The Political Middle

@FrankEra_ Sorry you hate standards from players that won everything.

Class of 92’ really are unlikeable apart from David Beckham. I respect him so highly.

@USMNTBaldEagle MLS does have the most work to do. The prem and la liga have very little work do to. Most watch those

The average american is so oblivious to the world of soccer. This sport truly doesn't even cross their minds, it's pretty saddening. I was talking to an older guy recently and he was holding a World Cup branded Michelob, so I made a light-hearted joke asking if he was excited for it. He goes "oh have you been watching any of those games" thinking the world cup was already underway. Don't even get me started on trying to explain to people how a USMNT player can play in the MLS, EPL, etc. but also represent the USA in the world cup. Apparently this is too complex for their brains. TLDR: The USMNT has so much work to do to win over the average american

So uh are the mariners good when they want to be?

You committed welfare fraud, stole money from the state of Mississippi, lied about it, and also sent dick pics, publicly to cheerleaders when you played for the Jets. You’re a fucking shithead. Nobody should be like Brett Favre or someone he endorses.

@MarinerMenace Let’s not forget the game where the mariners were up 3-0 on the A’s at home and lost

The Mariners are four games below .500. They were these four specific games 👇 1) Jo Adell game 2) Muñoz meltdown in SD 3) Piggyback nightmare 4) Defense debacle in KC These are games we should have won. If we had we’d be 4 games above .500 and in first place.

@CoreyClayton @LDSCultureNerd @k1rallik I too work in media. You’re wrong.

@LDSCultureNerd @k1rallik I work in media. It’s correct. If Late Show producers made it, it’s CBS’

🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert.. 24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi. Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks: - The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years - Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set - The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one - Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.

@HawkEmDownChris Bobby “why tf did the mariners put him in” Ayala

Age yourself by naming an MLB closer you grew up watching. I’ll start: Trevor Hoffman.

@HonestBravesFan Piggybacking on this, also can’t name a single accomplishment the mariners have had ever

genuinely cant name a single accomplishment the yankees have had this decade

🚨 BREAKING! Meteus Fernandes’ transfer fee could drop to around €55m now they are relegated!

What an absolute Embarrassment, besides Colt and Julio nobody was even trying today, Dan Wilson is the worst Manager in Baseball and it's not close, Scott had his flaws, but he was never this bad. Fire Dan Wilson and get your shit together, too much talent to be this Garbage

JP can’t hit, can’t run, and can’t throw. Why is he even on the team?

@CJGRISHAM Same reason anything is the way it is today: lobbyists

Then why do we charge for double homicide when a pregnant woman is killed?

With all the talk about the players liking Dan Wilson you’d think they’d try to save his job

JP Crawford is now below batting 200 and has a -6 Runs saved for defense.....why do fans love him again?

This team is an absolute mess defensively

The mariners can’t even do the fundamentals right. This is absolutely depressing from an absolute poverty franchise

Such a poverty franchise

Until further notice, I’ve really reached an emotional detachment from the 2026 Seattle Mariners. Those three runs, and that DP to not score one in the next frame, garnered nothing but a chuckle out of me. No cursing, so screaming, no nothing. It’s all expected. Just a chuckle, because that’s all the 2026 Seattle Mariners deserve.

A genocide is happening in Gaza, they tell us. Then scroll your feed: Comma Cafee, just opened in Gaza City. Espresso machines, plated desserts, dim lighting. Vanilla Café. Upscale, glass facade. Nova Restaurant in Khan Younis: sleek wood interior, beachfront seating. Named, apparently without irony, after the music festival where 364 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7. O2 Restaurant. pizza, ice cream, milkshakes, TikTok food porn. Open-air markets in Gaza City with apples, avocados, oranges, bananas. Supermarkets stocked for Ramadan with imported goods. A "Gaza Coffee" brand selling 100% Arabica premium beans, taking online orders, with five-star reviews dated this year. Even Al Jazeera's writer concedes the cafes "were built with expensive materials, carefully painted, furnished with tables, sofas, and elegant chairs, with glass facades and shining lights." Now hold that next to actual genocide. Rwanda, 1994. 800,000 Tutsi murdered in 100 days. ~8,000 per day. Hutu radio read names of neighbors to be hacked apart by morning. No one opened a café. Cambodia, 1975–79. Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh at gunpoint in 72 hours. Currency abolished. Markets abolished. Eyeglasses got you killed. Two million dead. The Holocaust. Warsaw Ghetto: 92,000 dead of starvation and disease before the deportations even began. Auschwitz processed 6,000 people a day into smoke. There were no glass-facade espresso bars in Łódź in 1943. Srebrenica, July 1995. 8,372 men and boys executed in days. No restaurants reopened. They were in mass graves. Armenia, 1915. Death marches into the Syrian desert. No imported avocados. The common thread of genocide is that the targeted population is not allowed to exist. Not in cafes, not in markets, not in their homes, not anywhere. The perpetrator's entire project is their absence. Gaza in 2026, by every honest description, is something else: a brutal war zone, partially destroyed, with a population suffering real hardship and simultaneously a place where new businesses open, beachfront restaurants serve customers, and a post war economy is being written about in business pages. Both things are true. That is what war looks like. Lebanon 2006. Mosul 2017. Mariupol 2022. Aleppo 2016. Civilians die and life adapts around the destruction. It is not what genocide looks like. So why the word? Because "genocide" is the most powerful word in the post-WWII moral vocabulary. It triggers automatic legal obligations, suspends normal debate, and short-circuits proportionality analysis. Apply it successfully and your adversary loses the right to defend itself before the argument even begins. That is exactly why it is being deployed by a side that started a war on October 7, took hostages, embedded itself in hospitals and schools, and now needs the West to force a ceasefire it could not win on the battlefield. It is asymmetric warfare with a thesaurus. The rockets failed. The tunnels failed. The word might not. Coffee in Gaza doesn't prove there is no suffering. It proves there is no genocide. Those are not the same claim and the people conflating them are counting on you not to notice.

@SeattleONTap Rick mirer

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