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How you play Spades is how you play life

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Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by prepend »

x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #115
prepend wrote: post #78

I find it funny when people assume that something that is common within their subgroup is unique to their subgroup. I liked that this article called out spades’ role in African American culture. But the game isn’t unique to US African American culture. So it’s interesting how it’s presented as unique or special to a particular culture or subgroup. It would be like if I grew up in Iowa and everyone played spades, and…

Where do they talk about it being unique to African-American communities? Talking about something and it's place within a community is not the same as saying it's unique to a community.

“Spades is a game our ancestors created to sustain themselves, to gather, to connect, and to hold a safe space for being Black.”

This is what made me think the author assumed it was created by African Americans.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by klyrs »

qsort wrote: post #119
klyrs wrote: post #118

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OC> And richer players have access better to cards that poorer payers can never hope to be dealt. >> You've demonstrated that only the rich can compete; not really refuting the point, is it? > You are moving the goalposts now. Am I? Was it you who set the goalpost wherein Magic is only about tournament-level play and not a casual game? Or does it seem to you that the OC's comment might be a statement about the econom…

> Was it you who set the goalpost wherein Magic is only about tournament-level play and not a casual game? It's either a competitive game, and therefore comparable to other competitive games and sports, that can cost you similar amounts, or it's a casual game, where you are not after 100% efficiency. > I like how you say "almost competitive decks." https://www.mtggoldfish.com/decks/budget/standard#paper Help yourself…

Nah, your black-and-white characterization doesn't describe reality very well. Point is, when folks bring competition decks to play with casual players, the result is not fun for the casual players.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by staysafeanon »

x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #116
eplanit wrote: post #86

Geezus, now card games are being ruined by racial narrative, too. I and many other people grew up playing Spades, and this is the first whiff of any such historical rewriting that I've encountered (though I shouldn't be surprised). I have no doubt that blacks as a group developed an affinity for the game -- but this piece tries to claim what is otherwise a unifying game is really all about black history. This is righ…

But US policing does have roots in slave patrols. Unless it is your belief that the American Bar Association is rewriting history. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

That is an opinion piece written by a professor of justice studies at a sociology department (shocked I tell you, shocked). She's never been an attorney, has never been a member of the American Bar Association, and her opinions are her own. That piece was included in the ABA's quarterly magazine as an op-ed, and does not reflect upon the opinions of the ABA.

Your line "unless it is your belief that the American Bar Association is rewriting history" is categorically wrong as I just laid out above.

Your core claim isn't entirely true either: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-origins-of-policing-in...

The US Democratic party similarly has roots in slavery. By your logic it should similarly be defunded/disbanded.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by x86_64Ubuntu »

staysafeanon wrote: post #123
x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But US policing does have roots in slave patrols. Unless it is your belief that the American Bar Association is rewriting history. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

That is an opinion piece written by a professor of justice studies at a sociology department (shocked I tell you, shocked). She's never been an attorney, has never been a member of the American Bar Association, and her opinions are her own. That piece was included in the ABA's quarterly magazine as an op-ed, and does not reflect upon the opinions of the ABA. Your line "unless it is your belief that the American Bar A…

So the ABA is posting something about law enforcement, an org that they deal with daily, that doesn't pass muster? The US Democratic party is no longer the party of slavers.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by CRConrad »

jacobolus wrote: post #50
traceroute66 wrote: post #11

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> which have horizontally-scrolling trackpads or mice. Same category as tablets and smartphones my friend. How about the billions of other internet users who have a keyboard and mouse ? At least make it keyboard tap or mouse-click friendly !

The right and left arrow keys scroll one card at a time.

Now you tell us. Fortunately, my browser's reader mode saved me... At least I know how to invoke that.

Re: How you play Spades is how you play life

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Post by staysafeanon »

x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #124
staysafeanon wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is an opinion piece written by a professor of justice studies at a sociology department (shocked I tell you, shocked). She's never been an attorney, has never been a member of the American Bar Association, and her opinions are her own. That piece was included in the ABA's quarterly magazine as an op-ed, and does not reflect upon the opinions of the ABA. Your line "unless it is your belief that the American Bar A…

So the ABA is posting something about law enforcement, an org that they deal with daily, that doesn't pass muster? The US Democratic party is no longer the party of slavers.

>So the ABA is posting something about law enforcement, an org that they deal with daily, that doesn't pass muster?

Non sequitur.

>The US Democratic party is no longer the party of slavers.

You're almost there (selfawarewolves).

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