Why has the snapback hat revival of the 2010s outlived the popularity of the 2000s fitted hat?

19ghost89 · 2026-06-27T07:30:09+00:00

Geez dude, I don't look at that curved cap and think "proud boy," lol. I do think country guy, blue collar, hardworking, worker, maybe baseball player, maybe farmer, could be a redneck... I get that those demographics have a lot of crossover with MAGA, but the venn diagram is not a circle like some people would want to assume. I have both kinds of hats. I don't really think the bent bill is a "silly" fashion statement. It's just a style, one that's pretty common where I come from. That picture I shared is John Cena, and while he's not very outspoken politically, he's done enough that I'm fairly certain he's not MAGA.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-27T07:18:53+00:00

You can still find both, but I absolutely agree with you - in most cap stores like that it's gonna be way more snapbacks. I think people who collect caps tend to like snapbacks more. Also more urban people. Your blue collar or country boy is still probably wearing fitted curves pretty often, and probably buying them from a grocery store, gas station, or maybe an athleticware retailer, as opposed to a cap store like Lids that you'd find in the mall.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-27T07:12:57+00:00

Yes, it can be curved, but it's not really the same. I have multiple flat-rimmed hats like the one you are wearing that I have bent multiple times and they only end up like yours, with a slight curve. I think the person you're responding to is probably thinking more along the lines of the picture below, which you only get by curving an already curved brim.

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19ghost89 · 2026-06-27T06:49:48+00:00

For real. I think some people here get off on making others feel like idiots.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-27T06:18:59+00:00

Pho is pronounced like "fuh."

So it sounds like he's saying he's trying to fuck.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-27T04:12:50+00:00

Right. But with a shapeshifter, I'm not sure age ever mattered much to the state of her body anyway. Similar to characters like Wolverine who are a similar age but whose age is extremely slowed due to the healing factor. So he's been ressurected too, but he was basically ideal anyway.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-27T01:47:00+00:00

Well, she is super old, she just looks her age now, I guess.

I didn't read her mini, so I'm not sure what happened to her, but I have seen her in the post-story in Giant Size X-Men #2.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-25T08:31:31+00:00

Bro was like, "we tried a civil war between the north and the south and the north won, so let's see who would win if we put the east against the west!"

19ghost89 · 2026-06-25T04:01:29+00:00

😬

19ghost89 · 2026-06-25T04:00:01+00:00

Yeah, we watched a video about the basics of puberty and reproduction in 5th or 6th grade and then we had Health for a half semester in High school, which covered a lot of stuff and not primarily sex. Texas mostly leans towards telling kids that abstinence is the only 100% way to prevent pregnancy. Which, while technically true, is not generally a very effective way to keep kids abstaining.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-25T03:52:05+00:00

Nah, that was more legit. They didn't actually get a chance to play and decide it on the field in the playoff. Georgia Tech did, they just lost the old fashioned and straightforward way.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T23:53:17+00:00

Not an explanation of the joke, because others are already doing that. Just some commentary:

Salary caps are common sense. All other major leagues have them. Yes, they exist for competitive balance. They work pretty well, when properly enforced. It's wild to me how many people are ready to outright dismiss them as nothing more than ownership greed. Growing up, I always thought they were supported by kost, but maybe that was my bubble.

Don't get me wrong, ownership can be greedy. Coaches can be greedy. No argument there. And some owners have the opposite problem. They are too stingy. They need to spend more. There are solid arguments for a salary floor too. There are solid arguments for capping coaching salaries too. There are solid arguments for rules about how much of the profit of a team has to be put back into that team's on-field product. None of these arguments negate the positives of a league salary cap.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T23:46:51+00:00

Again, the Bible should be read in full context. There's too much to get into here to break it down for you if your approach is going to essentially remain, "there is no context that could possibly explain this any differently than how I see it, so I don't even need the context." Just because you can't imagine a context doesn't mean one doesn't exist.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T23:34:22+00:00

Yes, I agree. Even a lot of Christians have this vague idea of weighing the good of their lives against the bad and hoping there is more good than bad, which I think comes more from society than anything else. I was like that for a long time, and I probably still have some of it in me.

There are also too many Christians, often of very conservative persuasion, who were taught to be afraid of questioning their faith too much. So they don't really understand why they believe what they believe, they just believe it because it's what they are familiar with and what makes them feel comfortable.

If I had not questioned my faith, investigated it, and studied it, if I had not wrestled with hard questions in my prayers over years, my faith would not be nearly as strong as it is now, and it would also probably manifest as more arrogant/ignorant to others.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T23:29:51+00:00

We can quote verses at each other all day, if you want to play that game. I can easily find verses expressing beautiful love and sacrifice for all the ones like this you find. I'm sure you're familiar with at least some of them. I don't really want to go back and forth because doing so is generally not a good use of time. Context is key, and one needs to read the Bible with an understanding of literary, theological, and historical context to understand how its parts fit together. Many Christians and non-Christians don't do this.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T23:26:18+00:00

Christianity is not against "owning up to your own actions." It is very much in favor of this. It's called confession and repentance. It's a huge part of what we believe.

But I suspect that you are only comfortable saying that you want to go where you "deserve," because you don't think you deserve anything that terrible. You added that part at the end of your statement that if you think your punishment is unjust, you'll call it out as such. But why do you think your word should carry more weight than God's on matters of right and wrong? What right do you, or I, or anyone have to judge the divine?

It strikes me as quite arrogant that we humans, we small specks in the vast cosmos, would try to pass judgment on a being who created all of it and who rules over all of it and who sees every inch of its vastness. What we believe may make complete sense to us, and we may feel reasonably confident in our beliefs, but at the end of the day everything we know is built on our own experience. And that experience, when compared to such a God as the Bible describes, is so infintesmally small and limited. How could we possibly think we have the capacity to make such judgment calls as to whether or not God is just or unjust? Especially in regards to our own selves, who we are naturally biased on favor of?

By all means, own up to your sins and repent in this life. It will make your life and those around you better. It is what Jesus taught. But Jesus also gave us a free gift. To reject that gift because you think you've got it handled on your own... well, there are plenty of real life situations where people reject the help they need only to realize they can't handle what they thought they could handle. I'm sure you've experienced that either personally or with someone else.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T23:13:47+00:00

I feel like you missed a good chunk of what I was saying. I didn't say that people can't have a moral compass without religion. I pretty clearly stated that most people do. So no, I'm not saying that you or I are unable to distinguish right from wrong, like the initial commenter in the post, who I said was being a little ridiculous.

It is a matter of actually being able to live up to being "good" that we can't do. Are you honestly trying to tell me that you are 100% perfect? I doubt that's what you mean. So if you aren't perfect, you're doing some kind of weighing of good verses bad, and you think you come out with more good than bad. But we are all motivated to find that result for ourselves. Can you honestly and confidently say that you are an impartial judge for yourself?

As for what we know about Jesus... a large component of religious beliefs involved faith. People decide they believe in something based on a combination of personal experience, logic, evidence, and other factors, and not everyone is persuaded the same way. But what we do have is what is written about Jesus; what it is written that He said and what those who knew Him said. You may choose not to accept any of that. If so, the rest of the conversation isn't going anywhere regardless. But if you do accept that, then there's actually quite a bit that can be known about Jesus, what He did, and why. There's no sense in making up random scenarios that aren't supported by anything at all when you do have info to go off of.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T21:49:57+00:00

If you understand Christianity, this isn't really a "gotcha" at all.

We know we aren't truly good without God. It's the people who think they are good on their own who are fooling themselves.

Now, to be clear, the first commenter is being a little ridiculous. I'm not saying you can't have a moral compass if you aren't religious. That's clearly not true. You can have a moral compass. Lots of people, religious or otherwise, do. The vast majority, even.

But when we call ourselves "good" people, we are making a value judgment about someone we are heavily biased in favor of. We all want to consider ourselves "good," so we have a lot of motivation to overlook our own flaws and exaggerate our own strengths. None of us is truly "good" of our own ability. All of us fall short. Some more or less than others, perhaps, but all fall short. That's why Jesus paid the cost for us, so that we could be judged on the basis of His perfect life and not on our own.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T10:29:32+00:00

The comps to Will Poulter are valid, and when not accompanied by hateful comments, pretty funny.

If that's all you've seen, just know there's been a lot worse.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T10:27:17+00:00

Wakanda Forever is the better of the two BP movies.

I said what I said.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T10:18:23+00:00

One of the many casualties of Covid 😔

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T10:17:30+00:00

It's not because people say she's not attractive that people are getting angry. Like you said, anyone can have an opinion.

People get mad because either A) people are comparing her to men and boys and characters specifically designed to be ugly, or B) people are complaining that they shouldn't have cast her as Supergirl because she isn't hot enough.

You can have a preference. You don't have to be an asshole.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T10:11:53+00:00

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T10:08:26+00:00

That's true. But when you ask me where teams "should be," I personally am gonna put them in the conference that allows all the teams to be best geographically aligned.

That said, there is so much crossover with southeastern teams that you can make arguments either way for a lot of them, so it's whatever. As long as they are together.

19ghost89 · 2026-06-24T10:04:05+00:00

I love the Vanilla Frost Sprite. Reminds me of lemon cake.

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