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ahoy matey. I will tag @Logic he is grateful Dead fan. I think he would like this thread 🙂 I saw them once upon Tempe AZ circa 1980 , or maybe 1981 I'd have to Google

He just likes that it looks like he has a stick up his butt when he runs.

As a campaign volunteer for Zohran (a “Ma’am-dani,” if you will…hurray for early-morning neologism!!), I can say with 100% certainty that he’s not intending to seize the means of production from private NYC businesses. Adding one public grocery store in each borough doesn’t qualify as “seizing the means of production” LOL… One of his main campaign policies, in fact, is to trim excessive regulations and red tape that prevent small businesses from competing with large ones. This is a policy I’d think right-wing populists could support?? Even if Zohran were to perform a complete post-campaign heel turn, he’d still have to contend with the entirety of the state’s Democratic Party establishment that is deeply committed to neoliberalism. One of Zohran’s biggest expected challenges will be getting Hochul and her crony capitalist acolytes in Albany to agree to Zohran’s absurdly modest tax hikes on the NYC rich. Consider this post a “FWIW” rebuttal, BTW. TBH, I couldn’t care less what you guys think about Zohran’s campaign. I’m confident we’re going to hit the majority vote threshold in November, regardless of y’all’s online Boomerish histrionics. You brought up Venezuela, which is in no way an indictment of democratic socialism. The issues that have plagued their government since 1998 are not characteristic of any particular economic system: a macroeconomy insanely dependent on one commodity (oil), deeply entrenched corruption, a reckless monetary policy, reckless fiscal policies, and sustained Western imperialist sanctions. The Chavez/Maduro price control measures have more to do with dirigisme and stupidity than anything market socialists or economically literate DSA members would ever support. You also brought up Trump’s tariffs. Yes, I generally do support targeted tariffs meant to boost domestic manufacturing. No, I don’t support the particular tariff mess that this populist charlatan is implementing. Where are the accompanying collective bargaining laws or Keynesian stimulus packages to help make the return of good-paying manufacturing jobs a timely reality?? Spoiler alert: these jobs aren’t coming back under Trump. His tariff wars have been a giant buy-low, sell-high scheme for his corporate cronies. I blame neoliberalism because decades of macroeconomics research papers point to neoliberalism as the culprit for urban unaffordability. It has absolutely nothing to do with my perceived political tribalism. The economics research literature has been unambiguous in its revelation that we have been mired on the left side of Laffer’s curve all this time. How deep into the academic weeds are you willing to go on a pro football message board?? Look again at the nine cost-of-living factors I brought up in my previous post. By far the most consequential factor is wage growth, as a function of inflation and worker productivity. The next biggest factor has got to be health care costs, the leading cause of family bankruptcy in America. In what ways have progressive policies negatively impacted these two factors?! The issues of urban affordability and food deserts, here in NYC and elsewhere in America, predate and extend well beyond the era of COVID lockdowns and BLM riots. Once again, I’ll just reiterate here that I formulate economic opinions from economic data and not from political axioms. Also, I take umbrage with the notion that “free money” and “closing down businesses” were distinctly progressive policies at that time. It was conventional economic wisdom to provide financial stimulus so to prevent a far more dangerous DEFLATIONARY cycle, as a result of the collapse in consumer demand. It was conventional epidemiological wisdom to shut down NYC, in the face of an emergent pandemic, because NYC is a major transmission nexus and one of the most densely populated places in the world. You’re asking me to consider the employer side of the employer-employee relationship. I do, on occasion, when the situation warrants it. Those situations in this era of neoliberalism, however, are few and far between. I can’t help but laugh at the capitalists whining about their own incompetence navigating paid family/medical leaves in the year 2025… Your last paragraph is interesting to me because I actually find the strength of Zohran’s platform to be proposing simple things that have been done before, elsewhere across the world, with proven levels of success. But if novel and ambitious ideas are what you seek from the far left, contact your local DSA and tell them to advocate for market socialism: have some goods and services nationalized and government-run, but have most others commodified by worker cooperatives. We can start small and expand with time. Extant private businesses, in their traditional form, can be grandfathered into the new economy so that no “seizure” of the means of production is necessary! Yay!

Three wins in a row and the Blue Jays finally lost a game. Hopefully their mid-season slump is over, and they can get back in first place in the division. Let's Go Yanks!

This case is definitive proof that the Dems must control the narrative for the stupid, because without it they will lose every election. No one cares that Kimmel made the same joke because everyone knows he is a known liar and no one with any intelligence listens to him at all, but a random tweet caused people not to vote.

7/9/95 was the last concert Jerry performed with the Dead. He died exactly one month later on 8/9/95.

Maybe he’s born with it…

BUMPING this to archive joy division no love lost Ditto Blackfoot train train I used to own this on vinyl

I'm seeing lots of posts on social media from multiple sources describing what a miserable guy he's been at his various events, appearances, summer camps for kids, etc. Anyone else have a similar experience? Here are a few samples that came up in my feed: My son attended his camp in Albany on Monday. He showed up late and appeared completely miserable. My kid come off the field and said cook was acting like he didnt even want to be there. Everyone has bad days and things happen but to act like that at a camp for kids who look up to you A reply to the above said; We attended one the next day in Buffalo same kind of thing. Acting like he just woke up barely any interaction with the kids. My son said he was rude. He told kids to “stop asking questions” and “just look at the camera and take the picture” not impressed what so ever..I’ve heard nothing but awful things by many it’s unfortunate And another: We didn’t sign up this year because last years it was a one and done type thing. He was late and miserable there too… didn’t sign anything else for anyone unless you paid extra for the on field access…

I've brought it up before and nobody has an answer. I think it is an admin account, either of Simon or SDS side login.

Definitely enjoyed Timothy Olyphant’s portrayal as the “Shooter McGavin” of the series … definitely not Ted Lasso but certainly enjoyable light summer viewing fare

Dictator protection program. That's gold Jerry, gold I tell Ya!

Every morning there's a halo hangin' From the corner of my girlfriend's four-post bed I know it's not mine, but I'll see if I can use it For the weekend or a one-night stand

Did you say WILL LEVIS??? 😂😂

You wrote much more than me and come to same point, our RB corp is top 8, our TEs are above average, and our WRs I think are better than NE, CLE, CAR, LV, TEN, ranking them 28 overall is crazy.

This is really old news Kind of like... The Patriots are Cheaters Or Tua has a problem with concussions

Some of the calls here I don't necessarily disagree with, like the roughing the passer penalties against Mahomes. Also, with a full season to work with, you could persuasively cherry pick evidence of bias helping or hurting any team; unconscious bias is inevitable. Finally, anomalies do happen; getting pocket aced three times in a row doesn't necessarily mean the dealer is cheating. But I don't see why all this can be true AND that it's also true the refs are deliberately influencing some Chiefs game. In fact, it might be naïve to think otherwise, given the truly enormous amount of money at stake and how easy it would be to pull off. Bottom line (to me): With normal levels of ref bias, the Chiefs would have won maybe 12 games last year, would not have hosted the AFCC, and would not have gone to the Super Bowl. I'm not claiming there's a league-wide conspiracy, but I'm pretty sure someone has been putting a finger on the scale these past few years to make sure the Chiefs succeed. Why they would want a petulant, mincing whiner like Mahomes to be the poster child for the league is another question.

My perspective is that the officials are in general old men who see what they expect to see, they are not corrupt but simply incompetent. None will give up the job though because they love the pay and the spotlight

Chiefs have an elite coaching staff and the most clutch QB in football. They don’t need the refs’ help. They get it … but that’s likely more because of gambling than anything else.

The instant Josh throws the ball, Kincaid has to jam on the brakes, turn around and dive backwards. He's running a deep post and the ball is thrown behind him and closer to the LOS, so he has to make a complicated adjustment, getting his feet further down the field and towards the sidelines than his body weight so he can drive and jump back towards the ball. That's always going to take time for a guy whose job on the play is to be running as fast as he can. You can see him speed up his feet and swing to the left while trying to slow his upper body down. It's an extremely awkward situation, more so for a guy with bad knees. No way he's settling under it, not in that situation. And he doesn't run anywhere near 15 - 20 yards. Maybe 12 or so? Maybe. He's in a horrible situation because his legs are behind him as he sprints and he has to get them in front of him and upfield to dive back towards the ball. Go look at the All-22. You don't have to guess as you do on the broadcast footage. You can see every step. You're right that it was not a laser throw, not at all, but he didn't have an extra instant to work with. There was no way to settle under it. He sees it, knows he will have to go from running full speed to going backwards and back downfield. It takes him several steps to do that, as it would anyone. If Josh had either thrown better under duress or had maybe two-tenths of a second more to gather himself, that's a TD running away.

Floods happen. Only a scumbag like yourself would make it political.

Taylor Swift. Case closed.

I don't even have to read comments on that Twitter post to know it's littered with now do turnovers or doesn't mean anything without a championship

Not a surprise, but thanks 619er for the post. By far, my all time favorite Bills or any QB in history. I’d take him over Mahomes any day of the week and twice in Sundays.