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@mattyglesias @DrewPavlou Hey Matt, explain to me why we don’t just do what China is doing? They seem to be outcompeting the US in every metric outside of fictitious unproductive finance capital jibberish.
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@DrewPavlou Well, I would not advise going on his podcast and agreeing with any of that. Just say Israel is bad and America should stop giving them aid.
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As someone who absolutely fears the left's growing power, I think the smart play is for moderate Dems to go on Piker's show and agree with him that Israel is bad and then stick to their guns on other moderate stuff.
Matt Duss@mattduss
Hasan isn’t driving a wedge into the party, the failed, repeatedly discredited yet unfortunately still entrenched corporate wing of the party is. They fear the left’s growing power and see Hasan as a way to make us argue amongst ourselves. We shouldn’t fall for it.
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@normal_jake_ It’s run like it’s been acquired in a PE leveraged buyout. The players hate the fans and the fans hate the sport. The nba cup, lottery reforms, playin tounry have only worsened the core problem; the regular season is too long and too many teams make the playoffs.
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It makes me sound like an old man and I promise I am not asking for the world but the NBA really has no dignity at all
They simply don’t respect the sport. It sounds dramatic I get it but the league office legitimately runs it like a business more than any of the other 3 majors
Sam 🐐☘️@S_Scott019
@normal_jake_ NBA leaned 100% into being the social media league and it’s made the entire presentation so lame
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@rBillSimmonsPod Thank you for reminding how annoying that “higher level of basketball” thing was during that era. KD to the warriors was the start of the decline of the NBA and it hasn’t recovered since.
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@jnbernstein @BillSimmons Even better give the teams with the best record first round byes or the worst records have a playing game etc.
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@BillSimmons 2/2 to play the worst team in the first round, could end the regular season on a Friday or Saturday, run the tournament Monday to Friday, start the playoffs on Saturday or Sunday, I bet a streamer will pay a lot for it
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0 for 3!
Also — notice how none of the ideas involve shortening the season which is partly how we fell into this tanking sinkhole in the first place. They come up with 3 “solutions” and none of the 3 are “what would 72 games look like?”
This league is so frustrating
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania
The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, per ESPN sources. 1. 18 teams in draft lottery (seeds 7-15 in each conference) – flattened odds, with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance, the remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18, and and a lottery drawing for all 18 picks. 2) 22 teams in lottery using 2-year record (seeds 7-15, plus the four playoff first round exits in both conferences). Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season, such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, it gets slotted to meet the floor. Top 4 drawn as part of lottery, as is currently. 3) 18 teams in a "5 by 5" lottery – bottom 5 teams have equal odds for the top pick, with lottery formed for picks 1-5. Bottom 5 teams have a floor at 10; those that fall out of top 5 get sorted in a separate drawing.
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@Logo_Daedalus David Robert Mitchell has a new one that may or may not have dinosaurs in it.
imdb.com/news/ni6500181…
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This was the only trailer before OBAA that looked like it would be worth seeing in a theater. I don’t think anything good is coming out for a while.
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
The official trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz. In select theaters October 17, on Netflix November 7.
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@rahmdphd @thejesterhead9 @mattyglesias WHY DO YOU THINK THIS MATTERS WHY CANT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS ALL FAKE WHY DO YOU THINK THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS YOUR BEST INTERESTS IN MIND?! You have the mind of a child. How are you a doctor.
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When Trump won in 2016, most sensible people were surprised because he was down in the polls and "the candidate who is up in the polls will probably win" is a sound forecasting principle.
But people who "got it right" (i.e., used bad methods) gained prestige as a result.
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@rahmdphd @thejesterhead9 @mattyglesias Also dude you just said this without any evidence. You don’t know me at all you just presume like all academics do that they have some sort of real universally applied special insight because they have a certificate in a completely unrelated topic. You are a pawn.
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@rahmdphd @thejesterhead9 @mattyglesias I literally do it all the time. MAGA is splintering along the lines of Trumps abandonment of endless war anti imperialism and reindustrialization. Dems worship institutions that uphold the status quo of a dictatorship of private monopoly and private capital.
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@rahmdphd @thejesterhead9 @mattyglesias Who dictates the decisions at the level of geopolitics? The people that control the productive forces which are the PRIVATE OWNERS of monopoly and finance capital. You dont get a vote on that. You submit to their political theater that endlessly prioritizes culture war bs.
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@rahmdphd @thejesterhead9 @mattyglesias what you're blind to is that the actual material conditions of the lives of Americans are predicated on decisions made at the level of geopolitics, NOT domestic. The incentives present in the sphere of the global market dictate domestic policy. You cheerlead political theater
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