Alexander Gruber

@Jakobian Nope.

I met him last year actually.

Nice, I didn't know about that. Arnold is a very cool guy.

I guess that's what happens when you do that much gear though

Lol yeah. Poor Ronnie

Nice. That's what you want

How bout you? And developments over the years?

Don't wanna end up rolling around

Yeah for sure. I would be going to a specialist that works on pro athletes if I go through with it.

i'm looking into getting a disc replacement for that, I don't want to have a fusion cause it makes you lose mobility

L5/S1 is still messed up from all the accidents, but the rest of it has been essentially cured by the lifting

bench at around 275 currently

got my squat to 405 this past year, then cut a bunch of weight, now working back up to it

Energetic. How bout you?

bonjorno

Only a matter of time before intellectuals and leftists become "illegal immigrants in spirit"

@amWhy I just don't wanna be one of the people carted off to his little gitmo concentration camp he's building

It seems that the type of thinking that worked in the previous system of government may not carry over.

We're going to have to adapt to that.

One thing I will say is, I think we're entering a new era of government that is qualitatively different from prior years.

@amWhy I'm honestly getting a little scared to post my opinions in places that are on public record.

It does make a lot more sense now why musk bought twitter.

And now we'll have to watch the goverment be eviscerated

@amWhy it has very much shaken my confidence in the strategic competance of the democratic party. There were many obvious mistakes, none of them individually enough to explain the whole thing, but taken together are reckless and weak

@leslietownes the whole we go high they go low thing has never worked. Been 10 years and they still havent learned that

All we can do i guess is focus on mutual aid and other things that are independent of government

@amWhy i dont even know what we can do in general. My faith in the democratic party was already low, now it's pretty much 6 feet under.

@amWhy this at least is good, is it in your district? (Edit: nvm, it's the senate)

@amWhy thomas and alito at least will retire so that he can replace them with 18 year olds and ensure supreme court dominance forever

Apparently kamala wanted to come on rogan but would only agree to 45 minutes, which is not the format. If that's true it's very out of touch. Democrats need to adapt and stop clinging to old guard way of doing politics... been a problem ever since clinton's campaign

The whole replace income tax with tariffs thing makes no sense. It's this campaign's make mexico pay for the wall promise.

But even there they werent really explaining how their plans are going to reduce economic burden on citizens, just how various things ought to happen to benefit them / other rich people.

I watched his rogan episode and elon's to see what kind of messaging theyre giving off and it did seem like it wouldve been very effective at gen Z men

I guess i shouldve seen it coming, people blame inflation on biden for some reason even though it's pretty obvious it was carryover effects from prior

@leslietownes I don't undersrand why they didnt pick shapiro for vp

@amWhy yeah. Not loving this future.

Somewhere in europe i guess, lots of english there

@user21820 i really don't know but it's starting to look like i'll have to figure it out

Seriously i know it's said a lot but moving countries may actually be a thing this time if he wins, i wouldnt feel safe here

Wonderful, she'll have so much time to watch his live speeches

On the plus side i think kamala has done very well with gen z, more than whatever gains trump has made with young(ish) men by going on rogan

Idk if i can do another 4 years of him. Even in the best case that all the disastrous dictatorship stuff never happened, the stress would still kill me

A couple of my friends are voting for jill stein over the israel thing and I'm very annoyed with them about it

Yeah i suppose there has been a lot of new gerrymander too

I doubt he'll bring out more voters than he did in 2020, they all came out pretty enthusiastically then, and he still lost. I guess there could be a reduction in democrat votes because of the various lawsuits/reforms over the past 4 years meant to make it harder to vote

I dont think trump can win legitimately, but who knows if he has some kind of bought off electors or supreme court scam backup plan

@amWhy good god im not looking forward to it

@amWhy I distinctly remember one "winter" in Florida when a student who grew up in the area told me, shocked, as I existed the classroom to the outdoor hallway in a tshirt in ~60 degree weather, that I was going to "get frostbite."

anybody here see megalopolis?

@leslietownes I feel for him. Copilot accuses me of working in academia