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I do believe that Gen Z kids are more polite to their elders than certainly my Generation Jones cohort, and certainly more than Xers, and probably more than Millennials. I believe that's because that kind of behavior was reinforced through publicly-supported policies in schools such as anti-bullying initiatives, diversity and inclusion policies, focus on mental health wellness, and probably some others I'm not thinking of. They were taught to be more empathetic than we were when we were growing up, and I think it shows in their encounters with us grownups. I'm more concerned about the tail-end of Gen Alpha (b. 2020+) and the following Gen Betas (or whatever the next generation will be called), who may end up being educated within a Trumpian dog-eat-dog tough-guy regime that respects only people of means and power, and disregards everyone else as expendable.

i see johannson before asp. or wallinder/buium just because of their size.

Black in the US are more socially conservative than the average white progressive, maybe even more than the average white liberal. It comes down to the argument about "order". People suffering life in highly disordered places like US urban cores, develop an appreciation for order that can seem paradoxical to the rest of us when the agents of order are also usually the agents of repression and abuse, but life is complex. Mainstream Black America doesn't want fewer cops, they want better cops.

We've had a billionaire for governor in Illinois going on eight years, and he's been great, and I'll be sorry to see him go, because I'm afraid of what could come next. I acknowledge he has been a total outlier as a traitor to his class.

Slippery slope definitely applies here. With every victory they achieve rescinding the established rights of people considered today to be on the margins, they will try to expand it to apply to more and more people until it applies to the rest of us. There will never be a point at which they say, "OK, that's enough, we're done" until we the 99% exist only to serve them. That's their true end goal.

And now he's saying even after his near-180, he won't leave the Democratic Party, and why would he? He can be much more effective working to hollow out the party from the inside than he can trying to bombard it from the outside.

Give him time, he'll get them all to cave. He's taking names now and then he's gonna kick their asses.

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Keep in mind these economic progressives who think billionaires are the scourge of the earth are endorsing a billionaire for governor of California.

It's about racism but from the left. You notice how the left is always obsessed with the white working class? When they lose primaries after the blacks down south vote, the election was rigged. Gee, elections being rigged in areas with high black populations, that sounds familiar. Platner is selling the people of Maine a con like Trump. They are sacrificing everything they claimed were their principles for this guy the same way MAGA does for Trump.

well whatever you want to call it, it is about giving people back a sense of control over their lives. IMO the greatest danger to the constitution order is people deciding they don't care about the niceties because it's not working for them anyway. What good is a constitution that's supposed to guarantee your liberty if you feel like you are living the life of a slave?

Right, it has nothing to do with economic progressivism. I have not heard anything from Platner that is new or different. People on the left or giving up all their principles and what they claimed to care about to support this guy. It's Donald Trump but from the left. I couldn't have fathomed that a blackwater op who is against assault rifle bans who voted for Republicans would be the darling of the left.

That's always been politics though - Lincoln may have been one of the more intellectual presidents we ever had, he ran as 'Rail Splitter Abe'. I think the only guys who are insulated from being dinged for being classy were the War heroes from WWII. I don't think a guy who talked like he was from Harvard and looked the part too as much as JFK would have a chance today, but the guy was a war hero who proved how much a grunt he could be by being blown out of the water and then swimming to safety with some poor wounded GI on his back. There is no way for a classy guy to buy those kind of Bona Fides with the everyday public today. Obama was an exception of course, but he was the exception to everything - maybe exactly because everything about his past argued he shouldn't be who he was?

Yes, the left has turned into antisemites. They basically do six degrees of Israel. If a friend of friend of a filthy Jew donated to your campaign, you're not pure.

BTW, AES now running on the fact that AIPAC is supporting his opponent as a positive campaign argument. Another measure of how much times have changed.

Yes, that was Fetterman. Fetterman was an economic populist on the left. The problem with Platner is, he's a Republican who voted for Susan Collins. His whole working man persona is a lie. He's a grifter and opportunist. Now apparently we are supposed to just ignore everything because a guy with literally no experience comes on the scene saying all the right buzzwords and is an avatar of what people think white working class looks like. Biden was an economic progressive. He was old and boring. It's not about economic progressiveness, it's all about culture. Fetterman is a fat slob who looks like the typical MAGA voter. That was his appeal. Platner wears flannel and has a beaver's ass on his face so he's a manly man. They are both con men like Trump. People are ticked off at the party because they strip the Dems of their power and expect them to do something like there is just some magic trick they are refusing to do that would completely stop Trump. I have yet to hear any new ideas from these young candidates like Platner.

I assume Kane will be back. I also assume that between a trade or FA signing, Stevie will either bring in a winger to play with Larkin and Raymond, or a center to play between Kane and ADB. (I prefer the latter because I hope MBN can become the former.) It would be fantastic if Chiarot can finally get bumped to the third pairing. But ASP needs a place to play in the NHL and he needs a reliable defenseman to be paired with and that is not Chiarot.

Platner doesn't hide the things he disagrees with Progressives about. He's primarily an economic progressive. That's what the Dems have to coalesce around to win. Forget fighting on the culture stuff, hammer the economic and political oligarchy. David Brooks tends to be all over the map, but he wrote something recently that I think hits the nail spot on the head - the reason the vast majority of people in the US are so ticked off is the feeling of loss of empowerment. Everything in this country has gotten re-engineered to where it only serves the rich. Everyone else has to deal with a million indignities their parents never faced, from not being able to get a person on the phone at customer service to their votes being negated by gerrymandering, to not being able to afford a house, or even Disneyland, you can't afford to stay home and raise your kids, if you go to work you can't afford day care, and looming over all of it is that they are afraid to get sick or lose a job because the path to upward mobility has been blown to smithereens. Don't get pulled into winless debates about who is more at fault in the ME, or the border, or your preferences about transgender athletes or defunding the police, you can not win there.

Yeah, but Jahmai's mom called and she's pissed that her boy isn't getting enough ABs. I'd rather have Ben Malgeri on this team than Jones or Perez right now. I know Clark has gotten ice cold in Toledo (which was expected), but Ben can play all 3 OF positions. He hits right-handed. Maybe he can provide SOMETHING. This team is just lethargic right now. I know there's a lot of injuries, but come on man.........Zack Short? What good is having that RH bat in the lineup if he can't hit anyone? I think most platoon guys even hitting on their weak side are better than that guy. And yes, Perez is a lot like Raburn. He can play a lot of different spots, but none of them well. Zack Short's career. .170 BA .271 OBP .294 SLG .565 OPS 58 OPS+ Average Fielder. Welp, he's better than Ray Oyler

When you see Republicans talk about things like this, take it seriously. This will be their next step.

Might as well 🤷‍♂️

Fetterman 2.0. Progressives will pretend they never supported him and he was the conservative Dem.

Exactly. Like, how is this even debatable?

I don’t disagree. But they seem hell bent on keeping him around despite the slim skill set he has. Actually, I wonder if there’s too much pride in keeping players of his ilk around too long. He was successful in his role as DH vs LHP last season. Great. In the grand scheme of roster build, how valuable is that given other concerns with the roster? What are the odds of a duplicate season?