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I think most large corporations are dishonest and corrupt. That's how they get to be big corporations! I am questioning why you are singling out Twitter. Much like the Trump/Pelosi/Greene discussion, why is Twitter being held to a higher standard than Fox News?

THAT would violate the first amendment. People don't understand that fact. Ad revenues and the free market regulate it. These rules are in place because these platforms don't want their sites to be liable to dark stuff and want to be able to sell ads. Tough to tell Chevy to pay to advertise on their site if they are going to be wedged between nazi tweets.

Well, when one side is cheering on a coup attempt and later pushing misinformation thst gets people killed, the issue is that side leaving the reservation not the people doing the moderating.

All it tells me is that conservative dedication to free market principles was largely always conditional on a society where the free market outcome tended in their favor. As society has evolved and as social norms have changed, so has the dedication to those principles for many who hang that label on themselves.

It's great except for being awful. Other than that just great

I want eight-team divisions. Make the division titles mean something. There are going to be a million wildcards anyway, so they don't have to pretend small divisions make it more competitive.

Is that why people call me the goat?

“ Due to an abundance of caution we have decided not to have Tarik pitch this season”….AJ Hinch August 2023

Government overseeing the content of the media is not a good thing. If anything, I want the media overseeing the government!

Bring Andre Drummond home

wiseman....duren....bagley.... is this joe dumars running this team? loading up on drummond/smith/monroe because the rest of the league is going small?

Wait what?

Because they aren't conservative.

selling low on Bey while not selling high on BB makes no sense

He’s a RINO cuck

Twitter isn't the big dog in news distribution among social media. It's at best in 3rd place but more realistically 4th place. Your conflating of followers with users (and humans) is woefully uninformed. Small groups of private citizens decide talking points all the time. Furthermore, hunters lap and laptop still remained a talking point regardless of what twitter did, because a small private (pun intended) group of citizens at news Corp and and rudi made it a talking point. Your selective outrage is hilarious.

"Wait there is a former No. 2 center who didn't live up to the hype available? Let me get on that" --Troy Weaver

How will Gaetz find love?

One big problem I have with the discourse on social media in general is how it is sort of dominated with this abstract discussion about political bias when there are much more tangible reasons for oversight.... the kinds of things that are transmitted toward youth and the impacts that it has, for instance. I just don't see a lot of concern for that coming from a lot of conservatives in Congress.... it all just seems to be an combined exercise in "working the refs" and messaging to the base that ultimately seems self serving as opposed to serving any sort of greater good.

Santana (9th last year) only made his "Others" list. Admittedly, Cristian's numbers were not that good at Lakeland, which he is set to repeat. Last year he included Eric de la Rosa, Eli Afonso and Austin Bergner in his Top 20, which is not a dig at Law, but just pointing out how difficult it is to know who will make it.

Aren't you arguing that they were the opposite ot unfettered, they were being heavily influenced by the govt?

3rd down back. theo riddick type. might end up as a slot reciever because he cant block and cant run between the tackles. later round pick. #debbiedowner

So all the President of the United States of America has to do to get a pass for his behavior is be childish and petulant on a regular basis, but the Speaker of the House has a bad moment and she gets good and raked for that? How convenient for the man. I know you're not saying Trump should be excused for his childish behavior, but my point is that he does get regularly excused for his childish behavior. I agree Pelosi should take criticism for the tearing up of the speech, but the criticism for that single incident is also generally out of proportion versus that of Trump's pathological behavior. I think it's the fire hose effect: because Trump displays a fire hose of childish behavior, it's hard to pick out just one outrageous incident as an example, whereas Nancy does something once, and everybody remembers and crushes her for that. So I think if someone going to post that criticism of Nancy, regardless of how justified it is, it's fair to reply with an incident of Trump's, one directly related to hers.

Sure, they banned stuff. The most visable banning was Trump and that was the right move because he is a very influential person who was inspiring violence. My point is that there are plenty of opportunities for people to express far right and far left ideas on Twitter. There are a lot worse media sites (social media and otherwise) that are way more biased. I don't see what the big deal is. Even now that it's more right wing biased, it's not a big deal since I can still control my user experience pretty well.

It's more than that, Hersch, along with other "antiwar" figures like Roger Waters (who has featured prominently in the news this week) and others, are emblematic of a reflexive anti-Americanism in terms of foreign policy. The reasons for how they came to be the way all vary and in in a lot of cases are more understandable than not... in Hersch's case, his career and breaking stories like My Lai and Abu Gharib would seem to lend itself to reflexive skepticism. But, in this particular conflict, Russia is to Ukraine what the US was to Iraq or Vietnam... Russia is the aggressor. The fact that people are fighting and dying in Ukraine right now falls onto the world leader who decided to invade a sovereign nation and attempt to decapitate this government. The US government didn't force him to give a televised speech to his people announcing the invasion, complete with illusions of reconstituting the old empire, he did. Logically, you would think this class of individuals would be repulsed by those actions... but instead, they do things like go out and demand Ukraine stand down and accede to Russian aggression. Or, in Hersch's case, push a thinly sourced and, in all likelihood, specious story advancing a convenient narrative while giving quotes to state media about it. Now to be clear, none of this means that the United States has been perfect over the years in foreign policy, it hasn't. But it all kinda calls into question the "antiwar" bonafides if you are running cover for the aggressor in this case.

Twitter is a private company. They can ban anything they want. They can ban people for being Packers fans if they wanted (that would be awesome). Then you can turn around and leave Twitter. I was never active in it, but if I was, I would have left as soon as Elon Mush started his bullshit. Anyone can start their own version of Twitter. Free Market. Funny how they love the Free Market when it favors them but not other times. I don't go to Chick-Fil-A, and not because it's totally overrated, but because I don't like their support of homophobic organizations. My problem with them is therefore solved on my end.

if chark wants to come back on a cheap "prove it" deal, then ok. he came here last year to rebuild his value and show everyone he could be productive and healthy. he didnt do either.

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Also, there is a history of this sort of thing with this regime... the Chechen Apartment Bombings, for instance. Blamed on a convenient target (Chechen separatists), but widely believed that it was the government that ultimately blew them up and killed innocents in the process. If one thinks about it in terms of domestic messaging / propaganda, the CB Ratio on blowing up the pipeline absolutely can make sense for Russia just given the above example.

but not for trying to overthrow the US govt

I absolutely hate 4 team divisions. That said, these make sense.

Hopefully they’ve remembered bats this season.

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-2023-free-agent-rankings-free-agency PFF has contract projections for their top 100 free agents. All of my other numbers were based off of prior contracts and the contractual value of players in that same range.

He could be the new Champ Summers.

Greene is an embarrassment to America, but it's fair to point out that Pelosi ripping up the speech was pretty childish too.

I'm not among those who wanted him replaced "by one player who will give us more production". Some did, some didn't. I like the guys they brought in, they probably got 4 of them for less than the 7 million that they would have paid Candelario.

Not complaining. I read them all and enjoy reading them. I just laugh that everyone seems to be future all-stars, even if they were claimed off waivers.

I saw it as a humorous "it happens every year" comment rather than a complaint.

They'll fix it with further expanded playoffs, gambling and home run derby replacing extra innings.