LDSGator

But having said all that, deploying the military and giving them orders to act like the LAPD is a bridge too far.

I call it several things. Which if I said here you’d break out the banhammer in three seconds, and with good cause.

I find rioting and destroying property appalling. First off, you have no right to damage things that are not yours, unless you are given permission to do so. Second, these businesses and homes are in your own hometown! Do you not realize that they won’t rebuild there and you’ve just damaged your own property value?!? These are your neighbors as well. It’s repulsive.

Amen. My favorite think tank.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

It was the Temu version of an insurrection. Not being funny-it was useless.

The military being deployed seems a bit extreme. If Joe Biden did this the right would be losing their minds in rage, though they won’t admit it now.

Off topic, but you don’t need Mayweather here as a measuring stick. An amateur male boxer with several months of intense training would have KO’d Rousey in about two minutes.

Complete agreement. Yup, 100% agree. Rousey made the fatal mistake of believing her own hype, which is death to a fighter.

I absolutely remember that. He was either trying to hype up her fights, or CTE crept in for minutes. Floyd Mayweather could KO her in ten seconds. With all due respect to both Rousey and White, Holly Holm has entered the conversation as well.

I am in my athletic prime now-and I’m in my early mid 40’s. Taekwando is my sport. I compete in my age group, and being totally blunt-I stink. I’m roughly equal to a d3 benchwarmer who gets by on will, spirit, refusal to quit and determination. Local tournaments are my peak, anyone who knows me knows I’m fine with that. If I ever asked my instructors for permission to fight a woman in the next tournament, they’d laugh at me for five minutes, than give me 30 seconds to hand in my athlete pass, then they’d tell me to get out of there and never come back. No, fully born males should not engage in combat sports with women. Of course Rhonda Rousey could annihilate me. She could beat anyone here in a judo match, easily. She could not beat Lee Joonhwan even on her best day.

Aww man. Sorry to hear that. Growing up we kept all of our baseball cards, even the C list catcher from the 96 Cincinnati Reds. We stupidly thought they’d pay for our college education. we were wrong.

Apparently a lot of companies are chilling or toning it down this year. It’ll be interesting to see how the right reacts to this. This is what they’ve wanted since 2014- but I’m sure it won’t be good enough.

My mom saved all my baseball cards and comics when I went to college. Still got em’ all.

We just left Disney and they cut back heavily on pride merch. Oh sure, it’s still there. But much more mellow and not in the front of the stores.

AMEN

And to counter this video, read this: https://amp.abc.net.au/article/13031918 and this: https://theconversation.com/why-do-we-get-shots-in-the-arm-its-all-about-the-muscle-161259 Also, Clancy is an immunologist who specializes in COPD. Not Covid. What you did was hire tax lawyer to defend you in a capital murder case. He might he a brilliant tax lawyer but that means nothing in this scenario

I’ve always thought that the people who like meetings are always the least productive people in the office.

Fair enough. That’s why teaching kids how to think critically is so important. So they won’t fall for rubbish like this. I still think I’m right though. While we all get duped from time to time, if little Joey keeps falling for stuff like this, take the college savings fund and go on that trip to Maui.

I understand that-to a degree. There are people who think 9/11 was an inside job, the moon landing never happened, and that eating organic food makes them healthier. If you want to live a happy life, make fun of them with your buddies instead of arguing with them. Seriously-what’s the difference between people who deny the Trump shooting and those who think Bush flew the planes into the WTC via remote control?

I’m going to be really blunt here. If your child is unable to see the humor in this or worse, tries to lick uranium and drink from gasoline pumps, AI is the last thing you need to be concerned about.

I’m with the kids. I thought it was hilarious. If someone tries these things in real life, chalk it up to natural selection and move on.

Did you ever say to them “Since you know what to do…do it.” And then walk out? Best feeling in the world. You are in an increasingly growing group. More and more people my age (tail end of Gen X, Xennial) are unwilling to sit there and take abuse, especially when we aren’t getting paid for it. The old school “Sit there, shut up and let me scream at you.” just doesn’t work anymore.

Agree again. To be fair though, it’s more a problem with human nature.