@notgaetti It was the Baseball Gods having fun with us. Legendary stuff.
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Max Duggan
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Max Duggan
@MaxDugganMax
Reagan Republican (endangered species), Capitalist, Western Civilization chauvinist & advocate, baseball lover, movie officianado.
Katılım Nisan 2022
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The Rick Camp homer strikes me as perhaps one of the least likely things that could have ever happened on a baseball field
Red County in Blue State #2A #RealBaseball@JSD12120831
@notgaetti Is this Julio HR more or less impressive than Bartolo Colon's HR in 2016 or Rick Camp's HR on July 4, 1985.
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@InvisibleGoril1 @DominicJPino Right, but the “surplus” has already been spent through normal federal spending. The bonds represent debt obligations - just as any other investor would be owed, as you point out.
The right hand owes the left hand several trillion dollars.
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@MaxDugganMax @DominicJPino yes, the us gov has an obligation to the OASI, because the OASI holds government bonds, just as any other investor could (though the type of bond OASI has is restricted to SS)
and that fund, the surplus, exists because SS has collected more than it has paid out.
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Even by French standards, a wealthy retired couple receiving nearly six figures from a national pension program is absurd.
But that's what Social Security is doing, while the government is $39 trillion in debt.
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@InvisibleGoril1 @DominicJPino The “surplus” consists of bonds (IOUs) that the US Treasury is on the hook for. In other words, there is no surplus, just a debt obligation.
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@DominicJPino the government might be in debt
but social security (OASI) still has a surplus of about $2.5T, right?
the issue is that it is projected to go through those funds in the future (given certain projections)
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@RWApodcast How is it terrorism when the countries are at war and the target was the Russian army? It isn’t.
Neither was the legendary Beeper Operation, which was indeed unbelievable in its ingenuity and execution.
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Comically evil terrorist plot that would be 100% unbelievable if Israel hadn't pulled off basically the same thing in 2024
Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺@Alex_Oloyede2
‼️🇷🇺 Heated shoe pads fitted with IEDs A foreign national has been detained in Moscow on charges of terrorism, transporting 504 IED packages. These IEDs were smuggled from Poland through Belarus into Russia. The package was meant to be a humanitarian gift to the Russian army. According to the FSB each device contained 1.5 grams of TNT and detonates when connected to a power source causing limb injuries. The Ukrainians in coordination with the Europeans planned to pull a MOSSAD pager attack on Russian nationals. Do European civilians truly grasp the potential consequences of this? Russia is now justified to reciprocal terrorism against EU nationals, your phones, cars, you should be scared. Is this the world Europe wants? Great work to the FSB as always.
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So...they're literally just admitting that Mossad organizes Iranian uprisings now?
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@nyaraVT Nature put you in that box, not malicious people in power.
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> They deny that trans women are women
> They claim trans people are predators
> They demonise trans healthcare
in order to justify cruel forms of punishment (i.e. being harassed, sexual abuse, discrimination) for breaking the boxes that people in positions of power trap us in
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@nbsurprise @EleanoraStats This is a wish on your part. Wishing it, wanting it cannot change your sex. I’m sorry you have been led to believe otherwise.
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@MaxDugganMax @EleanoraStats for most medical purposes, the sex of a trans woman who underwent hrt is female
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NHS officially changed my gender marker to Female
🥳🥳🥳🥳
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@ChadowskiIsBack @NapoleonBonabot It’s “risk averse”, not “risk adverse”.
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I enjoy that most people don't understand that Hollywood is financed by risk adverse investors while simultaneously being filled with only a handful of actors & actresses that are broadly liked; if you're taking a risk on a theatrical release, you more or less have to cast people that are familiar to the lowest common denominators of the public while producing a movie that appeals to the broadest audience possible in order to have it in theaters worldwide.
There really isn't a solution to this either unless you want state funded media; which is not something I ever want in this country.
Raymond G.@raymondgstanley
Why are the majority of leading actors, action stars all dudes in their late 50s and 60s. We didn't have this problem 30 years ago.
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@Diplomatt42 @scottlincicome It seems that way because it is that way.
Public sector unions being the worst of the worst.
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@scottlincicome I get unions served a purpose 100 years ago with bad working conditions. But today it seems like unions just try to use whatever power they have to exploit the rest of society as much as possible
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"Seattle’s minimum wage laws backfired on Uber and Lyft. Now the union wants to limit drivers." reason.com/2026/03/21/sea…
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@nbsurprise @EleanoraStats “Female for trans women” is incorrect. The sex of a trans woman is male.
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@MaxDugganMax @EleanoraStats the post above you literally addresses what you just said
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Trans person saying “I did my research”:
> has life experience
> studies research papers
> consults multiple medical care providers
> talks to other trans people
> learns advanced biology
Transphobe saying “I did my research”:
> falls for propaganda
> makes up fake scenarios
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@BexWords @jbvconnor @nyaraVT How would advanced biology tell me someone is “trans”, without including the subjective judgement of the patient? What test does advanced biology tell us will show it?
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@EleanoraStats But sex, the meaningful info in a medical setting, cannot change, no matter the hormones or surgeries.
The sex you ARE is and will always be the sex you were born as.
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Accurately recording trans people's biological sex as the sex that they ARE (i.e. female for trans women, male for trans men) is critical medical information. Giving a trans women on HRT medical treatment intended for high-T males is dangerous and potentially fatal.
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Fun fact, France came out of WW2 debt-free, de Gaulle paid back lend-lease loans in-kind with commodities from Free French Africa immediately.
So on top of everything else, this would have dramatically lowered Britain's post-war debt load which crushed their economy + ability to maintain empire
ettingermentum@ettingermentum
Can you just imagine the kinds of predatory loans you could lend to this monstrosity after the end of the war🤑🤑🤑
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@TheEcho13 Let’s be honest, women do this too when caught like that. It’s more a human thing.
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An innocent man clears it up. A guilty man yanks cords, raises his voice, and calls you ‘paranoid’ so you’ll start doubting your own eyes.
Men only start yelling about ‘privacy’ when the truth is about to come out.
Hazel Appleyard@HazelAppleyard
No coming back from that
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I feel the opposite. I agree there was too much leaning on the Dodgers heritage. And I secretly miss the absolutely cavernous original dimensions. But it’s such a fun place to watch a game. So many good seats. Getting concessions and getting back is relaxing, it was stressful at Shea.
Mark C. Healey@MarkCHealey
This is probably an unpopular take, but while Citi Field is a wonderful ballpark, it wasn't built for me. It was built for people who missed the Brooklyn Dodgers. Any real sense of Mets history was ignored for the most part. It's improved over the years, and the aesthetics are wonderful, but I've never felt at home there. Shea Stadium was my home, and I truly miss it.
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@ryangrim I don’t know, it doesn’t sound crazy to distinguish this kind of violence from righteousness meted out in response to a cross-border murder spree.
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Did the memo go out that this particular strain of violence is ok to condemn?
Rep. Ritchie Torres@RepRitchie
The crisis of extremist settler violence in the West Bank must be confronted, and the perpetrators must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There should be zero tolerance for violent extremism, no matter what form it takes and no matter what direction from which it comes.
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@awstar11 This was so embarrassing for the abortion-on-demand crowd. And that’s all it was to them, embarrassing, nothing more.
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I don't know if this guy served in Viet Nam but, I'll say it, I'm glad he's dead.
LifeNews.com@LifeNewsHQ
BREAKING: Abortionist Kermit Gosnell Dies in Prison After Killing Thousands of Babies lifenews.com/2026/03/23/lat…
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@Tyler_A_Harper “Polycule politics” is an incredibly 21st century journalistic turn-of-phrase.
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This is right. West’s open antipathy for middle America—and the way she treats and talks about the people she encounters—is the most offensive part of the book, even if the polycule politics are ultimately more interesting.
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pairadocsical@pairadocsical
@Tyler_A_Harper People should be finding West's reflections on traveling in Middle America to be the most disturbing part of the book, the one that causes the most introspection, and the fact that is isn't say a lot.
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This elegantly captures the most offensive thing about Adult Braces: West is driving through middle America, cruelly judging those she encounters—many of them service workers—while seemingly unaware that these are places where there is way less fatphobia than enlightened Seattle.
Kat Rosenfield@katrosenfield
This quote from a longer blog post, featuring a few final thoughts about Lindy West as both a product of and participant in the vicious classism of coastal liberal spaces during the Obama era
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