In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

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  1. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    ******** this, just got a printer and learning Thunder Road and Tenth Ave Freezeout on the piano. Gotta love music websites and pdfs.
     
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  2. soccernutter

    soccernutter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Tottenham Hotspur
    Aug 22, 2001
    Near the mountains.
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm sure most of those people would be unable to identify what those good ideas were.
    Holy hell. If there is one team I want to lose in the NHL, it's the Leafs.

    Or was the Leafs. At least v. the Panthers.
     
  3. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    No, but I don't think it matters. I suspected, and now with our experience with how people act around AI I am convinced, that many if not most people hate thinking for themselves and would gladly support someone that says "Put me in charge, I will fix everything, and you don't have to think about anything" no matter what they actually do. The "good idea" Hitler had was getting rid of voting so people didn't have that responsibility any more.

    The problem is that most people who say "Put me in charge, I will fix everything, and you don't have to think about anything" are morons who actually believe it. And they create the equal and opposite reaction to their rule by alienating people that actually want to think for themselves. That's what makes Putin brilliant and unique, in an evil way of course. He has creates fake opposition parties to absorb all the various peoples that would normally be opponents (liberals, intellectuals, hard core communists, so on) and harmlessly radiate their power into nothing projects where it does him no harm.
     
  4. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Thing is, that was post Kaiserine Germany, with a nine hundred year tradition that "just obeying orders" was a legitimate and absolute defense a virtue. Weimar Germans really did resent voting on everything and were happy to be relieved of that duty/obligation.

    This is a 220 year tradition in which everybody votes on everything. That requires, to overcome, a much more powerful innate drive to escape responsibility than I'd have thought possible...
     
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  5. Homa

    Homa Member

    Feb 4, 2008
    Aachen
    Club:
    FC Schalke 04
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Sorry, but there was no 900 hundred year tradition of obeying orders, that seems to be a tad simplistic a reason for Hitlers ascent.

    I don't think many nowadays in western Europe or the US have any experience similar to how disruptive the years from 1919 to 1933 were in Germany. Lost a world war, had a revolution, a rebellion, had the major industrial center occupied by a foreign power, had hyperinflation wrecking whatever wealth remained, got the biggest economic crisis in history which was accompanied by heavy political violence from the extreme right and left, including regular street fights, all the while the parties in parliament seemed busy fighting out ideological wars instead of solving the crisis. When Hitler came to power the people where exhausted from 15 years of turmoil + 4 years of war. That isn't a reason/excuse to vote for someone like Hitler, but there were far more important reasons than pining for good old Wilhelm.

    Post-soviet Russia might be a decent comparison.

    I don't believe people in the US are fed up by voting. If they are fed up, they are because the political system seems unable to solve their biggest problems: cost of health care, cost of (higher) education, cost of housing. At the end of the day the basic, fundamental source of legitimacy for any government and political system is its ability to address and solve problems.

    Personally, I believe the biggest problem is the current media consumption in the US. Having the population basically split into two media bubbles combined with the "flood news" strategies prohibits any meaningful political discourse over all political sides. Guess something has to break, before that will be resolved but who knows what will break and what will emerge.
     
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  6. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
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  7. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    Walmart has "valued customers?"

    I thought they were sort of the merchant of last resort for those without much money...

    (And this really underscores that he has no idea how the stock markets actually work.)
     
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  8. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    In urban areas, but for most of the country they are the only option. Outside maybe Dollar General.
     
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  9. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Trump should hire Sanders to his cabinet.

     
  10. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I found these funny, 'Abundance Islam'





     
  11. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Tenth Avenue Freeze Out is an underrated gem.

    Dancing in the Dark is fun to play on guitar. Same with Atlantic City, though I prefer the Band's version.
     
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  12. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    MAGA - 88%
     
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  13. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
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  14. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I would like to report a murder.


     
  15. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Peterson does not look or sound the least bit well.
     
  16. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
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  17. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  18. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Vlad throws people out windows for fun.

    These words from Donnie are comedy to him.
     
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  19. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
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    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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    Who remembers when Republicans were for smaller government?

    But also, they're not gonna pay for the dome which covers them? Is Mexico still gonna pay for the wall? Does anyone remember the big beautiful wall?
     
  20. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  21. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Many hilarious. This one, unsurprising:

    I had to look up Judd Stone. "Judd began his legal career clerking for United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Edith H. Jones."

    "Senators Cornyn and Cruz appointed Judd to their Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee...."​

     
  22. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    Yet he'll probably keep custody of his kids. :(
     
  23. diablodelsol

    diablodelsol Member+

    Jan 10, 2001
    New Jersey

    “Shout out to all the haters who mocked me for having "MAGA asteroid anal rape" on my bingo card. Who's laughing now?”

    https://bsky.app/profile/steviezbrooklyn.bsky.social/post/3lqaifapyfc2j
     
  24. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Like I said, there’s gold in them thar hills
     
  25. Smurfquake

    Smurfquake Moderator

    Aug 8, 2000
    San Carlos, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    For people who want to dig deeper or get their lifetime supply of asteroid rape porn, here's the lawsuit which this was extracted from.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/r...845463/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172845463.1.0_1.pdf

    There's a bunch of standard / expected descriptions of workplace harassment (e.g. the principles had to wait two hours for a big lunch order to show up and they verbally abused the executive assistant, that kind of thing), and then a letter from a different person which includes the asteroid stuff.

    And I just want to point out it's really thoughtful that the guy specified a cylindrical asteroid, as opposed to, like, a spiky asteroid or something that would be more painful to be anally penetrated by.
     
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