@LokiJulianus We neither need to engage in revisionist history to make LG some kind of based saint nor dance on the grave of a senator who mostly sided with Trump’s agenda when it mattered
@Rho_die@Trust_Lion_ I think he was probably gay but in a very particular old school southern way where you just didn’t “need” to come out and “be gay.” Actually takes more effort to do that in the modern age than to be a typical fag. Closeted is the default.
@RaiSumi18@ShoopDaBoofs1@Columbiasbooks@girlatlawstuff It must take immense effort on your part to live in some fairyland world where you have to pretend that the behavior of black people in public hasn’t made life demonstrably worse for everyone else.
@MisfitToy4Ever@LokiJulianus The NBA is falling behind the MLB on most metrics of popularity partly because of its own flopping epidemic, so this doesn’t really make the point you think it is.
@Emolclause@PpollingNumbers Much more likely, Schumer. Collins is going to win reelection at this point but she would have an easier time against Platner vs. any alternative.
@corsair21c Thing is, Jena was near-existential for Prussia, leading to its temporary subjugation. The Iran war is a poor strategic result but imo not an actual shock, more of an annoyance. It’s unpleasant to think about what an American Jena would look like.
@GearsAndInk@HedgeDirty Yeah we don’t even have a soccer youth development pipeline in the European sense. We have a pay-to-play system where academies make money off the parents’ continued investment. Europe has youth clubs who will *pay* the most talented kids to play for them.
@Steve_Sailer And obviously American incentives for kids to pick sports early on puts soccer in 4th or 5th place. Doesn’t help either that our youth development pipeline is backwards from Europe: it’s essentially pay-to-play. We would never “develop” a Messi the way it’s set up now.
@Steve_Sailer Haaland is tall but is actually slim for 6’5” at 205 lbs. He’d need to bulk up.
But the debate about using bubble NFL or NBA players for soccer is missing the point: we would need to have those kinds of athletes start playing soccer when they’re 4, not switch sports.
We always seem to go out in the round of 16, which consistently puts us at top-20 worldwide. Pretty good for something that would never fill up bars with people if we weren’t hosting.
Sort of feels like the ceiling for us unless incentives for kids changes.
The clear pill is that the US is actually pretty damn good at soccer considering the investment in youth development (low compared to Europe) and overall level of national interest (the fifth or even sixth sport nationally).