all this shai discourse does is reinforce how disturbingly manufacturable mass opinion really is people don’t even need to process information anymore they’ve already inherited their conclusions
Mainstream media consensus was that nba needed to bring back the midrange and physical basketball and then a team with an all time great midrange scorer and a physical defense comes along and it’s just nothing but hatred you can’t make it up
Back in 2014 I was on a walking tour of Dresden and our guide kept referring to the firebombing destroying this or that building until an American girl in her 20s raised her hand to ask "sorry, who firebombed Dresden?" and the group fell so silent you could hear a pin drop
Lincoln Riley going to USC and saying he was going to make Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum the “Mecca of college football” and then having to put out a statement begging for fans to show up to games is objectively hilarious.
when the league got the Wolves for doing this with Joe Smith they voided his contract and took their next 5 firsts. the Clippers don’t even have firsts to give. they might just shoot Steve Ballmer on NBC
Our biggest economic competitors have train stations that look like this and Americans want to debate whether we should have trains that connect major cities?