Patrick R Flavin

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It’s very craży that 70-80 year olds are generally seen as unemployable due to physical and mental decline BUT we're allowing them to run our ENTIRE country.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.

[Mike @downthebyline]

Missed this live cause I was watching the replays, but the St. Louis fan trying to pay off the ref gave me a laugh.

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

HOME RUN DERBY CHAMPION!

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

The first HOME RUN DERBY CHAMPION in franchise history 🏆

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

We seal envelopes not because the letter contains a conspiracy, but because the contents belong exclusively to the sender and the receiver.

The "nothing to hide" argument is pure corporate/state propaganda. Privacy isn't about hiding a crime; it's about deciding who gets access to your life. It’s a boundary of power, not a shield for guilt.

[Patrick R Flavin @prflavin]

@MattBakerSTL @stlCITYsc Anyone got the country code for Cape Verde they can send to Diego the Decision Maker?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Bill Walsh @wwalsh]

The defender was beaten. He slowed Balogun by grabbing the arm and he pulled himself even at the same time. He then used his shoulder to disrupt the shot.
I saw this live…sitting on my sofa - but the officials and TV crew missed it?

[Bill Walsh @wwalsh]

Balogun was in on goal. He beat the defender and was about to score.
No red card. No penalty. No yellow card. No foul. No review.
The bizarre thing is that Fox Sports showed a replay that began just AFTER the defender let go of the arm. So weird. How could the officials miss this? And how could the TV crew miss it as well? @USMNT

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

when we say “crime is a social construct”.

what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Presenting Heaven's IT Guy

Fascinating lore created here

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

New video breaking down why the U.S. is a dictatorship of capital where both parties serve capital not people. The system was designed to exploit us, not save or serve us. That is why if we want change we have to save ourselves by building power in our workplaces and communities.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

One thing they don't tell you about the “push a button for a million dollars but someone you don't know dıės” hypothetical is that literally every billionaire is effectively pressing that button as much as they can all the time just because that's how exploitation works

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The minimum wage is meant to be the lowest wage you can live on and afford housing. For everyone saying “it's not meant to be that,” yes, it is.

That's why it's called the minimum wage.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

New video reacting to Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

A society that is producing trillionaires while people are sleeping out on the streets and struggling to afford basic needs is a society that is in desperate need of a revolution.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

THIS is what democracy looks like.