War Room Lounge v97: Jesus Christ, you're even pedantic with foreplay.

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Draymond with the Wendy's walk-off

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For a time Draymond was the most overrated athlete in any sport. Plus a dirty player in the most cowardly way.
 
Prokofievian said:
I get what you're saying. I do think, though, that when most thinkers from Hobbes to Goebbels identify something as the central problem of our current societal order, that we should take it seriously. This isn't counter to your point, but an elaboration of it. Right now, we're basically more free to say anything than we've ever been and I'm not exactly arguing against the current state of affairs. I will just surmise that the fact we're not seriously risking violence is because of something unrelated to speech, or ideas. Because all the same odious ideas that were motivating people in Weimar germany are having something of a hay day (at least compared to recent history). But we don't really see the same results. It's not because the ideas can't lead to the same results, but that something else is preventing it. I personally think that it's because most people just ain't cut out for that shit anymore. In this sense, the pussification of the western male has been a happy development. If we were our grandfathers, I think there would be blood running in the streets.

I have another tangent, though: it seems to me like freedom of speech has always been a proxy for something else. What if there were no restrictions on speech at all but you could never influence society with your words? I don't think most people would go for that (even though most of us will never say anything that will shape our world). So what is it a proxy for?
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We can call it "pussification" or just civilization.

Our grandfathers, or atleast mine, didn't have much of a choice outside of violence. It's not like he was out there pushing for WW2, couple of spectacularly deranged individuals did. In his case, Soviets left no option beyond responding with violence.

Speech has a lot to do with it, because we have become more and more capable of discussing about our ideas, communicating with each other, coming to compromises which fit both parties, making outright conflict less and less necessary. My grandfather, for example, was not really a person that you could have communicated with. He held to rigid principles and if these were not obeyed, he responded with violence. But he was shaped into such a man because of violence he encountered, first in a Civil War, and then in a World War. His ways of behaving were a reaction to surrounding circumstances rather than a representation of our "base nature" or anything like that.

There is nothing comparable to what went down in Germany today and people who suggest that something of that sort is happening today, don't know anything about what went down. They don't know a damn thing about anything.

One of the problems with Nazism, for example, having become such a taboo, is that people just don't understand anything about them. They don't know what was driving them, which historical circumstances contributed to their rise, what they really believed in, and thus they just see Nazis everywhere even though they are nowhere. 1940's was the last time that the world has seen Nazis, everything else after that has just been angry young men LARPing.
 
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@Gregolian man do I owe you for that Dragon Age Inquisition. I kept seeing you post those videos and ranting about how good the game was, so when I saw it on a "limited time offer" of $4.99 on PSN I figured I'd buy it just to check it out. It's easily, easily, one of the best RPGs I have ever played. Has me staying up late playing and then having to wake up on a few hours of sleep like the young days lol. 10/10 game.

A.C. said:
For a time Draymond was the most overrated athlete in any sport. Plus a dirty player in the most cowardly way.
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Also this. All of this. Dude is like a Bruce Bowen/Anthony Mason type of player but was being treated like he was some all-star. He'd be a rotational off the bench player on a lot of teams.
 
MMAisGod said:
@Gregolian man do I owe you for that Dragon Age Inquisition. I kept seeing you post those videos and ranting about how good the game was, so when I saw it on a "limited time offer" of $4.99 on PSN I figured I'd buy it just to check it out. It's easily, easily, one of the best RPGs I have ever played. Has me staying up late playing and then having to wake up on a few hours of sleep like the young days lol. 10/10 game.



Also this. All of this. Dude is like a Bruce Bowen/Anthony Mason type of player but was being treated like he was some all-star. He'd be a rotational off the bench player on a lot of teams.
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Fuck yeah bruh
 
A.C. said:
For a time Draymond was the most overrated athlete in any sport. Plus a dirty player in the most cowardly way.
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I'd have to think on it, but he's definitely up there as being really overrated. Obviously Charles is awesome and way better than Draymond.
 
Trotsky said:
I'd have to think on it, but he's definitely up there as being really overrated. Obviously Charles is awesome and way better than Draymond.
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Barkely would also go toe to toe with Oakley

Not only is Sir Charles a much better player he was also tougher

 
PolishHeadlock2 said:
Barkely would also go toe to toe with Oakley

Not only is Sir Charles a much better player he was also tougher

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Him doinking the ball off of Shaq's head and then double legging him was one of the best moments in sports.
 
Jack V Savage said:
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Yeah, good to see someone finally be the billionth person to stand up to a retired politician with a reputation as being the opposite of mean.
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Hildawg has the reputation of being the opposite of mean? Do you live on Earth?

And this is really 1st year stuff anyway. It's called 'defamation by implication'. It's like saying publicly "The guy takes pictures of little kids ffs"
He didn't call the other party a :eek::eek::eek::eek:phile but the implication was clear. That constitutes grounds for a civil suit.
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work with me here, m8
 
Graves said:
Hildawg has the reputation of being the opposite of mean? Do you live on Earth?

And this is really 1st year stuff anyway. It's called 'defamation by implication'. It's like saying publicly "The guy takes pictures of little kids ffs"
He didn't call the other party a :eek::eek::eek::eek:phile but the implication was clear. That constitutes grounds for a civil suit.
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no bro hillary is a sweet old grandma that would let you eat your butterscotch icecream even though you didn't finish your veggies
 
dezzy said:
no bro hillary is a sweet old grandma that would let you eat your butterscotch icecream even though you didn't finish your veggies
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The sweet old grandma who took you in and adopted you when your parents died, but who actually murdered your parents and had Yuri and Oleg push their car off a cliff so as to keep them from taking share in her late husband's estate, but who feels guilty about killing them so she takes you in, but in actuality she knows that when you become of legal age your share in the estate will vest so she's slowly instigating an eventual cardiac episode in you by breaking up amphetamines and counterfeit heart pills into your favorite butterscotch ice cream so that you die and she can have the estate all to herself and retire on a private island with her many friends who are publicly renowned to rape people.

That grandma, amirite?
 
found this in @Clippy 's gallery. forgot I made this haha
I have the original in a much larger size/better quality but I'm too lazy to find my Surface charger.
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Gregolian said:
Just to side with Chuck.

Jason Garrett has two Super Bowl rings.
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If Chuck spent his entire career in an historically bad Eastern conference and had players like Wade, Bosh, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving being brought on to his side, he's have more championships than Lebron.
 
Trotsky said:
If Chuck spent his entire career in an historically bad Eastern conference and had players like Wade, Bosh, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving being brought on to his side, he's have more championships than Lebron.
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Oh 100%.

I just think it's funny how Curry and Klay's scoring output, Durant doing everything account for probably like 75% of the success that the Warriors had in those years. Draymond is good but given the Warriors record right now.... he got an A simply by being in the right group project group.
 
I know we have some readers in here, so I’d like to recommend a very compelling book which I discovered laying on the side of the road.

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Our neighbor texted my wife that they could hear Harvey howling and were worried.

I responded that he's a beagle and they howl. Amazon delivery probably got him excited.

Than I get home and he doesn't bum rush me at the door so get nervous.

Run around looking for him until I hear him crying from the basement.

He got in there closed the door on himself and ate an entire bag of food shit all over the basement before trying to claw through the door for God knows how long
 
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