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The anger works for them because their base is always angry. Angry people don’t like it when other people are upbeat and happy. That only makes angry people angrier, and leads them to want to shut those upbeat and happy people the hell up. Cohen is right about preaching to the converted, because the basic rhetoric has maxed out the number of people who will respond and subscribe to it. Nationally, that number is a substantial minority at best which, in an electoral system, is a losing number. So the time has come to start convincing the base to take up arms against the tyrannical majority—because an armed minority can subjuagate an unarmed majority, at least for a time—which is what the violent rhetoric is all about. And really, isn’t that already happening?

I find it fascinating how in America the word is applied exclusively to women, and in Britain and Down Under the word is applied primarily to men.

These are the kinds of lies that whip up people to start killing people they simply don’t like. Propaganda 101 going back millennia.

I figured it probably was but finding it would have required cracking open a Bible. 😉

“Evangelical as the come” and “likes young girls” are not necessarily strangers on the Venn diagram.

Xi might not have intimate knowledge of what some street corner camera in Hangzhou is revealing, but I’d bet he has a pretty good idea of what these “balloon” cameras are showing.

I agree that’s true of the rank-and-file red hats, but is it true of their politicians? Is MTG and Lorena Bobbitt and Gym Jordan and Louis Gohmert more likely to push for legalization on the federal level, or to push for outlawing cannabis so they can clear a couple hundred thou from Pharma for the favor? After all they all voted against HR3617 to decriminalize cannabis and remove it from Schedule I.

There’s your near future: corporate cannabis megastores opening, followed by mom and pops and small chains closing. It probably won’t be nineteen for very long.

I did a whole thread on the other site about how pot could never be legal. It does kind of defy a certain logic: it’s a largely unregulated product positioned as medicine that’s being made more or less away from any public scrutiny, and that people basically prescribe to themselves to resolve maladies that may or may not benefit from it. Almost exactly like the patent medicines that late night and low-ratings TV hawks to people without medical insurance. Years later, I’m still gobsmacked that it’s still legal in as many states as it is. Shit, man, I’m not 100% convinced it won’t land back on the blacklist and be illegal everywhere all over again. There are still a lot of red hat media and politicians that would like to go after it. In the meantime, smoke hay while the sun shines.

Meanwhile disgusting race-baiting Newsmax assholes trying to use their influence to further undermine any cohesion in our society.

“Arrested the offender”, according to Miami-Dade Schools? What do they expect to do with him, charge him as an adult? He’s a child, too, isn’t he? And if he’s an adult, what’s he doing on the bus as a student? And what about the second, smaller kid? What did they/are they gonna do, “arrest” him, too? What they need to do is haul the kids’ parents in for some firm questioning, as well. Practically no kid who’s been parented properly would ever do anything like this. At the same time they are tending to the girl and nursing her back to as close to 100% as possible, authorities also need to get to the bottom of why these kids thought it was OK to pummel this poor girl and work them through that, so they can try to salvage their lives. I would hope authorities wouldn’t just throw them in the can and throw away the key, which is what a lot of readers would think being “arrested” leads to, and probably what a lot of viewers of the video would like to see.

When you refer to "Tiger's team management", whom do you mean? There are a lot of layers at hand. Can you give me an example of an exogenous forcing function in this context? I'm unclear on what kind of functions you might be referring to and I want to reply to your precise meaning, so I don't want to make any guesses. Do you believe that hitters do better when they rely on their own initiative rather than relying on whatever management or forcing functions you do mean?

I turn off the volume when Shep is in the booth.

Based on your prior post, in which you say you are very suspicious that the implementation of hitting advice in the Tiger clubhouse last year was doing more harm to hitters than good, I assume you subscribe to the individual probabilities all below 50% hypothesis, and not to the unknown forcing function hypothesis. Am I reading you correctly?

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In part because the guys in charge of the rebuild were not the same guys who ran the organization into the rocks in the first place.

I think you might have a laugh. As some have suggested, it’s not like Avila failed on every single thing he ever did bar none. They made some pretty good picks—they just didn’t know how to develop them into winners using the old school ways, in a game that long ago moved on to the new school. I mentioned John Schreiber just the other day as an example of having a talent in the fold that they simply didn’t know what to do with, so they let him go for nothing. But now that a new system run by new bosses and people is in place, I think we need to give them at least two years to see the fruits start to sprout. It’s so interesting how people who agree that the coaching we had up and down the system, especially on the hitting side, was horrific, yet still blame the players for failing under it. I think that’s short-sighted. I would bet a lot of those guys are going to rebound and, to your point, we’ll see signings and draftings under the Avila regime pay off more than that regime could figure out how to elicit.

He may have been right on some things—his lip service to analytics was a step forward from nothing, even if the implementation was half-assed for whatever reason—but Avila’s ideas about the type of hitting to build the organization on were frightfully wrong.

I really like her anti-anti-Jewish laser policy.

I’m down.

This is right, but Avila was the only guy left we could fire.

And more depth is coming. It's going to be a long slog, but do I think Harris will get us there, not only because he knows what he's doing, but also because he's the new boss with the blessing of the owner and without the same internal political relationships to navigate. From what I can tell, Harris is the new politics.

I said it basically for its comic value, based on the fact we both know that there are many people who've posted here over the years who hate Keith Law specifically because he's been saying for years how much the Tigers suck as an organization.

Fire up the torches and pitchforks for Keith Law if you want, but he’s right. This also serves as a reminder of how John Schreiber is yet another one we let get away.