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On 6/13/2019 at 10:45 AM, Hugo Stiglitz said:
I like to think I have some liberal and conservative tendencies while being anti-fascist AF.
Are you just against the tenets of fascism but ok with the authoritarianism?
1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:That great firewall China built was probably a good investment on their part.
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7 hours ago, bad_teammate said:
Far more insidiously, it is a view that we use to defend and even promote our cruel social and economic policies. It's the conservative's excuse for religious totalitarianism, economic stratification, and mass incarceration.
This is an interesting point. Brisket's view of man is very much aligned with the conservative mindset. One of the pillars of conservativism is that the nature of man is inherently depraved and without strong social institutions to enforce morality, society would plunge into chaos. It is the reason conservatives support so many oppressive social policies. Its also why they consider everyone in opposition to their policies to be naive concerning the nature of man.
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1 minute ago, gsoda3 said:
probably splitting hairs, but they don't own the team in that they don't have any vested interest in the profitability of the team. that was the point i was speaking to when someone gave the hypothetical of MLB clubs shouldn't care about MiLB records because they're development leagues for the big league club.
Ok, I get what you were saying now and I agree.
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1 hour ago, gsoda3 said:
the point's moot. major league teams don't own their minor league affiliates.
I believe the MLB teams own the players and coaches contracts. The name, stadium, concessions, etc belong to the minor league franchise. If you control the players and coaches, you essentially own the team.
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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Disagree that minor leagues is where the overall goal is to develop. You should then argue the same then for college, high school and every youth baseball league. Don't worry about winning, just worry about developing so that you can play MLB one day.
Every single baseball game should be played to win. Otherwise don't keep score.
Now in every sport there is a point that the game is out of hand and the result is 99.999% locked in. In that situation, I think it's fair to back off. But if you think about it, a no-hitter while up 15-0 then isn't as impressive as a 1-0 no-hitter. The 1-0 no-hitter had batters actually trying to get a hit until the end. The 15-0 guy may have had it handed to him for the last few innings.
MiLB is a subsidized developmental league specially developing players for the Majors. Many of the players in MiLB are only there to provide competition for the players that are expected to make it to the Majors.
There is no comparison to college baseball but in high school baseball a similar comparison can be made to the Varsity and Junior Varsity relationship. The coaches don't put much value on the JV win/loss record and will not hesitate to pull one of the best JV players to fill a need for the Varsity because JV is for developing players for Varsity where the wins mean more.
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4 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:
SA tears are the best part of thisFuck you, puto.
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4 minutes ago, satyanash said:
Kawhi was not a major factor when the Spurs took down the Heat. Kawhi didn't take down the Spurs but ran off like a little bitch and the Raptors beat a very wounded Warriors team. Kawhi is a very good player but he hasn't ended shit.
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So does the Raptors get invited to the White House? Do Canadian teams rostered with Americans get an invite? They probably shouldn't get invited because Kawhi might shit in a corner of the White House, not for political reasons but because Kawhi is a semi-functional retard.
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Me staring at the TV tonight as Toronto celebrates.

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37 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:
It is unclear how much influence Mr Greear wields over the convention’s disparate parts. It is also not obvious how, in practical terms, he can expect to wean his brethren off party politics without revising the tenets of the 1979 resurgence, which he claims to support. So long as Southern Baptists put fighting abortion and gay rights before the acts of grace and social justice they once gave equal billing to, they have only one party to support: the Republicans, whose shrinking, white coalition is the future they are trying to escape. Mr Greear can clearly see that looming cliff-edge. He just cannot bring himself to hit the brake.◼
Yeah, it's probably not happening. That's exactly why I stopped attending. I started going elsewhere.
It's too bad Escriva is not here to retort that evangelical voters are the most ethical.
What the hell am I doing?
It's not bad! It's great that he's not here with his army of strawmen, his impermeable wall of BS, and his stubborn refusal to answer the fucking question.
Nope. I don't miss that shit even a little.
Sack might be along to hold up the banner of the SBC. Pretty soon the SBC will be down to the Sacks, Tahoes, and Escrivas. Some of their progeny might leave, but bitter and angry men will continue to have a church home.
The SBC purge happened nearly two generations ago. The last major purge of "liberal" Southern Baptists was in the late 80's. There is no opposition in the SBC, there is nobody left to stand up because they were sent packing decades ago. These articles come out every year when the convention is held and its evident that the SBC drove off the cliff a long time ago and there is no coming back.
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42 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:
<<slorch>>You mean god’s plan to get rid of all the fags?<<slorch>>
Now I have A.I.D.S. by MOD playing in my head.
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14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
What? You have a stinky finger?
And yes, I disagree with Pinker. There are no better angels of our nature. We’re cruel tribalist assholes, waiting for the opportunity to come out and hurt others. It’s what we do, it’s what we are. Any delusion that we’re anything other than cruel animals is just that.The better angels are reason, intellect, law, government, science, education and commerce that have driven the evolution of civilization.
6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:"Burning it all down" is a great slogan. Until you realize that we'd be burning something down with hundreds of millions of people trapped inside. That's not acceptable to me.
We've done our damndest to impress upon our kids that they hit the lottery -- they were born into comfort, with every need met. They were born of two educated parents, who were intelligent to begin with. They have the advantages of the good genetics, AND the exposure to ideas and ambition from birth. Those gifts give them power, and with that power comes responsibility. And, we've tried to live an example for them - we ain't perfect, but we also own our imperfections and failures.
There are a lot of things in this world breeding viruses that attack our collective body. We need to send out white blood cells to counter that and fight the infection. Hell, it may be the most important thing we can do: raise informed, kind people with a sense of responsibility and duty to their fellow man.
This is how we engage our better angels so that we can continue to extend civilization to the rest of humanity.
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45 minutes ago, formermav43 said:
My favorite along this line is what’s the difference between a Methodist and a Baptist?
The Methodist will speak to you in the liquor store.
Methodists drink on the front porch and Baptists drink on the back porch.
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Kellyanne Conway is as likely to be feel shame as she is to be removed from office.
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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:
when the religious right does something that is informed by their faith, the left leaps to their soapboxes to finger wag and gnash teeth and get your religion out of here, or even make fun of believers for their faith.
The criticism is usually related to the hypocrisy of their faith rather than actions that are informed by their faith.
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Brisket is not a fan of Steven Pinker.
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3 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:
Sounds like they are already creating jobs in San Antonio.
Serendipitous, Tony Parker just retired from basketball, he probably didn't think there was a demand for French translators in San Antonio. Now he has a big job opportunity.
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1 hour ago, SmokeyTheBear said:
What now @Zavala? Should us white people be scared of a more diverse populace? If so, why?
White people don't have a say on diversity in San Antonio.
These Congolese showed up not speaking the native language and now they are in need of French translators, the lesson here is don't show up unless you can speak the language, which is Spanish.
Seriously, we get more California and Rust Belt migrants on a weekly basis. 300 or 400 Congolese immigrants are a. drop in the bucket.
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7 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:

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11 minutes ago, Foosters said:
Tahoe's entire opposition to 8 years of Obama can be summed up thusly:
"uppity nigger."

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4 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:
A republican troll is trying to care about the national debt. Wait. What are we talking about?
I believe we were discussing the Affordable Care Act or Medicare for All and AOC's latest tweet, I mean Donald's latest tweet, no it was the Mueller report.
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1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:
This issue hasn't been ignored by Congress. The Democrats have wanted to make this permanent for years. It's been stonewalled by Republicans. They filibustered it in 2010 until Stewart ran a segment on it on The Daily Show. They stonedwalled it in committee again in 2015 until Stewart brought attention back to it. And McConnell is stonewalling it now.
We can't treat the disease if nobody will acknowledge what it even fucking is. The problem isn't Congress itself, the problem is the Republican party.
Well, at least this is on topic.
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Thread about John Stewart bringing attention to an issue that has largely been ignored by Congress, the media and citizens devolves into a partisan argument not related to 9/11 first responders.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
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Alabama Sheriff's are assholes
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I came into the thread to make a comment about Oklahoma but you covered it. I appreciate your self awareness as an Oklahoman.