@hunterparker99 @TickleMeElmoOG ....defense in soccer is easy, relative to other sports. If you like that, fine, but don't pretend it's something that's other than what it is.
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@hunterparker99 @TickleMeElmoOG ....mediocre, at best. The playoffs are excellent. The World Cup is supposed to be the highest level of the sport, and one team can be short one player for dozens of minutes, and prevent the opponent from scoring, thus keeping outcome in doubt. As an empirical matter,..
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This is what pro soccer used to look like in the U.S. and people still wanna act like MLS has been a negative.
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@PK_KCMO @hunterparker99 @TickleMeElmoOG A team can be one player short for dozens of minutes in soccer, without giving up a goal, against one of the best teams in the world. It is empirically easier to play defense in soccer, relative to any other major team sport. If you like a game where defense is easy, great.
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@hunterparker99 @TickleMeElmoOG People want instant reward while watching sports because they cant handle hard work, determination, patience. Thats why they have American Football to use their hands easily. Futbol (Soccer) is a REAL sport!!! Football, baseball, shits boring as fuck
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@hunterparker99 @TickleMeElmoOG A team can be one player short for dozens of minutes in soccer, without giving up a goal, against one of the best teams in the world. It is empirically easier to play defense in soccer, relative to any other major team sport. If you like a game where defense is easy, great.
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@TickleMeElmoOG "Me only like game if number go on board. Me no understand sports."
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@bendreyfuss ....for dozens of minutes without giving up a goal, and they'll act like you've said something vile about their mother.
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@bendreyfuss It's tedious that so many soccer fans are so defensive. If you tell a basketball fan that it sucks that it takes 15 minutes of real time to play the last 2 minutes of a game, most will agree. Tell a soccer fan that it sucks that it's possible for a team to play shorthanded.....
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I didn’t really enjoy watching the soccer mostly. I enjoyed that one England-France game but that was really it. The rest I could have just caught highlights of. I enjoyed the competitive nature of international sports because it’s a fun excuse for over-the-top national pride.
Aegis@Aegis007X
@bendreyfuss @IMAO_ Well that is stupid. if they enjoyed soccer enough to watch it now why would you think that they would enjoy not thinking about it for four more years? What a dumb shit comment
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@dilanesper Had that fierce advocate of democracy, Hannah Nikole Jones, once explain to me how wrong it was to have voters, by way of electing school boards, exercising control of curricula in a way that displeased her. The lack of self-awareness is pretty humorous.
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If your enterprise depends on government funding, you ARE ultimately accountable to the public. You can come up with all the arguments you want as to why you shouldn't be, but at the end of the day, eppur si muove.
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
Cannot emphasize this enough. Academia has lost control of the conversation about itself and needs to grapple with public opinion, not explain, again, what it thinks public opinion would be if they only read the journals. (They will not read the journals.)
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@Daniel_Spenrath @Birdyword You are either making a decent physics joke, or you're kind of a meathead.
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Fascinating insight here from Stefanie Stantcheva:
"People with more formal education are less likely to see the world as zero-sum but the pattern flips among the highly educated: those with PhDs often show the strongest zero-sum beliefs"
The Economist@TheEconomist
In America young people, city-dwellers and holders of doctorates are among the most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss, writes @S_Stantcheva. In a guest essay the Harvard professor explains why economist.com/by-invitation/…
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@bendreyfuss Close-ups of heartbroken fans are the best part of any televised sporting event. The younger the better!
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@TheHistoryOfTh2 He's either too stupid for words, or is deliberately evil and trying to wreck the society that has provided him so much.
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I can’t even imagine the rationale for such a policy. Any thoughts?
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Mamdani proposes banning NYC landlords from requiring both proof of income & a credit check — while forcing landlords or brokers to pay any credit-check fees.
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@bendreyfuss I dunno, 50 gallons is 800 cups, and they had a skeleton crew. Don't short change the improvisitional skills of Cssey Ryback!
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I have since learned that 50 gallons would not be nearly enough bouillabaisse for the entire crew of the USS Missouri, but in the early 90s my movie debunking skills had not yet evolved to the point where I thought to look up the size of the crew on the ship
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@JDRichWHU @JonahDispatch Good grief, you're illiterate, too! I not state or imply that any Trump appointment had not had qualifications questioned. I merely noted, in response to your rather bizarre inquiry, that you could question the qualifications of anyone you wished. What is wrong with you?
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@FeedbackRobust @JonahDispatch You think that no one has questioned the competency of EVERY appointment in Trump’s cabinet outside of Marco Rubio?
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Really Margaret Atwood is being banned? Where? How? Handmaid’s Tale has never been out of print and it’s sold 4-6 million copies in the U.S.
This book ban stuff is 99% bs. thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfi…
Democrats Deliver@DemzDeliver
🚨 Dua Lipa opens banned book library after global right-wing book censorship.
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@JDRichWHU @enhanced_vibes @JonahDispatch No, I don't believe that, at all. This is another thing you hallucinated, perhaps due to a tbi I asked you about earlier. C'mon, you can do it. Just read the words. Don't listen to the voices in your head.
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@FeedbackRobust @enhanced_vibes @JonahDispatch Yet your oatmeal brains likely believes there’s only discrimination against white males.
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@davis_the_wavis @Noahpinion Here's a fact. Mamdani strengthened rent control. He's either a moron, or evil, or both.
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@Noahpinion This is NY Post level BS. No observation of facts. Just like how MAGA cultists determined Trump to be the best pres ever as soon as they cast their vote, you determined Zohran to be a failure as soon as you wrote your first words excoriating him. Beneath you, or so I thought.
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Zohran is bad, he's just hot. You want to think he's good because he's good looking. In the past, we toadied up to power; now, we toady up to a TikTok face.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Mamdani: "I will continue to work with Morris Katz. He remains a top adviser of mine."
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@politicalmath Canada is a country where people who report feelings of persistent hopelessness are counseled that assistance in committing suicide is available (and actually encouraged), so encouraging abortion, and suing to compel it, in response to a minor birth defect, is to be expected.
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How does the gay community feel about this?
I mean... obv they don't all speak with a single voice, but is there debate or agreement on what should be done in a case such as this? What are the parameters of that debate?
AF Post@AFpost
A gay couple in Canada is suing a woman to abort “their baby” after finding a minor birth defect. Follow: @AFpost
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@bendreyfuss It’s all bullshit. We let Osama Bin Laden walk into Pakistan. Our special forces guys were about to wipe him and his whole squad out at Tora Bora. So Osama jumped on a satellite phone and called his British handlers. They told us to stand down. Our Pakistani allies took him in ;)
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“If you thought there was some secret cell somewhere, working al-Qaeda, then I want you to know that you're wrong. This is it. There's no working group coming to the rescue. There's nobody else hidden away on some other floor. There is just us. And we are failing!”
nxthompson@nxthompson
This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…
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@bendreyfuss Very few movies capture bureaucratic self-delusion in such a gripping fashion. I haven't watched it in many years, but the sequence, leading up to the suicide bombing at the gates of the Special Operations/CIA outpost, to this day is fresh in my mind.
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@JDRichWHU @JonahDispatch Who's stopping you from questioning anyone's competency? When did you suffer the TBI that resulted in the hallucinations that someone has prevented you from doing so?
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@FeedbackRobust @JonahDispatch Ironically, other than Kash Patel, Trump has given a leg up to many unqualified melanin-lacking people in his cabinet. When do we get to question the lack of competency of white people … or even orange people?
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@JDRichWHU @enhanced_vibes @JonahDispatch You need to undergo cognitive evaluation, then. Here's a cite from 1982, oatmeal-for-brains
nytimes.com/1982/09/07/boo…
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@FeedbackRobust @enhanced_vibes @JonahDispatch Funny that I’m old enough to never hear about banned books under Republicans like Reagan, Bush I and Dubya. Never heard about an obsession with people of color before Trump and his band of white supremacists. As suggested use Google and not Alternative Facts. Tedious lies indeed.
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