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Should be a wild four years.

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[DreinMeinVein]

I don't understand how people can watch soccer without being blisteringly drunk.

From what I know, you're incredibly close to understanding the appeal of soccer. And cricket for that matter, if you swap pints of beer for boxes of wine.
That's just Bri'ish spectator sports for you.

 

[George Lucas]

I love motorsport more than ballsport, but circle track just isn't fun to watch compared to a road course with both left and right turns. So then you can watch something like Formula 1, but it's so pozzed and eurocentric that they are working to reduce carbon emissions for the sport (while conveniently ignoring all the fuel used to deliver cars all over the world for the race in the first place). IMSA can be fun to watch and usually have multiple classes of cars racing at the same time.

America is truly worse off for losing SPEED TV. Used to watch superbike races on my lunch break RIP

This is how I got into IndyCar. NASCAR road course races leave a lot to be desired and a lot of Formula 1 is a glorified parade coupled with inconvenient timing and Eurocentrism.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

so the Florida district 6 election is looking not too hot, partially because the dems are spending ten to one against the gop, partially because Randy Fine is a dipshit
his opponent looks to be a USAID minion and possible diddler

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[TJT]

In most states, the right to vote is automatically restored when they complete all sentencing requirements and are discharged from the system. Be it either probation, parole or prison. Most "Felons", in the typical sense of the word, can vote with no specific action needed on their part. It's always amusing to me watching people have a meltdown about this assumption that if ever convicted of a felony in your life, you can never vote again and try to apply this logic to real life situations.

I don't really hang around criminals so it never crossed my mind as something to understand.

 

[CEO of Gay]

People assume it works like 2A gun rights did for non-violent felons and still does for violent felons, where having a felony on your record prevents you from exercising that constitutional right without an expungement of your criminal record.

How it works with voting rights is how it should work with gun rights. Supposedly there is a process by which one who's completed his sentence can apply to the ATF for restoration of gun rights, but of course, that has been underfunded and backlogged for decades as part of the multi-pronged attack on gun rights.

What is the solution to activist judges throwing up roadblocks to any and every measure taken to deport illegals? Have we gotten so bogged down in bureaucracy that we simply can't take any actions that the people EN MASSE voted for?

Per the Constitution, Congress. Congress can remove the judges with impeachment and a successful conviction. They've done it in the past, they can do it again. Congress is also responsible for establishing the federal courts below the Supreme Court level. Congress can re-define the districts out from under the current judges, forcing a new round of judicial appointments.

In reality, I'm not optimistic about any of the above. The most likely way forward that I see is Trump pulling an Andrew Jackson and telling Roberts to bring the murders and rapists back into the country himself if he wants them that much.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

I don't really hang around criminals so it never crossed my mind as something to understand.

It has nothing to do with hanging around criminals and everything to do with understanding how voting rights actually work so you don't fall for and regurgitate dumb outrage bait online about Felons voting.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

How it works with voting rights is how it should work with gun rights. Supposedly there is a process by which one who's completed his sentence can apply to the ATF for restoration of gun rights, but of course, that has been underfunded and backlogged for decades as part of the multi-pronged attack on gun rights.

Have they tried donating a few million dollars to Trump's campaign? I hear that can get you a pardon.

 

[Romulus augustulus]

Only if you have arthritis.

CAS is a joke because everyone shoots ultra-low power ammo at static targets five feet away with lever guns modified to have an incredibly short throw. Quick draw competitions look more like limbo than showdowns.

It’s not at all in the spirit of the Old West.

NCOWS is what you're looking for. has strict rules for round power and requirements that the guns be period correct so no game guns. targets are also smaller and farther away. its basically living history re-enacting made into a sport shooting match.

But people make the mistake of assuming CAS is meant to be a sport. its specifically meant to be fun for everyone and to emulate those hammy 50s and 60s TV westerns.

 

[BullfrogBill]

RFK tells Republican West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey to his face that he's fat and needs to lose 30 lbs

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By the way, this is Governor Morrisey:
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This is the best thing I've seen in politics in a long time, I've never wanted to buy a MAHA hat more than I do right now.

 

[TJT]

It has nothing to do with hanging around criminals and everything to do with understanding how voting rights actually work so you don't fall for and regurgitate dumb outrage bait online about Felons voting.

But I still don't care how prisons treat prisoners. If anything, I'd vote for them to be treated worse.

 

[George Lucas]

White nations understood that excessive celebration is offensive. Crass showboating takes dignity out of the sport.

You've never watched a Rugby match in a pub, have you?

 

[NoReturn]

These little summer jobs and flipping burgers are fine, but it's offloading all the menial grueling slave labor that Mexicans were paid nothing for off to the American youth and reinforced the idea that some jobs just have to be slave labor. The idea that it's okay to have jobs with shit hours, shit pay, no benefits is retarded. I'm not saying teenagers need perfect jobs, but it's creating that expectation that work needs to be grueling and miserable and dehumanizing so some boomer retard can afford a second condo to rent out and that's just how the system has to work. It goes back to the idea that if the system can't guarantee people decent jobs that they can afford to live on, own a home, support a family, what's the point in supporting the system?

It just doesn't sit right with me, there should be a push for workers to be paid what they're owed and worth instead of the continuing exploitation that the US loves because god forbid we talk about class.

Spoiler: Long, Total boomer death

Here's an anecdote from older folk in my hometown, a town that relies entirely on fruit to survive.
They would pay the teenagers going to high school about $3~$4 an hour to pick and pack fruit in the packing sheds. That's about double the minimum wage adjusted for inflation. These teenagers were happy to do the work because most of them could buy their first car within a few seasons.

Now, they have infinity browns to buss in and do the labor for $5 an hour in 2025.

If you are a teenage US citizen you legally cannot work for the same as a work visa or illegal picker/packer and no orchard will hire you. This also saves them the headache of filling out tax forms. They'd rather pay the fees for having undocumented workers than pay minimum wage.

So they apply at the local McDonald's. If they aren't already stuffed to the brim with Illegals, Pakshit Patel has bought the franchise and only hires his third, fourth, and fifth cousins to get them into the USA. Not to mention everyone refusing paper resumes and online applications being filtered out automatically and never reaching a human.

Teenagers now can't even get the job sweeping a broom. It's been given to their replacements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVAfmD6rAQc

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

The religion of most American Jews is the Democrat party. It replaced Judaism.

America, not Isreal, is the promised land

I'm not mormon

Jewish Democrats hate America. Judaism says Israel is the land promised to them, not America. This is getting dangerous close to "all jews".

Sir, if you keep this up the Trump administration may have to deport you for antisemitic comments. Are you sure all your American citizenship paperwork is kosher?

 

[CEO of Gay]

the "fascism" the dems have been screaming about actually just looks like making elected officials have weekly weigh ins so the public can mock them for being fat

This is why we've been told fascism was the purest evil for all our lives. Politicians worked hard to get so rich that they could become hamplanets without consequences. How dare the uppity plebs mock them for it!

 

[Romulus augustulus]

NCOWS is what you're looking for. has strict rules for round power and requirements that the guns be period correct so no game guns. targets are also smaller and farther away. its basically living history re-enacting made into a sport shooting match.

But people make the mistake of assuming CAS is meant to be a sport. its specifically meant to be fun for everyone and to emulate those hammy 50s and 60s TV westerns.

But the real fun cowboy-ish shooting sport (and a actually real sport) is BPCR matches. They use Antique or newly made reproductions of antique black powder rifles at distances out to and sometimes beyond 1,000 yards. there is A LOT of effort that goes into learning to shoot a rifle that far and developing a load that is accurate at distance. oh and its with iron sights.
Picture is a Sharps model 1877 that is a great example of the rifles used in BPCR.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

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free money get fucked americans no refunds

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1905659761498226899

I really hope the Americans buy out Nord Stream now.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

But the real fun cowboy-ish shooting sport (and a actually real sport) is BPCR matches. They use Antique or newly made reproductions of antique black powder rifles at distances out to and sometimes beyond 1,000 yards. there is A LOT of effort that goes into learning to shoot a rifle that far and developing a load that is accurate at distance. oh and its with iron sights.
Picture is a Sharps model 1877 that is a great example of the rifles used in BPCR.
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ngl I have basically fuckall experience with guns but I can use iron sights and that sounds baller af

 

[SpergioLeonne]

You've never watched a Rugby match in a pub, have you?

I wonder what was ever a whiter sporting event than the miracle on ice

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

man it's not that hard!
Football=leather oval
Basketball=wood floor, orange ball
Baseball=bat, white small ball
Soccer=big pitch, no hands.

You forgot bocce, pleb.

 

[UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid]

You've never watched a Rugby match in a pub, have you?

The excessive celebration I mentioned was from players, not fans. Though, there is a level of excessive celebration for fans too. A pub doesn't have children, so worse moral behavior is tolerated. Drunken louts are relegated to pubs to keep their excessive shouting contained away from the more wholesome areas of society.