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Rimbo

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  1. 41 minutes ago, Nivek said:


    I don’t know why people get hung up on this stuff. Before I had kids I frequented places that did not cater to kids. After I had kids, I went to places that catered to kids. And yeah on occasion, I let them run around and be a kid and explore. I am not a helicopter parent and sometimes I need a break.

    Maybe you should reconsider dining somewhere that doesn’t have chicken strips and and cartoonish characters on the menu or ask not to sit next to the man-sized gum-ball machine.

    I remember one time at Miami’s airport just before we boarded my kid had a meltdown. People started crowding around us to board the plane and staring at me and the boy instead of giving us a little space. I looked everyone in the eye and asked them if they were entertained and then threatened to feed him candy on the flight. Less than half of those dipshits had any shame and kept on staring and crowding us. So I told the boy to feel free to scream on the flight, somehow that helped disperse the crowd.

    Being a parent has its moments and a society of selfish assholes doesn’t help.

    All parents should read this and learn from the wise.

    28 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

    You sir, are a monster.

    parenting does that to people

    10 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Good inadvertent analogy.  Trumpers aren't the people at the restaurant that let their kids run around and be wild.  Trumpers are the ones that are too old to have little kids, but they still go to places with "chicken strips and cartoonish characters on the menu" and don't understand why there are so many loud kids there.  They want their local dining establishment to remain the same, segregated, no children allowed, dirt cheap, but with bigger portions, more salt, and servers who fawn all over them.  But the rest of us are still growing our families and businesses and want a place to have a break out with the kids.  If you don't like it, maybe me and my kids aren't out of place...maybe you're out of place.  

    I'm out of order.  This lunch is out of order!  This whole fucking place is out of order! 

    Yes, that's it exactly. And given Trumpsters' entitlement and hatred of youth, it fits even better.

  2. 14 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    All the original Bull Moose party did was split the Republican vote and help elect Woodrow Wilson.  That is pretty much all 3rd parties can do in our current system.  If it gains momentum and splits the Democrats, it will help elect whatever hell beast emerges form the Republican Primary, 

    This is the grim reality.

    In multiparty systems, governments are formed by broad-based coalitions forming, so several parties will pool together. The coalitions aren't organized as parties, but the groups that form them are.

    In our two-party system, the coalitions are named as parties and the groups that form them aren't.

    In other words... in practice, there's no real difference.

    This "Bull Moose" party, just like the last one (and it's hilarious how the GOP strategists behind this one are quite aware of it), exists to break up the Democratic Party's coalition, since the GOP as it currently stands cannot win the presidency except by weakening the Democratic Party's stronghold.

    Y'all are falling for one of the oldest tricks in the book. Stop it.

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  3. On 11/2/2020 at 2:47 AM, PilotsError said:


    Agreed. Continuing to require masks and social distancing for something that is barely the flu is absolutely retarded.

    I just had a conversation with two of my daughter's friends about how they both didn't have grandmothers today because of COVID.

    "Barely the flu" doesn't kill a quarter of a million American men and women.

  4. 12 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Are we taking bets on how Trump exits office? Meaning no way in hell will he ever admit he lost. He’s not conceding. 
     

    Speculating options 

    1. Trump claims fraud and will not support that Biden won so he resigns. Pence handles month transition period. 

    2. Trump claims fraud and will not support that Biden won so he tweets BS until Jan 19 until he moves back to Mar E Lago. No meeting with Biden or Inauguration attendance 

    3. Trump claims fraud but tweets he will do something he doesn’t have to do and green light the transition. Trump announces 2024 Presidential campaign at same time. No inauguration attendance 

    4. Trump installs more loyalist and attempts a coup 

    5. Trump moves back to Mar E Lago after votes are certified and tweets epic BS until he’s banned. 

    5

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  5. 8 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Of course. Children are stupid, ignorant, ugly, and short. They put their sticky hands in their mouths and noses then touch, mangle, and break everything. They want the same bland crap to eat morning noon and night, and they leave their sharp-edged plastic toys hidden in the carpet for your bare foot to find at midnight when you go get another beer to take the edge off and not just walk out the door into the cool night, throw the fucking kiddy seat out of your sticky sour-milk-smelling car, and just rev it up and drive it down to the river and see how long it'll float.

    You doing okay there, man?

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  6. 4 hours ago, anacardo said:

    Look, I'm never going to convince any of you of anything; that's not how this stuff works, people like me plant seeds and they are driven out of polite educated society and then a few of them actually Notice Shit later on and think huh, maybe that guy was right.  So I'll see you in a couple of weeks when this is before the Supreme Court or the massive popular pressure on the relevant state legislators to seat Trump electors starts taking hold and CR is stupefied.  

    This is a bit, right? 

  7. 1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

    What you don't understand is that engaging these morons as though they're intelligent people

    I'm not saying you should do something this stupid.

    I'm saying that engaging them on this issue in any way shape or form -- either "intelligently" or by berating them or what have you -- is a waste of time. Instead, engage with them on other things, and in a friendly way. Then, once they have stopped seeing US as the "bad guys," that's when you start sneaking in little bits of evidence that contradict their strongly-held beliefs.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, ndawg said:

    Even if we entertained the notion that Biden managed to steal the election as a pure hypothetical, ...

    It gets destroyed almost immediately by two inconvenient truths:

    1. The Republicans gained in the House, and the same ballots that we've (hypothetically) accepted to allow this are the same ones we're throwing out for the Biden win, AND
    2. If there really were such a conspiracy, why in the hell would we have allowed Mitch McConnell to retain his senate seat?

    It breaks down almost immediately with even a cursory glance at evidence. But then, you're trying to reason someone out of a position they did NOT reason themselves into.

  9. 32 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    @Rimbo

    Yea we should totally extend the olive branch to this stupid fuck. He seems real contrite.

    How many times have you been flamed by someone on the internet, and your immediate reaction was: "Oh, hey, I should listen to this person, he might have a good point?"

    How many times did you get flamed and your response was, "U WOT M8?!?!?"

    All you're doing is making yourself feel a little better. Disengage and try a different tactic.

  10. 20 hours ago, Mole said:

    We need massive public education about what social media actually is as well as how cable news isn’t actually news.

    Seconded on both points.

    Facebook was actually a great thing in the days before they needed to make money. At first, sharing a link to an article easily actually required me to install a browser plugin, and I was one of the few people who did so. The rest of it was seeing your friend's photos and thoughts, and only those things, and ALL of their photos and thoughts. But they needed to make money, so they changed it. They made it to where linking to an article (or sharing one) was easier than sharing your own thoughts and photos, and then changed the algorithm to where your feed would NOT show you every post. And everything nice about it, all the reasons I joined it, died.

    Same thing for cable news. And not just cable news, but internet news. I've referenced Trust Me; I'm Lying before. 

    What's the solution? The solution is: Subscriptions.

    Remember back when Something Awful was the forum from whence all memes came? They had a $5 one-time charge to sign up. This did two things. First, it prevented bots from signing up tons of spam accounts. Second, when your "$5 and no refund" is on the line, you actually respect the rules. (Walter_Sobchak.gif). And the $9.95 sites used to be good for a similar reason. If you are the customer instead of the product, then you're going to have a better time with social media.

    Ryan Holiday covers the history of Yellow Journalism, and how the NYTimes' push for subscriptions led to better journalism. Well, history repeated itself; there's a lot of hate for WaPo's and NYTimes' paywalls, but those paywalls have managed to allow those two papers to recover. (And my local library allows everyone with a card to read NYTimes and LATimes for free with quick-and-easy one-day subscriptions, so I don't even have to do that.)

    BUT BASICALLY... changing the quality of the services demands changing where the money to pay for it comes from. Stuff paid for by ads has to be sensational.

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  11. On 11/4/2020 at 2:07 AM, Snacks said:

     

    I've been saying this for quite a while, but I've never felt, "Damn, this is really going affect my way of life."

     

    I mean, other than saying your team won, what significant material changes have you noticed that you attribute to the President?

     

    I mean, the Emancipation proclamation was cool, but I wasn't here for that... Reagan's war on drugs affected a lot of people. Bush invaded Iraq. . Clinton sexed a chick... Bush invaded Iraq and Afghanistan... Obama increased my medical insurance rates, but not materially... Trump tweeted a bunch...

     

    What did these guys do to/for you? What would Biden do to/for you?

     

    Multinational corporations and local politicians are far more influential in our daily and future life.

     

    Yes.

    I've shared my story before, but everyone who is, or who is a family member of, an immigrant, is very very happy that Trump is on his way out.

  12. 13 hours ago, futureman said:

    you have a habit of being wrong.  if urban inks his contract with texas I’ll fist myself on a live webcam.  he’s not coming to austin and you’re a moron. 

    remind me about this in six months

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