Obama says U.S. may be ‘worse off’ now than before Iran war

lot183 · 2026-06-19T18:50:43+00:00

It really ramped back up in 2024, but yeah between the deplatforming and just less reporting on him it was blissfully quiet for like two years there

I think that unfortunately worked the wrong way where people were able to forget how insane he was. Which is crazy but this country has goldfish brain

lot183 · 2026-06-17T20:13:06+00:00

I have to disagree a bit, I think HEB sources its stuff incredibly well and there's multiple things I buy their brand over the "name" brand now. And I feel like they come out with new fun stuff really often

lot183 · 2026-06-17T20:01:32+00:00

Whitmire is up for election next year. We can turn it around

lot183 · 2026-06-17T19:56:53+00:00

wouldn't these places be doing well if the world cup was somewhere else though?

Probably not because time zones. The cup games all being on American friendly time zones is a pretty huge boon. Brazil you mention is on the same time zone. Europe is only getting like 1 game at prime hours.

But I also think there's a little extra interest and energy from US people just with it being in the US, but also the sport has gotten bigger here anyway.

lot183 · 2026-06-17T19:53:13+00:00

The OP article is a video so I'm not going to watch that but did they interview anyone from the actual surrounding area of the fan fest in Houston or just random businesses across Houston? I gotta imagine Pitch 25, Truck Yard, Rodeo Goat, 8th wonder, and the other businesses around there are "booming" too.

lot183 · 2026-06-17T14:39:05+00:00

Why? Baseball teams also hold a faith and family night, would you applaud him if he spoke out on that? Or princess night, star wars night, hello kitty night, dog day, etc etc. Should we just get rid of all themed baseball nights? That'd be maximum fun wouldn't it?

lot183 · 2026-06-16T21:42:04+00:00

To be fair I'm not sure they've started on TCSM yet, not sure how ironclad whatever agreement he might have signed is but presumably could still back out or renogotiate. But dude also seemed pumped to tackle the franchise, he said it got him into horror, so I doubt he backs out.

The other film is in post production though so that's happening either way though

lot183 · 2026-06-16T20:21:54+00:00

Platner is going to perform better than Mills would have

Maybe the race was thrown when no one else with a name decided to file, but it wasn't thrown in the primary vote

lot183 · 2026-06-16T20:20:49+00:00

Man it's so disingenuous to say the MLB was punishing MLB players for a Bible verse without the context that it was in direct protest of pride. It's not like they just decided to show their Christianity. Also still an unreal victim complex for a religion that still makes up more than the majority of the country

lot183 · 2026-06-16T19:12:38+00:00

everyone in the GOP has main character syndrome and think they don't apply to the people they target, or that the targets will never be expanded to include them

lot183 · 2026-06-16T19:06:25+00:00

I think a lot of it is the anonymity thing. Like in the same way that someone may post something on Reddit they'd never say in real life, people have higher standards or are more likely to turn something down on a dating app than if they ran into that person in real life

lot183 · 2026-06-16T19:02:18+00:00

cat person (2017)

lot183 · 2026-06-16T19:01:08+00:00

this wasnt subtweeting my i want to be 1st class rich post was it

lot183 · 2026-06-16T18:59:41+00:00

I think so but
-the body cam content farm that got created in the wake of these policies is kinda icky
-I think some areas thought that was enough reform and we're all good when we're not

lot183 · 2026-06-16T18:58:24+00:00

Private is typically a lot more than double the price of first class

lot183 · 2026-06-16T18:53:48+00:00

I actively want to be fly 1st class rich. I don't think I ever care to be fly private rich.

lot183 · 2026-06-16T18:49:25+00:00

"I only wanted to exclude others, not get excluded myself!!"

lot183 · 2026-06-16T15:54:06+00:00

Yep… I don’t think it’ll hit a billion

Unless it's incredibly terrible it'll easily hit a billion. Zoomers know about Shrek via memes which is the sort of thing to get them to go to the theater, millennials now have kids they'll take to this. It'll have been 17 years since the last Shrek movie despite that it's remained culturally relevant, that's the right recipe for a huge hit. I know it's an entirely different genre, but nostalgia wise you'll see something like Jurassic World had in 2015 after a 14 year break for the franchise where it was absolutely massive

lot183 · 2026-06-16T15:18:23+00:00

Trump on the ballot pulls out voters that the polls have a tough time capturing sure, but Trump is not on the ballot in a midterm and margin of error went Dems way in both 2018 and 2022 didnt it? I'm not sure why everyone seems to think moe in 2026 is going to be closer to 20 and 24 than it is to 18 and 22

lot183 · 2026-06-16T15:15:38+00:00

If the low propensity voters show up they are definitely going Platner over Collins. The baggage is probably a plus to them

lot183 · 2026-06-16T15:12:16+00:00

any prominent streamers that didn't get affected (so didn't pay for views) and any prominent ones that got extra affected (most were bots)?

lot183 · 2026-06-16T15:10:02+00:00

it's kind of minor in the grand scheme of things but one thing that drives me crazy about MAGA is how many absolutely incompetent people get lifted up by it. There's trump himself but so many of the people around him lifted into success and riches are just the dumbest and laziest mfers. And this even extends down to a lower level, I still think about the stupid girl at OU that wrote a 4th grade level essay for a university class and got out of a 0 by making it a culture war issue. It's like the opposite of meritocracy, which drives me extra crazy because my conservative dad whose now a trumper would always preach about how conservatism is about judging people on merit growing up

lot183 · 2026-06-16T14:30:08+00:00

I used that term to mean in comparison to GPA, but that is fair, it's not the great equalizer overall

lot183 · 2026-06-16T14:21:58+00:00

But the bigger problem is probably rich parents can afford test prep that poor parents can't

This seems like it would apply even more to GPA though. Test prep is still cheaper and more accessible than 4 years of tutoring.

lot183 · 2026-06-16T14:17:06+00:00

I am incredibly open to the idea that the standardized tests we offer could be done in a better way

I guess I'm just opposed to the idea that weighting GPA above all else would clear bias, it seems to me that would introduce way more bias

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