With the sports rule change, gambling companies could still buy ad spots during as breaks.
Sports organizations sign broadcasting contracts for the airtime, they can absolutely require that some ads are not allowed to play during their breaks.
Football: proper helmets
Is there such a thing? As far as I’m aware, there is no way to prevent CTE with the current rules and style of American football. There’s just too much repeated energy transfer.
No dictator rules alone. Judges, generals, congressmen, CEO’s, they’re all a part of the equation.
There is always a system and a group of people that enable it, and can also disable it.
they’re just absolutely awful people working their way down their terrible agenda.
The budget bill, too. It’s all fascism, all the time. These aren’t distractions. These are all the same threat, and we need to band together and put an end to it.
“You can’t say anything anymore, like <horrible ‘joke’>. It gets you censored when you tell jokes like the one I just said out loud. You just can’t say that anymore. You’ll get cancelled for saying <even worse ‘joke’>. You’ll be harassed for telling jokes like that. The internet will get mad at you. You’ll be cancelled and censored if you say anything like the joke I just said. You’ll never be heard from again. I’ll be on tour for the next three months. Money please!”
It’s the most blatant “I want to have my cake and shove it down your throat at the same time” you’ll ever see.
The worst candidates should be entirely excluded from your ballot, this includes Cuomo who has a history of sexual abuse and also killing people in nursing homes.
Don’t forget, after he killed people in nursing homes, he sold a book that was a victory lap about saving NY from COVID… by doing things like killing people in nursing homes… just as the second wave began.
Love the write up!
Another great example is how insanely hard it actually is to hurl something into the sun. Intuitively, people think gravity does the work. Like the escape pod, you should be able to just point at the sun and go.
But the moment you escape Earth’s gravity well, you’re still going almost (or more than) the speed of Earth. You’re now orbitting the sun by yourself. The only way to reach the sun is to slow down and lose all of that orbital velocity. It’s significantly easier to escape the sun than it is to actually touch it.
You’re having the wrong argument. Even if an ICE officer was injured,
Don’t bother. “Libertyforever” is a fascist anyway who thinks Kilmar Abrego Garcia being shipped off was a totally normal “administrative error”
Yes. It’s tough for many to believe, but trans rights is the same fight as due process for all.
Justice is blind. Not by design, not by choice - by the literal definition of justice. If “justice” sees some people as deserving of rights and not others, there is no justice for anyone, there is only a temporary illusion of safety.
I’ll be honest, I don’t get what you’re saying about rights movements. Every single rights movement has been nothing but an uphill battle for acceptance, and no rights movement has ever benefitted from saying “okay, you can hold onto this right for now, as a treat.”
I’m not labelling anyone anything. I’m saying that there’s more important things to deal with right now. You don’t need to get on board with transgender athletes - you just need to stay focused on the real problems. If you support them, great. Defend them.
If you don’t support them, fine, but you need to attack the very idea that the national conversation has anything to do with transgender athletes. It doesn’t.
The fascists in charge don’t give a shit about the issue, it’s just a weapon in their arsenal, and a means of distracting you from the real problems. Every moment someone says “actually that’s a good point, let’s talk about sports” is another moment wasted. None of it is about sports. It’s about a rising wave of fascism that needs to be stopped at all costs.
Absolutely. The most important thing is that it’s not urgent. People are dying. Education is failing. Healthcare, research, science, they’re all under attack.
The economy is plummeting into uncertainty, the cost of living continues to rise, and people are underpaid, overworked, and struggling to make ends meet while the corporate-backed media writes headlines like “economy is doing well, <cherry-picked numbers> are slightly up this quarter!”
They’re threatening war, they’re shredding the constitution, they’re tearing away human rights.
What is the outcome of a soccer game, against all that? What is the value of a trophy, against the value of human lives? Why are we worried about the “fairness” of a game, when a technological golden age meets a society in decline?
Every inch of ground we give is a victory for them, and a loss for us. Every time we let them control the conversation, every time we pander to their talking points, every time we pretend that there is a shred of reason behind the wave of fascism, is a loss for us.
Two reasons. One, the fascists are shitty at their jobs. Like, genuinely shitty. The efficiency of fascism in general is nothing but propaganda, but the people in charge are pure, privileged, nowhere-to-fail-but-up, idiots.
Two, they’re in a rush. You’re absolutely correct - they’re an in-between militia. The uniformity will come if they’re given time to dig in their position, but right now, they are desperately expanding and solidifying their hold on the nation.
Their power is an illusion. They don’t have the training, supplies, or leadership in place to actually control the country by force right now, so they’re just throwing whatever they have out there to overwhelm the innocent while they work on dismantling the bureaucracy and redirecting our military and local LEO capabilities toward domestic oppression.
Like if someone thinks trans people should be totally treated as the gender they express in every facet of society, except they shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s physical sports competitions.
The problem here is that this is just the front lines of the attack on transgender people. This is a way of not treating them as the gender they express, and it won’t end there. It’s the goal post, and the goal posts will keep moving. The bathroom, the athletics, the healthcare - they’re all the same thing. A coordinated assault. Nobody cared about transgender athletes until it was used as a wedge issue and as yet another way to box transgender people out of society.
I agree that we need to stop the infighting, but I disagree that it involves giving ground in the assault on oppressed minorities. If it’s a genuine problem, we can circle back and discuss our athletics in a civil society where these people aren’t actively under attack. But as it stands, any law written about this right now isn’t being written in the pursuit of fairness, it’s being written as a weapon of oppression.
We have more important things to be doing, and that means fighting this assault with exactly what you describe - better messaging.
Do exactly what the conservative front does. Use these wedge issues as a way to fight the bigger fight. Keep the messaging on point.
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Executions are always weaponized against the innocent and the enemies of the state, and should never be tolerated in any society. Prosecution and imprisonment is fine, it just needs to finish what it started, rather than letting a fascist felon walk free and pardon the rest.
Fascism doesn’t require living Nazis. It just requires greed, ambition, hate, and fear. Even if you could wipe away every last fascist on the Earth (you definitely can’t), within three generations people will forget why you did it in the first place, and start thinking “boy, we sure do have a lot of problems, and this charming asshole makes it sound like all those problems have simple, easy, violent solutions.”
Every generation, every society, and every people needs to stand vigilant against the rise of tyranny, because it can happen anywhere.
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The entire point is this:
In a world where companies boast record profits in the same breathe as they announce mass layoffs, this is good news.