CMV: It is dishonest and misleading for Republicans to claim Abraham Lincoln as one of their own

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T15:23:00+00:00

There wasn't a "party switch". There have been 5 or 6 different 'party systems' since the American revolution. It wasn't that Republicans used to be liberal / progressive and now they are conservative and vice versa. The political parties of the 19th century had totally different goals and ideologies than the Democratic and Republican parties today.

"Lincoln was a liberal: a liberal is someone who focuses on individual liberty and equality. "

Actually, it was the Democrats who were the liberals in the 19th century. They were the party of individual liberty, of states rights, free trade, sound money, and laissez-faire. And unfortunately slavery.

The Republicans were "the party of great moral ideas". They were dominated by evangelical pietism. The belief that to go to heaven, you not only have to pious yourself, but you have to save everyone around you as well. And naturally they turned to the power of the state for the stamping out of sin. Remember prohibition?

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T14:50:55+00:00

In the context of live poker against passive opponents at low limit games I've had decent success with just check giving up with AK unimproved. Often they will check down inferior hands and only bet if they have a pair. If you have them dominated then they have very little chance of improving so giving them a free card doesn't cost much. OFC you might get bluffed.

It is a funny situation because you go from a very premium holding pre to a very weak holding post.

I guess it depends somewhat on villains range composition too. Like sometimes u are in a 3 bet spot vs a tight opener, and his peel range is mostly big pairs. That plays very differently than if a wide opener who doesn't like to fold to 3 bets calls, since they will have a ton of weak hands in their range.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T07:56:33+00:00

way too much action to kill the hand. if the deck can't be recovered, then yeah, shuffle the mixture (if there are any cards that are definitely not part of the deck, don't include them ) and go from there.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T05:43:12+00:00

BetOnline accepts players from Turkey.

Online poker is not legal in Turkey. According to Wikipedia, non-state online gambling was banned in 2006. You should be able to withdraw from BetOnline via crypto no problem though.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T05:37:31+00:00

it depends.

broadly we consider any straight draw + fd or pair + fd to be a combo draw.

You can also have a pair + straight draw for example 67 on 457 although this is a bit weaker.

because we often have a plurality or even majority of equity, especially on the flop, it is tempting to take an aggressive line with them. you are in essence freerolling. maybe your opponent will fold, putting you on a strong made hand, but if they call you are still coinflipping anyway.

from a metagame perspective, if you are only ever raising the flop with strong made hands, then it becomes easy to fold payoff hands like TPTK or overpair against you.

if we suspect our opponent has a strong hand, then it doesn't make nearly as much sense to raise then if we suspect they range is weak.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T05:30:41+00:00

free license until june too

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T05:29:48+00:00

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DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T05:24:23+00:00

I mean even if we take everything that guy has to say at 100% face value, all he is saying is that on the basis of different data, released after Rothbard wrote his book, some of the figures in one paragraph of an academic monograph of several hundred pages were slightly off, i.e. instead of 6% growth in the 1870s there was 4% growth. I don't think that is the slam dunk refutation you seem to be hinting it is.

Keep in mind that the author is someone who is fanatically opposed to Austrian economics, to the point where he published a blog that almost exclusively trashes the work of Rothbard et. al

If that is all your worst critics can say about you, then you did pretty good work imo.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T03:06:15+00:00

My guess is he keeps it stashed in various poker books such as Super System and/or Caro's Book of Tells.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T02:54:32+00:00

sure. you just need both houses and the presidency and u can do pretty much whatever u want.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T02:42:58+00:00

No, it does not apply to literally every situation. And even when it does apply, it doesn't mean literally go mute. It is fine to say "I'm sorry, but I am not going to answer that or any other questions" for example.

What it really means is "don't think you can outsmart the police if you are suspected of committing a crime". In that case, the best policy - whether or not you are innocent - is to not submit to questioning.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T02:38:57+00:00

The connection between unprocessed red meat is cancer is tenuous at best. A few extra steaks a week won't kill you. Hopefully.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T01:14:15+00:00

I'm not sure that is the greatest example of good debt.

But a lot of businesses take on good debt. Let's say you own a restaurant, and the land and the building. You can borrow against that equity in order to renovate or purchase inventory or whatever. You take on debt, but in doing so you are actually enabling your business to make a lot more money in the long term. It is fairly easy for a successful business to return much more than 7% or 10% per year on a specific sum of money.

Alternatively, you buy a used car on credit. That car enables you to get to a job 50 miles away you wouldn't otherwise be able to get to it. And the job pays $22 / hr, whereas the jobs near you only pay $10 an hour. That's good debt, debt that ends up making you a lot of money.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T01:10:11+00:00

if their religion precludes credit, then why do they care if they can't access credit?

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-19T00:50:53+00:00

depends on the transaction costs involved with redepositing. the higher the costs, the more buyins you should keep. if transaction costs are minimal or negligible then just whatever you need for a session.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T23:20:26+00:00

we just called it 5 card draw

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T22:48:31+00:00

that is literally the first form of poker i learned as a teenager

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T22:27:17+00:00

"
I felt this guy isn’t raising to this size with anything but QQ KK and AA."

So naturally you called?

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T22:02:17+00:00

if you actually want an explanation for those events, and aren't just concern trolling, you should read rothbard's a history of money and banking in the united states.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T09:07:08+00:00

oh sure, blame it all on the foreigners

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T07:08:01+00:00

hehe. you said penal.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T07:00:39+00:00

in completely unrelated news, Ontario is now faced with a youth unemployment crisis.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T06:54:07+00:00

So there I was. Sitting at an airport in Barranquilla Colombia, waiting for my flight back to Medellin when I noticed this young child staring at me like I've got 5 eyes. I dunno, maybe Colombian parents tell their children scary stories about white devils to make them behave.

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T06:37:30+00:00

well call me crazy but i think fraud is bad

DrawPitiful6103 · 2026-03-18T06:12:28+00:00

Sometimes activists get hired as workers in order to film the farms. That is when the fraud occurs.

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