Gavin (who is back in town)
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Gavin (who is back in town)
@11mmyjohns.bsky.social
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Big root beer guy. International ETF trader. Not top 20 in the world at crosswords but maybe top 200. Appreciator of the fact that the 1999 New Orleans Saints had two quarterbacks named Billy Joe.
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I root for the New York Mets and the New York Giants. No outcome, positive or negative, is certain until the entirety of the contest is over.
I want you to wait half an hour and then read this conversation again with an open mind. Perhaps you will learn something from how unbelievably tedious you sound. I, for my part, am done interacting with you.
are you the kind of person who demands receipts when someone says “oh my god, this is the best sandwich! I was starving!” Like “no you aren’t starving, and you said that about a sandwich you ate 12 years ago, so which is it?” In the real world this debate club bullshit, as you put it, is tedious
Obviously no, and it was so embarrassing of you to suggest it that in my response I pretended that you didn’t.
yeah I responded to the first sentence and just pretended they didn’t say the second
But like, centrists should vote for Mamdani (as some will) and left-wingers should have voted for Kamala Harris (and most did). Defeating the Republican Party at every level is the most important mission in American politics right now. Everything else good is downstream of that.
I mean, I think that blue no matter who should be accompanied with a concerted effort to move the Democrats left during the primaries. And there is a point at which a candidate is too Republican to vote for.
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If the supposedly more pragmatic wing hadn't put forward an insanely damaged candidate, Mamdani probably wouldn't have won. Maybe he'd have pulled it off anyway but probably not. If you don't like it, you should be chewing out Cuomo's backers. They produced this outcome more than anyone else.
Blue no matter who is the correct position. A lot of terrible centrists claimed to espouse it and then turned out not to. But it is correct. Go Mamdani.
“It is transphobic to know anything about basketball” is a position that I would really prefer not to be mainstreamed
if you don’t know that the account River Tam is a woman you shouldn’t speculate anything about her takes on things
It’s your taxonomy; I will leave it to you to determine whether we need “wet (fat)” and “wet (thin)” or whether wet covers both.
I said to this friend that I would have been fine with Adrienne Adams or Zellnor Myrie or whoever; Mamdani was my second choice because of his inexperience (I’m a Lander Man), but Cuomo was a bridge too far for a variety of reasons (and given his conduct I was right)
I know you loathe Cuomo; I just make no assumptions because I know you’re not a Mamdani fan either (which is fine).

I’m pretty sure that my best friend, #2 to your #1 in my personal list of Mitt Romney appreciators, voted for Cuomo. Which is a bummer (but he’s not a Trump guy even a tiny bit)
Revisiting this and while you are 100% correct, I must say that Torii Hunter would say (and be correct) that this demonstrates the declining percentage of Black baseball players. You need “rail thin tall Black guy whose smile contains the anger of ten thousand armies.”

Basically The Bob Emergency
I root for the New York Mets and the New York Giants. No outcome, positive or negative, is certain until the entirety of the contest is over.
In the Mamdani romps universe, “Mamdani is The Truth”* versus “Cuomo was just that bad of a candidate” is not going to be answerable for at least a year; New Jersey is weird (and I love New Jersey!) and they are not New York

*not actually, New Yorkers would never vote for Paul Pierce
I am internally freaking out about Mamdani, so the fact that you are *not* doing that, despite liking him considerably less than I do (I don’t know if you prefer him to Cuomo and don’t intend to ask) is helpful
(In these cases, Short didn’t work on AD because his manic physical comedy didn’t mesh with AD’s elaborate verbal comedy and Mantzoukas didn’t work on PNR because his character was an *understated* jerk. He wasn’t crazy or wild or anything, he was just a pretentious asshole)
Martin Short is definitely funny sometimes. But not always. Martin Short on Arrested Development, like Jason Mantzoukas on Parks and Recreation, was a situation in which a funny person briefly appearing on a funny show simply did not work together for whatever reason.
Orlando and Eugene I understood right away but I’m genuinely having trouble with the other two
For a long time I didn’t realize Martin Short was funny because my main association with him was when he was on Arrested Development and his character wasn’t funny at all
“Go and sin no more” the first recorded instance of “it’s over for you hoes”
the only Dort we recognize in this house is Luguentz
I want to start a thing where “eugenicist” means that you want the world to be run by people named Eugene