Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism.ย
American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.
And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.
For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.
We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.
The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.
It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feelโ the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.
12 pick slide for Caleb in this #UnderdogCardioClub made me scramble for the back stack. Probably too thin at WR so Iโm unhappy catching that particular falling knife; guess we will find out in week 15.
@MBolduc88 Was in this draft and would have appreciated the heads up; I took an unstacked Shough! Was fascinating to watch in real time how this played out.
Tough on crime socialism would get insane margins at the polls. Iโm not even talking about whether itโs a good idea. The average American wants a free F150 and for thieves to be flogged on YouTube Live.
@Mincashftw Insomuch as you can afford, 100%. Will not advocate for you or anyone to overextend just to max out on a strategy that is 99% losing, anyways. I really appreciate the thought of ROBUST WR as your entry strategy and appreciate the convo around it.
Randy Arozarena stepped out of the box on three straight pitches because he knew the pitcher wasnโt throwing him a strike.
The count went to 3-0.
Next pitch, he absolutely nuked a home run.
One of the most disrespectful at-bats in MLB history.
@Mincashftw Would like to argue that, if(when) youโre playing BBM you should be leaning in to that strategy solely. Play other contests for advance rate or getting higher roi but BBM is a losing contest anyways; take only the massive swings there.
@Mincashftw As a lifelong break even player (3rd in a 2021 Puppy) I really appreciate this strategy. Itโs akin to robust RB, just zagging to robust WR. Itโs a strong strategy for BBM, as you need to be unique *on top* of being insanely lucky. And this is a unique strategy.
@Mincashftw Thereโs a 40% onus on me for thinking that WRs should fill four spots not three and 60% onus on you for drafting Davante Adams instead of DJ Moore.