@tonyfrye.rocks Just wanted to thank you again for the help you gave me when I was struggling several years ago. Things are good, if one ignores the state of our country 😉
Hope you and the family are well
Pete Rose Day was planned a long time ago. It had nothing to do with the recent announcement about allowing him into the Hall of Fame.
Thanks for the clarification. My point stands tho. Celebrating a guy who made a conscious decision to violate MLB's rules is shameful. As long as you're great on the field, you don't have to follow the rules.
Rob Manfred’s Pete Rose Flip-Flop Further Stains His Legacy, by Sports Illustrated
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Good news: A couple of the bigger outlets condemn Manfred's move:::
MLB was wrong to reinstate Pete Rose: Why nothing has changed about hits leader's baseball gambling by CBS Sports
www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb...
Reds immediately prove Commissioner Manfred wrong by celebrating a man who decided MLB's rules against gambling didn't apply to him. If that's not a "threat to the integrity of the game", what is? www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
Why I mostly stay away from even this platform. Thought the X-odus was a good thing, but find those who migrated here are mostly the alt-left.
They continue to be loud and wrong.
My desktop weather app no longer works with NOAA as the input source. I now use BBC as the source. LOL
Yes, I know. I said "THEY" go back to.
why are you recommending books to me when you can't even read a social media post.
Explain to me how, 45 years after JR Richard's stroke a Black professional athlete can have an undiagnosed heary condition? (That's rhetorical. I fucking know the reason). youtu.be/ld_jdwaVFv8?...
This trailer made me weep. Too many Americans are one bad break away from a day like this.
And my GURL Taraji P Henson. DAYUM!
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"I don't regret not voting for Kamala or Hillary". But their dumb asses go back to Southern Democrats opposing emancipation for "proof" of how bad DEMs are. (And don't get me started on why Lincoln opposed slavery).
They aren't mutually exclusive.
UBI
It's really important for white folks to unflinchingly address their white privilege. I applaud Toro Blanco for doing so. This series is a must read 👇👇👇
Homey's got this wrong: Capitalism isn't working for ANYONE, except the wealthy
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💯 Drives me nuts when people talk about getting rid of Drumpf as tho that solves the problem. He's just the inevitable result of 60+ years of GOP fuckery.
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It's a luxury Black folks can't afford.
The idea of people refusing to vote bc they don’t want to compromise themselves morally is utterly foreign to Black folks, bc only an extreme amount of privilege makes it possible for people to treat voting as a statement of virtue rather than a tool to improve the material conditions of others.
To be Black in America is to be forced to compromise yourself on a daily basis in order to survive. People who sneer at Democrats genuinely do not get the sheer fear that motivates voting for survival.
Saw the CRAZIEST HR call: Fan reaches over the wall, but since the ball hit his forearm, which wasn't in the field of play, it was a HR.
Baseball is wondeful!
In this capacity, they double down on the “Democrats do nothing” narrative, bc it excuses the behavior of their MAGA family members, whom they claim are somehow principled enough to reject the shortcomings of the Democratic Party but not those same shortcomings in Republicans.
LGBTQ+ friends, but few have Black friends. Or if they do, they're Black folks like me for whom code switching is a way of life. It's only been the last half decade I stopped worrying about offending white people.
Ime they’re people who grew up with conservative parents but who have LGBT+ friends, so became leftists so that their views align with both parents and friends. They can be socially liberal while also being able to bash democrats while telling themselves their bigoted parents are secret leftists.
A lot of them tell themselves that their parents would vote for Democrats if they were economically progressive enough, and that they only voted for Trump to “burn it all down” and “reject the status quo.” Even though Trump’s fiscal policies are textbook post-Reagan neoliberalism.
Black Health Disparities Go Back To Slavery | Discovered Truth: Full Documentary
YouTube video by Twin Cities PBS
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