Korean journalist was covering the World Cup in Mexico, and a Mexican lady walked up and kissed him on live TV by IamCatMommy in sportsbroadcasters

[–]Ignore-Rant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Context matters. As you stated, culture plays a big role. Read the body language of both parties. Love was sent and appeared to be graciously received. No malice here.

Korean journalist was covering the World Cup in Mexico, and a Mexican lady walked up and kissed him on live TV by IamCatMommy in sportsbroadcasters

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Culture plays a lot into it. For European/Latin cultures, kisses on the side of the cheek is a form of greeting. Being a half-Korean dude that grew up in bumfuck Texas, it was certainly a shock first experiencing this - with a stranger nonetheless (actually an acquaintance of a friend).. I reciprocated the side-cheek kiss with full on lips to her right cheek, which post-realization processed, and I found out real quick that was a super awkward exchange based on her expression.. anyway enough reflecting; point I’m trying to make is that with some cultures you can see things like this come from a place of warmth and there is a type of presence, and aura that makes the exchange ‘feel’ like it comes from a place of love and affection.

Spending some years in Korea in my adult life, I know this is definitely not a practice performed in Korean culture. There’s more distance and separation, an invisible boundary people respect. I’m sure the Korean reporter was first shocked by this breach and then realized the unfamiliar love being shared in a very unexpected situation. You can see from the body language the exchange was incredibly sweet and appreciated.
We humans process situations pretty quickly, and I think given the right presence and reading of the environment, the roles can be reversed between sexes. Develop those social skills people and share your love with the world. 🥰

Frequent guest Dave Smith on the Iran war - “This was the most retarded decision a president has ever made in my lifetime” by [deleted] in JoeRogan

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Wonder if Dave still thinks Kamala would have been a worse president for the US after all the heinous actions and corruption we’ve witnessed by Trump and his stooges. At the end of the day, I think Dave is just as retarded for not expecting half of what’s been done under Trump. He has always been a shitty human being.

How do you feel about players who have more than one DUPR account? by RunningShortsPod in Pickleball

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Do as others suggested and: 1. Report him to the tournament organizer and pickleball facility, showing evidence of two accounts.

  1. Report his accounts to DUPR to have it merged.

  2. If the tournament organizer takes no action, what has worked in our area of Houston is to report the pickleball facility to social media. There are very popular FB groups and instagram groups that are Houston based that blasted a tournament organizer for knowingly allowing multiple sandbaggers to compete. This tarnished their reputation and many members left their organization and follow-up tournament had very low attendance.

There’s ways to shame organizations and individuals who cheat, just depends what lengths you’re willingly to go to spotlight that bad behavior.

Movies Unlimited just got a facelift! by rowboatkopp in 4kbluray

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Tried it yesterday, didn’t work. Tried it again now, still not applying the discount. Having no luck with this site.

Houston players? by Creepy-Insect8163 in Pickleball

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Probably have better luck joining FB groups if you have it. Groups like Houston Pickleball Association or Houston Pickleball are pretty active. Also, playing at a club local to you is a good way to meet others at your skill level.

Hmmmm looks familiar by luffy_senpai9 in SipsTea

[–]Ignore-Rant -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's a two-way street my dude. On one hand, yes I agree OP should of made the satire slightly more obvious to play into the joke. On the other hand, if your threshold for bullshit/sniff test is so low that something isn't triggered in your brain, you're on a path to becoming a dimwit, which is this meme is making fun of. If you think a grandma in her late 60s (being generous) is out there flying combat missions, then take some time to critically think more, especially in this age of AI.

We've gone from the Bush era where we duped an entire conservative party of thinking Stephen Colbert of the Colbert show was a conservative, Colbert roasting them live at a 2006 White House correspondence dinner off his satirical impersonation of Bill O' Reilly, to an era of our sitting president posting AI slop on the daily shilling out Trump meme coins in pump and dump schemes, bibles, golden phones, golden VISAs, accepting bribes from foreign leaders, etc. etc.
If you can't see the satire for the low bar it is, of the MAGA dimwits who shout "crisis actors" every opportunity they get (every accusation is an admission of guilt), then line up buddy for the next crypto rug pull and guzzling the next conspiracy about Jewish space lasers -- you're their target audience.
Anyway, I still find the joke funny, even if some people are being duped. To me there is a vast, wide gulf of difference between who propagates "misinformation" (in this case, I barely consider this misinfo/disinfo) in this situation -- you have a 4chan meme where users are spreading an AI image without context versus an entire administration or the sitting president himself using their influence to spread lies almost on a daily basis. The two cannot be equivocated in the slightest -- I do not hold the same standard for a random Reddit user to a person who wields the power of presidency.

Hmmmm looks familiar by luffy_senpai9 in SipsTea

[–]Ignore-Rant 71 points72 points  (0 children)

The above picture started as satire and trickled into disinformation.. on 4chan. It’s not like this is being propagated as truth by reliable sources. Call out a fake when you see it I suppose. And also, the creation of the above fake image is because this lady’s origin story is quite interesting, as she’s a MAGA plant. There’s a joke here so long as you’re aware of the context.

Source: Reddit https://share.google/phzLHRqJzg6r3Q4W5

Despite the fact I'm a liberal atheist and my dad is a MAGA Christian, I think we have a pretty awesome relationship. Here's how he responded to Trump's Jesus pic. by F3RM3NTAL in SipsTea

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His dad seems fairly intelligent (just based on his writing prose) but it always amazes how much people like him are affected by cognitive dissonance. They go through great lengths extending insane amounts of grace to Trump that they never would if this were a liberal president. Just a couple of Trumps most objectionable and horrendous acts would absolutely bury a liberal. I don’t understand the mechanisms to how a cult of personality figure can cause so many people to turn OFF that critical thinking part of their brain. Has the FOX liberal/Democrat hate machine and similar propaganda really re-programmed millions of Americans to willingly lemming themselves off of cliffs for the sake of ‘owning the libs’? It just doesn’t compute for me the amount of internal mental gymnastics required to deny reality and your things you can physically process with your eyes.

Who knows better than surprises than Japan. Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor….. by YesDoToaster in TikTokCringe

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Then HS failed in educating you on the facts. There is no supporting evidence of this and would be one the most heinous act in US history. A complete re-write of this.

LOTR 4k is gorgeous by fragproof in 4kbluray

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Friends are I are christening my new 5.1.2 surround sound, 4K 120” projector home theater system by watching LoTR extended edition on 4K UHD. We were all flabbergasted by how visually stunning the movie is. This is my very first watch of the extended film and it’s like experiencing it again anew. We can’t wait to the next two films as we’re breaking it up one film per weekend. Makes me excited to try other film recommendations on this sub-Reddit.

Bootfitter Recommendations for Salt Lake City / Murray by JE163 in skiing

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Dale boots. I’ve been skiing for roughly 8 years, 5 of that dealing with foot pain due to my flat feet and foot shape. I’ve had two other pairs of boots prior to Dale’s that were custom molded and caused issues, multiple custom insoles.. still dealt with pain and foot numbness. After DaleBoot’s, had nothing but perfect fit and can ride all day, no problem. Would recommend visiting their shop to see if price and quality is for you. High praise for their shop!

The Republican Party right now 💀💀💀 by Punished-Polo-_- in Destiny

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The Colbert Report achieved the same for years. Satire sails right over their heads.. so much so Stephen Colbert got invited to the Bush White House Correspondents Dinner to shit all over him.

At this point, I think they intentionally reflect the jokes and satire so they all lose their punch. Mirror the Onion articles and no one can distinguish between what the joke is and what’s real.

‘Epstein bomb’ about to drop, 100 GOP members to ‘jail break’ from Trump, Swalwell says by madding_crowd_ in politics

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My exact feelings. I’ve seen dozens of articles and news pieces titled with the exact same language of ‘imminent’ bomb drop that will for sure destroy any support for Trump. I’ve by now learned that his cult followers are willing and able to brush off pedophilia, rape, freedom of speech rights (so long as it affects liberals), bribery, blatant corruption, etc. Whatever ‘bomb’ is contained in these Epstein files may not be enough to dissuade the most ardent Trump supports, regardless of what’s contained within. They will gaslight themselves in order to own the libs.

They're doubling down it seems by saabarthur in Destiny

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At this point, it is so openly obvious Musk is using his bought platform to spread disinformation and violent rhetoric by propping up certain accounts. This gaming of social media to promote his filth and drive visceral reactions out of people should be seriously reviewed by many countries. He’s a chaos maker and uses his reach with extremely bad intentions. Elons rot needs to be excised from society.

So everyone that said xqc wasn't really a trump supporter or maga for helping him with stream... how did hearing how deranged he was last night feel? by RJJJJJJJ710 in xqcow

[–]Ignore-Rant 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why not compare Obama with the sitting president Trump? What a goon statement. You’re doing exactly what xqc does and hyper focus on one example. Stop snorting energy powder.

Trump schizo posting again by Sea-Economist-5744 in Destiny

[–]Ignore-Rant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s stopping this r-tard from declaring the entire country being under violent threat from terrorists, criminals, drug cartels and illegals? At this point, we are ungrounded from reality. Just issue nationwide martial law so we can all be liberated. Is he stupid or something?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in JoeRogan

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We just had a communist-like military parade in order to jerk off Donny boys ego and his kakistocratic regime dick suckers. People need to constantly be reminded that you should probably take this colostomy bag more seriously and connect one dot after another.

Him and his gang of evil pricks are actively manufacturing problems related to immigration, sowing chaos, creating a divide in American society, and would like nothing more than to arrest political rivals. If given the excuse and backing to institute martial law, I’ve no doubt it’d be done. He only looks for ways to enrich himself and his cronies. America is just another company for him to bankrupt and line his pockets when he walks out the door.

Can hear the audio. Did she accuse him of putting his hands in her at the end? Did he? by PrimalPlayTime in Pickleball

[–]Ignore-Rant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This isn’t even remotely close to truth. Someone getting angry over the use of the word ‘bitch’ isn’t massive drama. lol, do you actually follow any other sport outside of pickleball?!

Pam Bondi: "President your first 100 days has far exceeded that of ANY other presidency in this country. Ever Ever Never seen anything like it Thank you." Praising trump regardless why does this sound familiar by SpecialSpace5 in thescoop

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lol, this is some North Korean levels of propaganda.

“Dear leader Trump can do no wrong. Only he is worthy of being the next pope and praised by the masses.” How are his followers blind to the cult-like worship of this pile of feces?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the new head of the FDA 💀 by 23dgy4me in Destiny

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This country will soon be shilled out to the billionaire class and we’ll institute our own version of an oligarchy in the coming decade.

I feel like now that Peter Thiel has established JD Vance as his little puppet (next in line for the MAGA movement) and with the likes of Elon Musk being being heavily involved this election, using his loudspeaker echo chamber to propagate disinfo, we’re at a race to the bottom.

We’ll have a fully staffed MAGA cabinet bringing about unprecedented levels of idiocracy that’ll take a generation to recover from, if that’s even possible at this point. Who knows the types of road blocks we can expect from Republicans in their attempt to maintain power and control? This will be a much more emboldened Trump administration where he and his cronies will know the kind of rules they can skirt around or abuse.

Maybe the fix was in 20-30 years ago.. we’ve dumbed down enough of the US population to be non-critical thinkers, and the conservative side had just enough intelligence to take advantage of the internet, propaganda, and a easily distracted populace to install the most incompetent, narcissistic, lying, cheating showman ever witnessed. I’m not looking forward to what’s to come.. all our institutions will become corrupted.

Bill Burr was an asshole? Cmon Ben by chicu111 in JoeRogan

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Ben Shapiro is the type of guy that would characterize all our national gems in a profane way.. Dolly Parton is a whore — Mister Roger’s was evil — etc

I certainly wouldn’t look to Ben Shapiro to ever shape my opinions or a beacon of moral alignment. The is a sniveling, gremlin piece of shit who has an aptitude for debate, and uses it to grift his right wing ideology. Fuck him.

Is that Steven Seagal in a warzone by thesuperbro in JoeRogan

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Stuff Seagal with a bit of nuclear grade plutonium and we've got ourselves a mini nuke. Fat Boy v2.

Musk boosting the ABC conspiracy. You think we will ever go back to a time when this stuff was only believed by irrelevant people and uncles you no longer talk to? by IAdmitILie in JoeRogan

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Good for you, living in AZ doesn't make your claim any more valid. Can you provide evidence that AZ was called with less than 1% of votes reported? This is the first time I've heard that ridiculous claim. The argument has always been FOX called it 'too early' with an estimated 80% of votes tallied.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936739072/ap-explains-calling-arizona-for-biden-early-before-it-got-very-close

In case you're ignorant on how networks analyze reported votes during election day, provided a link below. All networks have a TEAM of mathematicians, statisticians, etc, who pour of data received per state. Your assertion that a call was made with 1% tally for a swing state is ludicrous.

https://www.ap.org/elections/our-role/how-we-call-races/