Jump to content

Rimbo

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    13729
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

Everything posted by Rimbo

  1. That's because those cults' organizations didn't extend beyond the leader. THIS cult already has multiple organizations co-opted behind it. The power and influence networks to make this a full fledged religion are already there, in place, ready to take the reins and demand tribute in His Unholy Name in his absence. Churches, the GOP, media organizations, extremely wealthy patrons... IT'S ALREADY THERE. Complete with many individuals hungry for power, any one (or more) of whom can fill in the power void and use the name of Trump to get the flock in line. I'm not talking about something that will happen; it already has. insert Ozymandias from the Watchmen quote here
  2. I never said anything against him being a lock for the nomination. I was counting on it.
  3. Look, that season we had with 90 losses a dozen years or so ago was fun. It was fun because you could see Keuchel and Springer building up the team (and Correa in the minors) and you KNEW we were on the way out of a hole. The road back down is no fun. And it's not just bad luck. It's that we know that of the talent we have now can't do it, we're gonna have to rebuild. Owner's chat about "window never closing as long as I own the team" sounds more like a guy who is unaware of reality than a guy who's showing determination. We've lost a lot of the pieces that got us here, the farm is empty, and while we have some great players, they're either well past their prime and gonna spend half the season injured, or they're younger guys we ought to look into trading to get the farm rebuilt again so they don't end up wasting their best years on a shit team (see also: The Angels). Don't tell me I'm not a good fan because I'm aware of reality.
  4. I think y'all who are talking about MAGA dying with Trump are missing what will keep it alive. It's not a political movement; it's a religion. Think of it that way.
  5. D&D players get this. He put ALL them points into Charisma, with a few saved for CON. The rest were dump stats. Oh, they've been doing that for decades, since long before Trump. If there were a point in time where the Religious Right was ever following Jesus, it was long before my lifetime.
  6. "while these totals are sure to even out"
  7. But, to cop your own point, Blue has been behind OLs and in a scheme that are both VASTLY better than what Foreman had to run behind and in. "4 ypc outside of an 81-yard run while behind a shit oline in a stupid offensive system" sounds to me like an NFL-caliber RB already. Then, he got better, you say? To think we only picked the guy up because of his brother... I don't see the comparison with Blue, but that's because my whole point on Blue is that we don't have the data, and with Foreman we have hindsight.
  8. Ok so first of fucking all, given what we've been saying about single plays having an outsized effect on the game outcome, "he only had 4ypc other than that 80-yard TD" is like saying "if you take out all of Mahomes' good plays for no reason he regresses to the mean." Secondly, 4 ypc isn't shit; it gets it done. That means if you hand the ball off to him every play, you get a first down and then some every three downs.
  9. he's... much taller than I expected. makes me wonder how tall Anthony Daniels is
  10. So it's weird. My wife doesn't care for sports. Doesn't care about baseball. Gets mad at me when I try to talk about it, frankly. Absolute disdain for the entire enterprise. No interest whatsoever. And yet somehow she is in tune with the Astros' pitching right now... she, too, is serving meatballs for dinner.
  11. Of course it did. The point is... power that can be taken away, power that you're borrowing or renting, isn't real power. Trump's power is all on loan, and the bills are due. Laetitia James et. al. have come to collect.
  12. This isn't just oversimplified; it's inaccurate. That's the point of Xykon's little rant, there: Whatever you think is the way to get power isn't real if, say, a single dedicated DA and a non-corrupt judge out of New York can (and will) take all of it away from you with a little bit of evidence and the standard rules of the NY Court system. That's what DJT himself doesn't seem to quite grasp... but he's getting an education.
  13. metal should never be boring most metal is boring
  14. why don't you just fly out here and come kick me in the nuts seventeen times instead of the mental and emotional abuse here
  15. That suspending players might affect their win-loss record. Of course it's clear bullying. But football!
  16. it's surprising how impactful a comic with stick figures and obscure D&D rules can be, dramatically, when well-written if you're in a hurry, start from the third row
  17. Also, re: money, money is not power. If I may quote a comic bookstick figure lich, POWER ... is power. Our society is somewhat egalitarian in that you can buy power with money, and anyone can potentially gain enough money to be able to buy quite a bit of power, but there are some very strict yet undefinable limits on how much power your money can buy. Even infinite money can't buy all the power. Power is power. What pisses off Trump is that he's believed all this time that money WAS power, and he's now finding out those limits. That's why he walks out of yet another court loss muttering "This isn't America!" Because he thought, in America, that money was power. But money isn't power. Not even here. POWER is power. Other countries have their own mechanisms. China's power, for 5 millennia, has been tied up in the bureaucracy; when Kublai Khan took over after his father "conquered," it was only by remaining subservient to the bureaucracy that he could reign. Repeat for every new conqueror, for every new revolutionary. Military might can get you most of the power, but not all. And for all that time, if a Chinese person passed the civil service exam, no matter who you were, you became part of that bureaucracy, and from there you wielded power. Education could get you power, but not all the power. Power is power. You can buy power with money, you can conquer power with armed forces, you can gain rank with education. But these are just effective but limited tools that hide the reality.
  18. ☝️ The only real difference between what I was taught and the reality is... O was taught we'd be easily fooled. But only the fools are. Never thought the antichrist would be so obvious.
×
×
  • Create New...