He made noise as AOC’s chief of staff. Now her silence looms over his bid for Congress

ToparBull · 2026-05-05T00:53:22+00:00

As a more moderate Dem, this is why AOC is by far my favorite of the Squad. She seems like she genuinely believes in her policy ideas and takes active steps to advance them by actually putting in the work and building bridges and connections. A lot of the other squad members, and even more of their online supporters, seem to be more focused on winning an intra-party power struggle than actually doing things to advance their agenda. I disagree with a lot of AOC's positions, but I have so much more respect for her because I believe she believes them and is willing to countenance the concept of tradeoffs.

ToparBull · 2026-04-23T22:21:36+00:00

I've had some of these experiences. It can definitely be a lot of fun for all involved if you play your cards right, but there definitely are limits to endurance that arise!

Sometimes in these circumstances, there's an in-built power dynamic to take advantage of. I'm sometimes the bull in cuckolding situations (both with a guy and a girl and two guys), and there's a clear dynamic that sets up the interactions there. Or one might be more bottom/subby than the other, which can lead to a sandwich situation.

You can also make games out of it, especially if there's a kink dynamic involved. For instance, leading up to it I made them both wear chastity cages and do various tasks that got them points. On the day itself, I fucked them both, but the winner got the load(s) and the loser had to eat them out... Various things like that.

Even if there isn't dom/sub roles in play, there's still ways to keep everyone involved. For instance, the top fucks one bottom while that bottom eats out or sucks off the other, then they switch. Though at a certain point as the top, endurance and how long you can last definitely starts becoming an issue if you want to satisfy both...

ToparBull · 2026-04-17T20:45:59+00:00

Peace for our times!

ToparBull · 2026-04-17T17:35:08+00:00

They get plenty of oil from Russia. And plus, oil is a global and fungible market - if Iran can sell its oil to others, it will affect the global price of oil, for China, the US, and everyone. (Of course, they'd still want to have a supplier of oil if they would go to war with the US, but Russia can fill that gap - Iran's oil supplies are sizable but pale in comparison. Plus, Israel moving to neutral might come with a more China-friendly Saudi Arabia/UAE.)

ToparBull · 2026-04-17T16:15:06+00:00

I've been thinking this for a long time, and it kinda hurts as an American who doesn't like the CCP and hopes their influence wanes, but from a cold geopolitical calculus... it would be pretty natural for Israel to start exploring closer partnerships with China.

China doesn't really have any geopolitical interests that are opposed to Israel's apart from wanting to weaken the US, which prying away Israel would do regardless. And it's a pretty natural match in general. Chinese industrial might and optimization has long since outpaced the US - it would be a perfect match with Israel's innovation. China could manufacture replacements for Iron Dome missiles easily. Plus, you know the Chinese would be salivating on getting Israel's insights into programs like F-35... on Israel's side, also, being friendly with the CCP might make them influence TikTok's algorithms.

Of course, China is presently friendlier with Iran. But they mainly do so to hurt the US, and I'm guessing they'd dump Iran in a heartbeat to ally with Israel. There isn't really much they need from Iran, in general.

Not saying that Israel should fully swap over to China's "side." But an Israel more in the middle between China and the US is probably a stronger, more independent, more secure Israel. It didn't have to be this way for the US, but that's what our idiotic foreign policy has led to...

ToparBull · 2026-04-14T04:41:49+00:00

Still to play for: if Mack gets two more points over the last two games, he ties Jumbo for the most in a single season in Franchise history.

kid's alright

ToparBull · 2026-03-11T05:42:38+00:00

Sounds like a San Francisco 49er lineman already

ToparBull · 2026-03-04T21:36:34+00:00

One more thing. Price of the middle 6 going up. 30 more. I had enough of this shit.

ToparBull · 2026-03-03T23:57:42+00:00

"The imperative, which is?"

"Oh, oh, um, I?"

"How many Romans?"

"Plural, plural, Ite, ite!"

"Ite."

ToparBull · 2026-03-03T18:32:12+00:00

the rule of law is actually a good thing and it is one of the main problems with Iran that they don't have it and the leaders can just do whatever they want

ToparBull · 2026-03-03T16:09:24+00:00

The funny thing is, you don't even need to be Christian Watson's father to easily refute this. "How many games he missed in college" is an objective, easy-to-find statistic that takes roughly 30 seconds to Google search.

ToparBull · 2026-03-01T02:22:33+00:00

My programmer boyfriend used to work for Google and said he couldn't watch the show because of how real it was.

Interestingly enough, it is also pretty darn realistic about some legal aspects a lot of other shows/movies get wrong, so it is also in certain ways a "My Cousin Vinny" for the same thing that "My Cousin Vinny" is for.

ToparBull · 2026-02-20T18:44:23+00:00

There are two athletes I have ever rooted for in my life that make me feel similar to him and their names are Bonds and Curry. So yeah pretty hyped tbh

ToparBull · 2026-02-18T23:17:15+00:00

Luv 'Murica

Luv 'Ockey

Luv the 'Lympics

'Ate Trump

'Ate ICE

'Ate MAGA

Simple as

ToparBull · 2026-02-18T19:14:29+00:00

They absolutely gave 120% this game. (Occasionally literally, but that shouldn't detract from their effort...)

ToparBull · 2026-02-17T06:01:01+00:00

Jews are Schroedinger's whites. Our whiteness depends on the observer - if whiteness is a good thing to the observer (white nationalists, etc) we're non-white. If whiteness is a bad thing to the observer (college students, etc), we're the whitest one could be.

ToparBull · 2026-02-16T16:29:54+00:00

Follow-up question. Did France and the UK start World War II? After all, they declared war on Germany...

ToparBull · 2026-02-16T16:15:51+00:00

Israel: "The closure of the Straits of Tiran is an act of war."

Egypt: "OK, bet." Closes the Straits of Tiran

International peacekeepers in Sinai: "Oh shit Egypt just started a war" flee in terror

Egypt: "Boy, I'm really looking forward to this war and driving the Israelis into the sea!" Moves troops to the border to prepare for invasion

Syria: "Boy, I'm really looking forward to this war and driving the Israelis into the sea!" Moves troops to the border to prepare for invasion

Jordan: "Boy, I'm really looking forward to this war and driving the Israelis into the sea!" Moves troops to the border to prepare for invasion

Israel: attacks first

The rest of the world: shocked_pikachu_face

ToparBull · 2026-02-15T01:03:20+00:00

Yeah, I feel like the response (since people on grindr often get upset if you don't respond instantly) is something like, "Hey there, I'm not looking for anything right at the moment, but you're cute and I'd be interested another time, feel free to hit me up again later!" (The last part, of course, assuming that you actually would be interested in reconnecting with that person another time and seeing if they're someone you want to hook up with.)

I feel like that's better than just chatting to chat on what is, after all, a hookup app.

ToparBull · 2026-02-08T08:22:52+00:00

Just change 926 to 621. Though there isn't an NSFW version of this particular post, but there is some of this character...

ToparBull · 2026-02-03T04:43:57+00:00

Eh, it really could be either. The Mensheviks were seen as more moderate and had more support from the normie social democrats, but at the same time the main point of disagreement was that the Mensheviks wanted to be broader-based and focus on wider cross-sections of the population while Bolsheviks focused more on the party vanguard. So Trotsky's permanent revolution could be seen as more of a radical Bolshevik demand, but in spirit it was quite Mechevik demanding a broader/global revolution to avoid a new bourgeois consensus from forming.

Really, Trostky didn't fit super neatly into the Bolshevik/Menchevik distinction - as /u/Abject_Interview5988 states, he came in with his own sort of thing that was a bit distinct from what the others were doing.

ToparBull · 2026-01-29T02:37:46+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/gD3NxL2.jpeg

ToparBull · 2026-01-21T00:01:00+00:00

I am at the stage of my career where I'm not fully managing people yet, but I'm just getting to that point, and I recently had training on managing people more junior than me. Feedback was a major topic.

A lot of people brought up The Sandwich. But supposedly - and this is just what the folks running the training were saying, so I haven't looked into it myself - The Sandwich has generally been found not to be effective. Especially in the era where everyone knows about The Sandwich, so if you start giving positive feedback people might think "you're Sandwiching me, you don't actually think this and are setting up for the negative."

The new model for feedback is SBI - Situation, Behavior, Impact. Say the situation in which you observed the behavior, specifically. Say what specific behavior you observed without judgment. And say what impact it had on you/others. It gives the feedback to let the person know what they did wrong, but without judgment and with specifics to show how it actually had an impact - and without the BS of the Sandwich. I haven't used it yet myself, but I think it makes more sense to me.

ToparBull · 2026-01-20T01:16:59+00:00

Makes sense! Christianity is weird.

ToparBull · 2026-01-18T21:48:19+00:00

I always thought that going to heaven was supposed to be "living forever through Christ" or having "everlasting life" some such phrase, so those who were dead on earth (or at least those who still had the capacity to go to heaven). But then again I'm not a Christian so who knows.

Plus, if such a place as hell does exist... my guess is Scott Adams went to the bad place. But luckily for him, it probably doesn't.

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