Mat modded spank. Twice.
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Poe’s Law
Yes yes yes.
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What was the deal with spank? I seem to have missed whatever the drama was with him. I thought he was a lefty? But apparently he was modded in Unchained and everyone hated his modding or something But idk because I almost never even read those threads let alone posted there.
The reason David was such a fan of that post is that the one idea he was most interested in hammering home on 22 is that all of us here are equally as horrible as conservatives (likely referring to Mason and their mutual friends).
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Even when the names are fewer than 10 words apart, he can’t help but mess up the spellings: Xerxes/Xerses
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To be honest, I’m in favor of them not doing strategy books (lol) and going into something with more than a 0.000% chance of me reading it. It’s long overdue. The Eli Elezra book is a great idea if you remove lying Eli Elezra and replace him with someone more compelling. I like the idea of Gambler’s History but the execution is obviously not there. I’ve got “The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King” as the best poker book of all time, the blueprint for a non-strategy book, but you need to pay a professional writer. I’d also take some accurate poker fiction that isn’t total cheese.
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Conclusions from the Cuban Missile Crisis:
So, thanks to a skillful poker play, a full-scale nuclear war was avoided. But this “confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full scale nuclear war.” In addition, perhaps because of lessons learned from The Cuban Missile Crisis, a confrontation like this has never happened again.
Lol haven’t we had nuclear confrontations like, once every few months for the last 3 years? Also a great example of the terrible/annoying usage of quotes as a bonus.
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Oh my god, I’m pretty sure he just blamed the Cherokee nation for the Trail of Tears.
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They took a gamble by acting humane to their new visitors and lost.
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This passage left me a little speechless tbh.
The reason this comes under the topic of “Foolish Gambles” is that the Cherokee did not consider who they were up against, only considered the merits of the case, and gambled that Jackson would abide by the Supreme Court decision which they thought they would win <fun footnote goes here> But Jackson, as we saw earlier, was a person of very strong will, and there was no way he would ever compromise.
As stated earlier in this book, when gambling, it’s often necessary to consider the character and tendencies of your opponent. By not doing this, the Cherokee lost their gamble and suffered tremendously. If they would have understood that Jackson was going to force them out no matter what the court decided, their trip to Oklahoma might have been better and not have occurred “in the winter of 1838” where the Cherokee were forced to march 1,000 miles and suffered tremendously from disease and starvation.
Clearly, no matter what the result, the outcome for the Cherokee, as long as Jackson was President, was going to be negative. But it certainly might have been better than 4,000 dead and The Trail of Tears.
The fun footnote:
This was the only time a U.S. President defied the Supreme Court
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Victim blaming Native Americans.
Guess it was a different kind of rape but the tag still applies.
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OK I’m changing my vote to Mason is an idiot.
The other guy who signed off on this should be banned for life as well.
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Chief Osceola of the Seminole tribe should have realized that the USA flying a flag of truce* was just a trap to capture and kill him. Lol learn to read the opponent bro.
*This was the only time in history the American Army committed a war crime.
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Wtffffffff
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So the lesson here is…if the president is determined to strip you of your rights, better go along with it so that hopefully fewer people will die?
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Lol I’ve been trying to tell you guys.
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Moral of the story is that you’ll still die, but at least you won’t have to endure a long march beforehand.
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Yeah, I’m done even lurking this asshole’s website. This is just reprehensible.
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