I think that argument works against your point, not for it. If you’re just making minimum wage, then why is this job so valuable to you? Hang onto your integrity and call Sinclair fascists on air, then go try to unionize your McDonalds.

Good point — and certainly I’m inclined to take a theory of online boorishness seriously when authored by someone named “Fizzaaaaaaartz.”

Ensuring vicious competition between employees and a distribution of all benefits on the basis of results as measured by simple metrics (for academia, publications and grants) is, um, definitely already here in the academic world. Anyone who thinks otherwise is relying on decades-old stereotypes.

Also they’re the first generation that hasn’t suffered from widespread lead poisoning.

I think you missed his point. His point is that—aside from anonymous people complaining on the internet, which is essentially unavoidable —there’s no real evidence anything is broken in the NBA.

“the man who loudly called out _____ as the cynical business that it is and then quietly made his own cynical peace with it.”

I suspect everyone reading this post will be able to put their industry in that blank and have this sentence be true of them. It’s certainly true of me (higher education).

I think maybe you missed the OP’s point?

Of course you’re right. But old Democrats over young Republicans. In fact, anybody over young Republicans.

My theory as to how this happened: they started trying to think of famous women, and didn’t realize until too late that everyone in the room was subconsciously only coming up with “A” names. Then they just sounded right together.

Ooh I like this take. I feel like this is an episode of Veep.

By all means, go find someone else with a political base in Tennessee who’s willing to run for Senate with a D next to their name.

Wait, and this is supposed to convince me he’s less likely to sign in Philadelphia?

You’re talking about recent years, but this isn’t a bad summary of Harold Perkin’s thesis about the rise of professional society more generally. The trouble with the notion of “professionalism” is that it seems disinterested but actually isn’t — professionals are very interested in everyone agreeing on the importance…

I feel like this joke works equally well for the band and the sex tape.

With respect, I do not think you know what the word “disingenuous” means, unless you think “Orlandu7" is really Kirk Cousins’s agent.

Owned. I finished the story.

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Did you even bother to try to understand the larger point I was making? Man, I knew you were arguing in bad faith. Why do I feed trolls?

There is zero need to eliminate the 2nd amendment to eliminate private possessions of guns in America. The eighth amendment claims that we have a right not to have excessive bail or excessive fines imposed, and that has stopped literally no one. All American needs is a non-crazy interpretation of the 2nd.

I read through a few of your past comments, and you seem to be acting in good faith, so, to speak precisely: your objection plays on a narrow definition of “rich” — literally, possessing large amounts of money. What the original comment and various other posters are arguing is a broader definition, one where the term…