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You’re close—more like, they’ll explain it to you like they’re a four-year-old.

Not for nothing but Oprah needs to be held accountable somewhat for unleashing Dr Oz and Dr Phil on us. I don’t know how. Maybe just shaming.

Whoever posts it, it wasn't done on a Trump phone.

Except that that is exactly what Israel is doing today in the West Bank. The State of Israel has bought and paid for the critique they are getting. Having sympathy with anyone is dubious when there are no good guys. 🫤

Not I-I had exactly the number of babies I planned on. Zero.

I know it’s been said many times, but these people are ****ing weird

Israel responding to being attacked is not a genocide. It’s been 2.5 years now and Gaza still exists. Israel isn’t that good at doing a genocide. This is a right wing op. Why did the protests largely stop when Trump took over? Trump has been worse for Gaza but they still follow Harris around protesting her instead.

israel is not a "colonizer" state. the situation in gaza is infinitely complicated by all the actors directly involved and those tangentially involved. israel lives next door to multiple states who base their entire existence upon israel's destruction. its in their founding documents, for god's sake. THAT is the underlying issue. the inability of "the palestinians" (really, the leadership of certain ethnic groups in the levant and iran's proxies) to move on and stop treating their people as human martyrs to the cause of killing jews. that doesnt excuse israel for certain actions and things theyve done during the war, but it does set a certain tone for how it is forced to deal with its neighbors. the naiivety of many on the american left when it comes to hamas and iran reminds me of their naiivety surrounding their embrace of communism in the 50s and 60s. anything that is anti-western is good. again, people being horrified by israeli tactics is understandable and not "anti-semitic".

can you pre program VTT for all caps or does he just have to shout at it?

whoever wins this game wins the series.

the protests at universities, the harassment of jewish students, the violence against jewish students, the increase in violence against jewish people all over the country, especially in large cities. swastikas painted in new york and other places. there were violent attacks last week against jewish people in new york again outside a synagogue. there are security details in chicago assigned to synagogues up here by me. multiple jewish people have been shot walking down the street in chicago over the past few years. there has been a huge uptick in anti-semitic violence in major cities. yes, the far right is always against jews (see tucker carlson and that nutty band of ignorant ****s), but now you've seen it in liberal areas as well. the human rights commissioner for chicago recently resigned because mayor johnson insisted that she amend her report on anti-semitism in the city. the report cited the huge upsurge in violence and threats against jews in the city, but johnson refused to release it unless it was changed to focus on other minorities. the equivalent of making "black lives matter" into "all lives matter" so the report could be diluted and it wouldnt upset his far left supporters on city council like sigcho-lopez or rossana rodriguez. the anti-israeli art exhibit at the chicago city museum. the attacks on the two israeli students at depaul. again, protesting israeli military actions in the middle east is one thing - everyone is entitled to their opinion on the war. but its spilled over into a huge surge in violence in urban areas, fed largely by online agitators and the hysterical and over-the-top way we present news on social media now. people are taking out their feelings about israel on jewish citizens. its akin to people assaulting asians after covid, but on a much much larger scale. we have 3000 years of history telling us how people treat jews differently.

MAHA means culling the weak from the American society by allowing them to die from preventable diseases. Survival of the fittest. Meanwhile, MAGA means total discrimination and keeping the poor hungry. Eliminate the elderly, who soak up too many resources and are too expensive to support. And remove any foreign speaking people from our country unless they are wealthy enough to pay their own way.

Refs were bad. Piston players were bad. Piston coaches were bad. It was just bad.

How can you stand on the sideline 82 times this season and still not understand how much offense this team generates from its defense?

This team is missing a super strong, all nba level on-ball defender. They’d be really tough to beat if they had someone like that to play 33 minutes including most of the 4th. I know those guys are hard to find but it would make such a difference.

the game is getting important. how do you know? harden is pretending he's injured already.

I think he's finally gotten so besotted that he's starting to cross lines with real costs. The Jesus pic, and not\w this. There isn't much that GIs hate more than this kind of thing.

The answer to all your questions is money.

LaceyLou, you are FIRE! The 1850s would actually be perfect for him: slavery still in force, nation divided and ripe for the pickings ...

Sorry, out of reactions: 😂

My problem is when it seems forced. I can see the Red Sox doing their thing on marathon Monday because it’s organic. There’s a direct link and they always played early on that day. But you can’t force this stuff. I thjnk San Diego did something similar with camo jerseys and that city is almost synonymous with the Navy stuff there. That’s all fine. But don’t force Kansas City and Detroit and the Dodgers into something that’s not immediately evident.

I think he might mean the 1850s. I'm pretty sure he doesn't want the tax rates from the 1950s.

“All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid Nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant Just an appendage, live to attend him So that he never lifts a finger 24/7 baby machine So he can live out his picket-fence dreams It's not an act of love if you make her You make me do too much labour.” (w/appreciation to Paris Paloma)

To be clear, I’m agreeing with your take on MAHA and MAGA. These movements diminish our humanity.

Ugliest guy in the league.

My grandfather, who came to this country in flight from genocide, would always get impatient at his fellow emigres when they would talk old homeland grievances, he would say "You are an American now. You came here to leave all that behind!" When the old world grievances of emigres become issues in US politics it never helps America, whether it's Cuba, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, whatever.

The Democratic nominee in Maine is a Nazi and a lot of the most prominent Democratic senators in New England endorsed him. AIPAC has basically become the new boogeyman. It’s basically the Soros of the left. They do six degrees of AIPAC to see if a filthy Jew somewhere down the line donated to someone who donated to another person who may have donated to you. They don’t care about genocide in Ukraine, Sudan, etc but immediately throw that term around with Israel. There is definitely antisemitism on the left and it’s forcing the mainstream Dems to deal with it and some are just giving in.

i dont think "the left" is anti-semitic. i think the left is anti-american and anti-western. the left has bought into the idea perpetuated in universities that israel is a "colonizer" and that therefore it is bad. and trump supporting israel has inflamed the left because they hate everything trump touches (with good reason). but i DO think that the rhetoric matters. what the fringe right and the fringe left say filters into the mainstream (israel as a colonizer state is a good example of a fringe idea that has become mainstream left wing doctrine), and the left does have a number of prominent political figures who are moving ever so gently down the anti-semitic path. ilhan omar is anti-semitic. rossana rodriguez is anti-semitic. to your point, those are fringe figures, but the fringe sometimes becomes the mainstream. "i dont hate jews, i hate anti-zionists" is the equivalent of "i dont hate black people, i hate n-words." and i say all of this 10x about the right. they dont try to hide it like the fringe left.

Yeah - It would be hard to believe he is not in the room real time with whoever is actually typing the keystrokes/constructing the GIFS - I think we can assume it is all originating in what is left of his brain.

One of the things that has happened in Israel is that public opinion there has hardened - the radicalism of Hamas and Hezbollah has in turn created a reaction in the Israeli general population sufficient to create a majority of support for Netanyahu's terrible policies. It's sort of the same phenomenon we see here with Americans supporting terrible cruel Trump policies. I don't know what the answer is when whole societies lose their moral bearings. In the ME it's been an ever descending spiral for my entire lifetime. Arabs cheer in the street when Israelis die, eventually Israeli's don't care how many Arabs they kill. And we've imported those mentalities onto the DOD with Hegseth cheering at killing people with same kind of glee as a dedicated Hamas radical. Hard to see it all ending on any good note.

Agree with all of this. I get annoyed when some conflate how awful the actions of Netenyahu/IDF with anti-semitism. Hamas are war criminals, Bibi is a war criminal and we can agree on those things without picking a side. Anti-semitism is bad no matter the political leanings.

agree with your assessment. This is a case where many things are true all at the same time. There is a genocide in Gaza and what many in the IDF and others are doing is horrific. I just read something yesterday about rapes and beatings of women and children. What happened on Oct 7, 2023 is equally horrific. Netyenyahu is a bitch and finally got Trump to do his bidding. He's a horrible individual. Jews are being targeted with antisemitism and also people conflate criticism of the government in Israel with anti semitism. It's all true. But too many are forced to pick "sides" and have to tread lightly without offending someone who they also agree with on nearly everything. I refuse to pick a side and pretend that's pure and free from atrocities.

Might as well not lose

It’s so obvious too. So many late whistles after they see the ball didn’t go in. If he misses and screams at the ref it’s a foul.

ref show. what a joke.

jb refuses to believe ausar can be valuable on offense by playing great defense.

If they aren't roasting Robinson they are roasting Harris. At least Tobias gets a little back on the other end

Duren with a jump shot. It's our best option? I bmnever wanna see that again.

What's the point of having two ball handlers in the game and still have Cade bring it up against full court pressure?

there's the danniss and caris show i'm used to seeing.

Playoff LeVert better than regular season LeVert?

Praying for Duren foul trouble as it’s the only way to get JB to put him on the bench.

Uncommon[ly Stolen] Valor.

So on the ESPN Tiger site right now, Buster has an interview with Boras. So what Boras says is that the deal here is that they did not use an arthroscope on Skubal, they used a new micro device (come kind of fiber optic micro canula) that isn't much larger than a hypodermic needle. That is why they are looking for less than 'std' return possibility. The story is the new even-less-invasive-than-a-'scope treatment tech provides a possibility for faster recovery.

Everyone who bought one deserved to lose their money.

I get the compromise, but I still don't like when screenwriters put 21st century dialog in he mouths of mid 20th century real people. It's good dialog but it's not terminology either of those men would have used.