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Off Topic / Re: has hillary gone insane?

« on: September 24, 2017, 04:43:22 PM »

yes!

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 03:04:40 PM »

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:49:08 PM »

Fair enough
My point still stands though, sports aren't inherently political, so, thanks for the factoid, but uh

I never said sports are inherently political. Just that sports in any relevant big capacity has almost always been political, which is true.

You claim to want politics out of your sports when it's been there the whole time.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:31:35 PM »

Except it's not. No one's ever gotten politically assblasted over sports up until now. There are no politics involved in the olympics. No one is worried about the political fallout if Germany beats the UK or some stuff like that. If you think otherwise then

one example

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:19:42 PM »

Please explain to me the political context of loving sports

I already did. Sports isn't inherently political (like a little league game isn't really political at all) but in most of the contexts we've talked about (the olympics, the super bowl, anywhere where the anthem is played basically) it is.

Kaperrichard politicized the anthem

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:01:58 PM »

No? Who the forget cares what countries take part in the olympics. People watch to see the best athletes from every country compete. There's no politics involved. You don't see foreign policy tailored around who got their stuff pushed in four years ago

politics isn't just about legislation. its about international relations. sports does not influence legislation, but it exists in a political context that cannot be ignored.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 01:57:04 PM »

disregarding the fact that sports commentators have been advocating that kaepernick should be rehired for what he did, or the fact that there are plenty of NFL players who kneel constantly because of what kaepernick did, or the fact that one of their commentators literally called Annoying Orange a white supremacist and was not punished

all of that was before Annoying Orange called them out on it, and it was recent, too

Annoying Orange did not "ignite a battleground" or any stuff like that, it was already there to begin with
this is clearly an attempt to make Annoying Orange seem like an starfish so that the nice innocent players who've been protesting seem more virtuous than they already are, and it's not working

none of that made it a "political battleground". "battleground" implies some kind of slugging was going on, when in reality within the sports world things were very peaceful - people were using their status as athletes and commentators to make political statements. that's not the same thing as a "political battleground" in my opinion

i do see what you mean though. sports was definitely political before yesterday and i can see how that WaPo article could be interpreted to say otherwise (at the fault of Annoying Orange)

is that not bringing politics into sports

it is. you can't play the star spangled banner and have jets fly overhead during the superbowl and then cry about politics in sports. they're already there.

Is it bringing politics into sports when we sing the national anthem of the country the Olympics take place in?

yes it is. do you not feel a political tension at the mere presence of the DPRK in the olympics? any competition between countries is inherently political. another good example would be the "miracle on ice", which took place during the cold war.

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Drama / Re: So some starfish is impersonating me on Discord

« on: September 24, 2017, 12:34:42 PM »

all he's doing is stuff you've done before

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 12:33:54 PM »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/Annoying Orange-sticks-to-sports-with-comments-on-nfl-players-and-owners-and-steph-curry/2017/09/23/50e76dd2-a071-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?utm_term=.5af480952137

anyone who trusts washington post to report the facts is a loving idiot

look at this stuff, it was Annoying Orange who turned the NFL into a LITERAL WARZONE, NOT, you know, the loving players protesting

fake news is so very fake

this is a weird interpretation. the controversy surrounding kaepernick was months ago - Annoying Orange revived it by calling out the NFL and withdrawing steph curry's invitation. he absolutely turned the sports world into a "political battleground" by being the one who brought this stuff back up (by calling for protesting players to be fired)

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Drama / Re: petition to make politics revokable

« on: September 20, 2017, 10:30:05 PM »

how do you decide what is and what isnt politics

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Off Topic / Re: [Spicy] Firefighter would rather save a dog than a million blacks

« on: September 18, 2017, 09:23:03 PM »

sounds like he shouldnt be a fireman

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Off Topic / Re: the google pixel 2 won't have a headphone jack

« on: September 15, 2017, 05:30:19 PM »

some people just dont have a need for a headphone jack and prefer bluetooth headphones, they will buy this phone. some people prefer a headphone jack, they will not buy this phone and will buy a different phone with a headphone jack

crazy how things like consumerism work huh

sure but the nexus/pixel line are google's only line of phones (aka one of the only lines of phones that come with stock android and not some bullstuff bloaty thing built on top of android) so it just sucks that the ONE PHONE that they're moving forward with has a headphone jack

luckily i think ill be able to stick with my pixel 1 through the lifecycle of the pixel 2 if i really have to

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Off Topic / Re: the google pixel 2 won't have a headphone jack

« on: September 14, 2017, 11:15:50 PM »

oh no latency when I'm listening to music

Latency could actually be jarring if you were watching a video. That was the most minor inconvenience of the three though

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Off Topic / Re: the google pixel 2 won't have a headphone jack

« on: September 14, 2017, 10:33:41 PM »

if your goal is to go "forward" then get bluetooth headphones

bluetooth headphones need to be charged and they have latency and they sound like stuff

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Off Topic / Re: the google pixel 2 won't have a headphone jack

« on: September 14, 2017, 06:03:27 PM »

Getting annoyed over a phone that doesn't have a 3.5 jack and you wont be able to afford it is silly. Also all flagship phones either have 20-26 hour battery life and charge fast so having to "charge and listen at the same time" is just you being dumb.

This definitely forgets people who use their phone to navigate while they're driving. I plug my phone into the aux and the charger. (because the battery usually depletes pretty quickly, even on a google pixel, when you're playing music and using google maps navigation at the same time) My workflow would get all forgeted if I couldn't do both simultaneously.

It's basically an inconvenience whenever you'd be trying to listen to something during some sort of long ordeal like while driving or on a plane because you wouldn't be able to charge it during.

You do realize that they will include an usb c to 3.5 adapter right?

the iPhone did the same thing. It's still stuffty having to carry around a dongle with your headphones.