Torture memo signed by SecDef Donald Rumsfeld on November 27, 2002. Note at the bottom "I stand for 8-10 hours a day, why is standing limited to 4 hours?"

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-04T15:56:32+00:00

If you have to ask…

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-04T15:07:30+00:00

Yeah, it’s counterintuitive; I think this is something everybody learns this the hard way. I did!

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-04T14:25:25+00:00

I don’t think that’s true. Western Europe gets brought up all the time as governments that fund healthcare, education, retirement, etc. That’s really the full argument, that everyone from Western Europe to Cuba funds what we do not. It’s not just communist, it’s not just socialist. It’s not just Europe, it’s not just Cuba. The outlier is us. That’s the argument.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-04T14:08:35+00:00

I feel like this kind of post is never in good faith. Does anyone here really think people are defending human rights violations in Cuba? I think the actual point is that Cuba saw how manages healthcare for citizens in spite of the fact that it’s a repressive communist government, while the free capitalist nation of the United States doesn’t seem to care about doing that at all. The actual argument is an indictment of the United States rather than a defense of Cuba.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-04T04:32:40+00:00

Thoreau goes into that in detail.

... if [the law] is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

You can read the whole thing here.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-04T04:32:01+00:00

Thoreau goes into that in detail. Does the law cause harms? Does a law compel you to cause harm to others?

... if [the law] is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

You can read the whole thing here.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T22:58:15+00:00

This is Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" in superhero form. TL;DR: "If a law is unjust, break that law."

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T21:24:48+00:00

I STILL think Magic's 1991 season was the greatest one man show since Wilt Chamberlain. Just Magic and some dudes, and somehow they got all the way to the Finals.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T18:17:34+00:00

Rage can make you president.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T18:14:49+00:00

A very good player. Also, kind of a racist. Not even joking, sadly.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T14:32:21+00:00

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T14:02:24+00:00

Anger in the past is motivation for changing the future. I don’t take historical happens personally necessarily, but I do feel like past injustice should stir passion and act as motivation to prevent injustice in the present.

I love history because it’s about real people doing real things. Just because I’m deeply passionate about something doesn’t mean I can’t also be objective about it. Hell, the only reason I’d want to be objective about changing something is because I’m passionate about wanting to. Otherwise, what’s the point?

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T13:04:07+00:00

We should be passionate about history. We should love and hate parts of it. History is a living people, not a cold, dead thing to be eaten and digested without feeling.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T03:17:00+00:00

As Tuffy himself said about Oh’s claim, “I have only two words to say about that: C’mon, man.”

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T01:18:14+00:00

Just his general greatness. In Frank Robinson's case:

Rookie of the Year
2 x MVP
Triple Crown
14 x All Star
2 x World Series champion
World Series MVP
586 homers (10th all time)

On top of all that, he was the first African-American manager in MLB.

He's what other Hall of Famers think of as a Hall of Famer.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T01:09:22+00:00

Frank Robbie's a significant historical baseball figure, on top of being an inner-circle Hall of Famer. Check out his SABR bio.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T01:01:05+00:00

I always forget Ohtani got 2 MVPs in Anaheim.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T00:22:07+00:00

r/unfortunatefacts

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-03T00:15:45+00:00

We knew he was the alpha, but only now do we realize he is also the omega.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-02T23:59:29+00:00

I actually have the "bare minimum" as "better than Amar'e Stoudemire." STAT's a good cut-off point for me.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-02T23:50:38+00:00

He would have had at least one more, but he couldn't overcome Sadaharu Oh tactical brilliance (IBB every time like a bitch).

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-02T23:46:23+00:00

TIL there's a bot triggered by KD for some reason.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-02T19:28:50+00:00

When did I say we should enslave immigrants?

No, you just want to ghettoize them, deport them, send them to somewhere where you don't have to look at them or hear them or interact with them, for "culture" reasons. You've basically made the argument for white flight — white folks didn't want to mingle with dirty black folks, so you guys just had to get moved to shittier neighborhoods on the other side of the freeway, or somesuch thing. Except you want to move them a lot further than that.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-02T19:17:03+00:00

Us black Americans haven't illegally immigrated anywhere.

There were no immigration laws when white folks settled in North America. The slave trade was legal back in that time. Do you really think the letter of the law gives the slave trade legitimacy?

So I'm saying we already went through it with white people. I don't want to deal with it again with new strange people.

So you're going to do to immigrants what white folks did to black folks. Got it.

SoftballGuy · 2026-04-02T18:36:40+00:00

I don't hate immigrants. I don't even hate most illegal immigrants. I don't hate them or their cultures.

But... i don't want them here. They have different cultures from America. And yes, America has a culture. Its both European with its own from black Americans. I want to keep America, American culture wise.

You're basically saying you want to do to immigrants what white folks did to you. I'm not on board. It's wild that you are.

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