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A mall that at one time didn't need new life on site, since people loved going there and skating at the ice rink. There is nothing that will replace it, no matter what gets built there now. Somebody thought it would be better if it crumbled than if it was still standing, and people allowed it to happen, the same way they did Thunder Road.
Eastland Mall didn't really need to be lost, and there's not anything they could build that would replace it. Sometimes something was already done right once, then somebody came along trying to destroy it, and it won't ever be right again, it's gone.
by Solid Mantis May 1, 2021
Get the Eastland Mallmug. A third camp, that unlike the black lives matter and no lives matter camps, believes that life is meaningless no matter what shade of skin you have, and that there's not a whole lot that really matters, or a point to claiming that it does.
by Solid Mantis December 8, 2020
Get the No lives mattermug. Nobody wanted to see the Dodgers win it ever since they ratted on the Astros. Year of the Rat was a good name for 2020.
by Solid Mantis January 28, 2021
Get the 2020 World Seriesmug. Race relations seemed better and less divided a few years ago, back when the Confederate statues were still around. At least back then, even if they argued at times, they were still talking points. Now that the statues aren't there people are expected to forget history, change, and compromise. That won't make anything better. Before the statues were removed people said they were divisive, but race relations seemed to do well. Now that they've been removed, people really are more divided.
Race relations don't improve if people don't get to discuss history from all angles, even the unpopular (unprofitable) ones. As long as one group wants another group to change, forget, or compromise, things aren't going to get better, they're going to keep getting worse. Sometimes (actually many times throughout history) things were already as good as they were going to get, then people were people, and they still wanted change, and they thought they could do better, and they all fucked it all up. They were all part of the problem.
by Solid Mantis November 11, 2020
Get the Race relationsmug. A username, handle or screen name that feeds off the popularity of the same username, screen name, or handle. When more than one user has the same screen name, and the other user has attempted to mimic the language of the first user to make the post look like it came from someone else.
The parasite now has your screen name and started trying to copy the way you talk to make it look like it was all your posts.
by Solid Mantis September 10, 2019
Get the Parasitemug. by Solid Mantis March 14, 2021
Get the Authoritativemug. It's not a realistic expectation to expect a first year team to go out and win every game. Underconfidence is when if you think you'll win about 3 games, you end up winning about 3 games, even though you had the ability to do what you didn't think you would do. The point is not to win games, it's not to start a habit of defeating yourself early when really you have the ability to go further with a little more confidence at the times you would usually lose confidence. If you're playing to win, you're going to fear failure and feel like you have to win, but if you're just going out and working on the things you're rusty at, trying to do what you didn't do last week or yesterday, not giving up on yourself, and the work you're doing is always in progress and never finished, you have room to improve anything you want to improve.
Underconfidence can get you stuck somewhere you wouldn't be stuck at a time when your confidence level wasn't as low.
by Solid Mantis November 30, 2020
Get the Underconfidencemug.