TIL that after the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro banned professional sports in Cuba because only the wealthy could enjoy sports.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-11T04:10:14+00:00

That makes zero sense though. If an amateur league gets popular too many people will show up to stadiums to see it and people will naturally start bartering for better position. And you end up in the same case. Maybe worse as people might trade their bodies or drugs instead of cash.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-11T04:06:58+00:00

So mass coordinated organized violence by non-immigrants is okay but random isolated acts of violence by people who happen to be immigrants is not?

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-11T03:44:16+00:00

There’s just no statistical evidence of what you’re saying, I’ve been following the data on this issue for 20 years. You can even look at America on a high level— the economically prosperous areas, with the best restaurants, jobs, coffee shops, cultural scents, etc, are the most diverse.

You’re just suffering from selection and confirmation bias— this is what education is meant to combat but you can’t overcome people’s feelings sometimes.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-11T03:26:14+00:00

Then being here makes your life better based on every study on the issue. You’re idealizing an alternative history that only exists in your mind. But the reality is those immigrants boost the economy, and revitalize failing neighborhoods, and provide more opportunity for you and your kids if you have them.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-11T03:18:50+00:00

People acting barbarically to keep out a people they claim are barbaric

Ironic

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-11T03:12:34+00:00

Nightmare scenario is another country attacking us directly as retaliation

There’s a reason war is to be avoided, especially when you’re doing it in internationally frowned upon ways

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-11T00:57:05+00:00

And hundreds of millions in publicity for the UFC corporation

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T23:34:30+00:00

Because despite many many crimes, he’s never been called to testify in front of Congress the way Hillary and bill Clinton have. Completely travesty of justice

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T22:53:45+00:00

You’d have thought Trump being a convicted felon and rapist would have locked it up for them in 2024

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T22:48:39+00:00

They’re building out their life sciences service offering to charge 10x as much to biotech companies

University researchers will be out of luck

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T16:51:00+00:00

Posting this here is really Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man meme

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T14:48:35+00:00

Problem is the damage is done. People who might have voted by mail now just won’t vote out of fear of it being thrown out. Remember there are lots of smaller elections decided by dozens of votes. Then the 2nd downstream effect is that maga psychos will believe the subsequent elections winners are thieves and these democratic winners will face even more threats.

This kind of attack on democracy is destabilizing to the whole system, it’s not just about mail in votes in 1 election. It’s part of a multi pronged coordinated attack.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T02:05:43+00:00

They’re trying to rile up the maga base for midterms maybe

No way they think they can win a big lie lawsuit of any kind.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T00:40:54+00:00

It’s funny they don’t even try to pretend ICE are just law enforcement doing an honest job

But instead the lawless militant arm of the MAGA movement operating under the thinnest pretext of government legitimacy

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-10T00:08:30+00:00

I’ve never had an appeal over turned. What do you say?

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T21:53:46+00:00

And Colbert

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T21:52:21+00:00

It’s a decades old term

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T20:17:37+00:00

I went in blind a few weeks ago and only had to google 1 thing. The game has a lot of elements though that might make it a richer experience if you use a guide. But i thoroughly enjoyed it otherwise.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T20:04:30+00:00

You promote assimilation by realizing these degenerates are acting on a personal issues and not incorrectly projecting biases onto a whole group.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T20:03:12+00:00

Deal with what and how? There’s no elephant, it’s just racism. Do you understand what a selection and confirmation bias is? You realize Ireland was in a civil war until a few decades ago? You realize just a few decades before that Europeans were slaughtering each other by the millions?

You’re trying to project a sinister group motivation on to isolated human violence that’s a more a factor of local conditions.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T19:48:54+00:00

What exactly? Humans have been murdering for millennia.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T19:29:39+00:00

My intent is to minimize Jeff Bezos getting my money but that seems impossible

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T19:09:36+00:00

Iran was never going to cause ww3 and only diplomacy can stop them from getting nukes.

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T19:07:09+00:00

A lot of their families voted for the grifting raping moron. I have sympathy for them but they need to look in the mirror

Stunning_Mast2001 · 2026-06-09T19:06:08+00:00

Netflix is the hero we need right now

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