Mr. Gallano

@TheCinesthetic Guy that plays an acoustic guitar outside of his ex-girlfriend's window wins her back

What's a clichè in movies that never actually happens in real life?

@derrico_henrio Good list, but you missed: Tulane-LSU Tulane-Memphis UConn-Syracuse UConn-St. John's

List of rivalries bigger than US vs Mexico in no particular order: Clemson - FSU Virginia - Virginia Tech UNC - NC State UNC - Duke Stanford - Cal Miami - FSU Wake Forest - Duke Louisville - Kentucky Louisville - Cincy Pitt - WVU Pitt - Syracuse Pitt - BC Pitt - Penn State TCU - SMU TCU - Baylor TCU - Texas Tech Texas Tech - Baylor Texas Tech - Oklahoma State Kansas - Kansas State Kansas State - Iowa State Iowa State - Iowa Kansas - Colorado Kansas - Mizzou Colorado - Nebraska Colorado - Colorado State UCF - USF Houston - Rice Oklahoma State - Oklahoma BYU - Utah Arizona - Arizona State Cincy - UCF Cincy - WVU Cincy vs Memphis Michigan - Ohio State Michigan - Michigan State Michigan - Minnesota Michigan - Penn State Minnesota - Iowa Oregon - Washington Oregon - Oregon State Washington - Wazzu Wazzu - Oregon State USC - UCLA USC - Stanford USC - Oregon Indiana - Illinois Indiana - Purdue Illinois - Northwestern Illinois - Purdue Wisconsin - Minnesota Wisconsin - Iowa Wisconsin - Nebraska Penn State - Pitt Penn State - Iowa Penn State - WVU Penn State - Ohio State Rutgers - Maryland Alabama - Auburn Alabama - LSU Alabama - Tennessee Ole Miss - Mississippi State Georgia - Florida Florida - FSU Florida - Miami Georgia- Auburn Georgia - Georgia Tech Texas - Oklahoma Texas - Texas A&M Texas - Arkansas Texas - Texas Tech Texas - TCU Texas - Baylor Texas A&M - Baylor Oklahoma - Mizzou Oklahoma - Nebraska Tennessee - Vandy Tennessee - Kentucky Vandy - Kentucky LSU - Arkansas LSU - A&M LSU - Florida LSU - Ole Miss South Carolina - Clemson Notre Dame - USC Notre Dame - Michigan Notre Dame - Michigan State Notre Dame - Miami Notre Dame - Navy Army - Navy Army - Air Force Navy - Air Force Wyoming - Colorado State New Mexico - New Mexico State WKU - MTSU Every MAC school vs Every MAC school Marshall - ECU Did I miss anything?

@bipolardiciples @BenjaminPDixon @JDStokes79 And your assumption about this is based on what? And "I really want it to be true but can't provide any evidence" isn't an acceptable answer. Authoritarian regimes see all kinds of great things happen. Just ask the authoritarian leaders, they'll tell you!!

@KG6783 @BenjaminPDixon @JDStokes79 had the u.s not been threatened by ussrs success we’d probably have something similar to a socialist society. they turned a largely peasant farmer nations into an industrialized and prosperous societies. they saw drastic increases in literacy, life expectancy, jobs and education.

Capitalism REQUIRES poverty

@dose_of_Close @peterrhague Same reason South Korea needs help against North Korea. When you are a country that focuses on the economic wellbeing of the people (like Western countries) and you come up against military dictatorships where the people are used to misery, it can be hard to win that fight.

@peterrhague Russia is Europe's primary enemy. Russia is 25% the population and around 10% the economy. Why would Europe need help against an enemy that is 90% poorer and that has 1/4 the people?

To be fair the Americans have been yelling this at us, at varying volume, since the Berlin Wall fell.

@WCCSG_ Limited to the schools pictured? If I'm a P-4, I'd want San Diego State. Big 12 probably makes the most sense (although Big 10 isn't unreasonable with the LA schools already there).

Out of these schools, who do you think has the best chance of moving to a new conference in the next round of realignment? What conference? 🏈

@24patriotism @hashjenni Anybody that thinks that the US middle class shrinking is a bad thing doesn't know the facts. The US middle class isn't shrinking because the lower class is growing, it's shrinking because the upper middle class is growing.

🚨🚨While technically defined by Cold War-era non-alignment, the term "Third World" is used colloquially to describe the U.S. having characteristics of a developing nation, such as severe wealth inequality, high poverty rates, and crumbling infrastructure. Scholars and critics point to a vanishing middle class and poor living conditions for millions as evidence of this growing divide.  Extreme Wealth Inequality: Research suggests a dual economy where a small percentage holds the vast majority of wealth, while many Americans face high costs for housing and healthcare, leading to bankruptcy. Infrastructure and Poverty: Reports have highlighted that some areas in the U.S. have poverty levels and lack basic infrastructure (water, sanitation) comparable to developing nations.

Unpopular opinion: The United States is now a 3rd World Country.

@ggreenwald Come off it Glenn, if the US went to war with China and China had complete air superiority over the US and the US responded by firing missiles at civilians in Toronto and Mexico City and cutting off all food exports, there's no way you'd try to spin it as the US winning.

Yes, the world -- outside of MAGA and Israel -- knows that the US and Israel are not winning this war right now. For that reason, they can't stop now. The damage of such a defeat would be generational. The huge risk is that the US/Israel escalate out of desperation and panic.

@taco800ygz @JarriAbidi @nothooshmasnooi @mehdirhasan There are conflicting reports about how many people it was (I tend to assume that the Iranian government is understating it). You missed my point, which was that even if you take the low estimate at face value, there still isn't a good answer to the original question.

@KG6783 @JarriAbidi @nothooshmasnooi @mehdirhasan Lmfaooo it was 40,000 tho or 50,000 some say 70 or 80,000 keep lying lying lying that’s all you weirdo sick twisted people do

"There is no intel, certainly no credible intel, indicating [Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader] is gay – the idea was fabricated and pushed behind the scenes in the past several weeks by a cohort of Trump advisers...and MAGAworld associates" zeteo.com/p/gay-ayatolla…

@JarriAbidi @nothooshmasnooi @mehdirhasan The Iranian government admitted to 3,117. So just swap that number our for the 30,000 figure and then answer the question.

@nothooshmasnooi @mehdirhasan Either believe in the Zionist propaganda about Iran AND Palestine, or neither of it. This picking and choosing is a fool's error.

@iloveparadise_ @MikaelCBernard You could always do some basic research before making an ass of yourself. Google and AI are your friends. dw.com/en/most-taiwan…

@KG6783 @MikaelCBernard You are CIA plus Mossad. That's the only reason why you pretend Taiwan is even going to fight Mainland China. If Taiwan dares fight Mainland China, the assailants aren't going to be treated as conquered people but as traitors.

There’s really nothing stopping China from taking Taiwan rn. Like literally nothing. The UN has collapsed, international law is over, geopolitical assasinations are legal again, and occupation is cool.

@iloveparadise_ @MikaelCBernard No, I'm just a guy who reads things and has properly functioning neurons in his brain. Never (knowingly) met anybody from the CIA or Mossad, I wish I were cool enough to draw attention from intelligence agencies.

@bipolardiciples @BenjaminPDixon @JDStokes79 I'll ask you the question that rational people ask and idealists never do: compared to what? Capitalism is broken, compared to what that works? Nothing is easier than pointing out that human institutions have flaws. It's amazing to me how much energy gets devoted to that.

@KG6783 @BenjaminPDixon @JDStokes79 the death count for capitalism is in the hundreds of millions. and we don’t have to stick with one financial system for all of eternity. it’s clear this one is broken and the world is ready for a new system. whatever name is may go by

@HenryGB_274 @MikaelCBernard If you're still not sure, you can always try reading about what Xi is saying in connection with the purges. apnews.com/article/china-…

@HenryGB_274 @MikaelCBernard It's not a handful, it's over 100 since 2022. And "corruption" is authoritarian speak for "perceived threats." Have you never opened a fucking history book? Or are you just unaware of Xi's authoritarianism? The purges are about ensuring the loyalty of the PLA to Xi personally.

@iamobregon @Aaadatan @MikaelCBernard Reading can be your friend, it's over 100. Reading comprehension can be your friend too, I didn't conclude anything, I said it "leaves considerable doubt." Assuming that it has no effect (as you appear to be doing) would be drawing a conclusion.

@Aaadatan @KG6783 @MikaelCBernard A very idiotic conclusion. He thinks removing 3 officers who are compromised is a setback.

@MikaelCBernard Amphibious invasions are very difficult logistically. Doing one without experienced military commanders is even more difficult.

@KG6783 Taiwan is very small. You don’t need massive military capacity to invade Taiwan.

@thoughtographic @JeremyH10588071 Ah, an extrapolation of the labor theory of value, a theory that has been thoroughly disproven by analysis but still a favorite of the true believers in Marx’s laughable and mathematically illiterate theories.

@JeremyH10588071 The workers create all that. Capitalists hate keep it for profit. Just get rid of the middle man. The amount of food waste and empty houses in this country can feed and house everyone.

I honestly don’t care how many people you think died under past communist “regimes”. It doesn’t change the fact that everyone deserves food, housing, healthcare and the ability to live a dignified life. Capitalism won’t do this and it’s literally destroying our planet.

@sugrskllangelic If they have free speech, ask one of two things: (1) what does Amnesty International say happened on June 4, 1989 or (2) why won't you post a picture of Winnie the Pooh on Chinese social media?

I was just in China. Proof Pic attached. I saw a Chinese citizen get into a verbal altercation with a member of the government about a traffic light and they were cussing the whole government out in front of an official building. They definitely have free speech.

@BenjaminPDixon @JDStokes79 The record of history could not be any clearer that capitalism lifts more people out of poverty than any other system humans have come up with. The status of the average person is more important to most people (who are likely to be average) than people on the periphery.

capitalism requires workers to be dependent and replaceable which manifests as a stable base of unemployed that we normalize into structured umeployment. that shows up as constant economic insecurity for millions (poverty). The structural demand for Profit demands suppressed wages and higher prices for whatever widget a company is selling whether it is RENT or healthcare, experienced as POVERTY. The inputs for those widgets continue to manifest as child and slave labor throughout history, but today specifically it shows up as children working in rare earth mines globally .... but we don't count that because we don't see it (absolute POVERTY just for the latest cell phone or EV battery) Poverty isn’t just a side effect it’s structured into the system....distributed unevenly and pushed to the periphery to sustain stability at the center, and because we in the center don't see the horrors on the periphery, we think captalism is just fine when it requires poverty somewhere, whether we acknowledge it or not. I can cite authors and the textbook names for each of these structural requirements if you like Sidenote: there is a difference between free markets and capitlaism.

@njalbertini @AkkadSecretary I’m American. I understand our foreign policy historically but nobody can understand our current foreign policy because even the administration can’t explain it.

In the past few months we've basically crippled communist China and most of our primary global enemies besides Russia. Russia is currently bogged down in Ukraine because that psychotic little cokehead won't give up. Hey, good for us though. They can't do shit about it either. You have no idea what US foreign policy is. Now you have a small window into it. Watch and learn.

In Thailand fuel is being rationed Australia is fucked Europe is ~$11 a gallon Meanwhile in Florida its $3.9 or £0.77 a liter. Americans simply are not feeling the real effects of this war, most you get is a grumble about price whilst the rest of the world dies.