I heard this on the U Up? podcast, but it’s apparently a Christian saying:

Man’s rejection is god’s protection.

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Box Score Banter: Nemesis:

A nemesis, defined in one way as the inescapable agent of someone’s downfall, is one of the most common archetypes in sports.

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Box Score Banter: Keep Riding:

It’s a mixture of incompetence and misfortune and torpor, a malaise that hollows out a creature’s identity and takes the body as its own.

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After hearing about the grim men’s lifestyle, I have a way to describe how I felt when I went to the club in college.

Paul Pierce Loses ESPN Gig After Broadcasting Grim Men’s Evening:

From Amanda Marcotte’s newsletter:

For instance, Trump filibustered on Tuesday by saying, “Think of us as a super luxury store” where “we’re going to give you a very good price, we’re going to make very good deals, and in some cases, we’ll adjust.” CNBC reporter Megan Cassella interpreted this by posting, “By naming a ‘price’ for countries to pay to ‘shop’ in the US, it appears he wants some tariff to remain in place, and possibly with everyone.” 

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Talking To The President:

You will, for some reason, always be able to see Trump’s entire body in a chair, squatting and heaving and canted in an uncanny way that might remind you of Blanka from Street Fighter wearing a suit.

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David Simon from Homicide: Life on the Streets:

I came to realize that there was something emblematic here: that in postmodern America, whatever institution you serve or are served by–a police department or a newspaper, a political party or a church, Enron or Worldcom–you will eventually be betrayed.

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The Fatal Flaw Of ‘Dark Woke’:

Sometimes Dark Woke involves downright harsh and mean spirited barbs aimed directly at the insecurities of prominent fascists like Marjorie Taylor Greene or wheelchair-bound Greg Abbott, who Jasmine Crockett once called “governor hot wheels.”

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Every complex ecosystem has parasites:

Conservatives hate complexity.

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From Tumblr:

One of the biggest power moves I have here in the midwest when someone is being racist, sexist, homophobic is that I tell them that I’ll pray for them so that god can grace them with empathy, or that “I feel sorry the devil has made his home in your heart” cause you have not felt joy until you’ve flipped the script on a suburban house mom or an old racist white man. The joy of watching their face in shock and confusion while they’re called out in Christian Standards the same way they try to cover for their homophobia is amazing. 100% suggest it, at the very least it gets them to shut the fuck up.

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I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas:

I’ve been red-pilled, but I think The Matrix was just okay. I voted for Trump, but I respect Democrats like John Fetterman who are willing to reach across the aisle to promote ethnic cleansing. And I’m still a Bernie fan, even though I openly mock AOC and Elizabeth Warren for subscribing to 90 percent of the same policies, for reasons, I assure you, I will never ask myself a single hard question about, because I’m not bound by your restrictive mental framework.

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What It Feels Like, Right Now:

Living here in America right now feels like that time.

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Are People Bad At Their Jobs….or Are The Jobs Just Bad?:

If everyone’s good at their job, shop there. If you need help with something, find a local company or self-employed person to pay directly — and tip them. If something feels like a massive deal, someone or some part of the earth is paying steeply for it, and chances are high you will pay more for it (in replacement costs, in labor, in time) later. And if you’re forced to use a company with bad services and bad products, the fault is very rarely the worker themselves, but the organization that makes it so difficult for them to be good at their job.

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I Am Asking Aaron Rodgers, Once And For All, To Leave My Team The Fuck Alone:

You don’t build yourself a fancy new house and then paint it in diarrhea.

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Quentin Grimes Is The Tragicomic Protagonist Of The Terminal NBA Season:

… I am charmed by a trade that could turn out to have hurt both teams while helping a player’s career in the process.

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The Billionaire Boycott Conundrum:

Elon Musk is an oily bag of brain rot in barely human form, who richly deserves the scorn of history, but he did us all a real solid by having his companies be ones that you sort of have to go out of your way to interact with.

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An Interview With My Cat About His Most Annoying Behaviors:

We often quote a decade-old Adam Serwer tweet about his own cats: Management doesn’t need a union.

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From a now-deleted Reddit post:

I stumbled onto this subreddit looking for tips on running a basic Plex server, and holy shit, you people are insane. Instead of finding normal humans, I find complete psychos debating ZFS configurations like they’re discussing fine wine. “Ah yes, this RAIDZ2 has subtle notes of data integrity.” You are all a bunch of sick vitamin D deficient freaks.

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