War Room Lounge v72: Nope

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waiguoren said:
These responses are baseless and also seem melodramatic. Nothing I posted suggests I do not "respect knowledge and expertise". I did not "dismiss" a single source of knowledge, let along "all sources....that don't cater to my biases". This is way over the top, even for you, Mr. Jack. I wonder if it's your emotional side coming out again.

The point of my post was that I wanted to try to understand your basis for ranking news outlets. By at least one metric (featuring stories of little/no practical importance in prominent front-page locations), Washington Post is clearly lagging behind WSJ and FT. I subscribe to WSJ; everything on the current front page is more important than that n-word story that the Washington Post featured.

As for the relative/absolute scale thing: I didn't write that the Washington Post "sucks". Read more carefully. The point of journalism is supposed to be something like "offering consumers an accurate overview of the day's most important stories with ethics and accuracy." The WaPo's featuring of junk articles in some of its most prominent locations seems to violate the first part of that mission, and some of its competitors are doing a better job, right? Furthermore, there are situations in which all options are bad on an absolute scale even if there are relative differences. All the grocery stores in the hood can be awful even if CrapMart is better than TrashDepot.

Anyway, my goal was to understand your view better. You ought not be so combative. It impedes discourse.


The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal. I used to subscribe to The Economist but it did start to decline a bit. It's probably still better than Washington Post for topics other than US politics and DC Area news.


No, Mr. Hig, I did not. Please do not see what you want to see. Seek truth.



By this line of reasoning, we can't fault Breitbart for featuring "illegal immigrant commits crime"-type stories out of proportion with other crimes so long as the details of the stories aren't wrong. @Jack V Savage has consistently rejecting your line of thinking in his attacks on Breitbart.



Interesting guess. On what do you base it?
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WSJ has deteriorated much more than The Economist. And WashPo is better than both in terms of investigative work. Econ can put out some really good pieces when they arent red-baiting.
 
Lead said:
Nice. I wish I had tried it back when I did lift. I haven’t for about three years now. Grappling is still keeping me in shape but my bench is probably awful right now.
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Not getting into wrestling (now grappling) is one of my biggest regrets. I missed it at every stage.

Middle school/high school I was a basketball athlete, tennis player, and stud football athlete. We had a wrestling team I was always interested in but schedules conflicted too much.

College years I was boxing, working, and taking classes. I had pretty much no time outside of the usual social activities college entails.

Post college career goals, find the right firm, still boxing but only casually time to time (shifting to weights), meet future wife, priority shift.

Always just missed the boat. When I was in NYC I used to train out of Gleason's Gym and they didn't have any MMA anything. Afterwards they started introducing a couple of new trainers that were recruiting fighters. By the time I moved to FL the used to use the 3rd ring to roll. A lot of the boxers disrespected MMA but I would always want to watch. I'm 34 now so I feel too old to jump into it but would love to on a casual level. Alwayssssss hear it's the GOAT to get into.
 
@waiguoren, I want to dedicate these next few beers to you.
 
Lowmanproblems said:
Just miller lite, I'm a simple kind of guy.
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Passed up on the non-neutered version today in favor of Pabst. Saved $0.50.


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MMAisGod said:
That's exactly what it is haha!!! Towards the end of the month two of my friends and I always do a chest day together and try to do a combine 225lbs bench press run. I've crashed around 16-18 reps but got 19 for the first time today. Most hyped and pissed I've been at the same time in a long time lol. Might take a couple of months to get to that 20.
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God damn dude....I can maybe do 7...on a good day.

Great work
 
MMAisGod said:
One of my friends that was a hardcore "Obama change we can believe in" tattoo on his ass type of dude is now a Republican. Why the change in the middle of the MAGA era of all eras? Because he makes significantly more money than he did around the 2012ish time and now talks about how Democrats would force him to pay much higher taxes and how they support lazy people. How he's worked so hard etc etc blah blah. Things that if I even dare mention a few years ago he'd argue all day with me. But now that he sees it may potentially impact his finances if we go too progressive so doesn't approve of Democrats anymore.

Anecdotal ftw lol. How quickly the tide turns when your own self-interests are at stake. I've been trolling him non-stop because he gave me hell for a decade. I'll have to keep my eye on you all to see if your positions switch as your financials improve. In 2023 when you finally get that promotion you were passed up on four times, I'll be here watching to see if you change. Yes you, all of you. You know who you are. You.

/rant
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I think part of the problem is that when it comes to the issue of wealth inequality its often framed by some progressives in an "us vs them" manner so when you move from being one of "us" to being one of "them" your view of that issue will change.

But as Jordan Peterson points out there's a conservative argument for limiting wealth inequality that doesn't rely on that framing.

If you don't feel like watching the video he basically points out that since wealth inequality is correlated with violence if you're a conservative who values social stability then you should take care to make sure that wealth inequality doesn't get out of hand. Even if you're rich that's relevant to you since even rich people can be victims of violent crime or at the very least could and ought to aspire to live in a safe country
 
The Gaped Crusader said:
Yes I've acknowledged this twice in posts #183 and #186, making you slower to catch on than me.

What joke did I steal and from whom BTW? We've got two resident self-appointed comedic geniuses here who aren't funny for shit so I didn't get it from them.
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Yes, I saw and was joking.

I'm referring to a thread where another poster mistakenly thought you made a joke about @Kafir-kun's old username that someone else made. Rather than correct the misconception, you repeated the joke. You were using your ehtheist account.
 
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