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turn off the TV posted:https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1199728969949552640 Must be working if MSNBC is talking about it and running cover for Pete
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Nov 27, 2019 17:45
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https://twitter.com/andrewelash/status/1199729566048231424 oh no we wouldn't want voters to hear about this dude being a racist, gentrifying shithead because WHAT ABOUT TRUMP
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Nov 27, 2019 17:46
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https://twitter.com/RealEnglishMatt/status/1199730026620559360 why we shouldn't have free college why the highest we should aim in healthcare is cutting the cost of silver plans in halfbut sure, a lot of what he says isn't "conservative" galenanorth has issued a correction as of 17:50 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:lol gently caress off There is a reason why almost all NBA players are above six feet tall. Why most NFL players are built like tanks. It isn't coincidence. This isn't high school sports, this is the extreme top end. Edit - This isn't to say that someone 5'4 can't beat someone 6'4 on a game of one on one. But all things being equal the 6'4 player will win. The level of professional sports is reserved for the best of the best and there is only so much hardwork and preparation someone can do. Especially when pretty much everyone at that level eats, lives, and breathes the sport. punk rebel ecks has issued a correction as of 17:56 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:There is a reason why most NBA players are above six feet tall. Why most NFL players are built like tanks. It isn't coincidence. This isn't high school sports, this is the extreme top end. anyone can become 7 feet tall if they put some effort into it
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Lmao it's going to be a constant drip of these stories.
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spacemang_spliff posted:like I could be born wealthy and get hired at through my parents connections but my dad being rich isn't going to help me catch a football This leads to execs who make millions being impressed a college kid who was mediocre at best showed up to dinner driving a beater Camry since it showed his Hunger to Succeed, and they refused to even meet with the guy who had just played in consecutive national championships, winning one, because he didn't have that "want to look" Guess which one was white and which one was black. On the plus side the minute they sign their highly paid second contracts (the rookie deals aren't worth much) the white guy is gonna make about 200 million less than the guy who is actually incredible On the down side thr bears will probably just give Mitch 200m anyways because they're idiots punk rebel ecks posted:Being professional level at sports is almost solely genetic. https://twitter.com/Ke_vindiesel/status/974451541653508096 mastershakeman has issued a correction as of 17:58 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 17:55
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https://twitter.com/GravelierBerner/status/1199450125929762816 I agree that the average Kamala stan probably does drink an average of 5 1/2 grande cinnamon dolce lattes per diem but that seems like an odd stat to put in your campaign email
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punk rebel ecks posted:To get to that top fraction of a percent you have to have top tier genetics. sorry, what makes certain genetics "top tier"
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Professional athletes includes tennis, golf, baseball, hockey, soccer and plenty of other sports outside of basketball. Lionel Messi is the top athlete in the world and he is 5' 7" and born with severe birth defects. Saying athletes are a result of genetics ignores the incredible amount of work that individuals put in to reach the apex of their profession. It also ignores the class issues as lower income kids have a much harder time getting the support needed to develop their skills. Do certain sports favor people who are taller? Of course but being 6' 6" and above does not guarantee you will be a professional athlete. It is extremely classist and racist to say genetics is the primary cause of being a professional athlete. No one is born with a jumpshot or footwork.
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Serf posted:sorry, what makes certain genetics "top tier" *in extremely nyt op ed writer voice* mine obviously
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6'4", long arms, good build. Is he supposed to look like a pro wrestler?
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mormonpartyboat posted:democrats are a mess *walks into a junkyard* hello, is this the Democratic National Convention?
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Presenting Nipples posted:Professional athletes includes tennis, golf, baseball, hockey, soccer and plenty of other sports outside of basketball. nope sorry, the members of Major League Lacrosse in fact have the best genetics of any humans on earth for playing lacrosse
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Serf posted:sorry, what makes certain genetics "top tier" If I have em
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punk rebel ecks posted:Being professional level at sports is almost solely genetic. pablo sandoval's tremendous girth would agree
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mastershakeman posted:On the down side thr bears will probably just give Mitch 200m anyways because they're idiots this will be the least chaotic prediction I have ever made, but the Bears are the new Cubs and people will live and die without seeing them win a Super Bowl
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Serf posted:sorry, what makes certain genetics "top tier"
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If you don't look like The Pride of Tulsa, Bill Goldberg, how can you fight on the streets for Bernard
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https://twitter.com/BlindWillie88/status/1199731787431321601 This is absolutely no longer true now that Buttigieg has moved right and Biden has moved left on issues like climate change, but they're going to say it without citing examples anyway. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/09/04/a-first-step-in-assessing-proposals-to-address-climate-change/ Look how close together the funding for their climate change plans is compared to the other candidates. The first comment on this article is also helpful for once
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Nov 27, 2019 18:14
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Wtf is with this impossible thread title?
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Nov 27, 2019 18:20
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Dalael posted:Wtf is with this impossible thread title? https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-lashes-out-protesters-vote-for-trump-2019-11?op=1 At a campaign event in South Carolina on Thursday, Biden also rebuked an audience member who urged him not to accept money from corporations. "I do not take money from corporations," Biden said in response. "You listen to Bernie too much." He says "I will prioritize deportations only of people who have committed a felony or a serious crime, No. 1." without even explicitly saying "I will only deport people who have committed a crime aside from illegal entry" as a form of hoping people hear what they want to hear. galenanorth has issued a correction as of 18:24 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Is anyone earnestly arguing that the meritocracy is real or are we just disappearing up our butts about if a five foot four dude with heart can be a NFL linebacker?
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turn off the TV posted:https://twitter.com/thoatley/status/1199638078673084417 Oh no not austerity for the rich!
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/GravelierBerner/status/1199450125929762816 they know their audience
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galenanorth posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-lashes-out-protesters-vote-for-trump-2019-11?op=1 Biden's on crack! Nobody can listen to Bernie too much. Even if you were to take every word Bernie ever said since birth, and make an entire speech with it, it would still be too short!
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Nov 27, 2019 18:33
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WaPo wrote about Helen https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1199729166733717504
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Free college will end up with some interesting issues that are facing public schools where more people want to attend than there's room , but presumably all the administrators earning 500k can figure that out
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loquacius posted:https://twitter.com/GravelierBerner/status/1199450125929762816 Spending $4.25 on a latte every day is a gualg'in
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turn off the TV posted:https://twitter.com/thoatley/status/1199638078673084417 ~oUr MoSt LiBeRaL iNsTiTuTiOnS~
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turn off the TV posted:https://twitter.com/andrewelash/status/1199729566048231424 I love this argument because Hillary threw more poo poo (and birtherism) at Obama than anyone and he did fine while Bernie backed off Hillary's e-mails and lost. I wish these people actually cared about historical precedent instead of making poo poo up.
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Iron Twinkie posted:Is anyone earnestly arguing that the meritocracy is real or are we just disappearing up our butts about if a five foot four dude with heart can be a NFL linebacker? wow, extremely racist of you, maybe that guy just needs to try harder or... be born rich(?)
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The premise of that "free college is bad" article is that the federal government won't pay for "free college" so it will fail, but not only is it one of the cheapest programs in Bernie's agenda, it's one where he's explicitly offered a pay-for, as has Warren.
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Joementum posted:WaPo wrote about Helen Weigel contributed to this lol
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I went to a keynote speech at a conference about diversity in STEM and the speaker was some big time NGO guy who had been hired by google. His talk was liberalism.txt. He talked extensively about how [local public school system] was failing Black and Hispanic kids, because the average Black or Hispanic kid coming out of that school system had some ridiculously low average SAT score. He then went on to mention how in [selective colleges around the area] the minimum SAT was some ultra high score. And then he went on to talk about how in these colleges when the tech recruiters were on campus there was a line of students going around the block for a single internship that could lead to a high paying job. And his take away was that he was going to get google to invest more in supporting the kids in high school so they'd have a chance to compete. Nowhere in his talk was it mentioned that even if you increased those test scores by enough of a number so that every single new student in the nearby selective (as opposed to the big open enrollment state universities) colleges was Black or Hispanic, and that then every single student recruited by the big tech firms was Black or Hispanic,, you'd still have 90%+ of Black and Hispanic students not attending the selective colleges, and 99%+ not being recruited by big tech. 80%+ of all college students attend universities that are not highly selective. But the liberal concern is not with the existence of elite colleges that gobble up all the opportunities, but that those are distributed fairly. Theres never a question of what happens if they are successful and every kid has a 4.0. Theres never a recognition that selective colleges are exclusionary by design, not because there arent enough qualified students. That the business model of most tech firms depends on a sea of underemployed people doing menial tasks for low pay.
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Its possibly for mere mortals to surpass those blessed scions with powerful bloodlines. But such heaven-defying individuals are as rare as a phoenix feather or a qilin horn
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