Heretic

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On Apr 19, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 02:22 pm
  • posted by QuakerOats

     

    He does swing (and miss) often.

    Body bagging and "swing (and miss)" are two different things. Hope this helps.

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 02:21 pm
  • posted by gut

    I'm also becoming increasingly disgusted by politics, the media and public discourse.

    It's one thing to see such ignorance on a message board.  But when you see it start dividing your family, and your family falling into tropes and agenda traps.....in some respects, it's almost like the dark ages again

    And I don't mean to engage in hyperbole....But both sides routinely attempt to dismiss the other through demonization.  We're no longer a society that debates, but a society that shames.

    I agree with that. Political discourse has basically turned into this thing where it's like a sports rivalry between two fanbases that hate the others' team, except 1000 times more obnoxious. Center's post about the Seth Abramson 450-tweet thread is kind of the epitome of that -- a dude who went 6-to-midnight the instant the Mueller investigation started, immediately starting making tweet threads about it and what he expected to see, continued doing that the entire time that the investigation was ongoing and now seemingly has snapped due to the actual results not being what he was predicting and declaring for the past eternity or so. Pretty much the left-wing version of QQ and CC on this forum's derpy right-wing conspiracy thread. Shit's annoying as hell regardless of what side's doing it. Basically a denial of reality, replacing it with your personal hopes.

On Apr 18, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 03:09 pm
  • posted by like_that

    A lot of them have left thru the years, which is why I think you believe this site has become more right wing.  

    posted by Heretic

    By the standards of this site, OTrap, Justin and Gut have all been basically called left-wingers by at least one person, so the perception about what exactly is a left-winger is kind of different here than most places.

    I wouldn't consider any of those guys left wingers. 
     

     

    Think it was QQ for Justin and OTrap because their ideas of limited government DO NOT include spending tons of wasted money on meaningless shit like the "war" on drugs. And just recently, CC was insinuating that about Gut because of differing views on what a coup actually is (on the "Dipshit Righty Conspiracy Thread" or whatever it's actually called).

    Sure, that's the over-the-top blind partisan hack segment, but they also are, along with maybe ICL, the only prolific posters here who are aligned "R" and not "Libertarian with conservative tendencies for at least financial issues", since a lot of the pure R crowd from back in the day also either no longer post here or at least rarely hit this forum.

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 01:29 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    There’s left winged people on this site?

    By the standards of this site, OTrap, Justin and Gut have all been basically called left-wingers by at least one person, so the perception about what exactly is a left-winger is kind of different here than most places.

On Apr 17, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "What's outraging you today?" at 12:57 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    When people do nice things, but it somehow gets spun to be a negative. Perfect example: billionaires in the US donate $700M to help rebuild Notre Dame cathedral. Yet, instead of saying “wow, what a kind thing to do and a great way to use your wealth in a humanitarian way” I am seeing “oh, but yet they don’t want to help Flint, MI give their residents clean water...racist pigs”

    I cannot fucking stand when people try to politicize everything so much that it makes a very kind thing look racist or wrong. 

    That shit's been annoying for a long time. I remember a number of years ago, when some catastrophe like a typhoon or hurricane hit somewhere outside of the US and people were making contributions to help out. Some people were bitching because "a lot of people here need help, but you're donating to help over there" reasons. GFY, dudes, if someone is doing something to help people, no one needs to hear you being a little bitch because of who is being helped. Just like no one needs to hear some dipshit trying to say that because a billionaire gave a hundred thousand or so, they're actually being super-stingy because they can afford to give more. Dude, when you can afford to give $100K and are giving more, instead of the $25 you're congratulating yourself for donating, then you have the right to judge how much they're giving.

On Apr 16, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "What was the last movie you watched?" at 01:01 pm

  • So, kind of like how in the first Friday the 13th, Jason's backstory had him drowning as a kid AND in Freddy vs. Jason, Freddy uses dream powers to show Jason has a water phobia because of that to nearly incapacitate him...but in many of the movies between those two, Jason shows no reluctance in killing people in or near water. I HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!!!!

    Or, uh, since the main characters in that movie are a husband, wife and three...uh, WHOOPSIE!!!!...two children, the act of building a house might not be all that feasible unless you actually have building materials on hand. If noise is taboo, you ain't gonna be driving to town in a big-ass truck to raid Lowe's. And depending on personal do-it-yourself ability, the simple act of building something semi-permanent that will provide shelter and not collapse in a strong wind might not be all that easy (I mean, the dude had shit built up in his house like soundproofing part of it, but starting from scratch while outdoors and completely vulnerable seems to be a different story). And, when you think about it, unless these monsters are going to be cool about shit and broadcast they're coming for you with a lot of noise, I don't know that I'd be all the comfortable with concentrating on building something in the hopes that I'll notice them coming and have time to get to my raft to escape down river before I'm grabbed.

  • Heretic replied to "Game of Thrones Final Season Discussion Thread" at 12:15 pm
  • posted by gut

    Yeah, but Ghost might end-up being a snack...

    She did say her dragons eat what they want. And direwolves haven't had the best rate of survival this show AND it has been a couple years since one has been offed and there are only Ghost and Nymeria left, so yeah, I'd be keeping mine the hell away from any dragons!

  • Heretic replied to "NHL" at 11:19 am
  • posted by QuakerOats

     

     

    Pens look like toast – too bad.

     

    Canes with a dominating win last night; shots were 45-18; hope they keep it up.

     

    Jackets beating TB three times in a row is amazing; that place was rocking Sunday night.  Need to close it out tonight.

    Wish I could say I was surprised, but they were so up and down during the regular season. Almost like they figured they could turn it on just like that when they needed to, except their stars keep getting older, their defense still turns into a sieve at the worst possible times and they have this bad habit of completely disappearing for long stretches. It ain't over until it's over...but I wouldn't be surprised if it became over tonight.

On Apr 15, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "Game of Thrones Final Season Discussion Thread" at 12:59 pm
  • posted by ptown_trojans_1

    It was fine. I had two small squabbles.

    1. If revealing the true parents of Jon is that important Bran, don't you think it would be he first thing you mention to him? Instead, he waits and then it is just Sam that delivers it, not the both of them.

    2. The dragon riding scene should have been a way bigger deal. It felt odd. 

     

    The Bran part made me think a lot more about the fan theory of Bran being the Night King, as if so, he pure Littlefinger'd the fuck out of the situation (we're talking early series super-effective Littlefinger; not the impotently flailing Scooby Doo villain of S7).

    1. Bran pretty much sees all, knows all.

    2. Bran has Sam do all the talking re: Jon's parentage.

    3. He picks the moment when Sam is emotionally shattered by finding out his dad and brother (who he seemed to even get along with in their small scene together a couple seasons ago) were executed by Dany for not swearing fealty to her. Therefore, Sam openly blurts that out to Jon, including a "she never told you that?" question.

    So, in context with how the major theme of the show was the North's reluctance to accept Dany as their queen, since they chose him to be their king....

    1. Jon now has been told that Dany has a little Mad King in her personality, as well as in her blood. With this news being the sort of thing that would really fracture an uneasy alliance if, say, Sansa would hear about this, considering she already doesn't like/trust Dany.

    2. And Dany has a plausible deniability factor of "Sam was pissed at me, so he made up a story out of spite" to give her reason to dig in her heels with the "I'm the queen, I have the big fire-spewing dragons and THAT'S THAT!!!" talk that's basically carried her for a few seasons.

    Then when you add in the fact that the only southern army that anyone is getting is one one-handed dude (making Tyrion look really bad as a Hand) and next week has the potential to be tense as fuck, regardless of whether I wind up looking as stupid as I did this week with my proposed kill count. Hell, have someone bring tidings of how Gendry is really a Baratheon and...well, that might actually be a defusing point, as I can see that played for comic relief with him wondering why everyone is staring at him and then freaking out.

     

    In a funny note, I got a good laugh out of Jon in that scene.

    Jon: Completely freaked out by hearing...he's actually a legit king and not a bastard. Does not even compute this news means he's also fucking his aunt.

On Apr 14, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "Game of Thrones Final Season Discussion Thread" at 07:17 pm

  • So, who dies tonight, since with only 6 episodes, you know there's gotta be a few dominoes falling per week. Beric is a safe pick, since I was surprised he survived the whole trip north. I can also see the Greyjoy family squabble ending early (with Yara perhaps being the only survivor), since they're about the most minor pieces on the board.

  • Heretic repped a post in "The Masters - 2019" at 07:08 pm

  • Has anyone told CC to go fuck himself? If not, hey cc, go fuck yourself.

On Apr 12, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "2019 Reds Thread" at 11:59 am

  • Is there a reason their series with the Cards starts tomorrow instead of today? I'm so used to Thursdays being a day used for days off and series being F-Sa-Su that seeing no game scheduled for today just seems weird as fuck. It is just some weird anomaly? Because the concept of not having a game on a Friday, which seems a better night for a decent gate than a random weekday, doesn't make sense. To me, it'd just make more sense to have a three-game series for the weekend and save the two-game ones for Tuesday/Wednesday slots.

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 11:51 am
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    I’m really not trying to troll. Been a member of this site long enough, turning into a troll would make no sense. 

    I just feel that a lot of times it’s a bunch of people with the same ideology posting things that they agree with and make it seem like it’s the truth. Nothing wrong, IMO, with someone pushing back a little with some feedback from “the other side” of the argument. 

    And I actually did miss where you said it’s going on on both sides. So my bad on that. 

    You remember that post you had talking about a chick you knew that you were driving with who was one of those super-progressives who basically took anything someone said and manufactured a reason to be offended by it to the point you were mind-boggled at how far she'd be reaching in what she was saying? I've come to the conclusion this thread is essentially the conservative version of people like that.

On Apr 10, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "Measles Outbreaks/Vaccination Discussion" at 12:45 pm
  • posted by QuakerOats

    How much of this outbreak, along with other potential health crisis, are due to the ‘open’ border?

     

    Someone's turning grasping at straws into an art form!

On Apr 9, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 05:25 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    Either the joke is just THAT obvious, or someone's sharing notes.

    Probably a combination of "very obvious", "low-hanging fruit", "being too lazy to find something more original" with perhaps a bit of "sharing notes" included.

  • Heretic replied to "Indians @ the Kitties" at 05:17 pm
  • posted by Verbal Kint

    Pretty sure that going on 10 day is a first step and can be transferred to the 60 day IL at a later time

    Is Plutko healthy?

    Yeah, going on the 10 (formerly 15) day DL is more a formality to allow a team to replace their spot on the roster than an actual indication of how long it'll be before they're back on the big league club.