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Stephen Moore has always been an intellectually bankrupt mouthpiece for the capitalist class.

Maybe the doctor would want to pitch in to “solve” the “problem” of fewer teen mothers? That would track with the ideology.

As has the Tigers’ snakebite career with the Meadows.

Not for nothing, the reason Pudge signed with the Tigers in the first place was that we were the only team that met his very public demand of a 4/40 minimum contract. It’s not as though he chose Detroit, which had just lost 119 games, over any number of teams competing for his services.

So what was the guy referring to when he said (snarked?) that "I bet they are eating it all up"? Was he commenting on stupid consumers who believe everything they see and read? That's kind of how it looks to me ...

Sure, but you know these guys—too much is never enough for them.

Oh, hell yeah, I would have been proud of making another kid eat baseball cards! That would have been totally badass of me in a way nobody thought of me back then! 😂

Holy **** on a stick, that's fugly. It looks like it belongs at the Bellagio.

This is where we part as friends: I don't take this as evidence that it's been happening more. I mean, maybe it's true. Maybe it is happening more. I just don't think this proves that. But even if it is happening more on the margins, I still don't see it happening among the largest, most active Democratic-aligned social media accounts to anywhere near the degree it happens with the largest, most active Trump-aligned accounts. In my opinion, scale and equivalence is where the rubber meets the road, and as far as I can tell, the rubber is still in the garage.

The more he does it, the more he's not called to account for it, the more normal it will become, until nobody bats an eye anymore when it happens. He already conquered his own voters a year or so ago. He's working on the rest of us now.

Haven't a bunch of them turned around and gone home? Maybe I'm misremebering this ...

The problem isn't that they're actually doing it. The problem is that they haven't been kicking any tribute upstairs to the Don.

Yup, this does appear to be one example of lying by a guy who hit the lottery on likes and reposts.

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OK, then what are we talking about? The initial implication was that the left has started resorting to a campaign of disinformation, something everyone agrees the right routinely does.

I'm interested in more details on this. When was this? What was everyone "eating ... all up"? What was happening? We're basically talking about two time periods: 1989, and post 9-11.

He kind of was "just a utility guy" for the A's. One excellent season, another really good, several pretty decent seasons by WAR, but mostly the the glove and less by the bat. Once he got to Detroit he turned that around to become a really good bat with a sturdy glove. Fun fact: Tony Phillips had, by a long shot, the highest WAR of any player who played his entire career in the All-Star era and never played in the game itself. Kirk Gibson was second, and Reference has their career WARs as being more than 12 apart!

I have a feeling the offense is going to bust out in this one.

“And that’s the way they play it in the World Ser …”

And in the game before, our hitting scored six runs. A team should win the majority of their games when they score six runs. We are definitely on a bad little skein here.

That’s totally fine. I absolutely get your desire to keep your feed free of the nonsense. Makes total sense. I would assume that folks who avoid political social media might lack a keen sense of the scale of left wing social media influence versus that from the right wing, and assume that the existence of both means they are equivalent. They are not.

Nuance is missing here. I never said there is zero misinformation—or more exactly, disinformation—from the left. I’m talking about scale and influence, the kind of scale and influence the biggest right-wing disinformation-spewing social media personalities have on actual policy-making within the American president's administration. Prove to me that same thing exists to that scale on the left, then you’ll have my attention.

LG Basler is a right-winger.

Newsweek and Daily Mail do seem to be peas in a pod these days. Remember when the former was up there with Time and U.S. News & World Report?

I may have. I honestly can't remember. Share a link to anything you see if you come across one. Thanks.