Where is the Kracken?? Lolz! Saying that no "sensible person would take what I said seriously". You would think some would take a step back and say... "I'm a f*ckin' idiot!" But alas...Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
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Where is the Kracken?? Lolz! Saying that no "sensible person would take what I said seriously". You would think some would take a step back and say... "I'm a f*ckin' idiot!" But alas...Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Surely you don't want to get into a "politicians who say/do stupid shit" debate?Quote:
Originally Posted by MaroonFlounder
Also, as I'm sure you know, neither of them are scientists, and if I'm going to bring references (i.e., receipts, if you will) to the discussion, it certainly won't be from some politician (right or left) with at best a poli-sci degree.
Why do I even bother...
How do you type so well in a straight-jacket? Teach 99jc. He's not in a jacket but still manages to butcher the English language.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex54
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Originally Posted by Rex54
From the guy that openly wants theocratic fascism, lol.
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100% agree. If giving up sports is what it takes than I'm good with it. I've had enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
They can either deal with it or leave. What a dumbass post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
I'm with you that the party structure is F'd up, but what do you do? No independent or 3rd party would ever have a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex54
Absolutely, otherwise known as "most of American and western civilization history"Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Meh, not sure. That's why America was founded, so it is kinda American I guess, lol. And yea you're right about that, but I just meant people get to choose the laboratory/state in which they live.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
So, anti-American? Glad you're on record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex54
Become a nation within a nation.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaroonFlounder
UCLA is newsmax? They have a whole department related to thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Turfdawg67
Dang, this whole time I thought UCLA was a university in Los Angeles
Yes i am 100% anti what this society has become. Correct. You have the correct label.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
There are more conservative Republicans in California than any other state. Should they all be deported to Nebraska or whatever, ala the expulsion of the Germans?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex54
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight...%E2%80%931950)
Similarly, the 2nd and 3rd most raw votes for Biden were in Florida and Texas.
Lol, I suppose, but that typically applies to other things like quality of life, taxes, amenities, geography, etc, while we all have the same rights/protections regardless of location.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
For example, I live in Mass, and I think most people would be surprised to know that outside of Boston and a few college towns, most of the state is very "RED", but they don't have the voting numbers to outweigh the rest. The same would go for Starkville...a very liberal community "comparatively" with the rest of the state, but still one of few blue counties in a sea of red. Same pretty much goes for everywhere, outside of California, maybe, lol.
Ok, great. Take your ball and go home then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex54
But would they stay? And would conservatives stay on CA?Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
60% of America is "in the middle". Agree that some that claim to swing one way or the other is in hiding. My father's generation (30s to 80s) voted for the person, more or less, than the party. That is GONE! It's party line voting, right or wrong, beliefs or not, "can't give an inch" bullshit. You wanna fix this country, 1) Term limits and 2) get rid of Parties. Listen to what the person says... chances are you agree with 60% of what they say.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaroonFlounder
I'm not so sure about that. It would take one hell of a leader to call out the media, both sides, as the divisive wedge it is and to blast politicians as money hungry hate-creating robots. And then appeal to financial conservatives and social moderates. Nobody will try it, but it could happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaroonFlounder
I'm with you 100%!!! I wish we could discuss this without everyone attacking each other. It sucks that we've gotten where we are. I hate it. We can't even discuss sports anymore. This is another reason to stop watching/supporting sports. I was going to start watching MLB this year. I've been a casual fan for sometime but I was really looking forward to jumping in this year. My beloved PawPaw was a huge Braves fan before he died many years ago. I was looking forward to watching Braves baseball. Then, they had to get political over a stupid reason. Not a chance I'll pay attention to a single game now.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
This really sucks. Peoples politics, fake wokeness, democrats, republicans, etc........They are killing sports and slowly destroying this country. It's sad. I 17'n hate it.
The SEC and others really need to leave the NCAA and put them out of business.
I can't speak for any California Republicans but I live in Mississippi as a Democrat because it's where my life is. My friends, family, job, etc., are all here. The fact that I'm on the 40 side of a 60-40 split just doesn't really factor into my life the majority of the time. In fact, I rarely talk about politics in real life anyway, even with people who are on the same side. My assumption is that many blue state Republicans feel similarly.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
As far as splitting the country goes, you have to assume that anyone whose state is going to the "other" country is going to be dead set against a split. Only 2 states even went 2/3 to a candidate in 2020, and that was just barely - Trump won West Virginia with 68.6% and Wyoming with 69.9%. So even if most of the majority party in a state wanted to split (and I think that's actually pretty rare, but let's imagine a hypothetical future), it's going to be hard for a majority of any state as a whole to support splitting, and even those are likely to be a fairly narrow majority.
Let's imagine that in each state, 75% of the majority party wants to split into 2 countries, but no one else does. That means you only have 2 states wanting that (WV and WY) and both just barely.
I'd rather just win the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Look, I agree with just about everything you said, but "fake wokenss" also applies to conservative politicians who pass meaningless laws to essentially virtue signal to their base (dems do this too, obviously), that doesn't really accomplish anything, because it's a solution without a real problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
The whole argument in this thread should be sports being ruined by politics. Nobody pressed the NCAA on this. They started it themselves. I hope they face blowback.
Literally the opposite of the right appeal.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
I agree with this. And I think the 24 hour media has made it this way. They get rich off of it and drive the wedge. You must hate the other sideQuote:
Originally Posted by Turfdawg67
As I said on SPS, the NCAA is fake as shit. There's nothing woke about raking in billions of dollars off unpaid laborers (who are disproportionately poor and black), and saber-rattling about barely-existent trans athletes is not going to begin to make up for it.
Really? I feel like most red voters are more worried about economics than gay marriage. And most blue voters are more worried about lgbtq rights than taxes. Maybe I'm wrong though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex54
IMO our government officials have never been as far out of touch and removed from the average American(left or right) as they are right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
https://www.storybench.org/wp-conten...polcompass.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Fiscal conservatives and social liberals are the bottom right quadrant.....
That's why I called out the republicans too. Both sides are full of shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
I agree. It's bizarre.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
No doubt. CNN, Fox News, et al... make a fortune playing to their "base". Problem is... there's only half-truths in much of what is said. So... if, for instance, Gaetz is regularly banging 17 year olds, 1/2 the country will NEVER know about it. And, conversely, if Trump paid his taxes on time, only half the country will believe it.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
This isnt difficult.
Born with a penis? Men's sport
Born with a ******? Women's sport
The rest is just white noise with people trying to push crazy agendas
Yes. Stop voting for the lesser of two evils. Stop voting blue or red.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
I'm surprised Scooba hasnt locked this thread already. It went off the rails about 4 pages ago.
Charles Barkley made good comments IMO during the NCAA tourney. For those that didn?t see it, he basically said most folks like each other and get along, but politicians on both side pit us against each other for power and money.
Interesting. Just goes to show you Twitter is not representative of realityQuote:
Originally Posted by Rex54
The system won't allow the social conservative who wants Medicare for all. They assassinated Huey Long who was the closest thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
The right never wins on social issues. The left never gets their economic stuff.
We just get woke multicultural capitalism. Which is what the system wants.