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it's my Cramer Bear Stearns magnum opus

it cannot be over emphasised how catastrophically that take at the top has aged

A noticeable share of the top of our decision-makers population developed visible physical aggro tendencies and some wild risk taking tendencies at the same time as they developed bodybuilding physiques, that's a weird coincidence, and I have no further questions

Just saw the clip of that US Senator joining the brawl against that protesting veteran, and it remains incredible to me how little we discuss that a lot of these people exhibit all the signs of being on massive amounts of gear (with all the attendant behaviour side effects)

the failson with delusion of grandeur obsessed with its rightful inheritance even though Daddy himself never thought he'd amount to much, also fits

Blue Labour be like

the keeping of the Dr Strangelove avi all through the transformation adds to the greek tragedy of things: from a bit to actually becoming the character for real

Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound. Kurtz: Are my methods unsound? Willard: I don't see any method at all, sir.

Gonna get a lot of use out of this

Yes. "much less fragile than commonly thought", lol, 1986!

One suspects the "It's different, and actually good, when you do it to a very very bad guy" rationale may have ramifications that are not going to be universally enjoyable

also: I see what you did there, Sander, you're not subtle

that man went in a year from being obsessed with the loss against PSG and saying he wanted to be them in literally every other sentence to whatever miserable plan he now trots out every weekend because they kept getting clipped even at home by the likes of Forest

"We'll fund your football clubs and take in some of the greediest adventurers you have (the type who'd have gone make bank in the colonies back when you had them).

What do you mean, what do we want in exchange? Nothing 😇, you'll get us a round next time"

society when Arteta is replaced by Cesc who then immediately happens to have Slot-like beginner's luck in his first season

I am also admittedly, given my location, doing the usual bit of mixing the online debate with the irl talking points (this time with the latter being the mad caps)

that said, there is something amusing in Arsenal fans being so defensive about being called out personally - like aristocrats being offended when people point out that they are now making their money in the mud business, instead of proudly saying that's because that's where the money is!

an interesting auto-fix to the situation is that if they don't get it over the line this year, there might be the beginning of self doubt that this approach is not sustainable physically over 38+Europe, which is clearly one of the reasons they've been a bit more mid lately

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

this is a proxy for 'I need you to show some respect' or flat out 'the damn children don't even bother to call these days', right?

there's lots of reasons for the games being a tough sit: max physicality, no fool managers top to bottom so every week is a potential trap you have to protect for if you're a contender, and a touch of US sports set piece maximalisation (that's the bit that could easily be regulated away)

it's really just that the style that wins games in the premier league at the moment is objectively a rough watch and the squad that wins the most games is painted with the attributes of the league as a whole

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

The dubai expat very vocal about the shittiness of the metropole* really is one hell of a textbook example of "I DIDN'T REALISE I WAS SELLING A PUT!", maybe the cleanest one in recent memory.

it's a pretty sharp strategy/philosophy, because you don't even have to prove that you have said majority - you just need to claim that if you had one, you should be able to do whatever the fuck you want

And then when the barrier is gone, you push through with a plurality whenever you luck into one

the ECHR obsession is this process in its final form: the majoritarian impulse should be able to run over anything, and the mere notion of 'rights' is anti democratic in this framework

"siri, what is `la Françafrique`"

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As everyone points out in the replies and in the QTs, this is a lot harder that you would expect when first hearing the prompt question

whole bunch of stable geniuses in a lot of fields introducing more and more variance in the system, in the belief that it only goes one way. So far correct, but...

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