Thornbill9

Jungle primaries are a tactical disaster that are easy to ratf*ck simply by splitting ideological lanes allowing an unpopular candidate to sneak through unlike the efficiency of RCV in generating consensus. Presumably this is just sour grapes that a leftist won

Sorry for your loss!!! I can’t imagine how painful that must have been to experience. 🙏

Nonetheless I still don’t think that the experience of normal middle class healthcare reflects that of presidential level care and the screening tools they have at their disposal

Well well well. Everyone knows bone metastases are not a typical progression even for aggressive cancer between screens for a man receiving presidential level care. And now we have independent testimony to that effect

This is a reasonable likelihood of being true, however WH staffers and top congressional dems lost the benefit of the doubt on transparency vs omerta to their party boss when they covered up his clear cognitive decline

Also the precedent of RBG with pancreatic cancer

Political staffers should be motivated by the public interest not self interest (150-200k is more than enough to live on). The real problem is consultants making millions at our expense. Their wealth should be expropriated

I’d respect pacifists and pro life types a lot more if they applied their philosophy consistently across ingroups and outgroups. Notably we got to see many similar voices celebrate the acquittal of the chokehold murder of such a man in real time. It’s all selective morality

Damn was watching Madrid hand us back the lead in la liga….missed a great match from the sound of it. Crack slipping open for Arsenal

Pedri deeper in the double pivot stabilizes things a lot too. Doesn’t help that so many of our bench wingers are having such terrible seasons. Also none of our midfielders are versatile (pace wise) to provide width if needed

Salah and Mbappe going band for band

Might be out in the play in round! But we could also still fall out in the league if we can’t string together results without lamine

What on earth is wrong with Mbappe? How could he be this washed even as a penalty taker at only 25

Liverpool press came out with a vengeance in the second half and tibo finally couldn’t bail them out. Madrid getting run over

“How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, solar storm, unstoppable virus, or malicious computer hack that takes everything down. This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from raiders as well as angry mobs. One had already secured a dozen Navy Seals to make their way to his compound if he gave them the right cue. But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust I tried to reason with them. I made pro-social arguments for partnership and solidarity as the best approaches to our collective, long-term challenges. The way to get your guards to exhibit loyalty in the future was to treat them like friends right now, I explained. Don’t just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships. They rolled their eyes at what must have sounded to them like hippy philosophy.

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Wow gray takes the lead in ca13, could be the 215th seat for Dems. Would be a very slim majority if it holds

Mazraoui (admittedly too early to be sure) and Onana have done well IMO

Can’t imagine arteta watching him and still fancying him but stranger things have happened I suppose. What a downfall every single member of that Ajax side have had

Maybe psg? Doubt we’re getting much for him, we probably will need to cover some of his wages just to get him out the door

Sad that ten hag isn’t still at united for one last dance

Fdj 87th minute 💀

Agreed. Hopefully Oduro can be ready for first team by next season but that might be asking too much

Finally! Olmo. Now we see if flick can get his subs right from the weekend

Not sure what fort is missing for him not to be ahead in flick’s depth chart

That was much better combination play out wide for kounde but Olmo continuing team’s struggle with ball striking

Ferran isn’t fit and Ansu is sadly finished so not like he has other options

Hasn’t been near the same clinical finisher since returning from injury

After the recent drop in form that’s an ideal start

He posed as a Warren democrat when that was trendy

People were arrogant and ignorant about what kind of player Jokic, like Steph before him, were because they thought large wings with inferior playmaking skills and offensive gravity were the pinnacle of basketball

Yes i agree with that! My biggest recommendation was for leftlibs/dems to build out their independent media operations/platforms rather than relying on pleading to a compromised, degraded msm and letting right wingers flood the zone

My issue with dem messaging is it always has either been smug/celebratory. Instead of channeling working class anger towards exploitation (making them feel like they were prioritized ahead of social issues), top surrogates were business leaders like Cuban. It was incoherent