Youtube comments of A.J. Hart (@cobbler88).

  1. At every presser for the next three years, he should ask that reporter if he denounces STDs, regardless of how many times previously he denounced them.
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  2.  @bradleyjohnson6107  Prior generations also had children who learned they couldn't run to their parents to solve every playground issue and who knew they wouldn't be rewarded without good reason. Hell, we now have a situation in which fewer children even want to learn how to drive a car. I know it's tough to swallow given the media you've been exposed to, but gays and blacks have not had to live in a general state of fear for at least 40-50 years. And those who would do harm to them consisted of a handful of people. It was not a society-wide issue. And back then people could actually discuss those issues, unlike today where our younger generations refuse to sit at the table of ideas to put theirs against the opposition's. That's probably smart on their part. Today, movies and hear in podcasts regularly claim that a period like the 80s was bigoted and sexist. But back then there was actually a fairly bulletproof redress for sexual harassment that worked until a generation came along convinced of how precious it was. Also, every boy did NOT want to date Molly Ringwald, and it was recognized that the "greed" spoken of in "Wall Street" was this thing called "making money" and everyone kind of likes to do that. That decade was already so PC that Americans went to great lengths to pretend that AIDS was not only a serious issue, but an equal opportunity offender in the U.S. People did all walk around snorting cocaine through rolled up $100 bills, though. And there was this thing called the "Coors Party Ball."   By the way, millennials are now part of the corporate machine and environment. As such, they now get to help bear responsibility for both. What does it say when those people turn around and refuse to acknowledge their own accountability?
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  3. Joe's solution: Republicans should just take up Democrat positions on all the high-profile issues. I'm not sure that's really a solution.
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  4. Being a typical American millennial, "the world" means "among people my age who I don't know."
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  5. True. There are just as many "third wave ska" bands today, producing just as many ska hits. :)
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  6. It looked more like guacamole than wasabi. Although, much of the "wasabi" we get her in the U.S. isn't real wasabi.
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  7. I'm a Gen Xer. I recognize that the "world" changed much less during the 25 years preceding my birth in 1970 than it did in the five years following my graduation from college (after serving in the Army) in 1997. Having scrolled down past a few hundred replies, it's interesting to see how many of the millennials are crapping on Gen Z regarding how ill-equipped it will be once it hits the workplace. Most millennials seem to have NO IDEA how much we've had to dumb things down and lower standards in today's workplace/society to accommodate them. It was ultimately to their detriment, but it had to be done. They will "discover" how this all plays out in the coming decades.
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  8.  @MarkMcDaniel  Nah. They just do what every generation does: redefine what the things are that matter. :)
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  9. Yes. Whatever the gays are listening to in the clubs is the latest incarnation of disco.
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  10. One minor correction: Steben A. Smiff isn't great at arguing. He simply enjoys doing it.
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  11. ​@LunaLapin-ho5tk I would say it's a small part of a bigger picture. These folks saw that their tax dollars were going out the door and never benefitting them beyond the bare minimum that the city is required to do. And the people getting that money just got worse. I applaud them for breaking off.
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  12. Those charges were already in play. Not that the defense has been doing it's job at all since Tuesday, but it didn't bat an eye at the discussion of lower-level charges along the same vein today.
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  13. In other words, their list of one-hit wonders isn't necessarily made up of one-hit wonders. Pass.
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  14. Seriously? You just HAD to make sure you ran the clip from "John Wick" where they killed the dog? What the hell is wrong with you people?
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  15. Nah. The standards will be so low after the Millennials find themselves in positions of influence that Gen Z will be able to slide right in, then take over.
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  16. Remember, overdoing some of these foods CAN kill you - not WILL kill you. Plus - among those foods featured in the vid - you'll likely never even SEE about half of them them in your lives, and most you wouldn't be eating much of to begin with.
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  17. "If you go carnivore, you WILL feel better, but it might effect longevity. I stick with a plant-based diet that leaves me feeling miserable, but at least I get to feel that way much longer."
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  18.  @giancarloleon9983  As opposed to the font of non-Trump and Republicans-are-racist originality that comes fro the Left, right?
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  19. The counterculture movement did that itself. People don't seem to understand how incredibly unpopular that movement was until about the end of the Vietnam war. It was characterized as "counter" for a reason.
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  20. Had the guest not chosen to use up so much time crying about his introduction maybe he'd have had more time to speak on issues of actual substance. 🤣
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  21. Gallagher? What, were Emo Philips and Judy Tenuta too current to be on the list?
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  22.  @GeorgeGreen3  The thing to remember is that Dr Rhonda is not a medical doctor. She's a PhD in biomedical science. She is much more qualified to discuss the effects of a keto diet then she is something like this.
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  23. His story is VERY carefully constructed. And he's seen what happens if he gets too specific about something - he gets embarrassed. He keeps things very close to the vest, making sure most claims are as vague as they need to be, that they are almost impossible to prove either way, and he's resisted the urge to placate his own ego by having answers to everything. He's more than willing to say "I don't know." That's perhaps the most genius part of his narrative.
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  24.  @isabellamariazeta7115  You mean the terms that seem to only be enforced in one direction, that change on a regular basis, correct?
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  25. P: That's what American liberals do. They pretend to be offended for those who they deem too stupid to be offended for themselves. It's one aspect of their particular form of racism.
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  26. And from the sound of it, he was like these characters in real life
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  27.  @JayLethal  Carrying out racist acts is a far cry from saying something racist when you're breaking balls.
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  28. It's very telling. Had Joe not challenged her on each of these points they would have gone through and been accepted by many as being statements of fact.
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  29. It's not a matter of whether VWs are reliable. It's whether they're more reliable than the Lambo has been, historically. :)
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  30. With the more successful speculators, the foundation of facts is solid. So much so that less ingenious people don't even notice the huge leaps in logic that are built upon that foundation.
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  31.  @subg8858  The National Parks Service falls under the Department of the Interior, which is part of the executive branch. President Trump did not set the price for the sticker I put on my window last year. Neither does he know the best way to shovel up bear shit.
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  32. @Diamant Unfortunately, they get to write all the history books. :) People actually believe that it was student protests that ended the war, based on basically every movie put out since 1980. Oh well. As long as lack of knowledge doesn't harm others.
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  33. I see this is where all the monumentally stupid people come to share their opinions about a trial they either didn't watch, weren't smart enough to understand, or are eager to lie about. To explain to TYT: all of those are bad things.
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  34. Always. Like with cereals. The label of the store brand cheerios is no where NEAR that of the real thing.
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  35. Seriously. And it doesn't LOOK like OJ in any way either. This strikes me as someone who was given Sunny D as a kid and believes that it is the same thing as OJ.
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  36.  @malorie8557  Back in the day when Dems were liberals rather than "the Left," we could argue that both sides wanted the same ends but disagreed about the means. I don't think we can still say that anymore.
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  37. I don't think that's possible. PBD was being the sort of slimy that got him to where he is, and Whitlock called him a "used car salesman" and said he had "feminine energy."
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  38. True. In fact, as one of the moneyed elite, I can tell you that we just had a meeting in April, and near the top of the agenda was the continued use of the sombrero. It's very important to us.
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  39. Anyone else get the feeling that "Pat Dwyer" has a "tough time writing things that "are not" at least "a little" condescending while doling out the "most basic" advice?
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  40. If you spend a couple of hours on it, you can get the hang of rolling your own. This actually doesn't save much time. It DOES make it more idiot-proof.
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  41. With what went down Friday, don't be so sure that there will be a unanimous acquittal. Once again, the defense sat by, dicks in hand, and did next to nothing to protect its client.
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  42. Oh yeah. There have been millions of "racists" created since this nonsense all started.
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  43.  @brandonbartlett5667  Just don't mention repair costs. Maybe over the life of the car it's about a wash, but the fixes unique to hybrids tend to be pricey enough that you're sidelined or spending months paying that off. Even a reconditioned battery is running about $900 now. New can be $3K. You can make multiple, significant repairs to a gas-only vehicle for the cost of replacing a battery in a hybrid. Again, maybe it's ultimately a wash. But those hybrid fixes are more apt to really hit you hard.
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  44. At that point, Goodell will step in and tell a team to draft her in the last batch of players as he did with Michael Sam. He's got a soft spot in his heart for players who LOOOOOOVE the cock.
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  45. "The boys should have forfeited." Something only someone who thinks like a woman would say.
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  46.  @eaglerider1826  The big thing was not pressing the argument against the drone video. That could cost them an acquittal. MY guess is maybe they thought they are so far ahead that rather than push days ago for a mistrial with prejudice, they want this thing to go to jury so that it will be over and done with. But with that video changing the jury instructions now, I don't see an entire jury acquitting Kyle.
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  47. This guy can't even come up with anything better than hackneyed, middle school talking points (let alone appear in anything approaching professional) when sharing the stage with the likes of Charlie Kirk. How can any of you believe he would escape a back and forth with Ben Shapiro without being made to appear as though he suffered from a form of mental retardation. Hell, I can't honestly say doesn't raise a few doubts with this video.
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  48.  @jusone9802  When steps are taken so that the speech cannot take place, the result is the same. The most accessible examples are all of the conservative speakers who were scheduled - then not allowed to speak on college campuses in the last few years. A student groundswell of opposition is claimed regardless of how truthful the basis is, the university suddenly claims a speech that was permitted a few months earlier suddenly requires tens of thousands of dollars in additional security, etc., etc. There are always excuses made, but ultimately those venues are picking and choosing which opinions they will allow on campus. In a weird way, it's like steroids. They were once legal without a prescription. Once they were outlawed, then people took substances that facilitated to the creation of those steroids within their bodies. When THOSE were banned, we just moved one step earlier in the bodily process. Once that first domino is tipped over, it doesn't matter if it reads "no free speech" on the side. What matters is what's on the LAST domino in that chain to fall. It's ironic that the people making sure that doesn't happen always claim to be doing it in the name of combating "facsism."
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  49.  @hgetahun  Except for all the people who have posted comments who tried it, of course. And it doesn't take an expert to see someone juggling pianos and thinking to themselves that it might not be the best idea. I think it has a window of efficacy, but the cost is greater as you age, and once you hit a certain point it's just going to tear your sh!t up.
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  50. I would suck at them. I know how good I am.
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  51. Dr. Rhonda has a Ph.D. in biomedical science. She is not a medical doctor. She's always seemed well read but is clearly more in her wheelhouse when discussing the effects of keto than of covid vaccines.
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  52. Phonics is our mental default. They can end phonics teaching all they want. We all sound out words when we're learning them.
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  53. It's how you know they've become real New Yorkers.
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  54. Thank you for proving the point about lack of accountability on the part of women.
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  55. KNOWING that he was being slimy doesn't make him any better of a person in this situation.
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  56.  Soltron  Because what was agreed to was an interview - not a panel. Why would Jason ask if anyone else would be present?
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  57. ​ @joka7316 So you believe "Raider Nation" refers to an organized geographic state, do you?
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  58. I imagine the therapist has actually diagnosed the PTSD.
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  59.  @GrowYour-Own  The problem is, you don't need an entire jury to be unreasonable. You only need to convince someone who wants to believe that they are that blurry thing in the image they are watching is Kyle raising that weapon. And because the defense today didn't raise the issue you did, that the video shows nothing, the prosecution is going to be able to claim it does to a jury that has been told that anything it sees as possibly being provocative can be a basis for throwing out the self-defense defense.
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  60. I love all these folks tossing out other things that Singapore does as though Walsh advocated for those as well. Like it's in any way relevant to saying that in this specific area he thinks we should do these specific things.
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  61.  @jusone9802  The Dems don't have to introduce straight-out legislation. They have the colleges carrying their water, and they have judges fabricating such things as "hate speech" and trying to make them criminal. You don't need formalities when you can rely on other institutions to do that. With Kaepernick, I don't recall anyone abridging his free speech. Remember, he was on the clock when he was taking a knee. No one has ever made the case that he isn't allowed to behave like a moron on his own time. But you and I know that our workplaces are a different story altogether.
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  62.  @Lfomod1Dubstep  There is no such thing as a "world patriot." By definition, there can't be.
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  63.  @jusone9802  This, of course, runs counter to the reality we see every day, but don't let that stop you. Trump supporters likely aren't thrilled with the likes of Snowden, but they also aren't the ones shutting down our ability to freely discuss things in today's world.
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  64. So are we kind of being asked to believe: 1) Her handlers and the USOC didn't know the rules about banned substances. 2) They don't have ADHD drugs in Japan that she couldn't have gotten on to in advance.
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  65. TG: I think people are curious as to how the liberal seems to be living in such a fairly comfortable situation while still in pursuit of career success (since the video didn't show him doing any sort of work that we might believe was compensated). There are some reasons to be a little suspicious that we may not be getting the whole story about that guy.
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  66. Dane Cook is the Nickelback of comedy. Agreed that, for some reason, it just became cool to bag on the guy even though I can't recall anything he's done that really bugged me. I wasn't aware of the joke-stealing allegations. The ones against Mencia have been proven time and again.
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  67. That's assuming that Lee could land 3-10 shots to the face, and whether they'd actually do much damage. One thing people rarely factor in is that, while a fellow martial artist recognizes great speed in others, he doesn't see it as being as fast as civilians do when you're squaring off against it because you're used to speed. It's comparable to how a 95 mph fastball looks insanely fast to someone who is not used to stepping into the box against (and, in my case, catching) 95 mph fastballs. And Lee's got to keep a distance to land his shots. A grappler might not feel it's a good strategy to allow an opponent to remain at an ideal striking distance. :)
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  68. 11. Anything you see in an overflowing Walmart shopping cart being pushed by someone who intends to pay with an EBT card.
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  69. atrapforfools Yep. Tomorrow will be the list of all the directors who only made one movie, but it was memorable. Most of the directors will have actually made dozens of films, but let's ignore that for the purpose of making a list.  
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  70.  @Luke-te2ez  If you can name one of those people who speaks about Lee whose reputations aren't enhanced by that contact - or by perpetuating his legend - let the class know. Jesse Jackson made a career off of simply being with MLK Jr. when he was killed. The Lee sycophants, unfortunately, may be no different.
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  71. Crowder being a garbage human being in front of the camera was just his sizzle reel for a TYT audition.
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  72. I've been stating the obvious - that the clocks been ticking on the likes of Crowder and Pool for awhile, and they've at best only got a few years left. Of course, disgusting behavior caught by a camera makes him perfect for TYT.
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  73.  Trevor Robinson  Let us please not offend the radish.
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  74. You'd be screaming at everyone all the time as well if the mayor and the commissioner were always breathing down your neck and your subordinates were writing checks that their bodies couldn't cash! 🤣
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  75. I mean, Ventura was wrong about WMDs, the NG serving overseas being a Bush creation, and never corrected the interviewer regarding his service, so I'm not sure he's my go-to for truth. But some people - when they hear something presented a certain way - are more than willing to buy everything that is said to them.
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  76. Phonics has never been a thing of the past. Everyone learns words by sounding them out, etc. No one is taught to just look at the word "bill" and just remember how it's said. We all sound words out. People are being a little selectively disingenuous on this comment board and, I believe, in the vid. Take care.
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  77.  @haledwards4642  That must be it! Loads of Scandinavian immigrants in nuclear families who strongly stress the importance of education, self-reliance and respect for institutions. 🤣
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  78. Yes. I remember all the complete books I had to read when I was a child in the 70s and 80s, which amounted to maybe three. I read many more books at home in my spare time. Damn that No Child Left Behind, implemented when I was 32!
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  79.  @renawilhite1  So when you visit is it more like strolling through a living meth head nature preserve? 🤪
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  80. Biggest shopping day of the year? Juneteemf?!
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  81.  @celan4288  She didn't realize that EVERYONE learns through phonics to some extent. I was an ed major for awhile. They fill their heads with a LOT of silliness.
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  82. Douglas was at least able to point out the lack of specificity at every turn. He easily cast Enver as being slippery and disingenuous.  @saturday7 
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  83. Dang. A lot of those high-crime school areas seem to have something in common. I just can't quite put my finger on it.
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  84.  @jusone9802  Players before an NFL game are not told to salute. And if their employer tried to compel them to act in advocacy in a manner contrary to their position on something, there may be ground for discussion. But standing for the National Anthem is not a statement in support of troops, foreign policy positions, etc. It's a mistake by conservatives to conflate those things. Not everything that involves a flag and/or patriotism is about the troops. I'm not sure what the point was regarding Ben Shapiro. He's paid by organizations to speak - not the university itself. Although university defunding of conservative groups on campus has also been an issue. But university funding is only a fraction of the funding such groups receive, and it definitely does not cover the cost of Shapiro or a guilless bomb-thrower like Ann Coulter. It's not quite the university laundering money by using a group as a middle man, or an accounting quirk like when tax money goes to pay for abortions through Planned Parenthood despite the Hyde Amendment prohibiting it. The double-standard example of President Obama is nonsensical. The same people are for and against a "militarized" police force now as were then. The only difference is that as of a few months ago a spotlight has been cast on what happens when police are not allowed to do their jobs. Those who want them to actually protect and serve are becoming even more in favor of it, but are still drowned out by the chorus of voices of people thoughtless enough to believe that defunding or abolishing the police are good ideas. Comparing the two presidencies in this regard is like saying, "There is such a double standard! Everyone wanted to stay OUT of the war BEFORE Pearl Harbor, and now look at how loud the voices are of those in favor of it!" I would also submit that there's a difference between President Trump verbally ridiculing someone (or, let me guess, you're a "words are violence!" person?), and Antifa and BLM rioters beating people with bicycle chains or shooting police. Equivocating the behavior of the rank and file of the two poles is a laughable exercise and reveals a great deal about the person putting that idea forth. In short, he is not worth the calories required to continue a dialogue. There's a reason it's a trope that Left-wing protests have a tendency to end with violence, destruction and garbage everywhere, while conservatives' worst crimes tend to consist of not hitting the recycling barrel with every water bottle during cleanup. And while people can ignorantly beat the dead horse of Charlottesville, the other side can cite its equivalent occurring at least once a week lately from those on the other end of the spectrum. As someone who has been in journalism for a few decades, I can say that CNN absolutely made its own bed. And I know this will be shocking, but the administration never made a serious overture to have CNN taken off the air. I wonder where people got that idea? Hmmmm ... It and the Big Three mold a deceiving narrative in ways civilians are generally not equipped to recognize. My parents will watch the nightly news until they die, but only now with all of the media deception regarding COVID-19 mortality are they recognizing what I told them years ago: When it comes to politics and social issues, you're getting fed a steady diet of shell games, half truths and lack of context. Those charged with simply reading the news are less likely to lie, but they work around that by bringing other people in to tell the lies they want out there, then not really questioning them on their statements. But, as was touched upon earlier, it's painfully apparent that there is no further need to continue this conversation. You eventually revealed your stripe as a narrative-enslaved Leftist who might call out Nancy Pelosi for jay-walking but when put to the test would probably not say a damn thing if she were crapping in his mouth. And it's just not worth my time of effort to waste a thoughtful approach to these issues on such a person. Maybe next time just remain at the card table in the corner when the grown-ups are talking, okay? Take care.
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  85.  @williamwright2490  This hero narrative hasn't rung true since the very beginning, and what little we actually do know about him since doing what he did doesn't really speak to a guy who is to be admired as a pillar of the world community either. I'm not supporting any crazy conspiracies, but quite a few countries took a pass on giving him sanctuary - for various stated reasons - and there's only so much we should be believing from a guy who survives at the pleasure of the Russian state, even though I'm pretty sure IT doesn't really want him there either, from what I read some months ago. I don't necessarily believe he's some sort of vile scumbag. Just another member of his generation that would put his own feels ahead of his commitments, and his own agenda ahead of one of which he cannot possibly know all the facets. Seriously, these people would be bewildered by a former Radio Shack employee if he started spewing the right jargon-rich phrases and played to their weaknesses. I can make my job or military service sound as dazzling or boring as I choose.
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  86.  @williamwright2490  Oh, he's already one of our greatest traitors. He just has more sycophants than most of the others.
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  87.  @vaticinus  CF is like any other "sport." You train toward that sport. It's not like there is a lot of crossover in the other sports. There are some Bo Jacksons, Danny Ainges, Kyler Murrays, etc., but most NBA players would make fools of themselves if they had to throw a baseball or run a mile. And to professional boxers have done the same competing in weight-lifting competition spectacles. There isn't some large group of athletes, then there's a hat ceremony that tells the what sport they will play, etc. I'm' not going to criticize a guy for being good at one "sport" but not another any more than I'd criticize Charles Barkley for being unable to golf. NONE of this has anything to do with overall fitness level. It's just that CF is a "sport" no one gives a sh!t about.
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  88.  @Alex-pt5no  I would say that about 100% of endurance athletes could do a tough mudder tomorrow. I've done tough mudders. They might get taken aback when they lose a shoe, but they could do it.
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  89.  @grief1571  If you believe that hospitals are overwhelmed, there's no helping you. The only hospitals that were ever overwhelmed since this started were small county and reservation hospitals that just aren't set up for even 3 or 4 cases. Meanwhile, the neighboring hospital had empty beds throughout. I've been in the media for decades. I know what we do to shape a narrative. You're spouting all the bullet points.
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  90. Dr Rhonda is not a medical doctor. And this field of study is not in her wheelhouse. I trust that her intentions are good and that she tries to be well read on the subject, but she is a PhD in biomedical science. I will believe her when she discusses the effects of a keto diet, but she's way out of her depth here.
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  91. BINGO! I wrote something similar. The athletes do not make the Olympics. It's the other way around. No one gives two shits about any of these people off the Olympic stage. Joe even admitted he knew nothing about track and field, yet he believes that some sprinter doing her Flo-Jo impression is why people tune in? They're awarding those medals regardless of who is competing. And the only people who will even remember this gal's name when the Games roll around are those who are really into track. The others will have to constantly be reminded by NBC that this was a thing. Probably 95 percent of people tuning into the games are asking, "So. What are our chances of winning this even this year? Do we have anyone good?"
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  92.  @RagnarLoudpak  Yep. Big difference between specifically and essentially. I give him credit for doing a fairly masterful job of concocting a tight narrative he rarely strays from, even when it would serve his ego in the short term. He obviously plays the long game. He's been able to get guest spots and sell books for decades with the yarn he's spun. No need to jeopardize it for a short-lived endorphine rush. ;)
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  93.  @MatsThyWit  It's all part of the same approach. I give him credit for building that architecture for his story over the decades. Any direct statements must not be able to be corroborated. Any pressing beyond or outside of those statements is "I don't know." It's further brilliant because the latter leads people to believe that this has absolutely nothing to do with his ego.
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  94. Tough. I would hate to ask a 24-year-old woman to grow the f** up.
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  95. It appears that she hasn't changed a bit since she was 5. Vocabulary, the ability to think in the moment, anything. 🤣
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  96.  @luxurybuzz3681  I don't think she is speaking of a specific. There are just some people you encounter in life who come off as completely fake, regardless. Alpha happens to be one of those people. He seems to be selling all the time. I know that is technically the point of these videos, but to those of us who don't want to be aware that we are being sold all the time it's very annoying.
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  97. And I am not surprised in the least that you, as a Jewish woman, felt compelled to let us know what you think.
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  98.  Soltron  Irrelevant. He agreed to do an interview - not a panel. As such he had no reason to comb through any subsequent correspondence looking for further details beyond travel, lodging and scheduling. Hell, even in the description here it's fairly obvious they kind of buried that little revelation further down in the correspondence. When you agree to a dinner date with details to come later, when that next message comes with the details, do you keep scrolling just to make sure there's nothing about the addition of a few extra people to that dinner, or do you just assume that these are details for the one-on-one you agreed to? Take care
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  99. Thing is, some of these changes actually portray the world in a LESS accurate way.
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  100. Oh God. Here comes the half-assed internet "research" and unsubstantiated stories from people who benefit from perpetuating/criticizing the Lee legend
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  101. If you want more from people who lay out a foundation of tiny facts, then lead you to conclusions that are huge leaps of logic and bullshit, there's Graham Hancock for ancient archaeology, Edward Snowden if you want opinions from someone completely owned by his Russian protectors, and Area 51's Bob Lazar, who has a knack of having very little proof, but he's very consistent about his very limited story and will try to convince you that a lack of evidence is, itself, evidence.
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  102.  @elikronen4024  I think be default everyone believes they're good. Then they start hoarding toilet paper and screwing their neighbors over out of self-preservation. There's a movie streaming on, I believe, Netflix called "Platforms" or something that is a bit out there but kind of deals with similar themes to that and what some are predicting we have ahead of us in the near future. I think a lot of people believe they are good basically because they are rarely tested. It's like a person having never met a person of another race insisting that they are not racist. And, of course, not all people share the same morals/ethics. I guess to me, I don't worry as much about whether someone is good as much as whether they may be harmful.
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  103.  @elikronen4024  The public absolutely can handle the truth. But as is evidenced in these comments, it's really piss poor at actually RECOGNIZING the truth.
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  104. They pump out a LOT of vids. There can't possibly be much thought that goes into them. Heck, check out the ones about the best "one-hit wonders." In the intro they admit that the bands may have had more than one hit, but are mainly REMEMBERED for one hit. So, basically, some of their one-hit wonders are not one-hit wonders. But, hey, ya need 10 for a list, right?
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  105. That's assuming the CIA was doing so, which I seriously doubt.
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  106. A S: It's basically a fallacy that millennials are required to have "far more skills and qualifications" now, but I know what you're saying. It IS true that - with a glut of people in the job market - employers can lazily now simply require more things of applicants simply as a way of weeding people out and streamlining the hiring process. It's a horrible way to go about hiring the best person. Every one of them with any sense (there are still a few of those left. Nine, I think) knows that they'll have to train the person to do the job anyway. Still, it's easier to only interview nine people than 200. Your disbelief of what is required of entry level grads and millennials in general can likely be chalked up to a lack of perspective. Everyone wants to believe that they're the most brilliant generation yet, and that their struggles are unique and new. But my generation was also doing multiple jobs that the previous one hadn't had to do (as you now, millennials didn't exactly invent coding), and some of us even had to have the ability to do it without calculators or Wikipedia. You're not alone in this. I once volunteered at an after-school program and the other instructors - from the generation before mine - marveled at how smart the kids were just because they were so good at navigating the internet at such a young age. I decided to test that belief by hiding the big blue "e" from the desktops of all the computers. Only one sixth grader was able to figure out how to even get on the Internet. You do not get any credit for being proficient at things that were ubiquitous while you grew up. No one should marvel at the fact that I remember how to use a rotary dial telephone. It doesn't demonstrate any unique kind of cognitive talent. Conversely, I was taking an advanced physics class a few years ago and pretty much all the students in the class were millennials. It was truly baffling, the looks I received when we were asked a question and I chose to perform fairly rudimentary division in my head rather than reflexively reach for the calculator. This by no means makes me any more naturally brilliant than any of them. The problem involved a 4.5 and a 9, for God's sake. But I knew how to do something because I grew up at a time in which we had to be able to do it and we weren't allowed to have calculators handy until trig. I also observed in those classes that the younger students were interested only in having an answer to write down. So, in a lab in with teams rotated throughout various stations, people simply copied answers from previous groups. There was no interest in the process or in learning the "why," which is what we were allegedly there to learn. It was all simply about having an answer to present. The heck with learning. That's a huge difference in wiring that becomes amplified in the workplace where expectations are suddenly placed upon you. For awhile we pretty much embraced this influx of people who didn't seem capable of dressing themselves because they still had something of value to offer where the work was concerned. Then, as the demographics of the workplace changed, the employees still weren't of the type you'd want to introduce to polite company, but they also now were fairly useless, intellectually. The thing is, they still think they're part of Version 1.0 that was an asset to the business because they, too, grew up with iPhones and had ear gauges. We laugh at them and the general state of cluelessness that seems to permeate most of the important aspects of their existence, and they cry about the unfairness of it all. So, we talk about things having been dumbed down. We've had to scale back our expectations of hires for more than a decade now. As you gain more perspective, you will begin to notice that the standards YOU hold are being allowed to slide and that instead of addressing the problem to the benefit of everyone, your employer will essentially just shrug its shoulders and let you know that this is now the latest "new norm." God help us all when the day comes and the quick keys cease to work.
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  107. TM: To be honest, a lot of the ridiculous qualifications cited on employment notices are simply there to weed out people so that lazy HR people don't have to get off their asses to winnow down the field of candidates. It's easier to receive a couple dozen resumes than 300. And considering how much training will be required anyway, it's an absolutely horrible way to go about finding the right candidate.
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  108. Actually, probably the most honest way of looking at it is that football and men's basketball pay for just about everything else. At least, they make up for the shortfalls in those other sports, regardless of which sex is playing them. Not even all football programs turn a profit, and football and men's basketball are about the only revenue-generating sports on any given campus. Even during the peak of the UConn-Tennessee women's hoops rivalry, there were only about a dozen or so women's hoops programs that paid for themselves.
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  109. Why do i get the feeling that all the people criticizing her using her finger to gage coolness happen to be Yeti owners who want to shift the conversation away from the fact that their tumblers couldn't keep ice as long as the Ozark Trail model? Oh yes! It's because i know too many "Yeti people." 😅
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  110. Because the voting is HEAVILY American. And the irony is that "mainstream alt" acts will be rewarded based on air play/sales in the U.S. Tears for Fears and REM were much bigger in the U.S. than The Smiths ever were, particularly REM. Hell, Morrissey as a solo act might have actually been bigger during the "Your Arsenal" days than the high point of Smiths U.S. success. If you want it to lean more UK, then more votes have to come from UK.
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  111.  @anthonysaunders345  I was fairly into keeping up with things for awhile, but with age that passion tends to mellow. We CAN chase things down but I don't really have the initiative now. At best I'll maybe check the end-of-year Billboard alt-style chart, click samples and see what might be worth checking out. But I will always have an ear open, and will continue to see the Pixies every year they tour even though they seemed to be just going through the motions when opening for Weezer (or should I say, the Weezer cover version tour) earlier this year. Yes, anyone can get discovered now. Whether parlaying that into being able to make a soft living as a musician is any easier might be a trickier question. Online track sales give an artist a microscopic portion of the proceeds. In December, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" broke the Spotify single-day streaming record with 11 million listens. Carey made, at most, $92,400 from that. That's if it was top rate. The low rate is about 1/14 of that, I believe. If she was somewhere in the middle ... So, we're left with artists managing to get themselves discovered via social media, then recording an album. But people aren't really buying albums anymore. All young people from about 1997 to the present day have lived their lives as a la carte listeners. Few will ever experience the full-album narrative of Styx' "Kilroy Was Here." :) Now you have to tour. You might be "YouTube famous" but that doesn't mean the real world knows who the hell you are. Take "Captain Marvel's" release. If you were living on YT, you'd swear there was a huge controversy surrounding the movie being agenda-driven and Brie Larson being a rotten bitch. This grand conspiracy included Rotten Tomatoes (rightly) changing its ratings, removing some things, etc. But if I asked a normal person what they'd heard about the movie, they usually said, "Nothing." I can't really say how things will proceed. I imagine at least in the short term it's still going to be all about building a brand as the rest of us are left to hope that this continues to produce enough Lady Gagas with genuine talent and that the stray Adele will somehow still slip through. But maybe some enterprising person will develop a curated, YT-like platform that makes it easier to connect artists and fans, allowing enough of a genuine following to develop that makes touring a possibility, then things blossom from there. The more things seem to change, the more certain realities seem to stay the same. You still usually will need to work your ass off at the bottom before becoming in any way successful. The rest will just have to aspire to someday being the next Rebecca Black or Alison Gold.
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  112. Hell, EVERYONE's going to like a list when you put everyone on the damn list.
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  113. So we'll exclude A-ha from being "rock," but give a pass to The Doors and The Cure? No.
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  114. kuroniro1 Dalton should have been a great Bond, but he came along at a bad time, plus he managed to go an entire film without getting laid. You can't be a good Bond and not get laid.
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  115. It's important to note that the racist dialogue coming from Nolte's character was typical of that film/TV archetype - not of your average person walking around the US at the time. A lot of those movies had at least one cop whose job it was to say racist things and/or beat suspects, etc. That doesn't mean it was the societal norm. They tamped it down a bit in NYPD Blue's first few seasons but still had that character in Sipowicz. It just so happened that the show was on so long that the character was actually allowed to have an arc.
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  116. @kimberlytross9864  It just always seemed to me that sounding out words was baked into the cake, like using pictures of apples to learn early math. Ots done even if we pretend it isn't. Take care.
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  117.  @renawilhite1  Okay. Now I'm getting yes and no about the meth heads. This reminds me of the puzzle where you have two people: One who always lies and one who always tells the truth, and you have to figure which is which. Only in this case I have to determine who among you is actually a meth head wanting to mislead - or not mislead - me regarding their existence in this area. 🤣
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  118. I guess I don't recall having to hone my reading comprehension skills when I was 4. We all learn to read through phonics. WWL is perfectly fine for teaching students how to then pluck understanding from what we read. As for stamina, God forbid students read something they are not assigned at school. I'm not sure he really backed up any of what he was trying to put out there, to be honest. It seemed more like making excuses after the fact that people simply don't prioritize reading, or providing an emphasis on education in the home. That's not whole language learning's fault. Take care.
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  119.  @bonnienelson7373  Nope. But Chauvan was found guilty of two different degrees of murder plus a manslaughter charge in a single death - which I think was the first time a lot of us had ever seen that - so who knows what happens here? Sadly, I can almost guarantee that the prosecution will find at least one juror dimwitted enough to be convinced he sees something in that video that isn't there, unless they all totally checked out by Thursday and just want to get it over with, which is entirely possible.
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  120. I don't think I"m alone in recognizing these arguments against what Walsh put out there to be profoundly stupid. The attempted rhetorical sleight of hand is adorable, but it doesn't stand up to anyone who remotely is a half-sophisticated consumer of information. That likely explains why, even on this channel, there is only a 3:1 like:dislike ratio. For example, "start with Pfizer" isn't actually an argument against executing drug peddlers. It's just an attempt to pretend that an original assertion has no merit or is ridiculous by introducing a ridiculous application of that assertion.
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  121. Did he SAY he wants them?
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  122.  @amiri7392  Yeah. This isn't the country it was seven years ago, when it was being put on that path.
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  123.  @jusone9802  When they're receiving taxpayer funding? Not really. Remember, they're finding excuses to sidestep flat-out stating that those opposing opinions are not welcome. They rarely say, "We canceled this person who has already been approved because his belief in personal accountability makes him a Nazi." And despite the categorization of "private," ALL four-year colleges in the U.S. receive public funding except for Grove City College and Hillsdale College. In the interest of full disclosure, that information is a decade or so old, but I doubt there's been a HUGE change since then. I used to think "private" meant private as well. And if you thought "nonprofit" actually meant that ... :)
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  124.  @levvy3006  The Russians are the only country that would allow him to stay, and even they weren't keen on it. If Presidents Obama or Trump wanted him dead, he'd be dead.
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  125.  @Androsmack  Yes. There is not a huge hole in your life if you don't read YT comments. :)
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  126. @M KC You're on. I can walk into any decent sized hospital in this country and show you that it is not the problem that we in the media are telling you it is. A lot of this is based on how the hospitals changed things around in anticipation for a flood of victims that never materialized, and policies that they began. I'm not saying that covid is not a big deal, but we give a false idea of how many people are actually hospitalized for it.
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  127. Yep. It really has nothing to do with weed. It's about breaking a rule you were well aware of.
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  128. If they don't like the pay structure, they can always host their own Olympics. Good luck with that. :)
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  129.  @MsAAAAAA222  First, I would encourage you to look up the definition of proof. It's not the same as evidence. Second, I'd encourage you to listen very carefully to things actually put forth vs. what you wanted to hear. You'll find very strategic points of vagueness in the story, leaving it to you to fill in the blanks, which you apparently were happy to do. Take care.
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  130. It's not that different from my experience going back to college. The first time around, everyone was roughly my age, we'd all gotten similar educations to that point and could perform to that standard. Fast forward 15 years to a physics course. Once one person had an answer, everyone else in lab just went to that person to copy it down. The answer was all that mattered. I was at one station helping a gal do some math in which one number was some form of 45 (0.45, 4.5, etc.) and the other number was some form of 9. She was awestruck that I could do the math in my head more quickly than she could punch it into the calculator. The process no longer matters - only having an answer in the blank. And, oddly enough, when they DO pretend that they're teaching process, it's that Common Core bullshit.
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  131. I like Tulsi. I've never really watched a long-form interview with her. I believe she's being sincere, but is anyone else finding some of what she says a little half-baked and/or naive? I appreciate that she's actually trying to answer the questions, rather than just giving us the usual BS, but most of the answers aren't really impressing me that much.
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  132. I disagree in one way. While I wouldn't necessarily have it as a requirement, I might consider it a plus if I knew the person I was dating had been in some sort of extended relationship in which she/he had to live a portion of life while giving consideration to another person, rather than the person living a completely self-centered life and just dating a long list of people once or twice.
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  133. You sound like that gal in her late 30s (looking like 10 miles of bad road after too much time having "fun" with her girlfriends at the bars for 20 years), who says, "I'm not going to lower my standards just to have someone with me." We all know that her single status did not hinge on her being "too picky."
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  134. It's not a bad thing. But they need to recognize when it is and is not helpful or worth factoring into decisions. Great. I'm sensitive to the fact that a person might have had a childhood filled with confusion. If he claims to be trans so that he can enter the ladies room and touches my niece, they'll find pieces of him in at least a dozen different counties. Sensitivity and emotion often make for hurdles when it comes to solving problems. And they make for poor legislation. A sensitive and aware society is a nice goal. But they are horrible FOUNDATIONS for a society.
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  135. Apparently not.
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  136.  @desr421  Oh, I think Jason is a little precious when it comes to all the religion and claiming that too many things are "satanic." I only listen to maybe 1/3 of his podcasts because I'm not interested in most of what he's discussing. He claims humility while also claiming he's putting "fire" out there, then turns around again and criticizes a regular guest about "pride." But he's in the right on this one. The fact of the matter - which has never been disputed - is that he agreed to an interview - not a panel or debate. If they changed the terms later, they needed to confirm that the message was received and that he agreed to the new terms. That's how these things work when done honestly. It doesn't raise Jason's profile to get into this kind of dust-up with two people who are less famous than he is. I mean actual famous - not social media famous. Take care.
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  137. Yeah. I'd say only maybe half of these could be called "awesome." But we each have our own kink.
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  138. IDK. People really into "criminal" back then also generally had an Olson Twins "countdown to 18" calendar. :)
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  139. @Diamant If we're going to take that route, I can claim that my birth helped bring about the end of the war, since it occurred during that time. It sounds good but it's pretty empty as an approach. Take care.
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  140. This list can NOT be complete without "Hooked on a Feeling." It's almost like it was written as a movie anthem and insists that you pretend to like it. Hollow crap.
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  141.  @c.galindo9639  Profit is more than financial, though. Of the people we commonly see in documentaries, etc., how many of them would we even be aware of today were it not for them regularly commenting on Bruce Lee about how things were back in the day? Acknowledgement can be a form of profit as well. Plus, you've seen up and down this comment board. What would happen to the rep of someone who actually said, "Bruce was a great martial artist. But he had no proven fighting background and would really have had to up his game to compete in modern MMA. Speaking of which, to a fellow martial artist, Lee's speed isn't nearly what it appears to the untrained eye watching generations-old films often played at questionable speeds." Would you rather live the life of the guy perpetuating the myth, or that of the guy who dared challenge it a little?
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  142.  @divanosoba9658  Not sure where "being fun at parties" is involved, beyond it being a hackneyed phrase that's been around forever so it required less thought on your part. And you didn't actually provide an example of me being dense, so was there a point to your comment or did you just feel compelled to chime in because you have trouble if people disagree with you?
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  143.  @katrinebumaltao7044  I'll stand by the "no soul" comment. Most Americans would recognize this as mostly just rehashed U.S. boy band-style material from more than a decade ago with the usual varying degrees of choreography and lack of anyone who can actually play a musical instrument. It's not the only genre that gets treated that way, by the way. In the U.S., a lack of instruments pretty much immediately puts a genre in the "lacking soul" box, whether it's modern dance music or 80s New Wave. Other countries likely have a different take on that. It's actually at a point where I'd say K-pop IS a return. It's just a return of something that was popularized elsewhere decades ago, with a K spin on it. And I'm sure it will come around again, maybe out of the U.S. or some other flavor-of-the-month country. That's not to speak poorly of any particular country. It's just that most countries don't sustain a long-term influence on pop culture the way the U.S. does. :) Take care.
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  144. I think you should have to be funny to a more broad spectrum to actually be considered a comedian, not just to people who agree with you on anything. It tends to make people lazy.
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  145. Good.
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  146. What makes you believe JFK didn't have any hand it them, if indeed they existed to such an extent?
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  147.  @ilikethatboulder.thatisani5496  You were writing that sarcastically, right? Uygur is human garbage.
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  148. That's what people say when they are not actually rich. Kind of like how the homely girls are really big on making sure we know that beauty isn't everything.
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  149.  @1110PEPITO  I've found that what most people who use words like "simps" and "betas" fail to realize is that, regarding humanity, there are no alphas. It comes as no surprise that they often end up MGTOW, ironically choosing to follow the teachings of people who have usually failed in the area in which they are doling out advice or instruction. It can't help but believe it speaks to something, intellectually, emotionally and/or psychologically broken within them.
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  150. You don't get any taller by cutting someone else down.
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  151. 36:00 - and THIS is why I can't trust Piers as a "journalist." President Obama didn't deport a record number of people. What he did was EXPAND the technical definition of "deport" to include everyone who was simply turned away at the border. Its like claiming you had a drug bust because you told a child to "just say no." Piers should know this.
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  152.  @Mido_Jaara  That was the problem - and not necessarily an accidental one. He chose to quibble about tangental points from the second he was introduced, rather than getting to the meat of certain issues. Again, I'm not sure that wasn't by design. It's a common rhetorical trick to throw a fit about language and side issues when you're positions on the heart of these matters is generally indefensible.
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  153. I agree that this woman has presented not a shred of believable evidence regarding whether the shameless networking whore we unleashed on your poor prince has been the victim of racism. But son, before you start spouting about how the U.S. is "one of the most racist countries in the world" you might want to: 1) Visit more of the world 2) Compare your demographics to those in the U.S. I know there are many people in UK who take great pride in declaring themselves to not be racist. And likely rightfully so as far as their personal experience has taken them. I'm sure I'm not speaking for all Americans, but I'm also sure I'm not alone in saying that UK and Europe in general are in the FETAL stage of learning what it's actually like to live in a racially diverse country, whereas the U.S. has been a petri dish for centuries in this regard. Before you start, no. Centuries of war and conquest don't count when all you're doing is shifting white folks around on a map. Even given all of this, I wouldn't say that the U.S. has a perfect approach. We're a little too free out here sometimes to be able to keep the noise down long enough to actually positively engage on some issues. It's a lot more difficult for us to put a man on trial for training his dog to give a Nazi salute or to jail Tommy Robinson. As both of our situations unfold, it will be interesting to see what IS done compared with what SHOULD BE done. I'm not optimistic where either of us is concerned. Just don't prance around calling my country "racist" until you've walked a kilometer in our shoes.
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  154.  @celticwarrior777  I can't say I'm surprised. I believe that there's a recent study I've heard quoted that concluded that to find whites are last or close to last when it comes to the most racist groups in the U.S. Although obviously - despite how common the phrase is - there is no "reverse" racism any more than there's such thing as "side" effects. There's just racism and effects.
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  155. Juda Martinez And, let's be honest, Bruce Wayne is almost always an incredibly boring character that it doesn't take particularly great range to pull off. 
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  156. Forget your Midol, kitten?
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  157. And if 95% of what a person enjoys ISN'T outdoor related? What you got then? People have been vomiting all over this comment board about all of the wonderful outdoor activities. Personally, I enjoy hiking and kayaking and whatnot. But if I didn't, how would you sell me on on Iowa having an abundance of things to do?
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  158. I think about half of this list is the same as the "Annoyingly Catchy Songs" list.
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  159. Rachie doodle Not true! Unlike Timothy Dalton, I believe Daniel Craig has managed to get laid in every Bond film. 
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  160. Not from there but I've lived here for 10 years after living throughout the country.
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  161. Julian `Big Anonymus` Rodriguez Yes. And I don't believe that any dispassionate evaluation would have the Doors sound being any more rock than your average 80s pop band.
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  162.  @Isabella-xr1ik  And even the weather he mischaracterized. It's no different than anything else you would get in the Central Plains or Midwest.
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  163. Just popping in quick to say that, having lived here for 10 years after living throughout the country during my career, almost none of the things cited as reasons to not move to Des Moines are true, or are only true if you allow them to be. It IS true that it has typical four-season weather, but it's no more extreme than any comparable city in the region. If you are used to weather like the Midwest and central plains gets, you really only get maybe two weeks worth of really cold days during the winter. And mosquitoes are nowhere remotely close to bad unless you tempt fate by going to areas that are known to have higher incidents of mosquitoes such as large areas of somewhat standing water. The river flows right past Principal (Triple-A baseball) Park and I don't think I've ever gotten a mosquito bite there. I don't think I got a single mosquito bite in town last year and can't remember the last time I did. What would be categorized as "fake nice" is no different than anything you would get almost anywhere else in the country. And given how you ubiquitous strangely colored hair is around here, I'm pretty sure people have made their peace with it. I've been here through two caucus seasons. I have yet to see any higher incidence of pollsters standing on corners than in any other city I've lived at any other time in any other year. There is nothing remotely close to a festival atmosphere when the caucuses come around. It's winter and people not directly involved are spending their time on much more entertaining activities. Even if you are taking part in the caucus, you spend a couple of hours that one evening on it and that is it. For a capital city, I have not noticed it to be any more political around here than anywhere else.
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  164. ***** At this point I will only write that if a person believes that Maya Angelou writes good poetry, then yes, this is poetry. Of course, if you're educated in poetry ...
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  165.  @GraveyardWarden  oh, I'd say that 2/3 of downtown is faking gay until they get some skin in the game and realize that you can't "adult" unless you leave downtown.
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  166. Right. That's OUR job!
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  167. Smashing Pumpkins debut album didn't come out until the 90s. Marcy Playground didn't release a studio album until 1997. I assume you'd include N'SYNC and Lady Gaga on your alt-80s list as well?
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  168. Exactly! Because the band ELIAS likes does not fall within the parameters specific to PATRICK, INXS cannot possibly be considered an alt band, regardless of the band having its own sound throughout it's career and the fact that its very early stuff sounds as empty and sterile as early Cure and Banshees. I wonder if it qualifies as irony that the alt people go all "no true Scotsman" at the drop of a hat.
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  169. The Dixie Chicks? Hell, sounded too much like The Corrs to me. Not nearly country enough for me, but it's obviously up for interpretation.
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  170. GutznMetal Not back then. Then he was pretty much just known for "Moonlighting," which didn't really qualify as a romcom like you find in movies.
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  171. spiderleenie I've thought about this a bit. When Reeve was cast as Superman it was a different time. There were no competing hero franchises and there hadn't really been a serious effort at putting a big comic-book icon on the big screen for some time. Superman - even though Reeves'  and later versions were shaded a little in sequels - is just generally too boring of a character today. The origin story is clean, he doesn't have the moral dilemmas most heros allow themselves to have - and he's just not physically as vulnerable as the others. All that adds up to something fairly boring. Now all heroes have ever-changing back stories, brood half the time, and are hyper-human with their vulnerabilities. Marvel did a decent job of taking some of the Superman out of Captain America, but if it weren't for the origin movie and fish-out-of-water stuff as part of an ensemble, he's not really the most interesting either. The clean-cut, morally certain hero is what we need at times, like when Reeve put on the cape. But these days I'm not sure it's really what people want, and probably partly explains why the last couple of Superman/men haven't been that successful despite Routh actually giving a fairly acclaimed performance. As ridiculous as Batman is, considering that pretty much almost anyone capable of changing his voice can play him, Superman is just ... meh.
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  172. And when they become management ... well ... has anyone else noticed that they tend to either want to avoid conflict at all costs, or take what they THINK are male leadership stereotypes and overdo them?
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  173. There's one fact that seems to be mis-reported consistently in these stories, and I believe it has ripples. Meghan Markle was NOT well-known in the U.S. before she married Harry. If we insist on claiming she was a celebrity, she was of the B- or C-list variety. She was a working actress - not necessarily a prominent one or one of any renown. She was a working actress on a cable TV series. If you're a performer, that's not bad. But it's not as successful as is being portrayed. This is something that, on its face, doesn't really seem that important. After all, she's a celebrity NOW, right? But I think it sort of dovetails with the - in my opinion - equally fanciful belief that the couple is just going to fall into piles of money at every turn in the U.S. She's really only a recognizeable (and not THAT recognizeable here) celebrity because of the royal ties. Those are now diminished, and non-working, never-going-to-rule royals don't exactly get MORE famous as they age and more further toward the shadows. I'm not foolish enough to believe that they're going to be destitute. The Crown will always take care of Harry. But what are they going to be paid to do in the U.S.? Maybe you can squeeze a few high-priced private speaking engagements out of them, but about how many things can either speak authoritatively to a crowd that knows more than they do? Unlike the Clintons, neither has any power so no one's going to be making bogus donations in return for any kind of favors to be paid later. She was not being offered lucrative/big acting roles before, and she's certainly not going to get them now. All I really see is Meghan reaching for a reality show in a few years which the Crown will properly crush. Ultimately I think the two will part in about a half dozen years, she'll take a huge buyout and Harry will return to his duties.
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  174. They'll do it through the courts and government mechanisms. It won't be black, but may still end up sh1tty.
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  175. @thedave1771  That happens even without that policy. Go to a small town with a Tyson facility nearby and ask how much the public school kids are slow walked because they have to accommodate the 20% of their classmates who can't speak English.
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  176.  @bobbybaker5351  She didn't really start much in high school. That was also a long time ago. Something that isn't being brought up that much: This gal's 22 years old.
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  177.  @UnsilencedOutspokenTikTok  There's a vast difference between being expected to show up every day for years of duty, and maybe being asked to step up a couple of times in your career. Many of us have not forgotten the tantrums NG members threw when they were first actually expected to earn their benefits when the first Gulf War came about. There's also a difference in how one digests boot camp, knowing that after 8 weeks you're washing your hands of the military until that first Guard weekend rolls around, as opposed to sitting there wondering where you were going to be sent after AIT. None of this is to say that service isn't worth acknowledging. But service as reservist is rarely comparable. Take care.
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  178.  @candynickel  It's adorable that you're making up reasons to be upset, given that I've fairly clearly outlined what I wanted to say. There's no actual red meat there because I'm actually fairly thoughtful in my responses, so you have to fabricate something you imagine MUST be the case. .🤣 Sadly, too many folks do not seem to believe it is possible to discuss any issue or argument based solely on its merit. I would say that at least 1/4 of the time I make a critical comment it's because someone's conclusion I agree with is being based on a ridiculously moronic argument. I don't really care about conclusions, for the most part, but I'm kind of a stickler for cogent arguments. And over time it's been born out that I happen to be lucky enough to have been born a more sophisticated consumer of information than most. That's served me well in the communications/media landscape for decades. Tell me something that sounds patently ridiculous, then show me what was ACTUALLY said or done, and I can tell you how you're f*cking up your digestion of that information. Take care.
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  179.  @mfritch  Unlike regular colleges with 100% placement in their graduates' fields, correct? They promise that, do they?
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  180. It might surprise you to know that members of the NG and Reserve are not actually considered veterans unless they're called to duty by the POTUS. And as active duty people, you and I know all too well that there IS a difference between military professionals and weekend/two weeks folks. It's just a different animal. They can absolutely serve with distinction, but it's not just out-of-hand ridiculous to question aspects of someone's service record, especially if they choose to wear it around like a brand new shirt for everyone to see.
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  181. Poor babies. They're not getting their way.
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  182.  @dhouse609  On the face of it, it would seem so, but that's not really how the term is defined. Think of it kind of like the old mining towns of the 1800s, or factory towns of the 1900s. Basically, a college town is on where the life of the town revolves/relies heavily around the college located there. When I was at Penn State, I believe there were 45000 students in a town of only about 25000 people, and many of those people were also affiliated with the college. When football is doing poorly, it is felt in the local economy. If the university disappeared, the town would take a huge hit it and would likely all but disappear rather than ever recover. If UCLA disappeared, it would be felt a little because of some of its affiliations with the city, especially in the medical community, but the City of Los Angeles probably wouldn't really notice, otherwise. One good rule of thumb is that it's a "college town" if, in most cases, people outside of the area wouldn't even generally be aware that the town exists if it were not for the college located there. I dont' know that most people would have ever heard of South Bend, Ind., Chapel Hill, NC or State College, Pa., if it wasn't for Notre Dame, UNC or Penn State. There are outliers like Madison, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio, that are good-sized state capitals but still also "college towns" but they're not the norm.
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  183. Yes. I was looking more for towns like State College, Pa., College Station, Texas, Chapel Hill, NC, etc.
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  184.  @artelisx  To be honest, I think that was overblown. There's more evidence that people were ONLY reading that type of book during the broader YA trend, rather than that their book reading in general went up significantly. The Harry Potter books did tend to appeal to the previous generation of readers to an extent than the Hunger Games, Maze Runner, etc., books, but my experience is that those people were readers to begin with. Regardless, these millions of new readers we allegedly produced sure fell out of love with reading the second that trend/era - and the respective series they were reading - ended.
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  185.  @whitebenrr  Good to hear.
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  186.  @stevefisher2553  The Dems have cried every election this century about moving to Canada. And it's always only Dems. It says a lot about their ability to deal with something not going their way, as was magnified by their TDS of the last five years. Our last POTUS was a buffoon. But he was also the response to the silliness of the Left - not its cause. It's ignorant or intellectually lazy to believe otherwise. Take care.
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  187. I just finished watching the doc. What I find most interesting is the fact that - as a child growing up in the 70s, we were NEVER taught that Columbus was Italian. We were always taught that he was a Portuguese who sailed for the queen of Spain. It kind of makes me wonder who this was made for. I assume the Cuomos were still insisting Columbus was Italian, or ...? 🤣
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  188. We've taken those tests for generations, and if placing an emphasis on reading comprehension after we all already know how to read by sounding out the words is a problem, I'm not sure he proved it. It was a fine way to learn to read. And, really, how many of us are ever required to read a book in a single week unless we're taking a college lit class - which makes us a self-selecting group - and it's a relatively short book? I'm not sure he really backed up any of what he was trying to put out there, to be honest. It seemed more like making excuses after the fact that people simply don't prioritize reading, or providing an emphasis on education in the home. That's not whole language learning's fault.
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  189. It's almost kind of adorable how they almost get to the root of the issue before their politics kick in and they refuse to place accountability where it obviously belongs. 🤣🤣🤣
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  190.  @amw6846  See, we rarely had to read books, period, for a standard English class. We only really had to do it in lit-type classes. If the schools were burning kids' education hours having them read books in standard English classes, I could honestly argue that - counter to the general theme of all of this - having kids reading so many books was detrimental to their education.
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  191.  @davideldred.campingwilder6481  You're high. Douglas tried to pin him down time after time, and Enver not only continued to then shift the discussion but flat-out avoided answering almost everything. And let's not pretend that it's not entirely possible that Enver deliberately kept misidentifying Murray. Murray himself admits he can get frustrated during these debates when the opponent basically refuses to debate. It may have been an attempt to throw Murray off his game. And Enver still failed to land a single real-world punch. It was all abstracts, theoretics and history.
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  192. Hiding behind compassion and past dynamics to support an unsupportable position, ignoring the fact that the immigration landscape is not the same as the one your grandparents saw. In a way, it would be nice to go back to the days before the Internet when countries - including the US - were happy to fast-track citizenship for immigrants holding similar values who actually had something besides unskilled labor to offer and who genuinely wanted to melt into the culture, rather than bring their garbage cultures to new shores and drag those nations down as a result. To paraphrase something Douglas has said in other interviews, the cultural enrichment ended after the 200th curry shop/taco stand.
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  193.  @revol148  Let's address the drivel here: a) Not a self-important title at all. It's just a more brief description for someone who has spent his career in the communications business. I imagine that if an MLB player describes himself as a "sports professional" that you believe him to be putting on airs? And I didn't take issue with "most often." I took issue with "often linked," then went into detail as to why, and you didn't challenge any of it in your reply. Leave identifying irony to the smart people. b) Since none of this seems to really have anything to do with what I wrote, it doesn't seem necessary to reply beyond the fact that none of it assails anything I wrote other than the part where I didn't throw in any accusations of anti-Semitism. I'm starting to believe I was wrong in that assessment at this point. It's odd. Have you ever noticed how anti-Semites on comment boards seem to nip at any red meat tossed in their direction? c) and d): I didn't inject US politics. I merely pointed out an example of the sort of monolithic groups that do exist, contrary to the Jewish monolith you seem to believe exists, but does not. This is not injecting politics any more than using an example that includes animals is introducing zoology into the discussion. How do we know who people vote for? No way is perfect, but polls support a different narrative than you seem to embrace. I know it's convenient for you to believe that when they don't support your argument that it's because people tend to lie on polls, but there are many kinds of polls that are conducted in different ways. And, to be honest, if we were to apply that point of view, THEN we would believe in a monolithic Jewish vote because the 30 percent who do not side with the Dems would be the ones pressured to lie about which side they cozy up to. But this is not the case. It would probably be better known if it made a difference. The overwhelming majority of Jews in the US live in areas so blue that it would change almost nothing if all of them suddenly voted red. Regardless, I never wrote that any single religion votes overwhelmingly for one party/person. I'm not sure what the rest of that blather was, but hopefully you feel better now. e) That's nice. I don't see where I wrote about generalities, but I appreciate you sharing your opinion, I guess. You really seem to have not actually understood the arguments being put forward. At the worst, your reading comprehension skills are highly questionable. At best, you understood some things enough to know you couldn't possibly win the point, so you shifted a few of them into areas that were not on the table just so you'd have something to say - then you were fairly ridiculous in your rants in THOSE areas as well. Maybe the next time the big people are talking, you would do well to just sit quietly at the folding table in the corner with the rest of the children? Take care
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  194.  @MrThemovie321  He pointed it out after the third or fourth time. And I wouldn't be so certain that Enver didn't intentionally use the wrong name, knowing that even Douglas has admitted to becoming frustrated when debating morons, trying to throw him off his game so that it would appear that Enver scored at least some points, which he still failed to do.
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  195. The hilarious thing here is that Enver actually believes that he's scoring ANY points.
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  196.  @mysterical-  I don't even recall writing this post. Especially not within the last month! 🤣
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  197. But since the judge and defense dropped the ball Friday, part of the jury instructions will include that if they see any evidence of aggression from Rittenhouse they can take it as everyone else reacting to him, which jeopardizes the use of the self-defense tactic.
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  198. And now we're going to have at least one idiot on the jury be convinced that Rittenhouse DID raise that gun based solely on the state telling him that it's on the video.
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  199. I think all level of certain charges were in play. Part of the arguments today were whether, if a certain part of one charge didn't apply, whether it also impacted the lower levels of that same charge.
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  200. He likely doesn't have a case against the media.
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  201. Gidget Hrobowski I'm not certain any of that is true, even theologically, but to each his own. :) 
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  202.  @joelonzello4189  This isn't like Nick Sandmann. Sandmann was never charged with anything. Kyle actually got charged with a felony. Good luck proving that the media is responsible for public opinion of a person who the state charged with several counts, including murder.
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  203.  @travish3756  I don't know that I'd consider the video as having been addressed. Frustratingly, the judge basically refuses to slap a solid ruling on it, so it seems that we're revisiting it every day. We're led to believe that he wants the jury to provide cover for everything with an acquittal, but I'm kind of wondering if he's hoping to die before this one finishes.
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  204. People brought up the WMD thing immediately. A lof of the other things haven't been revealed or hadn't unfolded until years later.
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  205. I love how we keep denying that they had WMDs. We found the pieces of them very early on. It's like me taking my S&W apart and someone saying that i don't have a weapon because all they see is a collection of pistol parts spread on the table. That doesn't mean I think we should have gone in with a lack of real intent, but I think we need to be careful every time we hear someone categorize something from back then as a "lie."
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  206. Let's not confuse things here. Young ladies aren't deciding they're trans because of the attention they're getting as their bodies undergo changes. They're doing it because they're not getting the attention they WANTED. Hence, "Look at me! I may not be a Debbie but I'm trans! You can't ignore me now!"
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  207. In all fairness to Papa, he probably doesn't do podcasts to talk about the various stories/conspiracies involving Covid.
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  208.  @amiri7392  That's a pretty low bar, though, isn't it? But a good chunk of the country has pretty much freely chosen its cage. It's just unfortunate that many of the rest of us are forced to live in it as well. :(
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  209. And there's absolutely NO reason to believe that the things he says are in any way somehow filtered by his Russian masters.
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  210.  @afa304  I'm generally in agreement, but anyone who claims they haven't tweaked something in five years of lifting is lying. And lets not pretend that some of those CF "injuries" wouldn't be considered "tweaks" by people lifting 3-5 times a week.
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  211. @Ir liz I think time will tell us whether we were wrong about CF.
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  212.  @vaticinus  I'm just pivoting off of the ridiculous statements made previously. I'm not the one who keeps using terms that are not synonymous as though they are. You all need to spend more time on precision. Never trust that others are just going to get what you mean. I abandoned that a long time ago when it comes to YT comment sections. Take care.
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  213.  @vaticinus  Damn. That's a poor argument. I thought you'd go with, "the greater the reward, the larger the number of athletes pursing that award." That's completely different from a fitness argument. Basically, if CF were "bigger," it wouldn't be such a select group of people able participating in it. Every kid on the playground would be jacking their shoulders with kipping pullups, doing various lifts for time - poorly. Guys like Fraser wouldn't even be able to get INTO the games if it was as popular as any of the big 3 sports in the U.S.
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  214. Not fair! They only make up about 5/8 of a mind! 🤣
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  215. And that sentence tells everyone all they need to know about CF.
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  216. Psht! All the REAL athletes do French toast.
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  217. @M KC I'm afraid not. I've watched this the entire time. We've been leading people to believe that alarms are sounding 24/7 since this began. "The curve" was flattened more than a year ago in pretty much every state, I believe. And the "surges" we tell you all about? Ever notice how we never give any context for them? We just say, "Three times as many cases as last week" while neglecting to tell you that it means there are 9 cases instead of 3. We'll tell you about positive tests then never tell you how many of those resulted in hospitalizations or deaths. It's not by accident.
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  218.  @TonyHulk  Joe recognizes her as a solid professional in her field. But maybe people need to be reminded that Dr Rhonda is not a medical doctor. She is a PhD in biomedical science. She's a lab geek. If you want advice on the effects of a keto diet, she's your gal. If you want to know about virology? You're probably better off looking elsewhere.
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  219.  @giorgioyo  And she IS a scientist - in a completely unrelated field - not a medical doctor.
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  220.  @jackpotsb3  Laws are completely different than rules. Laws are societal and we all live under them. The rule she clearly knew and broke is that of a governing/sanctioning body that she freely chooses to perform under. If she wants to be part of that "club," she has to live under its rules. She and others can absolutely work to change the rule, but until then she must follow i t.
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  221. Yes. If anyone believed that Joe's positions are well thought-out, they need to watch this clip. :)
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  222. That wouldn't change anything. People seem to forget that the rest of the world is nothing like the U.S. That shit gets punished severely in some parts of the world. Sometimes judges in those countries have to put down their opium pipes to pass down the sentence!
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  223.  Jay Jameson  He pretends that we need these particular athletes for that money to be made. The money is made on TV contracts, licensing, etc. And the stage the Games provides is what makes these athletes famous - not the other way around. If they believe that it's the athletes that make the Games, then let them skip it and hold their own event where they pay themselves a great amount of money. Of course, these people compete against each other all the time for years leading up to the Olympics and no one gives a shit, so good luck with that. Pretty much any employee of any business can claim that he's not being compensated enough, given how much the company makes. And we never think of the non-monetary ways these athletes - who are not exactly working full-time jobs in most disciplines - are being compensated. We get the stories about the curling guys logging overtime at Lowes, but that's not that typical of most of these track athletes.
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  224. To show that Joe had no idea who this woman was a few weeks ago, she "apparently" was a shoe-in, and "is supposed to be" something else. He knew nothing about her, yet he believes that these otherwise anonymous athletes deserve millions of dollars to compete in the Olympics of their own free will.
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  225.  @orvil9223  And you see no problem with a story created that doesn't provide anything solid enough to be disproven, that has been so strictly adhered to? You're not a target for a con man at all. 🤣
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  226.  @ZennExile  This is what I've been trying to put out there to the meatheads. If karate was about the KOs, it would look VERY different at the Olympics and almost the entire field of competitors would be different.
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  227. I don't know a damn thing about Olympic karate. But I do get the sense that if all you had to do to win was knock an opponent out, it would change what you see - and who the competitors are - considerably. Something tells me that it's not about the KOs. If that's true, I can understand being penalized for breaking from that.
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  228.  @gnlout7403  And you can find "an academic study" to back up even the most insane things. But we never hear about the other studies or whether the first study was quickly exposed as being weak.
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  229. Was that the one where Adam plainly explained that there are no alphas among humans and no one seemed to understand it?
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  230. Yes. Joe has plenty of certifiably insane people on in a given year. Chomsky would fit right in.
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  231. The Millennials will be treated like grown-ups when they start acting like grown-ups. :)
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  232. True. And if all goes wrong, no one's going to be left to complain about it. :) It reminds me of Dennis Miller's bit about the easiest job in the world being coroner. If everything goes wrong, you get a heartbeat. :)
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  233. Anyone else get the idea that they wouldn't be able to stand having to peak to this ... woman ... for more than 5 minutes before they start forming an exit strategy? 🤣
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  234. Does anyone honestly believe that this person actually wrote her book, or did it take a team of editors to translate every "gnarly" into a proper, grown-up adjective?
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  235. I must have been listening to something different, but I only caught the last third. The woman I heard said "gnarly" every third word and had the vocabulary of a seven-year-old when not parroting boilerplate talking points that had been put in her head. She may be a nice gal, but I'm not sure she's actually the combination of Jesus Christ and the Buddha. 🤣
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  236.  @apitterson17  Soutpaws are an affront to God! 🤣
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  237.  @southsideman4891  He also said that the piece with Whitlock was going to be an interview - not a panel. PBD says a lot of things, and I doubt many of them cast him in a negative light.
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  238. I can only encourage people to view/listen to Jason Whitlock's account (and response to this rebuttal), and compare it to what's being said here. Then decide who was being slimy and disingenuous here.
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  239.  @apokatastasian2831  Things do tend to drift toward what previous generations believed was the Left, but that doesn't mean there aren't genuinely conservative positions existing in that matrix. It also ignores the fact that where a position lies on the Left-Right spectrum is not static. Some of those positions considered to be extremely conservative 75 years ago aren't actually viewed as Leftist by today's standards. I mean, how often has the concept of free speech hopped back and forth throughout history? It may appear that the slouch toward the Left has become a race, but I think we're seeing symptoms instead of disease at this point. They leapt off the edge too fast without slowly building toward their aims. That left a HUGE gap between what they claim to want and where Americans actually are on many of those issues. It's why AOC, Bernie, Warren, etc., come off as complete nutjobs. And it's at least just as likely that the country as a whole will recoil from those positions as it is that we will get on board the next train going off the cliff.
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  240.  @JNYC-gb1pp  Exactly. It's like with terrorism. How do you meet a group who wants your kind extinguished from the planet "half way"? Do you allow them to kill a few million a year? Heck, if you're going to allow that a few million people being killed every year is necessary for a solution, it seems to make more sense to do that to the side that's causing the problem.
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  241.  @nezkeys79  I understand where you're coming from. But if someone was changing the basic terms of a deal you had agreed to, 1) wouldn't they be expected to do it somewhere more prominent than the fine print of a follow-up email, and 2) wouldn't they confirm you had agreed to the new terms before going ahead? That's another part that's getting lost here. You can throw all manner of things out there. You still need confirmation from the other party.
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  242. I was working in the media market where the "Making a Murderer" stuff went down. Half-truths and omissions of the "docu"-series aside, that guy was a creepy bastard and the evidence overwhelmingly pointed to his guilt.
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  243. Blame the UFC. It is in charge of putting the narratives out there for the disinterested media to latch on to.
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  244.  @WomBatMan223  I've never heard him make any solid argument that wasn't obvious and/or already being made by many other people. I worked in the media in Pa. about 20 years ago and we had contact with the people who edited his column in Philly. They swore up and down that they deserved a co-byline for basically having to rewrite everything he gave them, it was always written so poorly. Maybe they needed someone who REALLY knew how to spell "loquacious." 🤣
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  245. PO: Yes. These masses of white nationalist conservatives are about as easy to find as conservative college professors who feel comfortable about using their right of free speech.
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  246. I think I could be friends with both, but I'm left not thinking the friendship with the liberal would have any real substance to it. If my car broke down, the conservative's first thought would be to see if he could offer me a ride. The liberal's would be to ask, "Why don't you just get an Uber?"
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  247. SA: The waif may be trying to stay "in shape," but he's obviously not used to a great deal of regular, physical exertion. The proof is in the fact that he couldn't do a single chin-up while tipping the scales at, what, maybe 140? I'm guessing most of his aesthetics are achieved via restricted eating.
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  248. I actually caught that one. While I think it may slightly minimize the impact of long-term steroid use on the body, it did bring up things that are not part of the popular narrative, such as the fact that most of the side-effects most closely identified with steroid use reverse themselves after you stop using steroids.
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  249. +Eyal Dagash Also, Geena Davis was an exchange student in Sweden. That likely explains that the one other language she's "fluent" in is Swedish.
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  250. We're never really going to know when Tyson's prime actually was. For better or worse, he didn't have great fighters in the field to test him. He had a run of pretenders just like Roy Jones Jr. and, to a slightly lesser extent, Holmes had. We don't know if these guys were better when they were plowing through fairly unremarkable opponents or a half dozen years later when they finally had some competition and weren't as young, but might have been more skilled. You don't necessarily have to be in your physical prime to be in your prime as a performer. Then again, you can be Mayweather and avoid your one potentially dangerous opponent for at least a decade, and in the meantime fight a lot of name fighters who are clearly past their primes and about to retire, or are a few years from hitting their primes.
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  251. I started watching this doc this evening. If, after 15 minutes, you don't have a laundry list of, "Wait a minute ..." moments in which you realize there's something hinky about what is being served to you, you're not paying very close attention.
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  252. That's part of the theatre.
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  253.  @returnfreedom  So much wrong with that statement after the part where you call LR a fucking idiot.
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  254.  @j.kol3491  Ge it straight. Is it so clever that it's doing all sorts of things you can't begin to prove, or is it so stupid that it can't actually do all of these things you can't begin to prove?
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  255.  @elikronen4024  I think we all kind of romanticize what all is taking placed in smoke-filled rooms, etc., while we accept that we don't know everything that is going on. I don't sit in the camp that believes that a half dozen people are pulling the strings on everything, making fortunes rise and fall at their whim. I think we agree that it's laughable when people seem to believe that the general public should be completely informed about everything going on, though. As has been said. A person is smart. People are dumb and panicky. You can't trust people.
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  256.  Simon Dewitt  True. You have to sort of be in the comedian pod-verse or maybe a Steven Crowder fan to know who he is.
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  257.  @mriconoclast13  And let's be honest. I think we all kind of expected it from him. We were just kind of hoping it could be tamped down by being surrounded by others. Once he felt isolated, though, that was all she wrote.
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  258. Should it really count as "short-lived" when the reason the band ended is because the lead singer died? I guess I think the list should be more of bands that streaked brightly across the sky, then disappeared - not those that were forced into oblivion.Just my view, though.
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  259. Careful now. This is the sort of comment that usually reveals inexperience. Lee was a tiny man. That means a great deal when it comes to trying to take away an opponent's strengths. And there is the issue of scant evidence of any substantive fighting background on Lee's part.
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  260.  @stuartleggat7176  Yeah, I"m pretty sure I've addressed the shaker of salt you have to take when hearing accounts from people with an interest in maintaining a role as part of the Bruce Lee myth/legend, so I'm gong to have to take a hard pass. Take care.
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  261.  @ActionHero29  I have to disagree regarding eyewitness testimony. No one's going to get anywhere bad-mouthing Lee. And, let's face it, if someone says he was anything less than immortal, it would be considered bad-mouthing, or "bullshit" not to mention it would diminish those who have worked so hard to keep themselves associated with his name over all of these years. If the sort of footage or hard evidence existed to back up the claims regarding Lee's superior abilities as an actual fighter - including a few actual fights - it would be much tougher to hold a view outside of the mainstream. But such footage does not appear to exist. We HAVE seen footage of him sparring with willing accommodating students, and looking less than stellar hitting a fairly small "heavy bag." That's not really a surprise. Striking in non-boxing martial arts is a bit different than what we do in boxing. I have no problem acknowledging Lee's prowess regarding his knowledge and demonstration of martial arts forms and in mixing things up. It's what we all should do if we want to improve. But the main bone of contention is his abilities/performances as an actual fighter, and if the proof is out there, it's apparently being kept hidden. I'm sure you recognize that the argument that disagreement means ignorance can be claimed by both sides of an argument ad infinitum.
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  262.  @c.galindo9639  You still seem to be willing to buy into the hype a little, (and the stuff about implementing his mentality, etc. sounds good but doesn't really mean anything in general), but I think we can agree that, today, we cannot know much for sure. I'm not one of those people who wants to cut down Lee. I'm more of a, "wait a minute" type when it comes to some of the more fantastical stuff people try to put out there. Take care.
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  263. "To fill up our list of the cheesiest one-hit wonders, we're going to include songs from acts that had more than one hit, songs that weren't necessarily cheesy and songs that you've never even heard." Another bang-up job.
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  264.  @divanosoba9658  And sometimes there is only the illusion of smoke. :) Take care.
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  265. QUESTION: What are there a larger number of on YT comment threads: 1) People claiming to be MMA fighters or former acquaintances of Bruce Lee, whose posts reveal they know absolutely nothing about the variables involved in fighting, or ... 2) People claiming to have been Navy SEALs who insist that Jesse Ventura was also a SEAL, whose posts reveal that they don't know - or refuse to acknowledge that it matters - that Ventura did not go through SEAL training?
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  266. Rogan's got dozens of pounds on him. Anyone who ignores the role that size plays in combat sports reveals how ignorant they are on the subject.
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  267. Ummm ... okay.
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  268.  James Tisdale  Wow. An ad hominem rather than anything substantive. Imagine my shock. Take care.
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  269.  @pinkyhotmessx69  So you're saying the CIA was around in the late 19th century? Because that's when the phrase "conspiracy theory" first appears.
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  270.  @pinnacleproductions6275  You do realize that the phrase "most conspiracy theories are based on facts" means absolutely nothing, right?
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  271.  @elikronen4024  You are doing a great disservice to these people and what they want to believe. I've always found that those who are best at laying out conspiracies - especially on Rogan - lay out a foundation of very solid facts or things that there is no means to disprove. They do it so well that you're still marveling at their facts while they try to contextualize them - in ways that may not be fact - to lead you to come up with the conclusion they wish you to come up with. That way, they can claim they're not actually espousing any particular conclusion. And if the person is claiming first-hand knowledge of ... I don't know ... aliens at Area 51, for example, they are smart enough to make their stories very small, never change them, and try to convince you that a lack of evidence is, itself, evidence.
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  272. I guess I can more or less agree, with the exceptions of J-Lo, Shakira, Megan Fox, and Belucci.
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  273. K-Pop is like any other purveyor of terror, though. If you kill it, you run the risk of it being replaced by something even worse.
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  274. It's never taken much insight to be on to Reich's game. He rose to prominence under Clinton, and rarely did any of the things he said on the very public issues actually passed the economic smell test.
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  275. Not quite. But a lot of those front men died. Plus there's only so long you can cry about how shitty your life is while sounding constipated.
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  276. I grant that if they are including Gallagher, they should be including Dice, even though I'd leave both off because they're so out-dated although the latter has the TV show now.
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  277.  @D4R34LGM0N3Y  History would demonstrate otherwise. There have been times where the overwhelming majority of music played sounded the same. But the people doing it and the people listening to it kind of age themselves out of it and it disappears. Eventually people just need change.
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  278. Based on the comments, Amy Schumer's clock just struck 14:59.
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  279.  @TroubadourAdamRoad  It absolutely compromises the veracity of what he's uncovered. It demonstrated intellectual laziness and once that's been revealed, you can no longer give credence to anything else the person says. It doesn't have to be intentional or lazy either. Regardless of the reason, if a lapse in judgement or knowledge shows itself, the consumer has no choice but to wonder if it represents a pattern.
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  280. Try Bill Burr. He has 3 specials on NF. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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  281. richard martinez It would be nice if he eventually went back and did a few big shows, but he's producing movies now, and he's getting a little up there in age to be doing the same kind of material he did in the past. I'm not sure anyone's going to buy a more "sophisticated" sort of observational comedy they like from older comedians. 
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  282.  @breezzyboy7603  It's important to never forget that some people ARE conspiracy loons and/or ARE insane. :)
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  283.  @jamesfreeman7954  And that's why a lot of these guys - not necessarily this guest - throw things like that out there. Then they wait for you to raise the issue that it can't be confirmed and reply that makes it even MORE credible because, you know, the Illuminati, Rothschilds and Red Hat ladies are engaged in a cover up. "Isn't it suspicious that there's NO proof of what I'm saying" Yeah. That's what I just said. :) Another key with many of these guys is to keep the stories pretty small. They don't have a lot of threads and they're all tied up even if it's that they can't be proved. Then they stick with the story, don't elaborate, and feign a kind of humility. "I was told by Gen. Smith - who died of dementia in 1976 - said they performed an alien autopsy and I have no reason to not believe him." is the "Unnamed sources say" of the conspiracy trade.
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  284. +Drinko76 Of course, Lundgren is European and they almost all know multiple languages. His academic credentials stand out, though. Early in the list, the first celebs they mentioned didn't really have superior resumes other than the schools they were attending. I also noticed they tended to get liberal arts degrees. Not that David Duchovny's English lit degrees from Princeton and Yale are hard science, but they should at least earn him honorable mention if Cindy Crawford being a valedictorian and dropping out of Northwestern after one quarter do.
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  285.  @matepavic6929  Opinions apparently vary on Tyson's peak, but that's part of the fun. Take care.
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  286.  Bob Pie  I think you misinterpreted the intent of what I wrote. What I was saying is that what they do is tailor the definition of what matters to fit what matters to THEM at their current age, rather than what will benefit society as a whole or force them mature and become contributing members of that society. It not only keeps them from having to work hard, but also helps them avoid aspiration which could set them up for coming up short. I think we know they wouldn't be able to handle that sort of defeat, having not had to face it much growing up.
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  287. RG: Since you imply that you know the one true description of a millennial, feel free to enlighten us.
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  288. I love how everyone forgets about Gen X. We're so blameless! :)
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  289. It sounds like Gen Z may actually better prepare for life than Millennials chose to.
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  290. KM: Every generation considers the next to have it easier and to be failures by some standard or another. I would agree that Gen X alone may not be able to "prop up" the economy, but the Boomers are still in the workforce, and if Gen Z ends up being better than the large, useless faction within the Millennials (which I have very big doubts about), we can certainly fill the ranks with them, sort of skipping past the Millennials. What to do with a skipped-over generation that leans heavily toward behaviors across the spectrum that are not particularly good for the country is another issue.
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  291. Im sorry, but these comments are getting ti ne a bit much. If youve been wearing your Tevas fir 8 years, yiu obviously habe not been wearing them fir 8 years. I have a pair of Payless dress shoes i bought 15 years ago. I've worn them 3 times (not many funerals but, fingers crossed, right?). I do not turn around and claim "I've been wearing these dress shoes for 15 years." 🤣 Take care.
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  292.  @Tinkerbellington  If you can't recognize the difference between a propagandist and a "truth seeker," you ARE done. Take care.
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  293. @@TestySatchel No need. That's 30 seconds pissed away for no reason that advanced the debate. It's why he did it. It's a tactic. It's just not recognized as skillful by people in the communications business.
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  294.  @d3r4g45  Like an old SNL skit. "I'm not the one being defensive. YOU'RE the one being defensive." 🤣
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  295. @@TimbreWx Everyone seems VERY intent on dwelling on the amount of time pissed away, rather than the concept of repeatedly nitpicking in order to intentionally be able to avoid having to reveal indefensible positions. No surprise there.
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  296. Mohammad has no genuine rhetorical skills. He just has a bag of tricks he uses to avoid addressing indefensible positions on the heart of various issues. To be honest, based only on my experience, this is not unusual for a people who will smile at you and say, "Let me share this with you" as they proceed to blatantly lie to your face, KNOWING you know they're lying. 🤣
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  297. And completely stupid if you know anything about this history of all this.
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  298. Wow. We have so many thinly veiled anti-Semites in here that it's difficult to figure out which ones are ignorant, which ones are disingenuous, which ones are gullible and which are just plain stupid. 🤣🤣🤣
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  299. I can already tell this asshole doesn't have anything defensible to say by the fact that he's quibbling about language before they even get into anything, trying to back Piers against a wall before even getting to anything of substance. Hard pass.
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  300. Not at all. Then again, we have a lot of anti-Semites in here and it's difficult to figure out which ones are ignorant, which ones are disingenuous and which are just plain stupid.
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  301.  @barryfadams  Yes. Piers should independently prove every single thing he comments on. That isn't stupid on its very face at all. 🤣
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  302. The "Palestinians" are the occupiers. They fled like rats decades ago when the going got tough then demanded a "right of return" when the coast had cleared. They have never had a state in the region and the only reason they try to dig in so much where they ARE is because none of their Muslim brother countries want anything to do with them.
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  303.  @imansafwat5080  They fled when their Muslim brothers surrounded Israel and tried to destroy it. Then, after Israel had defeated those nations, the Palestinians figured they should be allowed to stroll back in and pick up where they left off. And if the adjacent Muslim countries didn't hate the Palestinians so much, we likely wouldn't have such an issue right now.
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  304. In the NYT defense, Hamas is a terror group. Calling someone a "Hamas terrorist" is like calling someone a "shooting gunman." Also, in American journalism, "murder" is still treated more as a legal term, so "killing," etc., are generally used instead. If I say OJ is a killer, I have much more legal coverage than if I call him a murderer.
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  305. It's laughable how Ana wants to trumpet the belief that if you win, then there's no need to be tossing lawsuits around, given the 4+ years of lawfare we just witnessed. Plus, Trump should have gone after social media during his first term, but he won, so he seems to have decided that it wasn't necessary. How did THAT work out for him in 2020?
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  306. Aaaand in 10 seconds, Mark Lamont Hill demonstrates why it's a waste of time to listen to anything he says. That should make this move much more quickly.
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  307. He didn't quite "go there." The key issue is provable lack of interest in athletics by women. I worked at a university that got rid of the usual mens teams (swimming, tennis, etc.) to get in line with Title IX. It couldn't find enough women interested enough in playing soccer to be able to scrimmage in practice. And there are always the stories about women's rowing teams added to universities before finding out whether there were enough women interested in participating. These are hard examples I wish he'd hit her with and asked her to explain away.
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  308. I love how much people obsess over schools' extracurricular activities.
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  309. @HelenKistler  You're just repeating others who are putting ... nuanced ... information out there, although I'd wager NPR (ridiculous source, btw) knew it was so. You're not actually putting forth support for an argument. But here ya go, sunshine: "High Deportation Mumbers are Misleading," Los Angeles Times, 4/1/2014
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  310. Wouldn't it be an interesting exercise if almost all sports were simply lumped in together and declared coed (as, let's be honest, football and wrestling actually are), just to hear rhetorical gymnastics required regarding Title IX compliance?
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  311. True. We need to hold companies to account when they have products manufactured in countries known for often having less than stellar working conditions, like Yeva, Patagonia, etc. They hide behind pretty pictures, vague marketing jargon and social media shills, but If this sort of thing is important to you, it pays to educate yourself.
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  312. It's amazing how many people on this comment board are river guides and/or regularly hike mountain ranges in sandals. 🤣 It's like the number of people claiming to be former teams guys who comment on Jesse Ventura vids, or the number of pedo sex tourists - I mean men planning to retire to SE Asia - commenting on MGTOW vids. 🤣
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  313. And she'll whoop your ass in swimming, and there we are. What has been proven?
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  314. That's the rub. Wrestling and football teams should already be considered coed. But that would screw up the ability to mandate certain numbers to comply with Title IX.
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  315. ​ @vilmazappulla3600 Don't worry. Some people get edgy when they see what freedom looks like. They're frightened and not used to it.
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  316. Always. Yeti makes great stuff, but if I only ever need ice for 5 hours, why spend 3.5x more to keep it for 7?
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  317. I would be very careful if judicial review is more or less a new or untried thing in UK. Once you allow too much of it, the judiciary becomes lord over all other branches of government. It's certainly no longer co-equal in the US. Circuit Court judges can stop executive orders regardless of legal precedent, and the only check on that seems to be yet another level of courts. I kind of for the Andrew Jackson approach of acknowledging the court's opinion, then challenging it to enforce that opinion.
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  318. This is aside from the fact that if you remove the number of "unarmed black people" who were going for the officer's weapon, endangering others and/or otherwise resisting arrest, you can count the number of times it happens in the U.S. every year pretty much on one hand.
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  319. THIS is what a disingenuous person looks like - pretending to have NO idea why anyone would oppose making political and social statements on the field while on the company dime.
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  320. Damn. How many seconds did this guy "live" in the U.S.? Did he ever leave the metro that he called home? First, it should be pointed out that the segregation is selective. People are choosing freely to live with "their own kind" or are economically segregated, which does occur in UK. When I joined the Army and we arrived at Basic Training, the black men segregated themselves from the rest of us immediately. Second, the U.S. doesn't have institutional racism either. That's illegal, and if it pops up it's punished. Third, whether the U.S. is "violent" is subjective. Almost no civilians walk around carrying guns, for example. There are dangerous areas of metros but THAT occurs in UK as well. But you have to leave the large cities once in awhile to realize that a country that is foreign to you is not represented by places like NYC and DC.
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  321. Before I have any sympathy for these business owners, I want to know how they vote and which causes they support. That said, I also won't CONDEMN him without that information. Not every guy with long hair and a beard smells like patchouli, votes for people who can't drive cars and thinks you can milk an almond.
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  322. Granted, this guy is mediocre at best. But it's disheartening what a boner commentators on these channels have for trying to claim that racism in the US was/is much more horrible than their ancestors are responsible for, and how they seem to believe that there were such problems leading into the 1960s. "Effective Apartheid" is a squish phrase that has no meaning other than what the person using it claims it is, so as such it means nothing. I guess I get tired from time to time about the history of race relations in my country being criticized by people whose own history is one in which they can't even get white Christians who speak the same language to get along. Get that straight, then come calling, sunshine.
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  323. It was fine. But ultimately it was pretty much what I expected. I give them credit for trying a few ideas, but there's only so much you can do with the subject matter. There's only so much you can paint outside the lines when what you have to work with is a vampire loose aboard a ship with about a half dozen crew members. In the end, you're stil painting by number 80% of the time. I would recommend it if someone was interested, but wouldn't suggest it if someone was looking for something to watch in general.
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  324. ***** With Robin Williams, I always thought he was a good actor in serious roles, so "One Hour Photo" didn't surprise me. What WOULD have surprised me is if Williams had ever actually done anything I thought was funny, on screen or in stand-up. That's just me, though.
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  325. ***** With Robin Williams, I always thought he was a good actor in serious roles, so "One Hour Photo" didn't surprise me. What WOULD have surprised me is if Williams had ever actually done anything I thought was funny, on screen or in stand-up. That's just me, though.
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  326. I've never heard "Fancy," "I Knew You Were Trouble," "Call Me Maybe," or most of the honorable mentions until just now. I'm not the key demographic, but if something's supposed to be that pervasive, that shouldn't matter.
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  327. Juda Martinez What I'm saying is that there's really not enough to the character of Bruce Wayne for anyone to really do much with it. Probably it's because pretty much any acting on impulse or emotion is done wearing the cowl and cape. The only one who these days gets credit for playing a good Wayne seems to be Michael Keaton, and he was criticized at the time for his quirky take on the character.
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  328. I think one of the things that gets lost in all these conversations about someone playing Batman is the fact that - as long as you're a certain height and not morbidly obese - ANYONE can play Batman! The role calls for almost nothing when he's Bruce Wayne, and once outfitted he just changes his voice and does the work left over that the stunt doubles don't knock out.
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  329. spiderleenie I've thought about this a bit. When Reeve was cast as Superman it was a different time. There were no competing hero franchises and there hadn't really been a serious effort at putting a big comic-book icon on the big screen for some time. Superman - even though Reeves'  and later versions were shaded a little in sequels - is just generally too boring of a character today. The origin story is clean, he doesn't have the moral dilemmas most heros allow themselves to have - and he's just not physically as vulnerable as the others. All that adds up to something fairly boring. Now all heroes have ever-changing back stories, brood half the time, and are hyper-human with their vulnerabilities. Marvel did a decent job of taking some of the Superman out of Captain America, but if it weren't for the origin movie and fish-out-of-water stuff as part of an ensemble, he's not really the most interesting either. The clean-cut, morally certain hero is what we need at times, like when Reeve put on the cape. But these days I'm not sure it's really what people want, and probably partly explains why the last couple of Superman/men haven't been that successful despite Routh actually giving a fairly acclaimed performance. As ridiculous as Batman is, considering that pretty much almost anyone capable of changing his voice can play him, Superman is just ... meh.
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  330. I'm not quite sure, but does it qualify as irony or simply promoting a social agenda to choose to do a whitewashing video at a time when blackwashing is more prevalent? Those who have actually burned some calories examining this phenomenon in recent years (specifically substituting whites for blacks and blacks for whites) seem to believe that - even though a few white folks might grouse a little over changing the race of a character - the overwhelming majority of them just shrug off a race change and move on with their lives. At worst they ignore the movie entirely. Conversely, cast Liam Hemsworth as Black Panther and the entire black movie-going population of the U.S. would lose its collective shit. And keep in mind this is over a minor superhero almost none of them had even been aware of until "Civil War" came out. I don't believe that changing the race of a character actually constitutes racism. The promotion of a social agenda? Almost certainly. But not really racism. How people choose to react to such a thing, on the other hand, reveals how much of the world they choose to filter through a racial prism. Oh, and "reverse racism" is no more real than "social justice." There is only racism, and there is only justice. Adding any modifiers to those absolutes results in something less and completely foreign to the concepts those words embody.
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  331. AyVee The Emmys are NOT the television equivalent of the Oscars. There are various other reasons, but the fact that you can win multiple Emmys for the same role pretty much sews that up.
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  332. AyVee The Emmys are NOT the television equivalent of the Oscars. There are various other reasons, but the fact that you can win multiple Emmys for the same role pretty much sews that up.
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  333. Actually it's not. Oscars are generally for a one-off performance, and winning the award multiple times is a strong indication you're a great actor. You can get multiple Emmys for the same role year after year, which often has more to do with attrition (cancelations) and lack of competition within a category. I would be more likely to agree if, once an Emmy is won for a role, that role is no longer eligible. Otherwise I don't give a great deal of credit to someone just because they stayed in their wheelhouse for yet another year.
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  334. AyVee TV shows brag about Emmys because it's the most prestigious award given to television programming. Similarly, the Oscars are the most prestigious award given in film. That does not make them analogous in any other way. See what I did there? I actually stuck to the point and didn't ramble on with irrelevancies. Take care.
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  335. AK: There is no such thing as reverse racism. It's simply racism like any other example.
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  336. The Dark Knight Not likely. And I think by now we know that pretty much anyone of  certain height who isn't morbidly obese can play Batman.
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  337. The Dark Knight Not likely. And I think by now we know that pretty much anyone of  certain height who isn't morbidly obese can play Batman.
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  338. Affleck was the BOMB in Phantoms!
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  339. Charizarzar Let's not forget he was also known for butt-banging cowboys. AND for "Brokeback Mountain."
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  340. Charizarzar Let's not forget he was also known for butt-banging cowboys. AND for "Brokeback Mountain."
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  341. Not really a hard-and-fast set of guidelines with this category, was there?
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  342. SANNA: There is no such thing as reverse racism. There is only racism and everyone is capable of it. That being said, I'm not sure that swapping out races of characters necessarily constitutes racism. How people react to it, however, tends to be quite revealing about how much they choose to inject race into things.
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  343. I don't know that I've ever written this comment in response to one of these lists, but it's actually pretty solid. I appreciated that it didn't go deeply grunge. But did the 90s actually have an alt scene, as we think of it? In the age of the introduction of online file sharing and explosion of the internet where we no longer had to rely on what top 40 radio fed us, most of this stuff was pretty mainstream compared to alt in the 80s.
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  344. Very glad that "I Dreamed a Dream" made the cut and was so high up. I agree that normally "One Day More" would have been "the single" from a musical that probably has at least 3 or 4. I think it has the same ability as "Memory" to strike a familiar chord with almost anyone listening to it.
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  345. Greatest rock rivalries:1) Beatles vs. Rolling Stones2) The Who vs. Led Zeppelin3) ELO vs. Supertramp4) Tears for Fears vs. Wang Chung5) Milli Vanilli vs. Scritti Politti:oPHonorable mention: CCR vs. John Fogerty
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  346. Mudhoney: The 17th band "responsible for kicking off the Grunge movement of the early 90s." :)
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  347. CCR has/had a smaller fallowing that the bands disqualified at the beginning of the vid?
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  348. Who is this obscure "ZZ Top" band that no one has heard of? :D
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  349. Smell that? It's the scent of alt music snobs scurrying from under their rocks to tell us that almost all of these acts fall under some other category, but are definitely NOT alternative. Of course, that ignores the fact that after recategorizing everything, there will be no acts left to consider alt. Even that act you KNOW is alt falls under a different category to someone else, I assure you. Let's not get too crazy with the purity tests here, people.
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  350. That's weird. I have a style of music that has no audience either. I was around in the 80s. Maybe I should have been on the list too.
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  351.  @deadeye4520  Oh! I caught the "yet" and my statement stands. It can be read in this thread that the "yet" may be the reason the Furs didn't make the list. Accepting that, I can make a similar case for myself. Not only that, but I can use the "yet" to continue to state my case, as I have the rest of my life to achieve "yet."
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  352.  @deadeye4520  Hey! After the week I'm having, the thought that I still have a shot at being recognized as such might be all I have going for me! :)
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  353. Actually, blackwashing is much more prevalent than is whitewashing. The main reason (according to anecdotal Hollywood) seems to be that - even though a few folks might grouse a little - the overwhelming majority of white will just shrug and move on with their lives. Cast Tom Cruise as Black Panther and the entire black movie-going population of the U.S. would lose its collective shit. And keep in mind this is over a minor superhero none of them had even been aware of until "Civil War" came out.
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  354. Oh, it's still a list. You might not like the acts, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a list. :P
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  355. Pauley Shore: That act was only going to last just so long to begin with. Bio-Dome merely roughly coincided with that. Haley Joe Osment: He got older and - Oscar nomination aside - when that happens people start caring that you're not much of an actor. It happens. Roberto Begnini: He didn't HAVE a big career - at least in the U.S. "Life Is Beautiful" wasn't going to be the first in a long line of foreign-language successes for Begnini here. J-Lo: She was at the tail end of the big acting experiment with her at the height of her celebrity. Similarly to Pauley Shore, her acting talent was only going to give her so much lasting power. Travolta: Twenty years ago this video would have had him disappearing after "Staying Alive." How did that work out? Moore and Connery choose bad projects. There's only so much room at the top at any given time. Some - especially Moore - didn't accept that. Nothing wrong with taking some meaty supporting roles to launch a comeback a la Travolta and ... Connery. Berry has been hit or miss her entire career when it came to choosing projects. I wouldn't say her career is dead. I'd say it's just at the low end of the see-saw again.
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  356.  @anthonysaunders345  The UK has always been considered sort of a weird mixed bag by any American who paid attention to those charts in the 80s. One week The Smiths could be No. 1, the next week it was some Neil Diamond album no one in the U.S. had ever heard of. It's not surprising that there are so many acts that were absolutely huge in UK while here we either barely heard of them or weren't exposed enough to know a Fur from a Bunnyman or to recognize much difference. But back then everything was funneled through the local radio stations. Those gate-keepers are gone now, mostly for the best.
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  357. Yeah, I've seen his "four basic chord progressions" vids. The concept is a little janky and tends to be overly broad. But execs have a much lesser role in determining what gets out there now than they did in past decades when we did not have the Internet and social media. Although actually getting contracts is still ultimately up to labels, they no longer have a stranglehold on whether the public is exposed to the music in the first place.
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  358.  @anthonysaunders345  I can guarantee there are a few thousand of artists working on that, as well as a few deposed A & R guys trying to figure out how to develop the next work-around, then take advantage of it. In the meantime, I can't help but enjoy the fact that artists find themselves forced to tour a bit more these days. They were kind of forgetting the consumer when all they had to do was cut albums.
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  359. If the writers possessed genius, they wouldn't have to have the villain kill a dog in order to get us to dislike him. That's pretty cheap.
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  360. Regarding "cis," it's simple. Cis was created to diminish "normal" people. No longer is there the thing - woman - and the marginal identification - trans woman, which is a departure from the norm, and therefor lesser. Rather, with cis, "woman" is a broad umbrella under which cis and trans women are simple variations - one no lesser than another.
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  361. LoneWolf And when they play for laughs like in the "Final Destination" movies, even more so. I don't really get emotional about the dogs. But, depending on how they do it, I'm more like, "Did they HAVE to do it like that?" 
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  362. More or less. Cis was brought in to try to put trans and "normal" on equal footing. If we just have women and trans women, then one is a departure from the other, and therefor lesser. But if we have trans women and cis women, they are BOTH living under the same, suddenly broad umbrella - "women" - and are equal.
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  363.  @HenryFrederick  It was more about being true to the theme of the vid than poking fun. That was just gravy. Not sure what the number of thumbs up has to do with things, especially since they don't display our thumbs down.
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  364.  @patrickcannady2066  In all fairness. Dick Clark probably never heard of U2 or Bruce Springsteen. :)
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  365.  @ffjsb  So you obviously not understanding something you read means it's the COMMENT that's stupid? Nnnnno. Maybe just take your seat at the kids table while the grown-ups are talking, okay? You take care.
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  366. I was working a swimming event with some teen gals from Arkansas who had come to the event to volunteer. I told one of them (age 16) she'd just missed Shania Twain's concert here by a couple of days. She replied, "I have no idea who that is." A 16-year-old girl from Arkansas having no idea who Shania Twain is? Isn't that kind of like saying you've never heard of Jesus?
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  367. Embarrassingly enough, I must watch Beer Fest and Beer League at least 4-5 times a year.Don't get me wrong. I like to pretend I'm smarter than everyone else just as much as the next guy, but I won't piss away my time rewatching Wes Anderson movies just to do that.
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  368. +rs71 I think the real question is, what kind of party could it possibly be if it was full of people who would break out Royal Tenanbaums DURING it?
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  369. Of those listed that I can remember, I guess I've watched Holy Grail, Cabin/Woods, Pulp Fiction, Mean Girls, Princess Bride and Forest Gump more than once. I have had absolutely no desire to see any of the others a second time. Heck, a couple of them I have no desire to see a FIRST time.
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  370. "Only Time Will Tell" (Asia), and "Freeze Frame" (J. Geils Band). To be honest, I wouldn't include probably four of the top 10 on this list.
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  371. I can stand them, but they're no more "rock" than The Cure or A-ha (no "Take on Me"?)
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  372. 909955847736 I think it would go 5x platinum because it also included "Break On Through," "The Crystal Ship," "Twentieth Century Fox" and "The End." BUT ... the album could actually be considered 20x platinum. The platinum designation wasn't created until the mid-70s. If "The Doors" is 5x platinum, that likely means it's sold 5M copies since then, and about 15M before that. "Rolling Stone's" opinion about anything hasn't been worth a fart in a windstorm since probably the late 70s, so I probably wouldn't cite it too much as an authoritative source. Let's face it, if U2, REM, Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan break wind, "Rolling Stone" would put it in its top 250 singles of all time. :) None of this has to do with the merits of the album, of course, or how "rock" it is. Folks like what they like.
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  373. Agreed. Let's not pretend that the Doors were any more rock than was A-ha. They were both pop acts.
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  374. ***** "So needless to say I'm odds and ends But I'm me stumbling away Slowly learning that life is OK. Say after me,  'It's no better to be safe than sorry.' " There's your poetry. As for the trio, meh.
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  375. LoneWolf True. But it's becoming increasingly obvious that people have little tolerance for scenes in which dogs are killed. 
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  376. ***** Do they really qualify as rock?  
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  377. ***** I know you've been fed that line your entire life and have never taken the initiative to reflect on it, but what makes this band based on organ music and bad poetry any more "rock" than A-Ha, or perhaps  Kajagoogoo? Attitude? By the way, great job going straight to the name-calling. Unfortunately, intelligent people recognize that as generally a failure to actually back up a position. Lets try to avoid moving into "I am rubber, you are glue" territory, okay?
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  378. whilemyguitarblowsup Anyone putting forth that Morrison's poetry was great is selling something, trying to ingratiate himself to someone, or wants to keep being invited to the party. I'm sure you wouldn't contend that because something is published that it has merit, either. Kreiger was a solid guitarist who was high-profile because of his work with the Doors and has been working steadily ever since. But let's not pretend he belongs on even an extended Mount Rushmore of rock guitar players. I would also argue that Morrison is more of a pop culture icon than a rock icon, considered more a reflection of the times than of rock music. People mistake that as him being a rock icon because the Doors are generally considered to be a rock band in spite of their actual music.  But this is all irrelevant to the main point, which is that the music of the Doors isn't much more rock than that of A-Ha, and I'll stick with that. People confuse this as me not liking the Doors, which is far from the truth. I just recognize that they're not "rock" as we think of rock. They ARE more hardcore than, say, Seals and Crofts, though.
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  379. ***** I understand we're at an impasse here that we likely won't be able to bridge. Let's take the Doors "Best Of" album. How many tracks would you say "rock"? 
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  380. I guess I was looking more for a list of popular/great songs where the guitar is deceptively difficult to play, rather than a list almost entirely of guitar songs that are obviously, intentionally difficult to play.Regardless, quality list.
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  381. Julian `Big Anonymus` Rodriguez Like The Doors? 
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  382. Julian `Big Anonymus` Rodriguez The point has simply been that the Doors can be classified whatever people want to classify them as. They still aren't really more "rock" than most 80s pop bands regardless of whether they are seen as being more iconic or influential. The Eagles, America, etc., are classified as "California Rock" by many. Other than "Life in the Fast Lane," just how much does either "rock"?
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  383. No offense, but if THAT kid had pushed 30' with a 12# shot right out of the gate, my ulnar nerve would have finally exploded. Glad they clarified that he moved down to 8#.
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  384. Oliver H To me, "Skyfall" sucked for one very simple reason: James Bond does NOT hunker down and wait for the enemy to besiege him with everything it's got. Bond is a shark, always swimming or he'll die. He doesn't sit pat and fortify a house like a group of homesteaders waiting to be attacked by Apaches.
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  385. Ryan Crouser is currently the best in the world, consistently. He is usually pushing the 75-foot mark.
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  386. kuroniro1 I likely wouldn't have noticed either except that there was a bit of a to-do about it at the time. I'm thinking it might have coincided with the AIDS scare. That whole late-70s/early-80s period was sort of a bad time all around for a lot of pop-culture/entertainment things. 
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  387. I think once in awhile things just need a reset, so you have a few years of funkiness until some solid footing is found. This would explain disco and techno, and how we had a handful of big movies in there surrounded by a LOT of crapola.
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  388. JK Wiseman It had been 30+ years that we'd known about the dangers of smoking at that point. The worm may have turned, but there was no "scare." 
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  389. KolozII Of course, the classic response is, "Well, people don't actually SMOKE cigars like they do cigarettes." Of course, I did when in the Army. :) 
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  390.  @whatyoudo9773  I have the muscle, but get dizzy if I pay too much attention during a spin. Maybe if I close my eyes at the right time. :)
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  391. It's a decent song, but I cringe when you get these name-dropping songs. It always seems a little desperate or gimmicky.
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  392. With him just picking up a shot for the first time that day, I can kind of forgive the fact that he doesn't have the reps in for any real drill over much of a period of time and that he ends up having to think about every single part of the movement rather than relying on muscle memory. I get what you're saying about some people being quicker to learn things like a spin move. But I found some basic videos for some throwing drills that were much more simple than what we saw here that really benefited me. One of them you basically just started with your toes touching the board in the front of the circle and all you had to consume yourself with was twisting and throwing without moving your feet at all. Then he gradually built on that.
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  393. I'll grant them "One Sweet Day" and "Wild Horses" (when sung right by the right act), but the rest of those fall far short for me, especially the ones that were obviously, specifically written to try to elicit tears. Lookin' at you "Everybody Hurts" and "Tears in Heaven."
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  394. You lost me with "stellar cast of SNL alums." NONE of these will be the sort of "classics" that anyone will be watching in a decade who isn't already watching them repeatedly, based on their own merits. Heck, a couple of them weren't seen by anyone in the FIRST place. "Force Awakens" and "Mad Max" don't really count because they're franchise films, and the animated ones will be replaced by later animated ones. Personally, I thought "Mad Max" blew (but I'm not big on the post-apocalyptic genre) and "Force Awakens" was lazy writing.That doesn't mean that these are bad movies. Quite the contrary.
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  395. But do it with an original IP. Don't destroy a different one just because no one has any ideas other than race-swapping.
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  396.  @chalkandcheese1868  Right? The next part of the pitch meeting will be, "And, get this: The women? They be shoppin'."
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  397. Dude. At 51 I just started throwing this year, and with a 12 lb shot. My ulnar nerve was about to explode when I thought that this kid had gone almost 30 feet on day one with a 12 lb shot. 🤣
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  398. I'm not sure it's toxic, but it seems really weird to me to have all of these people posting goof posts about how old they are and how far they've thrown things. I must be missing something.
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  399. It was.
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  400.  @alaza61  I think the person to whom you're responding, unfortunately, doesn't draw a distinction between "racist"and "racial," the latter basically taking the form if busting each others balls. It taught us to give as good as we got and ultimately how to get along and resolve minor conflicts among ourselves. No one was subjugated. And we didn't have the problems that we have today where adults will jump in when not needed, and my nephew says it's racist to use the term "Chinese." Under these circumstances, it was better for pretty much everyone. You're always going to have a genuine racist hete or there. Nothing will change that.
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  401. On the plus side, I have the physique of a shot putter. On the down side, I am a scaled down version with that physique. (5'9", 245#) 🤣
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  402. Same basic method. I just usually choose to isolate X on one side before really digging in.
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  403. This was back when we were allowed to break each other's balls. We haven't been allowed to do that without being accused of a hate crime for about 20 years or so now. And look at how well-adjusted our younger generations are and what great conflict-resolution skills they have when something doesn't go their way. Plus, you know, most of them seem to act like f@gs. 🤣
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  404. Christ no. WE can't allow Kevin Hart to make EVERYTHING sh!tty.
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  405. Yes. We busted balls. Look at what's become of the generations that didn't do that when growing up.
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  406. The positions outlined don't really take a rocket scientist to explain without seeming contradictory. More to the point, though, Harris is just about as predictable as anyone else. We give him so much credit as being an intellectual that we think a lot of his views have been carefully deliberated on, when a good number of them can be simply explained as, "once anti-GOP, always anti-GOP." At no point during the last four years has there been any indication that Harris was going to allow his views of President Trump to change. His biggest fans don't like to admit it, but in this way he's just as basic as any other anti-Trumper. And it was always fairly plain - at least to me - that the lunacy on display by the Left was an annoyance to him not because he disagreed with the "spirit" of what they claimed to represent, but that they were kooks who were making those views, which Sam actually shared, seem fringe. He could carry on discussions with ore conservative people, but always seemed ultimately moored in Leftism beyond "classical liberalism." Another way in which he's at least fairly predictable is that he can be counted on to become incredibly autistic over some minor point of a debate to the extent that - even though he may be about to humiliate the opponent - he gets up his own ass for so long that the other guy kind of just takes a knee and runs the clock out until the result of Sam's meandering is so far from the actual point being addressed that he basically has taken his boot off the guy's neck and let him escape. For those who would like at least a general example, how well does Sam do to sticking to the fight when he decides that the definition of a word needs to be explored? Yeah. By the time he's decided what something like "freedom" means, the other guy has already liberated himself from the conversation. I like the thoughtfulness that Harris brings to a discussion that a guy like Ezra Klein clearly does not, but having seen how he is also very likely to be viewing this or that through a particular prism, I certainly won't take what he says at face value until I've tumbled it around in my brain a bit.
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  407. 80s Denise Crosby. A FAR cry from 200s Denise Crosby!
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  408. Yup!
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  409. Yes. That racist cop was a trope in pretty much ALL such movies - and some TV shows - at the time. It did not actually reflect society. We didn't run around saying that sort of thing unless we were busting balls with each other. No one is allowed to bust balls now, or it's a hate crime. And look at the conflict-resolution skills our younger generations exercise when things don't go their way.
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  410.  @donkeyears4704  Not at all. I get the desire of younger folks to try to make things significant enough to bitch about, but the fact of the matter is that Nolte's character was ubiquitous at that time. It was a trope. And while in one or two scenes the discourse is more serious, it's just busting balls the rest of the time. Sorry it's not the big societal statement you likely look for in every fart
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  411. It's a little over the line to say that people in Des Moines would not be accepting of people with weird hair. If you walk into any restaurant or bar in the downtown area, at least 2/3 of the people there aged 30 and under are pretending to be LBGT until they get some skin in the game and actually decide to grow up. And damn near all of them have f*** up hair, tattoos and piercings.
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  412. This kind of gets into dicey territory though. Iowa is not remotely as obviously picturesque as many other states. Saying that it is if you look hard enough isn't really saying anything. It is similar to the part in the video where he says there is nothing to do. If you look hard enough there are things to do. I think people do a disservice by not stating how broad their parameters are when they do these videos.
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  413. We kind of have to though. Especially considering that at least 93% of Americans qualify. 🤣
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  414. So you do not allow that two things can be true at once?
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  415. Yes. I heard that comment and the first thing I thought of was, well, if a city legalized rape it could claim to be to have the lowest rape rate in the country.
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  416. Chomsky didn't absent-mindedly omit what kind of gas it was. He deliberately led people to believe it was mustard gas. But even if we accept that his was a lie of omission, Murray doesn't commit a similar sin by not elaborating to the degree you claim he should for your personal edification, simply because you would never be edified. THAT rabbit hole never ends. You dislike his position so you would logically push his lack of unnecessary elaboration as far as you need to to try to make a point. That's aside from the fact that it's not necessary because the claim that "tear gas can be used to torture people" carries no serious weight. WATER can be used to torture someone. A FEATHER can be used to torture people. Also, neither gas is used to destroy an enemy. Even in WWI, only about five percent of people exposed to mustard gas who received medical attention died from it. But tear gas is still less lethal. You basically have to be trapped in a sealed box for an extended period of time to suffer any lasting effects from tear gas. And if we give Chomsky credit of being at least half-educated on the subjects on which he speaks or writes, then we have to assume that he knows this all too well. At the very least, he knows that no one is impressed by the use of tear gas, otherwise there would have been no need to attempt to mislead his audience. In fact, tear gas is so benign that they use it on us during Basic Training in the Army.
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  417.  @nickcharles1284  I will usually choose to say these were "men of their time" rather than cast them against the societal norms of generations after their deaths. Not to defend Marx, but the n-word back then wasn't the n-word of today, and I don't care what my pilot thinks about Jews. I only care that he can land the plane safely. I leave it to others to gnash teeth about the rest. I have puppy videos to watch.
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  418.  @timc1604  I wouldn't say those things are as ubiquitous in Des Moines, but it is also true that you can't really go anywhere here where there are a couple dozen people without seeing it.
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  419.  @joelthompson4303  Yeah, if you're 18 and under the music scene was pretty busy. :)
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  420. Your "West" must be different than mine. In the U.S., we obviously think very seldom of either of them. That's just how we are. But enter the halls of US colleges where these men ARE actually discussed, you will be more likely to hear about Churchill's racism than you will a bad word about the ideas of Karl Marx.
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  421. All they "know" now is that Jefferson had children with slaves, which has actually never been proven and the chances of which are very remote. Granted, it took geneaologists and historians about 5 minutes to look all that up, but that appears to be the case.
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  422. First we'll just have to agree that most other countries don't have states and those that do don't have official state fairs, just to get it off the table. I, personally, hate hassle. As such, I have had no desire to go to the State Fair in the decade that I have lived here. That being said, that doesn't diminish how much fun people can have at a state fair. Just because it's not my personal preference doesn't mean that nobody else's opinions count.
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  423. It was less word salad than it was irrelevant, which was ultimately pointed out.
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  424. Until the rest of the country decides on a different candidate, which happens a lot more often than people in Iowa would like to admit.
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  425.  @amygreen6056  That seems odd considering that only the incredibly stupid buy into the ridiculous programs Sanders sells. I guess it does make sense that his strongest support comes from college towns where people love to consider themselves smart but can actually easily be led by the nose down pretty much any trail.
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  426. That really early Siouxsie stuff sounds so hollow, like early Cure or INXS.
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  427. "Chumbawumba's most successful single to date." As though Chumbawumba's primed to make a comeback any time soon!
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  428.  @jimanast3593  D Same difference. Basically, anyone who thinks it looks like OJ has never actually seen OJ. 🤣 Take care.
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  429. Looks loke the mayor's salary just went down to $12K.
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  430. What do you mean? Meghan gave up being a C-list actress on a cable network TV show! :)
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  431. And within a decade she'll take a huge buyout for the divorce and Harry will return to his duties, older and slouching toward anonymity.
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  432.  @revol148  \You realize that reasoning got more convoluted with every letter, right? At the end, jews are "often linked" to something? Sounds air-tight to me! 🤣
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  433.  @revol148  I apologize if I seized on something erroneously after the deletion of a comment or two. I sometimes find I can't even find the links to people who reply to my posts and find it frustrating. "Often linked" doesn't actually say anything. That's why I have an issue with it. But I will point out that I've been a communications professional for decades, and I tend to see the red flags when it comes to rhetoric a little easier than most people. Think of it. We first have to pretend that the Jewish people are a monolithic group, like how blacks in the US tend to vote 90% Democrat. But they're not. There are all stripes of Jews even beyond the most high profile split between secular and religious Jews. Then we say "often." How often is "often"? We can say that often college football players often get arrested for rape and have a solid argument to back it up, but it's likely less than half of one percent ever actually do. But half of one percent doesn't sound like "often." Basically, it's a subjective term - more so than some others - and as such, again, it doesn't convey anything tangible. As for "linked," again, what does that actually mean? We can claim "links" in a lot of ways. If 5% of KKK members used to be in the Boy Scouts, I can claim a link. We can explore links between freemasonry and the founding of the country in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but is it freemasonry, or the fact that such a large percentage of influential people of the time happened to be freemasons? Or maybe they became prominent using that network, but did that network have anything to do with the founding choices they made? Still, we have a link. We're just not sure of what. It all just really requires elaboration before it's of much use, rhetorically. Of course, when it comes to anti-Semites (not accusing you, btw), they'll claim all manner of links between Israel and various dark forces, while claiming the Palestinians have no outside ties whatsoever and that ever act of violence they've ever participated in is simply a reaction to oppression. And folks seem pretty comfortable with that nothing-to-see-here explanation. 🤣 So then we also have to deal with the prism through which a claim is made. As for me, I'm going to find some puppy videos now. Take care.
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  434.  @bg156  But neither of those two were being touted as being able to make money in the private sector, away from royal duties. A B-/C-list actress doesn't usually make bank, especially one who (still) won't be getting any juicy roles moving forward.
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  435.  @yavamontaanansombut5801  I guess you don't know how few people watch scripted cable TV shows.
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  436. Yep. They're not leaving because countries have decided that they want to persecute their doctor class. They're economic migrants, the same as any other.  @newton18311 
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  437. And then they become crappy taxi drivers. Assuming you're still allowed to drive taxis in Canada. Has that right been taken away as well?  @vancouverterry9142 
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  438. Wouldn't "the WORLD'S gift" include the crapcan countries these people are fleeing?
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  439.  @heatherg1706  NOW she is. She wasn't before hooking up with Harry. She was on a USA Network cable show for a few years. No one was holding a spot on the red carpet for her.
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  440. He can't do that. This was a short form and once you point out that they bring crime and terrorism, the opposition siezes on that and will run out the clock talking about how you believe all immigrants are criminals and terrorists. Besides, he's got a solid economic argument. Not even a need to go down the cultural road Enver was baiting him into pursuing. Once you settle on THAT ground, you then have to argue negative effects of their culture, and you inevitably land on having to point out their high criminality and you get cast in a bad light, again.
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  441.  @darkhighwayman1757  I mean, we learned the letters, then learned their sounds, then sounded out words, etc. This sh!t wasn't hard. It may have BECOME difficult once they decided we need to buckle down and come up with the one true way to teach reading, and it had better differ from the one that has worked for centuries. And - on what I'm sure is a completely unrelated topic - the Department of Education was established in 1980.
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  442. Andrew Schultz can be pretty entertaining. But (like Joe Rogan) his standup isn't really that great. Sometimes these folks forget that the wigga act doesn't really play outside of their metro.
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  443. People are too quick to deify George Carlin. When it came to these issues, he was always a leftist first, comedian second. The only power he would have been fighting is President Trump.
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  444. I've been pointing this out at every turn. Markle was NOT much more than a B- or C-list celebrity here (still isn't, really) before the engagement and wedding. She was an actress on a little-watched cable TV show. Being a working actor is great, but is not going to have the couple rolling around in a big Scrooge McDuck vault of gold coins in the U.S. as is being said. I really don't see any rational avenue for them to make a great deal of money here.
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  445.  @rosemariebaber3360  Wouldn't it be "WHO made it through grammar school only with the help of his tutors"? Maybe someone can confirm this, because I'm tired and need to go to bed.
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  446.  @1902donna  I can't say I necessarily agree, but everyone has his own way of digesting what they see and hear.
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  447. Cliff's Notes version (of my much longer response): We don't prioritize reading today - in favor of screen time and less parenting or emphasis on education in the home - so blame it on how it was being taught when many of you were reading TONS of books when you were younger.
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  448. Let's not get too condescending or full of ourselves here. The Head of State - while not irrelevant - is almost entirely ceremonial in this case. The transition would only be extraordinary if there WAS some sort of controversy. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back for something going as it's almost guaranteed to.
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  449. I have yet to see Douglas lose one of these debates. But I've only watched a couple dozen of them. Sideshow Bobbie here was trying to punch above her weight class and failed in predictable fashion.
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  450. It allows a person to claim superiority - or at least some degree of being special - by burning only the number of calories required to label themselves. It's why fat, unattractive girls just decide one day to buy a few scarves and candles and call themselves "wiccans."
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  451. In what could have been a chance to get some points across, Sideshow Bobbie looked for triggers to ignite her hackneyed sloganism rather than to understand that there is often another side and that there are genuine concerns to consider. That's really all a person needs to know about why there's a communication gap right now. And to pretend it's the result of both sides running from forming an understanding demonstrates a lack of willingness to resolve anything.
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  452.  @myklmusic  To clarify, the American Left.
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  453.  @1902donna  As they age - and as the former colonies mature - pretty much none of them really hold anyone's interest more than any other sideshow. Harry's demonstrated time and again he's not the boy he's remembered as - at least with his wife. And the media will only be able to use the "he had to walk behind his mother's casket" excuse for him only so much longer. I always liked the kid, but people change.
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  454. Once we got to the "Boomer," I think i finally had a beat on things based on the couple of vids I saw on this channel. Most of the clubs are low-hanging fruit anyone can easily grab. But this does not appear to be a thinking mans channel. The Boomer was glaringly obvious regarding the belief thar putting in the effort will usually reap rewards. Closing with the nonsense about climate change and producing dangerous people was lunacy, but so was the reaction that there was no clear path being laid out to avoid being marginalized. I'm not sure how much hand holding is required here. And I hate to use this phrase, but the real dog whistle I've been hearing us this fairly hackneyed idea of sex tourism - I mean looking to the East for a wife. Granted, this channel generally does seem to simply be regurgitating talking points young men have heard countless times - usually not really related at all to the clip that was just watched. Maybe I'm wrong. It's only been a couple of vids and I do not know this person's relationship status. But based on other channels pitching the same content, I encourage people to take a moment to consider why they would take relationship advice from people whose only experience seems to be that all of their relationships have failed. Take care.
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  455. Bad behavior? Hell, I wouldn't have even DREAMED of just lounging in a store like that, sitting area or not. That said, this is what you get for putting that sort of area in a store. Eventually, it's going to be abused by someone other than people on their way to read Bible verses to blind orphans.
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  456. Imagine them in a classroom? That's imagining the impossible.
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  457. Would you two rather be alone? I kind of feel like I'm intruding, watching this vid while you're having a conversation with someone off camera shouting "hallelujah" every 6 seconds.
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  458. I mean, NEITHER looks like orange juice at all, so it makes me question whether you grew up believing that OJ and Sunny D were both OJ. 🤣 It kind of looks more like Tang to me.
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  459. There are multiple problems here, but I'll take things as they come. One issue I have is that we never actually abandoned phonics (I mean, who was never told to not sound words out at some early level?), and Whole Language Learning absolutely worked. The number of people from my generation (Gen X) who read copious amounts of books - and still do - is not under dispute. Perhaps they skew the average, but that has always been the case, just as how Larry King used to skew the divorce rate. I'm also seeing no real evidence whatsoever that any decline in literacy is a "systemic" issue. This ignores basically every other variable regarding home and family environment. etc., that seem to be just as likely evidence of creating children incapable of - or not interested in - learning, rather than indicting the way they are being instructed. (by the way, the first item shown on the screen was from 2020 - not some time relevant to the assertion, which would put it more at sometime in the 80s) As for the "language wars," that item was printed in 1997 by PBS (take the source for what it's worth). As I recall leading up to that time, that didn't actually speak to traditional phonics and Whole Language Learning, but more to a very strange offshoot of phonics that was to language learning what Common Core was to math - a nonsensical approach that was more confusing than educational. I had several relatives who were educators at the time who tried to tell me how kids in some locations were being taught language via "phonics" and it sounded insane. I believe it was mostly an early- to mid-80s thing. Again, taking place after what was described earlier as the phonics and WLL learning eras being held up for criticism in this vid. Drawing any conclusions about learning from the COVID era is sketchy at best. This is a period during which children in their developmental stages were not even allowed to see people's mouths move while producing language, which has been held out to being very detrimental. I can agree that it may have REVEALED that younger people were not reading a lot of books but, again, it's a Graham Hancock leap, logically, to then attribute it to methods that actually worked. I'm also noting this seeming belief that if you didn't read 20 books last year, it's the school's fault for not assigning you 20 books to read to build up that "reading stamina." Here's a wild idea. Maybe a child can read a book outside of school? Granted, if a child isn't assigned those 20 books, maybe we can't expect them to all make up for it outside of the classroom. This brings us to the movement over the last generation to require LESS reading in classrooms. Homework is just too burdensome nowadays, right? Kids need that time to stare at screens, game and become the victims of sexual predators via social media. Educators have been pressured to not require so much of the students. And it wasn't the educators doing the pressuring. I will not blame the kids for complaining about homework. That's what kids do. But, again, we CAN hold parents accountable for suddenly embracing the lunacy of actually listening to their griping offspring and taking it seriously because, ultimately, a satiated child requires less of a parent who, not coincidentally, wants to spend most of THEIR time on screens. Not exactly a unique approach in this world where we've decided to constantly be held hostage by this or that group's tantrums. Maybe when a student claims they "can't" read an entire book in a week, we should (likely rightly) interpret that as they don't WANT to read an entire book in a week. Along those lines, how many of you have EVER been required to read a book in a week for a class that was NOT a lit class? And even there, that book would have to be relatively short. We almost always had weeks to break down books. And this might shock people, but you usually can go your entire school career without signing up for a lit class. I was good through differential equations. I didn't then turn around and sign up for Calc III. By college, students required to do that much reading in that short of a time is a pretty self-selecting group. My experience has also been that student's lack of desire/ability to read an entire book - or how they were taught - has next to nothing to do with whether they can take a standardized test (exams we'd already been taking GENERATIONS before either Bush administration, by the way) well enough to get into top schools. They just happen to be good students who are also very good at taking standardized tests. I know just as many of my friends who were battling for valedictorian honors who never cracked anything but a text book in high school. Even if the language learning approach IS a big deal in this regard, I think it can be argued that the ability to understand what you just read might be a skill that at least complements your ability to sound those words out. Maybe toward the very end, we finally arrive at what appears to be the likely purpose of this exercise from the start, which was to make an excuse for people who simply choose to do things other than reading. Reading a book isn't a high enough priority to leave the phone inside so that you can absorb a good book in the back yard, so let's blame Whole Language Learning's. We can argue about whether children are being raised in a manner and environment that make them less able to learn what they're being taught, but I'm really not seeing an actual connection between their lack of reading skills and the teaching approach being put forth here. This all written, I obviously have a bias considering that I was actually witness to all of this and am willing to put what would admittedly be considered anecdotal evidence against studies that - at least as presented here - seem to be taking a conclusion and working backward, rather than showing a causal relationship. Or maybe I'm just full of sh!t. Take care.
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  460. He's going to suffer divorce after things don't work out in the U.S. She'll take the buyout she's known was coming since their wedding day and he'll return to his duties, diminished.
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  461.  @whitebenrr  Is it true about the meth heads?
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  462.  Maya Yeel  But now he's diminished and unable to do anything for anyone.
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  463.  @artelisx  Then all those added "readers" apparently stopped reading, so ...
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  464. Observation: As a B-/C-list actress on an American cable TV show for a few years, Meghan is about as likely to land lucrative acting employment as Harry is to take the throne. :)
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  465. But they're in the same MSA, so it's a distinction without much of a difference. That's like saying Green Bay and Ashwaubenon are different entities.
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  466.  @danlieberman1590  Still the same MSA.
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  467.  @scallopohare9431  Do does California and New York. But taken as a whole the end is the same. Take care.
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  468. To all the people still blaming NCLB for the fact that you didn't have enough emphasis on education in your homes and you never had any interest in reading anything outside of what was assigned (thereby not building their stamina), did you need a government entity to tell you when to wipe your backsides as well, or did you kind of just figure that one out? 🤣
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  469. In the dark ages (1970s) we learned the letters, then learned their sounds, then sounded out words, etc., and the next thing we knew we were reading. This sh!t wasn't hard. It may have BECOME difficult once people (usually academics) decided we needed to buckle down and come up with the one true way to teach reading, and it had BETTER differ from the one that has worked for centuries, or those of us creating it won't appear to be very useful. On what I'm sure is a completely unrelated topic, the Department of Education was established in 1980.
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  470. Did anyone else watch a documentary on all of this, and find themselves thinking, "This is not how Sriracha is made"? At least, it seems like a few steps were skipped. From what I remember from the doc, there are three sauces made by Huy Fong, each produced by adding something to the previous one. As in, there is a base sauce. They add to the base sauce to make the second sauce, then add to the second sauce to make the third (or maybe they added different things to the base sauce to make the third). I just remember thinking that was brilliantly economical.
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  471. An extrusion tube crapping out rice? WHAT MANNER OF SCORCERY IS THIS?!
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  472.  @johanneskreisler7647  I think maybe you've never lived in a true college town if you don't believe there's a difference. We've got multiple colleges in Des Moines. If they're not in session, no one really cares. The impact isn't felt that broadly throughout the city. I've also lived in State College, Pa. The city has 43K people. Penn State has 46K. On a football weekend, it swells to become the third-largest city in the state after Philly and Pittsburgh. The impact of the school is felt much differently there, I assure you. It can be a tough call, though. A city like Madison has a large university presence, but it's also the state capital and has 250K people of its own. I'd say it's kind of a tweener.
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  473. I understand she absolutely goes into ecstatic convulsions whenever she uses toothpaste or tubed polenta.
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  474. I don't know the source - and I'm sure it was stated better than I'm about to - but one of my favorite related quotes goes like this: "It's tougher to convince a common man of something than it is an intellectual. The common man is generally rooted in common sense when it comes to ideas, whereas an intellectual can be convinced of ANYTHING as long as you lay out a trail of what appear to be logical bread crumbs."
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  475. Shocker. A Biden nominee who is not a straight white male. Not like you need to be such a person to fill these jobs, but considering that we're constantly told that straight white males set up the entire system, you'd think they would be among the most qualified at ... SOMEthing. As for Shalanda Young? It APPEARS that the only job she's had since leaving college was working for the Dems on the House Appropriations committee in various capacities including, most recently, head of staff. I write "appears" because, although I've tried a half dozen or so of the top Google matches that might include that information, I cannot find her actual year of birth anywhere on the internet, including her Wiki page. Seriously, "Early Life" on Wiki jumps from birthPLACE to her earning her B.A. I'm not saying that there is some grand mystery here. She seems to likely be in her early 40s, and who gives a sh!t? But if something that basic has been scrubbed, I'm a little curious what else might be out there that we're not supposed to know. From what is available, I KNOW she was born in Baton Rouge, La., and earned her undergrad and grad degrees at Louisiana schools. I know she has worked for the House Dems since 2007. What can I ASSUME, given the limited information, if I choose? Here we have a woman who never really ventured outside of her birth state until she got her master's degree and landed her first job, which she's worked ever since. And, for some reason, the Biden administration believes this qualifies her for a second-fiddle OMB post.
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  476. Note how they all get big balls when grilling people who are going to be "under" secretaries, or "deputy" this or that. I don't recall these guys bringing the pain when it comes to the top appointee positions.
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  477. Nonsense. Unless life has been one unexpected curveball after another, you don't need to be in the top 20% of earners in the U.S. to get a passport or save up $1000, let alone live in these countries. It does take good decisions.
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  478. I guess if you're not willing to spend a couple of hours one afternoon figuring out how to use a sushi mat to roll your own, this could come in handy. It's more to make things idiot-proof. It doesn't really save you much time.
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  479. Blame it on the method of learning that was in place when you DID read a lot! That's what we're supposed to believe here, it appears.
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  480.  @sovietunion7643  i'll buy that people busy themselves because the economy may cause some to have to find additional employment, but for the most part the jobs we do are exponentially easier and quicker to do than in the past. We are making a lot of bad choices, from where we spend our money to how we spend our down time. People used to complain about how tired they were after returning home at the end of the day because they had to spend the entire day staring at a monitor. Now those same people can't wait to stare at their phones or tablets for an additional few hours after they get home.
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  481. We should have a UBI "right now"? At what point are you going to tell people they can no longer get a UBI then? Better yet, is there any evidence in the entirety of U.S. history that demonstrates that we would be willing to end such an entitlement program when it is no longer needed? I'm also not entirely sure the translation of what the billionaire was saying is accurate, but I'm not the most astute at parsing through financial language.
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  482. Let's see ... 1) Ventura was not a Navy SEAL. I know a lot of people are going to say that he's "considered a SEAL" by this or that group, or that this or that department retroactively has him as a SEAL. There were SEALs long before his service. Ventura went to a kick-ass school that feeds into two tracts: one for SEALs and an alternative. Ventura chose the alternative. That's no small potatoes. It's still beyond the ability of at least 95% of people currently serving and would likely have been beyond mine when I served. It should be respected. But the fact of the matter is that - while you can serve WITH SEAL teams - that doesn't make you a SEAL. You can't be an actual SEAL if you don't go to SEAL school. It's very simple. Even if they lump old units together and say he's considered one retroactively, he was never a SEAL while he served. Top his credit, he never raised much of a fuss about this in the past and usually just lets people in interviews say what they say. But I do know that usually in the past HE never made the SEAL claim. That always came from someone else. Again, credit to him. I think all the Kyle stuff kind of rattled things around a bit for Ventura. 2) Ventura was never deployed to Vietnam. I think he was in the Philippines. To my knowledge, that wasn't his doing and you sort of go where higher-ups decide you're needed. Again, where someone chooses to send him shouldn't be held against him or what I believe is still a distinguished service record. 3) Contrary to what Ventura seems to claim, the National Guard being mobilized to fight abroad was not invented by President Bush. The NG has served in foreign wars since World War 1, often with units left in tact, rather than being absorbed into Army units. It's also worth noting that even if this wasn't the case, we have to acknowledge that there is a difference between the conscription eras and the post-draft era. And something that most are likely unaware of is that NG and Reserve members aren't technically considered veterans UNLESS they've been federalized at some point. Look it up. Kind of shocked me as well. 4) This one is somewhat up to memory and interpretation (and doesn't really have to do with the irrelevant things Ventura was rambling about at this time in the vid), but very early on in the Gulf War, we DID find WMDs. Rather, we found the components needed to build them buried in the sand in Iraq. Everyone seems to have completely forgotten this. I don't believe huge stockpiles were ever found, but claiming that no WMDs were discovered is kind of like saying that if my M16A2 is sitting on the table, disassembled, that I don't have a weapon. 5) I'm not sure what military deferments have to do with things. I believe former President Trump had four deferments and President Biden had five. Obviously Harris hasn't served. But as someone who served active duty, there IS usually a considerable difference between military professionals and weekend/two weeks personnel, regardless of how long someone served in the NG. The two services are just completely different animals. It's not necessarily ridiculous to question aspects of someone's service. That's all I was able to get through, really. Ventura just hasn't been that entertaining for at least two decades now.
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  483. I believe Trump had four deferments, which is one less than Biden had. Unless Waltz was deployed in some extended way (I haven't bothered to look deep into his record out of apathy), he actually served about 2.5 years during those 24 years of service.
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  484. @Tahoe10 Kind of like how Ventura may have SERVED with SEAL teams, but he never actually was a SEAL while he served. He didn't go to the school. His service is still to be respected, but after his kick-ass advanced training WITH guys who would become SEALs, the SEALs chose Door A, and Ventura chose Door B.
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  485. Her amazement at the existence of the extrusion tube sort of reminds you of when your toddler was fascinated by balloons, or how the dog would chase an empty Coors Light box around the yard because it could see it's reflection in it.
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  486. @theman0612  It appears it has to do mostly with benefits. The view seems to be that a 24-year veteran of the NG who likely spent less than 3-4 years actually on duty doesn't enjoy the same status as someone whose job it was to put on the uniform every day for almost a quarter of a crntury.
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  487.  @Oh-No-Its-Lizzie-Jo  I have friends at the VA myself. And NG members are not technically considered "veterans" like full-time military members unless the fulfill a specific set of circumstances. It surprised me, but there it is. I assume "coach" refers to Walz, considering that I've also heard something to the effect that when saying he was a "coach" he often tended to leave out that he was an assistant - not the head coach? It sounds similar to what is being said regarding him puffing up his military service a bit, claiming one status while actually serving as an interim? It kind of establishes a pattern if these things are true. Regarding reservist vs. full-time military, a person should not be put down for being a reservist, but we should also not pretend that NG and active military are the same. They're completely different animals. In 24 years, an active-duty soldier puts in 24 years on duty. A reservist who is never part of a major deployment - which has overwhelmingly been the case for decades despite the foreign wars - is on duty for about 900-1000 days, total, if he serves for a quarter century. And a chunk of that can be inactive where you don't show up at all unless there's a call-up. I have no idea what you're talking about regarding people failing classes. This was all so full of garbage that I was done after a couple of minutes so maybe it was included in the rest of Ventura's ramblings. If so, I wasn't around for that. Take care.
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  488.  @Xerou  Yeah. Pretty sure I didn't mention anything about that. But both things can actually be true if you have critical thinking skills. Take care.
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  489. If you think she got excited with THIS gadget, I understand that she slid off her chair the first time she saw a Slap-Chop!
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  490. I believe I can help with the Canada thing. The reason American liberals/Leftists threaten to move to Canada is because it's full of white people who elect Left-leaning governments. Granted, American blacks vote overwhelmingly Democrat, but white liberals assume that blacks either won't be able to afford to follow them into Canada, or won't be inclined to because of the climate. Those white folks would basically view it as kind of paradise for them. They won't go to Mexico because pretty much the opposite would be the case. They'd be incredibly uncomfortable surrounded by non-whites in a country in which forcing people to follow Leftist social ideals would be like herding cats. And although politics is dirty to some extent most anywhere, they wouldn't like how they can be purchased in Mexico, where increasing the chances of people being able to make money would be taken much more seriously than appealing to the sense of social justice of the person you're trying to hand the briefcase to.
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  491.  @mattboland7063  I feel like we can work "properly relieved" in here somehow. 🤣 Take care.
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  492.  @theman0612  And you should probably try being a little more thoughtful before being so quick to respond. Maybe take some time to read what's actually being put out there before offering up irrelevant anecdotal evidence. It's got nothing to do with any "theory." As a former full-time active duty service member, I was as surprised as anyone that reservists are not considered veterans unless they fit a certain set of circumstances, which very few of them actually fit for quite a long time. Your friend can (likely)be considered a veteran because he was federalized, then (I assume) served out that obligation. Whether he earned "combat citations" or a purple heart are irrelevant. Those things are simply often consequences of that duty. It's the duty itself that determines whether you attain veteran status in the eyes of the government.
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  493. I mean, Ventura was not a Navy SEAL when he served, but SOMEONE has to praise the ability to rehydrate and re-heat things, and usually never be seen doing PT until two weeks before the test! 🤣
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  494. Regardless of all of this, I think we CAN respect Walz as a First Nations member, being affiliated with the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren.
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  495. True. I would never notice the gaps in time where I DON'T get a bj if it hadn't been for all the bjs I've gotten in the past. Truly profound.
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  496.  @justinweidenbach3699  I'm not sure which "his" we're talking about here, but there ARE official military records for Ventura and Walz. The records show that Ventura was not a SEAL (which is why it's so staggering that people have to build him up to be one rather than respect what looked to be a kick-ass service record on its own), and apparently Walz has been puffing up his status if not out-and-out lying about it. I haven't burned any calories looking into the exact circumstances around Walz. But at least one thing has to do with claiming rank that he never actually achieved simply because he kept the chair warm while the NG was finding a replacement. Like if a light colonel filled in for a few weeks as battallion commander until they found the next full bird to replace the last one who left. That light colonel doesn't get to tell everyone he was a full bird. Maybe people are too quick to give it a pass since interim coaches in sports often actually take over those positions until the end of the current campaign. Take care.
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  497. I see a lot of people confused by the oft-confused former Gov. Ventura regarding the National Guard serving overseas. I believe this was formalized by a defense act in 1916 and the NG has been serving abroad since at least WWI. Former President Bush did not invent this practice. 🤣 Another thing that might surprise many is that NG and Reserve personnel are not technically considered to be veterans UNLESS they are federalized by a POTUS and serve their obligation. Shocked the heck out of me when I stumbled upon that little nugget as well.
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  498. In wrestling there are weight classes and females that excel against good competition are rare. In the military almost none of them can get into the MOS's that require great physicality. Anything else?
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  499. Madonna is a clown, and has been for decades. I'm going to take any claims that she has "a lot of power" with a grain of salt, considering that she hasn't had anything resembling a big album in just over 20 years and has had only two solo singles chart inside the top 10 (non-grenre chart) during that time, the most recent being in 2005.
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  500. And the PED testing in the league is almost nonexistent, so that would make it an even better match.
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  501.  @u4yk  Someone posted that her 40 time is 5.9, I think.
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  502. And, of course, they bring in a 19yo-looking "reporter from 'New York' magazine" to fill us in on all this, as though "sex sells" is a new concept, and we're not aware that this is a "multi-million dollar" demographic. Guess what? ALL demographics are "multi-million dollar" demographics!I like how she actually believes that these girls "have access to their own money." I don't think I'll be taking financial planning advice from this girl.
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  503.  @davidlafleche1142  And she'd have about as good of a case.
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  504.  @bakermayfield6hunnitdan6er24  My assertion is that her claim would be as groundless as Kaepernick's. A person can certainly try to claim Kaepernick is better than some of the quarterbacks starting in the NFL. They cannot flat-out make the case that bringing him in as a starter - or especially as a backup - would be worth the investment in a middling-at-best talent.
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  505. She'll see Jesus after the first week of full contact in NAIA. People need to forget about the NFL.
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  506. If we're forced to allow a female with no obvious football talent into the NFL, I think it's only fair that we get rid of alimony.
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  507.  @dragonite-nn3sv  Define "playing." I think you need to do a little homework on exactly how little actual football she's played.
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  508. I don't know, but they can apparently compete against them in MMA, and high school track and wrestling.
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  509. Don't worry. I doubt we'll ever get to see that she's incapable of even playing at the NAIA level. She's likely going to get some mystery injury in practice and the narrative will shift to how fate intervened rather than the fact that she's not particularly talented. Basically, she'll get to be the next Mo'ne Davis. Remember 4-5 years ago when she Davis was going to be playing basketball for UConn and how dare we question whether that would happen? Well, the media narrative is that those dreams were dashed when she suffered an ankle injury. Call me crazy, but I'm not sure hurting an ankle drops you all the way from being a UConn prospect to signing to play softball at a traditionally black university with a student body of 4500. You'd think there would some sort of middle ground, wouldn't you?
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  510. Thing is, a woman CAN'T "do and be anything she wants." This gets proven fairly regularly.
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  511. If that one gal wants to look like a raccoon-eyed skank as a 17yo, sobeit. Most of us make fashion mistakes in our teens. Or, at least, we allow ourselves to fall in with the fads and trends. Pressuring younger girls to also become raccoon-eyed skanks is where I draw the line.
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  512. Given a choice, blacks almost always choose to separate themselves from white folks.
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  513. For all the people hoping this will start a trend, not every state is set up like Louisiana. A lot of suburbs are not served so much by the county other than law enforcement or hospitals. Theyll just end up cut off. But it doesn't hurt to try.
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  514. Just think of how vibrant the culture of the city will be now that it's 82% black!
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  515. ​ @TamaraJohnBlue La. Is a corrupt cesspool regardless.
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  516.  @mr.selfimprovement3241  I can see why this would prevent you from building up your reading stamina outside of what you were assigned in school.
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  517. No they won't. Larger government will step in.
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  518. I did the math, based on my memory of the numbers. Baton Rouge just became 82.2% black. This place should be Walanda in no time! 😂
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  519. And these are the sort of women who keep being prematurely promoted in business to check all the boxes. And when they become management ... well ... has anyone else noticed that they tend to either want to avoid conflict at all costs, or take what they THINK are male leadership stereotypes and overdo them? I've worked under pretty much the gamut of humanity. It was almost exclusively women who either wanted to pretend a conflict didn't exist (it's usually avoiding eye contact and/or a "what do you mean?" as though you're the crazy one for recognizing the issue), or try to spread blame when it was very clear only one party was at fault. This isn't meant to paint all women with the same brush. But there's something to be said for BOTH sexes understanding that they're still very new at the whole "running things" thing, and a LOT of them were rushed up the ladder without paying their dues in the typical way. Why would we expect the overwhelming majority of them to know how to effectively do it? You can't even trust dudes to get it right a lot of the time.
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  520. I appreciate the identification of how trans "thinking" can not reconcile with itself, but I'm not sure I'm buying into assertions about what is proper behavior in various cases. And the repeated assertions regarding how the patriarchy is just woven into things comes off a bit as off-handed excuse making. Regarding our biological sex driving us toward this and that, it can be a little complicated. But we can't deny the studies that have shown that the more egalitarian society becomes in the West, the more the sexes freely choose to gravitate toward more "traditional" capacities and interests, in general. It was good to hear people were able to see past the guest's bravado and masculinity, though. I would put forth that women are not blameless regarding how many men react negatively when treated a certain way. There's a reason they view themselves through the eyes of others. You'd think a group that mistakenly blames the patriarchy for them feeling as though they have to cater to modern beauty standards would be more open minded to that.
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  521.  @FPSIreland2  Prohibition actually succeeded in achieving its goals. It was never about drinking,. It was about unregulated alcohol throughout society killing people at an alarming rate. Creating the mafia was an unfortunate side-effect, but after it was repealed, we never again had to worry about bathtub gin made from turpentine or embalming fluid being served in bars and at restaurants. BTW, I love when people parrot the "definition of insanity" thing. Everyone who has ever practiced something knows that you can do the same thing over and over and evolve.
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  522. I listened to the entire exchange yesterday (something that I guarantee the makers of this video do not want you to do). The problem was that Rogan decided to dig in on one very focused aspect of what he views as government regulation that he believes as being good and wouldn't let it go. Meanwhile, Rubin on multiple occasions said things like, "Again, I'm not saying I'd necessarily promote deregulation in this case, but I think the issue is an interesting one that should be debated, and the market often self-regulates," but proceeded to allow himself to be drawn back in by Rogan rather than moving on. They're both kind of to blame for talking past each other on this one. Rubin may have stumbled a little, but his point basically reflects what I've always seen his purpose as being, which is to simply bring up the issues for discussion. He has his views and lets them be known – more assertively when he’s the interviewee - but sees the conversation itself as being more valuable than wasting an hour or two trying to change the other person's mind. I view Rogan in a similar fashion in that his curiosity is what makes his podcast stand out – not necessarily any gift for rhetorical or intellectual gymnastics. There’s value in what he does. Not everyone has to be a bomb-thrower, people.
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  523. +jujufactory I guess sometimes we have to settle for being the one-eyed man in the land of the blind.
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  524. badpanda84 More complete picture: According to Pew, Democrats lead with post-grad voters AND those who have never spent a day on a college campus. Regardless, I don't imagine you see any slight irony in criticizing a party's voters as being "uneducated and easily frightened" while the party you support overwhelmingly gets the black vote.
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  525. Sanders will get the black vote simply because he's a Democrat. It has absolutely nothing to do with Trump. Donald Trump could push for the entire month of February to be designated as Martin Luther King Jr. Month with everyone getting all 28 days off and he'd be lucky for it to make 1% difference regarding the black vote. It's monolithic for the Dems. Realistically, though, I doubt we'll have to worry about either being in the general election. Sanders has no chance, and it's difficult seeing Trump surviving the primary process, all goofiness regarding opinion polls aside.
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  526. Gidget Hrobowski Unfortunately, it was a misleading statement about why Sanders would get the black vote. It is monolithic for the Democrats and that is not going to change regardless of who gets the Republican nomination this year. The percentage of the black vote going to the Democrat presidential candidate for roughly the last 50 years (excluding the Obama elections): 2004: 88% 2000: 90% 1996: 84% 1992: 83% 1988: 89% 1984: 91% 1980: 86% 1976: 85% 1972: 87% 1968: 85% 1964: 95% Now, someone please tell me again that Trump is going to be the reason that blacks don't vote Republican this year.
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  527. Kirito Kalin I think there is a shortage of critical thinking the world over. To an educated American, it seems lacking in nations in which people trade certain freedoms for a nanny state. But if that's all they've known, should I blame them?  
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  528. gbnz53 It's not that we have freedoms that no other country has. It's more that we have a broad spectrum of them that is not present - in total - in other countries. Our right to own personal firearms alone would disqualify many Western countries. Technically, any natural-born citizen of the country can run for legislature/Congress or president. Even U.K. has a House of Lords with hereditary members even though that's been curtailed a little in recent decades. We don't have the state testing us as juveniles and deciding whether we can attend university, if we must attend a trade school, etc. We are free to choose that for ourselves. Combined with the fact that it's much easier to start a business here than in most Western countries because the state is not involved in all aspects of the process, we have one freedom that is much easier to exercise than in other nations, which is the freedom to work our way to the top of the food chain. We don't really have institutional barriers to that.  If a poor kid studies hard he can get into college, become a doctor or go into some other high-paying profession, and come out the other end among the top percentage of earners in the country. Access to university is not as easy in other nations. It also means that there is less of a safety net preventing us from completely failing and falling into poverty. Our traditional view is that you can't have the opportunity to limitless achievements without also having the chance of falling to the bottom. It is no surprise that many who support providing the kind of safety net found in many European nations are those who are jealous of the success of those who accomplished more, be it from harder work, greater intelligence, etc.
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  529. Justin Lee It's not a direct democracy, but it's still a democracy. I don't particularly care for the breed of person we seem to elect, but the adage is true that - as a democracy - we get the government we deserve. 
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  530. The Ultimate Reductionist Why would it take 90 days for people to die without food and water? The general rule of thumb is that by Day 4 we'd be rid of most of them. 
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  531. Noob101 What is the point of equivocating? 
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  532. Yes. We never had "money in politics" until 1978. Always beware the person who whips out the phrase "military-industrial complex." Almost none of them have any depth of knowledge on the subject.
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  533. +Ghassan jenainaty We're smart enough to know that only fools devote great effort into their reputations, especially with the knowledge that the hate is going to be out there regardless.
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  534. Ghassan jenainaty Unfortunately, racism is generally more prevalent among American Democrats/liberals.  
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  535. Ghassan jenainaty Which is, of course, why we didn't seize the oil fields in Iraq or support Israel in pretty much any way these past 7 years, correct? 
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  536. +Gunnariffic It's true. With the grip that socialism has on many of the Western countries, many of them honestly believe that we're crazy to not let President Obama do whatever he wants.
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  537. ***** The thing is, whenever polling is done - as it has been recently - the U.S. still gets about a 64% approval rating worldwide, with higher marks from Europe and Asia. 
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  538. Valami Izé I think you should find a better online translator program. I have no idea what you just meant to write. 
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  539. +Mike Vizioz It would help if the rest of the world could subsist on its own entertainment as well. I try listening to Western European radio stations to see what the popular music is like, but basically all I get is songs that are popular on the American charts (or that WERE 20 years ago) with the local language filling the time between songs. I can get that here, obviously.
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  540. Ah, but WE are not the ones complaining about having something Italian, German, etc., staring us in the face at every turn. Your inability to provide so many of things within your own borders - and the American culture's ability to provide such a broad range of things - requires you to invite American influences with open arms. We can make our own Italian food and actually do manufacture German cars in the U.S., but none of you seem to be able to produce entertainment at a top-notch qualitative and quantitative level.
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  541. Marlon Oliver The fact that you have to refer to the EU as if it's one country speaks volumes without even getting to the hackneyed talking points later on. It's also very telling that you are perfectly willing to absolve the U.S. of its role in WW2, considering where the bulk of that was taking place.
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  542. I have yet to meet an American who believes the world believes we are noble and anointed. I do believe that some people in other countries do appreciate some of the efforts the U.S. undertakes - often with allies - that most countries simply don't have the resources or will to do themselves.
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  543.  @transformalizer  It's a shade to the side of a parallel. And when trying to draw a comparison, it definitely helps to first repeat the statement that you're assailing. It would be much easier to just point out that this response was pretty much entirely middle school-level.
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  544.  @Macachee  No. He doesn't. Anyone with a 4th-grade sophistication regarding communication knows that he was narrow in what he was referring to where Singapore is concerned. I would guess you're another one of those people who actually believes that the previous POTUS said men should grab women in the p*ssy as well, right? Go peddle your line to dimwits at the bar.
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  545.  @007kingifrit  Oh, it's not by accident that they refuse to engage. The older generation knows it can't win the arguments, and the younger generations grew up thinking that avoidance was a solid strategy. 🤣
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  546. The next time I see something about the benefits of herbs and spices that doesn't come with some mention about how the studies STILL are not conclusive will be the first time. I believe in them, but you'd think we'd have more concrete info.
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  547.  @nightskygaming2710  Did you have anything relevant to add or is mistaking statements you don't grasp for anger pretty much your rhetorical ceiling? I'm guessing you think a LOT of people are mad, if this is the case.
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  548. He absolutely had weapons of mass destruction. It was reported on AT THE TIME that they had been found. They had just been disassembled and buried. So, the Dems ran with the "there were no WMDs!" garbage that has become part of the false narrative of that war. Given this, saying there were no WMDs is like saying there are no cars in an auto plant. Or are we to pretend they were just serving as a sort of WMB Autozone for some other country?
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  549. IDK if I've seen such a stark, clear picture of the landscape of a particular food group than this. *Animal milk is all A or higher. Stuff from other sources that most of us don't really consider milk is B or lower. *Chocolate milk is adulterated and obviously does not count.
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  550. It's weirder when you have these mothers still breast feeding their children when the children are older than 3.
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  551. Nah. They'll want to do butt stuff. Aliens always seem to want to do butt stuff.
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  552. This myth that we go to university/college so that we can be exposed to different voices and points of view is just as laughable today as it was when I attended in the 80s and 90s. We went to basically learn a trade or gain entry into a particular field, and along the way we happened to hear more diverse opinions and meet people from more far flung places than we had previously. I would almost go so far as to argue that it's the very people who DO prioritize this alleged exposure to other thoughts as their main reason to attend college who are the ones who can't function when they do not share those ideas. There's no curricular anchor - just all of these thoughts. It's like people who put their entire worth in the hands of others, or hand their spirits over to their workplace. If you have a bad day at work, you then have a bad day. If people don't like you, you're garbage. Don't give outside entities that much power over you.
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  553. MADI: If you check Shapiro's actual vid (which this poseur knows very few will do), it's clear that he's poking fun at the hype rather than actually being worked up or being upset. It's the poor axing of that vid that's giving you a different impression. Half-way through this vid I think we were only about 30 seconds into Shapiro's. That should be telling.
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  554. BLANK: I guess that makes TWO of us who actually watched Shapiro's video. The fact that this guy chopped the hell out of it, and only managed to cover about the first 30 seconds in the first half of this vid should speak volumes. JL: If you honestly believe that Shapiro is the one who politicized this movie, I mourn for you.
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  555. D1: I'm not sure I can criticize one group for viewing something with political/social overtones as having political/social overtones.
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  556. VB: You noticed that, eh?
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  557. BEK: That's a facile argument that holds no water in reality. It's like how HR folks will say that it's okay to have support groups devoted to LBGT folks or other minorities because "everyone else has all the support they need." In reality, the only groups getting ANY support are those that these groups focus on. The "everyone else" isn't getting any consideration.
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  558. STU: If you believe that, I feel nothing but pity for your ability to consume information.
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  559. AMY: Other than being wrong about blacks having any rights until 50 years ago, and mischaracterizing Shapiro mocking something with actually being "upset," you're spot on. Except for some of the other stuff I didn't bother reading, I'm sure.
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  560. DJ: How do you know Shapiro had no opinion on Avengers or Thor?
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  561. DJ: I don't know whether there are any rants about those movies, but that misses the point of the Black Panther vid. It was about how ridiculously it was being covered and framed by the media and Left - not the movie itself. He did go to it the first week and said it was good. Here's a link to the original vid. You'll see there's a very good reason the hack on this channel chopped the hell out of it, then didn't have the decency to supply the link to the original. https://youtu.be/XCkI8EL3-O0
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  562. DJ: I'll believe that you actually did watch the full version of what Ben Shapiro said. But to come to the conclusions you did, I cannot believe you actually heard what he was saying. But not everyone absorbs things the same. Take care.
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  563. JD: Don't confuse folks by having them actually go to the source material.
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  564. For those of you still a little hazy about some of the current discourse, THIS is what Ben Shapiro would sound like if he actually was how people on the Left characterize him. Anyone who actually watched Shapiro talk about this movie weeks ago knows that this boy didn't assail a single substantive point Shapiro raised. As I type this, the thumbs up/down ratio on this vid is 752/593 after 15,441 views. I can't imagine how small the number of views would have been had the name "Shapiro" not been located in the title. Which raises another issue that folks like Steven Crowder have brought up: why is this video - posted almost 20 days ago and with less than 16K views - just now showing up as a video of interest?
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  565.  @chazwyman8951  Is it common for people who have just had a triple bypass to be out walking miles every day? Regardless, I'm not saying that I agree with the longevity argument. I was just recasting what appeared to be a take from the vid.
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  566. Well, he screwed the defense over today, with the non-help of the defense, of course.
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  567.  @stoneddeer8646  And they did just that - handed the prosecution a ladder. Do you still go to the store if you have a candle burning? Or do you either put it out, or stick around and keep half an eye on it to make sure nothing happens?
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  568.  @muchluv2221  Yeah. They went from winning on the blurry photo, to not really fighting at all when it came to the video that the blurry frame came from. And the one frame of him allegedly raising the gun seems to be the entire prosecution case right now.
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  569.  @stoneddeer8646  Which one?
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  570.  @carliedaniel7667  All they need to do now is convince a juror that they see something in the video that they don't actually see. And they'll probably be able to convince at least 3 of them, unfortunately.
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  571.  @KP-rh5qz  Kind of. The word of the day was "provocation." And the road to acquittal got a whole lot harder where that is concerned today.
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  572.  @chrisgastelum3261  Yeah. The bank logo will be 2" wide on a shirt that has Cubs blazened across the chest. Nothing to see here.
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  573. Yes. We should have a population that averts its eyes and pretends to see nothing. It's worked great for certain Asian countries in which people opposed to the government just kind of disappear.
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  574. You know, "BANK" t-shirts? They have a bank's logo that's 1.5" wide above a "CUBS!" lettering that covers the other 85% of the shirt front. Those "bank" shirts. I sometimes forget that all of his foreign travel seems to refill those superority tanks that Ari lugs around with him everywhere.
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  575. Was Puck always bullying Pedro? From what I recall, he was dead nuts on about him. His main claim was that there WAS no Pedro anymore. There was only "AIDS guy." And it might, again, have come down to the editing, but Puck was NOT wrong about that.
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  576. Not only does this clown have trouble speaking plainly, but he still is passing on the narrative that "something went awry" at the Duke lacrosse party.
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  577. I don't know the specifics of what Gen. Clark said, but it's not exactly outside the realm of possibility that he saw plans for a LOT of potential operations. That's kind of what we do. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a plan that they're looking at actually implementing any time soon.
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  578. Just to toss this in there. Another reason we get more heart disease as we age is because our organs age. A 60-year-old heart does not look like that of a 12-year-old, and it's not because of eating habits.
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  579. They need to make sure Kystal gets a better camera angle. She's not bright enough to get by outside of her looks.
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  580. True. Except for the multiple crimes with which he's charged, of course. People forget that it doesn't take much to break a lot of thee laws/acts.
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  581.  @stephencockdock5170  Brilliant comeback! Let me know when you've worked up to such gems as "Nuff said."
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  582. If I thought you could give me an informed answer, I'd ask you what it says. But I know what I'd get in return would be the same boilerplate, out-of-context class envy I've come to expect.
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  583. Yes. There's a lot of ground to be gained by having charges dropped against an alleged traitor among voter in the GOP ranks. While he's at it, Trump might as well come out in favor of gun confiscation and abortion on demand.
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  584. I prefer to believe that patriots are more willing to face the repercussions of their actions. I can't give this guy hero status.
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  585.  @mikejo8083  Just how far would you care to take that line of thinking, where we basically decide as citizens that we are entitled to take government functions into our own hands? Because they would certainly define any surveillance being done as the performance of a government function. I'm not saying it would be without benefits. I mean, get law enforcement to turn the other way at the next violent protest and we'll see how many rioters are still around to repeat their actions.
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  586.  @amiri7392  Yes. And "There are aliens walking among us, but I can't tell you about all of that or the CIA would track my fillings and have me killed." You can absolutely speak to motivations and the nature of material without dispensing specifics. You yourself could think of a half dozen things you could do that with just off the top of your head. We're a little too ready to give credit and latitude regarding these things where there needn't be any.
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  587.  @amiri7392  Now THAT'S the BS excuse everyone gives. "I wouldn't be able to get a fair trial!" It's a tactic often not based in reality. Most people really don't this stuff that closely. I don't either, and I can't speak for you. But I bet even you and I could objectively sit on a panel, hear the evidence and vote our consciences. I'm not looking to "string up the traitor!" But I believe a public hearing would shed light on the issues and actions at hand. And isn't transparency kind of what people are telling themselves Snowden is all about?
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  588. I've noticed how many people are pretending to be so very concerned about the political fortunes of the GOP and President Trump. "There's a lot of ground to be made up if Trump were to pardon Snowden," they seem to be saying. Yes. And while he's at it, he can come out in favor of unlimited abortion on demand and gun confiscation as well - two ideas just as appealing to the Trump constituency as having charges dropped against an alleged traitor. Don't get conservatives confused with people who claim they are libertarians.
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  589. Yes. American history is littered with heroes who did something great, followed by doing whatever was necessary to never be held accountable for their actions.
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  590.  @vorbo01  I'll answer with what is apparently a central question. So you believe that all that exist are heroes and cowards? Because I can't really see where I wrote "coward" in any of my posts.
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  591.  @Thunderalpacka223  And you believe that's the ONLY thing he revealed, right?
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  592. Yes. Heroes who know the repercussions ALWAYS run away from accountability. It's one of the pillars of his generation.
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  593.  @ginobenedetto4943  A LOT of people were college athletes.
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  594.  @c18x66  I'm sure it's fine. I have nothing against the guy. It's like we find in a lot of other areas, where the fanboys ruin things for the common sense folks. Ever visited a comments section in which anyone dares claim he is not the most perfect human to ever trod the soil? 🤣
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  595.  @c18x66  But do you really believe he's using the same form in CF as he did as a junior olympics weight lifter?
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  596.  @mytruthslays1303  Whether he can function NOW means nothing. Let's catch up with him when he's 45 or 50.
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  597. Yes. He's very good at the crossfit games.
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  598.  @jobbysandwich1797  Irrelevant. The "fittest person" thing is just a label Crossfitters use. It's not the result of an actual competition to see who is, indeed, the most fit person on the planet. It's just the label put on whomever happens to win the CF games.
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  599. "fittest man on the planet" is just a label - nothing tangible. It's right up there with "baddest man alive." 🤣
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  600.  @bushisback112  Yes. I will be impressed when it's common for CFers to be dancing a sprightly jig at 45.
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  601.  @cygnusx-1256  "sport"
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  602. No. You see a guy who did Olympic weightlifting. He was not an Olympic weightlifter, we we think of the term. He was good enough at it to compete as a junior, but there's a BIG difference. In the broader sense, he WAS an "Olympic weightlifter" but so are a lot of guys at Gold's, technically.
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  603.  @vaticinus  While the sentiment stands, the highest-paid NFL linebacker makes $18M.
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  604.  @TacticallyFitOfficial  Why would anyone do such a thing?
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  605. I mean, it simply adds more specific strength events to focus in on. It's not like they're getting something completely new sprung on them that they've never had the chance to train at. There's not always full disclosure, but there's not really anything new under the sun either.
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  606.  @LMW87MMA  Not really. I can't speak for CF, but I know that 99% of runners don't believe they're world-class, and neither do people who lift.
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  607.  @BeefPapa  I had the toughest coach in the breaded custard game. When I didn't think I could go on, he'd ask me, "Is it food poisoning, or just heart burn?" It gave me courage.
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  608. Okay, all you fanboys who actually believe that Bruce Lee used to play table tennis with nunchucks. Go ahead and assail the perfectly reasonable statements put forth by Tarantino. And make sure to base all statements on testimony from people who: A) are too classy to speak ill of the dead, and/or B) owe their entire relevance to their association with Lee and their perpetuating of the legend.
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  609. He wanted to, but it wasn't going to be successful so why bother?
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  610.  @treali  Joe is not the one speaking from a position of authority or knowledge. Patrick is. It accomplishes nothing for her to answer a hosts questions with other questions when she is the one in the position of allegedly having special knowledge.
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  611.  @treali  Unfortunately for those whom you believe are in opposition to what you believe Joe's beliefs are, they don't show up with anything better to support their side, as was evidenced with Dr Rhonda. And she's not the first to show up with nothing and not be able to answer the "but what about this?" questions. Ultimately, I think the big problem here is that the actions have always overreached what the science has shown. People are always going to tie the response to the virus with the virus itself.
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  612.  @PlazaMaya  She doesn't know she's not qualified to comment. To her credit, she stays pretty well read on things. But she's also used to being able to go on Joe's show with studies that have not yet been duplicated - and a sackful of anecdotal evidence - and not really be questioned on it.
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  613.  @treali  I think there's a bigger problem that, when Joe is actually only posing questions, people are running with those questions as him making a statement of some sort and he gets a little unfairly lumped in with anti-vaxxers. Just because he asks, "But what about this?" doesn't neccessarily mean he disagrees.
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  614. @M KC Yes. The data is available. I'm guessing there's a pretty good reason you've never bothered to take a look at it. At least nothing beyond the daily ticker.
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  615.  @grief1571  I'm sorry. At some point did I mention China or anyone else being "responsible" for the virus? I mean, it's adorable that you believe you're up for some sort of rhetorical back-and-forth, but you appear to be just another middle schooler who jumps onto a comment board wanting to write X, regardless of whether anyone's actually talking about X. Run along now, child.
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  616.  @JonCookeBridge  She certainly tried to get that across. The problem is that covid appears to pose absolutely no real threat to an overwhelming number of people. And when faced with that question, there's really only so much you an say. I agree that there are large swaths of society to which there is more potential benefit than harm. But the fact that it's not universal has been a sticking point.
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  617.  @JonCookeBridge  What does she "know" the answers to? People forget that Dr Rhonda is a PhD - not a medical doctor. And as well-read and well-intentioned as she is, this field is not in her wheelhouse. She would bring up a study here or there - relevant or not - but notice how most of the defense that she offered was just as anecdotal as anything that Joe put out there.
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  618.  @stevend481  Did I write that there are no experts in the field? There most certainly are. The problem we're seeing is that expertise doesn't matter if your job or funding are on the line. There are reasons you can put two of them side by side and they will tell you completely different things, and it doesn't appear to come down to what we "know." Seriously, how great could an honest gap really be between two experts' conclusions if externalities aren't being allowed into the equation? Even at the street level, where doctors are charged with treating patients, if the hospital with which they're affiliated decides it will no longer allow the prescribing of an antimalarial that you can get over the counter in the rest of the world that also happens to be so benign that it's okay for pregnant women to take it, those doctors can now no longer treat a patient to the best of their ability. But no one's going to say that. Some hospital mouthpiece will tell you how their staff - which we'll be left to assume are actually qualified to be making such decisions - have decided that it's not a valid treatment option. Dr. Fauci testified to Congress that staff had concluded that the funding he'd approved for the China lab didn't fit the definition of gain-of-function research. But they were HIS staffers who did so, and they had to change the definition of the term 5 minutes ago to reach that conclusion. I've been in the media for decades. Only now - with Covid - have my parents realized what I'd told them about my profession all along: that we regularly create false narratives based on a certain position on a given issue. Unfortunately, when they asked I couldn't tell them any better than I can tell you regarding where to now turn for information. The sad fact is that we need to be more sophisticated consumers of information, seek out the nut of what someone says, realize what they're NOT saying (cases vs. hospitalizations vs. actual death rates, for example) and form our own conclusions. The Fourth Estate has abused its power and let the public down.
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  619.  @stevend481  What experts in the field are there who are actually conducting research? And how many doctors on the ground since the very beginning have straight-up countered various parts of the official narrative and been deplatformed? Let's not pretend that the official narrative has actually been born out. And it comes from those we claim are "experts." Dr. Fauci was an "expert" during HIV/AIDS as well. He claimed we'd lose something like 2.2M people because of it. Thirty-five years later, we're up to about 700K. But that's his M.O.
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  620.  @stevend481  From this vid, she came loaded for bear, ready to settle everyone's hash about the myths surrounding covid and the vaccine. But in this case Joe wasn't so willing to just accept her usual bag of unduplicated research and anecdotes.
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  621.  @stevend481  Dr. Rhonda is in no way, shape or form and expert in this field.
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  622.  @heavyhitter9186  Then you probably should avoid the New York Times story about the intelligence level of people questioning vaccination versus those who do not.
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  623.  @stevend481  Have you ever noticed that all of these people who claim to follow the science immediately shut down if you ask them to also follow the statistics?
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  624.  @stevend481  She is speaking something, but it became increasingly apparent how anecdote-based her arguments are as such they don't really hold up to other people's anecdotal arguments. She is not a medical doctor. She has a PhD in biomedical science. If I want to learn about the effects of a keto diet, I will certainly listen to Dr Rhonda. But as well read as she tries to be, this type of virus is not really in her wheelhouse.
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  625.  @TheSurrealWolf  I can only go by this video. I haven't seen the entire pod. But from what we see here, Dr. Rhonda came loaded for bear and was going to settle our hash on all of the misconceptions surrounding covid and the vaccine, and unlike all of her other visits to the show, this time Joe wasn't inclined to believe her based on her usually bag of unduplicated research and anecdotal evidence.
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  626.  @ken_in_atx9619  The studies she tried to present were irrelevant. I've been in the media for decades. This is how we create a narrative. Any fool can show up with a study to cite and all of you people who love to believe how pro-science you are turn off that part of your brain that would ask whether they study has any relevance or whether the conclusions actually reflect the study. Pay closer attention to whatever horrible news source you use. It will be eye-opening.
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  627.  @newcastle6666  Maybe we should lock all of the people whose entire sense of self is apparently wrapped up in the fact that they simply walked up to a booth and got a couple of shots rather than by any sort of accomplishment. Then see if they have any ability whatsoever to follow statistics. I'm guessing the answer would be a no.
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  628. It's hilarious how folks who just want everyone to be able to take anything don't understand why people do not consider them to be particularly, genuinely passionate about sports.
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  629.  @ryanmcdaniels5014  I'm not sure which is sadder: that this is the best you were capable of coming up with, or that you decided to share it. But let's allow that I'm Caucasian. You seem to be asserting that the desire for structure and order is a Caucasian trait. I don't imagine you recognize the irony that that train of thought actually makes someone other than me the racist in this equation. Don't feel compelled to answer. We see how that turned out last time. Take care.
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  630.  @josephallen3072  The issue isn't whether it should be a rule. That's where the media and touts try to shift the focus from the real story. This isn't about which rule she broke. It's that if she wants to compete at X, then she has to follow the rules passed down by the governing bodies. She is not being forced to live under some law she did not agree to. And she can walk away at any time if she'd rather smoke marijuana in her down time than race in sanctioned races.
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  631. Yeah. How dare it enforce rules that everyone is aware of when they break them?
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  632. Exactly. It's not about the rule. It's that she broke it. This isn't difficult.
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  633.  @MattWebz  An athlete can do whatever he or she chooses off the field. No one is infringing on that right. The thing is, you do NOT have a right to compete in the Olympics. There is a set of requirements/rules to do that, and if those don't mesh with other aspects of a person's life, he/she has to make a choice, just like we all do every day.
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  634.  @bigdiglett3258  There's no mention of that in the beginning of this thread. It's just about transparency and more serious testing.
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  635.  @tezzo55  Actually, it did. It was the ILLUSION that they were stringently testing that made those accomplishments something that average people admired. Once revealed that they were the results of PEDs, we turned our backs on those competitors. Lose that illusion and you're done as a sport people take seriously, without slapping on a mental asterisk.
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  636.  @tezzo55  Unfortunately, at that point it makes the achievements in sports fairly worthless once we do that.
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  637. And she'd still be suspended. It's like the rapist saying he should be let free just because the guy next to him murdered someone.
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  638.  @vegan-cannibal714  I credit them with being more thoughtless than selfish in most of these cases.
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  639.  @vegan-cannibal714  To be honest, most relay teams have a few alternates along to fill out the relay teams and run in qualifying heats while top runners rest until the final. But there is absolutely a selfishness angle here. But to her credit, I don't believe she's put herself up on a cross like those covering the story have tried to do. She said what she wanted to say and, to my knowledge, things have more or less died down from her camp.
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  640.  Jay Jameson  The problem is, you're clearly not intelligent enough to see the irony dripping from your comment regarding the use of logic, evidence and, especially, people projecting their ignorance. Is your mom home, or maybe some other adult? These are grown-up issues and your understanding of them is clearly hovering around college freshman, max. Take care.
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  641.  Jay Jameson  Thank you, comrade.
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  642.  Jay Jameson  It's a collection of games based on history, a manufactured version of which provided a reboot about 125 years ago. I appreciate you bringing up irrelevancies such as unions and anti-trust laws. At least it re-assures me that the person calling me names knows absolutely nothing about either as applied - or not - to what we're discussing. Tell you what. Maybe next time just sit quietly at the folding table in the corner when the adults are talking, okay? Take care.
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  643.  Jay Jameson  The Olympics doesn't need this batch of athletes to make its money. They can all be replaced tomorrow with another batch of people that no one's ever heard of and the Olympics is still making money. It's the Games themselves that move the needle. And they provide more value to the athletes than monetary compensation. Characterizing it as some form of slavery or indentured servitude is ridiculous. If we want to apply it to the Games or college sports, we can apply it to pretty much every job out there.
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  644.  Jay Jameson  For the most part, yes. Athletes can walk away at any time. Access to the biggest stages falls under certain rules that she's known about for a long time. If she doesn't want to follow them, she doesn't have to labor under them and she can look for some other way to showcase her talents outside of those governing bodies. And people are forgetting that this isn't some insane penalty. It's only a one-month ban. She just chose the wrong time to break the rule.
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  645.  Jay Jameson  Just because you don't like this very simple argument or can't come up with something better doesn't make it "stupid." If they want to set up their own showcase outside of the Olympics that allows them to smoke as much weed as they want, they are free to do so. If they're really bankable outside of the setting the Olympics provides, they should have no problem finding plenty of money to back their play and make all of these people we don't care about except for a few weeks every four years very rich.
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  646.  Jay Jameson  If they don't want to perform for free, no one is forcing them to. It's not like a person doesn't know the deal the first time they lace them up in elementary school. The Games provides them a stage to showcase themselves in front of the greatest number of eyes, and a way to possibly monetize their skill.
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  647. Joe needs to lay off the freaking pipe. Almost none of what he said has a foothold in reality. 1) We DO watch the Olympics because it's the Olympics. It does often feature the best in their sports, but those people are not compelled to be Olympians. If they don't like not being paid (while having a sizeable amount of their tab picked up by the USOC), then they can always fall back on those college degrees they've earned/are earning. If the top 3 athletes in every sprint sat out, they would still award the medals to the participants and pretty much no one outside of the track and field world would care. 2) They absolutely do work their way to the Olympics. But Joe pretends that anyone gives a shit about any of these athletes/sports during non-Olympic years. These people have been competing on streaming channels because you can't sell ads to watch them perform unless it's a huge stage. Gymnastics and figure skating were always the big two events, and in their heyday MAYBE people cared a little about the Worlds, but back then we knew who the competitors were on all the major teams. Our options became greater, and fewer people are acquainted with those sports year to year anymore. Hell, Joe himself demonstrates that he knew absolutely nothing about the athlete in question. She's "apparently" this, and "supposed to be" that. At least he went on to admit his ignorance. But we should be paying this person he knows nothing about millions of dollars, "apparently." 3) Yes, there is "crazy" ad revenue and various governing bodies are making money. They are also the ones responsible for broadcasting and actually holding the Games. The athletes aren't doing dick to make the Games happen. They're just providing bodies. And if they don't want to, again, the fields will still be full. There are rules that all of these athletes know. This gal broke them. To her credit, she's not really burning a lot of calories putting herself up on a cross. I wish her luck in 2024.
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  648. People are trying to make it sound like that. But what actually happened was she was told by a reporter that her biological mother had died. And that is roughly how it was phrased in the initial reports. In other words, she wasn't raised by that woman. Her death was more like finding out a blood relative you weren't that close to had died. And that's being used as an excuse for her breaking a rule she was well aware of. But even if we choose to believe that she really did do it because of the death of an estranged mother, does it really speak well of her that her response was to do drugs - especially one she knew was banned?
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  649. They may absolutely do that, and it will be another Nike campaign that more or less flops. There's not a huge market for a line of female sprinter shoes. Break that down even further and I'm' not sure how much an endorsement from her would garner. And it's not fiscally prudent to pay bank to a non-Olympian who almost no one had heard of three weeks ago. This gal was not Flo-Jo. She was just possibly the next gal up, doing her Flo-Jo impersonation.
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  650. This is something these jokers never take into account. Even marijuana is punished severely in a great number of countries. Sometimes the judge has to put down is opium pipe in order to send these people to jail!
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  651. It may be, but we all know it's not the substance so much as it is blatantly violating a rule she was well aware of. And people forget that in a lot of countries in the world they really come down on people busted for possession. It's not like the U.S. where almost no one gets jail time for possession. Almost all lawyers will tell you that when guys DO get jail here, it's because they pled down from distribution or something even worse.
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  652.  @EclectickMusic  These athletes are getting much more out of competing at the Games - while taking none of the risk - than the Games gets from their participation. The Olympics is the only time we pay attention to these athletes every four years. With a few exceptions, most aren't really bringing eyeballs to the screen that wouldn't be there if someone else was competing in their place. Something that people also forget is that this wasn't a severe penalty. She just chose the worst time to break the rule. I believe the penalty is only for one month.
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  653. Yep. To her credit, she's not burning a ton of calories putting herself up on a cross. She said her piece, didn't go over the top in trying to claim victim status, and has been fairly graceful.
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  654.  @tezzo55  And, again, you are nowhere near the ballpark of the actual point I originally made, which I stated even more simply later. I feel no obligation to respond to the irrelevant and tangental things you chose to introduce into the discussion. What kind of law or rule (the distinction you still fail to recognize, apparently) is broken means absolutely nothing in a conversation about whether people who break rules should be prepared to face the consequences when they are caught or a rule/law is enforced. I get it. It was apparent a few posts ago that you were trying to lead me into some logical dead end. But you don't get there by refusing to argue the point that was actually made. As I've counseled others, maybe next time the adults are talking you should sit quietly at the folding table in the corner. You might learn something. If nothing else, why you don't tend to win arguments. Take care.
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  655.  @tezzo55  Oh, to my knowledge she's said her piece and stepped back out of the limelight for now, which I appreciate. Obviously it doesn't stop all of her fake supporters from crying racism, etc., but I can't hold that against her.
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  656. ​ @tezzo55  If you believe that you're painting me into a logical corner, you may not be recognizing the gist of my position. My point has consistently been that it doesn't matter whether you respect or believe in a law. Break it with the understanding that if you do so, your lack of endorsement doesn't make you exempt from the possible consequences. By all means work to get it tossed or changed, but until that happens you are subject to it. I (usually) mildly break the speed limit and roll through stop signs all the time when it seems safe. But that doesn't mean that I don't believe in the concept of traffic laws, and I do it knowing that I have no defense for my actions if I'm caught and I'm willing to accept the consequences. Unfortunately for this gal, it takes longer than 15 seconds to know whether you got away with smoking a little weed. :)
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  657.  @tezzo55  The rules/politicians analogy doesn't really work. It's like saying a carpenter and hammer are analogous. What sports that follow will depend on who is consuming them. We seem to forget that the rest of the world isn't like the West. You can get serious jail time for possession in many other countries. I've remarked elsewhere that if people don't like a rule, they can push for it to be changed. That does not absolve them from having to follow those rules if they want to be part of something. I have broken rules and laws plenty of times. If/when caught, I don't say that they should let me go because I personally believe the rule/law is unjust ... because I'm not 6. Take care.
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  658.  @tezzo55  It's not a societal law that we all must follow. It's a rule of a governing/sanctioning body that athletes freely choose to serve under.
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  659. And people forget how severely people are punished in those countries for violating that law. Not every country is like Joe's rec room.
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  660. So these athletes should be paid millions and they're the only reason anyone tunes into the Olympics, eh? Probably 95% of people in the U.S. tuning into the Games say, "So, what are our chances in this event? Do we have anyone good?" THAT'S how much we think of any of these people when they are not competing on this particular stage (with the exceptions of the NBA and NHL, where even fewer people tune in).
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  661. There is no "but." She broke the rules. What's going on with the trans stuff isn't really analagous.
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  662.  @Paul-vf2wl  Theoretically, plenty of options if they find laying off weed to be too much oppression.
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  663.  @veridianr2490  Yes. I'll be waiting with my tinfoil helmet on like the rest. 🤣
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  664.  @cobymichaels7863  I don't think people believe the POD is faked. They just have their opinions on whether the guest is lying, or whether the guy they're discussing is a liar.
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  665.  @mmxmmx-zo2my  The government wouldn't even acknowledge Area 51 itself existed until about 9 years ago. This is not a surprise.
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  666. When you think you're strictly surrounded by co-workers? Yeah. That definitely happens.
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  667.  @Writeous0ne  Don't waste any calories on these yahoos. You're never going to be able to inject any common sense into people who believe that the lack of evidence to vague and deliberately uncheckable assertions makes those assertions even stronger. At first I gave them the benefit of the doubt. But the more I read, these are just profoundly stupid people.
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  668.  @savedfaves  Nope. It was commentary. Written communication does include things that are not arguments.
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  669. I've been skimming the comments, and a lot of you are absolutely correct. The less evidence a person can actually provide of something, the more likely a story is to be true. You people are not fish swimming in a barrel for the Bob Lazars of the world in any way whatsoever. 🤣
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  670. Without "Roadhouse," I wouldn't have learned how to tear a guy's throat out and toss him into a pond.
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  671.  @ZennExile  You'd think the fact that it's chronicled that CGI was used to make the commercial in which this seemed to occur would dissuade the faithful, but the fanboy is a tough nut to crack ... with facts. You can probably bring him to tears by using the "right" pronoun, though. 🤣
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  672.  @ZennExile  But Bruce Lee could absolutely play ping pong with nuchucks right? Tell me at least THAT is true. 🤣
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  673.  @AmritGrewal31  The argument can almost go both ways, and around and around. The point stands, though. I boxed very low level professionally. But you needn't have done that to see some of the seemingly low-powered mystery punches that knocked guys out. Foreman vs. Moorer comes to mind.
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  674.  @Xeil  Problem is, the martial art was not created around the idea of hitting hardest. I've only boxed. That's fairy simple and i was fortunate that while I was fighting (low level) professionally, I was also sparring with the college team in which the others had to learn how to points box. I say fortunate because they had to hit me in certain places to score (which meant I knew specifically where to focus my defense) while I felt free to just hit them wherever I wanted. It was ... liberating. :)
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  675. All-Valley finals ain't no joke.
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  676. Al All-Valley, you might as well just cripple your opponents. Sure, you lose a point, but who cares when the other guy can't continue?
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  677. Conor can try whatever he wants. I think his window for being a legit champion closed a few years ago.
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  678.  @gnlout7403  It's not really studies. It's just a basic scientific fact. The problem is that Rogan and the dimwitted among his followers misuse "alpha." Scientifically, if you're the alpha of a pack, you're the alpha all the time, regardless of the situation. You don't have one alpha when it comes to leading the pack, another alpha when it comes to fighting aggressors, etc. We can absolutely not say that about humans. Our place in the pecking order is pretty much entirely situational. That's the specific scientific point, and would have been the easiest thing for Adam to stick with. But he allowed Joe to start conflating it with a bunch of other things for which Adam had no answers and he should be given tons of shit for that. But he just happened to be spot on about the alphas.
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  679.  @gnlout7403  To be fair, Joe's not exactly Mr. Science either. I think 85% of the studies he cites have to do with supplements and he's a little too quick to jump on any bandwagon that puts something out there like Moses being on mushrooms. 🤣
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  680.  @gnlout7403  I haven't watched it in a long time, so I only remember that that was the big thing that came from it. But I do believe I recall what you mean, with him hemming and hawing when pressed about biological differences. Almost everyone's got another master they serve outside of reality/truth.
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  681. Why would being a meat-head and being a progressive be mutually exclusive?
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  682. To be clear, what everyone seems to be acknowledging is that ADHD drugs are PEDs.
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  683.  @artvandelay3840  I think people get a little sucked in by the media narrative of how much of a "team" 'this is. They're generally from all over the place and there's usually at least three different coaches involved. I don't know the dynamics of this particular group, but I'm guessing that if Biles was the "leader," it was by her own assertion - not by any sort of affirmation from the rest of the squad. I agree that some were probably relieved to not have to compete against her, but I'd wager that it's entirely possible that they'd be absolutely thrilled to not have her around anymore.
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  684.  @nerdworld8211  Let's see ... all I wrote is if a 24-year-old woman can't stand a little - and dare we say, because of the sport, justified - ribbing, she needs to grow up. I did not write anything about carrying the team. I did not necessarily write that anyone was being childish. With people like yourself putting forth this sort of desperation as their best attempt at rhetoric, I feel even more confident that I'm in the right here. Take care.
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  685. Yes. Not only are we entitled to our own opinions, but we should take the opinions of others who received special treatment throughout their lives with a grain of salt.
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  686. The reaction likely would have been different under President Biden, but I believe for the worse. I see nothing in his administration that leads me to believe that he wouldn't have tried to usurp the governors' authority and attempt to declare national mandate after mandate had he been in the Oval Office when this all broke. The story that likely won't be written for a long time - if ever - is that despite so many people insisting that everything President Trump did was wrong, he did actually basically follow the lead from the health community (admittedly a somewhat ethically compromised one) about how to respond. Ironically, hindsight will also pretend that everything we know now we knew from the jump.
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  687.  @benevolent2077  Upon what do you base THAT assertion?
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  688.  @shanedefreitas2378  Dore is someone I'd put on if I wanted to make it appear that the sort of people who share Dore's positions are unhinged.
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  689.  @Kaeso97  I enjoy Joe and tend to give him the benefit of the doubt because I believe he's sincerely curious. That makes up for a lot of what might be considered shortcomings in his field. I think Maher suffers from what a lot of folks of his ilk do. They're smart, then find a nice comfortable niche and stop being intellectually curious. A lot of us do that in our professions, although it's much more difficult now. Get that job, find a nice soft place in the middle where you have responsibility but not miss-the-piano-recital responsibility, then nest for 40 years.
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  690. I can't speak to whether you sound stupid. But I almost put Maher in that category of "a stupid person's smart person" except I believe he IS a smart guy. It is a little perplexing when such people don't demonstrate it by putting forth solid arguments.
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  691. Something tells me the truth is a little more nuanced than that. And it's not exactly out of character for your typical cowardly Muslim soldier to hide behind the skirts of women and under the desks of school children. That's pretty much SOP for that ilk. How many times do these folks retreat into hospitals and schools only so they can win Twitter when people ask why a hospital or school was bombed?
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  692.  splinterfox01  Biden's an outlier, though. And there's a difference between being someone you've heard of and someone you know about. Although he was VP, it can be argued that his most highly visible period as a politician was about a generation ago. Rogan's audience skews younger, so it would still help a guy like Biden to get his name out there as his own man - not as a second-fiddle - to Rogan's audience. It's kind of like the Tom Brady discussion, though. Tell people that the most successful NFL quarterbacks tend to be from the first two rounds of the draft and someone always pulls Tom Brady out of his ass. Just because there exceptions doesn't mean the rule is not the rule. But if people want to stock their NFL rosters with 5th- and 6th-rounders ... :) Take care.
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  693.  splinterfox01  Most of those candidates are not well known. That's why they ask to be on podcasts. Joe has some cache, but let's not get over our skis on this.
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  694.  @tylermayes5340  Joe would never ask that. That's a Howard question. :)
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  695.  @Hassan-bw5mr  Power to candidates who need to build name recognition. But don't overestimate Joe's juice.
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  696. No. But he's about as likely as anyone else who doesn't exactly have A-listers filling his Contacts list. Having Robert Downey Jr. in was interesting. If he did it when Downey was not trying to promote a film that is currently rated 56 points lower on Rotten Tomatoes than the "Bad Boys" sequel, I'd be pretty impressed.
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  697. The more "high profile," often the more they have to lose by really opening up.
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  698. Oh, it's VERY easy to tell she didn't get the sort of public school education most of us have access to in non-urban areas. The thoughts that she's not parroting are basically limited to the vocabulary of a 7-year-old. 🤣
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  699. God help us! 🤣
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  700.  @MC-pi2ri  "A big pool for a very select group of people" tells me that you didn't understand my post. Take care.
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  701.  @MC-pi2ri  That doesn't actually answer my question, although it appears to support my general assertion.
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  702. Is that a deep pool of talent from which to draw? Inspirational surfers?
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  703.  @andallthatcouldhavebeen...9175  In other words, you're kind of llate to the party on this one. We all think the world began with our birth. 🤣
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  704.  @alanniederlitz8630  Actually, it does appear that he needed the degree. He had to pass the testing and interview process to actually get into the foreign service. Regardless, my basic point was that it's not exactly exceptional to claim that your real-world education began with real-world experience. That's kind of everyone. I assume that all the CAPS were because you were stroking while typing. Take care.
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  705. Now ... about the background you have to have to get the jobs he got out of school. He went from Princeton directly into the foreign service with his first job being as vice consul in Switzerland. It's most people's experience that the real-world learning only takes place once they're actually in the real world. But Kennan isn't getting that job with a degree from Dakota State University.
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  706. Wisdom often comes with excessive use of the word "gnarly." 🤣
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  707. I've never known anyone who put their children in state-run day care. Except the poors, of course.
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  708.  @Maxime_K-G  So you'd basically support the elimination of law enforcement, because the result of getting rid of the Second Amendment would be the bodies of dead cops choking our rivers. We don't have the history of centuries of servitude that pretty much every other country seems to have that seems to have generally led to people in those countries to believe that rights are the property of the state to be granted and revoked on a whim. It's not so easy to just take our shit without concern for your well-being in the U.S. I think you'd also find that our gun laws aren't that bad. The laughable claims regarding how easy it is to get one are refuted regularly.
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  709. Not down with people pushing their advanced degrees on me. I get that the host is proud of his PhD. I worked really hard to play professional baseball and box professionally (both fairly low-level). I don't make a point of making sure everyone's aware of it whenever as possible.
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  710. I've never been to terrified of a speck of rust. :P
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  711. There are two with women now. We can pass judgement. :)
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  712. OK KO: If you believe that, you're not thinking this through.
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  713. Yeah, but if you do it Thanos-style, they all come back after a year or so.
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  714. I think a problem a lot of people have with Aaron, is precisely the fact that he IS always selling. This incessant hucksterism has driven quite a few people away from the channel, although as long as he continues to put out decent quality there is always the chance to broaden his reach and replace those people. There are people in life that you experience who come off as fake. And when we are aware that someone is constantly selling us something, we don't find it charming and worthy of praise and honor. We simply find that person annoying. Aaron has a tendency to come off as one of those people. I don't believe he is a bad person. But I also think we need to acknowledge that there is an argument to be made that there is a little bit of insincerity that creeps in when it is all about the money and the sponsorships - especially when we see some item being pimped that happens to be made by a videos sponsor that we know will be out of fashion in a couple of years. To me, I began to realize that the channel is more about fashion than it is style. For those of you who do not know the difference, style is damn nearly bulletproof and timeless. Think classic tuxedos. Fashion Is dead in 18 to 36 months. Think 90% of the garbage watches people are trying to sell you on style channels on YouTube. That's all. I need to go find someone to tailor my t-shirts now. 😄
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  715. It's going to be interesting what the science says after a generation or so of widespread legalized marijuana. I won't argue that it is or isn't as addictive as the others. I was hooked on cigarettes about 25 years ago but stopped one day and haven't had one since. I drank a lot in high school and college but never "needed" a drink and the amount I drink has tapered as I've matured. I maybe have about two dozen drinks a year. If I never got together with family, that number would probably be about 10. But smoking marijuana is still smoking. People will continue to get cancer from smoking pot just as they'll continue to lose brain cells as they would with alcohol abuse. Circling back to addiction, though, I have the feeling that people aren't being frank about how addictive marijuana is. We don't really have an adequate body of research for it, but how often do you see people like Joe NOT smoking or referencing smoking? I'm not saying he does it 24/7. But he IS one of the public faces of legalized pot, and one thing I've noticed with those people is that they never seem to just have a joint to take the edge off at the end of the day, or one just before bed. They ALWAYS seem to have some at hand. To me, that smells a little like addiction whether it be chemical or situational.
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  716. I don't need to see liberal teens getting shut out of another debate.
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  717. I could easily be friends with either of these men, but I'm left thinking the friendship with the liberal would have less substance to it. If my car broke down, the conservative's first thought would be to consider if he could offer me a ride. The liberal's would be to ask, "Why don't you just get an Uber?" Maybe our reactions to these men depend on what OUR responses to that situation would be if we were on the other end of the connection.
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  718.  @patrickmason7466  No. It has little to do with trans people, and - as fairly clearly spelled out in the first sentence - everything to do with what happens when you start rushing to cater to certain groups - in this case, a microscopic one - while ignoring the domino effect and opportunities that result from coming down with the do-something disease. So I think you were reading it from one place, when it was written from another. No big. It happens.
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  719.  @Not.afitnesspro  Also the more educated you THINK you are. I can't recall who said it, but it was something akin to, "I'll trust a plain-spoken person more than a person who fancies himself as educated, because if you lay out a logical enough trail of breadcrumbs you can get an educated person to believe almost anything."
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  720.  @patrickmason7466  It never fails. Whenever someone tells someone that they're a moron or questions their intelligence, the sentence putting that forth almost always includes a misspelling. At least you threw a punctuation error in there for consistency. 🤣 I can torture English and grammar rules all I want because I don't make a practice of resorting to that sort of ad hominem attack. I just try to not do so. I'm intellectually curious enough that discussions of issues do not include that sort of thing when you have actual arguments you can put forth. But I understand that not everyone is willing to burn the calories necessary to put forth thoughtful arguments. Instead, they'll drone on about their personal idea of "fair," "equal" or say something akin to "because it's in the Bible." Whether you asked for something is as relevant as your previous reply was. It's what you begged that's important, and in that case it was for clarification of what you misread or didn't understand. But apparently your ego couldn't handle simply acknowledging a miscommunication and moving on. You had to reply fairly nonsensically again, basically posting as much filler as you thought necessary before you arrived at your desired destination, which was to question my intelligence - something I had never made any great claims regarding. Regardless, the idea that groups should be catered to equally is obviously laughable on its very surface. I mean, a person CAN spend a great deal of time pondering it, but it only takes a few seconds. This is aside from the fact that we have proven throughout our history that - humans are incapable of pulling this off to any significant scale. This was the case long before today when, once a group DOES have pretty much equal rights, it draws a new line in the sand and claims it still has less while pushing for more. This is what happens when you give more credence to the perception of others than objectivity. We're paying the price for that practice now, big time. Take care.
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  721.  @Seeeeeeeeuhhhhh  Yeah. It's always a big mistake to assume a mass of people is going to treat a word as defined, rather than adding nuance that isn't there. It's one way they've been able to move the bar in a few cases, societally. For example, "racism" NEVER included some exercise of power. Then we arrived in the 80s and 90s and it was sneaked in there so as to pretend that Affirmative Action is not a racist practice. And, to borrow a word you used, it's like tolerance. I would say we have a great deal of tolerance. But to the emotionally unstable masses, tolerance has to include acceptance and support, and that's not what tolerance is.
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  722.  @motherlove8366  Yes. They're no more sensitive. They're just bigger bitches. It's like saying that a group of sight-impaired people is "a generation of much better listeners." No. Them niggaz is just blind. 🤣
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  723. i think that when you just have two people, you have to provide stark contrasts. So, the liberal has to be gay and the conservative has to work on cars and attend worship. But being gay doesn't make that one guy a liberal. The way he THINKS does. Maybe the intent of the video was to try to claim that the way people think is how they end up in these two lifestyles? The more you think, the less clear the intent.
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  724. I think we can say that - to some extent - both groups were done a bit of a disservice in this vid. But with only two people I guess you need stark contrasts.
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  725. Thank you for basically demonstrating that you're incapable of recognizing that both can actually be true.
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  726. It's okay. It was more meant for people who believe in accountability for their actions.
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  727.  @brynndally9869  Yes. That does account for a microscopic percentage of pregnancies. Care to derail the conversation in any other way?
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  728.  @brynndally9869  I'm sorry you so greatly overestimate the percentage of the time that this actually happens.
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  729. Being willing to entertain people spouting them doesn't mean the ideas are any less ridiculous.
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  730.  @nezkeys79  Normally I'd agree, but as I've plainly stated in some of the comments to this video, it was still on PBD's team to confirm that the person on the other end of the bargain approved of the change. Try unilaterally changing deals in other areas of life and see how that works. Take care.
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  731.  @nezkeys79  His point is that there wasn't supposed to be a panel to begin with when the deal was struck, which no one has countered. I've got plenty of problems with Whitlock being a little too precious, but this one is pretty straightforward.
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  732.  @presumed_guilty  This is why police don't depend on documentarians to gather evidence and decide what to present to the attorneys. The doc had an agenda, and all you know is what the people with that agenda told you. The omissions and half truths spoke volumes. Take care.
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  733.  @desr421  You don't knowingly have a sit-down with someone who has no interest in truth. And Jason DID sit with the man years ago, so he was very familiar with how this would go. Still, none of this has anything to do with he bait and switch they tried here.
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  734. I applaud Joe for pointing out the lack of scale regarding Trump's hotel receiving a relatively small amount of money for actual services and benefits rendered, vs. the Clinton Foundation. Kulinski said he could give us multiple offenses that would be better grounds for impeachment, and this is what he leads with? It makes me wonder how weak - or at least easily dismissed - the other things are. Based on this vid, I don't think Kulinski is necessarily a bark-at-the-moon Leftist out to get the POTUS with anything he can. But I think he may need a bit more seasoning until he can recognize that you can't equivocate between those two examples just because you think you can make a case. People have to recognize them as being plainly comparable without being convinced.
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  735. This is some revisionist history going on right here regarding MLK Day. I was around and aware when the movement to establish MLK Day was active. There was not some huge anti-MLK Day movement founded on the basis that white folks didn't want the lone holiday celebrating a single American to be celebrating a black man. What people resisted was giving ANY American other than George Washington getting his/her own federal holiday. And this dovetails with a criticism of Mr. Davis. He's either ignorant or disingenuous. First, George Washington's birthday IS a federal holiday. This year it's Feb. 17. I think most of us consider him an American. And I'll spare you a little time. He was born in Virginia. Second, Lincoln's birthday has never been a federal holiday. Third, given the previous two statements, Presidents Day is obviously not a combination of Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays. It is also not a federal holiday. This is not to say I disagree with MLK Day being a federal holiday. I just prefer people to speak the truth when they decide to expound on these things to a public that generally trusts that they're being intellectually honest. If I was a few years younger, what Mr. Davis said probably wouldn't have sent up the red flags that it did.
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  736.  @GlacialScion  It's important to remember that at that point we had only given that honor to one out of dozens of presidents and hundreds of millions of Americans. That alone meant Washington's place was exalted above all who came before or followed. He was the commanding general of the forces that eventually defeated the British, was a founding father of the nation, was selected to the its first president then chose to leave office when people were encouraging him to serve for life. That's one hell of a resume and sets a very high standard. It's up to each person to decide for himself whether MLK's resume stacks up favorably enough to have earned him an honor equal to that of Washington. Not only that, but he must also - pretty much by definition - be held in higher regard than Lincoln and Jefferson. There was plenty to discuss back then without dragging it down into the mud by just dismissing earnest disagreement as racism. So when that's the go-to for someone, I begin to doubt how intellectually honest or lazy they may be.
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  737. I think the thing here was that this was not an opportunity. Not as long as it was a panel with that troll present. It was doomed to be a sideshow of no value, just as it turned out to be.
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  738. Weird. I've been in the media for about 25 years and have never witnessed this. At least not in actual media. I guess it depends on what a person considers "media" as far as what they expect. That said, I've obviously witnessed a lot of shady sh!t. Just not this particular thing.
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  739. @Bogdanmeoff What do you mean "WERE"? :)
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  740. Yup!
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  741.  @diobrando5896  Romney doomed any future aspirations to become POTUS with that vote to convict, thats for sure.
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  742.  @medicisounds1384  Having multiple people at an interview on a podcast isn't unusual. It just doesn't change anything. Whether the podcast was a one-man show or a three-man show, we're still talking about the usual production v. bringing in clowns from the outside. Interviews don't involve the latter.
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  743.  @JNYC-gb1pp  You seem to feel very much put upon. It might not hurt to find someone NOT like-minded with whom to discuss these things.
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  744.  @JNYC-gb1pp  I merely read what you put out there. It's not so much a disagreement on some foundational terms. More of a level of degree of retaliation is all. No big. But I still think the worst thing would be to be among like-minded folks in that regard. :) Take care.
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  745. Don't worry, Joe. Smith doesn't know anything about baseball or football either, and barely speaks knowledgeably about basketball.
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  746.  @medicisounds1384  He was told it was an interview. That's what they agreed to. Why would Jason expect anyone else to be on the show?
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  747.  Joe Sudz  In charge of getting names other than McGregor out there so that more casual fans are interested in the fights.
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  748.  @gjergjjiim1615  But people have to actively seek out something like UFC Countdown. Casual sports fans don't do that. The names need to get out there more as top athletes in general rather than being great in their own little corner of the landscape.
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  749. I worked in the media in Pa. more than a decade ago. We were familiar with the copy editor who was in charge of everything Smith wrote. He told us the copy was so bad when submitted that he (the editor) should have been added to the byline, given how much he had to fix and change to make things readable and coherent.
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  750. Not fair. I worked in the business in Pa. while Smiff was regularly writing his column in Philly. We were familiar with the guy in charge of editing Smiff's writing. Squidward is MUCH smarter than Smiff.
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  751. But we also recognize that there's a bit of used car salesman in PBD. It's very obvious even though there is plenty of straighitforward content. Even though we generally trust the channel to a certain extent, don't confuse that with blind belief. Anyone who has any sophistication when it comes to consuming information gets a bit of a "feel" from listening to PBD.
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  752. If people commenting here were actually representative of the public - and half of those who claimed they were going to see this movie had actually done so - maybe it wouldn't still need to triple its box office reciepts two months after its release to offset the budget/marketing.
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  753.  @countys32  Norton has never carried a movie that made big money at the box office and he hasn't done one more than 10 people wanted to see in about a dozen years. I think it's understandable if he's a bit of an unknown quantity to younger people.
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  754. Be careful with those fresh takes. The next thing you know, you'll say, "If you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes!"
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  755. Tell the other three people who see it, "Hi" for me. :)
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  756. If you have not yet done so, maybe some sort of approach where you compare the sorts of organizations/causes each person actively backs and, perhaps more importantly, personally participates in. In choosing these two men in the video, you are forced to have stark contrasts, so the liberal has to be a gay waif and the conservative has to be a Christian who works on cars. But the substantive difference lies in how they think. The liberal isn't liberal because he's gay, and the conservative doesn't work on cars because he's a Christian. Perhaps showing the causes/issues/organizations in which two people from opposite sides actively engage will more greatly reveal how their differing philosophies actually manifest themselves. Does the liberal talk about love and communication , then join the latest violent protest against Ben Shapiro speaking on a college campus? Does the conservative talk about following the ways of Jesus, then join his anti-Semitic hate group? Anyone can talk a good game. Maybe we would be better served in seeing a broader swath of the lives of people from two different sides of the spectrum.
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  757. Oh yeah? Well Mahk says the best combination comes stock in a 1997 Suzuki Vitara! :D
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  758. I would welcome decent metal to return to prominents, but if I do 10 pushups today after having done one yesterday, I can tell everyone I did 10x as many pushups today as I did yesterday. Big increases usually mean the starting point was very low.
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  759. A bodybuilder will do cardio, but the top guys have to slap an extra hour or two of cardio at VERY slow speeds. They can't really move that fast.
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  760.  @alexandriaward5015  That was awesome when they said that. :)
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  761. 5) But, women CAN "grow bulky muscles if they work out." 4) True dat. 3) As indicated by the hesitant tone at the beginning of this one, it's not really "wrong." A great deal depends on how you do your reps. And cardio doesn't "cut." It slims you down but that's not exactly the same thing. It doesn't eliminate gains, but CAN cap them from workout to workout. 2) I've never heard of bodybuilding stunting your growth. I HAVE heard of it possibly interfering with your body's natural development as far as bones, tendons, etc., which are not addressed here. 1) If anyone needs any more evidence that THIS is a myth, just see all the (wannabe) bodybuilders desperately taking shots at the proliferation of 24/7 fitness centers like Planet Fitness on YT. We can all agree that CF is worth criticizing just on principle, but I'll take the top 5 guys in a PF at 6 p.m. on a weekday against the top 5 at Gold's in terms of actual health and fitness.
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  762. YT is not real life. The sooner people come to realize that reality is not reflected in YT and social media, the better we will all be.
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  763. +carmaj156 Of course, in Da Vinci's time, there wasn't really specialization. Science was sort of all-encompassing. Of course, people shrug off his ideas that weren't correct, plus all the other things he's credited with that were actually common knowledge at the time, but he was nonetheless a curious person.
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  764. +Folarin You might want to re-read it. It certainly shows high interest and drive in what is a fairly limited scope of things, but he's not as draped in degrees as you seem to believe. "He studied" doesn't mean "he earned a degree in."
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  765. +Raymond Helyar Not sure double majoring in film and psychology at UCLA makes the list. Hell, Duchovny has a bachelors from Princeton and a masters from Yale and apparently isn't as smart as Cindy Crawford, who dropped out of Northwestern after one quarter.
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  766. +James Settle If that's true, I take it you're a grad?
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  767. +kubby gaming I do now. I also now know she had to go to rehab for an eating disorder and her pursuits tend to be on the flighty side.
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  768. kubby gaming Meh. Even smart people screw up now and again. :) 
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  769.  @Egilhelmson  Some of THOSE are actually being pushed out by 80s stuff, I've noticed. But, to be honest, I don't see Bon Jovi stuff standing up as well as that older material. But I've also found that I have a lot of trouble giving full credit to things from the 80s simply because it's what I grew up with, so you don't view "Wanted, Dead or Alive" the same way you view, "Paint It Black."
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  770. I'm not passing judgement on whether some of these celebrities are actually incredibly smart - especially Conan - but there was nothing particularly impressive about their resumes until they got to Rowan Atkinson other than the Ivy League/Sister colleges that some of the first celebs on the list attended. They seemed to get marginally useful liberal arts degrees. It's nice that they are "fluent" in multiple languages, but that just makes you European - not necessarily intelligent.Similarly, they completely backslid when it came to most of the honorable mentions. Wonderful that Crawford was the smartest kid at DeKalb High school, which would have had a graduating class of around 300 or so back then, but she only "studied chemical engineering" for one quarter before dropping out of college. Stewart "studied" chemistry and psychology, but graduated with the liberal arts degree - not the hard science degree. And Geena Davis? It's great that she's in Mensa. I'm in Mensa. But posting the 140 IQ - which is only a few points above what is generally the bare minimum for membership - doesn't really do her any favors when trying to impress. And how, exactly, does her work in gender studies translate into being smart? As for being fluent in Swedish, it likely had something to do with the fact that she was an exchange student in Sweden. They left out the fact that she does have a degree from Boston U. Likely because it was in drama.Again, this is only partly meant to assail some of what is being considered evidence of intelligence here. And there are many other indicators of intelligence among some of the names I brought up. Obviously, given the fact that many of them achieved great success in the road they chose to pursue, they were at least smart enough to see that path and take it. Just don't tell me Cindy Crawford is qualified to almost be on the same list as Mayim Bialik, or that Jon Stewart's four-year psych degree from William & Mary bests David Duchovny's bachelors in English lit from Princeton and masters from Yale.
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  771. +Giorgi Gudiashvili Not to mention that with at least half of them (mostly bottom half and honorable mention) the academic degrees weren't impressive either. Neither is fluency in languages when you consider their backgrounds. Some just happened to get their four-year liberal arts degrees from prestigious schools.
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  772. +Mason Wedel And, in some of these cases, there isn't even that much to be impressed by, education-wise, other than the schools some of them attended to get their four-year liberal arts degrees.
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  773. GeorgeHale1984 Without watching again, I believe there were a few psychology, English, drama, etc., majors in there.  
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  774. Nikster Hernandez That depends on what you mean when you talk about  "high degrees of education." Most fields of study allow for dim bulbs to get at least a bachelor's. Basically, the types of degrees the bottom half - and some of the honorable mentions - of this list earned or "studied for."
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  775. Sónia Pereira It depends on the degree, of course. 
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  776. I think we now know why James Deen went into porn rather than Constitutional law.
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  777. I disagree, to some extent. Outside of media types and critics, have you ever really heard an average person say how much they hate Jeff Dunham? Kind of the same deal for Kathy Griffin, although there are also a lot of people who claim to dislike her because they think they are supposed to.
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  778. Yeah. When "Trainwreck" hit I decided to try to watch her TV show. I just couldn't really get through it. Not everyone's humor is the same, but her stuff just seems like the same 2 or 3 subjects over and over. If people hate Sara Silverman, no way Schumer remains popular. One more "Trainwreck" follow-up and it's curtains.
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  779.  @arts1721  How do we stop third-wave ska bands? You do the same thing you do with fools. You just make sure they're nonsense is put out there and let the market do the rest.
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  780. Third Wave Ska NEVER had a time in which the genre was broadly popular. For those of you who weren't around, we actually discussed AT THE TIME how we were being fed this narrative about how popular ska was, yet the only examples we ever heard were from No Doubt and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and there's not much "ska" in most of those hits. You're damn near as likely to get as many ska hits to chart in 2020 as you were back in the day. A few of these seem more like relatively short-lived subgenres and spin-offs (brostep, crunk) than actual large-scale genres unto themselves (hair metal, grunge).
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  781. But whining all the time about it in song doesn't have a long, rich tradition. That's more of a "new" thing that sprang from grunge and bubblegum punk. Maybe - with any luck - kids are growing out of that and growing up. That's not to cast aspersions on the music, but genres like grunge sort of spring up because of a confluence of things - not just on their own because people have tired of Vince Neil.
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  782. I think it works best to watch Burr's specials in chronological order as well. The third one is funny on its own but I think it's made better since you can follow him from the first one where he's single, through to the third one where he's basically lost all his hair and has a kid.
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  783.  @katrinebumaltao7044  I wouldn't doubt the process is more complex than how other commenters have reduced it, but the result doesn't really seem to reflect that. A huge barrier to respect is whether people don't believe that a person sitting in a studio on a computer can't vomit out such songs on a daily basis, and pretty much anything so electronic suffers from that. And don't sell boy bands short. It's not like some pedo gathered up 5 or 6 randos, gave them some lyrics and had them playing malls the next day. Some of those groups had highly choreographed shows. It will die like everything else that in general has no real soul to it because in the end there will be nothing to grab onto or long for. Maybe the true test will be whether it's able to eventually come BACK.
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  784. As long as you have people devoted to spending their disposable income on tats, gagues and piercings who can't dress themselves and haven't yet mastered the art of using a belt, there will always be nu metal.
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  785. @Sad Boi We favor actual singing, but we'll settle for whatever is put out there.
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  786. Not limiting the list to acts that were ACTUALLY one-hit wonders, eh? I can't wait to see all the Caucasians on the list of Top 10 black people!
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  787. Hell, if we're going to count vanity projects in which a bunch of already established musicians get together for an album or two, might as well put Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades in there. :P
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  788. I was waiting the entire list for Kim Deal. At least fans were knowledgeable enough to get her an honorable mention, but I'd probably put her in the bottom third of this top ten. Most of those other honorable mentions must have been from "critically acclaimed" groups - i.e. groups that no one in the U.S. has heard of but which probably sold 10M albums in UK and Australia. :)
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  789. Gordon Lightfoot still releases albums too. I guess the rumors of the demise of 70s-style Canadian folk have been greatly exaggerated as well?
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  790. ***** I think that Belucci looks better with a natural look than most other sexy women, but made up I think she just sort of drops back into the pack. Shakira's not particularly special in the looks category. She seems like a nice person, but if it weren't for how she can move her hips no one would be talking about her. I guess for me you need to sort of still be sexy with one trait tied behind your back. :)
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  791. Hair metal always had a shelf life. It wasn't going to last much longer simply because of changes in fashion.
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  792. Nice try, but Nugent's time as a rock star had more or less passed before his politics became any sort of an issue. He's really no less of a celebrity now than he was then.
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  793. So rather than actually citing the statistically proveable top 10 Billboard chart-toppers of the decade, these are just an arbitrary list of No. 1s. Got it.
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  794. Mainstream music has declined to the point that those who prophesied that Prince and Madonna were way ahead of their times are being proven correct. We just didn't realize that "ahead of their time" meant that eventually everything would be as shitty as Prince and Madonna dance pop. In another few years, all post-Zooropa U2 will seem palatable as well (and I think I'm being a little generous regarding U2's jumping of the shark).
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  795. Anyone get the idea that this is yet another Mojo vid in which someone had an idea, then had absolutely no idea how to put the list together? For most of the songs they just picked catchy popular songs that are fairly indistinguishable from most others that those bands did, and it seems possible that they included "Cat Scratch Fever" solely to include the juvenile line at the end about how forgettable he is.
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  796. Who told you that? They may be taking marketing info and interpreting it to fit their own purposes, but the public is not casting ballots on this stuff.
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  797. Rob S. Yes. And the sample size is so small that it's ridiculous to even pretend that the result is representative of any level of public consensus. I'm looking at a top 10 list of cheesiest one hit wonders of the 2010's and none of the songs on the list have even 30 votes, pro and con combined. Basically, about the first dozen songs put on the list are likely going to provide us with the final 10 songs. Then we get to methodology. Since they invariably stray from the claimed methodology within the first few selections, is it something they make up after they have the list, or do they make it up beforehand, provide the songs they want to populate the list, then open the floor for voting/amending? Even the juicier lists like "Worst X of All Time" are lucky if more than a few of the options have triple digits in votes. Mojo can certainly do whatever it wants - and it's not like any of these should have any significance in anyone's lives - but they're little more bona fide than a half dozen people sitting at a bar coming up with lists for the same themes. I guess I want them to be more of a reflection of what people as a whole actually think - not what a few dozen registered users think.
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  798. Rob S. Thank you for sharing that anecdote. I wouldn't be so quick to condescend, though, considering that using a sample size of 1 doesn't exactly make the case for something being the norm. Hmmm ... I wonder what THAT sounds like. Take care. 
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  799. The people putting the lists together must all be on the young side of the millennial scale (still thinking they will make careers out of growing beards, getting Samoan tribal tats, and making YT vids for Mojo), and as such the 90s and 2000s are now in their crosshairs as being ridiculous decades full of loser music, loser movies, and loser ... basically everything.
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  800. Kim Deal's the bomb. The Pixies have suffered a lot without her, although there does seem to be a little promise to the album being released this month. I've liked most of the stuff she and her sister, Kelley, have done with Breeders, Amps, and Kelley Deal 6000.That said, without collaborators, she's not the same musician either and has just as much of a tendency to fly off the rails as does Black Francis if left unchecked, in my opinion.She's still my favorite Pixie, though. By a LONG way.
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  801. My father has been playing drums in bands since the 60s. He always said that it was almost incredibly difficult to duplicate Starr because Ringo is a leftie playing a right-handed set-up, which makes for a slight "offness" to his playing.I think it was the former drummer for the Black Crowes who said (to paraphrase) that Keith Moon was the guy if you were a kid with a kit in your basement, but if you were a musician it was always Ringo.I don't know enough about the instrument to write intelligently about it, but I'll trust those sources since what they offer is subtlety rather than gushing praise.
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  802. Wow! Joey actually went more than two minutes without telling a story that started with, "This one time, I was getting my dick sucked ..."
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  803. I think this is my personal sweet spot for Joe. I'm not really into MMA or stand-up comedians in general, although the pods with them and more "fancy" guests are still usually interesting. But when you get a guy who isn't up his own ass about the 'craft of stand-up' (and doesn't allow Joe to go there either) and they just sort of start to freestyle BS like in this vid, I think we get a happier, better, more animated Joe. And he doesn't seem as lit either, which may help that along.
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  804.  @bigsnap1141  Never heard of him. I'm not sure you're really big until people who don't pay attention have heard of you. Kind of like news. Apathy is a great filter. If something's really big, it will find its way to the non-news consumers. :) Plus, who has time to keep track of EVERYthing, right?
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  805. - WTF is a "Lupe Fiasco"? - Most disappointing U2 album? Everything after Zooropa, and a few of those before it.
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  806.  @tumadrexuxa  That was a bulked-up Bruce Lee. He usually hung out in the 125-135 range. And obesity based on a height-to-weight (BMI) scale is only a marginally useful took when discussing "normal" people - not very physically active people or athletes. Start plugging in the stats for NFL DBs, LBs and safeties and see how many come in as obese or overweight. If Russell Wilson is one inch shorter or one pound heavier than what is listed on the Seahawks' official roster, he qualifies as obese according to the BMI.
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  807. 1) He was being attacked by a man dozens of pounds lighter and gave him a free one to get a measure of him. Fighters feel each other out all the time. Kicks to the face were out, so there was really low risk for a stuntman used to taking blows vs. a tiny man. 2) What do you really have to lose by losing a best-of-three to Bruce Lee? It's not like Lee can really go around bragging about beating an anonymous stuntman. And it's not like losing an actual fight. You're basically losing a points fight. 3) Now you're buying into the myth a little here. There was no measurement of striking quickness. The assessment of Lee needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Everyone is more than willing to say that Lee showed the West things they'd never before seen, which is certainly admirable. But then they forget that when discussing Lee's speed, which may have been something unseen in the West before, but may not necessarily have been that superior in regards to other Eastern martial arts practitioners. More importantly, though, is the fact that people who are used to combat sports - including stuntmen who have a background dealing with fight/stunt choreography - do not see speed as being as fast as civilians do when watching janky old film footage playing at the wrong speed. They're used to seeing speed.
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  808. Lee's character in the movie didn't really trash talk Ali either.
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  809.  @dyschromotopia  And that number never gets smaller as the legend grows and is repeated, does it? :) Lee is exponentially more superior in death than he ever was in real life. That's the nature of myths and legends, though. And people forget that pioneers tend to stumble alot along their journey.
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  810. And a baby kicks at you while you try to change its diapers. There's a reason there are weight classes.
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  811. So it's okay to assume that a person would lose to Lee, but not okay to assume Lee would lose to someone else?
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  812. First, it's a toss up whether what Pitt's character was picturing was accurate to the character. Second, why would anyone need to point out that Pitt's character was fictional? Did someone have to tell you that Darth Vader was fictional or was that pretty apparent?
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  813. ​ @MMFB1981  There is no contradiction. The statement was straightforward. You simply conflated two separate issues into one. Understandable. Having already established the fact that Pitt's character was fictional, the subject then shifts to whether he's remembering something accurately, or whether he's idealizing it.
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  814.  @MMFB1981  To me, he was flashing back to a previous encounter with Lee that bolsters why Zoe Bell's character doesn't care for him. That and the whole wife-killing thing.
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  815. I doubt Rogan ever said Rousey could outbox Mayweather. He hasn't smoked THAT much pot.
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  816. Randy Jones Thanks for the entirely irrelevant comment. Maybe take a moment to see what's actually being replied to before spouting off like a jack-ass. 
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  817. You buy into his striking and kicking being "unmatched." There is video of Lee attempting to hit a heavy bag. His striking was clearly matched. His kicking was also likely matched. When it comes down to it, all arguments really just rely on the belief that he was somehow superhumanly fast. But combat sports practitioners do not see speed in the same way civilians watching crappy film footage (that is never played at the proper speed, btw) do. That and Lee being a tiny man make a much greater difference than civilians realize.
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  818. So Lewis was around 330# when he "sparred" with Lee? No wonder he couldn't keep himself from being kicked or hit.
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  819. Of course, had Oasis done covers of simple pop songs out of the gate, we could say it was able to do TWO styles of Beatles. :)
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  820. Rock God I would say that their hype was fairly warranted through to maybe Achtung Baby, which to me sort of signified their departure to doing pretty much just dance music and basically jumping the shark. Maybe once you're become too self-important it's impossible to hear people tell you that for the past 20 years your music has only been heard on Apple commercials and at foam parties. 
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  821. Lord Crump Yes, but U2 fans are U2 fans. I'm talking about music fans in general. I'm a fan of old REM but the hardcore REM fans find value an album or two before the ones I find value in.
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  822. Lord Crump I will concede that War is obviously better than the others. I would not say it's universally enjoyed or great, though. It was not really thought of in that light at the time. It's what made U2 darlings back in the day, but had Unforgettable Fire and/or Joshua Tree not been as good as they were, no one today would be talking about what a great album War was.  
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  823. I think that comment was to include the first three albums, plus those you mentioned. Having been around at the time I still insist that despite the rock media narrative, those first albums are just not very good.
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  824.  @john84896  And the evidence that he's making it up in his mind - rather than remembering something that actually happened - is ...?
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  825. My brother and I were discussing this lasts weekend. Me being a little older than him, I had to confirm that the albums before "Unforgettable Fire" are almost total shit-boxes. It's not fashionable to say it, but it's hard to really argue. It's okay to say that about a group, even U2. And I don't know that I had any use for them after Zooropa and they completely dove into doing house music.
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  826. Would any of those people have benefited by bad-mouthing Lee?
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  827. Because students are always the way to find out the "real shit" about teachers.
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  828. Sadly enough, there's just as much evidence of Pitt having fought Lee as most of the other guys who claim to have fought Lee. :o)
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  829. Combat sports guys are not as impressed with speed the same way civilians are. And with the likely size difference Lebell might only have to stalk Lee into a corner, while anything Lee did to avoid that would put him in less than optimal positions to have his maximum power or speed.
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  830. Does anyone ever figuratively say those things?
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  831. As portrayed in the movie, he wasn't technically picking a fight either. He was getting the chorus to do the heavy lifting while peddling a fairly typical line of empty bullshit.
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  832. Andy Knight Agreed. Some people really fell in love with Skyfall. I don't get it, but I don't get the love affair with the "Mad Max" reboot either. I think with Skyfall it's more to do with the guy playing the villain, who I think is very much like the fairly ridiculous old-school villains that Stuckman doesn't really care for.
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  833. I've seen Lee interviews. We take people based on our experiences. I can see why people would think he came off as a jerk in his interviews. But that doesn't mean he was. There are cultural and fish-out-of-water dynamics to consider.
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  834.  @StandWatie1862  Does he praise Polanski as man, or Polanski as director?
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  835.  @StandWatie1862  Not really. He said the 13-year-old was a party girl who had dated the guy and that he, personally, does not view statutory rape in the same way he does violent rape to the point where he doesn't call it that. Basically, the narrative that Polanski drugged a young girl to have sex with him is a false one, and that it was actually a girl with whom he took drugs with at other times and they just happened to have sex this time. (Remember, I'm just the messenger here.) He also took a somewhat European view of it, pointing out that having sex with someone that young is wrong by codified values in the U.S. - not necessarily other parts of the world. (Again, messenger) That being said, it absolutely did seem a little weird to go to those lengths to defend Polanski's actions, when all that he needed to say was, "There is more nuance to the story than the narrative with which we're familiar, but what it comes down to is that what he did was absolutely illegal."
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  836. Why? No one benefits from saying anything that detracts from Lee's legend. But a LOT of people have turned their experiences with him into enhancing THEIR reputations.
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  837. Feel free to name any of the guys from back in the day who gave you that impression who do not benefit by perpetuating the Lee myth. And training with someone bigger is a hell of a leap from actually fighting that person. Lee was a tiny man and there is no actual proof that he had the sort of power or accuracy needed to take down a moving, aggressive, skilled opponent. There's scant evidence of any real fight experience on Lee's resume.
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  838.  @CloudsBeyond  Yeah. None of my students can handle me either. They're STUDENTS. And am I somehow supposed to be impressed by a guy perhaps sparring with "street fighters"? Have you ever seen street fighters attempt to fight? People absolutely could have claimed to have kicked Lee's ass, but since there is almost no record of him ever actually engaging in a fight, that would be an awkward claim. And it's not exactly a secret that Inosanto has used his relationship with Lee to his financial benefit. On a related note, do you think a martial artist's reputation and/or bank account benefits more by telling people that Lee was not the demigod so many claim him to be, or by feeding their appetite for the myth? I'm not saying that everything that comes from the mouth or keyboard of people claiming to have had close relationships with Lee is a lie. I'm saying they stand to benefit by perpetuating the legend. You seem pretty comfortable saying that people who raise obvious issues regarding Lee's track record as a fighter are liars, though. And it appears to be based on nothing more than the myth creators in question. Take care.
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  839.  @DeanCallan  Sad but true. There really is scant evidence of Lee having any actual combat sport experience. The characterization of him as a "dancer" in the movie isn't that far off if you choose to back that point of view.
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  840. Except that the MSM will also try to prop up acts that no one really cares to listen to anymore. I can't count how many times Prince, Madonna, U2, REM and even Springsteen made the cover of Rolling Stone long after their actual music sales had dwindled and almost disappeared. Hell, every cover with the actual Rolling Stones on it that appeared in about the last 35-40 years is an example of this. I think both examples are just more reason to not trust what you're being peddled. There's always an agenda.
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  841. That's an exaggeration. Good MMA fighters and martial artists would likely deliver a beating on Lee, but not just ANYONE could beat him down.
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  842. So it is your contention that "size" is synonymous with height?
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  843. "Skyfall" - where Bond decides to hunker down and wait for the enemy to come and kill him, a la The opening foot chase alone puts "Casino Royale" above this solid - but over-rated - flick. Although, infinitely better than "Mad Max: Fury Road."
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  844.  Mark Lucchese  I don't think I've seen anyone claim that taking 3-10 shots from Lee wouldn't do any damage. The thing is, that's not the same as trying to deliver them against an opponent who is defending himself while keeping in mind that you may get hit in return if you aren't careful. Then you've got an actual fight. And evidence of Lee in situations like - let alone being dominant in them - that is fairly scant. That's aside of any differences in weight, which can be a huge factor depending on the size of the difference. Take care.
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  845.  @nooneyouknowof  Yeah, but it's perspective overwhelmingly from people who have an interest in propping up the Lee myth, and pretty much none of it supported by any sort of fight footage. The fighters may have had popularity on their own merit, but a willingness to discuss and tie themselves to Lee raised and extended their profiles and not a one would risk that by even daring to categorize anything Lee did as being "average" or "good," lest they risk the torches and pitchforks of the legion of Lee fanboys. From the little video evidence there is, I can't say I ever thought Lee had KO power in his jabs. And the lack of evidence, unfortunately, makes it kind of an uphill battle for those claiming exalted fighting capabilities on Lee's part. Take care.
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  846.  @nooneyouknowof  1) Norris never studied under Lee, so I'm not sure much that followed actually needs to be addressed, but ... 2) Footage of Norris competing in the ring with an actual opponent looking to defeat him - while almost always being from tournaments - is still something that does not seem to exist for Lee, organized competition or not. The logic doesn't really follow that a basically unsubstantiated fight background of Lee is bolstered by there being LESS evidence. 3) Norris is not lauded by throngs of fans as a dominant street fighter with with no verifiable evidence to back it up. You don't approach his legend the same as Lee's because they're very different. 4) It's interesting that in the Lee fanboy-verse, you were able to dig up footage of a person claimed to be a young Bruce Lee, and it's adorable that a person would believe that a street fight between kids is even relevant to the discussion to begin with. I coached some kids who were great pitchers in Little League. I'll post a vid of them, comparing them to Kershaw in his prime sometime. Take care.
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  847. Even if we accept that as true, we can - by this logic - actually credit Lee's inspirations and leave him completely out of the picture, can't we?
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  848. Was this another of the "fights" no one has ever been able to prove ever took place? Lee's doing very minimal damage if he's playing defense, especially being such a tiny man. If he's keeping a guy off of him, that's really all he's doing. If he wants to inflict damage, he has to let that distance close a bit. And all bets are off once that happens.
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  849. ​ @greenb1a  I'll accept it. It's more substantiated than 99% of the other alleged Lee "fights" even though the witness list seems pretty short. :) Although what I asserted in my previous post kind of still stands. Regardless of whether people think Lee was much of a fighter, when you mix specialties the advantage often goes to the aggressor. If someone who could make short work of him on the ground, for instance, spars on his heels and doesn't press the action, he gets what he gets.
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  850. And have Norris say what, exactly? Does anyone believe that Norris would say ANYTHING - regardless of what the truth is - that would detract from the Lee myth? Norris doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to shovel more dirt on the dead.
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  851. I'm pretty sure no one claimed that some completely unskilled schlub off the street would take a tiny Bruce Lee. But if he was big enough, Lee would likely have to hit him a few times before being able to put him down. Now chance that opponent to a guy with combat sports skills who is significantly larger.
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  852. Wow. Just ... wow. The ignorance dripping from that statement.
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  853. It's a tough call. Tyson never defeated a skilled boxer. If Ali could keep him at arm's length for the first couple of rounds, he's got a very good shot. But Ali wasn't exactly the biggest puncher either. He beat guys like Foreman by getting them to punch themselves out. His loss to Frazier was an epic beating but definitely further proved he could take a punch.
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  854. Dammit! That's the fifth stuntman who worked with Lee on this message board alone. How can I possibly keep them all straight!
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  855. Because even in modern MMA - which by far exceeds what was being done in Lee's day of ... not actually fighting anyone - guys have a LOT of luck using "tactics" once a stronger guy with better grappling skills gets them wrapped up, right?
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  856.  @monketstyling  Yes. He was a combination of Jesus Christ, the Buddha and Barack Obama. No more perfect person has ever trod the soil. We get it. But there's little to no documentation that he was much of an actual fighter. The number of witnesses to him actually fighting are not legion, and actual proof of a fighting background tends to be sparse at best. That's fine. Just don't tout a guy with that sketchy of a fighting background as one of the greatest fighters of all time or someone who would excel in today's MMA. That's ludicrous.
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  857.  @monketstyling  As has been observed countless times, no one does himself a service by dissing Bruce Lee. Just look how that works in comments sections. No one in that world is going to say "boo" about Lee in any way that can be seen in a negative light. By contrast, there has been a LOT of money made by people able to tie themselves to the Lee legend. This is not Lee's fault. To be fair to Lee, I've never really gotten an inkling that very many people in that field at the time harbored any real dislike for him. But perhaps you've noticed that if you do not agree that Lee is the greatest martial artist of all time, the fastest "fighter" of all time and a guy who can play pingpong with nunchucks, you are considered a Bruce Lee hater. As is the case in many instances today, people are so concerned with everything being the best, most historical, etc., that they never really acknowledge the great things a person actually did. It's understandable, though. Most people like to believe the times in which they live harbor the best of everything. And let's be honest. Lee would not exactly be the first celebrity to shine much brighter decades later for having died young. If Lee were walking around today at 80, he'd probably be looked at as more of a trailblazer for Jackie Chan and Jet Li when it comes to movies, and maybe the status of a John McEnroe in tennis, but in the field of martial arts. He likely wouldn't be forgotten or by any means irrelevant, but the chances a kid under 30 would have ever heard of him would be pretty slim. Take care.
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  858. It reveals a lot when people ignore the fact that not only does size have a great impact regarding power and the ability to absorb most blows, but that they also don't realize that what looks lightning quick to a civilian watching janked-up film footage is not that fast to a real martial arts practitioner. At least, even though that fighter might still recognize the speed, it doesn't matter as much when you're USED to seeing speed.
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  859. Ants are relatively strong as well. Ever been tossed around by one?
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  860. I was just thinking the other day, THERE'S a guy who raced for the edge of the cliff and tossed himself over. Benjamin is funny in stretches, but was DEFINITELY one who could not afford to burn any bridges in show business.
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  861.  @IKILLMANY  It's not always so obvious. At least, not when he's not technically performing. For great stretches, he's more like an insane person saying things that make you uncomfortable who occasionally throws a zinger in there.
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  862. Of course, black-face hasn't really been a thing in a century, and red-/yellow-face haven't really been done since the 1960s, but let's pretend this is a relevant entry. Even when black-face was used in "Soul Man" and "Tropic Thunder," it was drawing attention to itself - not used as a method to allow whites to portray blacks.
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  863. benjovi55 Oh sure! The next thing you're going to tell me is that "Sixteen Candles" is NOT about rape! 
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  864. aWalkThroughLife Yes. There are idiots all over. 
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  865. Did anyone notice that in some of these cases we have moved toward LESS accurate portrayals of reality?
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  866.  @giancarloleon9983  I'm afraid you're going to have to be a little more specific. You didn't really say anything there.
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  867. Miller generally tries to avoid the labels, but strongly implies that he started as a "classic liberal" who was left behind as his people kept racing headlong toward the Far Left.
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  868.  @ben5154  He's never been wall-to-wall funny. But his specials were solid. But you had to be the type of person who could be drawn into it. His specials are different than the last couple of decades, though, where things have shifted away from jokes toward stories. His standup wasn't everyone's cup back then, so it certainly will seem odd now.
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  869.  @rumble2468  I'd contend - as he does - that he never became a conservative. He was left-of-center and stood his ground while his fellow liberals just kept walking - then racing - toward the Left.
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  870.  @rumble2468  Dennis Miller has been famous since 1985 when he became a regular on SNL. After leaving, he then had his own show for 9 seasons on HBO, ending in 2002. The second Gulf War didn't start until 2003. Sixty percent of Congressional Democrats voted in support of that use of military force, including Sens. Biden, Clinton, Kerry, Feinstein, Reid and Schumer. Not only has Miller been in the fray long enough to see his views become characterized as right-of-center as his colleagues all drifted to the Left, but support to start a war almost two decades AFTER he became a celebrity was not a partisan issue. Here endeth the lesson. Now go get your fucking shine box.
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  871. He's broached this subject multiple times. It's not that there are no funny people on the Right. But an audience has to be willing to laugh at itself, and those on the Left do NOT have a sense of humor about themselves.
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  872.  @stevelarry3870  The Right is the butt of an overwhelming majority of the jokes told on all network and cable talk shows and late-night shows. How often has that resulted in the Right organizing to boycott a performer or network, cancel a show or declare that those jokes should not be allowed to be told? The Right generally accepts that this is the way things have been for decades and waits for other types of jokes to come around. The Left has a nervous breakdown and calls for the destruction of the offender's career while scrambling for the Vagisil.
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  873.  @stevelarry3870  Not biting on the false equivocations. And they wouldn't be necessary if I was wrong on this. It's known as the "Daily Show" approach, where a person used to say, "Jon Stewart makes equal fun of the Left AND Right" even though the attack on the Left was accusations of jaywalking while those leveled at the Right were for rape. You can carve a notch for each side, but they are not equal. While it is true that the Far Right may get squirrely, that faction is almost always quickly condemned by the other 95% of the Right. By contrast, the views of the Far Left are almost all supported by the rest of the Left, allowing for a little bickering about the means to those ends. They claim to not support AntiFa hitting people with bicycle locks, but they will still voice their reservations about Ben Shapiro being allowed to speak on a college campus. Extraneous issues such as how businesses respond aside, given that the politics are what are setting people off, they seem pretty relevant. And I stand on solid ground in putting forth that one side has almost a monopoly on oversensitivity. Take care.
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  874. Miller generally avoids labels, but he strongly indicates that he was a "classical liberal" before all of the other people in his group left him behind as they raced to the Far Left. Of course, it probably doesn't help matters any that you need to have better than a third-grade vocabulary to understand him. :)
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  875. It's not right, but it IS karma where Uygur is concerned. Hell, just for interviewing a guy for the purpose of mocking him it's almost worth playing a little fast and loose with context. Maybe the correction should have begun with, "Cenk Uygur, who legitimized David Duke by virtue of interviewing him ..."
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  876. So, which horse do you take in the lack-of-credibility race: The fish wrap or the Armenian genocide denier?
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  877.  @youandme9569  Their politics are too similar. The only way the NYT prints that story with malics is if there's some sort of power struggle between two factions of the American Left, represented by each party. For example, if the NYT is skewing its coverage so as to back one of the Democrat candidates - and Armenian genocide denier Uygur is fixated on content that undermines that candidacy, I can see it. It's not exactly beyond reason, is it?
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  878. Note how Mojo and the like pretend that "change" and "progress" are synonymous.
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  879. Listen to almost any interview after an NBA finals game and tell me that those players are being "ironic" in how they speak.
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  880. Well, the NBA could never play another game and most people wouldn't care. But it's a shame about Tom and Rita. :(
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  881. And "ready" would be what, exactly? Everyone's working on treatments but there is no cure, so it's not like we had vats of that on hand to distribute. The testing that was delayed was diagnostic - not screening - testing. The people who received those tests had already been isolated and were being treated, so the delay meant nothing. I don't want to minimize the impact of this virus on the groups most susceptible to it, but trying to get everyone running around like civilization is coming to an end over something with such a low mortality rate outside of those groups is lunacy. Unfortunately, until the party in the White House changes, cries of panic will become the new normal every time there is a new virus and I'll be left scrambling to get toilet paper because of all the twitchy sky-is-falling freaks emptying the shelves. The CDC recommendations are nowhere near as drastic as what various entities have done, canceling or suspending seasons, events, etc. How does a nation become "ready" for something like this beyond what it does for any other virus, which seems to work pretty well?
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  882. iamlarryjones jr. If you're going to put something in quotes, at least get the friggin' word right. I think we've come about as far as we're going to come in this discussion. Take care. 
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  883. iamlarryjones jr. I didn't write anything of the kind. If you're going to respond, please respond to what's actually written, not your interpretation and extrapolation of it. I was pretty straightforward.
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  884. iamlarryjones jr. Not really sure how that's a response to my post, but okay. 
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  885. Of course. And why point out the actual enemies when we can use something more generic that actually muddles reality?
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  886. While I can agree that I probably don't need anything new from any of these acts based on what they've been putting out since their heydays, I have to disagree with some of their inclusion based on the fact that only two of them have put out more than two albums in the last decade. The breakdown of how many studio albums each act has put out/plan to release in the last 10 years (2011-2020): 10. Black Sabbath (1 album since 1995) 9. Pearl Jam (2 albums since 2009) 8. Rolling Stones (1 album since 2005) 7. U2 (2 albums since 2009) 6. Weezer (6 albums since 2010) 5. Def Leppard (1 album since 2008) 4. Metallica (1 album since 2008) 3. Bon Jovi (4 albums since 2009) 2. Aerosmith (1 album since 2004) 1. KISS (1 album since 2009) I would only put Weezer and Bon Jovi on this list of offenders at this point. Maybe the others' albums have sucked for the last 15+ years, but at least they're not MAKING one more than every 5 years or so.
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  887. I appreciate KISS, but - like Billy Joel - their music has aged like milk.
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  888. I'd say WAS better. We like to say that about bands/acts with which we grew up, but no one's wanted anything new from U2 for about 15-20 years, and we stopped listening to Prince and Madonna about a quarter of a century ago for a reason. That being said, at least most of these acts could play instruments. A low threshold rarely passed today.
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  889. Capnsensible80 Unfortunately, perception of terminology is absolutely relevant. Otherwise, people would be smart enough to know that "decimate" means to reduce by one-tenth. But, since public perception has been shaped by incorrect usage, most people believe that it's synonymous with "devastated." It probably would have been best had they made up two lists - one for bands that ended because a vital member died, and others that simply fell off the face of the earth because they fell out of favor with consumers.
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  890. Gavin George As I think I made fairly clear, it's pretty much up to the eye of the beholder. But to me, calling a band's success "short-lived" when often the only reason the band ended is because a key member died - not necessarily because the band's success actually waned - doesn't feel right. To me, that's about like coming up with a list of "Top 10 NFL Draft Busts" made up of Rookies of the Year who suffered career-ending injuries by their third season in the league.
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  891. Yeah. Still waiting for that big Ska wave to hit that we were told had arrived with No Doubt. Maybe I'm just too busy listening to all that big band music that Brian Setzer ushered in.
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  892.  @OverdosedDrop  Hey, don't sweat it. It's a lot easier for people to blame their failures in life on some grand conspiracy or dark, secretive organization than it is to be accountable for their own actions. Take care.
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  893.  @HumansAreBots  Yeah, man! Just check the transmitters in your dental work and the tracking chip in the back of your neck, man! IT'S OVER MAN!
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  894.  Emily Ru  Feel free to point out where I wrote that we should wholeheartedly believe everything the government tells us. It's apparent that your rhetorical ceiling is the sort of ad hominem attack we should expect from middle schoolers who sideline as bark-at-the-moon conspiracy theorists, but try your best to rein yourself in and competently fulfill that one request.
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  895. How can any list about people changing their minds about liking a movie be complete without "Blair Witch Project?" Hell, I went from loving to hating it before I got into the car once the, "Hey, wait a minute ..." started buzzing around in my head.
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  896. 10) Seriously? People still care whether "Saving Private Ryan" didn't take the Oscar? I don't think so. 9) "Twilight" is fun. No one EVER thought it was art or included stellar performances. 7) M. Night's received "backlash" because he's done a lot of crappy movies. It's nothing personal. 6) Again, no one is harboring a grudge that "Forest Gump" won Best Picture. It was a strong movie in a strong field, unlike No. 10. If anyone wants to hate on it, maybe it should be because a "normal" woman had sex with a mentally defective man. If the genders were reversed, that film would never have been made. 5) No one thought the "Transformers" movies were stellar to begin with. 2) Again, no one thought "Titanic" was an artistic achievement. Even at the time, it was joked that it featured the best writing from "The Young and the Restless." 1) "Avatar" was a very pretty movie utilizing great visual technology that beat you over the head with its politics. It was never advertised as anything else. I've yet to hear anyone say they changed their mind about liking this movie.
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  897.  @divanosoba9658  The box exists for a reason. People with critical thinking skills not only know when and how to venture outside of its borders, but become more creative as a result of it. I've been in visual media for decades. As I'm sure you can imagine, we get plenty of people fresh out of college who are "artists" and eschew any sort of structure being foisted onto what they do. Those who never come to recognize that creativity requires boundaries are the ones who fail. They don't develop the acuity necessary to actually function. Who has more on the ball, the person who made a bong over a week in a ceramics studio, or the one who figured out how to do it with an apple in the back seat of a car? I've been there. I was reading - but not necessarily believing - similar nonsense decades ago when I was in the Army. In my case, it was "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and some of the early Graham Hancock books. There is a LOT of fascinating history in those and they're real page turners that pose a lot of interesting "what ifs." But one thing they all seem to have in common is similar to what Lazar does (although without the interesting historical context, obviously): they lay out quite a series of small facts, then at some point make a HUGE leap that readers often simply do not recognize. All the breadcrumbs are laid so closely together that they don't notice that the last one was laid on the other side of the canyon. Still, it can be a solid intellectual exercise. But you have to make it one. The people making the claims generally put themselves in the position of skeptic so that we will assume that they've already vetted the information and we can take it at face value because then we don't have to think so much. When you only have one or two people over about a 70-year period really trying to argue from authority on these things - and the claims ultimately can't be verified because of conveniently missing evidence (which, of course, by its very absence is proof that it existed), dead witnesses, etc. - you don't just take the bong from a stranger, take a HUGE hit and hold that shit in as long as you can because, in the end, you're probably just going to end up appearing retarded. People buying Lazar's story hook, line and sinker are the people who watch specials where "researchers" go in search of Bigfoot and Noah's ark actually wondering if they're going to find it by the end of the hour. No. Pretty sure we'd have heard something about that. And what's the fun in just drinking it in anyway? Exercise those skeptic muscles or you lose them. And the more you use them, the less calories they require. Lazar is very good at promoting Bob Lazar, but there are pretty simple reasons he hasn't really gotten much traction over the decades. And I don't blame Joe for giving him a platform. He's there to entertain and has a history of being a conspiracy nut himself (which he acknowledges) so it's in good fun. If you want to hear one with someone who apparently believes EVERYTHING, check out the one with Steven Tyler. :)
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  898. So is "The Perfect Storm," but only about 5% of it, so that assertion doesn't carry as much weight as it should. :)
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  899.  @albertshepard4084  It's probably a stretch calling ANYTHING "alternative" in the 90s. By the end of the decade we had online file sharing via the Internet and weren't at the mercy of top 40 radio gate-keepers. Stuff like grunge that would never have charted or received radio play in the 80s was mainstream in the 90s, partly because examples of just about everything were by the end of that decade.
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  900. @Diamant Flawed logic is flawed logic.
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  901.  @caseycamachoperez7774  The two things are not necessarily related, but I understand the line of thinking.. Look at it like this: If 20 companies offer an employee $50K a year, and two others offer $60K or $40K, that doesn't mean the market dictates that that employee is worth $60/$40K. The market still says he's a $50K employee. Anomalies don't define the market. We can't take our cues from sports contracts and buy into media misuse of language. I've been in the media in major league and major D-1 markets for decades. We're absolutely ruining the language. Just because A market believes it should still be paying Bobby Bonilla doesn't mean THE market thought so. 🤣 Take care.
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  902. Would anyone else roll the dice on trying to replace two employees who demanded ANNUAL raises of $5K? Every decade you''ll pay at least an additional $100K in salary with no additional production from those two employees. Maybe making two $50K employees become two $150K employees after 20 years wasn't part of the business plan, especially while getting no additional work out of them. It makes it tough to grow the business when two people are suddenly chewing up so much salary overhead as well. How many additional employees can be brought on? Also, does it seem odd that two who "helped build the company" were on the outside looking in regarding reaping the benefits if they were so irreplacable? I've been head hunted as well. But I WAS replaced at my former company because it was required. The work didn't get done as well, but it was done well enough by my replacement. Graciously, this sounds more like two people who already had jobs lined up who then made steep salary demands, abruptly left the company high and dry without the ability to phase in replacements, and the market itself eventually took care of that business as it would have otherwise.
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  903.  @TroubadourAdamRoad  Journalism has always been hacky. There was no golden age in which the sort of investigative journalism people idealize was the norm. It's always been subject to agendas and politics.
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  904. So you must battle through horrible, cringey lines to seduce an 18yo counter girl. Got it. :)
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  905. Bet-David REALLY doesn't seem to understand the mind of a businessman. The businessman is hired for his acumen regarding his ability to garner profit in the setting in which he's been hired. If the landscape is not conducive to what has worked elsewhere, he tries something else and will believe in that course. That being said, I think he's absolutely correct regarding the true nature of the lions share of politicians never changing. They may flip-flop out of convenience but they will not actually believe that course. It was just a poor analogy.
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  906. ​ @jwilliama4427  Google "Janet Cooke" and get back to me about investigative journalism and the value of Pulitzer Prizes. Or maybe don't. I think there are about a half dozen of them sitting in our currently abandoned offices downtown. Take care.
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  907.  @philnewhouse4879  At first I thought that can't possibly be true. We should be used to it by now. But every time it reaches new highs/depths, it DOES tend to leave you reeling a bit.
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  908.  @jeffouellette9946  In other words, you can't come up with something that's actually relevant to what I posted, so you're just going to rant as though every spelling bee in 1969 was tied to the Bush family, the JFK assassination and the Illuminati. Got it. Never run out of tinfoil.
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  909. Those movements were already discredited. There's a reason they were "counter" culture movements. People were very anti-hippie until about the end of the war in Vietnam.
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  910. Crazy people of all stripes speak of all manner of things that you don't find in prison books. It doesn't make them Jesus or Napoleon.
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  911. So because we have no evidence that the government has been up to anything outside of the things we know of since then, the proper conclusion is to imagine it's been up to a TON of things. That's sound logic.
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  912.  @cdr861532  It's absolutely typical. It's just not how the argument was phrased. As an aside, I try to not take anything Snowden says seriously. At any given time, he's owned by whomever is giving him protection from prosecution. I think that's been Russia for about the last eight years.
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  913.  @cdr861532  Proof is very difficult. Evidence is how many high-profile people who disobey the state end up dead or disapopear in Russia. And there's a reason there isn't a long history of public dissent in that country over the last few generations. You may not be aware of this (I brushed up on it a bit myself recently), but Snowden doesn't want to be in Russia. From the start he wanted to go to Latin America. But the U.S. did a pretty good job of making that near impossible for him if he wanted to retain his freedom. So he's swapped one prison for another. I'm not saying that everything he says is a lie. But because of his situation and things he's said in the past that were apparently exaggerated or untrue, we can't just out of hand trust anything he says that we can't corroborate either.
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  914.  @DeanCallan  Ultimately, we can never really truly know. But there really seems to be next to no actual evidence of Lee fighting. Feel free to look up sources yourself, though. Don't take my word for it. But it all appears to be "I heard this" and "I saw that" about Lee doing something behind closed doors, and even those end up being things being done as a demonstration, being done in front of students or sparring. And obviously none of those is actually fighting an aggressor hell bent on kicking your ass. That's not to take away from Lee's other contributions to martial arts. It's just that the part of the legend related to him being a great fighter is on a pretty shaky foundation.
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  915. Nah. That Saeger guy is a left-of-center libertarian who pretends he's a conservative so that people don't recognize what a whack job Ball is. I stopped watching after it became clear that the show was serving as a wing of the Bernie campaign, but when it came to offering solutions, he basically always backed whatever Ball said, trying to cast her socialist leanings in a more moderate light.
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  916.  Swan of Tuonela  He's left of center if you're talking about actual conservatives. People of a certain age don't realize that most of today's conservatives would have been considered political moderates 20+ years ago. Regardless, shaking your head without actually posing an argument counts for nothing. What it says is that you either can't mount an argument or don't have the stones. The excuse commonly made? "He/she chose to take the high road." Either way, they both burned some bridges when they turned into the Bernie show. Neither has much of a ceiling, but it will be interesting to see how many parallel moves they can make, or how they transform themselves into another niche show under President Biden. I won't be watching, but I'm sure I'll eventually learn what happens.
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  917. Yes. We'd be living in a socialist one. Ball is a more measured Leftist with nice cans. Her views are whack-a-doodle.
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  918. If I was Clark, I'd have never entered the WNBA draft. I'd just play in Europe for bigger money and take my summers off while these tatted lesbians are playing their few dozen games. It's only a matter of time before we hear the stories about Clark being bullied for being straight and white.
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  919. Yes. We can prove that the other planets in our solar system are spheres. The response seems to be that we are the lone exception.
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  920. No Oregon Trail rant is ever unjustified. :)
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  921. LIAM: And yet, there is little evidence that Gen Y is more mature than Gen Z? Ask a Gen Xer how mature Gen Y folks are.
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  922. KMA: And, as I wrote, when the day comes in which the quick keys fail to work ... well ... just how many phone numbers does a typical person Gen Y and later have memorized?
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  923. MA: Problem is, they're taking a lot longer to "grow up". This is pretty much the case with each of the past few generations, but with the Millennials it's kind of gone beyond that tipping point. When you can be on your folks' insurance until you're 26, you've officially become an infantilized people. And rather than fight the labels as previous generations did, this one tends to spend much more time whining about it and taking no accountability. I never really knew what the Gen X stereotypes were. I'd heard the slacker thing, but I think the extent of that was people begrudgingly having to accept "casual Friday" at the office. It wasn't keeping us from getting degrees and entering the job market at the typical age. We also worked when we were in our teens and in college, which is something that's gone down precipitously with the generation that came after. I agree that broad brushes aren't the greatest, but it's ridiculous that everyone these days feels the need to say, "not every member of (insert large group identity) is like this." That this is actually put out there as an actual point - rather than being something all parties already accept and don't feel the need to mention - is another characteristic we can attribute to the easily offended nature of modern society, best characterized by the Millennials. We all know that not all members of a given group are identical. But that doesn't mean that the reputation a group garners isn't well-earned.
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  924. MA: Let's not forget the flip side. The safe-space millennials are the loudest voices, as are those on the political extremes, etc. Dog-bites-man is never sexy, but lets also not forget that we are seeing tangible results springing forth from all of this. The fact of the matter is that safe spaces, segregated student unions/graduations, etc., ARE now realities to the extent in which they never were with previous generations. Of course, the same idiots who made the ill-advised move of actually taking anything any of these children said as being worth serious consideration never change the playbook. They were more than happy to try to make a high school kid the voice of a movement against the Constitution. This speaks to another dynamic, which is that millennials also get to be the willing dupes behind which the American Left can hide. Put THEM out there with their limited perspective and understanding of a given issue so that THEY can draw the fire while those basically lighting that fuse sit back and pray to God that one of them gets hurt so it can further the cause. As for the rest, we all know the general ages involved in fighting wars, etc. What I think this comes down to is basically language. It's similar to how you'll occasionally get some asshole popping up on a comment board about the U.S. and pulling "Why do they call it 'America' when there is a North, Central and South America?" out of their ass. Technically, that's true. But in the way language is actually used, the entire world calls the U.S.A. "America." Similarly, when someone talks about a "millennial," they really don't mean those of that age in general (although they'll never actually make distinctions). The millennial is almost a sub-group of Gen Y that denotes the worst of the bunch, whether it be on campus or in the workplace. It's more like you have to fit the stereotype to be a millennial than the other way around. This is probably why people often refer to whiny Gen Zs in their late teens as millennials. Archetype rather than age. If I were you, I wouldn't sweat it. As with previous generations, just ignore that shit and do things right and no one will lump you in with the group. It's worked for centuries.
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  925. Because it's not funny.
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  926. There was no apparent joke. There was only an open-ended question. It's going to have to have a bit more sprinkled in there if you want people to view it as a possible joke.
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  927. Thank God we didn't have any advertising before the 1990s.
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  928. MURDOCK: That's a popular narrative, but we have entered the age in which private enterprises like Google, FB, YT, etc., seek to control our access to information. We're now forced to be more pro-active in seeking out that info because we know there is an agenda driving those who filter it.
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  929. I really only take a couple of exceptions here. First, it's not actually multi-tasking if you can't successfully perform the tasks, which is obviously not the case in the example given. Second, does it really matter if Gen Z believes that there is more than one way to learn? EVERY generation recognizes this. What matters is if Gen Z is actually doing the learning. And even if that learning is taking place, good luck in turning that into gainful employment as long as the dynamic of "you must have a college degree to apply" remains.
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  930. MW: Well, if we only go by age, then yes, Milennials are adults.
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  931. Why would anyone claim the Millennials are less gay than Gen Z?
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  932. SOL: Of course, the creation of FB and Google only accounts for about a half dozen people. Hardly enough to get people to stop painting an entire generation with a broad brush. Plus, previous generations always have the luxury of being able to point out that the landscape for creating those things wouldn't have existed without them. As it has almost always been.
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  933. MH: As a Gen Xer, I have yet to see an example of one of us who worked hard and kept his nose clean who has not found some measure of success. Finding failures from my generation who admit that they made this or that choice that hampered their pursuit of success is very difficult. They usually cast blame on society as a whole, say things like 'It's all about who you now," etc. They are loathe to take responsibility themselves, and this has not gotten any better with the generations that have followed. The one thing I do empathize with the Millennials about is that - as the cost of college has been allowed to spiral out of control due to the availability of student loans - it is much more difficult for someone to work their way through college like we used to be able to do, then graduate with fairly manageable loan payments. You pretty much have to join the military, come from a well-to-do family, or earn a crap-ton of scholarships to escape with that type of situation now.
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  934. EB: Thank you for proving that reading history books isn't your strong suit.
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  935. India and Sweden might disagree.
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  936. I feel sorry for people who go to NBA games just for dunks. This "they don't dunk" garbage is laughable. The women's game is unwatchable in many ways before you even consider the fact that they don't dunk.
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  937. If pay was actually based on revenue generated, WNBA players would have to pay the league to be allowed to play.
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  938. @J Donovan I think you misunderstood one of my several posts. But let's not pretend that my grandfather's generation wasn't seen as pulling shit and loosening standards defined by ITS previous generation.
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  939.  @TheEfpTV  To which of my serveral posts are you referring?
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  940.  Bob Pie  Yes. At least, it's lowering them to levels so achievable that they don't really benefit anyone.
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  941. @המקום רָם Likewise, I cannot be held responsible for your interpretation of what I wrote. ;)
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  942. @המקום רָם If you were tagged, it would have been bc I was replying directly to a post of yours, although this was so long ago I can't recall what I wrote and certainly am not going to spend any part of the morning scrolling through almost 300 posts. But I'm sure whatever it was, it was both fascinating and thought-provoking. :)
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  943. @Vic Birth I'm SO SORRY that you're not getting the recognition you think you should be getting. I'm afraid we ran out of participation trophies because of you guys, but let us know when you want us to hold a parade to celebrate you doing what is expected of you in terms of functioning in society. How about you just keep your head down and work hard without requiring someone to powder your bottom every time you feel special?
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  944.  @pandemidora7503  You should have seen it before the "Boomers." People used to just throw hamburger cartons out the window while driving on the interstate, and our fire management capabilities are much greater. Granted, "environmentalists" don't want to allow any of it to be used until L.A. is burning, but the ability IS there. :)
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  945.  dota vinkz  I think the Xers get more credit for that. There are always questions. Does it take more talent to use mixing equipment, or for four guys to lay down a flawless take while performing together in the same room? Is an MLB pitcher better now because he's more likely to throw mid-90s, or is the pitcher from the 80s/90s better because he could win 300 games by locating his pitches while rarely breaking 90? I worked with kids in computer labs over the past couple of decades and would regularly hear from people a generation older than me about how "these kids today are so smart!" Then one day I removed the browser shortcut from the desktop and only one kid in the class still knew how to find the Internet. People today are no more smart than in the past few generations. They just grew up using toys previous generations didn't have. Take care.
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  946.  @spewingrainbows9034  I'm not going to scroll down the 257 replies to figure out what months - if not years - old post you're replying to. I'll just assume you're not particularly bright and that this is your rhetorical ceiling since you didn't assail anything I wrote. Take care.
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  947.  @karinamaissin7890  We generally had more to keep us busy. Just think how long it took to take and develop a selfie in 1974!
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  948. Lino Silva"Society" is pretty vague. Not really seeing overwhelming negativity coming from religion these days in places like the U.S. It's just scapegoated fairly often. Very few - if any - wars have been fought because of religion. MANY have been fought using religion as an excuse. 
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  949. LS: You seem to be bringing a lot of tangental issues into things. I was simply mentioning the dumbing down.
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