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It actually was... :yikes: :joke:

Lol. I suppose next thing you'll be claiming baby Jesus wasn't born on Christmas Day. I think it's been renamed TrumpEgo day anyhow, so pretty much an...

I know you weren't claiming that. The quote was to do with the perceived claims re K. You seemed to be looking for a PC-gone-mad nail to hammer down a...

Yep. The statistics do hammer it home. But we all knew that, or should have.

Tim Tams in your honour.

It turned out well enough to justify a spectator seat. I'll :zip: now

I guess we were too late. And he'll justify it by wringing at least 10 pages out of you suckers.

BC is clearly a sleeper agent and cackling into his complimentary $800 sweatshop plimsolls as we speak. Yes, he wears them on his face. He's that edgy...

OK, so maybe you know best or maybe a company that spends multi-millions on knowing best, knows best. We'll see.

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/24/17389288/donald-trump-nfl-kneeling-protest-national-anthem

Not true. It has been more than suggested by the big orange among others on several occasions.

We'll see. I don't have a dog in the fight. Nike plimsolls are overpriced crap and I wouldn't wear one even for a big wet kiss from a beefy American b...

Who are known as, by and large, their customers. That's showbiz.

(Not that all criticism of him is unAmerican, but the more extreme is. And fwiw my position on the flag is just that I prefer green to red and blue an...

No fall for ideological sales tactic, eh? Nike are going to want their bribe back. Fair point, anyhow. I suppose my major objection here would be to t...

I presume they ran it through some focus groups and decided they needed him and his fellow travelers more than the opposition. Hardly surprising a you...

Nike are legally obliged to maximize profits for their shareholders. If anyone believes anything matters to them that doesn't ultimately serve that go...

Sounds awful. You have my sympathy and best wishes. Your best bet is to see a professional and take anything you read here with a grain of salt. Good ...

If Kapaernick is looking for mountains in molehills, then his critics are doubly-so. Nike's job is to make money any way they can. K is apparently hel...

So, expressing concern that X symbol has been co-opted by others who are racist is not the same as claiming that if corporation Y uses symbol X, it's ...

Thanks. Puts it in better context.

What reasoning? What did he actually say? And where's the link to the full article?

Where's the bit where someone said the flag was racist? Sounds like a regular business decision otherwise

It would appear so although I'd be a bit hesitant drawing a firm conclusion without reading more of him. Maybe @"Maw" has more to add?

Recent bannings: @"Frotunes" for low quality. @"Pollywalls" for low quality+.

May have been answered in the meantime by others, but anyway: “This is the way things (in the most general sense) are” + “evaluative (or partially so)...

Looks like you made a monkey of yourself.

(For the record, sushi's calling us half-witted fuckedy fucks (or whatever it was) wasn't modded because it's feedback where there's more leeway to ve...

You don't have an automatic right to appeal the decision on another posters' deletions (of which there were many in this case). At least I'm not going...

Our job is to enforce the guidelines not to convince people who don't like them to stay. Low quality, flamey, off-topic posts like frotunes' recent co...

Bye then.

We routinely delete overly flamey and low quality posts because they're against the guidelines and that will continue regardless of how the targets of...

*Puff of smoke* You called? Ah, yes. I'll PM you @"Fobidium"

Yes, that's the root of the relevant quote I think. It's hard to know how literally to take that one but the following two I dug up after a quick look...

It very often is in an ungroundable way but the main point is to focus on what pessimism, in its philosophic sense, does rather than says. More like t...

Kind of... Here's how I would put it with some more self-indulgent ramblings :p So, I think it's good to look at how pessimism functions rather than a...

You always kill yourself too late because you are so alienated from your own identify by the time you want to destroy it that there is nothing left to...

Speaking of... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzZwca4rEWc

"I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence, and never sleep again. (It will be I?) Or dream...

Welcome back :cheer:

Your theory fits the facts we know better than any alternative I've heard. Unless Baldrick/Trump's cunning Iran strategy was to end up looking like a ...

Yes.

Feel free to share some of it here.

So, they wait until he's 86 before firing him. I may be one of the few around here who liked his philosophy but this stinks of a slow walk.

Trump is trying to transform weaknesses (no long game on Iran) into magnanimity. It's not a bad strategy. But, yes, the whole story may fall apart wit...

Second that :up:

Well, I'm just going to digest everything that's been said here anyhow. I'm not really satisfied with much of it including my own stuff. It's difficul...

But I don't really want to go on about it any more as I feel like I'm in danger of setting myself up as a spokesperson for other cultures I don't even...

A lot of what you've written above seems to amount to nothing more than the following falsity: X is more important than Y; therefore Y is not importan...

I agree with most of that. We're pushing back at excesses and thoughtlessness from different directions. And the rhetoric is important on both sides I...