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If you believe more democratic outcomes lead to class warfare than I guess as alternative solutions to class conflict you can take your choice of the total victory of the oligarchy (Russia), which does effectively end the conflict, or the total suppression of all social dissent (China). Or another way to put it is that if more democracy is something that will lead to more class warfare, then class distinction has already grown to such a toxic level in your society that you must face that there is no longer any way back to greater social equity without breaking some (nest) eggs.

meh - you don't build sustained success on gimmick plays.

31 NFL teams have a one or two syllable short form name. "Commanders" is a non-shortenable 3 syllabler. I guess Washington will end up the "Commies" in the end after all.

It would have generated a lot of buzz but I already like Campbell as a play caller more than Harbaugh....

Gattis is certainly the easiest choice.

If Warde has to make a hire I think it will be really interesting - I wonder if he will come up with someone not on anyone's short lists. I hope that knowing how mercurial Harbaugh is, Warde has been building his list for at least a few years now.

the left is looney about a lot of things, but the left's lunacies are mostly about things that don't threaten democratic government. Self rule is not at risk over people designating their pronouns or in a reparations debate or over which statues go where. It is when access to the polls and overturning elections and suppression of real historical truth and banning of books are the order of business.

exactly. I for one am dying for better balance between the opinions of people undermining the nation at every turn and the rest of the sane world.........not.

being swayed by that kind of thing is as dumb as judging public opinion by twitter - and just as easily manipulated. no country on earth has more anti-american chanting than Iran, and it's all paid advertising by the regime. Iranians that come here love America - heII, most Iranians in Iran love America.

They like an America that existed in their heads but never actually did in reality.

agreed. Cal was very good for a very long time but you never feared losing a game just because you were playing against Ripkin. A lifetime 112 OPS+, 276 BA?. 4 seasons over 130 OPS+, Trammell had 6 in shorter career.

ain't it the truth!

I think Warde Manuel is the real deal, even if his names do have 2 too many 'e's.

He's the 'fat white guy' DEI entry.

I thought 'brah' was Gaelic for 'forever'

To come back to earth a little, the schedule may have left the Ducks a little wasted, but winning the ones you should is a step in the right direction.

Kenny was sure they could not possibly over-turn - mostly because his skate was pretty much still on the ice. Mickey kept telling him that little flick of heel was going to be enough to void it.

He and Larkin the best two players on the ice for either team tonight. Seider may miss ROY but there should be a Norris in his future.

Correct, it was a comment, not an arg. I do occasionally go beyond dialectic as the only allowed from of discourse.

I find the distinction between legal and illegal immigration a marketing tour de force by the GOP since most of the immigrants that got this country off the ground came before there were any immigration laws at all - they just showed up - so they are no different than all the people that Americans today are so happy to label as different because they are 'illegal' when the only real difference is that they are little browner than the people who come from Western Europe that we decided had more right to that 'legal' marketing label. Guaranteed if we were being inundated by British Boris Johnson refugees without green cards no-one would care a whit.

Yeah - I'd say an in person interview qualifies as some variety of combustion process. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings-interviewing-jim-harbaugh-for-coaching-vacancy-this-week-feel-hes-ready-for-nfl-return-per-report/

Do you remember who our coaches were last time Mary Sue was minding the store?? 😜 but I meant more along the lines not that the sum was too much in general but that given money was not to be wasted, that I wouldn’t pay that much for an only occasionally successful but continual headache like Harbaugh.

Right. Most people likely to judge him an idiot have probably never heard of him because they don’t listen to that genre of media.

He looked like he was playing Joss Ackland playing a Russian ambassador.!

in the end, all dollars are fungible