buddha

"really good" was probably an overstatement. but i think theyre better than dallas and will likely win that division.

i would entertain any offer that nets me at least a #1 pick this year and next year. i actually think the eagles are going to be really good next year, so i would need more than that. which probably means it wont happen.

but the real issue is that thomas jefferson made no mention of trans rights and is therefore a disgusting human being and worthy only of tater's contempt. he didnt even put his pronouns on his signature line for declaration of independence. what an animal.

jay wright leaves the door open to coaching in the nba. would you take a chance on him? im not sure i would hire any college coach to coach in the nba, but he was pretty successful.

he was a deist. which was extremely radical for his day.

this team is dying for an athletic wing.

i certainly wouldnt describe thomas jefferson as a christian fundamentalist. if tater thinks thomas jefferson was a fundamentalist, he ought to listen to a few cotton mather speeches. thomas jefferson was pretty radical for his day, but since he participated in the institution of slavery, we should ignore the rest of his life rather than looking at it in its totality.

"everything i think today is correct, therefore 100 years from now everyone will love me and realize i was right all along."

diabate to test the draft. houstan likely to do the same.

hutch strikes me as having the lowest floor of any of the top pass rushers. i'd take him because he looks good to me and he went to michigan. lol.

oh no.

i wonder if people realize just how bad the bears are going to be? they've tanked this season and are in year 1 of a rebuild.

i think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of history and human beings. i suppose if you were a man back in 1789, you'd be the biggest abolitionist and female suffragette in the world, eh? in 50 years, your grandkids will think you were a horrible person too. in 200 years you'll be seen as a troglodyte who had no understanding of the world. the founding fathers are not above criticism. but that ctiticism should be a little more nuanced than "theyd be wearing white hoods." if they were alive today, they'd have 200+ years of history and education that they didnt have before.

i agree. and its become that anything invented by "europeans" is somehow not worthy of inquiry or respect, or is judged to be suspect because of the atlantic slave trade. youth will always rebel against the mainstream, and the inclusion of other voices and interpretations of history is a good thing, but labeling european ideas as "bad" is just as ridiculous as asserting europeans were inherently superior because they mastered induatrialization earlier than others. what seems different now is the complete buy in by corporate mainstream anglo-american culture as a way to make themselves look good while they continue to shortchange their employees in wages and benefits.

hunter dickinson comes back. huge news for michigan.

in another comment to what you said earlier, the french have more pride in their history than the american left, which will complain about "christians" til the cows come home, but will excuse all sorts of behavior if it comes from non-christians or non-"white" people. the majority of the french, including many on the left, do not susbscribe to such identity nonsense. there is a big movement to avoid the anglo-american phenomenon of trashing one's history and culture because it was mean to black people. its not as popular there as it is in canada, england, and america.

the french are more strident about their secularism than we are. every citizen is a citizen, and citizens should not be separated by race/religion, etc. if you are french, you are french. there is no "african-frenchman" like there is here. the french - and really, no one else - is as obsessed with "race" as we are. for obvious historical reasons. mainstream france is not anti-immigrant, but they are very pro french and pro-assimilationist. i would say that they - and most old european societies - are not as pro immigrant as the united states given the difference in histories and the us's history as an immigrant society.

the french pronunciation is always better.

i prefer the canadian pronounciation: de-troy-it.

zemmour was much more right wing than le pen, if that's what you mean. zemmour was a radio/print personality (the french, unlike americans, value intellectuals and authors) who made his name as very anti-immigrant and pro-nativist (interesting coming from a french/algerian jew). he was much further right wing than le pen. le pen, otoh, has been moving to the center and away from the far right on many issues. she embraced right wing popularism and "anti elite" language. melachon was the same, but on the other end of the political spectrum. both he and le pen want to raise taxes on the rich, increase the social welfare state and lower the retirement age. le pen is much more "anti muslim" than melanchon, but no mainstream french politician would really embrace a "pro muslim" platform the way the democratic party has embraced left wing black politics following george floyd's death. even macron is against the hijab in certain situations and very pro-french. in one way the politics are similar to here in that macron represents the elite in the same way the democrats do here and le pen is very trumpian in her nationalism and anti immigrant rhetoric. but in france you have an actual candidate who espouses pro worker/anti capitalist policies (melanchon) whereas here the democrats have given that up and instead focus more on one's racial and sexual "identity" rather than ones class.

other countries also dont have our ridiculous primary system. the elections are over very quickly after they begin and arent drawn out over a two year period.

but then they cant gin up clicks talking about the "death of democracy"! macron benefits from le pen's past. she'll never shake her dad's history. zemmour is too radical. the republicaines are finished as a party, so are the socialists. so macron and his party are now the center left AND sort of center right. good place to be. there's a huge vacuum on the right waiting to be filled. zemmour is right about that, but it cant be zemmour or marine le pen who does it. it will have to be someone more palatable who doesnt have that past. that's why i'll be interested to see if marine's daughter can separate herself from her grandfather in a way that marine could not from her father.

why is it a surprise to anyone that ben simmons is sitting out a big game? he's been healthy all year and hasnt played, why would he play now when there is pressure to win? he makes KAT look mentally tough and tracy mcgrady look like a big time playoff winner.

72% turnout. very low for france. macron won huge with older voters over 70 and younger voters under 25. split the rest of the age cohorts. le pen announces she wont run again. this is the highest vote total the far right have ever achieved in france, probably due to the disintegration of the traditional center right and center left parties as well as her pivoting to mainstreaming her message to more of an anti-elite populist economic argument. zemmour calls for a far right unity party, to bring them (and even the traditional center right) into one party to combat macron. melanchon calls for the same thing on the left. parliamentary elections in june. en marche will probably win a majority there too. marine le pen may be done, but watch out for her daughter. she's as right wing as her mom but is younger and more charismatic. we'll see if pecresse is still around in 5 years (doubtful considering how bad she flopped), but 5 years is an eternity in politics.

watching the bucks lose middleton and STILL obliterate the bulls is so much fun.