Well, might as well add my idea to the the various anti-tanking ideas out there.
Introducing the **Rotating Position-Based Lottery**
This proposal eliminates tanking by severing the link between regular season losses and draft lottery odds.
@cliffnuttman@Johnny_photog@NateSilver538 Too late. Primary is next week. It’s Platner versus Collins. He’s leading her in most polls. He’ll be a huge improvement over her if he wins. I think we can all agree to ignore his body art.
@HistoryBoomer Defeating Susan Collins means one less vote in the United States Senate for the MAGA movement that is rapidly destroying everything that is good about this country. Also, potential SCOTUS vacancies! To me, the choice isn’t remotely close, despite Platner’s personal deficiencies.
To be clear, I don't think and have never thought Platner is an optimal general election nominee for US Senate. But does any realistic alternative exist at this late juncture?
I doubt it. Mills has already dropped out, and the other candidate has zero name recognition.
@NateSilver538 I want my friends/family to exhibit good character. I hope I do so myself. Indeed, I'd prefer my elected officials do the same. But giving another Senate majority to MAGA would be a disaster for the country.
Platner's dating history and body art are irrelevant to the above.
@HistoryBoomer Defeating Susan Collins means one less vote in the United States Senate for the MAGA movement that is rapidly destroying everything that is good about this country. Also, potential SCOTUS vacancies! To me, the choice isn’t remotely close, despite Platner’s personal deficiencies.
@Ltdsoltd@mattyglesias The Lakers aren’t remotely one of the three best run franchises in the league. They just have an unmatched recruitment advantage.
@Ltdsoltd@mattyglesias The Lakers aren’t remotely one of the three best run franchises in the league. They just have an unmatched recruitment advantage.
@adeebhafeez16@RonFilipkowski Ossoff—a purple state leader who codes as moderate AND can attract a lot of the left—makes a shit ton more sense for Democrats than Newsom. I like the latter, mind you, but he's historically underperformed electorally, and Dems don't need help carrying California.
@adeebhafeez16@RonFilipkowski You've provided zero backup for your assertion he's too young to run for for POTUS. Absolutely nothing wrong with a man in his early 40s aspiring for that office. After a decade of octogenarian rule, Americans are ready for a change.
@coryfromphilly This looks nothing like the third world. Have you actually lived in a developing country?
I'm an ardent YIMBY. That corridor (really, that entire metro) should be radically upzoned. Hell, the whole country should be.
But crazy takes like this help no one.
Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.
Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional
@W_T_Han I don't think it's really even a pretense here in the 2020s, is it? When's the last time a top US official said or implied Taiwan is free to join the PRC if that's what its people want?
Maybe I've missed it, but I don't think we've seen language to this effect in decades.