lol, I had a feeling i was setting someone up for a nice ally-oop

Lol, yea I was basically just agreeing with you

He was indeed a legend. We (well, my brother, really) got a turtle growing up and named him Barkley in honor of this man haha. That turtle's also likely going to outlive us

Imagine willingly scoring 81 points on a predetermined game (your 666th), but never being able to achieve such an accomplish literally ever, at all, again

I knew Kobe. Not incredibly well, but my best friend growing up was cousins with him, and I met him (and even got to shoot some hoops with him) a few times. I have an incredibly hard time buying that he'd ever forcible rape anyone, and all the evidence points to woman looking for a payload.

Doesn't mean money still can't be made on it. Would just prefer to caution people of what's most likely to happen with an alt-coin like this. Ride it for some profits if you're feeling risky, but I'd immediately convert to Eth and stake, or to stablecoin and stake for yields (pretty good right now, can get up to 20% in some places)

Hate to be that guy, but it sounds like a typical pump and dump of a typical shitcoin - one of literally 10s of thousands fly-by-night tokens that promise the world, pump hard, and then fall to obscurity. Especially given it's function, whitepaper, and relationship to and reliance on BNB/Binance (centralized, Chinese run - literally, anyone that even touches Binance and BNB is out of their mind). Just stick with Ethereum. A centralized blockchain and/or anything that depends on one is not the answer.

But hey, just the opinion of a guy who made 6-figures in the last fiscal year on a 4-figure investment in crpto and has been in, and researching, the crypto space for over 5 years ::shrug::

I think he said it was a good box, actually. The rocks were the questionable part

not until they chop their dick off, or add one on, first though!

This is my SIL/Wife's sister. Her and husband have 2 kids, one's about 3 and the other is under a year old. We haven't even seen the new one, and haven't seen the other (who absolutely loves me and my wife) in over a year (unless you count her "zoom birthday party"). My wife's devastated that she's letting her parents come visit them since they're vaccinated and we can't come, even if we sit outside. I asked her "roughly half the country won't get the vaccine. What is she going to do? Never let the kids leave the house again, and only allow vaccinated people over?" Pretty sad, honestly

They do - I live here and have seen it (2016 election I lived further south, and literally saw multiple vans with MA license plates with people pouring out of them). We also have same-day registration that hardly requires any verification so fraud is off the charts. Someone voted in my '16 district using my name as well (long story, and it was partly my fault for responding to a "hey [name], it's [whoever from whatever organization]! It's election day! Have you voted yet at [my former polling location]?"

Yup, literally 2 sentences in and I'm dying laughing, because the statement is, by far, the biggest "clearly over the target," signal I've ever seen in my entire life

Yup, it's awful, and I try so hard not to pass judgement because my generation was properly brainwashed on the matter of abortion, and as an unfortunate result, I know some otherwise good and decent people that are perfectly ok with it and/or have done it themselves.

Hell, when I first met my (now) wife, she was... kind of grew up with conservative values, but was mostly apolitical, which as a result, meant she was kind of slightly left-leaning just from all the brainwashing. One day, early in our relationship, we're driving past a planned parenthood and there are protestors outside, and she rolls the window down to flip them off and yell at them. I'm like "woah, woah, woah, wtf are you doing? Let them protest, it's their right." But it told me a lot. I ended the talk there, but not long after, it came out that she'd had an abortion earlier in life when she was younger. We ended up in a very serious and emotional conversation, and I learned that she didn't want an abortion, was pressured by her BF at the time, and has felt guilty about it every since (still to this day. She thinks God will never let her get pregnant now with me as punishment).

Anyway, through a calm conversation, I basically was able to pull out of her that she was never pro-choice, but actually incredibly pro-life. It was the guilt she felt from society and her BF convincing her that an abortion was ok, and then having one. Once she did, and the guilt came, her mind kind of... accepted abortion as ok, despite knowing it wasn't, as a sort of defense mechanism. In other words: so many people think it's fine, I've had one, others I know have, and I now need to support this cause to know that others do as well and not feel the guilt of murdering my baby. It was tough for me to get through to her that no, she isn't a murderer and a horrible person, but was once young, ignorant, and brainwashed like so many others. She could admit what she did was wrong without it meaning she was a bad person, and doing so is better to her alternative (accepting abortion as ok, and pushing that ideology onto more, because the more people doing it, the more morally acceptable it was in her mind).

Hope that made sense. Writing quick on lunch break lol

Yup, all while conveniently ignoring all the good Jews on the right side, and/or all the terrible people behind the scenes pulling strings that aren't Jews. Man, they'd LOVE IT if Bill Gates or Fauci were Jews, but they're not, so... we'll just ignore on occasions like that. It's almost as if a collectivist view, and believing all of X-people believe, say, and do Y things/ideologies, is an ignorant and uninformed position to hold ::shrug::

How can you be best friend to a baby butchering liberal?

You know, it's gotten harder and harder. I've known him since we were 5, over 25 years now. Grew up on the same street, same schools, hung out every day. He's just... been my best friend my entire life.

Then he moved to California, and well... yeah. So I don't see him as much anymore. We talk a few times a year, and usually see each other around the holidays. We've learned to just not talk politics, so we go back to just... our old teenage selves almost, and talk about whatever. "Glory days," and all that. But last visit... I really almost had to end it, but I just can't bring myself to do it with someone that's been there for me, and a best friend, my entire life. BUT... ugh.. I was with my wife (fiancee at the time), and we were just talking about life. He's telling me about his girlfriend back in Cali, and then he hits me with how he knocked her up and she got an abortion. How he "just wasn't ready," she's "just a girlfriend," and "it's better for everyone this way," and I basically just had to not talk. I couldn't. I couldn't say anything without it likely ending our friendship. I wanted to be like "bro, you're like 30 now. Not ready? Not stable enough? Not responsible enough? You're fucking 30! Own up, have the kid, give it a life. Or have it and I'll adopt it, even though I'm just as poorly situated as you are right now. I'd do that. I'd save that life, and raise the kid, if it means my longest friend didn't kill his child.

Well... it's what I'd have liked to say. It's bothered me ever since and, even though I've always known he's liberal, that just really changed everything. No excuse, imo, but it's just such a weird dynamic because, again, we have been friends since as far back as we can both remember, he's part of my bigger group of friends (all the rest are conservative), so... yea. Not sure the point of telling this, but that pissed me off, and as liberal as he is, I thought he was better than that.

Lol, man, ALL the time. Especially since 2015, I've been called "nazi" or "literally Hitler" more times than I can count, but here's the best example:

First week at grad school at an Ivy. I'm in a public policy class, fall of 2018, and the topic of George Soros comes up. I don't look particularly Jewish, and since only my mom's side is Jewish, I don't have a Jewish last name, so I "pass," so to speak, and nobody in class knows the card in my back pocket. So, the class is discussing Soros, and some liberal chick says "I think anyone that criticizes Soros is just antisemitic." I almost lose it, but I know my audience, so I play it carefully. I pull up an article I just happened to see that morning that basically said, verbatim, "Netanyahu, PM of Israel, criticizes George Soros." I raise my hand, turn the screen towards her side of the class, and say "Hmm.. Ok. So, you think Netanyahu is Antisemitic?" She performs some amazing mental gymnastics to basically say that yes, he is antisemitic, and keeps sticking to her argument that any criticism of him is antisemitic.

I then give a list of things that I, personally, criticize Soros for. And then end with: Idk, I mean, to me, that stuff, none of which is tied to being Jewish, is good reason to criticize Soros, and by your logic, that then makes me antisemitic, no?" She nods, and it's at that point that I kind of chuckle, and said something like "man, I must be the most self-loathing Jew in existence, hating myself, family, and people. You do know I'm Jewish, right?" And the whole class kind of lost it and she stfu the rest of the class. One of my better moments in grad school lol

All that said, the left is SO antisemitic and refuses to admit it. Which is why it pains me when I see 4chan troll-like comments here. It's a huge turnoff to tons of people that could be easily brought to the right side of current-year American politics

Hardly. Secular Jew isn't really Jewish, it's just having a tie to something they can conveniently use in this age of identity politics, all the while having zero allegiance to any religion, and nothing to identify them as Jewish but a last name, long nose, and a Jewish mother. Look at real Jews and you get people like Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, and, well... me. Where I grew up, it was a heavy conservative suburb, and it was about 90% an even split between Italians and Jews (leading to lots of pizza bagels, like me). Crazy lib Jews (my best friend is one), aren't really Jewish. He can't speak Hebrew, knows precisely zero of the Torah/Old Testament, never went to synagogue, no bar mitzvah, etc. But he'll use "being Jewish" to bash you over the head if it's convenient (just like he checked "african american' on every college and job application, since his dad is from Egypt lol), and that's about the summation of these secular jews

I experienced this in a class: all liberals, including the professor (he'd even worked/studied with Judith Butler, and all our assignments were from people like Adorno, Foucault, Horkeimer, etc. All critical theory, etc — and keep in mind this is an esteemed professor at an ivy, serves as the program chair, etc., and without giving too much away, Dinesh D'Souza has name dropped him in a recent video), and midway through the term I had to do my presentation on that week's article (an article on "fake news" written by a marxist academic for a socialist journal). I was soooo nervous, but decided, "fuck it," and made a video that completely ripped her article apart (for essentially saying fake news is only on the right and because of Trump), so I made a debunk video, and showing all the examples of MSM fake news, etc.

Well, students started literally walking out because the cognitive dissonance was too much. My professor literally told me to pause the video, went out the classroom, and made them all come back inside the class and watch. I overheard him saying "he probably disagrees with every single assigned reading in this class, probably disagrees with alll of your opinions and presentations, but he still comes to class, listens to your thoughts, and politely engages with you. You can at least do that."

Once the video ended, the barrage came, with on feminazi even saying "I'd just like to hear from someone that isn't a white male in a position of power," lol. Professor and I made eye contact and kind of even spoke without speaking. He ended up helping me defend my video, and even helped me shut a girl down about the media coverage of the Covington kids. Was an interesting day. SUper lib professor even found me after class and told me how much he liked me video and thanked me for bringing a different perspective to class and not being afraid to state what I believe to be true.

This is the only chance they have. They can't get the murder charge, but they can try for manslaughter by claiming neglect. By definition, neglect is asking "what would a reasonable person do in this situation," and the person not doing what a "reasonable person" would do. They will try and argue that a "reasonable person" woulld have removed the knee once floyd was unconscious. The problem? The police department is quite literally taught to use this EXACT technique, and taught to not remove the knee, even if the person calms down, or "goes unconscious" because 1. they could be faking so they can jump up and run away, and 2. even if not faking and they are unconscious, there is ZERO way the knee technique can suffocate someone. Crowder even demonstrated this - a person can still move their head freely, there's no pressure applied that obstructs airways, etc.

lol, after the capital/jan 6 incident, I'd finally had enough and just lost it on a fb post, and used the word "retard," for "anyone who actually thinks this is the equivalent of a terrorist attack," etc, and so many people lost their minds. It helped me weed a ton of "friends" off my page, and I also managed to kind of convince one old friend on some points (I had to start with "Look. You've seen all my posts, well-written, calm, etc. I used "retard" to intentionally be inflammatory. It was bait, but it's just noise. We grew up watching beavis and butthead, south park and family guy, calling each other retards. Relax. Now onto what's important..."

I think you mean Brawndo? Ya know, it's got what plants crave

Go away! Baitin'!

We already know the truth. It no longer matters in this post-truth era. If the truth were still worth anything, we'd of already seen Trump sworn in on 1/20

After my grad school experience, where about half the students were Chinese international students (almost, or maybe completely all of them funded by their government) in my program, I couldn't agree more. Cheating is a norm for them, even pretend to be shocked if they get in trouble for it. They yell and argue with professors, and just say absolutely insane shit. They can barely speak or write english, but bitch (I've literallly seen them yell at and want to fight professors) when their barely legible paper gets a D, just things like that. Plus, culturally... man. They cut in line constantly, loud AF at 3am, live 12 or more to a 2 bedroom condo (we live in a nice condo complex that caters towards professors and grad students), leave trash everywhere, have no problem asking for a ride or other favors even if we've never met. That's a short cut of a really long list.

Have also gained TONS of insight into how CCP is attempting to colonize the entire globe through listening to their experiences. (for instance, one of them always talks about how, before coming here, he was sent by his [chinese, and ccp funded] company to do "humanitarian work," in Africa, by helping to bring running water to a small village/tribe. What he didn't tell us, was that this isn't humanitarian. It's what the Chinese do to take over Africa. Sounds nice at first, and then they have the infrastructure they need to take over Africa, get mining and drilling rights, etc etc. And this example doesn't even touch on their method of infiltrating culture to take over more stabilized countries and institutions

Wow, that's fantastic for Joe, he still remembers how to chew? I'd just assumed he was already on a steady diet of Pedialyte and tapioca pudding