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I’d argue the opposite. They don’t know their favorites media are slanted—they think it’s true and the other side is lies. Doesn’t get any more simple than that. You know how media are slanted because you’ve been specifically educated to ferret that out.

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The union will fight against any settlement for less money not to protect Rendon's retirement nut, per se, but to prevent that kind of precedent from affecting other clients.

I think it is facile to conclude that simply nobody cares. A lot of people care. I care and you care. We're not nobody. I think the bigger problem is that we have a factionalized mutually exclusive difference in media environments, and consumers of one don't believe environment don't believe the other. One side (RWM) actively and constantly disparaged the journalistic integrity of the other (MSM), which has allowed that side to engage in the exact kind of news fakery they accused the other of, and to get away with it, because they've developed their own version of reality. So rather than the idea that nobody cares, I think the real problem is that the factions don't trust the same sources, they don't come to an agreement on what's true, then they just retreat to their corners frustrated with the other side for their recalcitrance. How that relates to the issue of disclosure is that when it does occurs, only one faction cares about it, and the other faction whistles past it as though it didn't even happen, because they can't agree on the source of even that information.

Attention is a kind of social oxygen ... just sayin' ... Carry on.

One more reason the red hats should want immigrants. At least the late middle-aged red hats, anyway ... 😏

At the very least make everyone disclose the source of their donations. In the age of crypto, I mean ... come on ...

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I don't know, it's not as though Barry is blowing Jahmyr out of the water. We should check back in three weeks when it more apples.

I know the "S" stands for "shaking" and the "H" mean "head", but what is the "F" for?

There are so, so many of these that go on literally every day that "Thanks, Trump" should be its own thread.

Particularly since they are of working age and can help support an aging population that no longer works—which has been the plan since 1935.

What a mean thing to say about Nigerians with actual computers.

And yet you take them seriously enough to relentlessly hammer them on that point—to no effect except to continue giving them the oxygen they need to keep being a factor on this board—instead of just ignoring them and eventually letting them drown unceremoniously in their own sludge.

I like it. Question: could the federal courts invalidate those laws and force all states to allow all dark money?

Eh, it's only one more year. Might as well just do the minimum, cash the checks, and ride into the sunset while flipping 'em off.

If Dylan Cease can get seven years, I have trouble seeing Tarik settling for eight.

What's in it for Rendon to accept a buyout?

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Yes, but those who got the most tax cuts got to privatize the gain while socializing the losses.

Literally indefensible.

If you truly believe that ICE and Border Patrol have warrants on every person they've rounded up because America or whatever, then you aren't paying attention.

I do think he was legitimately underappreciated because, through the deadline, he had the highest WAR on the team, even higher than Miggy and Kinsler. But even coming into the team, he was prone to, shall we say, grabbing the spotlight in sometimes unflattering ways, and midwesterners generally don't appreciate players like that, even if they're really good.

TBF, giving every America adult $2,000 would cost the Treasury about half a trillion dollars.

Yeah, I don’t think it’s particularly surprising, and it’s not even particularly offensive, either, at least at a theoretical level. One of the jobs of an envoy is to advise the country they’re dispatched to on how to deal with American politics, albeit in a manner that’s consistent with the interests of the United States. The $64 question here is whether advising Russia on how to sell to the US a plan that’s tilted way in their favor against the Ukrainians is actually in America’s interests. I would imagine the majority of this administration would flatly agree that it is.