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Yeah--I don't understand what is so mysterious about the resiliency of the Russian economy. The Russian government is spending its reserves. No shit that is keeping the economy going. The question is: what happens when those reserves run out. Presumably, they'll start borrowing. Or maybe they'll just start printing rubles. But in either event, the economic consequences are going to be significant. I mean, for one thing, they're going to have a shockingly high cost of borrowing. Between the danger of western sanctions and the (significant) possibility of non-repayment, I can't imagine the interest rate lenders are going to demand.
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Rule 29.3. But don’t be surprised if the Third COA imposes its own injunction.
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Yeah--I don't think that's particularly predictive of an election 15 months out. But it does reflect that Sinema is incredibly unpopular with Democratic voters. She'd have gotten beat 2- or 3-to-1 in a primary against Gallego.
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Yep--we're fucked. Those are people moving from San Bernardino to Prosper because they think California has become a liberal shithole. Little do they appreciate that San Bernardino was always a shithole.
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That’s pretty ballsy when I have a gas pump in my hand and a lighter in my pocket.
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I love Top Gun and Maverick as much as anybody. And the F-35 appears to have turned out to be a very capable platform. I'm sure the aviators who fly those planes walk around with their chests puffed out like their shit smells of lilacs. So if the first ship sunk by the United States Navy in a generation is credited to a guy flying a goddamned 737, I'm going to laugh my ass off.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Ghost of LL replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
Fuck Obama. We lost more than 1,000 seats in state legislatures during his presidency because he actively undermined state parties and fundraising. And it's the gerrymandering that resulted from that negligence that causes us so much difficulty today. Republicans have supermajorities in legislatures in places like North Carolina and Wisconsin entirely because of Obama's failures. I mean, I guess. But making a national monument in the desert isn't really starting a "serious conversation" in my book. But I guess maybe points for trying. -
A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Ghost of LL replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah, there's a national monument in the desert. But if you asked 100 Americans what Manzanar is, how many do you think would answer correctly? Our leaders don't have spines and never have, because spines aren't rewarded at the ballot box. Fairy tales are what the people want, and that's what they're given. You think any Texan wants to hear about how the Rangers were basically a state-sponsored terrorist organization geared toward ethnic cleansing? Or Minnesotans want to hear about how Native Americans were basically genocided under the Nelson Act? Fuck no. And if you say those things in Texas or Minnesota, you're not going to get broad agreement that they're true. That's because such things have been consigned to the forgetting. -
We did New Orleans a few years ago and had a blast.
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Ghost of LL replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
Serious conversations about unpleasant things in our past is not something Americans do. For the really big things, we don't have serious conversations. We come up with myths. Like "slavery was contrary to America's founding principles and ideals" and "the Civil War was over states' rights." Those can be unpacked by academics. But in the popular imagination of America and a place and Americans as a people, those myths hold sway. But for the lesser unpleasantries, they go to a Land of Forgetting. Like, there was an entire anarchist terrorist campaign in the United States that killed a bunch of people between about 1890 and 1941. But we learn nothing about that in school. The closest we get is Sacco and Vanzetti, who were actually innocent. But there were actual anarchists who actually killed people (including a president). Trump is going to be consigned to the Land of Forgetting. There will be no truth and reconciliation. We don't do that. It's not our bag, baby. -
You're Top 3 in rep points solely as a result of your number of posts. On a per-post basis, . . . you aint looking so hot, friend.
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From the author's description of Prof. Snyder: "Snyder has been chided as a perma-pessimist; a leading figure in a western liberal intellectual elite so browbeaten in recent years, the critique runs, that it is now hopelessly addicted to catastrophising." Hey, @Brisketexan--I might say that you've been revealed, but then nobody would ever accuse you of being "a leading figure" any "intellectual elite."
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I also am old enough to remember that. And I would also observe that about half our wars start over a dispute over freedom of navigation--the Quasi War, the Barbary Wars, the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II (if you drill down far enough into our dispute with Japan). So that's a real good way to start a war with Russia. And I'm just not sure we're going to do that for the benefit of . . . checking notes . . . people in the developing world.
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Something you want to talk about, cowboy?
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I guess I don't share your sense of humor. Because they're two separate things. 1) People who work in fast food (or any other service industry) deserve a living wage. And by the way--that's the term you used: "living wage." So think about what you just said. You apparently think some people in our society don't deserve a living wage. That's gross. 2) Companies that put up a tip screen for positions that have not traditionally tipped suck. There are a number of reasons for that conclusion, including (a) suspicion that the "tips" don't actually make it to the workers, and (b) that could enable the employer to lower wages while not reducing prices. But it has nothing to do with any conclusion that the worker is making just too damned much money. Nobody thinks that. And you're an idiot.
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For the next two years, Colorado is one of the biggest stories in college football. So at least during their first year in the conference, they're a big draw. After that, it all depends on how the Deion Sanders experiment goes. If Coach Prime crashes and burns like so many of us expect, then Colorado will revert to its usual form. And in that event, you're right--they aren't an engine; they're a waterskier. And that's a problem for a conference that just lost its two biggest engines and has a whole bunch of skiers. So at least in the short- and medium-term, the success or failure of this move for the conference is entirely dependent on the success of Deion Sanders at Colorado. And I gotta tell you--that's not where I'd be putting my money.
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We weren't going to the Pac, bro. Their offer was never particularly competitive. They wanted a "merger" without an actual merger. Basically, they wanted to pawn off the Arizona schools on us so that we could play Championship to their Premier League. A discussion based on that was never going anywhere. We were a lot closer to going to the ACC. And we were never that close to going to the ACC.
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Aggy could actually get into the conference championship game in the Big XII (and did). But they're not sniffing that in the SEC. Aggy was the Big XII equivalent to Auburn in the SEC. They're decidedly below the top two in their division. But in the right set of circumstances, they'll make a run and get into the conference championship game. And that is a lot better than being Aggy in the SEC today. All evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Texas could've left the Big XII anytime it wanted. The notion that it needed a tittyflash from ESPN to do so is absurd. All Texas would've had to do is ask ESPN to take its top off, and Texas would've instantly been The fact is that Texas rejected offers from the ACC and Pac, and pointedly did not seek out offers from the SEC and B1G, over the past 20 years. Texas even took a pay cut to keep this conference together. The reason the Big XII exists today is due entirely to Texas. But sure--you keep up your little victimhood story in your mind if that makes you feel better.
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I gotta tell you--I really want to go to Georgia. Everything about that country looks really cool. You've got plenty of history; you the mountains and the beach are all right there; the food looks good. It all looks like a fun trip.
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There are some that made out like bandits with their change of conference. Utah and Maryland come to mind. And the King of the Bandits--Rutgers. That still boggles the mind how Rutgers stumblefucked its way from a dying conference into the B1G. Most made real upgrades from their previous situation without really changing their status in the grand scheme of things. Texas, USC, and Missouri all kind of fall into this bucket. Then there are those that make more money, but are broadly less competitive. They went from being competitive fish in a small pond to being chum in a the ocean. Aggy and Nebraska fall in this category. West Virginia, too. I mean, I'm sure aggy and Nebraska are happy about their moves. Their athletic departments are sure happy about the money. And their fans will claim until doomsday that they're happy being out of the Big XII and away from Big Bad Texas (well, so much for that, aggy). But if they were honest for a minute, wouldn't most of them admit that they prefer the days in the late-1990s when they were competing for conference championships and BCS Bowl bids? But then, beyond all of that, is Colorado. It's hard to imagine a set of conference moves that were thought to be upgrades working out worse for a school.
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All I heard is "Nancy Mace puts out."
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