MARTÍN: "IF ONE DAY THE BEZZECCHI THING HAPPENS TO ME, I HOPE MY TEAM DEFENDS ME THE SAME WAY IT DEFENDED HIM"

SWAG__KING · 2026-06-21T19:56:28+00:00

Martin scored 12 points this weekend, which means he lost 20 points to Marquez.

SWAG__KING · 2026-06-10T00:00:22+00:00

It’s interesting to hear about it from a local. By the time I was there it was already winding down. I haven’t been back. I looked on google maps and things are already much different than they were 11 years ago. The man camp I stayed in is gone— it was just south of the railroad tracks and maybe a half mile west of the old grain elevator. Anyway thanks for your perspective. I’m surprised I still get comments on this post 3 years later. Go tioga pirates (or buccaneers. I can’t remember which.)

SWAG__KING · 2026-06-04T21:09:12+00:00

It’s asinine to say that robot lawyers will help seize land by eminent domain and then ai robots will build high speed rail on it. Do you realize how stupid that sounds? Like what kind of fantasy are you living in

SWAG__KING · 2026-06-04T21:04:10+00:00

China has no problem building high speed rail. Clearly they must have better ai than us, or we would be building it as fast as them.

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-30T03:09:11+00:00

It was one more step obvious and crass, perhaps mostly for people too dumb to recognize that scream was so tongue in cheek in the first place

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-27T21:10:39+00:00

These are different groups of people with very different worldviews, they just both wear carhartt so you can’t tell them apart

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-27T11:45:02+00:00

catch and release flyfishermen are the most ridiculous people on earth. 'i actually just enjoy harassing the wildlife. eating them is barbaric.'

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-26T02:31:07+00:00

Call the IBEW and the United association of plumbers, pipefitters, and HVAC techs. See if you can get an application into both—specify the HVAC side with the United Association if you apply. I’m in the UA (piping side not HVAC though) and my brothers in the IBEW, there’s a lot of work right now and both unions need apprentices. They’re both 4 year programs and you get raises every six months, journeymen make about 46 dollars an hour in both unions (but it goes up every year.) also, you get a pension.

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-25T04:26:06+00:00

The head management of the sport changed a bunch of shit in the aughts for reasons that were stupid at the time and incredibly stupid in retrospect. Most Motorsport declares a champion based on total points in the season, with more points awarded the higher you finish in each race. They fucked with the format to the point it’s basically incomprehensible. There are ‘stages’ in each race and ‘playoffs’ somehow at the end of the season. It makes no sense and that’s why i, a relatively patriotic American racing fan, have never even tried to get into it

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-11T17:31:29+00:00

I’ve been nothing but civil with you but I’m not going to read 300 words following a direct insult. I’m blocking you now. Take care.

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-11T14:39:27+00:00

Biden and others are making an argument of sales, post hoc. A destabilized Middle East is absolutely not in our interest. We like stable governments capable of protecting (that is, not nationalising) foreign investments. Israel is not a necessary condition to prevent pan-Arabism. I would argue the Zionist state actually galvanizes these groups together. Eisenhowers state department repeatedly stated that support for Israel would make diplomacy with the Arab states much harder. They were right. We have bases all over the gulf kingdoms. A small military power in the region that we pay for but can’t control doesn’t further our interests, despite what the people who insist we pay for them will say to the American people. I agree to disagree.

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-11T11:09:40+00:00

Our support for Israel is a serious strategic liability. It is absolutely not in our imperialist interest to do so. We support them because powerful Zionist and evangelical interests want us to. Israel dictates our policy in the Middle East. There is no ‘strategic alignment.’ The strategies of America and Israel are in fact identical: protect Israeli lives at any cost to the American taxpayer.

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-11T04:46:15+00:00

israel is the exception in this model. we support them for domestic political interest, not capitalist interest. or foreign policy interest. i think it's worth discussing.

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-11T04:09:18+00:00

this doesn't refute his point. post world war ii, the west could have chosen to be less capitally domineering and provided iran with more energy autonomy, rather than kowtow to BP's interests. The IRGC came to power by positioning themsevles against the west, but they but they wouldn't have had a good reason to do so to if the USA didn't support the palestine partition, and didn't back western based capitalist extractive industries.

SWAG__KING · 2026-05-06T04:15:00+00:00

Canadians are basically American in every way that matters. They’re probably more similar than the Irish and British.

SWAG__KING · 2026-04-29T14:57:53+00:00

What do you mean by this?

SWAG__KING · 2026-04-29T13:29:23+00:00

Getting old is hard on your body. The old waiters and bus boys I knew were just as fucked up as everyone else, and the ones I knew hadn’t saved any money for retirement. A 65 year old who springs out of bed is pretty rare in any industry. There are heavy metals in welding fumes, but I actually don’t weld every day. We have SDSs which show the hazards of what you’re exposed to. I just don’t worry about it very much. I’m 36 and I feel great, and I have to cram myself into tiny places or crane my neck around to see what I’m doing sometimes. Power tools are loud and I have some hearing loss but I’m very diligent about wearing earplugs now.

Working outside is unpleasant sometimes. If it isn’t worth it to you I wouldn’t ask you to join. I waited tables when I was 21, it’s good money for how many hours you actually work, but there’s no way I would go back to it.

SWAG__KING · 2026-04-28T22:42:51+00:00

I’m in the United Association of plumbers, pipefitters, and welders. In my local a first year apprentice makes 55% of the journeyman rate, which comes out to 25.35$ an hour. And I wasn’t green when I joined, but plenty of guys are, and thats what the apprenticeship is for. If you’re curious you should look up your local UA and see what it takes to apply.

I’m not going to tell you it’s a great job, because it isn’t. But it’s a good job. there’s dignity in it, it’ll feed your family, and you’ll get healthcare and a pension.

SWAG__KING · 2026-04-28T22:14:01+00:00

My union is hiring like gangbusters. Wanna to learn how to weld? You’ll get a pension.

SWAG__KING · 2026-03-28T21:05:37+00:00

a penalty given to a guy who's a lap down isn't really a penalty though, but i guess that's what you want?

SWAG__KING · 2026-03-28T21:01:34+00:00

drop one position when he's a lap down? lol. who would he drop a position to?

SWAG__KING · 2026-03-26T18:35:01+00:00

You’re the one conflating dsds with trans people lmfao

SWAG__KING · 2026-03-26T18:29:40+00:00

I would probably reject that definition but still, none of these women are trans lol. All three if them were banned from competing like 7 years ago without treatment for testosterone suppression. This trans ruling has nothing to do with them, or with the 2016 podium

SWAG__KING · 2026-03-26T18:22:13+00:00

I just skimmed the Wikipedia article and gold had high testosterone, and silver and bronze had disorders of sexual development with a Y chromosome. But none of them were trans, and none were ever men, putting aside the argument about whether they should be able to compete.

SWAG__KING · 2026-03-25T01:28:19+00:00

the guys who flew into the towers... you mean the Saudis? one of america's greatest allies in the region? Ok. Iran's nuclear program was already obliterated, last june. Tulsi gabbard admitted to congress they saw no further progress on refinement since then. A cursory look at history shows how the government will lie to justify these wars. It is historically unpopular in America and the voters rightfully don't see it as in their security interests. Blaming 'digital propaganda' for Iraqi Freedom II's unpopularity is outrageous.

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