by Solid Mantis December 09, 2019

If theres something more chicken shit than being afraid to stand (Kevin Federline), it's being afraid to stand alone (Britney Spears). Pretending to jump to the defense of someone afraid to stand is as chicken shit as being afraid to stand, since it's still being afraid to really stand.
At least the world knows Kevin Federline is a womanizing douchebag if the rumors are true and all. Kevin Federline doesnt masquerade or disguise himself as somebody else to do his womanizing or sinning, he does it as Kevin Federline at least. He doesnt hide who and what he is.
by Solid Mantis September 07, 2020

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

by Solid Mantis October 21, 2020

If your country is not a free country in a pandemic, it's not really an entirely free country, you're just being told it is a free country by the entity that controls your country.
Telling people they live in a free country is a good way to get them to comply with an agenda and turn them into obedient puppets. Nothing is free, you have to fight to get something. Compromise is a good way to lose who you are and any sense of rights that you have.
by Solid Mantis October 19, 2020

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

by Solid Mantis March 14, 2021
