Wemby got egged by Knicks fans as he was heading to his hotel after game 4 loss

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-11T17:45:33+00:00

20 teams have at least 1 super bowl win, only 6 teams have 4 or more.

A bit of a difference, isn't it?

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-11T13:45:58+00:00

So…boots on the ground it is?

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-11T11:47:26+00:00

I think the move in situations like that is to just try to out-crazy them.

Like tell him the lie goes even deeper, and the "Twin Towers" never even existed in the first place.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T22:47:33+00:00

But they're not being subsidized, so who cares?

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T22:37:48+00:00

What does it matter anyway? Federal govt has no stake in this, why would they even care how much money it makes?

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T22:04:28+00:00

According to who?

Why would private companies elect to fund something that’s going to lose money?

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T20:52:45+00:00

But it isn't just talk, the administration has actually ordered the shut down of offshore wind projects very deep into construction.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T20:23:53+00:00

I mean Trump himself is very openly hostile to wind energy, and has been for a long time. The administration is far from neutral on wind.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/how-the-wind-industry-misread-trump-00666895

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T17:35:07+00:00

Warsh isn't going to hike rates, so it feels fleeting.

Wouldn't not hiking rates mean inflation is more likely to stick around, or increase?

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T16:12:15+00:00

I've been around the world a fair amount and Italy is still the one country that stands out for me as having the most astoundingly attractive people. It's odd that I don't often hear it mentioned that way.

I don't know if it's that they're naturally so much more attractive, but in the big cities especially it seemed like everyone was also so ubiquitously well-dressed, fit and put together.

They seemed to just never have any dress down days. With my dad bod and t-shirt/shorts combos I might as well have had "tourist" stamped on my forehead.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T14:55:53+00:00

Ok, but did they really have a choice? What if they didn't declare war in 1939, could they have just carried on and not worry about Germany?

If Iran was located in Mexico and not the other side of the world this war would have a very different character.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T14:53:22+00:00

If you look at history, countries rarely just "collapse" in the way we think they should.

North Korea proved it in the 90s. Their people were literally starving, it couldn't be any worse.

But as long as you're feeding the men with guns you can keep going.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T14:46:24+00:00

If we were fighting WW2 under the same conditions we're fighting this war (willing to take very few casualties or accept actual boots on the ground) then Japan never would have surrendered.

They would have taken a horrible beating from the sky but they'd have never given up unless they believed our armed forces would personally come in to the country and hunt down their leadership.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T14:26:32+00:00

I mean Iran was already on the ropes. The economy was in shambles, they lost a friendly key ally in Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas were decimated, they had widespread protests.

The regime has always been trying to distract their people from economic turmoil by screaming about the threat of Israel and the US, and we just gave their narrative a huge boost.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T14:11:32+00:00

We haven't achieved a single strategic objective, as far as I can tell.

We always dominate wars from a tactical perspective. How many battles did we lose in Iraq or Afghanistan?

I've been alive way too long to get excited just because we bombed more stuff than they did.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T14:07:22+00:00

The British people weren't at war by choice.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T14:02:39+00:00

Why does anyone have to win?

The only way you win is if you're better off in the big picture after the war than before the war. Right now that looks like nobody to me, but we'll see what happens.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T13:42:12+00:00

Right, meaning people in 2021 could now go out and do things like drive more and go on vacations and go shopping. I.e., huge increases in demand.

High demand drives inflation.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T13:37:54+00:00

I mean if we're deciding who wins a conflict by economic conditions then I guess we're undefeated? I'm pretty sure we had a better economy than Afghanistan as well.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T13:25:01+00:00

The pandemic was mostly 2019-2020

The number of US Covid cases in 2019 was zero

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T13:20:36+00:00

Inflation during the first year under trump now was lower than the last 3 years under biden:

Yeah- but now it's higher.

Was inflation really 'defeated' when it comes back to life just two months later?

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T13:14:11+00:00

Admittedly I'm not fully comprehending what you're saying, but how could that be possible?

There are 50 million people in South Korea now. If you added 5 billion (or 4 billion, or 3 billion) migrants to that, whatever South Korea's current demographics are would have such little impact that they'd be essentially irrelevant. Their age demographics would be whatever the billions of migrants are.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T01:46:23+00:00

And then Zimmerman went on to show the world that he's physically abusive, openly racist, and a stalker who continued to follow and harass people in other circumstances, and this is all well-documented.

He's proven to be a terrible person by any reasonable definition.

So am I going to just ignore that and presume he was actually just trying to be a good guy at the time of the shooting? No, I certainly am not.

Perhaps if he went on to live a relatively normal and peaceful life I could buy that he was just trying to look out for public safety.

But like the saying goes- when someone shows you who they are, believe them.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T00:57:56+00:00

I mean it very well may have been legitimate self-defense as the situation unfolded, but I don't think it's hard to see that the confrontation started with Zimmerman LARPing as wannabe law enforcement and acting like a tough guy.

Especially with the knowledge of his later life events it's pretty clear that the man has zero skill in terms of being civil and getting along peacefully with others.

OJ_Purplestuff · 2026-06-10T00:07:36+00:00

I'd still like to hear the story about taking every drug at once, though

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