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Ghost of LL

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  1. 19 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, fuck ‘em. On the other hand, education is the only way out of fascism. Further eroding the quality of rural schools will only expand the ignorant mob. And it’s not like these dipshits will ever understand the consequences. Replacing secular curricula with religion, pseudoscience, and ahistorical, performative patriotism is exactly what they want. They’ll be blissfully ignorant.

    Theres not much schadenfreude to be had from a bunch of idiots enjoying the fuck out of becoming even worse citizens.

    But on the other-other hand, we're going to need a steady supply of low-skill, low-wage workers if Trump is going to undertake his mass deportation.  And I can think of few better places to get those workers than rural Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Texas once the federal government cuts their communities off from the federal largesse that keeps them inhabitable.

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  2. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Man.  Y'all remember when I was an irrational alarmist out on the ledge, talking insane shit about how bad a Trump regime would be?

    I remember. 

    I really wish that I'd turned out to be an insane alarmist who was totally wrong.  Instead, I'm just insane.  I'll take it, I guess.

    A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country and in his own house.

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  3. 22 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    stephen millers power will be unchecked ….

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    In part because of this I think disunion within the next four years is becoming more likely than not.

    But I say "in part because of this."  The real impetus toward disunion is that the Trump Administration is going to be so filled with idiots and incompetents that it will be unable to forestall it.  In a million little legalistic ways, California and Washington and New York and Massachusetts are going to take steps to forestall the Trump Administration's grand plans.  And little by little, they're going to be successful.  

    It's not that there's going to be some grand declaration of secession.  It's just that in 2027, the federal writ won't run in California or Massachusetts.

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  4. 3 minutes ago, sidis said:

    pre-tax corporate profits:

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    $2.4 trillion in Q4 2019 to $4.08 trillion in Q2 2024. 68% increase in fewer than five years. from 2019 backwards, it would require you to go back to Q4 2004 to see that level of growth in before-tax corporate profits controlling for the financial crisis (as i did for covid). What took 15 years previously achieved in 4.5 years.

     

    after-tax corporate profits:

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    $2.12 trillion in Q4 2019 to 3.41 trillion in Q2 2024. 60% increase in fewer than five years. from 2019 backwards, it would require you to go back to Q2 2005 to see that level of growth in after-tax corporate profits controlling for the financial crisis (as i did for covid). what previously too 14 years achieved in 4.5 years.

    "in order to continue to provide the same excellent service....."

    Just look at what the markets are doing.  Stocks are up nearly 10% over the last week; bond yields are also rising.  Everyone fucking thinks inflation is going to bounce back up and corporations are going to use that as an opportunity to make windfall profits.

    The investing classes are going to make a killing.

    It's the working classes that are going to be killed.

     

    So, you know--the yoozh.

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  5. 41 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Pretty sure it had to be oriented E/W b/c of existing underground infrastructure that would prevent the underground anchoring that the stadium required. 

    I think that's right.  But at the same time, that doesn't really answer the question--underground infrastructure could've been moved.  They moved plenty of roads in that area to accommodate various stadium projects--some water lines and fiberoptic cable shouldn't have stood in the way.

    I think the real answer is that he wanted it on an axis to open onto The Ballpark in Arlington.  Jerry wanted his stadium and its big glass wall to glower down on the perpetually cellar-dwelling Rangers.

    Of course, now the Rangers have a new stadium that is off that axis.  The former Ballpark is now home to some minor-league football team, which really causes one to wonder about a future in which the NFL embraces relegation.

    18 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

    He won't close the curtains because the media/fans brought it up first and it made him look bad.  He thinks keeping them open is dunking on the media.

    This is the answer.  This is 100% the answer.

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  6. 21 minutes ago, heso said:

    Without seeing any of the game yet, and knowing the history of these two teams, this had such a high probability of sarcasm. 

    I’ll give you the Oregon unis. These are definitely the best of all the absurd shit they’ve put out. And I’ll give you half a point for Maryland. If they had just gone with red instead of the tritone metallic nonsense they’d be there. 

    My dude—it’s the tritone metallic nonsense that makes them fire.

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  7. 2 hours ago, hpslugga said:

    “Cuz we can’t fuckin listen, and we can’t pay attention to history, and we only half-assed fuckin pay attention and listen”

    -Mike Leach

    Mike Leach is so fucking lucky that he got to die before this shitshow came to pass.

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