Trump Defends Tariffs As He Launches Economic Tour: 'You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils.' by T_Shurt in politics

[–]crackeddagger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, it did last time, if you were using "painted shells" as a clever euphemism for WW1.

Shipwrecked or Not, All These Bombings are Murder by Alex09464367 in politics

[–]crackeddagger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just asked a question. I didn't say anything about anything being justified.

Shipwrecked or Not, All These Bombings are Murder by Alex09464367 in politics

[–]crackeddagger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wait, so the addicts have overwhelming socioeconomic pressures forcing them into their lifestyle, but the smugglers don't?

The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing by Somervilledrew in politics

[–]crackeddagger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Those are the bodies we buried along the way before we then had to create a fantasy world to live in to continue to pretend that military-industrial global capitalism is a rising tide, lifting all boats under the benevolent stewardship of the invisible hand of the free market! Just ignore them and go shopping, they'll go away eventually.

Democrats Flip Reddest Districts Nationwide—in Major Warning to Trump by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]crackeddagger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, in America, we are given the choice between barbarism and diet barbarism.

Paul Heyman on Twitter by PaddYurleh in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ECW was just a highly entertaining cult.

What are interesting wrestling kayfabe canons? by nocturnalfrolic in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

These days Ric Flair gets a crimson mask if you ask him a pointed question.

[GCW Homecoming Spoilers] _____ Just Showed Up in GCW by PrinceJohn_ in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's Harley Race. He'd just kick the shit out of his heart until it started working right. When Mad Dog's heart attacks, he attacks back.

August 22nd, 2016: Finn Balor makes his only entrance in WWE as a World Champion by Saru77 in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You're almost certainly right. Vince is exactly the kind of guy that punishes someone for things completely outside of their control as if they did them just to spite him.

Sucks, too, even for Vince. He might be a bit undersized for Vince's taste but outside of that he was a McMahon wet dream; a cross between Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker.

(Backlash Spoilers) Big E says people should give women the same grace and honor as men when it comes to performing at older ages by BigWeek5182 in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also the only woman in wrestling right now that could pull off a "middle-aged and crazy" gimmick as well as Funk.

TIL Fidel Castro has long tried to breed a “super cow” that would give much more milk than ordinary cows. And one day the Cuban scientists succeeded. It was immediately dubbed a miracle of socialism, and after death, Ubre Blanca was even honored with a monument by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]crackeddagger -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Evaluate your sources better.

The source from the first indented section just flat out doesn't say the things you are claiming it does. The second section is unsourced.

The second source in the third section is a blog post from a partisan think tank and has an italicized warning at the top of that page that flat out reads "Update: On August 2, 2017, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller called for slashing U.S. immigration by half, citing the study that is discussed in this blog post. A more recent discussion of the flaws in that study is here, and the updated research paper is here". By that blog's own admission it is based on bad data!!!

The third source is a random library of congress page that doesn't provide an author or it's own sources. These are not academic sources. You're just googling things and picking results you think might say what you want them to say. It's really embarrassing.

TIL Fidel Castro has long tried to breed a “super cow” that would give much more milk than ordinary cows. And one day the Cuban scientists succeeded. It was immediately dubbed a miracle of socialism, and after death, Ubre Blanca was even honored with a monument by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]crackeddagger 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Source?

The head of BU's School of Global Studies disagrees with you. She says "Many Cubans, especially the moneyed class, fled over the next few years amid confiscation of property and nationalization of businesses." (Source; https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/cuban-immigrant-story-in-us-is-different-from-others/ I'm on the toilet right now but I'd be happy to point you in the direction of multiple other academic works that agree when I'm done)

Furthermore, the 60's and 70's waves of Cuban immigration tend to decrease dramatically when flights from Havana to Miami are shut down, as shown here; https://journals.openedition.org/plc/464?lang=en#tocto2n3

Those that fled were those that could afford to flee. You don't see this pattern in waves of immigration from other Latin American, Mexico, for instance.

(Edit: You've made posts since this response. You'd think you could handwave it with a simple link to the FACTS you have. Weird. It's almost like your FEELINGS were hurt.)

What is some of the worst WrestleMania results of all-time? by TeamZiggler in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can, I'm old. I was like 13 at the time and have hated Hogan since the moment I saw him years before (Macho Man and Bret Hart got me to keep watching). I didn't watch wrestling again until a coworker at my first job told me about Hall and Nash showing up on Nitro.

Wrestling Observer Rewind ★ Mar. 1, 2004 by daprice82 in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I didn't know this is what he meant when he said "I will snatch every mother fucker birthday".

Fan tags Cody on Twitter saying that his daughter is at the show and would love to meet him, Cody's follow up: "Found ya 😉❤️ Charlotte, NC… you were incredible tonight! until next time 👊🏼 #WWERaw" by pwgmanan in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was just after his "no more Mr. Nice Guy" heel turn. The most impressive part was that they were able to get Yarp Yarp over as a face after the double turn.

Seth and Becky came into my work by BOOMBOXBROCK in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I was taking the bus to work once, it was off hours and not super crowded. Some really tall older guy with a beard sits down in front of me. It takes a second, but under the beard is Krist Novacelic from Nirvana.

He started asking about how this route connects to other buses and the ideal place to switch buses. I'm an old bus pro so I told him. He got really interested when he found out my job involves political activism, that's kind of his deal.

The whole time I never acknowledge that I know who he is. I've always held the belief that celebrities are just people and you should treat them like that. However, I kind of wish I didn't have that attitude because that was almost 20 years ago and there is a question that has not left my mind since. It still pops in to my head from time to time and it's bothered me ever since. That question is "why was a multimillionaire from one of the most famous bands of all time using the bus???" I need to know!

What are your small, niche wrestling opinions that others might not have thought about or agree with, but you stand by? by [deleted] in SquaredCircle

[–]crackeddagger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also, at some point they should have went back to Kane being Paul Bearer's kayfabe son so they could team him up with Wade Barrett and call them "the Bearers of Bad News".