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TobiasFunke reacted to Inside Pitch in Trout being asked about Ohtani all the time
Like Mike Trout's teammates did when he came up?
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TobiasFunke reacted to Chimi in We got him! Ohtani selects the Angels
Eppler upon hearing the news...
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TobiasFunke got a reaction from T.G. in Upton Signs New 5-Year, $106m Deal with Angels
Mike Mussina retired years ago
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TobiasFunke got a reaction from Blarg in Upton Signs New 5-Year, $106m Deal with Angels
Mike Mussina retired years ago
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TobiasFunke got a reaction from Angel Oracle in Upton Signs New 5-Year, $106m Deal with Angels
Mike Mussina retired years ago
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TobiasFunke got a reaction from Taylor in Upton Signs New 5-Year, $106m Deal with Angels
Mike Mussina retired years ago
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TobiasFunke reacted to fan_since79 in Las Vegas Shooting
Start with a full ban on all automatic weapons and means of converting rifles into those. Forty years in federal prison for anyone buying or selling them.
He wouldn't have done a tenth of the damage he did with a single shot rifle or even a semi. He was firing 8-10 rounds a second for a long period of time.
58 people killed, 515 injured and who knows how many of those are critical and might die?
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TobiasFunke reacted to UndertheHalo in Las Vegas Shooting
Why does it have anything to do with God. Oh man, if only this guy had moar Jesus in his life. Good fucking grief .
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TobiasFunke reacted to red321 in Las Vegas Shooting
pretty low bar on that one
"thoughts and prayers", "senseless violence"...wash rinse repeat
it's not like he doesn't have a decades worth of material to work from
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TobiasFunke reacted to red321 in Las Vegas Shooting
When's the best time? A week from now? Two weeks? A month? Do we have to wait for no shootings to occur for a period of time? (274 and counting...this year).
It's the best fucking time...congress is set to take up a vote, this week, on making silencers easier to get. THIS WEEK.
You want to show respect for the dead...maybe stop sacrificing people to senseless gun violence in the name of freedom.
oh...wait...sorry...
thoughts and prayers
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TobiasFunke reacted to UndertheHalo in Las Vegas Shooting
No. The bodies have been cold from the countless other gun nightmares for plenty long. this is absolutely when people should be screaming from the top of their lungs about this nightmare issue. Gun advocates should have their fucking faces rubbed in this.
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TobiasFunke reacted to UndertheHalo in Las Vegas Shooting
how horrifying.
i lost all faith that this country will ever implement any form of real gun control when we didn't do shit when 20 babies were murdered.
tragically this wont move the needle either.
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TobiasFunke reacted to nate in Las Vegas Shooting
Is this a joke?
You can walk into almost any gun show and get what you need to convert a rifle to fully automatic. Also, unless the laws have changed Montana and Wyoming used to allow sale of them.
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TobiasFunke reacted to red321 in At least one politician has a hold of themselves
Damn interns using my angelswin account
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TobiasFunke got a reaction from Tank in At least one politician has a hold of themselves
Are you saying you and Cruz now have a lot more in common?
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TobiasFunke reacted to Jason in Confederate Monuments
This forum would be so much more interesting at this time if Bakunin was still around
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TobiasFunke reacted to red321 in Confederate Monuments
You've yet to actually make a point in regards to subject at hand. How modern day Americans judge men such as Jefferson, Washington, etc. can be complicated. History is complicated. Judging the civil war and monuments erected to instill terror and glorify a war to maintain slavery is not.
If you want to have a discussion on how men like the founding fathers should be viewed, fair enough, but that doesn't have real bearing on the removal of confederate statues. They are separate issues with different drivers. A discussion regarding Thomas Jefferson and his place in american history is different than that of Nathaniel Bedford Forrest.
Most people are having a discussion about dinner...you want to argue about last weeks breakfast
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TobiasFunke reacted to red321 in Confederate Monuments
American history is challenging, men who are celebrated for doing great things, also did things that when viewed from a historical perspective paint a less than rosy picture.
The Confederacy and Civil War is not one of those moments. The statues and monuments to those moments in our history were not designed to celebrate a great moment in our history. They were erected to instill fear in a large segment of the population. They were erected to spin history as part of the "Cult of the Lost Cause" and to try and turn a war about maintaining the enslavement of people into something heroic.
We don't put up monuments celebrating Manzanar and Japanese internment. They put up a memorial and education center discussing it in a frank and open manner. It's a sobering place. We don't put up a monument celebrating the trail of tears.
I posted the video of Mitch Landrieau previously, who had spoke about why New Orleans was removing those monuments. It was a powerful statement. For those who prefer to read, here is a link to the transcipt. I've cut out some passages as well
http://pulsegulfcoast.com/2017/05/transcript-of-new-orleans-mayor-landrieus-address-on-confederate-monuments
But there are also other truths about our city that we must confront. New Orleans was America’s largest slave market: a port where hundreds of thousands of souls were brought, sold and shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of forced labor of misery of rape, of torture.
America was the place where nearly 4,000 of our fellow citizens were lynched, 540 alone in Louisiana; where the courts enshrined ‘separate but equal’; where Freedom riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp....
...And it immediately begs the questions: why there are no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks; nothing to remember this long chapter of our lives; the pain, the sacrifice, the shame … all of it happening on the soil of New Orleans....
There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it. For America and New Orleans, it has been a long, winding road, marked by great tragedy and great triumph. But we cannot be afraid of our truth.
As President George W. Bush said at the dedication ceremony for the National Museum of African American History & Culture, “A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”....
....These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for. After the Civil War, these statues were a part of that terrorism as much as a burning cross on someone’s lawn; they were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city....
....Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city. Can you do it?
Can you look into that young girl’s eyes and convince her that Robert E. Lee is there to encourage her? Do you think she will feel inspired and hopeful by that story? Do these monuments help her see a future with limitless potential? Have you ever thought that if her potential is limited, yours and mine are too?...
....And in the second decade of the 21st century, asking African Americans — or anyone else — to drive by property that they own; occupied by reverential statues of men who fought to destroy the country and deny that person’s humanity seems perverse and absurd....
....The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to be revered.
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TobiasFunke reacted to UndertheHalo in Game of Thrones
I think the prequel rotating around the relationship between young tywin and aereys would be awesome. There's a lot there.
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TobiasFunke got a reaction from AngelsLongBall in Meanwhile in Wisconsin...
What you do with your penis is your own business
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TobiasFunke reacted to Thomas in Trumped
Blaming the citizen for declining the government coercion to go and kill on foreign soil seems a bit backwards to me. It isn't the citizen's fault they'll simply choose another in their place. The proper target to blame seems pretty clear.
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TobiasFunke reacted to mtangelsfan in How not to be a gentrifier
This is a multi-faceted situation. I despise race based ideology. I do understand the concern over being forced out of the area you have lived in your entire life due to inflated pricing. Not sure what the answer is though.
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