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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

Yes. You lost because you were under prepared, you aren't a trained gymnast, you don't have her advantages - those are all reasons why you lost, and that you didn't factor them in when competing means you made a bad decision during the competition.

may 21, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

I feel really lost on what's not following here

may 21, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social

this seems relevant, but i DO NOT recommend playing League

may 21, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

I don't like getting called racial slurs so I don't play League

may 21, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social

really, it's everything after the word "because" that i thought was relevant i'm sure there's many other paths to that view

may 21, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social

No, what you’re saying is that I made a bad decision *entering* that competition because I didn’t have a chance to win it once competing. I could do the best job I could possibly do and still lose.

may 21, 2025, 10:18 pm • 11 0 • view
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

No, everything that plays into you winning or losing plays into you winning or losing, including the objective facts about you? No?

may 21, 2025, 10:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social

There are contests I simply cannot win for one reason or another no matter how well I do on my own personal merits. Can we agree on that?

may 21, 2025, 10:20 pm • 9 0 • view
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

Sure.

may 21, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social

Ok this is in direct opposition, then, to your initial post, which said by definition that if she lost her decisions were bad.

may 21, 2025, 10:26 pm • 7 0 • view
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

How so? To avoid sounding like I'm a five year old, I'll try to explain: her decisions include choosing to run. If she thought she would win, then her mistake was misestimating the...zeitgeist. If she didn't think she could win and ran anyway, that's...scary.

may 21, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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dotdotdot8647 @dotdotdot8647.bsky.social

Feel like an apt analogy is a routine but risky surgery. If the doctor does everything their training tells them to but the patient dies on the operating table, is the doctor by definition a bad doctor?

may 21, 2025, 10:29 pm • 7 0 • view
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social

If you had intended to include “choosing to run in the first place” as a campaign choice, you did not convey that until this point in the discussion.

may 21, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

But that's part of...the campaign? Choosing to run? Yes, I consider someone choosing to run at all a factor in whether they win or not?

may 21, 2025, 10:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social

This is getting quite silly.

may 21, 2025, 10:43 pm • 4 0 • view
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

I agree. You don't seem like you're being actually obstinante but we clearly are miscommunicating here on some deep level, and it's 2 am. Sorry I couldn't get my point across or get yours.

may 21, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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Spooky Josh. Whomst Is Spooky. @outerleftfield.net

The funny thing about this is Kamala didn’t win or lose because of her choices but literally millions of others outside her control. I watched both campaigns, you can’t feel like Trump was winning on his choices, yet he prevailed. His shambolic mess of a campaign brought him back and now we suffer.

may 21, 2025, 10:25 pm • 5 0 • view
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social

let me guess, you're one of those "I could take a set off Serena Williams" guys, aren't you

may 21, 2025, 10:17 pm • 3 0 • view
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social

or maybe better yet, an "I could win a fight against a grizzly bear" guys, seeing as the very concept of a grizzly bear making a "mistake" ascribes a level of conscious intent that a bear may not even be sapient enough to be capable of

may 21, 2025, 10:18 pm • 2 0 • view
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social

No

may 21, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view