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if we got to a Taipei/Tokyo level of public order, everyone would be so much more pro-govt programs and social welfare, because you wouldn't constantly feel threatened walking around, on the subway, locking your bike, etc the cheapest and least discriminatory way to do that is security technology. it's an alternative to more cops on the street, and unfortunately in their cars breaking the law themselves

@jakewoolf No flap pocket?

What oxford shirts? Don’t overthink it. Repeat after me: J.Press classic fit Made in USA. Less than $200. Perfect loose fit.

@StefanskiRuined Why do you guys keep saying this? Our best prospects don’t play college soccer. Those guys aren’t the national team!

asked the USMNT to do anything like this and they called me socialist scum and said “trust in the college system”

@hecubian_devil Have you arrived at the permanent problem from first principles?

I get why so many liberals are fundamentally disdainful of democracy these days—it’s because liberalism is exhausted. It’s out of answers. Liberalism won, it delivered the world it promised, and people still aren’t content. They’re not satisfied. So the people must be wrong. We are unfathomably richer than our ancestors. Output per capita in America today is on the order of 900 times greater than before the invention of agriculture, about ~225 times higher than in 1 CE, and about the same (225 times) higher than Europe in 1000 CE. If measurable productivity were really the greatest object of human society, then we shouldn’t just be a little bit happier than people in the distant (or even recent!) past—we should be *ecstatic*. We should *already* be living in a utopian age of overwhelming contentment. We should be *currently* experiencing a kind of paradise. The Kingdom of Heaven, as liberalism conceives of it, has already been made real on Earth. We are living in their Eden, and 20% of people are depressed. We’ve stopped reproducing ourselves. We’re overwhelmingly dissatisfied with our governments, anxious about our economies, and pessimistic about the future. If you talk to rational liberals, you can usually get them to acknowledge the ways in which humans are wired not to appreciate absolute levels of wealth—the hedonic treadmill is a well-documented phenomenon. The evolutionary reasons why humans are wired to attend more closely to *relative* prosperity instead of absolute prosperity are obvious. They’ll usually admit this. And the conclusion, insanely, always comes back to something like “isn’t it unfortunate that people can’t appreciate how well-off they are? We’ve delivered well-being, people just don’t recognize it.” This is an obvious, ludicrous contradiction! Who determines the well-being of the people if not the people themselves?! I want to be clear; I’m not making an appeal to RETVRN. I don’t believe things were better in the poor old days. But that’s rather my point; delivering human contentment is not as simple as turning the dial up or down on the Output Machine. Meaning, security, and satisfaction are actually hard problems that demand specific and well-evidenced answers. Liberal elites’ disdain for everything that can’t be so simply measured and optimized is not evidence of their entitlement to rule over irrational masses, but instead proof of *their* irrational commitments to their ideological ends in denial of the reality of what drives human happiness. They purport to be rational, but this blinkered drive to Produce More is anything but.

@nikicaga You have no idea what you’re talking about. Soccer players can go pro whenever they want. CFB have to wait three years and it’s rare to be ready before then. In CBB it’s one year.

I love that the main American response is "well the college athletes make a ton of money so all is great"

@view_potential @MrBird06 @SashoTodorov1 You have no idea what you are talking about. CFB players have to wait three years, there are maybe 1-2 players a year who would be draft picks before that point and those guys are making millions at the college level. In CBB it’s one year. In soccer they can go pro whenever.

@MrBird06 @SashoTodorov1 Yep. The luxury is there to lure them in and offset the hundreds of millions of dollars of lost earnings by missing 4 years.

Dear God this is what it must be like for Euros experiencing quadriannual US soccer discourse. Just so insanely far from reality.

@MrBird06 @SashoTodorov1 Soccer is not included in this? The best soccer players in America are not playing college soccer. College sports for developing basketball/basketball/football is what American college sports excels at

@SashoTodorov1 College sports being luxurious, as you state, is the reason why these 4 years are wasted from the standpoint of developing elite soccer talent for professional leagues. Lamine Yamal is 18, he’s not going to waste any time at college, no he’s at FC Barcelona.

@umichvoter Jesus Christ don’t you spend all day on politics?

Stevens wants...to tax billionares?

@n1ghtkitten @Michael84780073 This only works if you believe that being a rapist doesn’t hurt you in a general election

@Michael84780073 that if someone believed electing Platner would help stop a genocide, they would likely stop at nothing to get him elected

just fyi, this is pretty much the exact position i would expect from people who genuinely desire to stop an ongoing genocide

@Tyre_94 How many of the starting XI played college soccer? If you’re actually good by 18 you don’t waste time in college so I don’t know how much this effected things

College soccer is why we suck

@HITCSevens Cry more

This makes a mockery of the whole tournament. If the USMNT win, Belgium will have every right to feel cheated, meanwhile the USA’s victory - by their best ever generation of players - will forever be tainted by accusations of favouritism and corruption. It’s bad for everyone.

TOO BIG TO RIG

@AdamsMorganNews Man we really need streateries

@xwanyex lmao

People so often accuse me of various motivations for the things I write that it’s really opened my eyes to the extent to which other people on here have explicit goals and motives beyond just shooting the shit because it’s fun to talk about ideas

@xwanyex Trivial outrage, something that never happens on the right

One of the things I find most distasteful about liberals in the Trump era is this fake outrage over irrelevant trivialities.

@ElyseBee Better than seeing NY celebrations in our town. Eebees was pouring champagne into people’s mouths last night

knicks won last night and i started seeing dc based accounts saying “WIZARDS FANS WE NEXT!” lmfao unserious town

@xwanyex Reaching deeper levels of pathetic

Soccer becoming popular in America is like my nightmare scenario for multiculturalism. I can’t believe I’m going to have to spend the back half of my life hearing so much about soccer.

I know Paraguay, homefield, etc. but that was literally the best half of World Cup soccer for the USMNT in 96 years.

@emmma_camp_ I guess if you cast a wide band for upper middle clsss but if you live in a nice Texas suburb you might live in a huge home and go to a huge public high school (Woodlands, Allen). It’s definitely less common to go a $20k high school than people who grow up on the coasts

@ImNotOwned Would be the most hated show on twitter