Heretic

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On Aug 17, 2019:

Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 03:30 pm
posted by O-Trap
They are. No question.

But people have had a hard-on for Israel for years.

I'm sure it's because it's the same name as the nation of God's people in the Bible, but frankly, that's were the similarities end for the most part. Different borders, different government, different culture, even different religion for the most part.

The modern nation of Israel is a democracy without a state religion, same as about 99% of the countries in the world (looking at you, North Korea and Indonesia). Fewer than half of the Jews in Israel even identify as religiously Jewish. Most either observe the traditions for the sake of tradition -- Masorti -- or are are altogether secular -- Hiloni.

As such, I can't see anything outside western Christendom's obsession with biblical eschatology or nearly illiterate understanding of the books of the Prophets being the cause of it, but whether or not I'm right, it persists.

If it's just because they're allies (ah, the good ol' foreign entanglements ...), then they should be on par with other allies, but even by comparison to that lot, Israel gets an unusual benefit of the doubt.

It's like one big geopolitical performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

As for that, I do find it funny when people take any criticism of Israel, its government or our unconditional support of them and immediately play the anti-semite card. Bonus points for when those people nearly always tend to be the same ones who rip on the left for constantly screaming "racist", "sexist" and other buzzwords whenever someone disagrees with them because a near-total lack of self-awareness is always amusing.

On Aug 16, 2019:

Heretic replied to "Indians vs. Red Sox" at 10:52 am
posted by Ironman92
Dave Roberts does it a good bit with his pitchers

Well, with a pitcher, it's a different story, as the majority of them bat between .050 and .150. With the odds that against getting a hit, you'd take an out that advances a runner, as the alternatives are far more likely to be a K or grounder that potentially leads to a double play. If you're talking a competent hitter, though, I'd be against the bunt in about every condition that doesn't involve the guy at the plate having elite enough speed that a good slap down the third base line could easily be a bunt single.

On Aug 15, 2019:

Heretic replied to "NBA Offseason 2019" at 04:58 pm
Yeah, another ACL, I think? Have to think his playing days are behind him if that's the case.

Heretic replied to "OSU Football 2019" at 04:56 pm
posted by vball10set
I didn't realize that, and to be honest, I've never seen anybody wearing one

Neither did I, but it makes sense. A company will never go broke if they market gear towards the douchiest section of a popular team's fanbase. Never.

Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 04:55 pm
posted by CenterBHSFan
"Because they are just not communicating what they actually think very well. If people would actually take the time and think about what they *really* mean to say they wouldn't have these problems!"

Well, the Squad and Trump are basically two sides of the same, sad coin.

Heretic replied to "2020 Presidential Election thread" at 04:54 pm
posted by fish82
Not gonna lie...that's a pretty good selling point IMO.

I know one person who watches Ancient Aliens. A lot. When I saw this, I told him that I knew where his vote was going. He laughed.

/coolstorybro

On Aug 14, 2019:

Heretic replied to "Hong Kong" at 01:21 pm
posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie
Excited is not the word I'd use. You sound like the old man neighbor all the kids are afraid of.

Epstein? (formerly, that is)

On Aug 13, 2019:

Heretic replied to "Hong Kong" at 06:27 pm
posted by QuakerOats

Freedom searchers there are waving our flag to rally their hopes and dreams. Ignorant jackasses in our country are disrespecting our flag.

Black is white

Right is wrong

Boys are girls

Up is down

God save the republic

If this site has ever had a purely awesome "crazy old derelict standing on soapbox screaming about the end of days" post, this just might be it.

Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 12:50 pm
posted by jmog
I’ve heard wop and dago for Italians but never Fredo. Heck, Wikipedia doesn’t even have fredo on the list of ethnic slurs for Italians.

I'd wager that any real USA Italian would rather deal with a run of the mill slur like wop or dago than be called a Fredo, since that's basically saying they are a weak, barely-competent bitch-boy who'd sell out their own brother if it allowed them to feel like a big shot for a little while, at least until their inherent stupidity causes them to unintentionally spill the beans and essentially putting an end to everything that concerns them and their life. I mean, in OC terminology, that'd be like someone calling someone else a "CC" because their post was so unfathomably derpy.

My props to Cuomo for at least making today's news cycle far more hilariously entertaining than what the average day tends to give me.

Heretic replied to "Epstein "Suicide"" at 12:42 pm
Food for thought:

Be aware of a common blind partisan tactic to twist anything so that it paints "their side" in the best possible light, while pretending that any and all wrongdoing was obviously done by those considered the opposition.

On Aug 12, 2019:

Heretic replied to "Epstein "Suicide"" at 07:22 pm
posted by CenterBHSFan
Just googled.

I found this: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/labor-secretary-acosta-out/h_2d721675c816ccb7d6dd65bc27996ca7

I'm not buying this because... what's with the pics of him smiling when they're standing with one arm around the other? And why invite him to Mar a Lago to begin with?

While knowing the dude and having a friendly "rich dude" relationship with him don't indicate any wrong-doing on Trump's part, did you think there was even a .000001% chance of him describing his relationship with him in any way other than the most self-serving way possible? That's just how he is. They could have just been two rich dudes who hung out in similar social circles, were friendly acquaintances and Trump just knew he liked younger chicks but had no clue it was pedo-young because they weren't really that close and he'd be acting like he never liked him and didn't want to be around him at all...regardless of what he was saying about him back in the day while posing for pics with him. He just operates on the principle of "Only believe what I'm saying RIGHT NOW and ignore anything that may contradict that, even if it was something I said previously!!!"

Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 01:09 pm
posted by O-Trap
Dude, relax. No need to get upset.

No, no, it's both really fun and way too easy to imagine him in a pissed off mood for days because his widdle feelings couldn't take something that someone said on the internet.

On Aug 8, 2019:

Heretic replied to "2019 Reds Thread" at 10:43 pm
Bell's hard-on for putting Hernandez in when it's a key situation kills you again.

Heretic replied to "2020 Presidential Election thread" at 04:37 pm
posted by Spock
I just listened to Joe Rogan interview with Bernie. Holy shit his lack of cause and affect is scary.

You and the English language just aren't compatible, are they?

Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 04:21 pm
posted by O-Trap
Texas being a red state, I have no idea how he got as close as he did in that race, other than what I mentioned before.

Because it's Ted Cruz and after his 2016 run where Trump hit him with low blow after low blow and he still metaphorically sucked him off when told to, no one respects him.

Heretic replied to "2019 Reds Thread" at 08:35 am
I think the crazy thing about the 4.5 back (or whatever it is after last night) is that even being that close, they still have to pass 6 teams to be the #2 wild card. One hell of a traffic jam of mediocrity in the NL --- makes it even more depressing my Pirates forgot how to do everything after the break in order to join Miami in the "WTF guys...WTF..." group of shit.

On Aug 7, 2019:

Heretic replied to "What was the last movie you watched?" at 06:06 pm
posted by Laley23
This just doesn’t even make sense. He’s the star of 6 of those movies. Played a minor role/character actor in 3 of them (which is what spawned this conversation) and stole the show from everyone in Oceans.

Sleepers would be ensemble where he didn’t outshine everyone...

Also shows his range. Those roles are it plug and play. They are pretty much all very different from the last.

Or, since a couple of us brought it up before, True Romance. Where he showed he was BORN to play a couch-living stoner.

On Aug 6, 2019:

Heretic replied to "NBA Offseason 2019" at 12:56 pm
posted by BR1986FB
Heard Vince Carter signed a 1 year contract and, at age 42, if he plays in a game after January 1st that he will be the only player to play in 4 decades.

And he is now assured of spending (up to now) half his entire life as an NBA player.

Heretic replied to "What was the last movie you watched?" at 12:52 pm
posted by Commander of Awesome
He didn't direct it, just wrote it.Side note, just learned that when he wrote True Romance, he had never even been on a date before. Pretty crazy.

So, basically, Christian Slater's character was him if he'd gotten rich by killing dudes and stealing from the mob, instead of being a successful writer/director (and his first date was Patricia Arquette at peak hotness)? I didn't know that and now am in a state of "Whoa, man...just, whoa..."

Heretic replied to "What was the last movie you watched?" at 12:48 pm
posted by Automatik
How can you not even mention True Romance? Because he only wrote it? It's one of my all time favs.

I don't know if I'd put a single movie on that list in front of True Romance. I remember loving Reservoir Dogs and thought TR blew it out of the water and then, when I saw Pulp, my opinion was that it was really good, but not up to that standard.