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Jakyl25 posted...

Well the relationship really got off on the wrong foot to begin with

loving the people who literally killed your god seems like cuckery to me!
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Jakyl25 posted...

Who do you think should be #2?

I don't really care. I just think it's hilarious that evangelicals have basically been friendzoned by the jews
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https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1030963864664326145

what form of cuckery is this
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Bit the bullet and signed up. Only goal is to remove Sarwak from power. And then put Tom Woods in his place.

https://imgur.com/Dfoz9dX
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http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/24376703/summerslam-2018-lapsed-fan-guide-watching-sunday-wwe-summerslam-pay-per-view

As much as I find him generally annoying these days, I am impressed that Greg Whsynyski managed to parlay "Occasionally talks about wrestling on his nerdy hockey podcast" to "WWE columnist for ESPN"
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oh look another "accident"

https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1030492451146846208
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I've been to quite a few and it was definitely the worst.

Edit: I remember when I was there, they had an escalator that was out of order. And contra Mitch Hedberg, they did not allow it to become stairs. There was a security guard standing there forcing everyone to go way around and take some super crowded elevator than simply climb up the non functional escalator.
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"If we can't make Roman Reigns look good, the least we can do is make everyone else look bad!"
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https://twitter.com/JohnStossel/status/1030505277664251907

brilliant quote
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They just never spell it out.

But I WANT it spelled out!
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Does EC3 have a gimmick in NXT?

I've been on the "EC3 needs to keep his 'Dixie Carter's nephew gimmick' even when he leaves TNA" bandwagon for years.
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TNA letting the Hardys go at the peak of their popularity might be the stupidest thing they've ever done, and that would be a hell of a Top 10 list.

They really really really needed to break out the checkbook and just give in to whatever demands they had...
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https://www.vox.com/2018/7/23/17575768/swing-voters-exist

A little old, but interesting.

Its important to be clear about this these are small minorities of the public. Speaking loosely, if only 11 percent of fans of a movie enjoyed the sequel, a normal person might say nobody liked the sequel.

Confirms my basic thesis that 45% of people vote Democrat every time, 45% vote Republican every time, and the real "race" is over the remaining 10%.

Instead, Romney-Clinton voters appear to have been concentrated in upscale suburbs of the nations largest cities, and a quirk of history is that at the moment, all of the countrys largest cities are in states that are either solidly blue (California, New York, Illinois) or solidly red (Texas).

Confirms that the GOP #NeverTrump virtue signalers accomplished precisely nothing.
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https://twitter.com/walterkirn/status/1028859726799327232
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MVP had no chance. He was wedded to a stupid gimmick that was already like 5 years behind the pop culture trend when it debuted.

Turns out that it's hard to get over when your gimmick is "He's like Terrell Owens but a wrestler and not very good and loses most of the time."

That said, I hate everyone in the industry who shits on the Observer. The industry could put Dave out of business in a second if it wanted to, by having even a minor amount of transparency and building a little bit of credibility. The fact that they choose not to do that is their own stupid problem. Don't blame Dave for filling a market need (and doing it much better and more respectably than all of his much-scummier competitors)
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https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1030126404376166400
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Woman dies in hold your wee for a wii contest
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6063545/American-tourist-ties-bag-thief-signpost-Dublin.html

70 years later and we're still teaching Europe how to defend themselves...
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Can I just say that I fucking hate Discord? Maybe more than I've ever hated any software ever. It's just so poorly designed and unintuitive. I have no idea how to do anything and it's impossible to find.

Why does everyone use this? I can't see in any way how it's an improvement over like 1990s era IRC technology.
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https://tomwoods.com/media-youd-be-better-off-as-a-medieval-peasant/

does anyone with even a fraction of a brain actually believe this nonsense?
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I think you missed the point

No I didn't. He basically said "This is a double standard true, but I should have known that and just shut up." Which is kind of bullshit.
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The way to deal with double standards is to fight them, not surrender to them.
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Muffin's argument implies he would rather have a bunch of single mother immigrants to come to the US and start pumping out babies, than have reproductive control

basically correct

the human mind is the most valuable resource ever to exist

we need more of them

of course that's an obviously false choice and you know it
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He was using that as code for implants

Well, does anyone think he'd be in less trouble if he said "She just got implants, shouldn't have done that, they make her look worse?"
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Right, and ultimately the issue here is that Dave doesnt like it but he directed his disdain at the wrong target because he wasnt thinking about how his words were coming across

Is it disdain though?

I guess my larger question here is, is it never appropriate to point out that a woman has gained weight, or become "less attractive" for some other reason?

I didn't get "disdain" there at all. And the relative qualifier of "less" to me implies that he's not even saying "she's ugly" or anything like that.

As a comparison, sometimes male athletes gain significant weight in the off-season, noticeable when they show up to training camp. The usual response in the media is to mock them and belittle them, while their coaches take great effort to ensure they lose it as quickly as possible. Would Jim Rome get in trouble for pointing out that Tom Brady showed up to camp a lot fatter than he used to be?
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Espeon posted...

For someone who thinks single mothers are the scum of the earth, Im surprised that Smuffin is anti-abortion.

being a single mother is, statistically, about the worst thing you can do to harm your child's overall chances at a happy and productive life

except for just killing them
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Jakyl25 posted...

https://twitter.com/davemeltzerwon/status/1029813302858199040?s=21

I'd like to apologize to you. You are an exceedingly attractive woman. I do realize the lengths and pressures on women in the entertainment world to maintain unnatural looks at times and am glad you pointed this out.

As someone who has listened to a ton of Dave, I feel pretty confident saying that he doesnt MEAN to come across as stupidly as he does.

I feel like this was handled appropriately all around. Dave gave what seems to be a genuinely heartfelt apology without groveling.

At the same time, it IS, in fact, a completely reasonable thing for him to be talking about, given how directly success in this business is, in fact, tied to appearance. If you don't like that fact, take it up with the people who actually make those decisions (of which Meltz is not one)
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it enables the other 50% of the population to enter the economy

What % of women do you think get abortions?

What % of women do you think never work in the first place because they're afraid of getting pregnant and/or immediately stop working upon their first pregnancy and never return?

If you do out all the math you probably get to less than 10% of women who were actually affected by this, but once again, they aren't considering the benefit of every additional life that would have been saved without abortion. They're literally adding the economic benefit while completely ignoring the economic cost.
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https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/chelsea-clinton-roe-helped-add-three-and-half-trillion-dollars-our-economy

now this is quite the argument

not considered: the entire foregone economic lifetime value of every aborted fetus
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https://imgur.com/gMt8zEq
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honestly I dont even drink beer anymore, gives me a stomachache
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also surprised he didnt link this one

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/to-vote-or-not-to-vote
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http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2018/08/09/local-dickhead-spends-45-minutes-choosing-craft-beer/

foolmo spotted in public
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https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1028301552258351105
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http://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/08-11-18-el-tiempo-cantina-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-social-media-criticism-houston/

Most popular Mexican chain in Houston getting trageted by lefty outrage mobs.

Good news for me - maybe it'll make the place less crowded. Although I actually prefer one of their closest competitors, so if that place becomes more crowded it's a net loss :(
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https://mashable.com/article/weird-facebook-specific-meme-groups/#jB5rAv_NMOqc

100% true
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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/10/twitter-bans-conservative-commentator-gavin-mcinnes/

Man, the official PB account has always gone out of its way to be super tame on FB.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

Its also the case against libertarianism for me.

I dont want to live in a world where those people have power even over themselves!

Extinction would be the only alternative to that

http://cdn-webimages.wimages.net/0515199228ca3f65727105532023ba9ed7a9d.jpg?v=3
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Jakyl25 posted...

I got a Trump campaign email asking me to vote on the Space Force logo

WTF? I paid $20 for a MAGA hat and I didn't get that!
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https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-asked-to-please-stop-making-pew-pew-noises-throughout-space-force-strategy-meeting/
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Remember that one rumble whose single most entertaining moment was Punk sitting in the ring cutting a straight edge promo?
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Jakyl25 posted...

Man I loved all of Punks SES promos a lot better than anything anyone besides Joe is doing on the mic these days

Such fucking passion

And SES was an incredibly lame and stale gimmick that he made work through his own above-average mic skills alone.
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Also Mark Henry was in WWE for like 25 years and had like 1 year where he was a decent promo.

Punk was "decent" his whole career and was really fucking good for like 2 or so.
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I haven't watched in a while so I can't comment on Orton's recent work.

But Mark Henry's promos were completely and categorically of a different style than what Punk was doing.

My point isn't to say "Punk is a better talker than Mark Henry" (which he is, but whatever). It's that if you think "Mark Henry could have done what Punk did" you're crazy. What Punk did required a specific character and a specific skillset that would have disqualified any long-time WWE "legend" type guy.
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I disagree with the main drift too. Virtually everyone on that list is either a long-time WWE guy who had already enjoyed great success and thus would have no credibility delivering a "pipe-bomb" style promo (Goldust, really?) OR an indie guy who came around AFTER Punk had already paved the way for that type of character to exist.

I'm no Punk fanboy by any means, but I actually think he doesn't get enough credit for his run, which literally changed the company up to and including its entire talent and business model. Without Punk there IS no Kevin Owens. There IS no Austin Aries. There IS no AJ Styles. Not on WWE at least. He quite literally paved the way for "Indie star" to be a legit WWE gimmick (or at least to contribute to one).

I could be convinced that Daniel Bryan and his run would have still happened without Punk, mainly because for Bryan, the main storyline was "underdog overcomes the odds" and his being an Indie star was helpful, but not really required to tell the particular story they wanted to tell. And MAYBE Bryan being successful would have still helped pave the way for some future guys... but I really doubt it.

Most of Punk's WWE career took place during an era where the product was pure shit and where there was virtually nobody on the roster who could both talk and wrestle, which he could. His matches AND his angles were always like, Top 3 in any given card/month/whatever. He was consistently entertaining in a time when the product was consistently forgettable. And parlayed that into what might have been THE biggest non-WM match/angle in the last 20 years or so (since Invasion maybe?). Don't sit there and tell me "Mark Henry could have done that too." It's laughable.
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that could have done Punk's spiel about as well

Mark Henry
Randy Orton

Seek help.
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Does anyone believe that given the ball like that, say, Ken Kennedy couldn't have been just as big?

holy fucking shit yes I do believe that

Kennedy is one of the most overrated guys ever. Literally a one-note gimmick guy.
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most libertarians right now

https://imgur.com/j0I6JE7
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"a wall won't work they'll just get a ladder"

https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1027682354192674817

working as intended
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"Loser pays" is common in some countries, but not in the US. I think only a couple states have it. It would be a super good reform though to eliminate a whole lot of frivolous lawsuits.
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