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Brian

@Tater2Stock

Rush and Neil Peart junkie. BMX Dad. Nurse Dad. UTAH Alum and die hard fan. It’s a dry heat.

Arizona, USA Katılım Nisan 2009
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CCP IS ASSHOE
CCP IS ASSHOE@CCPISASSH0E·
I’m at my daughter’s varsity softball game and the umpire just called a “half strike”…I wish I was joking.
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@RobProvince The US when the EU needs us again. (They will)
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An-gee: Sensei of Sarcasm
An-gee: Sensei of Sarcasm@SenseiOfSarcasm·
My oldest daughter is going to be here for a few days, and my Dad is coming down this weekend, and I have had a few autoimmune flare-ups, so I took a break from the games last week and this week. I will try to get something going next week or the week after. I am fine. Just keeping you guys posted so you do not think I just quit Twitter. :)
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ʞɹıɯ𝕊
ʞɹıɯ𝕊@FoundersGirl·
Please excuse the Mom gushing while my youngest continues put out new music from his bedroom 🩵 ... & give a kid a listen! #momofboys
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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.
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@PolitiBunny He just thinks you are hot but has no game so "bimbo" it is I guess
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The🐰FOO@PolitiBunny·
Pointing out that Christians celebrate Easter makes me a bimbo? It's good to see that his supporters haven't gotten any smarter or less sexist in the last few years. lol
SITH LORD@sholla1979

@PolitiBunny He said EVERYONE…BIMBO

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An-gee: Sensei of Sarcasm
An-gee: Sensei of Sarcasm@SenseiOfSarcasm·
Twitter: Introduce yourself as what almost killed you … Me: Ummm … which time exactly?
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@RobProvince I am today years old when I found out there were Lone Ranger Movie Lego’s
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EducatëdHillbilly™
EducatëdHillbilly™@RobProvince·
As a side note I knew the Lone Ranger movie was going to be a bomb when those sets were being discounted the first week of the movies release. You can still pick them up NIB for less than half MSRP to this day.
EducatëdHillbilly™@RobProvince

BTW: Not that anyone asked but Lego is actually a very good indicator of how a franchise is doing. Marvel & Star Wars sets are generally not going up in value once retired and in many cases sell below MSRP. Harry Potter & Batman are going through the roof.

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Utah Athletics
Utah Athletics@utahathletics·
Moving On! Red Rocks win today’s NCAA Regional semifinal and advance to Sunday’s final. Scoring: virti.us/session?s=BCCt…
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@heckyessica “Back to the states”, that is comedy gold Jessica
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Jessica O’Donnell 🏈
Jessica O’Donnell 🏈@heckyessica·
I just want to remind progressive activists of recent times how you tried to separate from the U.S. and “built” CHAZ… and then had to go back to the states after like 2 days bc you had no food and your serta bed was too heavy to carry
Toad@ItsToad_

@heckyessica I wonder if he’s still upset CHAZ never panned out

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@aggedor_ I mean, how bad was dinner?
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ʞɹıɯ𝕊@FoundersGirl·
If you hate black jellybeans, we can be friends & I will take care of those.
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