I generally take the line that most problems are caused by poverty and lack of opportunity. If you feel that changing a racist team name would be equally impactful as, say, building infrastructure and creating jobs for people living on reserves, because everything is connected, fine, you’re entitled to your opinion,,,…

That’s actually a terrible example to illustrate your point. Cable is a luxury and gas is a necessity, so in that situation you would be foolish to focus on them equally. This is what I was getting at earlier... there are a finite number of progressively-minded people out there, and their time and money is finite...…

Yes, but this often comes up in discussions of other social issues. Obviously people can champion different issues simultaneously, that goes without saying, but I always feel like at the end of the day, resources are finite. People have a certain amount of time (and a certain amount of money), and it’s just not enough…

Smallest possible sample size warning, but my ex was native, and when I asked her how she felt she basically said that she didn’t LIKE it, but she didn’t really care much either, because there were “a million more important things for the Native community to focus on”

No it’s owned by a different oligarch, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.

I’m not saying it wasn’t understandable from his perspective... but he really crippled his career prospects (no pun intended). Running QBs generally transition into dropback QBs over time, as they become more accustomed to the speed of NFL defences and their passing intuition develops... Griffin tried to get rid of…

So much of his success was predicated on his running ability. He basically decided heading into his second season that he wasn’t gonna run any more, and without that to keep defences guessing, his lack of QB fundamentals was exposed in a major way. I honestly think a big part of his troubles is this fixation on being…

I don’t understand why you’ve wasted so much time trying to defend a company that was literally voted the worst in America, for precisely this kind of behaviour. Do you work for EA or something?

ehh... The Gunslinger was pretty focused and self-contained. The rest of the series, though....

I’ll have you know that the Daily Mail serves an important purpose in our society. How else would I know what D-list UK celebs are wearing when they “put their pins on parade”?

Are you 18 years old or something? This has been the subject of debate for literally like 30 years already.

Dwyane Wade is such a manufactured star. The rigged 2006 finals were such a heavy-handed attempt to get Wade over as the next big thing at the 2 thay it soured me on him forever. Also, dude can’t shoot, never learned how to shoot, and gets his on offense solely based on a quick first step and the knowledge that the…

Contracts CAN be modified or voided in a bankruptcy, but this one wasn’t, and it’s rather late to attempt to renegotiate.

Intuitively it might seem like that but i remember a study that found that unfiltered joints were less wasteful than bongs, because the water also filters out some of the THC.

CP3 for Kyrie. Clips get a younger piece who they can partner with Blake long-term, Cavs go all-in during Lebron’s last few prime seasons.

Yes but i suspect they are fans of receiving huge sums of money... The real issue with a Silmarillion adaptation is that it’s not really a straightforward hero narrative like Hobbit or LotR, it’s more like a history of Middle Earth... It will be difficult to make into a dumbed-down, lowest-common-denominator Hollywood…

You have been owned in this exchange worse than I’ve seen anyone get owned in an online argument in quite a while. Not only that but it was obviously you whose Jimmies were being rustled by the whole thing. You are a funny, funny man

You can make a good argument that being rich is inherently immoral. Being rich means hoarding more wealth than necessary rather than giving the excess to people in need. That’s basically the moral of the New Testament btw (“easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom…

Aw looks like a Wall St. parasite got his feelings hurt. :(

No, it WASN’T a “direct maritime attack in neutral waters.” It was a trumped-up incident created to further the policy objectives of one of the governments involved. Seems like a fairly close analogy to me.