Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
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Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
my impression was that she genuinely hates white men
I loathe Kamala as much as anyone here and have said so many times, but this seems like an odd accusation given that she’s married to a white man.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
Linda Sarsour, perhaps?
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
jeans are real practical and comfortable
Jeans are absolutely not “American red tribe culture.” They were invented by two Jewish immigrants in San Francisco, and popularized as casual wear by urban greasers in the 1950s and 1960s.
country music is easy to inculturate and you can dance to it, etc.
This is only true if you strip it of much of the sociocultural content that was central to country music for much of its existence. The oeuvre of Conway Twitty is not global dance music. Country can only be made into a global commodity by converting it into “generically lower-middle-class music with aspirationally-American characteristics.”
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
He seems formidable! The puzzle-making background seems to really help him on wordplay categories, anagrams, etc.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
Imagine the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys had just been murdered by a deranged Eagles fan.
When @FiveHourMarathon finally snaps and takes things too far, your comment will be used to link this site to stochastic terrorism.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
On the other hand, shows that have LONG outlived their relevance (IMHO) like Jeopardy
How so? At the very least, Jeopardy! will (and must) remain relevant until I’ve had my opportunity to compete on the show. And then, if I do well enough to be invited to any future in-show tournaments, its relevance will continue going strong indefinitely.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
I’m not trying to do a gotcha. I’m pointing out that a specific claim you made was wildly overblown. I’m not trying to be insightful or even attack the edifice of your post in any holistic way. I’m literally just focused on that specific claim, which I think was inaccurate.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
You made an over-broad claim, I countered it with actual evidence, and now you’re acting flabbergasted that I took your claim seriously enough to refute it, instead of treating it like the empty bluster it apparently was.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
I did read the contents. There are many of the Columbine-style mass shootings nestled in there among the personal beefs. Again, do you acknowledge that things like Kerch Polytechnic, Kazan, and Izhevsk (just to name three from Russia alone) are Columbine-style school shootings?
How about the École Polytechnic shooting in Montreal, which happened before Columbine? Or the Dawson College shooting, also in Montreal? Or the La Loche shootings in Saskatchewan?
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
Before Columbine, nobody had ever heard of a school shooting, so nobody did school shootings (and even today, outside America, nobody does them).
This is, of course, plainly false. Here’s a list of school shootings in Europe, another list from Canada, and one from Brazil. Russia alone has had a number of notable school shootings, including the Kerch Polytechnic shooting and the Kazan school shooting/bombing.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
I definitely agree that this distinction is useful, although frankly if the Chinese air force could pull off a strike with such precision that they could blow up the Dalai Lama’s house without hitting anything else around it, I’d have to just say “well played”. I’d be more mad at my own government for not being able to intercept it.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
4mo ago
If they had bombed the college basketball stadium or the NYC auditorium at which I saw him speak, would that have been acceptable?
If the ChiComs bombed an entire baseball stadium or auditorium, packed with civilians, I would consider this an act of war. It would evince a grievously callous lack of regard for civilian lives. However, if they planted a bomb on the Dalai Lama’s limo and blew it up, killing only the inhabitants of that car, I would see this as a legitimate act which could be smoothed over diplomatically.
Similarly, if the Ukrainians shot down Putin’s plane over American airspace, I would not consider it an overly aggressive act against American sovereignty; it would be an obviously targeted act against an indisputable geopolitical foe of theirs, and if the only collateral damage to America was embarrassment about our lack of airspace security, that would be something I could live with.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
Given the distance at which he was shot, I’d be surprised if the shooter could hear anything he was saying.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
That wasn’t an example of ideologically-motivated violence, so far as we can tell. The attempted killer was a former professional associate of the victims who seems to have gone nuts.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
Only in one direction is there a grisly history of racially-motivated lynchings.
We do in fact have a history of racially-motivated killings of whites by blacks, such as the Zebra murders. Are they on the same numerical scale? Certainly not. But I don’t know why the question of historical scale would necessarily impact your priors about the likelihood that any individual was motivated by racial animus. (Particularly given the documented fact that this individual did, in fact, draw attention to race literally immediately after committing the crime.)
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
why shouldn’t they be willing to live selflessly for a Christ that has no supernatural aspects?
A Christ shorn of his supernatural aspects is just a charismatic ascetic who bamboozled some poor and sick people by saying spooky unverifiable nonsense. Judged purely by his personality characteristics and by the very limited record of his non-supernatural deeds, he does not come off as some great hero, nor even a stellar lifestyle role model. (He died unmarried, childless, and with seemingly no wealth, possessions, or notable professional achievements.)
I am facing this exact problem right now as I am trying to seek a religious tradition and community. Reading the Bible, I am struck yet again by how little the figure of Christ resonates with me. If one cannot bring oneself to take the leap of faith to believe that he truly was exactly what he said he was and all of his prophecies are of deep import, then it’s easy to interpret the Gospels and Acts as the record of a bunch of fairly reasonable local institutions displaying a quite healthy fear of a revolutionary doctrine urging their populace to leave their jobs and families to go follow a madman ascetic into the desert.
The faith which I’m currently earnestly investigating (Mormonism) believes that Jesus Christ was sent to earth to, among other things, set the example of the Perfect Man; humans can progress toward divinity by striving to emulate the example set by him and to try to become more Christ-like. But the best I can muster regarding Christ is that he was an example, among others, of a life path worth emulating. Certainly he has admirable characteristics — his charitable spirit toward the downtrodden, his interpersonal leadership skills, his obvious self-control and abstention from vice — but we absolutely do not want every individual in our society to attempt to emulate his life or deeds as closely as possible. There are other figures, historical or religious/mythological, who ought to be seen as equally valid life models worthy of emulation.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
No, I don’t think he gets flagged. Again, nothing that looks bad on camera, just your standard on-field verbal stuff that goes on throughout the entire game and doesn’t get captured unless a guy is mic’d up. (And then even if he is, the team just edits the hell out of whatever audio they capture.) Unless Dak said the same thing to a ref, in which case he’d get flagged.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
So the metagame then - if you throw the book at Carter and let Dak "get away with it" it's going to make players feel that being a dick on the field is incredibly useful, as long as they don't get caught.
I don’t think that’s the message at all. The league has had on-field shit-talk for as long as it has existed. What they can’t tolerate is overt, visible aggressive actions that can be seen on-camera. I’ve seen the argument that the league’s renewed focus on eliminating visible displays of bad sportsmanship from its TV product is part of a larger push to stop hemorrhaging trust among current parents of children. (The rising clamor over CTE has a lot of parents deeply wary of involving their boys in football; the league can’t afford to alienate them further by broadcasting their players being aggressive and unsportsmanlike toward each other.)
What Dak did has always been permissible under the rules, and, again, doesn’t really seem that bad or out of the ordinary. He literally just spit on the ground in the general direction of Jalen Carter; he’s not responsible for the fact that Carter has the emotional continence of a small child. If it’s that easy to get in Jalen Carter’s head and make him do something bad enough to get him ejected, then perhaps he’s not cut out for this league long-term.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
I think you’re projecting things onto the situation that aren’t there. Dak’s explanation, which seems supported by the video evidence, is that Carter was talking shit to Tyler Booker, Dak came over and entered the conversation, and he had to spit, so he spit on the ground. The direction in which he spit was a result of the fact that Booker was in the way of where he would have spit if he’d wanted to make abundantly clear that he wasn’t spitting “at” Carter. Then after he spit, Carter asked him, “Did you just spit at me?” Dak then replied, “Why the fuck would I spit at you?” (A perfectly reasonable question.) Carter then very clearly and intentionally spit on Dak’s chest.
Your stance is that spitting on the ground in front of another man is inherently aggressive and instigatory? Perhaps I’m the wrong person to weigh in, as I’ve never been in a fistfight and don’t always have the strongest theory of mind regarding high-testosterone men with a violent disposition, but this seems obviously wrong to me.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
you can't throw the book at Carter and let Dak get away with instigating that.
Spitting on the field is something that every NFL player does probably 20 times over the course of a normal game. I don’t see how it’s a rules violation. Just because he was talking to another player when he did it doesn’t make it an intentional attempt to offend captivate anything or “trigger” that player.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
Additionally - #DakSpatFirst.
Dak spit on the ground, and then Carter spit directly and intentionally onto Dak’s chest. I don’t think these two actions are comparable.
Just how bad the Saints are going to be.
I know Tyler Shough looked pretty all-over-the-place during the pre-season (bad enough, apparently, that the team decided to name the demonstrable terrible Spencer Rattler as the Week 1 starter) but I’m not ready to bury him before I’ve seen him in regular-season action. Their offense has a lot of very capable players, the performance of many of whom will of course come down to health. (Will Chris Olave end up with another concussion? If so, will that be the career-ender? Will Shaheed and Kamara hold up for a whole season or close to it?) The rest of their team is so devoid of talent, though, that it might not matter.
Finding out if we get Good 49ers or Bad 49ers.
Apparently CMC has quietly ended up on the Did Not Practice list as Sunday approaches. My Brian Robinson fantasy stock appears to be growing in value before the season even starts.
Which team will win the NFCE since the Eagles are curse ineligible.
Speaking of fantasy football, my Jayden Daniels ownership in my dynasty league promises to pay many dividends. If that team can just put a functional receiver corps around him that isn’t just Terry McLaurin, that team could get really scary.
How much of a shit show the NFCN will be.
All depends on how JJ McCarthy turns out, and if Jordan Love is as good as the Packers clearly believe he is, seeing as they were willing to trade away two consecutive first-round picks.
Will Chiefs performance have an impact on Swift's relationship.
I have to admit that Kelce is the most formidable competition I’ve yet faced for her affections. Lot of staying power. I need him to have a humiliating season — not only because I’m a Chargers fan, but also if I want to have any chance at her moving forward.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
I will point out that the Euro countries which are producing the most NBA stars are also some of the countries with the highest average male heights on Earth. (The Balkan countries, Lithuania and Latvia, Finland, and Germany.) Not saying the other factors people have brought up aren’t real, but it’s worth pointing out that men from these countries do have at least one very important physical attribute working in their favor, relative to the world at large.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
5mo ago
That would be the Einsatzgruppen.
Sure you have. In fact it seems like a very strong piece of evidence against hatred.
You’re repeating a lot of progressive psychobabble, but the on-the-ground reality is that in the vast majority of cases, an individual who is motivated by a generalized hatred of a particular group is very unlikely to marry a member of that group. This is highly intuitive because of what marriage usually entails. You are not just marrying an atomized individual; you are marrying into a family, a social sphere, an inherited community, etc. By marrying a (Jewish) white man, Kamala committed to spending the next decades of her life surrounded by his white in-laws, his white friends, his white children from a previous marriage, the mostly white people who are part of whatever hobbies and social spaces he inhabits, etc.
Presumably Kamala Harris was not facing the binary choice of A) marry Doug Emhoff or B) die alone. She could have had her pick of plenty of well-placed non-white men. The fact that she chose Emhoff, knowing that by doing so she’d be inviting a large number of white men to become intimately involved with her life, is a pretty strong indicator that she does not in fact hate white men, does not want to limit the number of white men in her life, etc.
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