I try to help everybody except mediocre white men.

I guess I just can't help myself.

Pretty good

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Grandmaster Nardi

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

You don't say terrible and mean things because of who other people are. You say these things because of who you are, Seacrest

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i say some terrible things and i do worry that it is because of who i am

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

We all do. Some of us realize it and work daily to get better.

But others, who were told that they were stupid liars on a daily basis growing up, then go out into the world and act stupid, and tell lies.
They are at odds with the world on a daily basis because that's all they know.

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Imagine thinking you're the good guy in this story.

This is modern "liberalism" in a nutshell. You don't agree with me? FUCK YOU! You voted for my opponent? Look at the fighter jets at my disposal!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

America's politics are bipolar, not monopolar.

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I always try to remind myself that on a real base level 99% of the people around you are engaged in, essentially, the same daily existence. Everyone is just trying to support themselves, provide for their family, grow/better themselves, not injure others, improve their live, etc. It's not always easy to do, and can get lost in the briskness of daily life, but I really like to ground myself in a mindset like that as often as I can.

I find when I do that it's a lot easier to be empathetic to others, be quick to forgive transgressions - especially the tiniest, and also be generous to others. But I struggle with it just like every other human being does.

Sure, but it's one particular pole that seems to believe that they are inherently more virtuous. And the evil facsist orange guy never threatened to nuke Biden voters. At least not that I recall.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Yeah, that's a good approach and I try to do it myself. There are people out there who are just assholes though.

dolphin has it right: "You don't do randomly nice things because of who other people are. You do them because of who you are."

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That is why I said 99% of people are the same, I'd guess that only 1% of humans are pure assholes. I'd even say that most of the people you see acting like assholes, really aren't, they are just part of the 99% of us and might be having a tough day and that happens to us all.

I like Dickens' line from A Christmas Carol

"think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Aren't you doing the same? Walking around paranoid that your neighbors know your vaccination status. Believing that old blind women are judging you because you're not wearing a mask. Projecting insecurities on your community. Boycotting local businesses (you made an exception for the Sox) because they followed government rules instead of paying a fine.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

You don't believe that Republicans haven't seen themselves as inherently more virtuous than Democrats for decades? This is quite a revisionist narrative you're weaving. The whole ideological architecture of neoliberalism relies on cultural divisions in which both political parties involved claim to occupy the high moral ground.

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They're both assholes in this example.

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My favorite, which I discovered in "Pete the Cat's Groovy Guide to Life" when my oldest was about four years old, is: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle". It's attributed to Plato in the book but who knows.

Of course he is. Much of his rhetoric revolves around the concept of public shaming, which is the dominant discursive mode of neoliberalism.

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dUCKIN fOUCHEBAG

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baseball is analogous to life in that we fail most of the time but the successes have an inordinate impact over the failures

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

We would all be wealthy beyond our wildest dreams if we succeeded 20% of the time.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

When do you intend to start this daily work? Or did you just give up on it years ago because you realized you're a hateful and spiteful motherfucker with little to no chance at redemption?

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No. Republicans see themselves as cruel but they believe cruelty works best for everyone. Anyway, we're not really talking about Republicans here. We're talking about people who have been left behind. Most of them probably voted Democrat at one time.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I have ZERO concerns about the vaccination status of my neighbors. I only hope they haven't poisoned themselves based on misinformation. And I'm pretty sure I don't have to guess about someone judging me for not wearing a mask when they jump back or ask why I'm not wearing one. The Sox never made me wear a mask or show a vaxx card.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think you're projecting. I've never publicly shamed anyone. I mind my own fucking business.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Politics for sure, but so much more I think.

Left vs right, conservative vs liberal and so MANY more.

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Shaming...

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Is monopolar redundant?

Can I get a ruling from the sharpest linguist on the board?

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In that case, do you actually read this board?

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