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  1. 39 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    this is a much more complete team. That team scored 14 goals all tournament. This team did that in just over 100 minutes of play.

    In the end both teams had questions. The 2015 team answered theirs. Can this iteration? 

    This team is much deeper but the 2015 arguably had a better starting 11.  I would take the entire 2015 back 5 over the 2019 back 5.  I would also take a younger Rapinoe and Heath over an older Rapinoe and Heath.  Lauren Holiday was a beast in 2015 and Carli Lloyd was the best player in the world.  Morgan was hurt in both tourneys.  Horan is an upgrade over Morgan Brian but that is the only clear improvement.

    We have scored 4 goals in 3 games since Thailand that weren't OGs or PKs.  

    The team could use an elite coach.  

  2. The emerging Euro powers are just passing the historically strong teams that are aging out of their golden generations (China is way past it while Japan, Brazil and Canada are in decline and Australia are treading water). 

    Germany, France and the U.S. still have the most depth as they have for the past decade.

  3. 26 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    This team is a well oiled machine. I need to make it a priority to watch every game from here on out because we might not see a women's team like this again for a long, long time. 

    Wait until you see the talent coming up through the ranks.  The girls development in the US is insane.  Every city in the country has an all-star team playing together from the age of 10 that practices as much as any girls around the world with just as good coaching and only play against other elite girls.  We are talking 1000s of girls in every age group.

  4. 3 hours ago, BradInATX said:
    13 hours ago, David Dennison said:
    Those loop holes do not exist. They are a figment of your imagination.

    Probably less imagination and more of an insular social media circle combined with a lack of intellectual curiosity.

    i.e, the Cloak Room

  5. The pool of women's teams is way too shallow. 

    Something fucked up happened in the Asian qualifying that led to Thailand making it instead of North Korea (which would have been competitive). Thailand made the Women's World Cup by beating Palestine, Taiwan, Jordan and the Philippines.

    The third CONCACAF bid should have gone to UEFA.  Jamaica is horrid.  The US and Canada had GDs of +24 and +23, respectively in their 4 CONCACAF qualifiers.  

  6. 8 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    Point these assholes out on here and wherever the hell you meet them at in your daily life. Trumpkins do not deserve to be able to have any kind of a break. The moment they reveal their brand of idiocy they need every last thing they have supported flung right back in their face with no ability to give any kind of a retort for their completely un-American behavior. 

     They have to be shamed. By supporting Dotard they have given up any moral high ground (Lol I know it never existed to begin with). They deserve to have a monkey fling shit at them around the clock for what they have done. Their time shitting on our country and the good still left that it stands for needs to come to an end. 

    Yes!!! I agree with you that we should put them all in concentration camps!!! 

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    2 hours ago, Captainant said:

    We're separating families and putting them into camps in the desert where we further neglect them medically and socially. It's not much of a stretch, and we're following the same trajectory as early nazi germany, at least in tactics used to demonize groups as "other" and thus inferior. If you'd like I'd be happy to list some examples for you

    Exactly.  How soon we forget the Jews voluntarily walking hundreds of miles to Poland for work during WW2.

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  8. The reaction of municipalities to the decision is what matters.  They generally have instructed LEOs to not enforce panhandling ordinances (even ordinances designed to comply with the SC ruling) so they don't have to deal with legal challenges funded by homeless advocates.

  9. In recent years, the federal courts have significantly limited the ability of law enforcement to address homelessness.  The Supreme Court has ruled that panhandling is protected by the First Amendment. The 9th Circuit issued a decision last year holding that laws prohibiting "public camping" constitute cruel and unusual punishment if there is insufficient shelter space in the area.  These decisions combined with a lack of prosecution of non-violent drug offenses have basically converted every large western U.S. city into Hamsterdam.  It's probably too late for Austin to do anything because the city will never get in front of the shelter limitations.  The Austin homeless population will continue to increase significantly unless/until the opiate crisis abates and politicians and judges prioritize the reduction of homeless populations.  You think it is bad now, wait five years after the next recession hits and politicians and judges continue to make the problem worse.  The SF human feces app will need an Austin extension sooner than later.

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