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Strider102 posted...

I both despise and love mayonnaise.

It needs a light touch, too much mayo is worse than no mayo

bigblu89 posted...

While I disagree with him that comedy is dead because of "woke", he can make that statement while making a goofy "safe" movie.

It's not like any of his comedy was pushing any boundaries to begin with. Which is probably what got him the attitude he has now. He's probably one of those people that sit on his throne and somehow only hears the loud minority that wants to pick apart every piece of comedy or interview, searching for anything to be offended by.

It'd be one thing if he made the argument, "I'm not offensive but I stand by people's right to be offensive," but he's taking a step farther to "comedy is dead if we can't be offensive" which is weird since he was never using for those offensive jokes.

I keep coming back to his Tim Whatley converts to become Jewish. In the episode he's very strongly making the argument that not everyone can make Jewish jokes. He understands the problem with bigotry in comedy when it affects him, but there's unfortunately a lot of groups he doesn't acknowledge as deserving to be free of bigotry.

Kinda like the call a few years ago to "cancel" John Wayne (who died in 1979) for something he said in an interview in 1973.

On the one side that is absurd. On the other, I think even Seinfeld can agree that in 1973 and earlier there were a lot of racist decisions made in creating films. Those films did not allow for diverse voices and a lot still hold those films from that time on a pedestal. Knocking them off the pedestal, is it cancelling or is it moving on?

Nintendo started in opposition to Atari who had huge quality issues and there was no game review media like there is today so Nintendo developed a culture of absolute control.

Link_of_time posted...

So this judge seems like an a*****e, but at first I could see what he was talking about. His initial argument was just a technical issue with the rapists sentencing. His stance now seems like a personal one. I'm not sure what evidence this guy claims he would've seen that completely absolves the defendant.

He indirectly said he thinks the girl lied. Hes not going off evidence, its just the gut feeling of a misogynist.

I4NRulez posted...

Are we forgetting about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift lol.

They were asking his brother about her lol

But they didnt ask the brother about his significant other b/c they dont care. Is Caitlin Clarks bf super famous?

Nice!

bevan306 posted...

Upload it to Google Drive then open with Docs, it will convert it for you. You can make changes and export as PDF

Thats probably the easiest option

MrResetti posted...

Print screen the resume, paste into a blank MS Paint file, save as jpeg, paste into MS Word, add footnotes to explain your edits, export to pdf

I would start over in word instead of adding footnote edits. Can you just highlight, copy paste any lengthy text sections?

Axiom posted...

Seinfeld's standup is some of the most unfunny garbage I have ever seen. He should be thanking the universe his show was 1000x better

I never thought about it until he started complaining about "kids today," but all my favorite moments from Seinfeld are the other 3 characters and he's often just standing there grinning.

Euripides posted...

Alright, we have our new Utopian town! Now which of us millionaires is going to collect the garbage each week?

Hello?

They're definitely planning on being a sundown town.

Frostmourne posted...

Of Science. You will have unlimited knowledge of Science known to mankind if you take the knowledge power.

So you know the current scientific consensus of all fields?

bover_87 posted...

It's ironic that she's become the very thing her books spoke out against.

A lot of people hate the idea of bigotry but fail to recognize it in themself. Fail to even be open to the idea that theyre wrong on an issue. The simplified good vs evil take in her books is probably not a simplification for kids but her genuine best take.

Genisys was so bad it made me not bother to see Dark Fate.

Heineken14 posted...

I feel like if you worked at a place for 11 years you won't have to lie about your resume. No one really gives a shit about what you did in 2010.

This!

I dont know what Big Red is but Id rather try it than drink a Dr Pepper

lilORANG posted...

Yeah, in a way. You could argue they need to invest in everyone across the board to get league-wide popularity.

But they already have glimpses of how that turned out. All the most watched NCAA games were Iowa games. CC was the clear draw. That's whose basket they're putting the eggs in.

Kinda unfair to CC to have all that pressure too but w/e

Seems like there should be a middle ground. CC has drawn in huge audiences recently and lets also put on some other strategic games to give the audience somewhere to expand to but not all other games if many wont pay off. We dont have a list of what was televised so maybe they are with other games but probably theres a good chunk of those people on twitter are legit disappointed fans.

I bet the school staff sit through frequent meetings where theyre told standardized test scores of their high-needs students arent sufficiently increasing from year to year.

He actually achieved helpful bipartisan legislation

Chips bill

Infrastructure

Closing hole in the gun background check system for abusive people not married to their victim

lilORANG posted...

If the league gets the exposure they're hoping for with CC those other players will get exposure too. But as of now there's no evidence anyone will watch wnba period.

Its somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy. They have a moment to build an audience and grow a lot. What they cant afford now is for someone interested in watching not being able to.

radical_rhino posted...

Tough shit. Clark is the biggest star the league has had. Her fame will help the whole league. Pro basketball is built upon star power.

Were the games on at the same time? They're not going to build an audience but not having it available to the audience.

HighSeraph posted...

No, what's it about?

Conmen in Nebraska

Fenriswolf posted...

Nobody yell MTG that Herod was dead by the time Jesus was crucified.

Can we tell her that even the Bible disagrees with her. It says Herod found no guilt in him and returned him to Pilot. This is all kinds of stupid.

Is that statement still true if you drop the adjective American?

All those Republicans very worried about antisemitism are definitely going to explode with rage when they hear this. Any second now

Spitting at and shoving teachers? Teachers arent paid enough to deal with that shit.

ForsakenHermit posted...

* One state solution can't work with the level of animosity between the two countries. Israelis won't trust Palestinians with power.

But the animosity isn't unique. In America we had enslaved black people and Native Americans the victims of repeated genocidal acts. A few like to say it's different because both groups have been victims of atrocities, but I assure you my MAGA relatives think both sides here have been victims of atrocities. We had Jim Crow and segregation and a long road to equality that we're not done yet. A one-state solution there will have similar issues, but America is not beyond progress and neither is that area.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Who controls the one state in your version?

Democracy with a strong bill of rights and a representative legislature set up to ensure areas with different demographics get representation. It won't be perfect and there will be abuses by people in power, as has happened in America, but those will be no worse than alternative systems. It's the best long term plan.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

Um...yes, a minority of Pro Palestinians using genocidal rhetoric can be compared to a minority of pro Israel people getting violent about genocide IMO. Calling for Jewish deaths (literally praising Hamas and saying that 10/7 is going to happen 1000 times) and harassing Jewish students to the point that a rabbi was advising them to go home because they were not safe, is comparable to the vile actions by the Israel protesters. 1/6 Insurrectionists were not responding to something like 10/7 so it's a pretty different situation. BLM protesters were not throwing threats at a vulnerable minority population.

I genuinely believe most people are completely sincere in their protests and are looking for peace and for Palestinians to be free from oppression, and for Israeli's brutal war crimes to stop.

But there is also an element of something more sinister standing beside them. And the refusal of the left to acknowledge the problem of anti-semitism co-opting their protests is pretty scary to Jewish people.

Yes, I brought up how that slogan invokes genocide against Israelis and Jews because of its usage by Hamas, and instead of people acknowledging that, they continued to insist on using the phrase, said they don't care about Jewish fee fees, and that a new anti-semite is born every day Israel continues to be evil.

Then we are supposed to not be afraid that there is anti-semitism in these protests?

There is so much propaganda on both sides it's crazy and everybody wants to prove the other side is the evil one. This whole situation is a mess....there are probably people critical of Israel's actions that also don't like the protests because they feel like it is anti-semitic and I do think that more could be done to show that that is not the case, and that the enemy is the Israeli government, not Jewish people or Israeli citizens

So in a topic about a violent pro-Israel group using genocidal rhetoric, you condemn the violence but didn't mention that they're using genocidal rhetoric. You exclusively acknowledge genocidal rhetoric used by some pro-Palestinian people. Why is that? There is currently a leading American political candidate with a history of anti-Islamic rhetoric and now there's genocidal rhetoric used against Palestinians, that's scary too right?

HHH_is_the_game posted...

This is where this is an interesting dynamic...The powerless lash out against the powerful. But Israel is powerful, Jews are not. Jews in any country besides Israel, are a minority. So this is not black people lashing out at white people. This is something different and unusual. Anti-semitic violence is a legitimate threat that Jewish people feel deeply...So we end up in a situation where the powerless people lashing out might actually not be as harmless as it seems

I didn't say the lashing out was harmless. A lot of terrible terrorist actions came from someone in a powerless group lashing out. And those terrorist acts generally lead to the powerless group feeling the collective punishment and retaliation for a single individual acting out.

"From the river to the sea" is unequivocally a specific statement about that area, about Israel. It is a statement against a two-state solution typically said by people favoring Palestine, but there are a shit ton of people favoring Israel also against a two-state solution and none of them seem to get called out to the same degree and that's frustrating.

Its feeling like the Israeli government wants all land from the river to the sea to be part of Israel so if that saying is a call for genocide then

Theres a provocation, then a war where one side has an overwhelming military advantage, the losing population is squeezed into ever smaller reservations, were actively watching the same play as what happened with Native Americans.

I get why protestors chanting from the river to the sea can be worrying but the powerless are going to lash out. Not everyone in MLKs time was as calm as MLK and not ever advocate for Palestine is going to be able to reproduce his calm now.

They do it for the perks, free gold account upgrade

Oreos double stuff.

Chips ahoy are a small step above cardboard

I am nice got donuts while driving through an area with an Amish community, those donuts were the best

Trelve posted...

Good luck to those students trying to find a job then. Those free Palestine boards they're waving around aren't going to fill in the education gap on your CV.

Record low unemployment certainly will help.

Living comfortable doesnt mean you have so much money that you rarely have to think about finances. Consumer culture, everyone wants more and sees how they could be more comfortable with more so theyre never comfortable.

Our Flag Means Death is such a funny show and a good representation of LGTB individuals. The queer characters are funny but not funny because they are queer, that part is just treated as normal.

I learned late. My self learning moment was instead of holding the wall edge and kicking, I held my hands lower, flat against the pool wall close to surface and kept myself up by kicking. After that moment something clicked and I could swim. I tried using that to teach my kids and it failed miserably so we hired an instructor for one-on-one lessons, worth it.

Necronmon posted...

Another problem is that the very value of Palestine life is becoming a partisan value. Many republicans, not all, but most who vote for Trump seem to think that Gaza being wiped out " is what they deserve for 9 11" and want Israel to purge them all.

Its becoming a clash between those who want no one to die and those who want everyone not them to suffer and die...if Trump is in power its a safe bet he would help kill as many as possible and make it America policy to bomb Palestine till they submit to living in a reservation or die.

Humble_Novice posted...

And this is something not many Palestine supporters stop to realize. Things can and will get worse under a Trump presidency.

So much worse

Diceheist posted...

Perhaps, but I sincerely doubt Trump got every single voter who Romney or McCain got. He probably lost a decent amount of sane conservatives but gained a larger amount of extremist conservatives in their place.

For example, Hillary supporters made up 16% of McCain voters in 2008 ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-were-those-clinton-mccain-crossover-voters/ ). Trump likely didn't inherit much of that group, mainly since he was running against Hillary herself. He had to make the deficit up elsewhere.

Eh, theres a good chance a large chunk of that 16% took issue with Obamas race in which case they would vote Trump.

The first one I found entertaining enough but then they just kept getting worse. I didnt watch the last few.

Diceheist posted...

They were reliable general voters because their guys actually won the primaries.

Nope. Their guy lost in 08 and 12 but they definitely showed up to vote against Obama.

Their guys won the primaries because billionaires like Koch, Adelson, and Murdoch funded them against the establishment, the reverse of what happens in Democratic primaries.

Progressives don't have billionaires, corporations, super PACs, cable networks, mainstream media. Tools are limited.

Boebart and Greene are not in Congress because a billionaire plucked them out of obscurity. They are there because they appeal to primary voters. Many states still havent had their primary. Being a reliable primary voter is the better strategy. Young people are traditionally unreliable voters which is why they are often ignored by politicians. That appears to be changing with current generation.

1337toothbrush posted...

There's also the problem where guaranteeing your vote means to democrats that they can take your vote for granted.

Have you learned nothing from last 10 years? The tea party took over Republican Party by being the reliable voters primary challengers fought over. Thats the strategy for taking over the party.

Itachi157 posted...

Well, if as an American my GOVERNMENT (not just random terrorists) decided to kill a bunch of people in a depraved degenerate terrorist attack and then promised to do it again at the next opportunity, I would probably have a bit of anger at said government when the people attacked counterattack and Im caught in the crossfire, yes.

moreso when my government deliberately puts me in harms way as part of their dumb plan

TF? Yea, a lot of Palestinians are angry at Hamas. Nearly half the population wasn't even born yet the last time they had an election.

BDSMKane posted...

As someone who has been, the topic title drew me in. Then I read 25 in the last 12 months. Even if the most heinous crime in the country only happened 25 times a year, we would be celebrating. Seems like a clickbait fear mongering article.

What that fuck are you talking about? 25 marathon bombings a year would be fucking horrifying. Weve gone numb to school shootings and have way more than 25 a year but the most heinous ones at 10+ kids dead arent yet that frequent.

Diceheist posted...

I don't get the point of these arguments. It comes down to funamentally different moral apparatuses. Some believe in taking greater good/necessary evil action to minimize harm while others feel one shouldn't endorse any harm at all (regardless of how much damage occurs in the absence of their participation). It's basically a choice between a better world and personal innocence. I don't really see a way to reconcile these views.

The people getting arrested for protesting, getting killed for being an aid worker, theyre acting to make the world better, arguably more than I am with my 1 vote against Trump. I wish I could convince them to vote for Biden but I dont fault them for not.

The people sitting at home like me that also dont want to vote for Biden, they dont have personal innocence. Doing nothing while people suffer is its own form of immorality. The good men that did nothing arent good men.

ButteryMales posted...

They passed a bipartisan bill to fund Israel.

They also passed a bipartisan Ukraine bill. Get more MAGAs in there and Ukraine will be in more trouble. Get more progressives in there and Israel could also face consequences. But you're dodging the issue. A progressive Congress may not be a perfect unstoppable plan but it's certainly better than not voting. A progressive Congress has a chance at helping whereas not voting is just giving up. How can not voting lead to things getting better? What is your alternative plan to make things better?

cjsdowg posted...

So what is your suggestion to try to stop what is going on over there ?

Democrat progressive Congress withholds purse strings for Israel like MAGA did for Ukraine.

Are You actually thinking about the average New Yorker you pass or are you focusing ion the max, the hottest people in NYC vs elsewhere? If its the latter then its just because theres more of them so theres more chances.

CervusCanadensi posted...

Honest question and don't mean to stir any pots.
What is the goal/ intention or purpose of protests? (In general)

Several of the college protests are specifically wanting their college to divest funds from Israel.

This is definitely related to the people of Florida voting on ballot initiative that people released from jail get their right to vote back since the fine print is you dont get it back if you owe any money related to your conviction. And in elementary school they told us we were great because we dont have paupers prisons. This is such bull.

Zoks posted...

I don't know what world you are from if you think Biden is the opposite end of Trump. If he's the opposite of Trump what's Bernie Sanders?

Most people are so lazy when it comes to politics. Youd think theyd look at their placement on the political spectrum, look at the candidates and decide whos closest but thats not what they do. They assume theyre the perfect center, and that the 2 politicians must be the 2 extremes. Biden is objectively closer to the center than Trump but try pointing that out to a both sideser and they deflect to Biden isnt perfect which is true but not a counterpoint.