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

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by argentine soccer fan, Jul 11, 2024.

  1. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    MAGA scientific method at work here

    “make the proof”

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  2. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    FWIW, this is how they* think it actually works--you see this in how they talk about history as well; they already 'know' how things are supposed to work and what lessons we are to take from 'knowing' what reality is supposed to be, so they judge both history and science when they, respectively, follow the correct narrative and produce the correct results.

    This is a feature, not a bug.

    *I'm talking MAGA here, but I'd reckon there a more precise cohort this really applies to.
     
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  3. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

    Apr 20, 2009
    France
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    France

    I remember an old comic strip that compared science and "creation science". The panel for science had the scientist saying something along the lines of "here are the facts, what conclusions can we draw from them?", while the panel on "creation science" had the creationist pointing to the Bible saying: "here are the facts, now how can we make the evidence fit them?".

    The latter is precisely what RFK and co are doing.
     
  4. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 5, 2000
    Woodbridge, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Exactly. I'm saying that I don't think the problem either with RFK or the scenario in that strip is religion or 'faith' per se; it's the teleological nature of how authoritarians see reality and understand what knowledge is and what it's for.
     
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  5. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Club: San Diego FC
    Jul 2, 2003
    Fornax Cluster
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So glad I retired
     
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  6. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    I believe the answer lies in humanity's greatest treatise on the subject, Star Trek Generations, wherein a human who becomes a being of pure mind will create a heavenly reality based on their corporeal existence because that is all that such minds can comprehend.
     
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  7. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  8. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    "But you have to be specific about which kind of pizza"
    "Be pacific!!?? My yass! If you don't shaddap, yaw gunna be swimmin in the Atlantic!"
     
  9. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
  10. Jeremy Goodwin

    Jeremy Goodwin Member+

    SSC Napoli
    Feb 16, 1999
    Club:
    Montreal Impact
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
     
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  11. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Jesus, what a horrible headline.

    "________________, ________________, and ___________ win this year's Nobel prizes as Selection Committe rejects Trump's emotional plea"

    Do we have any reason to think Norway is "bracing" for anything?
     
  12. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  13. Auriaprottu

    Auriaprottu Member+

    Atlanta Damn United
    Apr 1, 2002
    The back of the bus
    Club:
    Atlanta
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--

    even better:
    Alvin, Simon, Theodore Win 2025 Nobel Prize
    Selection Comittee ignores pleas from US President

    Why is it that I can write better headlines than the people who get paid to do it? This isn't the time to make people click or buy by making Trump the focus of your article. should have been working on sales when that mattered. This is the time to wreck his tender ego by not mentioning him in the largest print.

    Not a dig at the winners, I just didn't have time to google to see who they were
     
  14. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Is it just me, or does this image of Noem look like AI. Just something weird about her skin.

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    But you gotta respect the vertical integration here. Musk goes fascist, fascist gets elected, then that fascist uses Musk’s company to hire more goons.
     
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  15. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Her righ5 eye looks a bit bulgy, but that could be the result of “cosmetic” “surgery.”
     
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  16. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    We win world cups
    You love our meat
    Our economy sucks
    We're world deadbeats
    Doin' the tango Argentino
     
  17. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  18. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

    Club: San Diego FC
    Jul 2, 2003
    Fornax Cluster
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If I wasn't a bit long in the tooth, I'd be tempted to join ICE, just so I could ******** things up and take notes. Sort of like a cross between Dumb and Dumber and Donnie Brasco.
     
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  19. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Half heartedly run after Messican food delivery guys on ebikes "oh no...stop illegal. Dang. Lost another one. I'm kinda bad at this, boss, but I promise to try harder"
     
  20. dapip

    dapip Member+

    Sep 5, 2003
    South Florida
    Club:
    Millonarios Bogota
    Nat'l Team:
    Colombia
    Join ICE and help facelift the nation!!!
     
  21. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  22. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
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  23. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
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  24. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Heads they win tails we lose

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  25. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    Raleigh NC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This is like if Lucy told Charlie Brown that she is gonna pull the football away, and then expecting him to do it anyway.

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