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@PurpleKoolaid70 @DomClare I think the wolves are perfect for MN now. Blew up a young team starting to gel + future for Gobert, sucked, reached the conf finals, so dumped KAT Now we are a solid playoff team with the lottery ticket chance of a title (ANT goes MJ) and are basically in no mans land otherwise
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PurplePeopleEater@PurpleKoolaid70·
@veha44 @DomClare Lot of fans think Vikes are still SB contenders which is ridiculous. They’ve missed 4 yrs worth of draft picks and still have same scouts in this draft. It’s an old team with little depth that may be average but never win in the playoffs
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@PurpleKoolaid70 @DomClare Give us Todd bowman! That max brosmer played pretty good in garbage time of that preseason game, we can probably ride him to the Super Bowl!
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@PurpleKoolaid70 @DomClare The fans demand mediocrity and a lottery ticket shot to maybe win big. I am one. Give Minnesota fans, gophers football results and they are fine. Don’t you dare take some lumps to build something long term. Give us a year of Favre or Cunningham! Ponder sucked, so never again!
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PurplePeopleEater@PurpleKoolaid70·
@veha44 @DomClare Fans have nothing to do with how the team performs. Ownership has and continues to make bad decisions like not having a GM going into this draft. Rob should NEVER be considered for a job that requires talent evaluator skills. He’s great at the finance side
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@DutchRojas Yes? A bond is a loan. If you don’t repay your current loans, you will not receive new loans. So, if you pay pensioners, you fuck every other part of the state until you show you are trustworthy enough to receive new loans, because that’s how things work.
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Dutch Rojas@DutchRojas·
A generation of state employees was told: take the lower salary, get the pension forever. The 58 year old who made $50,000 a year for 30 years made a rational bet. That bet is going to get haircut. Detroit already showed us the playbook. Bondholders got protected. Pensioners didn’t.
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veha@veha44·
@blightersort Something I noticed back when Obama was president was that if you simply inserted vengeance in the places the left used “equity” or “justice” everything made much more sense.
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blighter@blightersort·
interesting short thread but one problem with this framing is that many public health institutions were *not* centering "saving lives" but rather "health equity" and the like. they explicitly promulgated racialist vaccine guidelines that their own analyses showed would cost more lives but they thought that was good to promote "equity" and, I guess, compensate for racism in the past or something. and then, even worse in my opinion, the only criticism anyone leveled at these policies was that they would still cost more Black lives. IOW even the criticism of the racialist policy that was intended to cost more lives overall in the name of "fairness" was itself racialist. if instead these "equity" policies had been projected to save fewer Black lives at the cost of dramatically more white lives, no one would apparently have had grounds to object. that is quite obviously not "centering saving lives" that is centering racialist grievance and percieved vengence as public health policy and is utterly disgusting.
Adam Gaffney@awgaffney

... spread through air, which meant that efforts to contain it were going to be painful and hard because people want and need to be around people. That's not a defense of every policy, but a call for recognition that no response that centered saving lives could ever be popular.

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@RedTailTabby @eigenrobot I feel like “everyone else was wrong this entire time.” Isn’t a great foundation, but I guess we shall see. Either way, I don’t see why the right isn’t putting for an amendment too.
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Red Tail Tabby@RedTailTabby·
@veha44 @eigenrobot The Trump administration's position here is that the executive branch has been misinterpreting the law (in particular, what "subject to the jurisdiction" means) for decades and that the EO is just to make the executive branch start following the correct interpretation of the law.
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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·
oral arguments for trump v barbara (birthright citizenship case) happening wednesday expect an administration L here per GPT, esq but anything could happen i suppose
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@Noahpinion Actively inciting riots across the nation that targeted and destroyed property in poorer neighborhoods because it made for good campaign fundraising is 1000x more evil than enforcing immigration laws even if it appears mean at times.
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@Oilfield_Rando I would choose the chicken place and then I would move, because I could, because I would not be someone else’s property.
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@bumbadum14 @christopherrufo It’s totally fine to say something is unacceptably bad and must stop without it being the worst thing to ever happen ever, ever.
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bumbadum@bumbadum14·
But to answer your question, even though your dodging the discussion here, yes I think the oppression of white men in contemporary America is worse than what black slaves went through in America. I would argue that the fact black slaves had a lower suicide rate than white men today largely speaks to this. Clearly the institutional pressure against Whites is more destructive on them than slavery was for blacks.
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@avidseries I like trees and cut de sacs! I think you are an intelligent person with lots of useful insights. And I find calling other people selfish for not doing your preference to be funny.
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@avidseries “Developers are unbelievably self centered and greedy for not building to meet my preferred aesthetics!”
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@ShamashAran I bought an extended warranty for my f150 thru granger ford for $50 above cost. I paid $1750 and have full coverage til 100k miles. Ford has calculated that it’s on average, less than $1700 of repair costs up to 100k miles for my truck.
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@orthonormalist So true! Its truly unfair that the country that has rockets launched daily at it built a defense system to protect against against it, while the countries who didn’t need it never built one!
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@blightersort @asymmetricinfo I really worry that this is a bridge that is just too monstrous to uncross. Poorly thought argument like this will be “thought provoking” because anything else risks exposing the horrors done by the people who claim the loudest they care.
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blighter@blightersort·
@asymmetricinfo this was not an interesting argument or piece and i am now mildly miffed you tricked me into reading that garbage piece written by a child about something she self-admittedly does not care about
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Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·
This is an interesting argument from The Argument that the intensity of travel sports explains a lot of the backlash to trans female participation in women’s sports. Probably it’s a factor but having reported on it I think other factors were much more important.
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veha@veha44·
@BFW MN hockey fans won’t like it, but the Wolves are bigger than the wild. Wild probably have more dedicated fanbase. But it would mean more to have a wolves championship parade than a wild one.
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Brandon Walker@BFW·
I need examples of a US city with at least three pro sports teams where the NHL team is top two in fandom in the city. Boys here said Detroit, DC and Tampa. I think I’ll give them DC and Tampa, but contest Detroit. Some guys said Minnesota, I think Twins are bigger than Wild.
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Rob 🤖🚀@robots445·
@Unpaid1ntern I mean, people have put an 1800HP Merlin engine from a Spitfire into a car. It's not like he said a million billion.
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veha@veha44·
@Leo_Abstract @L0m3z He was totally a lefty. But since he didn’t identify with it, he could see it and critique it. Now he is exactly what he said was awful and can’t recognize it.
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Leo Abstract@Leo_Abstract·
@veha44 @L0m3z yes but also a friendly reminder that how a person identifies* doesn't actually matter in the real world. he was always a lib, he just was in denial about it. * fill in the usual jokes, heh
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