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  1. I get that a lot of people like the Heat, but no-brainer rooting for the Lake Show. The ghost of Kobe won't let the Lakers lose in 2020 anyways, but Anthony Davis is such a great player and good dude and someone for me that is easy to root for.

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  2. 9 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    This is technical gobbledy-gook. You're a lawyer omitting words you don't think that matter and are objective fact from his opinion.

    What is your actual technical background on these sorts of issues? I've asked you several times over the last few days. Do you actually understand any of this on a technical or academic level or have you actually ever written software and an API? Or are you just coming at it from a 100% IP lawyer view?

    lol he really won't answer.

  3. I think it's open to fair game to question a Catholic (or Muslim or Jewish person, etc.) on their religious or spiritual beliefs and how it informs their values and political beliefs, when looking at vetting for a political appointment.

    The opposite would be true too, if you had an atheist candidate it would be fair to similarly "attack", and I use air quotes there because it's just normal, good vetting and not an attack, to understand what sort of heathen and sinful beliefs (if any?) the atheist might be harboring before wanting them on the Supreme Court, e.g. believing abortion at any stage or age is murder or being cool with killing babies at 39 weeks and 6 days.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    I was really interested in the Delonte West aspect which is why I asked for a link.  But as far as insults you could sling at LBJ  involving Delonte West, I was left a little disappointed. 

    I don't know, I think it was great because it was both a call-back to Delonte embarrassing and disrespecting Lebron with his own mom (yuck!) while also calling attention to the present-state Delonte, a man ransacked with drug addiction and mental illness that he lives on the street and has no teeth, and then makes two hilarious and haymaker points as subtext which are fully loaded in that sentence, which is to say that a) Lebron would get his butt kicked in a fight and b) This guy with no teeth is the caliber of man who your mom goes for. 

    Just savage in my book.

    All that said, Go Denver!

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  5. 1 minute ago, conVINCEd said:

    Thanks.  I always look to MMA fighters for political insight.  They are the best and brightest.  

    I agree with the sarcasm, who cares about nobody bare knuckle fighting rubes.

    But this one had the best savage take-down line I've ever seen done so pithy and succinctly. It's beautiful and art.

  6. 2 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

    Do you have a link?

    "LOL at the snowflakes that believe @KingJames could even last 10 seconds with me!" Covington said. "If that coward had the balls or the ability to kick anyone's ass, Delonte West would've lost his teeth long before his meth habit!"

    https://www.insider.com/colby-covington-lebron-james-fight-insults-mother-2020-9

     

     

    Following his win against Tyron Woodley at UFC Vegas 11 on Saturday, Covington said he was tired of "woke athletes" like the Los Angeles Lakers forward and called him a "spineless coward."

    The American mixed martial artist, who has been vocal in his opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement, also tweeted last month that police officers had "the toughest job in America" and that James should quit playing a "kids game" if he really cared about racial inequality.

    Though James did not respond to Covington's comments, Covington again came for the Lakers star on Monday, this time on Twitter.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    I don't know whether it's good politics or not.  I do know that it is bad governance if a system inherently favor disproportionate representation for a minority of the electorate, which is indisputably true under our current construct. Those errors can be fixed within the confines of the law if the Democrats win the house, senate and presidency, and they should do so regardless of whether it is good politics.

    I agree with you here. I also would take it further and say it's bad (though not worse) governance for a simple majority as well (e.g. 51% pressing an agenda that 49% doesn't agree with/want, 55%v45%, etc.) 

    This is inherently the problem with the 2-party system and it's coming home to roost. We need to be able to govern with coalitions and committees of smaller parties that band together, if we are serious about really trying to rule in the honest interest of a very disparate population, in terms of value and belief systems.

    America is too big, too populous and too diverse and the toothpaste is out of the tube on fixing that with our fat-finger approach to democracy, IMO.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Toll roads/lanes are the best. People who can afford it, get to where they need to be faster, and they're removed from the free alternative which lowers the traffic on the free road. Win/win for both, even though the drivers on the free road can never see that.

     

    1 hour ago, Pasken said:

    I just don't understand the hate for the toll roads. Tolls were removed from the coming Oak Hill project and 35 project and as a result 50+ other projects in the Austin metro area had to be killed to pay for it. There is no such thing as a "free" highway.

    So the next time you are stuck on Lamar because a train is passing just remind yourself it's ok that the grade separation project was canceled because it means people coming from Lake Travis into Austin won't have to pay a toll to use the highway.

    These are so true.

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  9. I saw a guy driving around town with an American Flag and Thin Blue Line Flag on his truck just randomly today in Frisco and thought "Wow, that guy is probably weird."

    I had lunch with a guy two weeks ago for work that I'd never met before. We walk up to the restaurant door together and I pull out my mask out of my pocket and he starts in on being pissed off about having to put on a mask and stating he's going to refuse to do it and it's so stupid, yada yada.

    I just thought to myself how weird it is that people will be polarizing to people they just met and risk completely alienating them or making them think they are less than. The risk must be worth it and if they find a kindred soul then the benefits must be great is the only think I can think of.

    And I work for an organization which is extremely liberal/progressive in it's messaging and being "on-brand" (e.g. doing PR about BLM or changing the logo to rainbows in June, etc.) and I just kinda compartmentalize that and quietly just get along to get along.

    I guess what I'm saying is it's weird to me when people are anything but safe/neutral in professional and work settings and with strangers.

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  10. 1 minute ago, sidis said:

    As much as I hate to admit he got anything right, I think the president has answered that question quite emphatically. Possibly the greatest swindle/hustle in history. Dumb fuck, economically distraught morons subscribing to a cult of personality of a person who laughs in their faces while eating their cookie and condemning them to the worst possible outcome...all while pursuing an “agenda” designed to serve only billionaires and his agenda. 

    I have to admit, you kind of have to admire the gumption and presumptuous nature of it all. He gave Americans no credit whatsoever and that has paid off to the tune of billions. 

    Props. 

    I thought I read last week he was actually poorer now than he was when he got elected, I’ll have to find the link.

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