Every decision GWB made, he (wrongly) believed he was making the tough choices to make America safer in a time when Americans felt very unsafe.

Yep. If someone incompetently careens a bus into a ravine killing a bunch of passengers, we don’t shrug and accept he was a dumbass who couldn’t do better, we hold him responsible for not fulfilling his duties to a minimum standard.

This argument sucks, man! George W. Bush isn’t a lost child; he was the president. He saw photos of the torture, from the man who approved of that torture, and then he stood up for that guy. I linked to this in the blog, which I’m now not sure you fully read.

Every decision GWB made, he (wrongly) believed he was making the tough choices to make America safer in a time when Americans felt very unsafe

Thus the marvel of capitalism. It doesn’t care about political systems, repressive regimes, or anything else, all it cares about is the free economic market. The ever present need for growth to deliver value for shareholders is more important the system of democracy in which it grew.

The segment steered clear of any political discussions, but notably called the protestors in Hong Kong “anti-government” protestors.

You can use data and science. I’m going to use my illusion.

I agree with you (and Scocca) and I think it’s important to continue hammering the point that the NBA absolutely can and should pull out of China. But I also think it’s instructive to understand why it likely won’t: Because Silver, for all that he poses himself as the benign neoliberal CEO of the league, is actually…

You might have a point if the Pats winning percentage against all the other divisions wasn’t as equally dominant.

I think Bosa’s attitude had less to do with old college grudges than with the well known fact he just hates the browns. 

Remember when capitalism was going to democratize and liberalize China?  Lulz.

I think people conflate authoritarianism and socialism. They can be related, but not in the way most people use them when discussing US politics.

Or, maybe China’s economic system is more accurately labeled ‘state capitalism’ within an authoritarian political system.

Can confirm. I went into a hipster coffee shop in Asia. Tons of Pro HK youth. They were all talking about how they secretly support China and how offended they were by Morey’s stance, but were too afraid to state this publicly. 

Billionaires have a spirit of class unity that the rest of us can only dream of attaining

What Tsai wrote was deeply offensive, and he knows better. The idea that every Chinese citizen opposes separatism is bullshit (ignoring that “separatism” isn’t a major element of the protests to begin with). I lived in China for many years and my wife is Chinese as are many of my closest and dearest friends. As…

The NBA really misplayed this. If China is sincerely this afraid of one person within one organization, the NBA could have struck a much harder line and forced China to be the bad guy. You want to suspend all NBA access to all Chinese fans and escalate all of this dramatically just because someone in America said…

But Harden and the rest of the NBA can’t even say they support the people of HK while also kissing Xi Jinping’s ass.

I was sleepy so maybe I mis-heard him this morning on SC, but James Harden seemed awfully accommodating to the Chinese government while speaking to reporters in Japan about this. It’s one thing for an idiot President to sell out Hong Kong (not to mention the Kurds, but they don’t buy a lot of NBA merch so let’s leave…

This whole saga has been really sobering to show how the NBA only cares about social issues when they dont effect their bottom line. James Harden literally just apologized for Morey’s tweet. A PRO DEMOCRACY tweet.