Peter Green

@awstar11 When the dominoes fall, they fall fast. Every claim of fascism of the past four years has been projection, and Big Tech, the media, and politicians are wasting no time, now that they have all of the power, to make their dreams, reality.

@USSoccerColl MLS *is* a destination... for early retirees. It's an absolute death trap for real development, even more so for the good American youth players that don't necessarily fit the typical MLS model of play and don't want to be owned by a "club" that doesn't give a crap about them.

RSL blocking Gozo's path to Europe would be a mistake, and not just for Gozo. It would be a mistake for MLS. Gozo has done everything right. He signed a Homegrown deal, developed within the system, and turned himself into one of the most coveted teenagers in the Americas. Now RSL wants to hold him hostage because they don't have a succession plan. That's not his problem. The club reportedly requires a fee approaching $20 million, a number that would make him one of the most expensive MLS sales ever. Fine. Get your money. But don't block the move altogether. If you sell him for $15 million and can't figure out how to replace a 19-year-old winger, that's a front office failure, not a reason to stall a kid's career. The broader issue is what this signals to the next Gozo. MLS is a development league right now. That's not a knock on the league. It's just the reality of where American soccer sits in the global ecosystem. It's the launchpad, not the destination. Every top young American player, every family weighing a Homegrown deal, is watching how this plays out. If the message is that MLS clubs will stand in your way the moment Europe comes calling, why would any elite kid sign here? They'll go straight to Europe as soon as they can and skip MLS entirely. RSL has leverage right now. Use it to get fair value. Don't use it to block a 19-year-old from taking the next step he's earned.

@RobUsry Alexi Lalas isn't fit to hold Clint Dempsey's jockstrap.

Can only imagine what Clint has said to him to piss him off but I know it was probably amazing.

@Jomboy_ FIFA's idiotic new offside rule thinks it's fine.

Genuine question: Whatever you change the margin to… you’re always going to have calls that are 0.5% within that new area right? You can’t run away from this, right?

@Devon_Eriksen_ Timeless.

Someone once observed that in any conflict, leftists will always side with whichever demographic causes the most social harm. This creates a hierarchy, with White men (the primary civilization-builders) at the bottom, and third-world Muslims at the top. Here's why how this works. In a healthy society, people who build civilization are revered, and people who cause social harm are despised. And there is a hierarchy that runs in the opposite order, with respect and resources going to those who serve civilization. This creates a natural opportunity for power-hungry subversives. They can recruit each layer of this hierarchy by exploiting their resentment against those above them. All they must do is frame their merit-based status as unearned "privilege". White women were recruited to leftism by stoking their resentment of White men, and promising elevation above them. What the White women were not told is that they would be placed beneath everyone else. Often literally. Black people were recruited by exploiting their resentment of Whites... but they weren't told that every benefit they received would eventually be taken away and given to third world immigrants. Homosexuals were promised elevation above the "breeders" (because children are needed for civilization, and sodomy is not), but no one told them that the trannies would rule over them. And no one told the trannies that Muslim community would be allowed to segregate and oppress them far more brutally than the most ardent of White bigots. The most brutal irony of all is that all of these groups who are recruited to fight for leftism end up far more brutally oppressed that they ever were by mainstream prosocial White society. Because natural civilizational hierarchies are based on contribution. There's a certain amount of prejudice which exists because people can reason inductively, but if you are a mixed race lesbian engineer who can actually who build useful shit, then it's at least possible for people to eventually overcome their surprise, and break you off a nice house in the suburbs and some forbearance wherein people don't really talk about the real relationship between you and your "roommate". Under leftism inverted hierarchies, you have no such chance. Sure, during the transitional phase you'll be elevated for being a mixed-race lesbian, regardless of whether you can do anything useful or not. But then, the Muslims will be allowed to throw you off a roof when it's time to pander to them, in turn. This White (or White-passing) woman probably voted straight democrat and cheered for "MeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeToo", to avenge her resentment against White men in general. She probably never dreamed that she would, in turn, not only be thrown under the bus, but that she would be targeted by the precise same weapons her sisters were given to unseat White men with. And @jk_rowling found out in vivid, larger-than-life detail what happens to White feminists when the left has a new darling to cater to, who can be used to unravel some still-intact piece of civilization. You see, by the early 21st century, the left had no more use for White feminists, because everything the left wanted to use them to destroy was already destroyed. Women were already spending their twenties and thirties on cubicle jobs and abortions, instead of marriages and children. The workforce was already doubled, and the price of labor had already crashed. Fertility rates were already dropping, and people were already marrying late, or never. It was time to recruit a new wrecking ball, to turn against some other corner of the edifice of order, and the price of that was easy to pay... just confiscate everything you once gave them, and give it to the trannies instead. The actual bodies of the White feminists (as well as all other women, and their daughters), could be used again, sold out to third world men who want to rape them, all by simply turning a blind eye. And the best perk of all of this is that they'll still vote for you. Because reversing course requires admitting a mistake.

@theaceofspaeder @BillShaikin Usually by scoring fewer runs than the opposition. USUALLY.

@BillShaikin Wait… how did that happen?

The Angels have 19 losses. No major league team has more.

@toylan20 All of these pictures - every one - show one body type and declare it's all possible. Let's see the ectomorph getting "ripped" in his 40s (or 50s or 60s) before making claims.

Can a man who was never "ripped" before get ripped if he dedicated himself to the gym in his late 40s?

@esrtweet @joemichels I definitely wasn't taught it; I definitely use it to at least four digits. "342 + 719 is a thousand plus 50 plus 11... 1,061".

To the best of my knowledge, nobody teaches this technique. People who are good at mental arithmetic tend to be people who have independently invented a whole gallery of tricks like this. Only when we have conversations like this one does it come out that we're all using pretty much the same set of tricks.

I was never taught that and never thought of it. That's why I'm not all the good at math. Not all minds should be feed the standard way of learning anything. Home schooling should solve this.

@SplexyWho Oh I knew you knew what tajin is. You're a cultured woman, despite your awful views on fresh mangos and unripe bananas. I just thought maybe you had some followers who didn't know what tajin is. 😂

@pcg I'm offended you thought I wouldn't know what tajin is. I put tajin on everything. EVERYTHING. And I actually do like dried mango, and dried mango in chile powder as well. It's just fresh mango i'm not too keen on

Mangos can GTFO actually. This wasn't even hard

@SplexyWho They ARE certainly opinions! We would eat wild mangos growing in Vallarta with tajin (spicy salt) & they were divine. Mango in salads are WAY better than any other fruit. Dried mango in chile are a great road trip snack. Meanwhile green bananas are like chewing on the leaves.

@pcg These are all elite opinions SIR!!! Mangos are too sweet. Don’t like them. They’re slimy and just too much of whatever they are. Nothing is better than a juicy watermelon. And underripe bananas are the perfect sweetness and texture. How dare.

@jarvis_best Oh man, I've tried and tried to read those. I devoured No Country, The Road, Blood Meridian, etc. I couldn't get any inertia here. 😩

As long as folks are talking about Cormac McCarthy let me tell you this is a top 2-3 all time novel for me.

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@wil_da_beast630 Living is always - ALWAYS - better than dying, no matter how long. This is true for the individual, and it’s true for the species. God bless Charlie and his parents that clung to the hope that God will make all things new.

Lived for how long? This fetus was kept alive for seven months to suffer for two hours after birth? Purely from an optics standpoint, I encourage pro-lifers to focus on stories like this that have a HAPPY ending - I keep expecting the kid to live and grow up, not agonizingly wheeze to death in exactly the fire-air the doctor warned about.

@scttfrnks @jmasseypoet The best Ethiopian food I’ve ever had was in Brussels. I’ve been looking for a good Ethiopian place since, but then I’m definitely a sucker for Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, etc. Fine with South African (mostly for the weird game), but don’t care for much else from the continent.

@jmasseypoet 😅 I had it once in Amsterdam. I enjoyed the food well enough and the presentation and communal eating of it was interesting, but it wasn’t something that I decided I’d need again.

I’d like to apologize to everyone I offended with my now-deleted tweet about Ethiopian food. It was inexcusable of me to refer to the dish it’s served in as a hubcap, among other insensitive barbs. I have never eaten Ethiopian. If I ever try it, I will offer an informed opinion.

@politicalmath I hate Magnolia.

I watched Magnolia in theaters twice and each time people walked out of it. I never understood why people hate it.

@jameszimmermann No Excuses isn’t even the best, most 90s song on Jar of Flies (that’s Nutshell), much less AiC’s best song (that’s Would?).

Here’s the 90s playlist so far. The barrier for entry is high – if my 16yo wants a longer 90s list Spotify has oodles of them, this playlist contains only certified bangers. It’s not enough just to be from the 90s, songs on this list have to capture the essence of the decade.

@EsotericCD Fantastic to see “John Lydon’s new band” (you know, Public Image Ltd.) on the hot tip list. He’d barely released Bollocks and they already had an eye on his next project.

This 1978 year-end UK music poll is everything to me. Nothing but pure feels for a year I wasn't even alive for.

@happy_at_home_ That’s an excellent way to put it.

@pcg I don’t disagree, but I do maintain the people saying Christ is King are more akin to the accusers at the cross. They’re taking a true statement & using it in vain.

‘Christ is King’ is a common phrase lately. I don’t think it sends the message people think. When Jesus is called ‘king’ in scripture, it’s a mocking accusation as He’s on the cross. It’s much harder to say Christ is Lord, because that’s an individual oath for *my* life.

@happy_at_home_ I also think there was a shift in His self-portrayal after the resurrection. He had defeated death, His body was glorified, and He openly allowed His disciples to worship Him. He was once a King who took the form of a servant; He is still a servant who is glorified as King.

@happy_at_home_ I wasn’t referring to Revelation, but to Paul’s first letter to Timothy (1 Tim 6:15). You’re right, of course, that He came to serve and not to be served, and that there are bad actors out there (now, as then). But that doesn’t take away the fact that He IS King, right now.