The transition of sports fandom from loyalty and joy and community to monetization and commodification is a little heartbreaking to me. A signal of the broader commercialization of everything not nailed down in America.
boomers cry about property taxes because their homes have increased so much in value (they love that part) but they’re mad they have to pay taxes based on the higher value of their homes (they think that part is unfair.)
The next president should just do what this one does and not give an actual fuck. Claw back every dollar.
I have a hard time fathoming a US court accepting the argument that someone can be given immunity for future illegal conduct they plan to commit.
Step 1: Spend money getting Trump elected
Step 2: Have him kill the nationwide broadband initiative put in place under Biden that was already well on its way to completion
Step 3: Once the nationwide broadband has been killed on the premise that "Starlink negated the need for it", raise the price of Starlink
A California mayor just pled guilty to being a literal foreign agent of the Chinese government. She ran a CCP propaganda website disguised as local news.
NBC's angle? The real problem is that reporting on it "reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination."
As an Asian American: accurately reporting that a foreign agent infiltrated local government is not anti-Asian. Framing it that way to suppress the story is.
Using "anti-Asian bias" as a shield to protect an actual CCP agent from scrutiny is the most anti-Asian thing I can think of. It implies that Chinese Americans are so fragile, or so suspect, that we can't handle the truth about foreign espionage in our own communities.
We can handle it. We're the ones most harmed by it.
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My favorite pass time is looking up how sports owners got their money half the time it’s they started some predatory lending company (see dundon), or a predatory call center (Dan Snyder)
New Blazers owner Tom Dundon is reportedly “ruthless” and will not hesitate to move the franchise to Nashville, Austin, or Kalamazoo if Portland politicians continue to treat the relocation threat as a “hollow bluff,” per @billoram
It’s clear they didn’t want to suspend him, but you need to think of the precedent you set.
Now any time anyone does something less than battery and it’s their “first offense” they can claim the wembenyama precedent. It will be brought up every suspension.
Truly dumb by Silver
This is why people hate the nba media.
They set the script that the league office wants. Immediately the announcers downplayed saying it might be a 2.
Next they set the conversation on if he should be suspended not how many games. This is exactly what silver wants.
Brian Windhorst on Wemby getting ejected:
“I do think there’s a chance he’ll get a fine…. This was a very immature act by a player who took himself out of the game… absolutely unacceptable to do this in a playoff game. Also to act like he didn’t know what the results were on the bench, Victor is one of the smartest young players. He knew exactly what he had done. He knows exactly what happens on a flagrant 2”
@LeBatardShow Being tall is no excuse like you guys seem to make it seem. He chose to be a violent hot head after the play. He full cock elbowed a guy to the upper neck.
It’s a disgrace of a league that they allow that. The series is about to get a lot more physical for wemby.
@LuchaSpursLucha@Wolvesmuse You don’t get it lol.
Wemby has the knees equivalent of pool noodles maybe pipe it down before we have some erratic dives for loose balls.