James X

Future Optimist | Human in the Loop |
Geopolitics? | Bad @lakings hockey takes | 🇨🇦 by birth 🇺🇲 by providence

[James X @WriteTheFutureJ]

@NHLRussell He needs to be doughty instead of Dumoulin.

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@NHLRussell @JGbPoway How do you know what he said?

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@NHLRussell Clarke does need to bulk up some but he's still young.

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@MarcelAndRogie It's nothing. He's just looking up a guy he will want to fight sometime, maybe.

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@TopCheddar69 It's probably nothing.

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@JamesLambLA @ByfieldForHart Yes, I think it was player wives. I wouldn't get too excited about it though.

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@ByfieldForHart Laine's wife followed wives on the Kings team but we haven't signed him... I wouldn't get too excited about it.

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@DooleyLAK @LAKings I think the Kings should go 8/10 instead of 11/7. They might as well skate 3 defensemen every shift...

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@Papa_P38 They should really 8/10 and just play 3 defensemen every shift.

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@WCK604 @edels0n I'm not opposed to healthy checks and balances.

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@mayorNHL Maybe we're signing Laine? Lol. Laviolette's hopefully has been giving an earful to Holland about what the roster lacks.

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@TheMichaelEvery This is fascinating. It almost seems as though it could extend to the much of the west as well, though far less closely.

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@peterrhague Fascinating comparison. How long until the revolution happens?

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@matpondofficial @edels0n What I'm not saying is that America is free from corruption. America has corruption. What I am saying is that capitalist counties on average have less than socialist and communist countries. People in the west generally have it far better than elsewhere, but don't realize it.

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Analyses of the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) against the Heritage or Fraser economic freedom indices shows that systems with heavy state control of the economy (classic socialism/communism) have historically produced higher systemic corruption. Contemporary examples include Venezuela (CPI score of 10, near the bottom), North Korea (very low scores), Cuba (mid-40s), China (~43), and Russia (low 20s). Post-communist transitions show retained elevated corruption, with some studies linking longer socialist rule or higher historical Communist Party membership to worse outcomes with variation raising from culture and development level.

Go to Tajikistan and get pulled over by the police for having a car that isn't clean enough.

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@matpondofficial @edels0n And you know this because?

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@AStanovich68 And Gavrikov trade rumor time as well.

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@shawcb1971 @RinkyReport That's what I'm afraid of. Lol

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@bruce_tagle @NewYorker There is still hope for the future. All is not yet lost.