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[Negan @Roger_Negan]

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Cody @codeman999988]

@GalacticRebirth @krassenstein You are in a cult. Truth will set you free.

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Marc Goddard should have his license revoked and he should never ref another MMA event. You can't let a guy fight if he says he can't see, it doesn't matter how big the event is or whether the crowd boos.

Major respect to Topuria's brother for having the guts to call the fight

[Cody @codeman999988]

@dancantstream it's not bad but you need some words in quotations for no reason for it to be believable.

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@Acyn Don’t threaten me with a good time 😂

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@PaulHadouken Online gaming is not immune from enshittification.

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@esjesjesj It's not psychosis, it's fascism. This is what a fascist thinks.

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@lukeisamazing @MichaelFKane Original post specifically asks for pedantic nitpicks

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@lukeisamazing It’s not a sub-light speed system if they are able to travel from solar system to solar system. It would still have to be FTL, just slower FTL.

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@agraybee Blaster lasers are only deflectable by Jedi because the blasts come out super slow. If they just used guns the Jedi would have no chance against them.

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@AOC @jpodhoretz A moment of silence for the brave Iranian civil rights activists who were jailed and killed for refusing to wear the hijab.

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@ThrillaRilla369 The world of David the Gnome

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@hicasamadim 72

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@joe_chadwick87 @firstfir217469 @TheOmniLiberal Even if he never said “I endorse Harris” if he said something like “I encourage you to vote for Harris” or “Everyone watching please vote for Harris” that would be a clear endorsement. Saying she is a lesser evil is unclear at best, and not an endorsement at all at worst.

[Cody @codeman999988]

@joe_chadwick87 @firstfir217469 @TheOmniLiberal It’s not a lie. It’s his interpretation, which is valid because of the nuance. Kyle had the opportunity to disambiguate any interpretation by saying “I endorse Kamala Harris” but for whatever reason he did not do that. An endorsement of someone is a call to vote for them.

[Cody @codeman999988]

@joe_chadwick87 @FordJohnathan5 @TheOmniLiberal @KyleKulinski That’s fine but it’s saying he endorsed Harris is not the same as saying endorsements don’t matter.

[Cody @codeman999988]

@joe_chadwick87 @Szymon3837441 @TheOmniLiberal But every other candidate is a lesser evil to Kyle and his audience. If he said writing in Andrew Yang would be a lesser evil does that qualify as an endorsement?

[Cody @codeman999988]

@joe_chadwick87 @firstfir217469 @TheOmniLiberal It’s nuanced though. There can be many ways to say she is the lesser evil which are clearly not endorsements as well. “Trump is evil. Harris is just a lesser evil. I’m voting for Stein” would be such an instance. A concrete endorsement has a simple framing “I endorse Harris”

[Cody @codeman999988]

@uncledoomer The month and year entirely and just say “the 27th.” For this reason, in my mind, day should come first. I realize there are lots of other circumstances where one could ask for a date, that’s just how my mind works.

[Cody @codeman999988]

@uncledoomer Not exactly a refutation, but this is how I think of it. If someone asks you for todays date, there is an extremely high probability that they don’t know the day and a much much higher likelihood they already know the month and year. If you ask me what day it is I might omit 1/2