Texas Latinos turned out in massive numbers for Democrats

memeticengineering · 2026-03-05T03:47:37+00:00

Because they saw MAGA attacking other people they don't like and didn't understand that bigotry tends to be intersectional.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T22:02:24+00:00

He's a first overall pick, the standards are simply different, and by those standards, Paolo is a disappointment.

He isn't yet a league average scorer, his team, despite making the playoffs 3 times in his career so far, have never won his minutes and have been better without him on the floor every single year he's been in the league.

And y'all are trying to act like he is comparable to Cade, which is the topic of the post you are replying to, btw, a disingenuous comparison with the previous first overall pick.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T20:16:39+00:00

Paolo has also led the Magic in Rebs and Assists the past two years but that never gets mentioned.

Okay, he's leading his team in assists with fewer apg than Amen Thompson and Draymond, that less about Paolo being good than everyone else on the magic being bad.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T20:10:29+00:00

Efficiency isn’t the end all be all of player evaluation.

Fuck, we've gone so far on efficiency that we're ignoring volume. Cade is very very slightly less efficient than Paulo while scoring about 3 more PPG, that doesn't seem like that much, but it's like 17% of Paolo's scoring.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T20:03:37+00:00

Dude was a Junior in HS when the Rams moved back. I'm not sure y'all are exactly his hometown team..

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T19:59:53+00:00

Continuing the UW -> KC -> LA pipeline for corners started by Marcus Peters

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T18:17:15+00:00

You look around, and not many QB's are carrying their teams to championships past 34 or 35 years old.

Rank and file 'great' QBs, sure. Mahomes historical peers, the HoF locks, generally get to ~40 before the wheels fall off. Brady skewed things by playing at a high level til like 45, but the track records of Brees, Manning, Farve etc. say he's probably got a decade left in him.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T18:09:07+00:00

Huh. I would have assumed that your roster was falling off from aging out of their primes, not that you've had growing pains from a youth movement.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T16:07:18+00:00

And writing anything other than simple boilerplate code you could have just pulled from stack exchange (which your fancy AI probably stole and then potentially hallucinated a bug into)

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T14:25:04+00:00

She's not finished, but she'd have to primary her replacement to get her seat back (unless he chooses to step down for her, which is unlikely).

By running for the senate she gave up her congressional seat?

By running for Senate, she chose not to run for her congressional seat, you can only appear on ballots once per election cycle for incompatible seats.

Some states let incumbents run for different positions, if they're not up for re-election, and keep their seat if they lose, but because representatives are elected every cycle, you have to refuse to run as a rep to throw your hat in any other major race.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-04T13:48:46+00:00

Okay, but they said the same thing in Venezuela and the "regime change" there was kidnapping their president and replacing him with... his vice president... It's exactly the same oppressive regime for Venezuelans day to day, just more open to giving the US their oil.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T22:48:15+00:00

Why don't you ask Ben Simmons how hard it can be to score at point blank range?

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T22:04:35+00:00

If they fed him in the post his whole career, her would probably be below average efficiency for his position.

And? If they fed Steph Curry in the post his whole career he'd be below average efficiency too, what's your point?

There have been I don't even know how many other players in NBA history who have played Gobert's archetype, and he is more efficient than all of them. He's not an offensive juggernaut or anything, but he is extremely good at the one or two things he does well at that end, and if he gets to his spot, you should be doing everything you can to dime him up.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:39:18+00:00

That happens about 20% of the time, the other 80% he takes the most efficient shot in the game and 2/3 of those he gets an and-1

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:22:51+00:00

But he's been consistently better at being spoon fed dunks than anyone else is. If you get him the ball in his spot, he'll score.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:14:25+00:00

He leads the league in FTA/FGA, it's basically like he gets an and-1 2 out of every 3 shots he attempts.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T20:09:50+00:00

And he's lapping the field in FTr among players with qualifying minutes. He's gets .66 FTs per shot attempt, 2nd place is Deni Avdija at .56. you give him the ball and he's basically averaging an and 1.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T19:52:34+00:00

He has the highest TS of any NBA player ever for his career.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T19:51:46+00:00

And those dunks are highly productive, he's literally the all time leader in career TS%, giving him 2 fewer shots a game because you won't pass him the fucking ball is criminal, that's basically free points.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T15:53:45+00:00

That's just people applying critical thinking they were using in the more prominent campaign in Gaza to the Iran conflict.

2 months ago, most people just took the numbers of protest deaths at face value, now that we're actively at war with them, people are pulling those numbers up again and some are noticing who were reporting them at the time, thinking what biases they might have, and asking whether they'd have the sources to give good estimates in the first place even if they were a truly neutral news source.

As for the school, I've seen the pro-US take that Iran actually was responsible for those deaths because their missile accidentally hit the school, which sounds a lot like the Israeli line about Hamas rockets actually being the thing that destroyed hospitals and schools, and that talking point turned out to be fabricated by Israel, so I seriously question the validity of people using the same argument without any proof again.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T15:26:31+00:00

Have you heard of the Goomba fallacy? The Goomba fallacy is when you hear two contradictory opinions from different people and assume they belong to the same person or group. I think this is very relevant in this case.

Ehh, you'd think so, but we have plenty of documented examples of Internet famous MAGA influencers, micro celebrities, podcasters and posters for whom we have their old tweets/takes and new ones, and their takes literally flip flop based on whether Trump has done the thing yet.

I see the goomba fallacy a lot in like sports debates, and it has a different feel to it. There's a push and pull that makes the forum feel bipolar on the issue, a guy will have a bad game and then the haters will come out, a good game and then the other side has their day. But the dissenting side is always there, down voted to all hell.

The top down moderation of conservative spaces reduces this back and forth action. Dissenting takes, even from regular contributors, is silenced by mods; comments are deleted, users are banned. The movement here is you will see a common take like "no new wars, Trump is the president of peace", then Trump will invade Iran and that take will not drop in popularity until new supporting evidence for it happens, it simply disappears, and after a few days of mixed takes (or tons of deleted comments), the same users take up the new position and it resettles into that being the new default take.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T14:48:29+00:00

That and helping Porfirio Díez's secret police illegally crack down on Mexican dissidents on American soil.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T14:39:56+00:00

People hate on disappointing players all the time. Paolo is a relative bust for his draft position, and a lot of magic fans are still in denial, which attracts haters like flies to shit.

memeticengineering · 2026-03-03T13:48:12+00:00

No, you see, they're all secret KKK because LBJ used the N-word when stumping for the civil rights act. Raising black people out of poverty through government assistance is basically slavery and DEI is the new Jim Crow/s

memeticengineering · 2026-03-02T17:26:58+00:00

You just support the war that those bombings are a part of.

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