even more interesting (to me) - what role does the government have or not have in all of it (which is where most of my disagreement with our liberal posters lays - I don’t think the government is responsible for fixing nearly as many issues as they tend to seem they think (based on my interpretation of their posts))

@PeterMPwhat you’re talking about sounds like a fancy way of saying yo-yo dieting/exercising, which I touched on earlier. 
 

I can’t read the article. But this research you keep brining up and stuff you keep linking - is this what they’re seeing with people that establish an exercise routine over 6 months and stick to it?

or is it something people are seeing as a short term result?

because it’s well known that starting/stopping exercise and dieting causes the problems you describe. And what I’ve always understood is that to actually get results you have to push through it. You have to make serious life style changes - from regular exercise, to eating less, to eating more healthy things, and other things about your life. 

@mcsluggo I understand luck has a role. But again - we’re talking about basics here. 

But… I’m not a fan of everyone’s a victim of the system. Sorry, just not. There’s too much abdication of personal responsibility in our society. 
 

There are definitely people that are victims of circumstance or the system. I’m not stupid I’m aware that happens and it happens way too much in my opinion. 
 

But I see it the same way as I see the vaccine allergy people. Sure - they exist. But they’re a tiny fraction and most the people claiming it are full of ****. 
 

Everyone’s got an excuse for why their situation isn’t their fault. If you want to accept the excuses have at it, but I don’t. It’s one of my major gripes with the dems platform - they seem to literally think everyone’s a hard working person that’s simply a victim of circumstance. Conspiracy theories at their heart are coming up with reasons why you don’t control your situation and you can’t fix it. There’s a reason they’re so popular these days. The “conspiracy theories are for losers” article was a great read years ago when someone posted it here. 
 

My career has afforded me the opportunity to see it time and time again. When working with or leading groups, finger pointing is always a red flag that failure is imminent. 
 

People that admit their mistakes and focus on how to fix things - in my experience those people are generally successful. 
 

There’s also a “make your own luck” factor. I was lucky that we were looking for our first house when the housing crisis happened. Lots of people my age were unable to take advantage of it. We were able to do something with that situation because we had previous saved up enough money that we could afford to take advantage at a time credit was tightening. So we were lucky the market fell apart, but our ability to actually do something about it was based on decisions made prior with it being totally unforeseen that we would have the opportunity we had. None of my friends could cause none of them were responsible with their money.  That’s just one example. There are more. You all give “luck” way more credit than it’s worth. 
 

But it makes sense. If you can write something off as luck, well, then you really didn’t have any role in the outcome did you?

I imagine there’s strong correlations between bad personal decision making and being poor, across the board. 
 

3 minutes ago, Simmsy said:

 

**** that guy. As a black man, if I did that, I would be in jail...probably dead. You don't get to put a gun in someone's face, force them out of their car, put them on the ground, take their wallet and then be "Well, I was upset". **** you, go to jail.

Well, he is in jail. 
 

When I read the original post, I assumed a 3 am issue and yeah if I found a grown man dropping my 13 year old off at 1, 2, or 3 am I’d have a ****ing problem with that. 
 

now that we have a working link to the story it’s all sorts of weird. It was 11pm. The girl had friends at the house (but snuck out and came back on her own?) idk too much crazy going on there to care anymore. I’m sure the police are handling it correctly.

Curious how long it takes the jury to come back with whatever they decide. 
 

According to WTOP, closing arguments should be Tuesday. And jury instructions Wednesday. Judge already said he didn’t want trial Friday and they don’t think there’s smooth time to do things this week. 

The worst is the yo-yo dieting and exercising 

you do it just long enough to freak your body out and not know what to do, and then stop so your body stores all new stuff in fear of the next time you decide to randomly start “starving” it. 
 

consistency is key. 
 

it’s a running joke for anyone that frequents a gym that come January just work out at home for 3-4 weeks. 
 

that’s all it takes for the flood of new people with New Year’s resolutions on giving a **** about themselves to give up cause its too hard or they don’t have time 

then you get your gym back for the next 11 months. 

I don’t wear a watch 

🤷‍♂️ 

50 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen said:

 

Unfortunately it seems like his supporters don't care, just like supporters of Mussolini didn't mind it when he had the manager of a train station shot..."well, he made the trains run on time." Remember Marge Schott? She praised Hitler saying he "did a lot of good but went too far."

 

We also have a lot of migrants here from countries that don't support democracy in the first place, so they don't see the big deal in electing an authoritarian.

I’m not sure it’s that they don’t care. I think it’s worse. I think they want it. He’s not saying or doing this stuff because he’s a Nazi/racist (not saying he isn’t either - just it’s not his motivation.) he’s saying it because he knows there’s support for it. These are the same people that are apparently pro-Russia now…

i don’t want to get too far into the weeds on this - I feel like it’s everyone’s personal responsibility to understand their government, their society, and their history and to set their own morals. I’m not trying to absolve them of responsibility. But… this makes total sense. When people are unhappy with their situation their first move is to blame someone else. It’s a natural thing that our society just can’t get past. Pick a topic - you’ll find tons of people that have a list of reasons that caused the problem or makes it worse, but they won’t be on the list. Scapegoating and that to get support is a pretty reliable tactic. Nazi germany largely became what it was based on that. We have (or had…) young American men going over seas to join terrorist organizations for the same reason. 
 

we don’t take care of ourselves. We don’t take care of our own. And it’s been going on for decades. We don’t take care of our infrastructure, health care or education systems. Immigration issues have existed for decades and the same crop of politicians kick the can down the road, or refuse to compromise, and nothing is fixed. 
 

everyone’s got a reason why none of this is their fault and it’s all someone else’s fault. But when society behaves this way this is the logical conclusion. 

2 hours ago, DCSaints_fan said:

 

Sorry if I come across as a naysayer but lifting more than an hour everyday, or even 6 days a week on average is going to be massive  overtraining for most people who aren't bodybuilders/power lifters on gear.  And even a fair amount of those don't put in that much work

Oh I understand that. I was just posting my personal experience,

specifically with regard to breaking habits and forming new ones. I’ve made and broken lots of good and bad habits - I know it’s hard but it’s surely not impossible and it comes down to how much you care. 
 

I think generally speaking within the conversation I’ve stuck to “exercise.” Which is very ambiguous. Walking, running, riding a bike, using your body weight or household furniture or going to a gym or building a gym in a spare room. Trainers, supplements… the options are endless. And yeah some of that really truly requires money and a lot of time. 
 

but some of it doesn’t require much of anything. It requires making it a priority. Anyone can walk/run. There’s a whole internet community around working out at home doing exercised that don’t require purchasing anything - and it’s very similar to what a were all taught in elementary school PE. Just like we’re taught how to eat right. 
 

We’re not talking about bulking up or building a bikini-suitable body. We’re talking about doing the basics such that you don’t require a pill every day to not be obese. 
 

no I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect someone to lift weights for an hour a day ever day.

but it is reasonable to expect people to develop habits that prevent them from getting to a point they need this pill. Everyone has rough weeks and months. But going years or over a decade with no basic exercise routine is a personal problem. No one is going to take care of your body for you. So if you’re not going to do it …

edit: that being said I’m aware someone that goes over 300 lbs (just as an example) as an adult has things about their body change that presents new and very difficult challenges. But that’s not everyone. 

So many odd things with that story 😂 

On 5/11/2024 at 1:01 AM, Ball Security said:

https://www.wral.com/video/man-who-pulled-gun-on-uber-driver-said-he-was-protecting-daughter/21422201/
 

This ****head pulled a gun on an Uber driver who dropped his 13 year old daughter who had snuck out. Made him lay face down in n his driveway. Now, he’s playing the sympathy card because evidently you can’t do that even if you are in Florida and have previously served.

This link doesn’t work but I’m not necessarily upset about that 

20 minutes ago, China said:

“No. No. This is not a conversation,” the judge stated.

Literally like talking to a child 

😂