WakeandBake
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Lol rednecks are funny sometimes
It hurts them when they are talked to like grown ups. They need to be told what they want to hear at all times.
Like "hope and change" and "if you like your doctor...", amirite?
I was thinking more like "federal dollars to train obsolete skill sets for jobs of the future" and "single-payer removes unnecessary financial burden from the poor and middle class" and "pollution is making you sick we need to regulate that shit" and "it's not religious freedom to deny services and access to gay people" and "supply side is a long con perpetuated by the ownership class to siphon wealth upward" and "gun regs save lives is backed by solid data" among other truths you people don't like to hear.
Yeah. I don’t think Nike has any US athletes in their 20s on par with what Tiger, Lebron, and Serena were at that stage. Embracing activism helps with the 18-25 market.
no one has any athletes to compare with the three of the GOAT athletes of their respective games
In truth, the argument about who gets to rule is never over, particularly in an era when people have rejected aristocracy, and no longer believe that leadership is inherited at birth or that the ruling class is endorsed by God. Some of us, in Europe and North America, have settled on the idea that various forms of democratic and economic competition are the fairest alternative to inherited or ordained power.
But we should not have been surprised—I should not have been surprised—when the principles of meritocracy and competition were challenged. Democracy and free markets can produce unsatisfying outcomes, after all, especially when badly regulated, or when nobody trusts the regulators, or when people are entering the contest from very different starting points. Sooner or later, the losers of the competition were always going to challenge the value of the competition itself.
More to the point, the principles of competition, even when they encourage talent and create upward mobility, don’t necessarily answer deeper questions about national identity, or satisfy the human desire to belong to a moral community. The authoritarian state, or even the semi-authoritarian state—the one-party state, the illiberal state—offers that promise: that the nation will be ruled by the best people, the deserving people, the members of the party, the believers in the Medium-Size Lie. It may be that democracy has to be bent or business corrupted or court systems wrecked in order to achieve that state. But if you believe that you are one of those deserving people, you will do it.
Thomas is promoting diversity, so why did they put the white caps on him? The caps should be on the NRA.
Pretty sure that article could have been titled "The Ballad of SailorDeac".This is a long read, but worthwhile. It describes the decline of democracy and rise of autocracy and single-party states in Poland and Hungary. There are many similarities and shared dynamics between what happened in those countries and what is happening right now in America. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/
I was thinking more like "federal dollars to train obsolete skill sets for jobs of the future" and "single-payer removes unnecessary financial burden from the poor and middle class" and "pollution is making you sick we need to regulate that shit" and "it's not religious freedom to deny services and access to gay people" and "supply side is a long con perpetuated by the ownership class to siphon wealth upward" and "gun regs save lives is backed by solid data" among other truths you people don't like to hear.