GOAT=greatest of all time

  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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    3 months ago

    Sebastian Loeb. 9 time consecutive WRC champion. Probably the best driver of all time, not just best WRC driver.

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    Dissident voice: Noam Chomsky

    The greatest of all time make changes to whatever game they are playing. Chomsky changes the realm of ideas. He questions narratives and provides damning evidence in support of his claims. His books reveal the inner workings of the Military-Industrial complex. He contests the positions of US Presidents of both parties. He follows the money, the use of language, and the differences between official fantasies and concrete realities. He raises others up, never sought fame, just did the hard work. Took all the heat that naysayers threw.

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      3 months ago

      Chomsky is the guy that said Ukraine should just surrender to Russia, right? Truly a great example of living king enough to become the villain, and not in a Batman way.

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        Right, because being America’s whipping boy (yeah, I said it) is really working out for Ukrainians.

        America needs Ukraine to buy obsolete weapons now, use them against Russia’s current military capacity so that there’s real-world applications for next generation weapons. Also, all the strategies designed to contain a more militant Russia needed to be gamed out. Ukraine will be paying this war back for generations. Think Haiti’s reparations to France, but with bigger numbers.

        A years-long conflict also “softens” Russia up for the next round of sanctions — maybe they’ll be effective this time!

        Chomsky said, in effect, ‘Nope, that’s dumb’ (not a quote). Also, there were months and months of Russian build-up on the border. Before that, years of signals, comments, and overt actions showing that they are legit pissed that NATO came knocking. There should’ve been diplomacy, dialogue, deal making. ‘Nope, that’s dumb. War is profitable.’

        NATO (read: USA) wasn’t about to be told who can be in their little club. Russia wasn’t about to be told that ICBMs would be parked on their doorstep. So, conflict.

        So, what else has Chomsky said?

        “the U.S. seems to be fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, reiterating the conclusion of Diego Cordovez and Selig Harrison that in the 1980s the U.S. was fighting Russia to the last Afghan.”

        "It is, surely, worthwhile to think seriously about the history of the past 30 years since Bill Clinton launched a new Cold War by violating the firm and unambiguous U.S. promise to Mikhail Gorbachev that “We understand the need for assurances to the countries in the East. If we maintain a presence in a Germany that is a part of NATO, there would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east.”

        "Those who want to ignore the history are free to do so, at the cost of failure to understand what is happening now, and what the prospects are for preventing “much worse.”

        Sources: Chomsky.info and Truthout

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    Albert Einstein:

    1. Invented the photon and discovered the photoelectric effect, which earned him a nobel prize.
    2. Discovered Brownian motion and proved the existence of particles and molecules.
    3. Created the theory of relativity, changing the way we think about space, time, energy, and matter.

    Oh, and he released papers on all three of these groundbreaking discoveries in a single year. Dude was next level.

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    I’d say GOAT should be a Council of greats, like the Jedi Council but without the religious extremism and child soldiers. I’d like to nominate a couple for this council:

    Wilt Chamberlain- go look up his records

    Andre the Giant - his drinking records alone should put him on the Council, but reportedly he was a very nice person as well

    Dolph Lundgren - he plays a meathead in Expendables movies, but he’s a legit genius, as well as a literally massive human

    Steve Wozniak - he managed to build the PC despite Steve Jobs being a colossal dick

    Saint Olga - she took vengeance and raised it to an art form

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      3 months ago

      Everyone hates this including myself, but in the realm of sports it’s not even debatable. Tom is the GOAT and that’s the end of the discussion

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        Homie noone hates it more than someone who spent 17 years from age 7 to 24 getting owned by the Patriots. JA is the only reason I’m able to admit he is the undisputed GOAT of all American sports. His taking any question for who wore the crown from BB by winning a ring in Tampa fuckin sealed it. It will be a very long time before anyone sees a player that dominating play any sport… regardless if he sits when he pee’s and also tongue kisses his son. Go Bills! lol

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          Hi Falcons fan here, not gonna dispute yalls grievances but there was that whole 28-3 business

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            I got a DWI the day before that super bowl and couldn’t even enjoy my suicidal doubling down on every bet I had at half time. All for Patriots. All paid out. Only year I ever won a SB pool and won 2 different pools. Paid for more than everything from the DWI but never felt like a win or anything but mockery for being a fucktard.