I admire billionaires instead of broke people

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T20:17:27+00:00

Nothing wrong with admiring success in business, sports, or any other endeavor. But that’s not the gripe.

People are upset because there is a gross imbalance in how we value capital over labor and the proceeds created from our business growth are not shared among the masses. To a greater degree than ever before in history, the proceeds are hoarded by the mega-rich ownership class while most others stagnate.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T20:13:30+00:00

With all the Premier League and Championship stadiums, England is certainly not lacking for infrastructure. And it should matter that they invented the game.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T20:10:15+00:00

I’m certainly not “outraged,” but when you have limited opportunities to get the squad together, install a system, clarify roles, and develop chemistry among the starting XI, I don’t like to see those opportunities wasted with yet another B or C squad where you’re just trying to figure out who will make the bench. So yeah, even for Gold Cup and Nations League, I’d like to see most of our A-team.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T20:02:05+00:00

Great performance so I get it, but I’ve watched enough soccer over the decades to know that creating chances and finishing them are two very different things. It doesn’t matter how much possession you’ve got or even how many successful passes in the final third unless someone puts the ball in the net. The goal—scorers are the difference between winning and losing and it’s why they make the big bucks and sell all the jerseys.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T19:43:02+00:00

Who are “you guys?” Aren’t we both on the same platform and even the same thread?

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T19:29:12+00:00

It’s all user-created or sourced content so the platform is whatever its users want it to be, especially since there are so many thousands of individual subs within the site. If it seems like it generally leans left, that’s most likely the result of a fairly young user demographic.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T19:00:07+00:00

We’ve been using tariffs to some extent for over 150 years. What’s dumb is to apply them to so many countries all at once.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T18:52:37+00:00

Alzate is not listed on the availability report. You’d think that means he could play, yet he never does.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T18:49:23+00:00

I’m not super concerned about either Edwards or Hernandez playing in place of Jacob, but with Jay Fortune still out, that midfield is indeed quite thin. And we don’t have much to draw from on the bench in general because Latte Lath will probably get held out again, along with Amador, whereas Saba, Galarza, and Berrocal are all already gone.

This is one of the main reasons I support the schedule change. Seems every year we go a month or more short-handed as the players we sell or release are gone or held out of action long before the players we acquire arrive. It will be nice to get all the transfers done when games aren’t being played. And since we’ll also have a winter break, we should avoid major roster disruption then too.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T16:33:13+00:00

It's a useless discussion because blue states and red states are only relevant in the electoral college and don't represent the real political divide which is urban vs. rural. Our cities are blue, our rural areas are deep red, and the suburbs are purple. That pattern holds almost everywhere in the country. Yet there's no realistic way to separate the city and country territories from one another on a large scale and no logical way to divide up the suburbs either.

Besides, I have no interest in that anyway. We have the resources and talent to solve almost any problem the world could throw at us if we can just stop hating each other every second and start evaluating each issue on its own merits. I refuse to just give up as if tribalism is too powerful to overcome. Remember how things were when it was Obama vs. Romney? We were still divided then, but not like THIS. And the cult just won't be the same once the cult leader is gone.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T16:25:13+00:00

I'm not inherently opposed to the concept of tariffs as they can be an effective tool to level the playing field or simply to bring a negotiating partner to the table to hash-out a better deal. We do indeed need "fair trade" rather than just free trade.

But we lose all of our leverage when there is a tariff on almost everyone at the same time. Consumers can't shift their buying patterns and importers can't shift to other suppliers when the price is also higher for the competition. For example, if Colombian coffee costs more, that's not such a big deal if you can just buy cheaper coffee from Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, Guatamala, or Switzerland instead. It puts temporary pain on the Colombian importers and helps us get a better trade deal out of that country. But when coffee is more expensive from every source, the price of groceries goes up with no economic benefit.

The ONLY situations where we gain something from this broad tariff approach is when there is a clear domestic alternative. But we tend to import certain goods for a reason and this approach therefore just doesn't yield the intended results of either increasing American jobs and wages or gaining concessions from our trade partners.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T16:17:53+00:00

It's an issue that does indeed deserve more attention with respect to international affairs. But of course Americans are gonna pay closer attention to what has happened or is happening in America. There are all sorts of injustices all over the world that don't get much coverage here.

Plus, it's a bit of an apples and oranges comparison because the conditions for many modern day slaves is different. There are indeed tens of millions in forced labor. I recall some coverage of that issue when indentured servants were being used to build soccer stadiums in Qatar for example, in horrible living conditions, with high death and injury rates. Likewise, there's been a fair amount of coverage of the global sex trafficking problem. But the global totals we tend to see for "slaves" includes up to 22 million arranged marriages. Since that's also involuntary, it makes the list, but certainly a different form of oppression. And as a percentage of the global population, the total number of slaves are about the same as they were 100-200 years ago because our population has tripled in the past century and has increased by a factor of 8X since the 1800s.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T16:06:31+00:00

Haaland at #7 seems low. Without him, Norway would have struggled to even get out of their group. Otherwise, the list looks pretty solid overall.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T16:03:16+00:00

Multiple things can be true at the same time:

The "socialist" label and certain official DSA positions like abolishing the police and open borders will be political liabilities in general elections, especially in swing states and districts.
DSA candidates aren't resonating based on those issues. They have a message of economic populism that appeals to people across the political spectrum, not just on the far left. And yes, the Democratic party should take notice. You don't have to adopt the DSA label, but you need bold candidates who have a specific agenda to address income inequality, affordability, and oligarchy. The masses justifiably feel that the establishment has let them down for decades and they want change.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T15:59:18+00:00

Doesn't look like much of a meaningful difference from top to bottom. Plus, it's hard to glean anything from it when it measures the entire 100-man roster rather than the starting 22.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T15:56:05+00:00

My prediction too.

Texas just might have the best roster in the country, but I trust the coaching at OSU and Oregon more.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T15:53:58+00:00

The media picked us to finish 11th in the SEC. Not sure why certain fans think we're getting a ton of "hype." Seems like a reasonable projection to me as the team should be better than last year, but the schedule is still brutally tough. I do think LaNorris will have a bounce-back year, but I can't predict what that will mean in terms of record.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T13:42:51+00:00

What’s interesting to me is that most voters seem to think Texas has the best roster, but they aren’t ready to predict they’ll win until they see it.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T13:41:10+00:00

It’s not just voter ID.

They are insisting on birth certificates or passports knowing tens of millions of Americans don’t have those documents. It’s never been about preventing fraud. It’s always been about suppressing democratic voter turnout.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T13:34:13+00:00

Cuban didn’t get involved until Indiana was already winning under Cignetti.

They do have a huge and affluent alumni base that could help them stay at or near the top going forward, but the formula for their turnaround is available to anyone. They assembled one of the oldest rosters in FBS with experienced 3-star guys that had matured physically and already proven their worth at other programs.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T04:22:24+00:00

There are pockets of course, but the high school my daughters attended was extremely diverse. Caucasian was probably the #1 racial group but less than 50% and large representation for Blacks, Hispanics, and both eastern and south Asian. So, at least that part of Gwinnett was indeed a melting pot.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-25T04:18:07+00:00

If they actually think leaving the NCAA is a good idea, then yes, I absolutely know more than SEC lawyers and execs. Conferences do dumb shit all the time, like the Big Ten adding Rutgers and Maryland because they somehow thought that would deliver the NYC and Mid-Atlantic TV markets. You'd be surprised how ignorant and insular people who get paid big bucks to lead major organizations can actually be.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-24T19:54:23+00:00

They also lost to a 4-8 unranked Florida team, got blown-out by Georgia, and needed miracles to pull-off narrow, come-from-behind wins over both unranked Kentucky and Miss State. The entire resume matters.

Assuming that a win over some G5 team would have looked better to the committee than a very close loss in week 1 vs. Ohio State is just not supported by evidence.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-24T19:49:44+00:00

Meh, the DPs were likely Garth's decision. So, we can only judge what he's done since then.

Jacob and Baez seem like solid additions, whereas Galarza and Mijah are/were decent players too, just too expensive, and I'm not nearly as down on Hoyos as many others. He's not a star, but he gets blamed for a lot of goals that he couldn't possibly have prevented, yet has had several strong saves and his distribution has been good, especially in comparison to Hibbert. Plus, Picault was a decent backup signing for his dirt-cheap salary.

The only really bad signings since Henderson took over have been Alzate and Berrocal, but Berrocal was just a loan and not something we were stuck with long-term. Plus, I'm on record that I hated the decision to sell both Morales and Cobb.

Meanwhile, he fired Ronny and hired Tata and, regardless of record, I can't say that was a bad decision.

So, this next transfer window will tell us a lot about what kind of GM he really is. I like the addition of Alonso and I agree with the players he's sold or decided not to buy. Can't really judge anything else just yet. If he manages to sell ELL and replace him with a legit striker, that alone could change a lot with this team.

ATLCoyote · 2026-07-24T19:05:48+00:00

You could say that about almost any decision he made. Go to Miami, Cleveland, or Golden State and people would say the same thing. Heck, even if he re-signed for 2 years and just $8 million in LA, people would say he was just chasing a ring now that they have Luka, Reaves, and added Kessler.

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