FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
21hr ago
Don't forget that the government is currently setting the precedent for forcing you to make social media accounts public, meaning we're all fucked here.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
23hr ago
I've been using the wrong sports metaphor:
Vance has to be willing to just THROW THE DAGGER
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I wouldn't put high odds on anyone getting two chances to take out Trump. If you don't get him, there's a very good chance he's going to get you. And when you stay your hand the first time, it eats away at your support when people see you hesitate and don't know if you'll go through with it.
Coups come into this world like bastard children, half improvised and half compromised. If the deals and moves line up you can take it or you can let it go, but you probably can't time it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
The earlier Trump resigns the better the path for Vance in 28. The stronger his case as incumbent.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
Idk, timing is pretty tough, if you have Trump on the ropes you put him away, you don't let him recover so you can knock him out in the fourth round.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I agree that it's tempting to lib out on this one, but resist because it's unlikely to happen. The idea that THIS TIME he's up against old man Murdoch and that will mean he's met his match, is giving me "do you know what peshmerga means?" Vibes.
Though i will say I increased the odds of president Vance significantly when I saw they released news about Trump's health. Up until now they've basically maintained that he could play pro sports, or at least the PGA senior tour, tomorrow if he wanted. Just admitting normal elderly man stuff is a big step towards resigning for Trump.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Which would equally demonstrate that having a summer job doesn't preclude learning an instrument, which was the original question in this debate.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
There was a joke repeated in And the band played on from the early days of AIDS:
What's the hardest part of getting AIDS? Convincing your wife you're Haitian.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
For longer-distance endurance races, men's performance seems to peak around age 33. I would expect an earlier peak for more explosive/fast-twitch dominated events.
Depends heavily on the sport, the individual, and the degree of chemical assistance available.
But I also think high-level athletic research (while still being the only really valid research on the topic) is going to be biased towards people who peak earlier. To become elite at most high end sports, you have to be an elite youth-level competitor by the time you're 20 at the latest. And the flipside to this is that the mileage on the body and the injuries start accumulating earlier. We don't actually have much of a model for what happens if someone starts competing seriously at 25, because to get to the point where they're competing seriously at 25 most people have been competing seriously at 18. A tommy john surgery, or a blown out knee, or accumulating concussions, are going to get you started on your decline even if your athletic peak was still ahead of you.
UFC champions, who have tended to start out in MMA later as they train something different-but-related before switching to MMA professionally, average 33, and fighters typically begin their decline at 34. MLB players peak between 27 and 30, but that curve has moved up a few years after the beginning of steroid testing. MMA is notably poor on testing compared to the other major pro sports, and the individual sports are generally more poorly tested than the major professional team sports where the league has some degree of physical control over the players. Soccer players peak at 27 on average, but speedy wingers peak earlier and decline faster than burly centerbacks. NFL running backs decline almost immediately, while offensive linemen can often stick it out well into their 30s.
All that being said, I'm in the best shape of my life right now, this year, at 33. But I don't disagree with @self_made_human about 25 either: at 25 I had more potential, I could be anything, even if at 33 I currently am more. Athletically, at 25 I could still have runway to develop skills that, at this point, I won't reach. My hair was thicker, I could sleep off a hangover easier, I could eat bad food and worry about it less. I was in my last year of grad school, which is the peak of a certain kind of status for many people: you've accomplished a lot so you have something to stand on when you boast, but you haven't found your level in the professional world yet, so you can talk all the shit you want about what you might do. 25 was a very good year
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
They aren't all ruthless realpolitikers, plenty are true believers in socialism as a winning platform and that the DNC only loses elections because they aren't radical enough. That's means and motive.
Consider an alternative possibility, which we've seen demonstrated in public numerous times: The Democratic party lacks balls, has always lacked balls, lacks balls at every level from top to bottom. The strain of trying to pretend to have balls and be a Democrat eventually gave Fetterman a stroke and now he's a blithering retard.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
large scale illegal migration from Central and South America I can’t countenance the wasting of that singular political moment and energy on the irrelevant sexual proclivities of a disgusting but dead man decades ago.
Until mass immigration is solved, this is the absolute political issue, above anything else, beyond everything else. The same is true about other irrelevancies, like Iran, Ukraine, tariffs.
Then don't comment on these threads, or just comment one sentence that you don't care about anything more than you care about Blanqueamiento, and move on.
The motte is for truth seeking, not petty dishonest political persuasion. It probably won't work for the latter anyway, and even if it did the US voting population of the forum might be 50 on a good day, of which I'm not sure you yourself are included.
How am I supposed to trust anything you say about the matter after you tell me that nothing else matters except deporting brown people? Your top level post the other day, do you actually believe that Epstein was just a particularly hot gay hustler, a Gold Digging Hall of Famer, or is that what you determined was the best thing to say to protect Stephen Miller's political project? Is everything you say about all the issues you just told me don't matter to be ignored, just a weather-vane tested method of finding the right piece of whataboutism to get everyone to shut up and give ICE more money?
I just don't understand how one goes on the motte and says "stop talking about X, it doesn't matter compared to Y." Because nothing we talk about on the motte matters; thus the truth is all that matters. And I'm disappointed that you've disavowed it.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Is Donald Trump an inner city kid who got into trouble, the way you're blaming society for his crimes?
Seriously, bro, what are you doing here? You could have just ignored this thread if it didn't interest you, if you think the whole Epstein obsession is tinfoil-hat stuff. Instead you've jumped in to say "It doesn't matter that Donald Trump is lying about a bunch of stuff because, you know, there was this one thing that happened in a different country on the other side of the ocean, and as a result you're not allowed to care about anything else until I say you can" followed up with "actually Donald Trump didn't do anything wrong because it was society that was set up the wrong way or all this never would have happened."
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Eddie started classical piano at 6. And, for that matter, had a paper route as a kid.
Jimi worked as an usher in a local theater, as a stage hand at a local music club, and as a construction laborer before he joined the army.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
It's a common strategy for picking a VP. Obama and first term Trump utilized similar strategies, despite their own talent and charisma. I'm curious to see if Vance has the balls to push Trump out on that ice flow.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
It depends who they're being racist against.
Antisemites, you are normally free to call them Jewposters or accuse them of obsession with "da Joos."
If anyone tries anti white racism the tradition is to accuse them of trolling and bad faith, because surely they don't actually believe it.
East Asians are normally where we see a real fight, posters will land half and half on whether it's justified or not.
But blacks, south Asians, any Muslims, the expectation is that you calmly engage with the meat of their argument, such as it is.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
Might have been, I just know it wasn't a factor in 2003
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
...Wut?
This is pushing whataboutism in new and interesting ways.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
The paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, a known hive of TurboLibs.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
That was after 2003, when the letter appears to have been written. I wanna say 2007?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
Nah the funniest conclusion would be that 2003 Trump didn't actually know Epstein all that much, had met him in passing, but knew he was rich and connected (he's such good friends with Bill Gates AND Bill Clinton!) so he wrote this note off rumors he heard to appear in the know.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
Assuming Trump doesn't run for president, he could still run for something else, Welcome to Moosewood style, and then lose.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I've seen and read the play before. I'm hoping to look at it with new eyes.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
36 was what I got the second time. I think it's all old wives tales.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Nobody is popular enough to win a major party nomination without pretty particular circumstances coming together. Maybe Dwight Eisenhower.
A lot of really really unhealthy eating amounts to "not thinking about eating." Just eating whatever.
The moment you start thinking about anything relating to eating, it's a huge upgrade over not thinking.
You can get just as fat off cane sugar as hfcs, but if you refuse to eat hfcs you'll at least reject a few things at the 7-11, and sometimes you won't eat something you would have otherwise eaten.
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