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It was always obvious that Trump was covering for his billionaires-and-sycophants social circle rather than covering for himself. He thinks he's gonna live forever on the throne, or at least the rest of his life. Supreme Court said he's free to do anything so what's he got to worry about?

What brought this to mind? Something about them has always seemed weird tbh. Also how do you feel about rideshare apps and pizza delivery that predated the apps?

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

This really nails it. Mainstream media has two voices left: parroting enforcement authorities and lawyer-vetted non-committal squirming. If you're in the business of monetizing the first amendment and start avoiding it instead, what value are you providing?

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Today's real answer is "If you are lucky, you can have opportunity. Depending on your luck, working hard may help somewhat. Opportunities may have broadened over centuries, but no one really knows how to make it happen again. Change is hard, success brings comfort, and comfort discourages trying."

Sadly the world still doesn't have a good answer to "Who deserves opportunity?" For most of my life, the American answer had been "If you adopt our culture, you can have opportunity." That was an unsustainable lie, so it's not surprising to see it shift to "If you are white" - which is a lie too.

And yeah, the media really was and continues to be that complicit. The most astute bet the GOP has made (since at least GWB) is banking on the media to fold over and over. Push comes to shove, most journalists choose paychecks and health care. Not even surprising anymore.
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6. If you want to boycott something meaningful and directly connected, maybe start with the chickenshit corporate media that paved the way to this mess and is clearly systemically incapable of drawing a principled line. Or get off twitter and instagram (and bluesky too if it goes that direction).

5. Unless you have $1000 seats, the games are best watched on TV anyway, which is the only option for ~everyone on the planet. Why ruin that month for 3 billion people who had no vote and won't be here? Seems weird to sacrifice their joy to flail at an American problem in the most roundabout way.

3. The US signed up to host an event the world cares about, which is a real responsibility. Flipping the table doesn't do us any favors on the world stage.

4. Have you seen ticket prices? With unlimited resale, it's mostly 1%ers attending. Asking other countries to boycott won't empty the stadiums.

Seeing a lot of calls to boycott the World Cup, which seems misguided for a few reasons. (Just my 2c, could be wrong.)

1. Everyone hates FIFA but soccer belongs to the world too, and brings a lot of people a lot of joy.

2. "Quick, sacrifice something we love!" is a weird response to problems.

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And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

Honestly have no idea what conservatives in this country believe in anymore. Just abandoning principles day by day. Basically down to "We should prosper and they should not" - as poorly defined & shortsighted as that reads. Anyway abolishing ICE is the moderate position, and it'll only get clearer.

Also people on bluesky and twitter are gonna debate which one is the most dying every couple months until the heat death of the universe. Nothing decided on social media ever stays settled because the last go-around may as well not exist. That's by design.

Just seems like another defender of the uptrodden who realized how much money there is in that grift during a moment of cultural backlash. Or rather always, but especially. Anyway CBS News is fully donezo whether she stays or goes, another bought brand with no obligation to its old intent.

Neighbors are having a birthday party. On an unrelated note, how many hours of out of tune Radiohead / Beatles songs would it take for you to start wondering if your neighbors used to be a famous emo band? Asking for a friend who denies being me.

Interesting thread. Also doesn't help that a lot of people's greatest field of expertise is watching sports and they have a much weaker grasp of cooperation than competition. I like sports, but most do a pretty bad job of highlighting what skills & choices go into consistently great cooperation.

Evidently these other guys go to fancy events a lot more than me.

My closet has clothes for 3-4 different people and most of them don't really fit me.

Nice choice of streetlight color, i'm into it.

I have been trying to come up with a reason to buy a tri-corner hat. Can you help me?

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Any predictions that stand out as particularly unsubstantiated? Or any good/interesting ones?

I really think the Saints offense should play the Jets more often.

Still thinking about a guild mate saying they keep a jar of grass on their desk.

Gotta say, i enjoy that "guild of sweaty whales who need to touch grass" is a sequence of words that means something coherent.

I think you root for all coin flips landing on the edge repeatedly, followed by infinite overtime.
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Dodgers lead MLB with record $169M luxury tax The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax after winning their second straight World Series title.

Dodgers are the most luxurious but the Mets are the 2nd most luxurious so being v luxurious could mean anything? www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...