01-22-2018 10:12 PM
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01-22-2018 10:12 PM
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Migration of labor (and capital) certainly isn't obsolete, though citizenship for non-natives may be something else. |
01-22-2018 10:15 PM
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I tend to think that opinion derives from the economic situation they most pay attention to. Declining birthrates are an utter disaster for the welfare systems these countries created. |
01-22-2018 11:39 PM
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01-22-2018 11:50 PM
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The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. | |
Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 01-22-2018 at 11:52 PM. | |
01-25-2018 09:24 AM
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If an American manufacturing company laid off it's workers to move operations overseas where it's cheaper....that would be reported in the American news media as a bad thing. The headline and substance of the story, would be almost entirely negative. It would be called a loss for America, and a win for whatever shithole country the company moves its factory into. |
01-25-2018 11:44 AM
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What is fraudulent about it? I get that it's biased, but I'm confused on where the fraud is. |
01-25-2018 11:49 AM
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01-25-2018 11:59 AM
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How do we know that is good news? I can tell you without even asking them that every one of my economics professors would say it's bad economic news. All the economists I read who don't like Trump, it's because of this stuff. Where did Paul Krugman derive his prediction of demise and never-recovery of the economy from a Trump victory? From the belief that Trump would do a tremendous amount of what is in the article. |
01-25-2018 12:32 PM
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Obviousness |
01-25-2018 12:50 PM
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Nobody calls Krugman as big of a loser as I do. |
01-25-2018 01:39 PM
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01-25-2018 04:06 PM
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Sometimes capitalists are really really really fucking stupid.... |
01-25-2018 04:11 PM
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01-25-2018 04:14 PM
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01-25-2018 04:30 PM
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They probably believe there is a market on account of avid fans dropping the NFL on account of the sorry ass kneelers. |
01-25-2018 04:31 PM
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01-25-2018 04:36 PM
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That he did. |
01-25-2018 04:41 PM
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This is being WAY overblown as an explanation for the NFL ratings decline. The only evidence to support this anecdotal at best. Plus, it's virtually over with now anyway. If any players are still kneeling....no one cares. |
01-25-2018 04:44 PM
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I'm in almost total agreement. I wouldn't invest in the XFL at any normal price. |
01-25-2018 04:45 PM
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Jordan, Barry Sanders, two guys I don't know about, Belichick. |
01-25-2018 04:52 PM
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I said that the question was a punchline....but it can also be a serious question. "Who is the second best coach in the NFL?" |
Last edited by BananaStand; 01-25-2018 at 05:00 PM. | |
01-25-2018 04:53 PM
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Last edited by BananaStand; 01-25-2018 at 04:57 PM. | |
01-25-2018 05:03 PM
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The XFL situation is extremely interesting and has a whole hell of a lot more depth than the treatment that it's getting. Here are a few important points: | |
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01-25-2018 05:19 PM
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I'm not the best for current NFL discussion. |
01-25-2018 05:29 PM
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Even as those defenses were organizing their entire strategy around stopping Barry at almost any cost. |
01-26-2018 09:05 AM
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He didn't carry his team very far. I remember a playoff game in the mid 90's where Barry logged -1 yards of rushing against Green Bay. The Lions were never considered "good", and were never considered better than second best within their own division during any of the years Barry played. |
01-26-2018 09:21 AM
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He completely re-defined the position. He was big enough, strong enough, and fast enough to cover any wide receiver in the game 1 on 1. He could cover a guy man-to-man, and still deny entire portions of the field to other receivers because he was so fucking fast. His numbers are impressive, but some of his best games have goose-eggs on the stat sheet. That's because offenses simply wouldn't ever put the ball anywhere near him. |
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01-26-2018 09:56 AM
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Depth?? |
Last edited by BananaStand; 01-26-2018 at 10:32 AM. | |
01-26-2018 12:19 PM
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Other variables. Even the best player gets creamed if the other variables don't work right. I remember laughing at how often Emmitt Smith had holes the size of the Grand Canyon opened to him by his amazing line that he just ran straight through. Barry rarely go those holes. He made his own holes. Put Smith on the Lions back then and nobody would even remember his name. The Lions had one great offense player, Barry. That Barry's results far worse than they would have been since he couldn't build off of teammates success as well and defenses allocated more resources to stop Barry than they would otherwise. The Cowboys from then had the opposite problem. With several great offense players, each could build off the results created by the others, and the defenses against them couldn't allocate resources so directly against any individual. |
01-26-2018 12:22 PM
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I'll go point-by-point with you on this once, but I'm not going to go into paragraphs-long discussion. | |
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01-26-2018 12:23 PM
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01-26-2018 12:35 PM
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They haven't. They only thing you can really do is hope to get a Deion Sanders. Shut-down cornerbacks are one of the best paid positions in football. Stephon Gilmore gets $13M a year to do this.... |
Last edited by BananaStand; 01-26-2018 at 12:38 PM. | |
01-26-2018 12:43 PM
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It would be neat to see. I might argue that Barry would shine greatly in this environment, where defenses have gotten better at stopping the straightfoward running back and stopping the Grand Canyon holes created by great linemen. |
01-26-2018 01:17 PM
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Hey BStand, you're a big, big fan of tax cuts. As you should be because they are great. What do you think about getting more tax cuts by spending less on bureaucracy? |
01-26-2018 01:32 PM
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The question is really broad, so it's hard to answer. |
Last edited by BananaStand; 01-26-2018 at 01:42 PM. | |
01-26-2018 01:41 PM
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Income tax is among the least effective taxes there are. |
01-26-2018 01:44 PM
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01-26-2018 01:49 PM
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No income tax is a real boon to the few states that don't have it. |
01-26-2018 01:51 PM
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Washington is likely to eventually get it because of its growth in the emotion-first crowd. Hopefully I will leave the state by then. |
01-26-2018 02:00 PM
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Do you have a sales tax or value-added tax or w/e in your state? ' Cause commie-red Alberta doesn't. | |
01-26-2018 02:02 PM
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01-26-2018 02:04 PM
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01-26-2018 02:06 PM
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01-26-2018 02:12 PM
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Property taxes are high. But that keeps property values low, so no one really notices. My place in Massachusetts (literally less than 15 miles away), would cost 3x as much and the property taxes would be about 1/3. Altogether, my mortgage+tax payment is probably around half of what it would be for a similar place in Mass. |
01-26-2018 02:14 PM
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So they just find different ways to live free or pay taxes. | |
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01-26-2018 02:16 PM
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01-26-2018 02:17 PM
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01-26-2018 02:19 PM
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Do you have equalization payments in the US? Like some states/provinces pays extra in to the feds and they give it to the shithole provinces/states? | |
01-26-2018 02:21 PM
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01-26-2018 02:26 PM
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01-26-2018 02:30 PM
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Sounds like taxation without representation. We consider that a bad thing here. |
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01-26-2018 02:32 PM
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All right we're gonna give you stuff because you're not doing well but don't take this to mean that you not doing well is why we're giving you stuff. |
01-26-2018 02:32 PM
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01-26-2018 02:34 PM
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01-26-2018 02:36 PM
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I have no opinion on the specifics of that case or on the specifics of that policy. |
01-26-2018 02:36 PM
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01-26-2018 02:37 PM
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01-26-2018 02:38 PM
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01-26-2018 02:49 PM
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01-26-2018 02:51 PM
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01-26-2018 02:54 PM
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01-26-2018 03:01 PM
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01-26-2018 03:05 PM
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01-26-2018 03:09 PM
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01-26-2018 03:15 PM
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01-26-2018 03:19 PM
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01-26-2018 03:23 PM
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01-26-2018 03:25 PM
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01-26-2018 03:29 PM
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01-26-2018 03:31 PM
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01-26-2018 03:33 PM
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01-26-2018 03:34 PM
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01-26-2018 03:37 PM
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01-26-2018 03:43 PM
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How do you know what I believe is a problem, or that I think a problem exists in the first place? | |