How disconnected from reality are you? This stuff happens every day. At least they aren’t beating guys to death like they did after 9/11.

Agreed. Now how do you convince the Democrats to not select bad candidates like Hillary Clinton in the primaries?

Really? Because I could have sworn we were drinking beer and playing board games just like normal. And I could have sworn the response I got when I asked about it was “Yeah, what do you expect?”. Before we all get on our outrage/panic trains, maybe we should see what actually happens first, huh?

It’s always been there, we’re just paying attention to it more now. Apparently people don’t remember Muslim-looking people being beaten to death after 9/11, Mexican immigrants being shot to death on the border by militias or any of the other shit they were so upset about during the Bush years. Let’s not pretend this…

...hahaha, what? Have you read our history? This country has had tons of KKK members, many of them basically open members, in congress. Hell, we’ve had them in the last 20 years.

Remembered that the president controls less than we think and that this is hardly the first time we’ve had a shitty conservative president. Went back to everyday life.

Huh, weird. I loaded the game up last night and it ran smoothly; I’ve got a beefier rig, but mine isn’t crazy high. What’s your RAM like? I know they were recommending 16 GB and I’m running 32 GB.

My Big Fat Fiery Intimidation Tactic

It’s a simple fact of reality, charisma wins elections. More than policy wonk. More than qualifications. More than whether or not you get the right endorsements. If you can’t motivate people, fire them up to vote, something that is an unpleasant pain in the ass for most of the country, then you will lose. This is…

All right, how about this then? If nothing else, HIllary Clinton’s lack of charisma/not being terrible killed any interest in people coming out to vote.

Every poll prior to the end of the primaries for months showed Benrie Sanders soundly defeating Trump in the general election, while Hillary frequently was behind Trump or nearly dead even. What’s more, Bernie was actually not well, reprehensible to a lot of independent voters like Hillary was (including myself).…

In many cases their unemployment rate is lower because they have given up on finding work; if you give up you don’t count for government unemployment statistics.

The candidate was capable and qualified...but also flawed and mired in a swath of scandals and problems. Clinton was abhorrent to independents and as I said multiple times during the Democratic primaries, doesn’t excite anyone outside of her own party. Yes, this is Democrats fault, they once again put out a crappy…

But that cap on spending is what keeps the league competitive and from spending itself into oblivion. I get that some people cringe at salary caps and all, but it’s necessary for the moment to keep the league from folding.

Nah, nothing crazy, just people not wanting to give Seba the MVP title twice in a row.

They pretty much can. Technically they can only pay up to about $450k on a player, but that can be gotten around using allocation money or by making the player a “designated player”. There’s some other, funky rules, but the cap is not holding back spending, that’s the ownership, many of whom are supposedly still…

If we had pro/rel and the uncapped league that comes with it, we wouldn’t have a professional league, that’s the bottom line. There isn’t enough financial support, yet, to do that.

Yep, because MLS certainly dissuaded the Philadelphia Union, Seattle Sounders, Portland Timbers and other fan-backed teams from joining the league. As for the “registered players” let’s keep in mind that can be deceptive; an awful lot of great players weren’t registered until they joined a major team’s academy, they…

How? It’s not like fan support and money is going to flood in just because we have pro/rel now. European leagues created pro/rel because they had too many roughly equivalent teams, US Soccer is no where near that point yet. At best, you could say the NY Cosmos are roughly on MLS’s level financially, but even that…

What the everloving fuck? So now some people are just openly calling for journalists to be killed? I need to drink until this world makes sense.