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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. You you talking about the game, Kendrick Lamar, or Steamboat vs Fireman?
  2. I need that coat
  3. Well I have a laid of leopard print limited edition BluBlockers and I’m a badass, so…
  4. Btw. I don’t mock Abbott as “wheels” because I don't mock handicapped people for their handicap. But there is no humane or laudable behavior that Democrats can engage in that will make Republican voters less likely to vote for Greg Abbott or any Republican. The only thing that works in this environment is opposition and attack. Abbott’s issue with Republicans that Democrats could exploit if they spent five minutes trying to understand the Republican base in Texas is that he’s weak, boring and a pussy. Cornyn too. That’s material ripe to be exploited and I have no idea* why they don’t work with what they are given. * actually I do- because they are myopic, out of touch, privileged losers.
  5. all of this is wrong
  6. I dunno. You have to remember that the concept of Federalism was completely different in 1860, when the united states was primarily understood to be a union of fully sovereign states, not a federal entity with constituent sovereigns until the outcome of the war made it so. There were very few senior career officers at that time and a majority of them had attended West Point around the same time. Like most of them he considered himself a senior officer of the state that had appointed him to West Point. OF COURSE the civil war was about slavery, but for career officers in 1860, the obligation of sworn duty on both sides was NOT a matter of sentimental attachment or loyalty- the senior officers (with few exceptions) broke along lines of where the state legislature landed on the question questions of secession- if you were appointed to West Point by Maryland you stayed. If you were appointed from Alabama you left. Maryland and Delaware were slave states, who fought for the union, until the passage of the 13th amendment. So Longstreet went with the bad guys, reluctantly. That said, he is pretty much the only example of a very senior confederate officer who served reconstruction publicly and enthusiastically after the war. He supported black citizenship and political equality, didn’t indulge the “lost cause,” and served the United States government in multiple posts at much personal and financial risk. At one point after the war he even led a mostly black Louisiana state militia and local police against white supremacists attempting to overthrow the government. So it’s more for his redemptive post war service and example that I think Longstreet is deserving (Lee, Davis, all the rest) where others are not.
  7. Nope, only when people beat their chest about not being on Twitter. Deleting your Twitter account to hurt Elon Musk is like voting for Jill Stein to free Palestine.
  8. *should read “I’m not saying rando progressives…” Bolded for emphasis
  9. pretty much. I guess I was glad they won yesterday. Max Christie is really good and has huge upside. Anthony Davis is a top 10 player. Once Lively and PJ are back, that's the best frontcourt in the league and I think the Mavs are a legit title contender who can go 10 deep if everyone is healthy for the playoffs. I don't really care though. I like these players but this doesn't feel like the organization that I loved for 45 years.
  10. Look, I'm saying saying rando progressives or liberals need to be out arguing their case on twitter. But it's simply foolhardy and counterproductive to cut off their own access.
  11. This is actually a great example of what I'm talking about - First, about 100mm of those users are in the US, but even so - the attention is fragmented, and in a fragmented economy, the value of holding strategic channels increases.
  12. Pretentious? Gosh, I'm sorry. What can I do to demonstrate the sincerely of my contempt?
  13. Y'all don't understand the game here. Twitter is not a business or a profit seeking enterprise. Money is abundant and highly concentrated. Attention is scarce and highly fragmented. Twitter is the single most important center of the attention economy. Whatever trivial economic loss is incurred when politically active or news aware progressive and liberal people abandon it is absolutely worth it compared to the enormous value of the power of having all that attention and undisrupted feedback, not to mention unwanted scrutiny. Do you guys not understand that liberals/progressives leaving Twitter is what they want? Don't you understand they want it that way? Can you not tell? If they wind up short money and long power, that's a good trade for them. PS, this is aggy, like "t.u."
  14. So we should run away from discourse we find offensive or dangerous. Got it. Sure, I’m naive for staying in occupied territory. Liberals and progressives who have retreated from Twitter are smart, politically savvy and above all, not thin-skinned or pussies.
  15. Congratulations on your retreat from the public square I guess.
  16. Agree 100% incidentally Longstreet is the sole confederate general I wouldn’t mind naming things after.
  17. This is fine
  18. Jesus these people keep digging
  19. Chad Pergram is THE essential congressional beat reporter. One of the best people to follow Twitter.
  20. You need Monkey Shoulder
  21. Braxton Bragg, along with John Bell Hood, was one of the worst Generals of the Civil war and was reviled by the men under his command. It’s very likely that naming bases after them was a sort of in-joke at the idea of naming southern bases after confederate generals. I can’t think of anything more shameful for Texas and South Carolina than bases named after two traitorous, abject failures, and therefore I am very supportive of this move.
  22. No. You seem you be confused. There’s no issue with a diversity of opinion or a dissenting view. The other day there was a spirited argument after I pointed out (correctly) that in fact the Danish claim to Greenland is exceptionally weak, and ours is quite strong , and at any rate the Greenlanders should decide such things. Because so many people here are ready to oppose anything Trump wants, I got some pushback. That’s a diversity of opinion. what you are saying is that young acolytes of the richest man in the world should get a pass for things my kids would get fired for. That’s not a diversity of opinion. That’s special treatment for the powerful and well connected.
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