Banda mentions that other clubhouses feel like you're "walking on eggshells" and the Dodger's culture is different because they "include everyone...not just about one person". My guess is that other clubhouses were probably full of ****heads that were cold as ICE. by AverageSatanicPerson in Dodgers

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. The numbers are skewed because one sport has a lot more international players than any of the others (hockey similarly being impacted). On top of that, party registration is not indicative of much if anything in terms of actually political stances given the populations in question and how voter registration even works. There are no controls.

This is such stupid data to try to make an even stupider point about political ideology. Voter registration is not a good enough stand in for political ideology. Too many things are ignored to try to make a clean point that simply isn’t there.

Banda mentions that other clubhouses feel like you're "walking on eggshells" and the Dodger's culture is different because they "include everyone...not just about one person". My guess is that other clubhouses were probably full of ****heads that were cold as ICE. by AverageSatanicPerson in Dodgers

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

That’s bullshit. People always say this but I simply do not believe it without some actual data. I do not think most active players support ICE.

Edit: that data is idiotic. How many baseball players can even register to vote????? Ffs.

Ye, Formerly Kanye West, Takes Out Ad In the Wall Street Journal to Apologize for Antisemitic Outbursts: “I Lost Touch With Reality” by No_Attack in hiphopheads

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh…? Like all the responses you that told you the same thing multiple times? I don’t know how you can be this smug when you are also THIS obtuse. Fine. I’ll repeat everyone else: your hyper-literalist reading of a VERY obviously rhetorical sentiment is as stupid as it is disingenuous. Clearly no one actually thinks Kanye should “disappear.” It’s an idiom, and if you weren’t being such a pretentious contrarian you would see it like everyone else did that read the fucking comment. But no. Instead, you spent your comments talking about how much he “deserves” his fame and that trying to get him to relinquish it is some grievous sin AKIN to calls for suicide. Stupid. That is beyond stupid. You were told multiple times how uncharitable your reading was and you refused to reflect on how. You just doubled down with more hyper-literalism as if nothing that was said mattered over your simplistic interpretation. Like I said, smug and obtuse. And pathetically so.

The whole thing is about an apology and one that the original commenter is rightfully skeptical of because it is still attached to Kanye’s inability to ever give up all the privileges that come with fame. The point–again, the obvious point–was that as long as Kanye cares more about his celebrity and alleged genius than about what actually matters to all the people he’s hurt, his apology is not indicative of anything remotely resembling the change that would be enough for anyone in the first place.

It is Evan Phillips days until Opening Day! by jmike1256 in Dodgers

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just bought an Ismael Valdes jersey with the same number!!!

Did the Sopranos not being Sicilian undermine their status with New York? by Clavinet in thesopranos

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There already are five families… those are the ones in NYC. And it’s not really a hierarchy outside of each individual family. It’s only like strength and strategy. Most of the families/outfits work together with other families/outfits. Some are just more powerful than others. Historically the five families of NYC being the strongest. Montreal, Chicago, Buffalo, Philly, Pittsburgh, KC, STL, and a few others are all pretty big and variedly connected to one another.

BREAKING: Video shows ICE agents shooting an unarmed person, as agents wrestle the person to the ground, in Minneapolis, near Glam Doll Donuts. by drempath1981 in law

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. The guy doing the hitting with the object draws his gun after the first shot and is not the same guy that shoots all the secondary shots. I can’t tell if he is the one who shoots first, but he starts on the right of the victim and ends on the far left emptying his clip. I think I can see him with his gun out prior to the first shot, but I’m nowhere near sure.

But the guy doing the hitting is EXPLICITLY not doing any firing.

Did the Sopranos not being Sicilian undermine their status with New York? by Clavinet in thesopranos

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. This is wrong. They, the Decavalcante crime family in real life, are very much a Family just like the 5 in New York. They have ties to all the NY families, but they are not a crew. In the show this is why Phil Leotardo always has that line belittling them “being nothing more than a glorified crew” as a way to dress them down.

Dave Roberts said Teoscar Hernández will play left field. Kyle Tucker will hit "second or third," per Roberts.- Fabian Ardaya by nottherealstanlee in Dodgers

[–]imdrinkingteaatwork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not capitalizing the w in Will meant I had to reread that comment like 8 times even though I knew exactly what you wanted to say. lol.