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  2. A horrific instant perpetrated by a confused and deranged reactionary caught in high definition could be the greatest tool for ratcheting down the frenzy of resentment in this hate-fueled engine of conjured cultural angst. The digital barrage wouldn't stand a chance if the stark reduction of media corners and "content" could momentarily be placed aside in favor of sympathy and revulsion of such senseless violence. The clarity of that fork in the road is so obvious that it seemingly taunts everyone mired in their identity rut of ideology. It's right there. But failure flirting with greatness is a common literary trope. And here it is. But doesn't it still feel so hopeless? That current, strident but often imaginary, runs opposed in two lanes that each run so swift everyone forgets it's ultimately a whirlpool of shared experience. That person who briefly hesitated at the door of the gas station to give the door an additional flick of the wrist so you could catch it. They might have represented everything you despise but you didn't know it in that momentary glimpse of effortless consideration. The list of people who deserve to have their carotid artery severed in sunlight is a short one. And that list does exist. But I don't believe this young man deserved to be on that list. I would do my best to deter anyone who disagrees with that from making a list.
  3. Completely different. I was able to spend the day reading and fishing at Kailua. People just randomly stopped walking on the beach to talk about fishing. Being a full continent’s worth of miles away from the mainland is a nice feature of being here. @Orale can probably speak more to that since he has been here for several years. Hawai’i is the last place I will ever live in America before heading away at the end of next year. If you have the ability to do so make this place your home for a little while at least. It has definitely been amazing to reconnect so much with nature and the ocean here.
  4. Weird how it looks like Mar a Lago is depicted in the picture. I didn't think Jeffery did anything at Trump's place?! How could this be??? For reference:
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  6. Got damn if I cant leave the country I need to find a way to get my family to Hawaii. Loved it there, and though there are problems, the vibe is so much different and cooler than the mainland right now.
  7. I was aware of Charlie Kirk and TPUSA as an organization although until today i was simply aware that it was part of America’s ambient noise of outrage and urgency. I did do a scroll through his recent statements, which returned the expected results of a stream of existential anger at the latest cause mixed with a fair amount of blatant falsehood. He was recently seized with the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska by a multiple felon (an outrage I share) although it had mostly evolved into a proxy beef with Van Jones. A metaphor as Iryna’s innocence and tragedy receded and political feuding stormed to the foreground. America seems to be well into a phase similar to that of the 1970s, an unrelenting stream of violence that is only political in the sense that we have chosen hysterical fury as our baseline political state despite mostly living lives of comfort and plenty. I suspect that like the killer of the Minnesota lawmakers, whoever shot Kirk will be infuriated or politically agitated, but unable to coherently explain how murder would address the causes of the fury. Which is by design and it seems Kirk was in many ways an architect and show-runner. America’s ambient noise is existential outrage. Many right-wing figures have come forward to talk of Kirk’s private kindness and happiness. I actually don’t doubt that this was true. I don’t doubt that his two beautiful daughters have had a life full of joy and giggles and sweetness and now they will live with a gaping hole where daddy should be. And one day they will learn that many people they never knew were not at all sad to see their daddy’s life dribble away on the internet. It’s hard to explain what this private tragedy will mean to them. It’s crushing that Kirk packed away his kindness and friendship into a private realm and chose to publicly create the ambient noise of existential fury. Of course he did not deserve this. But none of us do, none of us deserve to live this way. Being publicly and privately kind is always a choice we have.
  8. It's The World's Gone Crazy Cotillion.
  9. Those are the eyes of a crazy person and he’s from Long Island. You never unleash crazy Long Islanders on the rest of the country.
  10. does this really look like the type of guy who can hunt two different suspects at once?
  11. never listened to him much until today. he was a race baiting pos, all to make a buck. he was the farthest thing from a 'christian' if you supported him or claim to be a follower, you're a dumbass pos lulz congrats on leaving a legacy of hate, rot in hell
  12. Yeah I was commenting to my kid how natural she looks on the back row and is legit one of the best defenders out there. Huge transfer. Just massive.
  13. Yeah imho 100% the setter situation last year was a big mistake by Elliott & potentially cost us a shot at another title (as we were saying pretty much throughout the season). Love what I'm seeing this year though.
  14. It's not just the number, although that is impressive. She looks like a legitimate back row defensive player. One handing shit all over the place. For a comparison, I thought O'Neal looked like the best defensive middle I'd ever seen...but she was without a doubt an impressive middle playing defense in the backrow after serving, not a true backcourt player. Stafford isn't Brooke Nuneviller out there, who was a legitimate libero who was a great outside hitter for Oregon. But she would fit in with that Arkansas team from 2023. That Kentucky team we lost to in the national championship had elite level passing. That's another team Stafford would have fit on. I just don't recall any of our outsides being this good on defense. We've had outsides rack up big dig numbers, but it's as much because they're getting picked on as it is they're so amazing.
  15. Blitz All Night, baby!
  16. Yeah 20 kills + 18 digs seems pretty, pretty, pretty good. Is it good?
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