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  1. oblong
    And you surely wouldn’t trust him to even drive a vehicle considering how he ended up in that chair along which I assume resulted in the head injury that makes him sound like a complete moron.
  2. oblong
    Could be a good cop/bad cop scenario.
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    When human beings decide the maps and have to take certain things into consideration then isn't everything a gerrymander? If you could just draw maps based on geography and no other social considerations like race/income/voting history then you won't have gerrymandering. What if you had a rule that said a boundary has to be a state road? I have no idea if that's even possible but introduce some hard coded language... of course that could lead to bad decisions on what makes a road a local/county/state road. "Ok, fine the state takes this dirt road over"
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    until the owners find some other small thing to quibble about, then they will wait until next week to counter, when the players come back with another offer, they will cancel more April games, then the next morning agree to pretty much what the players countered with....
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    "Fix the roads" "Why is there always construction???" It sets a bad precedent. I'm sorry but gas prices are not out of control. It's a cute news story and convenient talking point, like the weather, but I refuse to believe an extra $15 a week per car is crushing most people. If it is then you are doing something wrong.
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    For the evangelicals it's another opportunity to play the persecution/victim card and give them the misguided belief that they share that with the Apostles and early Christians. "They hate us for our faith" is a cornerstone in that sect.
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    because they do. This costs them nothing. They can be firm right now with no risk.
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    yep. They hate the blacks and the gays. When they show you who they are... believe them. If a teacher asks a 3rd grader to bring in a photo of their parent(s) or asks them what their parents do for a living will the children of gay parents be asked to go out in the hall or stay home that day? That might be considered "instruction" or "indoctrination". Conservative snowflakes need their safe spaces.
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    Conservatives love meddling into local affairs. "Things should be local except for what we hate and that has to be federal"
  11. oblong
    I bet every male legislator that voted for this has some awesome lesbian porn bookmarked or on a flash drive somewhere
  12. oblong
    Not a single one of those names is surprising. It's the whackjob bloc.
  13. oblong
    It’s almost like the owners don’t really care if there’s baseball in April. They pulled a Lucy.
  14. oblong
    I know some mayors and other civic leaders would like more activity in urban areas. A lot of businesses that catered to people in offices are hurting. But what can you do? Capitalism. Supply and demand. it’s why I cringe when I see news of more urban development in both residential and commercial spaces. Where is the demand for it? Especially at higher prices. Young people wanted urban 2 years ago to be close to the office. But they now see freedom to work from anywhere as more beneficial. And it’s a catch 22. Part of the appeal to some to living urban was the liveliness but is that diminishing as more businesses close due to decline of office workers ?
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    What if they are reading a book and it references a parenting combo of husband/wife? That's ok? But what if it referenced a combo of husband/husband or wife/wife? Is that not ok? All three scenarios represent the reality that kids live in today. Or what if they were watching a movie or program that had a gay couple but it wasn't about them being gay, they were just representing life as we know it, like they do in commercials. It wasn't that long ago that "parenting" rights groups went ape shit because they showed interracial couples in commercials. The point is to not make gay people feel marginalized or "other". It's about inclusion. It's why Marvel has deaf superheroes. They aren't "pushing the deaf lifestyle" on people. There are students with two dads or two moms. Make them feel normal and not ostracized which is what the Florida thing does. The cruelty is the point. Ron DeSantis probably kicks puppies when nobody is looking.
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    I go by what happened, not what might have happened.
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    Maybe Chris Ilitch can afford to fix some of their shitty properties that have been rotting since they bought them in the 2000's. They have a history of holding up progress for their own self interests.
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    They are the ones who locked them out and the reason we have no baseball right now. There’s no reason they couldn’t have made them this offer 10 days ago. They didn’t have to be drama queens. Maybe they needed to see what Apple was going to do for them or Chris Ilitch’s coke supplier threatened to hold out.
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    So the offer from MLB a few weeks ago on deadline day wasn’t final even though they said it was?
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    That’s why I hate the owners. The way they squeeze every last nickel yet complain that everything is unfair.
  21. oblong
    Having every team within earshot of 83 wins and 14 of them making the playoffs will be a blast to watch. Everybody gets a trophy. It’s the American way. No winners or losers.
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    You act like we are going to have 4 500 million payroll teams that will each win 115 games and win every World Series and 26 129 million payroll teams that will just squeak by in poverty. The differences in figures being thrown around are basically one average 6 year player per team. It’s tip money.
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    I’m laughing hysterically at the idea that parity is going to be destroyed because a team could sign a guy like Starling Marte.
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    Tightwads like Chris Ilitch want the decision to not have to sign players made for them.
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    Why should the players accept lower salary potential because of that fact? The owners set up that business model, deal with it like a good capitalist would.
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