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It was good, nowhere near living up to the hype that I had. I basically haven't thought about it since finishing it.

Crime HAS gone way down compared to what it used to be and probably most of our childhoods. And yet budgets have only increased, their militarization has only increased, fear mongering about crime has only increased, their siege mentality has only increased etc.

cjsdowg posted...

What do you guys think about this work out.

Day 1

Dumbbell Incline Bench Press: 3 sets of 8 reps

Laying Cable Tricep Extensions: 3 sets of 8 reps

Dumbbell Bicep Curls: 3 sets of 8 reps

Band Rows: 3 sets of 8 reps

Tricep Pulldowns: 3 sets of 8 reps

Dumbbell Shoulder Shrugs: 3 sets of 8 reps

Standing Cable Crunches: 3 sets of 8 reps

Day 2 Legs

Dumbbell Glute Bridge: 3 sets of 8 repetitions.

Dumbbell Squat: 3 sets of 8 repetitions. Sometimes I use the Bench if my knee is hurting that day.

Dumbbell Calf Raises: 3 sets of 16

Dumbbell RDL ( have not done these before so I don't know)

Dumbbell Step-ups: I walk up my home steps ( 10) 5 times.

Dumbbell Side Bends: It isn't legs, but I do a different exercise core every workout. Because when I lose my fat, my abs need to be ready.

Day 3

Dumbbell Shoulder Press 3 sets of 8 reps

Dumbbell Seated Press 3 sets of 8 reps

Dumbbell Shoulder Adduction 3 sets of 8 reps

Dumbbell Step-Up house stairs

Bicep Curl 3 sets of 8 reps

Cable Row 3 sets of 8 reps

Dumbell Side Bends 3 sets of 8 reps

Depends on what you're trying to achieve as well as what's sustainable for you. Just doing this or any reasonably varied and effective routine will do wonders for you. If you're trying to build muscle/strength, 8 reps is fine, but is the generally considered the low end of reps. I do 8 reps for something when I'm just trying that movement out or when I'm increasing the weight. So I do 8 with the heaviest weight I can reasonably lift, then progress to 10, then 12, then either go up in weight or do 15 reps, then go up in weight, rinse and repeat.

I think you'd see great results from what you posted as long as you stick with it and you're constantly increasing weight and reps.

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16. I've made substantial attempts at 4 and 13, I'll eventually beat them.

Jeff Nippard seems good. I second that Sean guy too.

Reddit heavily rewards lowest common denominator opinions and thoughts. You typically wont get a lot of upvotes for saying something new or challenging because that doesn't make the upvoter feel smart. That's why the things that get upvotes are things that reinforce ingroup identity, recycled puns, pop culture references, and "the most well known factoid about x"

Like on the Presidents subreddit, the thing that gets upvotes is not discussion of some underpublicized atrocity they committed or some program they advocated that's had underrated positive effects throughout history. It's "Teddy Roosevelt was badass, did you know he got shot during a speech and kept talking!"

It's "I recognize that" culture made into a website.

Bandit_Keith posted...

You saying that shows it's more about you than anyone else.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/640899d1.jpg

Genuinely criminal behavior.

Every single person they try to present as the softer face of right winger is invariably an absolute ghoul. Since Reagan at the very least, if not Eisenhower. I wonder if there's a lesson there....

I legit can't wait for this game, the first one was the best recommendation I've gotten from the Internet since Arrested Development.

The absolute lack of shame by this guy. I can't even imagine.

The only cars I'm buying in the future are the Lincoln Marxism and the Toyota Cervixxx.

Virtue does not find the mean. Virtue is almost always considered extreme. The mean historically has always been some awful system of oppression. The people who recognize that are called "radicals" and later "people who were obviously correct."

That's if you wanna talk about history.

Edwards is American and extremely charismatic, has an exciting playstyle, and will automatically be the most successful/beloved player in franchise history if he wins this season. Wemby is an alien, but he'd have to do a lot to surpass those factors.

divot1338 posted...

So which is it? Is she a political mastermind or a fucking fool?

I can only argue one version at a time.

She's no fool, she's either a terrible person or someone taken in entirely by the morally bankrupt Washington foreign policy consensus.

No contradiction between being smart and either of those options.

This is why she lost. She can't help but condescend and invalidate anyone that's not on her exact wavelength to the left or right or even just not lionizing her and her husband. Any conclusion other than "yes, you're so right Hillary" is treated as ignorance.

chaos_knight posted...

AIPAC would funnel $1 billion in campaign money to Trump, eliminating any RNC money shortfalls overnight. Sadly, Biden would probably lose.

Democrats are currently leaving approval on the table by acting consistently with an organization that would feel no shame about supporting Trump if they don't get complete obedience from the Democrats.

I don't think it's automatic. It'd surge young voter turnout and depress moderate older voters.

I don't think it's clearly accurate to say Biden isn't losing a significant amount of young votes though. A lot of the people who are or would be the biggest organizers of the youth are the people who are the turned off by our Israel policy. How it all shakes out, I don't claim to know.

I don't think it'd lose him the election though and if he lost an election for refusing to continue aiding a genocide, then our country is already doomed.

Having unlimited gas makes me a major world power just on my own. I'd impoverish all the gulf oil states and Russia.

Westernwolf4 posted...

I am pretty motivated to vote when one of the options recently tried to overthrow the government and disrupted the peaceful transition of power for the first time since the Civil War.

So am I. But an undetermined amount of people will be disgusted by the entire slate. I'm not saying it's right, I'm saying that's what will happen. You can only press the "he's awful" button so many times before it loses effect, even when it shouldn't, or people stop believing it, or they check out entirely because they don't know why the options are so awful.

Anyway, I already believed RFK Jr. had brain worms before this revelation.

Heineken14 posted...

Donnie: wants to fuck his daughter and is the embodiment of corruption
RFK Jr: has literal brain worms
Biden: is old

some voters: "I'm just having such a hard time deciding!"

These are all terrible options and an indictment of our whole system. The decision isn't usually about which of these to vote for (anyone undecided on that at this point probably is dumb), it's whether to vote at all considering the terminal decline of our options.

Access to the halls of power and the resources necessary to get there (money, name recognition) are not equally distributed. That's been the case since the founding of the country. The first 10 Presidents were basically just Virginia planter aristocrats and within the first 50 years, we already had the son of a President elected as President. That's just how power works.

With my whole heart and soul.

People who could get these jobs probably wouldn't and definitely shouldn't be applying to work for these judges anyway. If you can get a federal clerkship, you can get a lot of other things.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I wonder how much shit she gets for her name

LMAO, the most unfortunate possible name for a Republican official, other than the mythical Irish guy named Obama.

Anyway, as a woke liberal antifa member, I would be soooo owned if Trump picked her as VP. I'd definitely have to retreat to my college safe space to protest.

They shouldn't be a party anymore. They are actually not valid and we shouldn't pretend otherwise. The party should be banned and their people deradicalized.

I've heard people say that Nixon wasn't actually doing anything that unusual at the time with his dirty tricks and coverups and that the CIA went after him because he was centralizing power outside of their hands. But even in that view, he's still guilty and the problems are that other guilty people are not held accountable and that the CIA has the power to destroy Presidents, not that Nixon was innocent.

FF7 Remake....not a chance in hell. She's never touched a controller in her life, no type of fast paced action game is possible.

Absolutely vicious. This stuff is probably the negative self talk Drake hears in his darker times.

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London was the safest feeling large city I've ever been to. I never at any point felt like I would be stabbed and it was nice feeling like I didn't have to worry about guns.

Wish this had happened during a certain election....and Democratic Kingmakers had to have known this is a possibility and yet they chose him over a person who is everything they allegedly stand for. That's why the Democrats are better than Republicans....but they are not your savior.

Itachi157 posted...

I mean, basically yeah. It sucks but theyre going to have to move on as a people and find the best path for themselves. Which, unfortunately for them doesnt involve getting rid of Israel and taking every bit of lost land. Theyre not the first and not the last group of people in history that have fought and lost. The current path leads to nothing but destruction for them. They cant win. They dont have any significant international support using the current methods. You dont see anyone stepping in to stop Israel right now.

Isn't this admitting that Israel is a settler colonial state currently practicing ethnic cleansing? And your answer is that Palestinians should peacefully accept this because...reasons? Straight up disgusting. People like you and the Israeli government state their intentions out loud repeatedly, but then go apoplectic when people recognize what they're saying and give it a name.

Often the order itself is violent. It's not moral to uphold that type of "order". Having "peace" while these colleges and our government are complicit in and profit off genocide is not the type of "order" we should respect. That order is the problem and it's what the students are dissenting against.

It's straight up white moderate bullshit, the exact type of thing MLK was talking about and huge swaths of America have never at any point understood or agreed.

This is just protest. And disorder comes with terrible actions and always has. There's never been a now sanctified protest or social justice movement that didn't have a lot of this stuff.

I wouldn't expect different from him since he can't bless violence. But when he's spending 100 percent of his time chiding protesters, calling them violent and antisemitic, but not discussing the violence of the anti-prostesters and police and will likely sign a law making even peaceful protest on this issue illegal....it's not good.

We deny groups the right to self determination all the time. As the Kurds, ask the working class. The state of Israel as it currently exists IS a racist endeavor. And the easiest way to stop being compared to the Nazis is to stop doing apartheid, Lebensbraum, and putting people in mass graves.

We're essentially going to do Alien and Sedition Acts on behalf of another country. Absolutely wild, these people never actually learn anything, they have the same values that led to the old atrocities. So they'll condemn the Red Scare or the Alien and Sedition Acts, or Kent State, but when something makes current legislators uncomfortable or challenges their power/preferred policy in any way, they bring out the guns and the historically awful laws.

Biden better not sign that bill, but he surely will if it passes. And that'll bring him one step closer to a loss this November. It won't be possible to argue that any future repression is not with his blessing.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

Can you explain then, why people insist on chanting the phrase that is used this way by Hamas, and not any other slogan in the world? Like ok, sure, that is what it means, but if there is this confusion, why are they insisting on this phrase defiantly?

Have you ever been to one of these protests? Or even watched videos of one? They chant so many other slogans in addition to this one. Ceasefire now, Free Palestine, No Justice, No Peace, etc.

If you search online, you'll see pro-Israel groups making the same arguments that each and every one of these phrases is identical to knowing calls for genocide and cannot be understood any other way. Even Free Palestine. Because it's not actually about any specific language, it's about the underlying political position. The most vehemently pro-Israel people are heavily invested in poising the well on ANY language used to express desire for Palestinian freedom. They want it to be impossible to express that idea without it being considered antisemitic. They generate the "confusion" then use the "confusion" to say the idea shouldn't be expressed. Some others end up doing the same thing out of fear and paranoia.

Right wingers do this all the time and this is no different. They themselves make something "controversial" and then say that controversial thing is radioactive and should be banned from public life/discussion. They did it with BLM, they do it with LGBT people, and this is another version of that.

LightningThief posted...

@NoMeLx22x
Your argument is basically demonstrating you don't know how to protest effectively to begin with. You are misconstrueding "Hey, how about not destroying property so the protest doesn't draw in the wrong attention like you know, the authorities. For you to then act surprised destroying of property tends to bring in the authorities to forcefully stop it" to....... "all protests are bad."

All they are doing by storming the building and breaking property is providing low hanging fruit for Newsmax, Fox and the likes to point at them every time Jan6ers are brought up.

What you are protesting becomes background noise, because to no surprise the new topic of discussion becomes about the obvious of the authorities being called to shut it down and violent protestors not cooperating.

The message of the protest gets lost and tends to resonate more with those who already supported it. Resonating with those who already support and getting bad attention by those who dont support your methods, is not winning over new people. You also may not like hearing this, it also hurt those who support your cause.

The police were already cracking skulls before any property was occupied. The message was already being maligned before then, including by nearly the entire "liberal" media.

This is not the first time that student protesters have occupied a building in order to protest a huge injustice that their government or school was complicit in and it doesn't make them any less right, except to people who value propriety and property over human life. And the vast majority of those people already hated these protesters or any student protesters.

This is the worst type of liberal, white moderate method policing. If this causes someone to lose the message of the protest and to stop caring about genocide, that's a problem with that person's values, not the protesters.

I don't see why we should be centering people's feelings rather than a genuine call for freedom for a people who have been oppressed for a full lifetime and are currently being killed and ethnically cleansed. Seems a weird way to prioritize things, imo.

I'm not denying that it must alarm some people, but perspective is important here. And a lot of these same people will not accept ANY form of pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel sentiment, they consider the very concept antisemitic. Spending effort on trying to appease them is largely wasted effort that could be better spent publicizing what's going on and taking action to stop it.

LeCh0nk posted...

You can have that without slinging childish insults. In fact you're not gonna get the representation you want from people who can't behave properly in public.

I agree that we don't need childish insults. But we don't need cooperation or to be buddy buddy with people who uniformly want to take away rights and destroy the working class. I'm not going to get the representation I want from people who don't recognize that and act accordingly.

Those hand shakes and agreements were terrible because they were always selling you out. Republicans have wanted bad things since at least Eisenhower. The things the parties can shake and agree on are more war, surveillance, incarceration, gutting the safety net, limiting unions, etc.

We need less handshakes and respect and more representing the interests of ordinary people.

I'm wearing tighter and shorter stuff the better shape I get in, I don't blame them. It's really comfortable.

Just go about your business, focus on the pump, not the rump.

We have a long history of college students occupying buildings to protest war and apartheid, and they've pretty much been right 100% of the time. This time is no different.

Rai_Jin posted...

it's more that he just trusts these things.

You're right, that's more accurate. It's not some conspiracy or like he's being blackmailed or manipulated, he believes these things. He has actual beliefs, unlike Trump who just has grievance and greed.

It was literally on purpose. The line where he "mixed up the name" was about how Kendrick didn't know who he was fighting since Drake has ghostwriters. He showed in literally the next line that he knows who Osment is by referencing the 6th Sense.

This is all already on Genius.

This is one of the consequences of the right being so terrible and the """"left"""" feeling that all they have to do is be a slightly better echo. There's always some group to throw under the bus to show "we're not like those crazy leftists you've heard about with their equal rights"

Vyrulisse posted...

That's not new. They are quite literally the Fox News of the extreme Left.
Though them actually becoming Fox News in this case is troubling.

There's nothing extreme left or even left about MSNBC. They're thoroughly establishment/centrist. They absolutely hate the left or any form of opposition to the status quo that's not channeled exclusively into voting for establishment democrats.

Even though this is an absolute win, the thing is that Drake is so disconnected from the core of the culture/has so much outside support that even a total L like he suffered from Pusha can't kill him. Because it's the core culture that's super concerned with authenticity, who wins a beef, ghostwriting etc, other people just wanna hear catchy rhymes and shake their ass.

I think the only thing that could take Drake out is a Diddy situation, combined with an L like this, so he'd have no support left.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Because the Republicans made it that way. That's literally been their strategy for decades.

1. Create wedge issue
2. Force everyone onto one side of wedge
3. Whichever side of the wedge the GOP is on, blame the other side of the wedge for all the worlds problems.

Integration, Civil Rights, Immigration, Abortion, Marriage Equality, Transgender Rights, Guns

every single one of those things used to not be a partisan opinion until the GOP decided to artificially make it a wedge issue

If you want things to change, the first step is to destroy the GOP and the only way to do that is to dismantle the two party system, and the only way to do THAT is to vote in Democrats because they're the only ones advocating for electoral reform. The only thing the GOP wants to change about our elections is they want less people voting.

What? Civil rights, immigration, LGBT rights etc have always been partisan/highly polarized issues. They've always been disputed. The Democrats have zero interest in destroying the two party system. They actively believe current Republicans should exist and prop them up in order to win elections more easily and to not have to do anything when they win. Voting for Democrats is not going to get us to some post political post partisan utopia. Because Democratic politicians and donors are not actually interested in doing that and are opposed to any of the things that would get us there.

Republicans are interested in killing unions, schools, journalism, democratic elections, rational courts anything that leads to liberalism. Democrats are actively opposed to doing the same, they think it's wrong to do so.

Yes, voting for Democrats is better than voting for Republicans, but the party you're imagining is not the one that actually exists.

See how easy it is to do it when you want to?

Just do it. Get his ass, by hook or by crook.