I feel there's some ripe comedy opportunity here since of all clubs it was Manly. Just, Goddamn it Paul McDermott. Put your paintbrush down for ten minutes and come quickly do some satire.Today, in Australia
Manly apologise for mishandling pride jersey initiative as players boycott NRL match
Manly coach Des Hasler has apologised on behalf of the club for the ‘poor’ execution of its decision to unveil a pride jersey as part of an inclusivity initiativewww.theguardian.com
Seven players are boycotting one round of (not proper) football because of some rainbows.
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Bucking other Texas Democrats, Cuellar and Gonzalez vote against U.S. House bill that would ban semi-automatic weapons
The chamber’s attempt to ban semi-automatic weapons after a series of mass shootings appears destined to fail in the Senate.
www.texastribune.org
Cuellar you might remember as the anti-abortion democrat Pelosi and Clyburn made phone recordings for that played to persuade voters to pick him in a primary against a pro-abortion, pro-firearm safety challenger.
Stupid, sure. Regardless though, the bill passed the house easily. As the article says, it's the senate where it'll die.Bucking other Texas Democrats, Cuellar and Gonzalez vote against U.S. House bill that would ban semi-automatic weapons
The chamber’s attempt to ban semi-automatic weapons after a series of mass shootings appears destined to fail in the Senate.
Cuellar you might remember as the anti-abortion democrat Pelosi and Clyburn made phone recordings for that played to persuade voters to pick him in a primary against a pro-abortion, pro-firearm safety challenger.
Also what do we know about Cuellar's particular district? Is it more gun friendly than others? Is it more competitive than safe? Are you opposed to what Pelosi and Clyburn did for electoral reasons or just ideological ones?
Considering the vote difference was less than 200 and that centrists have been consistently losing across the country for the last few election cycles, both. Cuellar has a huge institutional advantage and he's still not particularly strong. And then if he wins, he'll vote against democrats on anything important. He's one of the house members that helped tank BBB, he voted against abortion rights, he voted wrong here. When the dems lead narrows further, he'll be Manchin presuming he even holds onto his seat.
Edit: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/b...um-wage-and-overtime-compensation-11659036280
Who needs Republicans with Democrats like this?
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Unless you're Russia, in which case do whatever you want, because something something western hypocrisy.
It's frankly disappointing that we are not calling a recession a recession. Instead, Fed Chair Powell and Treasury Secretary Yellen have both decided to kick the ball down the road when things could get really bad to say it's a recession out of political expediency, and face
It took me five seconds to take a look at this chart to see that we had two-quarters of negative growth.
And yes it's not looking to be a particularly bad one like the Covid recession or the Great Recession in 2007-2009. While there is inflation, and likely a stock market and housing bubble, we still have lots of jobs due to the low supply of labor relative to demand thanks to low immigration from many countries due to title 42, Biden's realism on the immigration issue, and American voter's self-interest. Also for some reason, this isn't helping. But that doesn't mean the US economy is growing, and without growth, the US could cease to be a super-power or empire or whatever you would like to call the dominant political entity in the world, and we would have less innovation.
This makes me doubt the saying truth has a liberal bias.
It took me five seconds to take a look at this chart to see that we had two-quarters of negative growth.
Gross Domestic Product
View economic output, reported as the nominal value of all new goods and services produced by labor and property located in the U.S.
fred.stlouisfed.org
And yes it's not looking to be a particularly bad one like the Covid recession or the Great Recession in 2007-2009. While there is inflation, and likely a stock market and housing bubble, we still have lots of jobs due to the low supply of labor relative to demand thanks to low immigration from many countries due to title 42, Biden's realism on the immigration issue, and American voter's self-interest. Also for some reason, this isn't helping. But that doesn't mean the US economy is growing, and without growth, the US could cease to be a super-power or empire or whatever you would like to call the dominant political entity in the world, and we would have less innovation.
Migration Fear Index for the United States
Graph and download economic data for Migration Fear Index for the United States (USEPUFEARINDX) from Q1 1990 to Q4 2022 about migration, uncertainty, indexes, and USA.
fred.stlouisfed.org
This makes me doubt the saying truth has a liberal bias.
If you're shrinking less than everyone else, you're still ahead.
Also, bear in mind that countries run at different speeds. If the USA has 5 years of 3% growth followed by a year of 0%, and a rival has 6 years of 2% growth, the USA has come out ahead in the long run.
Now do that with everyone, please. I'd suggest to you that even the briefest of digging can find lies or fabrications in nearly every tweet or article headline posted here. Some of the articles themselves are reasonable, but the headlines are majority lies.
This is cute, but almost nobody else is as consistently and egregiously wrong.
Did you look upwards two posts before typing this?
Edit: To be a bit more explicit about my opinions, as much as source material is a good thing to have, the posters that type their knowledge and back it up later if need be are generally reasonably reliable. The posters who spam links and tweets, regardless of their political persuasions, are the least reliable users on the site for providing actual good information. They either don't vet any information themselves, or they hide the lies behind other people's words.
The tweet in question isn't appearing for me.
Regardless, you know I regularly argue against Seanchaidh, so there's no inconsistency there.
China can get a cranky as it wants. Everyone should recognize Taiwan.
If the Chinese Communist party do crimes against humanity, so can the Taiwanese
Sort of. But it preferably should be handled delicately, because China could make life exquisitely unpleasant for Taiwan.
Pelosi's trip to Taiwan, for instance, is not very handy for peace and amity - it might be done (still with diplomatic cost) in less fraught times, but Xi Jinping has been exceptionally aggressive, autocratic and pushy. Also, China's public assault on the prospect of her visit is also an escalation, because it now puts the USA in the difficult position of potentially seeming weak by canning the trip. Even worse, potentially it's a deliberate escalation, precisely to force the USA into that decision.
China can't even make tires for the Russians. What makes you think they can sustain the logistical nightmare of a Taiwan Invasion?
I mean... firstly, that's mostly based on one guy's armchair speculation. And even he was only basing it on photos.
Secondly, the poor quality of some knock-off product that a Chinese company sold means precisely nothing about the country's military capability. Unlike Russia, China has an exceptionally strong (and varied) economy, a technological edge, a strong manufacturing sector, and a military that's experienced prolonged investment and training.
China doesn't need to invade.
That's what its current intimidations are about: they are being held all around Taiwan, including in some ways in Taiwan's territorial waters (shooting into them, plane flyovers). It's also slapped the exercises right outside Taiwan's largest ports, forcing a lot of shipping to re-route around the affected area. These are designed to give the idea of a blockade, and a blockade would eventually cripple Taiwan.
Even more aggressive than that, I am sure that China has the air and missile capability to wreck Taiwan without sending any ships out at all. I think it would prefer not to however, because it would much rather take over Taiwan without having to rebuild it afterwards.
The Chinese military are highly untested: little experience, and rumours that it is riddled with corruption and may be far less effective than it appears paper. Like potentially Russia, it's been building all sorts of shiny stuff that seems ace, but doesn't have a great idea how to use it properly. Nevertheless, I still fancy it's got enough overwhelming force to overcome Taiwan one way or another unless the USA steps in.