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In reply to Jack Bauer • 11:26a, 3/23/22
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Crazy. This is not petty theft for survival like so many have tried to claim. This is theft for the purpose of reselling and is out of control.

Stores are going to have to start locking everything up in vaults and only taking one item out at a time to let a customer see.
Beverly Hills stores will start having bars on the windows - thanks, Democrats.
With the crooks doing it during the day bars on the windows aren't enough. That will keep someone out during the night but these people are going into open stores and stealing things out on display, smashing glass cases, etc.

Like this store, at several Apple stores, and other places.

They will have to start paying for the thick "bulletproof" glass for display cases, or having things locked away in safes/vaults.
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In reply to cowboycwr • 12:06p, 3/23/22
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This is actually not a bad thing or sign of how crazy culture/society has gotten. So many young people graduate HS without knowing many basic skills needed for life. Like how debt, credit cards, credit score, buying cars, houses, etc. work.
This is great. I've been saying for many years, all high schools should offer a life skills course that covers these very things.
Sic Everyone.
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In reply to FormerFlash • 12:33p, 3/23/22
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cowboycwr said:
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This is actually not a bad thing or sign of how crazy culture/society has gotten. So many young people graduate HS without knowing many basic skills needed for life. Like how debt, credit cards, credit score, buying cars, houses, etc. work.
This is great. I've been saying for many years, all high schools should offer a life skills course that covers these very things.
They've been too busy putting condoms on bananas and getting extra credit for marching pride parades.
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In reply to Canon • 12:40p, 3/23/22
Canon said:
FormerFlash said:
cowboycwr said:
Cobretti said:
This is actually not a bad thing or sign of how crazy culture/society has gotten. So many young people graduate HS without knowing many basic skills needed for life. Like how debt, credit cards, credit score, buying cars, houses, etc. work.
This is great. I've been saying for many years, all high schools should offer a life skills course that covers these very things.
They've been too busy putting condoms on bananas and getting extra credit for marching pride parades.
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1:45p, 3/23/22

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Physical fitness has always been central to the far right. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler fixated on boxing and jujitsu, believing they could help him create an army of millions whose aggressive spirit and impeccably trained bodies, combined with "fanatical love of the fatherland," would do more for the German nation than any "mediocre" tactical weapons training.


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In reply to Jack Bauer • 1:53p, 3/23/22
Jack Bauer said:
Canon said:
FormerFlash said:
cowboycwr said:
Cobretti said:
This is actually not a bad thing or sign of how crazy culture/society has gotten. So many young people graduate HS without knowing many basic skills needed for life. Like how debt, credit cards, credit score, buying cars, houses, etc. work.
This is great. I've been saying for many years, all high schools should offer a life skills course that covers these very things.
They've been too busy putting condoms on bananas and getting extra credit for marching pride parades.
Doss Elementary is on Far West Blvd. between Mesa and Mopac in NW Austin. Nice upscale neighborhood, or at least it was when I lived there in the early 90s.
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In reply to Jack Bauer • 2:10p, 3/23/22
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Physical fitness has always been central to the far right. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler fixated on boxing and jujitsu, believing they could help him create an army of millions whose aggressive spirit and impeccably trained bodies, combined with "fanatical love of the fatherland," would do more for the German nation than any "mediocre" tactical weapons training.




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" Physical fitness training, especially in combat sports, appeals to the far right for many reasons: fighters are trained to accept significant physical pain, to be "warriors," and to embrace messaging around solidarity, heroism, and brotherhood. It's championed as a tool to help fight the "coming race war" and the street battles that will precede it. Recruits are encouraged to link individual moral virtues such as willpower, decisiveness and courage, with desired collective traits such as virility and manliness. This also works in reverse, with white supremacists encouraging potential recruits or activists to stay in good physical shape as a way of managing self-presentation to the public."

Sounds like two-a-days. The problem the left has with masculinity is it's the antithesis of everything leftists. It requires self control, self sacrifice, individuality, hard work, an acknowledgement of biological realities and the role that biology places men into in society.

The left needs effete males en masse to conform. They need a society of sheep.
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In reply to Jack Bauer • 2:28p, 3/23/22
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Physical fitness has always been central to the far right. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler fixated on boxing and jujitsu, believing they could help him create an army of millions whose aggressive spirit and impeccably trained bodies, combined with "fanatical love of the fatherland," would do more for the German nation than any "mediocre" tactical weapons training.


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In reply to Canon • 2:31p, 3/23/22
Canon said:
Jack Bauer said:

Quote:
Physical fitness has always been central to the far right. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler fixated on boxing and jujitsu, believing they could help him create an army of millions whose aggressive spirit and impeccably trained bodies, combined with "fanatical love of the fatherland," would do more for the German nation than any "mediocre" tactical weapons training.




From the article:

" Physical fitness training, especially in combat sports, appeals to the far right for many reasons: fighters are trained to accept significant physical pain, to be "warriors," and to embrace messaging around solidarity, heroism, and brotherhood. It's championed as a tool to help fight the "coming race war" and the street battles that will precede it. Recruits are encouraged to link individual moral virtues such as willpower, decisiveness and courage, with desired collective traits such as virility and manliness. This also works in reverse, with white supremacists encouraging potential recruits or activists to stay in good physical shape as a way of managing self-presentation to the public."

Sounds like two-a-days. The problem the left has with masculinity is it's the antithesis of everything leftists. It requires self control, self sacrifice, individuality, hard work, an acknowledgement of biological realities and the role that biology places men into in society.

The left needs effete males en masse to conform. They need a society of sheep.


White supremacists?

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In reply to Jack Bauer • 3:01p, 3/23/22
Jack Bauer said:

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Physical fitness has always been central to the far right. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler fixated on boxing and jujitsu, believing they could help him create an army of millions whose aggressive spirit and impeccably trained bodies, combined with "fanatical love of the fatherland," would do more for the German nation than any "mediocre" tactical weapons training.



I'm at the gym all the time. I'm there right now. It's 3:58 on a Wednesday. There are approximately 30 people in here right now. I count 6 women (3 white and 3 black). I count 25ish dudes (looks about 60/40 African American). I see younger people, middle aged people, older people.

Surely some are gay. Some are straight. Some are Jews. Etc.

All things considered the gym might be one of the more homogeneous places in the country. What it isn't (mine at least) is alt-right (or alt-left).

Once the majorities start to dismiss those labels because they don't apply to 99% of people we will all be better off.
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In reply to nein51 • 3:04p, 3/23/22
nein51 said:
Jack Bauer said:

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Physical fitness has always been central to the far right. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler fixated on boxing and jujitsu, believing they could help him create an army of millions whose aggressive spirit and impeccably trained bodies, combined with "fanatical love of the fatherland," would do more for the German nation than any "mediocre" tactical weapons training.



I'm at the gym all the time. I'm there right now. It's 3:58 on a Wednesday. There are approximately 30 people in here right now. I count 6 women (3 white and 3 black). I count 25ish dudes (looks about 60/40 African American). I see younger people, middle aged people, older people.

Surely some are gay. Some are straight. Some are Jews. Etc.

All things considered the gym might be one of the more homogeneous places in the country. What it isn't (mine at least) is alt-right (or alt-left).

Once the majorities start to dismiss those labels because they don't apply to 99% of people we will all be better off.


You sir are undoubtedly a white supremacist, alt right, neo nazi obsessed with health.

How much are nazis supposed to bench press?
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In reply to Canon • 3:08p, 3/23/22
At least 225. Chicks 135. Otherwise you're only right and not alt-right
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In reply to nein51 • 3:19p, 3/23/22
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At least 225. Chicks 135. Otherwise you're only right and not alt-right


If you can do more than 225, does that make you far right?
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In reply to Canon • 5:23p, 3/23/22
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nein51 said:
At least 225. Chicks 135. Otherwise you're only right and not alt-right


If you can do more than 225, does that make you far right?

Makes you pretty strong

Something like 1% of the US population can bench 225. We have several award winners at the gym I go to. It's still a big deal when someone does 225. I was stoked when I did it.
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In reply to nein51 • 5:35p, 3/23/22
nein51 said:
Canon said:
nein51 said:
At least 225. Chicks 135. Otherwise you're only right and not alt-right


If you can do more than 225, does that make you far right?

Makes you pretty strong

Something like 1% of the US population can bench 225. We have several award winners at the gym I go to. It's still a big deal when someone does 225. I was stoked when I did it.
I'm definitely far right then. Was a power lifter in a past life. Best I ever benched in a competition was 455. (480 outside) Now I am relegated to reps with 315 because my old man shoulders have decided to mount severe objections to heavy weight.
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In reply to Cobretti • 7:03p, 3/23/22
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That HAS to be a prank....
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In reply to Jack Bauer • 7:04p, 3/23/22
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That HAS to be a prank....
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7:06p, 3/23/22
This can't be, Nicole Wallace told me CRT isn't real.

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7:16p, 3/23/22
This is why Florida passed the "Parental Rights in Education" bill. It has nothing to do with "saying gay" and everything to do with this crap for elementary students.

What sickos feel the need to push this crap to 3rd graders?

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7:49p, 3/23/22
The Dewey Decimal System is racist...



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In reply to Jack Bauer • 11:19a, 3/24/22
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That HAS to be a prank....
It is.

That's Cassidy Campbell.

He has done that at a few different city council meetings, including Dallas.

They are pretty funny, especially watching the other folks react.

While this is in jest, the unfortunate part is in today's world, it could very well be real.
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In reply to Cobretti • 2:37p, 3/24/22
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Biden is about to channel his inner Bill Bates.

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In reply to Canon • 4:59p, 3/24/22
Canon said:
FormerFlash said:
cowboycwr said:
Cobretti said:
This is actually not a bad thing or sign of how crazy culture/society has gotten. So many young people graduate HS without knowing many basic skills needed for life. Like how debt, credit cards, credit score, buying cars, houses, etc. work.
This is great. I've been saying for many years, all high schools should offer a life skills course that covers these very things.
They've been too busy putting condoms on bananas and getting extra credit for marching pride parades.
Not in Texas... abstinence only!!!!!
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In reply to Cobretti • 6:45p, 3/24/22
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In reply to Jack Bauer • 7:22p, 3/24/22
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Child sexual grooming 101
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In reply to Cobretti • 10:50p, 3/24/22
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Handy hint: if you look like Max Baer, don't get a Jethrine haircut.
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In reply to Cobretti • 6:33a, 3/25/22
The worst part of COVID was gyms shutting down. So stupid. My gym might be the cleanest place I go. Every surface is wiped down approx 9 million times a day. I understand part of her position though. I was down to my lowest weight in a *long* time pre gym shut down. I didnt gain all the weight back but I did gain some. Without that shut down I really feel like I would be down another 30+.
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9:25a, 3/25/22
This is what Florida Dems and ESPN are fighting for...

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