Angels Never Die

I also think this team has the most potential in recent years to make the playoffs. I think that's just more reason why they should be very aggressive in the trade market, if we're not aggressively trying to win now, then when? Pay the price it takes.

This game made me sick

I guess I missed the "least" part of the title lol

I picked a great season to get back into following baseball, this team is fucking awesome. They're even entertaining when they suck shit.

It's a laid back sport that satiates my OCD with endless statistics and obsession with precision and order, and it's a fun thing to do with my partner. I'm much more likely to get laid if the Angels win.

I only really have enough energy to give you an overview. I guess you could say I'm somewhere between social democrat and democratic socialist. I'm not too far off from Bernie's platform, maybe more left on some things and more neutral on others. I'm fairly pro 2nd amendment and I don't like that so many leftists are willing to die on that hill, it's a waste of time, guns are here to stay and I don't like the idea of the state having a monopoly on guns, they already have enough power over us. I do have different policy positions for the present than I do for the distant future, because some things we're just not ready for. I flirt with socialism sometimes, but I'm not fully convinced of it as a solution, just very realistic about the need to move on quite a bit from capitalism as it exists today. I definitely think there should be a lot more democracy in the workplace, co-ops are something I'd like to see more of-, and I think unions are absolutely vital. Definitely am for single payer health care, progressive tax policy, and stronger financial regulations. Generally anti-intervention in terms of foreign policy, but I'm not really all that informed about it tbh. I'd say my top 3 issues are: infrastructure/environmental overhaul (this is the most pressing issue of our time imo), universal health care, and campaign finance/electoral reform. I do hope one day our society is as automated as technologically possible and no one is required to work for food, shelter, utilities, health care, transportation, etc. I think that should be the ultimate goal of any society.

You're not going to shame me into changing my position. I wouldn't be much of an advocate if I didn't live by what I was advocating. I still vote progressive in primaries and down ballot elections/measures.

Protest voting accomplishes nothing. I did that for a long time and I'm done wasting my time trying to make myself feel like some noble purist or whatever. I want to make things better, even if it's a choice between awful and horrific. My political hopes for this country have more a chance through Biden than through Trump, and there are no other options at this point. How you change things in this country is within the two major parties, that's how it works, and the right wing has executed this strategy very well and I want that for the left, and it's already happening to a degree.

Apparently I have to spell it out for some people.

Yup, not exactly a flag waver here. Trump is an existential threat to democracy, him losing is massively fucking important for the future of this country. He is trying to dismantle the post office during a pandemic in order to suppress voter turnout for fuck's sake. I hate the DNC, I hate Biden and Harris, but it's nothing compared to the damage Trump has done and will do. So yeah, it's patriotic, I'm going to donate and advocate for Biden, and I'll feel dirty as hell doing it, but I have no choice.

It's not about loyalty, it's not about team politics, it's purely self defense to vote against Trump, and not just for me as an individual, but for the survival of this country. Voting against Trump will be the most patriotic thing I'll ever do in my life. It has absolutely nothing to do with the democratic party, ZERO. Trump will do nothing to advance left politics, not directly, not indirectly, not in any way. He is the absolute antithesis of my political, social, and ethical beliefs.

For me, getting rid of Trump is triage for this country, I have no delusions that we'll be making great long term strides with Biden, but at least with Biden, it's possible to make some progress from where we are now. The time to be pissed about Biden's status quo BS is over, I did that back in the primaries and it's in the past now. Things are really really bad right now. There's a massive amount of people on the verge of eviction, they're trying to force kids to go to school when we don't have the means and infrastructure to keep them safe, non-essential businesses are re-opening when we're nowhere near ready, feds are nabbing people off the street and shitting all over the 4th amendment. This is insanely bad, next level bad. This is no time for protest voting/non-voting. Biden is better than Trump, and that's all it takes for me to vote for him and advocate for people to vote for him. We don't have the luxury to sit this one out, it doesn't accomplish anything.

Yeah, it was disappointing, but progress was made and I'm a progressive so

It's not about loyalty, it's about harm reduction. It's that simple. I used to think like you do, I cared more about my pride and not wanting to feel "dirty" by voting for someone I don't like. I'm a pragmatist though, and me feeling less "dirty" is extremely insignificant compared to the importance of the world being a better place than the alternative. I wanted Bernie to win as much as the next person, but it's over now and we have to move on and accept reality as it is.

Correct. People might have less compassion for him personally in that hypothetical case, which I would understand, but that's a different matter.

It's police brutality, that's the only issue that's ever been relevant here. I couldn't give a fuck less about judging his character and I'll never engage in that red herring conversation.

Relax buddy

I freely admit I'm gay, when are you going to?

It's irrelevant to the issue of police brutality.

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf Someone accused him of just that exactly.

That's disappointing and unhelpful. Obviously no Bernie supporter (which I am) is happy to vote for Biden, he sucks, but it's a mediocre centrist or the man and party that's suiciding this country more than anyone. We need to stop the bleeding and get Trump out of there, then we can spit our bile at Biden and bully the fuck out of him to the left.

This season was doomed from the outset. I'm honestly feeling like this is all meaningless exhibition at this point.

I wouldn't blame him if he didn't, but it's cool that he's going to.

I have a really good feeling about Detmers, I'm so glad they got a pitcher finally, this pitching dry spell really sucks.

This is so exciting. I've been eagerly waiting to see him pitch again.