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The sharpest bulb in the shed, I zig where others zig

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@ZDS_1941 @CourtsideFilms Best part of this video, every time

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@CookedbyRiley @celtics

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@MarcoAOrtiz4289 @HighyieldHarry Is that really the case? I thought most other Latinos hate the Argentinians. "Anyone but them"

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@ChristianHeiens @Spamdrain165105 Mbappe was born and raised in France, and he is accepted, and celebrated, as a fellow Frenchman by the near totality of his countrymen.

Your thoughts on the matter are utterly irrelevant. You are screaming into the void; he will live and die a French cultural icon.

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What we desperately need, in fact, is to crush any impulse to destroy good things because they are not equally distributed.

Good institutions do not just happen. Prestige is a lagging indicator of building something worth preserving. Cultural arsonists must be condemned.

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@Shineofhobi @k10mbp Seems like it's Em-Bappe ❌ vs. Mmbappe ✅

But Em-Bappe just rolls off the tongue more naturally in English, so I'm probably going to stick with that.

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@BonesawMD

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@BelRedDevils I'd tell you to enjoy your flight home, but I'd prefer you encounter some turbulence. In the meantime, we'll deliberate over whether we'll keep propping you up with our tax dollars. (No)

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Brother, this is television. Lalas is getting "bullied" because Fox knows people in the viewing audience eat it up. This isn't all that different from Shaq and Chuck getting into their regularly scheduled "heated debates" on Inside the NBA. They're all in on the joke (which is fine, this is entertainment).

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@plamen_neykov @CoreyWriting No one is holding us back—your leaders are begging us to stay. "Mooching off Europe" my ass.

BTW, feel free to find a non-American social media platform to vent your frustrations. Oh wait, there aren't any.

https://t.co/veGz80MLwr

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JUST IN: Belgian Defense Minister says Europe is not yet ready to defend itself without continued US support.

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@kian_persian @scottlincicome If he saves/invests...half his gross income?

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It's a good thing Trump isn't terminally online on X like the rest of us, or he would have withdrawn military support *with haste* after the trash talk from Belgians/Euros after our loss on Monday night. I know I would have.

Unfortunately for them, if we do end up with a President Vance in 2028...

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JUST IN: Belgian Defense Minister says Europe is not yet ready to defend itself without continued US support.

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@wildeforthetime @LokiJulianus There is a notable risk of the same in soccer, primarily because of headers.

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I skimmed this to see if you actually proposed a solution.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't find one, aside from, "we should build up our village."

Okay, great—you do that. Let me know where you offer your volunteer services on Saturday mornings, and when I have kids, maybe I can bring them there.

In the meantime, that isn't a scalable solution. People value their time and generally want to be paid for giving it up to make commitments like this. That is Lalas's whole point.

The market "machine" is simply our collective acknowledgment that incentive structures exist for human beings. You can't wish or guilt your way out of that reality.

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"It should be free" is your euphemism for "other people should work to create this service I want at little to no personal cost to me."

Notice how you haven't actually specified how to make this free, even though you've guaranteed we can somehow do this. Come on, tell us! This discourse has totally consumed X for the last two days and you're sitting on a solution and not going to tell the rest of us??

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Okay, so you haven't actually pointed to Lalas endorsing this, which is a reasonable point for me to make because there's a big delta between Lalas saying "these things cost time and money," which is an observation rooted in reality, and Lalas advocating for predatory PE interests.

You can't just lump those two things together under "context." But even if I were to concede that Lalas is somehow tacitly supporting the PE model because he wants market-oriented solutions, what exactly is your fix?

Clearly the PE model is odious to many people, so why not create your own low-cost alternative? Seems like you'd have families desperate to get away from the PE model and sign their kids up for your alternative. What's stopping you, or any of the many people complaining about the current system, from pouncing on that opportunity?

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I skimmed this to see if you actually proposed a solution.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't find one, aside from, "we should build up our village."

Okay, great—you do that. Let me know where you offer your volunteer services on Saturday mornings, and when I have kids, maybe I can bring them there.

In the meantime, that isn't a scalable solution. People value their time and generally want to be paid for giving it up to make commitments like this. That is Lalas's whole point.

The market "machine" is simply our collective acknowledgment that incentive structures exist for human beings. You can't wish or guilt your way out of that reality.

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@project_821 @jwoodmwq @jbillinson Can you point me to where Lalas said this specifically?

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@ThaCapn27 @AlexiLalas "Just have heckin' empathy and make soccer infrastructure free for everyone, guys! ❤️💙🤍🧡🗣️🙌🥰 Also if you disagree with how I think we should go about this you should DIE and I can't wait to dance on your grave."

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@ivanis_thegoat Good banter. You take care and better luck to both of our teams next time around.