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Would you all support a law that weaponizes citizens against one another for any other topic? The idea of the state writing a law that they themselves can’t enforce under that law is stupid.
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You voted for an old white man with a history of making questionable comments regarding race


Pretty sure this would have been the case in the previous election regardless of the candidate no?
Nah -- it was time. Better to get out of basketball purgatory of being too good to get any decent draft picks but not good enough to actually win anything. Hopefully the tear down is only just beginning and they get rid of Tucker, Gordon, or whomever else they can move.

re: Another playoff and another

Posted by nickg0205 on 1/10/21 at 5:20 pm to
The problem is when they don’t settle in to a style of play and end up doing too much. It’s the playoffs... there’s no reason Humphrey should see the field. Kamara shouldn’t be off the field in a 3rd down passing situation.

Payton needs to stop outsmarting himself in big games.
So have you just not read any of the details on why it's thought to be Russia? A global effort that seems to effect most countries... but not Russia. Techniques similar to other Russian attacks.

Russia isn't just a scapegoat... sometimes they really are the boogeymen.

re: Week 10 Fox Coverage Map

Posted by nickg0205 on 11/8/18 at 5:19 am to
The Saints are still the 3rd team in the pecking order here after the Cowboys, but part of it just luck of scheduling (unless the NFL has quietly done it intentionally).

They've managed to avoid overlapping time slots with those other 2 teams for the most part this year on Sundays, in addition to the Game of the Week / primetime games.
Yep -- and they were lying about it then too. Short of a Constitutional convention, I'm pretty sure we're stuck as we are though. We definitely need Congressional term limits and campaign finance reform.
Unfortunately the people with the power to change it are those that benefit from it and have no incentive to do so...
Lol -- yeah, I skimmed this thread too quickly the first time through and missed that. My sarcasm meter is slightly impaired by Macallan at the moment.
Where has he been that would be considered being a "working man"? Pretty sure he doesn't know what being in lower-to-middle income brackets--working his arse off to get by--looks like.
I'd be real curious as to how you all would imagine how breaking up any of these companies would work.
Neither political leaning has a monopoly on doing terrible things (both by followers and elected officials), as much as people like to pretend.

Extremism (and this race by both to those extremes) is bound to continue to make things worse by giving those on the fringe more and more of a push with every passing day.

re: Allen has to be fired

Posted by nickg0205 on 1/14/18 at 7:09 pm to
That's all Williams forgetting the situation.
Everyone doing political commentary make things fit their narrative -- neither liberals or conservatives have a monopoly on that.

Hell, the Fox News link (and OP's commentary) in this post is doing exactly that, since that part of the interview talks about confirmation bias and the impacts of social media algorithms' tendency to surface only those ideas and beliefs that are like our own. No one called anyone "deplorable" or was derogatory toward anyone else (although the liberal audience had their own opinions, I'm sure).

re: Question on the tax cut

Posted by nickg0205 on 12/20/17 at 6:02 pm to
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That said, the difference between a deduction and a credit is remedial level and everyone who pays taxes should understand it.

Eh, I think part of that is just from being used to having someone else / some computer software do taxes. You don't need to know if you're just given the answer. Also, as you mention, the complexity makes it a bit daunting for the novice to want to learn it.

re: Question on the tax cut

Posted by nickg0205 on 12/20/17 at 5:45 pm to
Didn't think that scenario through all the way -- but no, don't there would be anywhere that you'd be pay more if itemization doesn't come into play.

re: Question on the tax cut

Posted by nickg0205 on 12/20/17 at 5:11 pm to
Depends on the income level of the single parent in this scenario, but with the lowered rates they could still have a net reduction in taxes. Would need that last bit of info to determine it though.
I don't get the "superteam" accusations -- the only difference is that now it's players putting it together through their own decisions and actions instead of management. Any sustained success has relied on having several great players and coaches.
If Durant consistently provides this level of defense to go with his offense, I'd say he could definitely be the best player in the NBA, but no one's going to appreciate him since he's not carrying his team on his back to championships by himself with no other all stars on his team year after year anyway.
If LeBron averaged the same stats as Jordan's best finals year... the Cavs would still have lost all 3 games so far.
I think the other GOATs had players on their team with enough basketball sense and better coaches that would have made sure that didn't happen...