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I have never seen/read any Harry Potter

I just came here to see a weird clap

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Muscles
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Pokmon easily for me, I do also like Smash Bros and Mario Kart quite a bit but I bought the DS, 3DS and Switch Lite just for Pokmon

Favorite would have to be between HGSS, ORAS and Platinum

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Most of my life I slouched all the time and avoided eye contact but I have recently (last few months) been making an effort to stand up straight and make eye contact when I talk to people (mostly coworkers) and now they come up and talk to me more

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Batman takes out guys that could solo bb/cyborg/raven/Starfire regularly, Robin has trained with Batman and has helped him take out said villains. Like I don't think you realize how much more training and real fighting experience he has had, he's the only one that was trained to be a superhero. There's a reason the team pretty much falls apart without him

You can't just say ohh cyborg is stronger so he would win when Robin helped take down villains that could throw cyborg around like a ragdoll

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America would definitely be hurt by a war, which is why they wouldn't do it, China has no problem torturing their own citizens for calling their dark lord Winnie the pooh so they most certainly wouldn't give a shit about how many lives they lost in a war, the only thing holding them back is they know it would end in defeat, America is held back because they don't want a senseless war that would cost them a lot lives (and money) just to prove they're still top dog

America has nothing to gain from war with china, China does

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Joe_Biden posted...

cyborg

because he's a cyborg

which means he's a computer, and can be upgraded to far surpass everyon

"BuT RoBiN Is sMaRtEr"

no the fuck he ain't, robin is dumb as hell, did you even watch that show

Lol, Robin is definitely smarter than cyborg, and if you base it solely on the cartoon you are not very bright. Robin is pretty much Batman Jr, and has superior intangibles and training to anyone else. The rest of the group are those athletes that get by hs/college sports on physical strength alone and get punked as soon as they go pro

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DragonClaw01 posted...

USA: Goes without saying. Biggest economy, biggest military, massive tech sector and major cultural contributor. Pretty much checks all the superpower boxes.

China: World industrial base, pretty much everything is made here. Politics frequently influences US corporations like the NBA & Hollywood studios. Growing military and world influence, especially in developing countries.

Japan: 3rd largest economy (although, incredibly inefficient). Massive cultural contributor with video games, anime & other associated media.

Germany: Richest EU country. Along with France, Germany pretty much dictates EU policy.

Russia: A bit overated as a power, since the country is pretty much ice & oil with a pretty weak economy (it is even weaker than Italy). But the country has excellent psyops, so seems more powerful than it really is. Does have global ambitions however.

Seems weird to not see the UK on that list, they have pretty much been the world's greatest empire until WWII and even then it seemed like they dropped down to America's sidekick. Obviously they got passed up by Russia and China in military strength but they still seem to have a huge influence on the world, more than anyone (besides America) culturally

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Uhh if China thought they had a chance to win a war they would have started it already, they absolutely despise us, and the western world as a whole. They're pretty much a real world Mordor

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Just counting original music, pokemon

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Unbridled9 posted...

My question is; why the 20? The 1 and 5 are pretty obvious as to why they're not being changed but why not the $10 (Hamilton)? What about the $2 or the $50? I mean I guess Jefferson and Grant might be a bit disrespectful... But it seems weird that they went right for the $20.

Also, you're only partially correct about the design thing. They do offer bills with things like Santa on them that do pass as being real tender; but they're rare and you generally have to specifically ASK for them/buy them instead of just getting them from a bank.

Because the trail of tears

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Unbridled9 posted...

No. It would likely be Obama and possibly Bush Jr. who would be to blame. Until recently China, despite being large, was relatively undeveloped. It may have had a lot of people but it simply didn't have the infrastructure to be able to function as a world power. However due to multiple great trade deals and a lack of checks on their power they've been allowed to effectively explode military-wise. Now not only are their cities developed but their military is modernized and arguably beats the U.S. in certain areas while having a larger population pool to draw from. Removing nukes from the equation if the U.S. and China went at it now while the former might win the cost would be heaaaavy. Compared to a similar bout in 2000 or 2010 in which the U.S. would likely see a situation similar to the Iraq war in terms of how the war would play out (in that the standing armies would be quickly overwhelmed leading to the capture of almost all key points and leaving the remaining forces stuck in gruella warfare to cling on).

Uhh you realize America spends way more on the military than anyone else, right? China might have a bigger population but America would wipe the floor with them if a war broke out. Why do you think WWIII hasn't happened yet? Because America would win and no one wants to start a war they know they can't win, that's why they stick to proxy wars

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It's clearly the US whether you mean by military strength or cultural influence

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Should be JFK or Teddy tbh

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Mead posted...

I want her to keep kicking Ted Cruz in the nuts at every possible opportunity

I don't even like AOC but I would be down for this

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What? How does Rodgers choking sound like jealousy? His annual playoff choke is the highlight of the season

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Muscles
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Its never Rodgers fault, its always his coach/defense/oline/receivers, always

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Final Fantasy2389 posted...

No. Not after that clearly rigged Packers/Bucs game.

And I hope the chiefs destroy the bucs.

Lol the defense held Brady to 10 points and had 3 picks in the 2nd half, Rodgers just choked again

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Its the only thing I can know is real

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ReturnOfFa posted...

I don't get the bizarre hate-boner that people have for California, unless they believe what Tucker Carlson has to say about it being a 3rd world hell-hole. California is large and diverse. You are going to find different opportunities in different places. Just the same as Texas. But both of them are powerhouse states with amazing music scenes, so I'd be happy in either. I find it laughable that people like Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro move because they think it's becoming ridden with the homeless. Guess what dildos, it's always been bad in LA, and it isn't so bad in your gated communities. Lend your capital to helping your home. Or jump ship and go somewhere where homelessness is also bad, and will get worse too.

I just would not want to pay those taxes, its bad enough in Illinois

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I watch every super bowl

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I only put 1 guy and his 50 alts on ignore, so yes kinda

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I would rather live in Texas, California seems like a nice place to visit but not live in because of the ridicules taxes

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He's ok, I don't hate him like a lot of this board does though he is annoying sometimes

Honestly I don't dislike anyone here

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They knew the risks when they decided to short sell, just because it turned out bad for them doesn't mean it was a pump n dump

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Well restaurants just opened back up to 25% here, but we're still in a semi lock down. There's not much to do so I usually just stay home and go to work

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I do get what what you are saying but this isn't a pump n dump, they're trying to get all those investors more money not screw them out of it with lies

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Yellow posted...

A pump and dump is when a group of investors hype up one stock to get it overinflated. The dump comes when you sell it at the top, leaving certain people with bags of useless capitol. In this case market manipulators who made a living destroying small businesses, who were left bankrupt.

It was an illegal move by the little guy to fuck over the evil hedge fund managers in a story of vigilante justice and I hope it happens over and over again until there are no hedge funds left.

I get that part but its not its just taking advantage of people to buy stock that won't go anywhere, the hedge fund is already buying it back so the investors aren't having the rug pulled out from under them, they're just beating the hedge funds at their own game

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Yellow posted...

It's just an infamous pump and dump, which is actually an illegal scam. Not to sugar-coat it.

It had the wonderful side effect of bankrupting hedge funds, which have ruined many lives.

Is it really a pump n dump if someone else is already trying to short sell it? It's a risk they took and they should have to face the consequences of it

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He's easily the smartest, best tactician and best fighter out of all of them?

The rest get to rely on their powers while Robin is even better without them

Also Robin is the leader, lose Robin and there is no teen titans, lose anyone else and they're just short handed

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At this point I wouldn't even be a little bothered if people started rioting and looting on Wall street, we're gonna need to French revolution this shit sooner or later anyways

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Never been to in n out but 5 guys is the best chain burger I ever had

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-surge-trumpism/index.html

this is the dumbest fucking article Ive ever read

What an idiot. He questions the end game of the people buying the stock, like obviously its to make money, that's the end game of buying any stocks

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So you don't find it fishy that the rich hedge fund companies are changing the rules to screw over the common man, got it

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So it's not fishy at all that the rich hedge fund companies (in this case Melvin Capital, Citadel, and Point72) were at risk of going under due to the surging prices of the stock they were short selling and then the trading of said stock just stops?

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reruns_revenge posted...

Explain the basis for your claim that "hedge fund guys" are "allowed to just prevent people from buying stock". Then support it with evidence. As I imply above, the assertion makes no sense.

Melvin Capital, Citadel and Point72, you know, the people that can go under if the GameStop stock keeps rising, and seeing as Robinhood just randomly stopped letting people buy it you can bet they have them a nice kick back to screw over people trying to buy said stock

This is literally just to screw over the common man from finally getting the 1 up on the rich

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https://mobile.twitter.com/Elijah_Newsome/status/1354837098373722113

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reruns_revenge posted...

I see. So you would prefer that the stock market be completely unregulated. And likewise, the economy in general with no government intervention. Because that's what would have to exist in a true free market. I suspect you want it to be a one way door.

How can you look at these sort of shady business practices and be ok with it? Those hedge fund guys screw people over all the time. They shouldn't be allowed to just prevent people from buying stock just because it'll screw them

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Yes, one of them being (Don't Fear) The Reaper, it's now one if my favorite songs

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I helped some coworkers throughout my shift today

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Yellow posted...

Amazon has a union now? Since when?

They're voting on whether to go union or not, so no, they don't have a union but might soon

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Joe_Biden posted...

it's a tad different when it's a riot done specifically to overthrow the government

Why is that a bad thing? All governments will need to be overthrown eventually (some are way overdue for a revolution too, coughrussiacough coughchinacough)

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Unbridled9 posted...

Because it's a question to the underlying moral framework of an atheist. If you don't believe in an objective right and wrong, good and evil, why NOT do anything that results in pleasure, self-satisfaction, and self-gain? The whole idea is that things like killing, raping, and whatnot are considered evil and wrong which is specifically why we avoid them. An atheist frequently counters that, if they need the fear of hell to avoid doing these things, they aren't good people anyways. That ignores the very fact that, in their own argument, they apply the term 'good' as being an objective thing in regards to rape and murder as well as assert that people who engage in such things are, effectively, morally wrong. However in an atheistic viewpoint a term like 'good' and 'evil' and even 'moral' cannot apply. We view human sacrifice as being wrong yet the Aztecs engaged in it and saw no problem with it. We see slavery as morally wrong yet many civilizations throughout history saw it as morally acceptable. Who is to say that such a thing can be objectively classified as 'wrong' and that said civilizations were wrong if we cannot objectively classify things as being morally right or wrong? It's all subjective. At BEST you can claim that such things are considered wrong by modern society and modern understandings but this ignores that said society and understanding (especially western society and understanding) is heavily based upon Christian understandings and morality.

So theists constantly bring it up because an atheist has no actual counter to it because their only reasons for such actions being unacceptable are either subjective (and thusly not applicable to other cultures), based on a cultural viewpoint heavily influenced by religion, or containing a belief that morality is something beyond what can be controlled by humans which would put it in the realm of the divine or at least religious.

In short refuting it means accepting that there is an objective right and wrong above human influence which is inherently against an atheistic position.

I'm not even an atheist and I know morals don't come from a higher power, they were made by people (usually in conjunction with their religion) because it helped keep the species alive. You can't form society without some rules, and well before society came along we still lived in groups, which requires some level of trust to others in the group. Its in the best interest of the group that murder and theft and other such things aren't allowed, religion brings in more variables like ritualistic sacrifice which, while it looks like murder, usually isn't seen that way by the people that do it.

Religion usually pops up for a few reasons, and it's related to morals but not the cause. Hell you can see fucked up morals in most religions because they were started at a time where fucked up stuff (by our advanced understanding) was prevalent in different ways across the world, but they also have good stories on the things they got right.

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They'll find something else to be offended about

Mitch McConnell would be a solid replacement target for their hate now that he's the top republican in the country

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kind9 posted...

I don't really see any positives at all. I guess it helps some people get through hard times, but is it the only answer? I doubt it.

That's not a reason to be sure a god-like being does exist though. But I'd say it's definitely more reasonable to believe in some deistic creator god than any made up fake god of religion.

I definitely believe there is a God out there somewhere but I also believe that its not something any religion thinks of as God

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adjl posted...

And, more often than not, the people who dislike popular beer don't dislike it because it's popular, they dislike it because it sucks. Especially in the US, given what a laughing stock American macrobrewing is to the rest of the beer-drinking world (American microbrewing, however, has been doing quite well for itself and produced plenty of quality products).

I know that, I'm not saying all people that drink local beers are hipsters

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adjl posted...

You're complaining about them disliking popular stuff while also acknowledging that being popular often doesn't mean something is any good. There are absolutely pretentious hipster types that hump the leg of their favourite craft brewery because that's the closest thing to a personal identity they have, but the fact of the matter is that the scale and processes involved in macrobrewing generally produce inferior products to what you can get from microbrewing. By and large, macrobrews are more popular not because they're better (or even good), but because they've got brand recognition driving sales. There are some decent ones out there, and there are certainly plenty of terrible microbrews, but anyone who wants to enjoy some good beer should generally be looking to their local craft scene, not trying to find a great macrobrew. That's not hipstering, that's just the reality of the matter.

That's not ironic, I just think it's silly to like or dislike something specifically because of its popularity or lack thereof

If you like something you should just admit it even if it's not popular and shouldn't pretend to like something even if it's the popular thing to do

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While I am not religious I do see positives to it unlike a lot of people that grew up with strict religious parents that turned away from said religion. I just think a lot of people are weird for acting like religious texts are actual history books and thus is an acceptable reason to kill/hate people that disagree. But from the religions I have looked into it seems most have some good stories/views that people could learn from

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When I see topics like this it makes me feel better about being single

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Mead posted...

Trouble is that after a hypothetical revolution a new government could be even worse no matter how good the intentions were

I definitely agree, I'm not saying to burn it all down yet. I think we are still at the point where the country can be saved without burning everything down but I'm not going to pretend that storming the capitol is a bad thing regardless of context

This time it was bad because they're just sore losers that can't accept the results of the election but I have seen a lot of people acting like just the act of storming the capitol itself is some travesty

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Mead posted...

I get what you mean Im just being a stinker

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