People don’t “like him for it” they like him despite it. Just because people like an unlikable person doesn’t mean they like everything about him.

Two juveniles with guns and a hair trigger go to a large drunken party to celebrate a football team. Cool and normal and no systemic changes could have possibly helped.

Mike Bloomberg and Trump both bought Super Bowl ad space in 2020…neither won that election.

Alternatively, in the last 10 Super Bowls the AFC has been represented by the Chiefs or Patriots 80% of the time.

In India. US number is 35%, here are some numbers for Europe: https://i.redd.it/d8udyq9edyhc1.png

I thought 35%ish in the US was bad. 56% in Russia is one of the more shocking stats I’ve seen about their inequality.

That’s very funny.

Average in the US for a 2 bedroom is $1317 per statista.

Triple that for a monthly income = $3951

x12 for annual = $47,412

/2080 for hourly full time = $22.79/hr

A 1 bedroom (or 2br with a $200/mo UBI) at $1100ish brings the minimum to $19ish.

A 2 bedroom but working 60hrs/week or using 50% of income on rent instead of 33% is around $15/hr.

Just trying to play around with the numbers to see what a real political proposal might look like. Feels great to meme a declaration, people start disagreeing when you start putting numbers to it.

From context clues it seems like they were hosted on Lemmy which is why they are now limiting image hosting.

Their point is that they agree with you 100% on slavery, but this isn’t slavery.

Why are 50 percent of prisoners minorities?

Because the system is racist and bad and minorities are disproportionately imprisoned. Nobody here is arguing against that. They are just pointing out that if 50% of the “enslaved” are white, that is a different sort of thing than the race-specific enslavement of black people. Things can be not-literal-slavery while still being bad.

What happens if you refuse to work?

I assume you can’t refuse without a medical exception of some kind. These are imprisoned people, they also can’t leave. Not trying to excuse everything about prison labor but as a society we have decided the state has the capacity to remove rights from people as a punishment after due process has been afforded to them. We can argue that it’s not right or humane to force labor on an imprisoned population without saying it’s literally slavery. “It’s not literally slavery” is not a defense of the system.

We’re not arguing “well prisoners can’t be sold to other prisons so that proves it’s not slavery” because that one difference doesn’t prove anything, just like one similarity doesn’t prove anything.

It may not be inherited at birth but is the system setup to capture successive generations of prisoners from the same families?

…no? Even if you include Capitalism and wealth inequality and racist policing as part of “the system” maybe members of the same family are disproportionately likely to be imprisoned because they are the same race and likely similar economic status, that isn’t because a parent was imprisoned. There’s nothing targeting children of imprisoned people. And even then, you’re trying to compare disproportionate odds to be imprisoned to literal 100% ownership of slaves’ children by slave masters? What are we talking about here?

It’s also time-bound for the length of the sentence. So like sure it’s slavery…temporarily, non-inherited, non-race-specific, as a punishment for a crime, at least sometimes paid.

Which is just a lot of caveats.

Similarly, having a job is just temporary, non-inherited, non-race-specific paid slavery where you get to pick your slave master. Sure you can make that argument but it’s not a very good one.

A lot of stuff about the US prison system is really bad, including this part, it’s just not literally slavery, and it doesn’t have to be slavery to be really bad and need changing.

Really ridiculous the AFC (and the Bills specifically) had to deal with Brady from 2001 - 2018 and Mahomes from 2019-unknown future. Dynasties like these shouldn’t be possible in the salary cap era but you get the right match of HC and QB and here we are.

You can put fake meetings on your calendar and say “oh, gotta get to my 2:30”.

Linebackers coaches becoming HC, so hot right now. (Him and Mayo)

3 straight 12-5 finishes in the regular season.

We talk about how unfair it is that the Lions fired Caldwell when he was 9-7 in the prior two seasons, I can’t really say that and say they SHOULD fire a guy who went 12-5 three straight seasons.

Even guaranteeing getting Belichick or Vrabel, who I agree are both better coaches than McCarthy, there would be a step back as they retool to fit the plans of those new coaches. They might not have the time.

Dak is getting a huge contract after 2024, who knows who will be a cap casualty after that. This might be the last year of peak power Cowboys.

So yes he is worse than some available coaches but also I get why they’re keeping him.

Belichick or Vrabel would be better but I know I’d have a hard time firing someone with the regular-season success of McCarthy so it doesn’t surprise me.

Michigan GOP is in shambles because they elected the “outsider” MAGA candidates who had no fundraising experience, they immediately failed to fundraise enough, it got so bad that their flagship annual fundraiser was a fraction of its normal size.

Instead of pulling together to right the ship they…immediately turned to conspiracy theories, declared each other to be Deep State plants, and demanded the party leaders “open the books” to show how much money there really was, but party leaders refuse because it would prove how bad at fundraising they have been.

Detailed in a recent This American Life.

Pretty sure it should be “valuation”

Ravens/49ers earned it but I’m rooting for Bills/Lions Super Bowl