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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Jul 20, 2020 17:02:01 GMT
Why does Country music have so many leading female artists while Rock'n'Roll does not?Because people get into jobs and professions they either like, are capable of and/or circumstances and opportunities lend itself to. Believe it or not, the people in certain jobs are NOT supposed to be proportional to the makeup of the population at large. Apparently, now they are, regardless of qualifications. I dunno, but in the name of gender equality I hope some organization will promote poor young males to become country singers and edge out the female contingent. That way we will all live in harmonious equality. I'm not laboring anything, I'm responding the to OP post. I couldn't care less, but nice that you took time off. With a completely clueless and irrelevant post, good work.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Jul 21, 2020 0:23:37 GMT
I love this website. All day long I look forward to coming home after a long day, opening the page and just knowing that someone said something stupid. I'm never disappointed.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Jul 21, 2020 6:14:48 GMT
I love this website. All day long I look forward to coming home after a long day, opening the page and just knowing that someone said something stupid. I'm never disappointed. I know- I don't even bother looking in at Hoffman's to see what new inanities the SHiTEs have come up with, I just check here.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Jul 21, 2020 9:48:49 GMT
I love this website. All day long I look forward to coming home after a long day, opening the page and just knowing that someone said something stupid. I'm never disappointed. I know- I don't even bother looking in at Hoffman's to see what new inanities the SHiTEs have come up with, I just check here. It eliminates the middleman. It's like SportsCenter, but for racist, ignorant incels!
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Post by hugofuguzev on Jul 21, 2020 11:47:25 GMT
I know- I don't even bother looking in at Hoffman's to see what new inanities the SHiTEs have come up with, I just check here. It eliminates the middleman. It's like SportsCenter, but for racist, ignorant incels! Makes me wonder how the hell a non racist, enlightened, happily married family man like myself ever lasted seven years hanging around that shithole. I'm a big believer in the saying "You're judged by the company you keep."
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Post by gobshite on Jul 21, 2020 12:24:21 GMT
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Post by mintyjackhole on Jul 22, 2020 2:22:44 GMT
Anybody who cares about how you organize your music collection is a bigger simp than you. Also Nina is several levels above Frank.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 25, 2020 19:52:42 GMT
This one goes out to all the flag-waving he-men of the GOP:
Column: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commands the floor and teaches a Republican colleague the meaning of respect Robin Abcarian Los Angeles Times Opinion July 25, 2020,
They just can’t stand her.
From the moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was elected to Congress in 2018, Republicans — especially Republican men — have been unable to hide their contempt for this rising star of Democratic politics.
What makes them so crazy?
Well, she is young — a mere 30.
She leans far to the left.
She has brown skin.
Oh, and of course, she is a woman.
Earlier this month, she had the temerity to suggest that poverty and unemployment might be responsible for a spike in violent crime in New York City during the pandemic.
“Maybe,” she said, “this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money so … they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.”
This linkage, apparently, was offensive to one of her Republican colleagues, Ted Yoho, who accosted her in public, on the Capitol steps Monday. According to Mike Lillis, a reporter for the Hill, Yoho told Ocasio-Cortez that she was “disgusting.” He said, “You are out of your freaking mind.”
She told him he was being rude.
Then, reported Lillis, as Yoho walked away, he called her a vile epithet often leveled at women. This newspaper doesn’t print one of the words he used, but it starts with an “f” and preceded the word “bitch.”
With a reporter witnessing the exchange, Yoho could not deny it had occurred, though he did deny using the foul language Lillis reported.
Still, he took to the House floor on Wednesday for what was supposed to be an apology. It was, instead, a virtuosic performance of a particularly male pathology: self-pity wrapped up in self-aggrandizement.
Yoho teared up and his voice caught a little as he explained that when he and his wife were young, they received food stamps. He seemed to be suggesting that even though he was poor, he did not turn to a life of crime, so how dare Ocasio-Cortez suggest a link between poverty and crime.
“I cannot apologize,” he concluded, “for my passion or for loving my God, my family and my country.”
On Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez responded to Yoho’s non-apology by taking to the floor of the House herself.
Her performance was the essence of leadership and grace.
Calmly, and without the teary histrionics displayed by Yoho (men can be so emotional), she put his verbal assault in its proper context.
“What Mr. Yoho did,” said Ocasio-Cortez, “was give permission to other men to do that to his daughters. In using that language in front of the press, he gave permission to use that language against his wife, his daughters, women in his community, and I am here to stand up to say that is not acceptable.”
Her coup de grace was as unexpected as it was lethal; she thanked Yoho.
“I want to thank him for showing the world that you can be a powerful man and accost women,” she said. “You can have daughters and accost women without remorse. You can be married and accost women. You can take photos and project an image to the world of being a family man and accost women without remorse and with a sense of impunity. It happens every day in this country.”
Over the course of the next hour, Democratic colleagues of Ocasio-Cortez, mostly women, stood to school their Republican colleagues.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington offered a history lesson about the use of the word “bitch,” noting that it gained popularity after women won the right to vote a century ago.
Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Michigan, whose great-grandmother was an emancipated slave, said her constituents expect leadership, not schoolyard bullying. “I’m not scared of you,” she said. “I will call you out.”
“The days of bullying women you disagree with — whether it’s in a boardroom, a newsroom or on a military base — are over,” said Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts.
“It’s a new day, gentlemen,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “And I use that term loosely with some cases.”
If any Republicans have condemned — or even addressed — their colleague’s verbal assault on Ocasio-Cortez, I have not seen it.
Despite this dreadful moment of suffering and protest, American women have had a good week.
In Portland, Ore., a “Wall of Moms,” which sprang from the imagination of a woman who describes herself as a suburban mother, has been inserting itself nightly between Black Lives Matter protesters and police. Like a lullaby, they chant “Moms are here, Feds stay clear.”
Last week in that restive city, a woman who was naked but for a face mask and hat calmly strolled in front of armed troops and executed a series of balletic moves as officers shot rubber bullets at her feet. Dubbed "Naked Athena," her vulnerability and lack of fear were achingly beautiful comments on the overwrought federal response to protesters.
Whether in the halls of Congress or the tear-gas-soaked streets of an American city, women have shown they have the ability to disrupt the status quo. They have shown how to change the conversation, defuse tension and inspire us to be better.
Some people will always find that intolerable.
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Post by kingdiamond on Jul 25, 2020 21:11:25 GMT
I'm a big AOC fan. She's such a brave young woman. It seems like EVERYONE hates her, even people on the left. I just don't get it.
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Post by bradman on Jul 25, 2020 22:07:53 GMT
She can get my DIC anytime.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jul 25, 2020 22:10:31 GMT
I'm a big AOC fan. She's such a brave young woman. It seems like EVERYONE hates her, even people on the left. I just don't get it. The hate is great. If it wasn't for all the negative and often weird attention she attracts, she wouldn't get opportunities like this to speak up and say something important. And damn, she really rises to the occasion every time too. I can't help but see similarities between her and Obama. Both are young and relatively inexperienced for their position, they aren't white, their "origins" are called into question. And they both carry themselves with dignity, press on in the face of the detractors, and stand for good things.
I'll give her some fair criticism too though. Sometimes she'll say or share things that she probably should vet first for accuracy. Like when she shared a post about getting a rebate from the credit score hacking or whatever the fuck it was. She blindly repeated the same headline nonsense instead of taking some time to read the finer details. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference. There have been a few other times where I feel like she spoke out (or tweeted out) about something too soon, without looking into it a bit first. None of this diminishes her accomplishments but going forward I hope to see her mature and grow and be more measured and informed if she is indeed on the path to becoming a bigger political figure.
But she is definitely one to watch. She is a positive influence politically and socially.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 25, 2020 22:50:27 GMT
I'm a big AOC fan. She's such a brave young woman. It seems like EVERYONE hates her, even people on the left. I just don't get it. The hate is great. If it wasn't for all the negative and often weird attention she attracts, she wouldn't get opportunities like this to speak up and say something important. And damn, she really rises to the occasion every time too. I can't help but see similarities between her and Obama. Both are young and relatively inexperienced for their position, they aren't white, their "origins" are called into question. And they both carry themselves with dignity, press on in the face of the detractors, and stand for good things.
I'll give her some fair criticism too though. Sometimes she'll say or share things that she probably should vet first for accuracy. Like when she shared a post about getting a rebate from the credit score hacking or whatever the fuck it was. She blindly repeated the same headline nonsense instead of taking some time to read the finer details. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference. There have been a few other times where I feel like she spoke out (or tweeted out) about something too soon, without looking into it a bit first. None of this diminishes her accomplishments but going forward I hope to see her mature and grow and be more measured and informed if she is indeed on the path to becoming a bigger political figure.
But she is definitely one to watch. She is a positive influence politically and socially.
Her whole speech about the incident is quite eloquent. (I love how she was able to take an off-hand insult and turn it into a powerful political statement.)
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Post by elderlyincredulity on Jul 27, 2020 5:40:38 GMT
^^^
Even though Yoyo is low hanging fruit, what she said had to be said. It had to be done.
He is so emblematic of the dysfunction in our government. In the nation.
These are the people we elect. These are the types of people we elect.
It's so tempting to just go ahead and say this is the fate we deserve.
Good for her, keeping actual ideals alive in the age of cynics, to put things at least mildly.
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Post by Sanjay Gupton on Jul 28, 2020 19:20:55 GMT
I really like AOC. I would love to have my representation know firsthand what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck, be a single parent or even just have a job where if you don't show up, your daddy doesn't pay you anyway. If you don't show up you get fired. Sometimes if you do everything right you still get fired and in Right to Work states that's just too bad. She makes some mistakes and sometimes I don't agree with her, but I only agree with myself all the time, and I think she genuinely does her job with what she thinks is in the best interests of her constituents, not her mega donors.
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Post by ledzeppelin2rl on Jul 28, 2020 20:34:52 GMT
SHite has the answer to the problems with a Tom Petty unreleased song delay:
McCool:
McCool:
livin' thing68:
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