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How do you know I'm responding to you? It seems to me you're just reading my posts, but you don't think reading is knowing, so how do you know? I posted a link to and quotes directly from the Trump administration. Is that a cherrypicked source?

How many terrorists do you think walked across the boarder during the Biden admin?

Before Trump ever takes action he always waits for the left to say a bunch of stupid stuff, then bam, egg on face. He did not make that statement without some level of knowledge. Formal or informal there is a hierarchy of agitators that creates chaos. It is funded and organized and always ready to snap into action.

I KNOW that you are responding to me. I know that you cherrypick sources.

Please define what you think "knowing" means.

I copy and paste quotes from the sources I read, usually from experts in the subjects. Reading is how I come to "know" things. That's what all of history is, my man. Nobody alive was there for the Battle of Gettysburg. We know about it through the contemporaneous sources and documentation. I get that you don't like reading and learning because you're lazy, but that's not something to be proud of.

But you don't KNOW it. It was a copy and paste... that is what you do.

@Caveira If you want to learn about Antifa, here's what our government has told us about them. They've been under investigation for years: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10839. This document was published by the Trump administration in 2020. Some key quotes: "Contemporary U.S. antifa adherents likely do not share a list of enemies, as the movement lacks a unifying organizational structure or detailed ideology that might shape such a list. Local groups do not necessarily listen to each other's pronouncements and might aim their animus at enemies specific to their group. Further, "fascism" is notoriously difficult to define. Thus, particular antifa groups may oppose different things based on how they identify who or what is fascist." "Some members are willing to commit crimes, some violent, to promote their beliefs, although much antifa activity involves nonviolent protest such as hanging posters, delivering speeches, and marching. As a core purpose, antifa groups track and react to the activities of individuals or groups they see as advocating fascist views, such as neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, white supremacists, and white nationalists. While few concrete antifa principles exist across all groups, U.S. supporters have articulated four shared "obligations." According to some adherents, antifa groups must (1) track the activity of fascist groups, (2) oppose their public organizing, (3) support antifascist allies attacked by fascists or arrested by police, and (4) not cooperate with law enforcement." "While the FBI has confirmed that antifa and other extremists are subjects of ongoing domestic terrorism investigations, it declines to designate any organization a "domestic terrorist organization." Doing so may infringe on First Amendment-protected free speech—belonging to an ideological group in and of itself is not a crime in the United States. Further, as previously stated, antifa is a decentralized movement, and law enforcement designation of antifa as a singular group may prove to be difficult." (My apologies to @Interviewed_at_Weehawken for yet again knowing something about the world. I can't help that I have an inquisitive mind suited to learning and retaining information.)

This is the guy who tried to get into Columbia by misrepresenting his race?

That's not reality. Chop/chaz, the burning of Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Columbus, etc. These events were far more significant and deadly.

Yes, I absolutely know that for a fact.

Bro... my point is that you just copy and paste stuff from the internet and whatever left wingers you fanboy for on that day. You even took your screen name from one. My point is that you are the one who is ignorant, but pretend to be smart. You do not actually "know" these things outside of copy and paste. You have no understanding of the info, but you like to play make believe and lecture.That, sir, is true ignorance.

Listen, the Trump Administration is welcome to prove me wrong. Maybe there is some shadowy, organized group called Antifa, with defined leaders and puppet masters. I'm sure if Trump can find them, he'll tell us. Surely, they're not just letting all these terrorists walk free among us, right?

very cool my man

Well I learned on this very forum that we can make large generalizations and use stereotypes to inform our opinion without the need for additional critical thinking or logic. Can you prove otherwise? Do you know for a fact that if someone likes watching late night with Colbert that they wouldn't switch to Kimmel instead when Colbert is no longer around?

All of this stuff is freely available for you to learn too. Ignorance isn't something to brag about. For example, the current leader of ISIS is Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. They refer their head leader as the Caliph. Below that, they have various levels of administration and advisors. They have local leaders, called Emirs, who govern specific regions under their control. It's as well-defined an organization as it gets. They even call themselves a state.

Do you have any proof of this or are you adding all their audiences together and assuming all viewers will end up supporting the last man standing when the rest are fired for poor ratings? Because that is not how people or stats work.

Thought this was a very interesting segment given some of the conversations we've had around here about which values are important to which political ideologies. Thinking specifically of @jross. Would love to hear your thoughts on this answer. ..."that assessment of merit...that's how I view the importance of government and who I will surround myself with when we lead City Hall." (ignore the editorializing of the tweet, just watch the video) https://x.com/KaoticLeftist/status/1970312156504826185

So if ExxonMobil elected to open 4 gas stations right next to each other and had them compete for revenue. Would you consider that genius or a bad business model?

I used to have a triple bodyweight deadlift. But all you do around here is "heavy lifting"

All Data Contains Errors Just get comfortable with that fact before we move on. What we think we know is not always knowable. Details get lost to time. Mistakes get made (and missed) and become official. But it is OK. We can live with the uncertainty, the nagging sense of doubt, or at least acknowledge our history contains errors, and it will still be OK. The sun will rise; the roses will smell just as sweet; and our loved ones will still love us (or at a minimum, tolerate me). Why do I bring this up? Because by the end of this post I may need to break someone’s heart. I don’t want to, but the power of the data compels me. As many of you know @cowcards has built a fantastic resource for housing the history of wrestling. And as was mentioned above cowcards, @grogs84 and I have been working on taking the wrestlingstats brackets and feeding them into a database with an eye to extending that resource further. Of course there were errors in our manual process. So, some QA work was required. SPOILER: It turns out a whole lot of QA work was required. Team Scores? One idea we had was to use the individual match database to score every past tournament using the rules that existed at the time of each tournament and using the rules that exist today. Besides being interesting it also aided us in finding our mistakes. We could use the history document published annually by the NCAA that contains every past team score to check our own work. It was my hope that we would find our tiny number of errors this way. Oh, those were some sweet, innocent days. There Were How Many Differences? When all was said and done there were over 750 team score differences to track down between 1950 and 2025 (out of almost 5,300 team scores). Sigh. Every single one had to be researched. Most of those differences boiled down to our imperfect understanding of how the rules were applied from year to year. One thing about NCAA wrestling is that it has had an absurd number of rule changes for scoring the tournament. In football a TD has always been six points, in basketball a FT has always been 1 point, and a win is a win is a win. But not in wrestling. Oh, no. We cannot make it that easy. We need to change the value of everything all the time, and we need to be careful to not keep close, detailed records because we love a sense of mystery. After a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth (and a fair amount of consulting with @gimpeltf) we have been able to reduce the total number of differences to about 100 team scores with an average absolute difference of 0.89 points. On information and belief we think a lot of those differences are likely to be the result of human error in the score keeping process. We will publish everything soon, so that the army of internet sleuths can tell us where we went wrong (or right?). Forgiven Me @ionel For I have Sinned (against the Cowboys, so not like a mortal sin) Now on to a few situations where we know the NCAA scores are wrong: Wyoming 2011 – The NCAA has them in 28th place with 21 points. But if you score the brackets, they have 31 points, good enough for 21st place. Either the brackets for 2011 contain unprecedented errors (they don’t or else it would affect other team scores), or whoever typed this up for the NCAA hit a 2 instead of a 3. Hobart 1978 – Who the hell is Hobart? Well, there is no Hobart. There is a Humboldt though. Oops. Oklahoma State 1950 – With sincere apologies to ionel, this one is modestly consequential. In 1950 Oklahoma’s Bill Borders placed fourth at 121, good for 1 team point. Unfortunately, that team point was accidentally awarded to Oklahoma State (Oklahoma A&M at the time) resulting in Oklahoma State being credited with a fourth-place tie with Syracuse at 10 team points. How do we know this? Because this is one of the few years that they showed their work in the NCAA Wrestling Guide. Here we have Borders with a fourth-place finish: And here we have Oklahoma State with the point Borders earned: Moving that team point to its rightful owner, Oklahoma, moves them up from a tie for twelth to a tie for tenth. But it also moves Oklahoma State down from a tie for fourth to solo fifth. We are going to need you to send that team trophy back. On your dime. To show the power of these types of errors to become canon and persist unquestioned, it is even carried to this day in the Oklahoma State Media Guide: If You Have Come This Far... If you are still reading this, and I doubt you are at this point, I want to tease again that we will soon have this data up on cowcards' website. We still need to finish some 1929 - 1949 QA and get a little more disciplined around reason codes and the like, but be assured it is coming soon to a website near you. I also intend to start using the detail to publish some visuals and the like on the site. Not sure what yet. Lets see what tickles my fancy.

Jan 6 wasn’t an insurrection . And caused like 3m of damage. Just for the blm protests 2 billion dollars of damage was done. Be specific. How was j6 more damaging to anything vs the billions of dollars of damage antifa did during blm + the other nonsense they damage

Sure there is bro. Really love how you're an expert on medicine, pharmacology, NGOs, terrorism, Islamism, Mid East relations, and politics. Amazing.

Name the generals Again. One must look into isis to get their leadership info. You have no idea what antifa plans …. Or how they structure different factions or orgs. Literally 0 you know. how did we discover the names of people who may be considered Isis generals: Discovering information about ISIS leaders, including figures like Haji Bakr, relies on a combination of signals intelligence, on-the-ground human intelligence, interrogations, and the analysis of captured materials . Because ISIS is a clandestine organization, its leadership does not publicize official command structures. Instead, intelligence agencies use a range of methods to piece together an understanding of the group's network.