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SaikyoStyle posted...

Someone told you to burn your copies of old Disney films for those reasons or someone told you to consider that point of view when it comes to them?

No. Burn. Literally burn.

And that I was promoting that kind of behavior if I let my daughter (who is 17 now but was 8 at the time of this conversation) watch them, and that I was a bad parent because I let her watch them.

FolkenRawr posted...

Like what?

Like how it's "racist" that Luke Combs took his cover of "Fast Car" to the top of the Country charts and Tracey Chapman, as a "queer black woman" would've never had that opportunity.

Like how I'm supposed to burn my original copies of most Disney Princess movies because they promote misogyny and movies like Snow White have scenes of "non-consensual" intimacy.

Things like that.

But when it comes to actual law making and what the parties stand for, it's a no contest. But there are some incredibly bad takes "on the left".

OK. I just saw that someone made a "Glitch McConnell" shirt on twitter with the Matrix green numbers in the background.

I consider myself a "not all-in" Liberal, because there are some incredibly bad takes that Liberal make when it comes to some social issues.

MagnusDJL posted...

Keep in mind that Gretchen was willing to pay a huge sum of money to help with Walt's family, and he refused purely out of ego/bitterness.

He could have entirely helped his family and not let the cancer stuff ruin things as early as Season 1.

Seriously.

Walt's ego was the only reason the show wasn't 8 episodes long.

Only time I ever got "dumped" was when I was 17 and I was dating a girl that was 16. We dated for 6 weeks, and the day after my 18th birthday she broke up with me because she said her mother (who I had met weeks before this) wasn't comfortable with her dating an "adult".

ToteAll posted...

I know you're trolling but no, he was the protagonist, not the hero. There was no hero in BB.

Yeah, in a story revolving around producing an selling meth, there really is no hero. Agreed.

ReDaZnDraGoN97 posted...

Boxing was definitely Tyson level popular during Mayweather, Pacquiao, and De La Hoya's time

I remember when it felt like the whole world was watching when Pacquiao and Mayweather fought

Now boxing has nowhere near that level of hype

Maybe. May have been because I was more into the Heavyweight division during it's peak, so it may have just "seemed" more popular to me because I was more entrenched in it.

WellKnownNomad posted...

Yet nothing about the trans wrestlers that Linda and Kane as well as DeSantis openly have admitted to hating towards

Oh, so we didn't poke holes in your entire statement is somehow makes it correct?

An openly gay man was basically Vince McMahon's #2 for DECADES. Let's not make this a tit-for-tat situation. A guy like Finn Balor has been an open LGBTQ ally for years, and he's fighting for the title at Summerslam. Let's not pretend AEW is some liberal safe space (considering guys like the Bucks and Jericho are basically in the top 5 when it comes to controlling the company) and WWE is this MAGALand.

Both feds have dipshits in it, and both have shown great strides in inclusiveness. They are no different than any other company that employs hundreds of people.

It's kinda crazy how popular boxing is in general, but it's also hasn't really had any real mainstream attention since the Tyson/Holyfield/Lewis guys retired. Maybe with Mayweather, but not nearly to the level that Tyson was in the early 90's.

Is it because there's no universal "boxing league" like other sports?

Hayame_Zero posted...

So is one of WWE's.

That's exactly what I said.

WellKnownNomad posted...

AEW has also has plenty of LGBTQ wrestlers as well and to Jerichos credit, he is supporting in trans rights, which is way more than DeSantis or anyone in WWE ever has

One of WWE's current champions is an openly gay woman.

OK. This is bad. I 100% thought she had already passed away, but I got her and the girl from The Cranberries confused.

mybbqrules posted...

Don't forget Feinstein too.

The right is just loaded with blatant, open hypocrisy. If Trump wins in '24 (he won't) he'll be the same age Biden was when Biden was elected in '20, but I bet you'll never hear a word about "too old" from the chuds then.

"But if you look at Trump, he can talk at rallies for 3 hours and not miss a beat!"

Granted, he never actually say anything of substance, but that's what my MAGA co-worker tells me anytime I question Trump's age.

It's almost as if when the summer rolls around and people start traveling and going on vacations, the demand for gas goes up, as does the price.

Totally mind blowing.

PiOverlord posted...

I know people are going to try to do contrarian takes and highlight his negative parts while highlighting all of Jesse's positive attributes, but it's objectively Hank.

Walt and Jesse aren't drug dealers, they are literal drug manufacturers, which is worse.

And Skyler is an adulterer.

So they're both out.

Hank almost wins by default.

Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement include:

• Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023. Over the length of the contract, wage increases will total $7.50 per hour.
• Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
• General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.
• Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
• Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.
• New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
• All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
• Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
• All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
• No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
• UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
• The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.
• More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement more than any other time in Teamsters history and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.

Score one for the Unions.

https://teamster.org/2023/07/weve-changed-the-game-teamsters-win-historic-ups-contract/

So I try my best to avoid Fox News at all costs, but it's always running on one of the TVs at my gym so sometimes you can't help but look.

If you didn't know who their target audience is, just watch the commercials.

Hearing aids
MyPillow
Concentrated beets "Vitamin Supplements" that lower your blood pressure
Reverse Mortgages
Post-Life Insurance (basically prepay your funeral)
Socks and gloves that relieve arthritis
Medical Alert bracelets

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And this is what I meant earlier when I said the mentality is "You either 100% with us, or you're the enemy".

She looks like a mediocre artist tried to draw Liv Tyler from memory.

WizardofHoth posted...

Dunno about that.

Mind of Mencia show and Tosh.0 are better in my opinion. I even still like Demitri Martin and his wacky silly drawings to tell a joke

Mencia is a straight up admitted joke thief and deserves zero credit for anything he claims he created.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I thought that joke was funny and that wasn't really where I had an issue with him. It was a clever use of analogy to bring about a nuanced discussion on how many people within the LGBTQ community aren't as unified as people on the outside would believe.

My big issue with him really happened when he came out with an entire special that was just nothing but him rambling about trans people.

Same. Problem was, that's the joke that started the "hate" towards him, because there is a certain pocket of the community that says that NO straight/cis man has a right to make ANY joke at their expense, even if it's relatively innocent and playing on stereotypes.

So instead of talking about how ridiculous of a concept that is, he instead went way too hard at the community itself, and that's where he kinda lost me. Compounded with the fact that he then told his version of "But I have black friends" story with the story of the trans woman he befriended who found his trans jokes funny.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

As a black man, I feel like there's a complete difference between his older material and his newer material.

In his older material, the stereotypes themselves were the butt of the joke, with some social commentary sprinkled in. It's just that many actually racist white folks missed the point.

His newer material is literally just "transwomen aren't real women" said in multiple ways over and over again, and besides the transphobic aspect of it, the material just isn't fresh or all that funny anymore.

The Letter people in the car joke was pretty great though, because it played to the stereotypes.

It wasnt till after people got mad at him for that joke, simply because some people think a straight man cant joke about the LGBTQ community, and he double and tripled down that it really became a problem.

Isn't this one of the countries that Social Democrats say they wish the US was more like?

Creepy if true.

Ruvan22 posted...

What are some of conservative views on things/issues the majority of the country holds?

Many economical ones, such as government overspending.

Secure Borders. Granted this is one both "sides" support for the majority.

How they want to go about them is a different conversation though.

GI Joe for NES

He was funnier when he pretended to be a poor, black man so he can make fun of poor black people and white folk could laugh along and make him rich.

But now that he's just a rich cis man making fun of trans people, I don't like him.

Did I do that right?

BignutzisBack posted...

If you take your money out of the market for any reason besides retirement or investing in something mostly safe like real estate you're a dumbass.

This is really the beginning and end of any long term investment conversation.

Wall Street always wins. Just try your best to retire during the upswing.

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Yes. I married her nearly 20 years ago.

Crazy thing is, a lot of the vaccine-deniers are 50 or older, and (most likely) have gone decades listening to whatever their doctor told them whenever they were ailing. High cholesterol? Here, take this pill who name you can pronounce. Diabetes? Take these shots every morning. Trust me.

And they just blindly said yes, because... They trust their doctor and their opinion.

And then Covid hit and medicine supposedly got "political" and now people are literally not listening to the same doctors they trusted for decades because of some YouTube clip they watched.

Agreed. Other than the fact that the game takes dozens and dozens of hours to complete, it's so vast that it still somehow underwhelming when it comes to how much you can interact with the environment, the game still plays like a game that just came out this year even though it is now a decade old.

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

He isn't for any of those things though. Ultimately, he is trying to get Republicans elected. That's not going to bring about Medicare for All. That's not going to see the rise of any Democratic Socialist programs. He doesn't support Democratic Socialist politicians with his platform, he supports hardcore right wingers.

You can say you are for anything. That's just getting your "street cred" so to speak so you can pretend that, while you advocate for the anti-wokeness crusades of the right wing, you can also pretend to be a liberal. Its having your cake and eating it too, because being an actual unrepentant right winger carries a social and credibility cost.

Giving people a platform and agreeing with certain points doesn't mean you're not a Democrat or a Liberal or whatever other label you want to give the "Left".

Everyone can't be neatly put into one box or the other.

And the idea of "You're either 100% with us or you're the enemy" is what go us the current political climate in the United States. Making a statement like "I think weed should be 100% legal, there should be Medicare for all, we need to revamp our infrastructure to focus on more public services.. BUT, I think abortion shouldn't be allowed past week 20 unless in the case where it is a medical threat to the mother" gets you labeled as a Conservative in some circles, because of the you're with with us all the way or you're an opponent.

In reality, a good majority of the country has "Conservative" views on some things, and "Liberal" views on others.

I didn't watch the video, and I haven't been on a "first date" in literally 20 years, but I though the new tradition was whoever asked is the one that pays?

I was back in 1999 when my buddy and I slept outside of the Shea Stadium box office to get Mets playoff tickets.

BlueTigerLion posted...

I was just watching to see if Bill would ever give push back to Jordan Peterson but he just agreed with everything. Don't know what happened to Bill that he is now Alt Right.

He's not Alt Right, he's just "90's Comedian".

So he's in the "Why does everything offend everyone?" camp.

He wants Medicare for all. He wants to see a rise in more Democratic Socialist programs.

But when it comes to the "Culture Wars", he's like any other Boomer. He thinks the generations that are younger than him are "soft".

The problem with 99.99% of the "Has the left gone too far?" tweets and videos is that they take the view of ONE person and then say "Is THIS how the left thinks now?"

Every time I hear of this topic I think back to an old episode of Tucker where he had a lady on that insisted it was child abuse if you changed your child's diaper without asking for consent first, even if the child wasn't old enough to talk and give you verbal consent. You would then have to get "visual consent" by observing the child's behavior while you change their diaper and anytime they try to fight or resist, you should stop and console the child.

Naturally, his conclusion was "Is this the America 'The Left' wants?"

Just dropping in to let people know that many of the pictures in the music video weren't even shots of things that happened in AMERICA.

Questionmarktarius posted...

The entire state, in aggregate, also dislikes taxes. All you'll get out this is a mass exodus of retirees, to Wyoming or something.

Good. Then all that would be left in Florida are poor people that can't afford to move and vote blue.

I'll trade Florida's 29 electoral votes for Wyoming's 3.

Questionmarktarius posted...

What could have Desantis done?
Some governor of some swamp state can't single-handedly defeat hurricanes.

He can propose regulations to control the rate at with these insurance rates rise.

g980 posted...

What did Desantis do to drive up insurance premiums?

Literally nothing, and that's the problem.

He did nothing to address it because he was too busy making sure Teachers get fired if they tell their students they got engaged to someone of the same sex, and forcing them to teach their students that Slavery was actually beneficial to many Africans because it taught them skills that they were able to use to get jobs once they were freed.

I'm not going out of my way to see either, but of the two, it's much more likely that I'll watch Barbie once it's on streaming.

It's one of those movies where you know the best jokes were the ones that were improv'd and not originally part of the script.

You can tell there was a lot of "OK, let's do it like the script reads, then you guy can do what you want" and they went with the 2nd take more times than not.

Euripides posted...

I've used Kenny Lofton fairly frequently. My last ditch effort is always Edwin Jackson or Octavio Dotel, though my success rate is below 50% on them

Oh Yeah, a lot of Octavio Dotel usage, because he also checks the "former NY Met" box for me.

I pretty consistently get 9/9, it's just a matter of getting my picks obscure enough to get my rarity score under 100. I've played A LOT of Fantasy Baseball over the last 20 years, so those deep cuts help a lot.

A lot of Todd Zeile, Fernando Rodney, Kenny Lofton, Moises Alou, and Rickey Henderson usage.

It was 114 on day when I visited my friend in Burleson, Texas.

You would think some sort of IV would help with a situation like this, considering that's the first thing they do when a "normal" person is suffering for dehydration.

You'd think something like a constant IV drip of Ringers Lactate (which they give in extreme dehydration cases) or a saline solution of some type would at least alleviate some of his condition.

Also wonder if they ever looked into a kidney transplants.

Hank Aaron also ate pancakes the morning he passed away.

Did the pancakes kill him? I DON'T KNOW

I'M JUST STATING FACTS.