****Kirks Championships 2017 ****

I'm really having a hard time with Xu-Cermeno, I hate that old mother****er, he's so hard to predict. Sometimes he dominates guys and KO's them that he should lose to and then he gets his ass kicked by people he should probably beat. I think you should stop including his matches @PinoyProdigy

 

By the way, Alexander-Ayala, its a genuine toss up, Vaughn has yet to impress me, and I don't think he has close to enough power to hurt or stop Ayala, I could see a legit one sided schooling of him here, but will he get the decision, that is the question.

 

Yo @Drew101 this is a little long winded, but I figured I'd make an effort explain myself.... thoroughly.

Let me clarify some of my stances on the issues, and clear up some misconceptions that I'm probably partially responsible for allowing to form on here about myself. When I say I'm a liberal or a leftist I'm not kidding or joking or trying to hide anything, why would I? It does me no good, most of my friends on here are right of center or in some cases far right, they certainly don't agree with many of my opinions, so if I just said that I was right wing that would win the approval of many posters, I'd have nothing to lose, progressive and leftist ideas are not all that beloved on this site, they'd probably love it if I said that. But I can't say that, because that's not what I genuinely believe or stand for.

Let's see I'm...
Pro-universal healthcare
Pro-social security
Pro-abortion/women's right in general
Pro-gay marriage/LGBT rights in general
Pro-progressive taxation
Pro-animal rights
Pro-regulating corporations
Pro-environmental regulations
Pro-science
Pro-equal rights/anti-discrimination in workplace
Pro-separation of church and state
Pro-union/working class regardless of race
Pro-porn/prostitution/sexual freedom
Anti-pointless foreign entanglements

All Left Wing positions.


I'm a Free Speech absolutist, used to be a Left Wing position, I still consider it one.
Anti-Globalist, protectionist, anti-multinational corporations, used to be Left Wing, still is to me.
Strongly Anti-Islamic/Christian/any other religious fundamentalism, no one gets a pass, used to be Left Wing, etc.

Here's a few of my Right Wing or center Right positions.

Pro-gun rights
Pro-cop/military (not pro-war)
Pro-strong immigration policy
Pro-culture/tradition/family values (to an extent)
Pro-individualist/anti-collectivist (to an extent)
Anti-drug/cigarette/alcohol (but don't care if latter two are legal, drugs, not so much)
Anti-radical feminist/vegan/various other Now extreme organizations.

Don't like bullies or anyone being bullied, but believe in teaching inner strength and instilling self confidence/self acceptance to the bullied, not encouraging a weakling victimhood mentality. Say it loud, I'm black, gay, Mexican, Asian etc. and I'm proud, not wahhhh, I'm a victim of white people/capitalists/fascists or whatever boogieman you can come up with. Its a feeble minded pathetic crutch for people to play the victim, its not empowering and its not helping anyone. I have a different take on things than most liberals now days, because they've fully embraced backward French Marxists philosophers with their post modern deconstructions of everything, and I don't, I'm still just a modernist classical Libertarian Socialist.

I take a degree of joy in mocking and criticizing crybaby snowflake weirdos running around today hyperventilating freaking out over every thing the United States has ever done, said or produced, because some idiot on the web told them they should be offended and unquestioningly like the lemmings they've become, jump on board lockstep like perfect little brownshirts to do the bidding of their overlords in the MSM, because they should be mocked and criticized, they're out of their ****ing minds.

While politically my positions are mostly Left Wing, I do have somewhat of a conservative temperament.

I love America for all of its beauty and its ugliness, Americana appeals to me, all the burger joints, hot dog stands, strip clubs, whorehouses, casinos, tailgating parties, BBQ's, from the weird eccentricities of Austin, New York and San Francisco to the Black barber shops and restaurants in the streets of Chicago and Alabama, to the downhome southern comfort of fried chicken and sausage and biscuits to the Midwestern middle American working class and farmer family values gun loving red meat eating America, there's a place for all of us, there's good and bad in everything, and you can't wholesale condemn or support everything, you have to learn to live with the bad and embrace the good, we can't cure all the ills of the world, we're all too flawed and frail to accomplish something so big, because we'll only end up ****ing it up even worse, the road to hell was paved with good intentions, all we need to do is tolerate one another and not kill each other, the rest will work itself out without large scale social engineering. I voted for Trump because he was a disruptive force that rattled the cages of the Left and the Right to their core, I agree with him on several things, and disagree with him on many things, but at least I didn't think he'd continue the foreign policy of the Neocons like Clinton would. He's just what this country needed, a huge kick in the balls to remind us who we are, not a bunch of collectivists who separate all by ethnicity and play identity politics, we're a big beautiful tapestry of different cultures and peoples who all have a place, and we're individualists, not a group, a religion, a race, a creed, a color and its time we started embracing that individuality and be the best freedom loving Americans we can be, not the best hyphenated freedom loving Americans we can be.

I'm a Liberal because I strongly believe in personal freedom and a fair and regulated mixed economy like most rational people. Pretty simple right?

Still not sure when the goalpost got moved requiring me to be a neurotic, self-loathing, guilt riddled Post-Modernist, Leukophobic, Xenophilic, Globalist, Multiculturalist, Corporatist, Misandrist, Structuralist, Deconstructionist, Regressive, Orwellian, Puritanical Yet Selectively Morally Relativistic, Neoconservative, Existential Nihilist, Gramscian, Utopian, Trotskyist, hardline cultural revolutionary Maoist to be considered a part of the Left?

It's been a gradual creeping fascist shift since the early PC 90's that's went into hyperdrive since the Bush era. Not even Freud, Pavlov and Jung put together could fix the sheer number of psychological issues that's ailing the Left. And we need to get our **** sorted out or we're going to alienate everyone on planet earth eventually, I believe in more freedom and less rules, not less freedom and more rules. What could be more liberal than that?