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It is absolutely sickening to think that the best advice to give to a student (esp non-citizen) who participated in a peaceful protest against genocide is to go into hiding. Because their own school will sic ICE on them… like genuinely wtf is happening.
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I can't believe your household is not watching the Whitecaps... after they knocked off Saprissa for y'all 😅
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Yeah that’s fair and I generally agree with you. I do feel like Messi is one-of-one in this regard. Like the Whitecaps average 24k per game, but sold 54k for Inter Miami; most of those people have never been before and aren’t coming back… I don’t love upping the price, but I do understand it 🤷🏽♂️
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The irony is that if you only care about seeing Messi, then the tickets *should* be more expensive than any other game… because you’re not going to those other games, but you are going to this one. I’m not a big believer in capitalism, but that is how the system works 🤷🏽♂️
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No economic value in history, unless it’s being leveraged to promote the current product.
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I miss Kendall Waston… great team guy. I wish we’d had an actually good team while he was here.
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I’d argue the word ‘perceived’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Sure the possibility of real consequences was there, but who was this actually happening to?
The closest I can think of is college kids saying the n-word and having their admissions revoked.
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The Caps tried really hard to let Saprissa off the hook 😬🙈
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It was frustrating to experience, but also kind of hilarious that people thought the #bced teacher's union was some kind of unholy ideological union of Karl Marx, bell hooks, Marsha P Johnson, and Malcolm X acting as a puppeteer for all teachers.
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This has been an issue in concacaf competition before. IIRC Cavaly from Haiti had to forfeit their CCL tie against New England a few years ago because so many of their players were denied visas. I remember the attitude being very much “well the show must go on” 🤷🏽♂️🙄
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Just guys being dudes
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In 1972, Canada was operating ~50 concentration camps for Indigenous children (residential schools) and was in the midst of seizing and "adopting out" ~20,000 children to non-Indigenous families. Great representation for the "free world". So, idk maybe these analogies are bad and inappropriate.
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Atalanta drew Arsenal, Celtic, & Barcelona. AC Milan lost to Liverpool, Leverkusen, & Dinamo. Both missed top-8 and lose in playoff round.
Conversely, Brugge beats Villa, Sporting, & draws Juve. Feyenoord beats Girona, Benfica, & draws ManCity. Both rewarded with a playoff spot and now into R16.
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While I love the #PWHL and what it's brought to the game, it's only existed for just over a year; the league is still finding its feet. I think the notion that the rest of the hockey calendar needs to bend around the PWHL because that is now what's 'most important' is neither accurate nor wise.
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I had already read the article before I saw your post, so no, I have the context just fine.
I’m a socialist; I’m all about changing our economic system and opening borders. That’s how logically incoherent your post was: we probably agree on most things and it was still a bad take.
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This is really one-dimensional thinking and the world is more complicated than that. Motivations matter.
The Nazis were very anti-smoking. I am also very anti-smoking. I’m not going to lose any sleep over that.
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I think it’s useful for leftists (& hopefully liberals) insist on calling #1 a campaign for segregation. Refuse to engage with DEI discourse on their terms and force them to play constant defense (or say the quiet part out loud).
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Plus, the people in Canada who are driving the current national anthem discourse have been studiously avoiding any meaningful discussion on the intersection of sports-nationalism-colonialism since 2016. Now, all of a sudden, they have opinions 🙄
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Look at the BC Conservative Party “plan” to deal with this: it’s just ramping up natural resource extraction to create the appearance of short-term economic gain while they wait for the crisis to resolve itself.
It’s papering over the cracks in the walls while hoping the house doesn’t fall down.
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I'm a high school teacher; I'm painfully aware of what high schools look like now, but thanks.
SLOs are funded by the taxpayer; the same people who fund teachers, counsellors, and other supports. Anything an SLO does can be done better and more safely by a different role within the school system.
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Firearms in schools are not a "tool in the toolbox" for helping kids. There aren't enough counsellors, kids can't get assessed for learning challenges, students with diverse needs are being excluded from class, some kids don't have enough food, but yeah, thank goodness for SLOs.
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Absolutely. Sports leagues took money to promote tobacco, then alcohol, then defense contractors, now gambling… damn the harm to the athletes and fans. the only thing that matters is that the cheques clear.
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Same thing in Canada. The moderate right is happy to have fascists & Christian nationalists under their umbrella; it’s all about the votes. Meanwhile the center and moderate left is intent excluding candidates and voters with genuinely progressive/leftist views because they are “too divisive” 🤷🏽♂️
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On a personal note: when my wife went back to work after our child was born, I took 5 weeks off work. It was an amazing experience and I will always remember it. The timing was NOT convenient for work, but everyone in my work-sphere gladly stepped up to make it happen. That's how it should be!
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So losing #ExtraTime is a blow to the fan experience — it was a great podcast and a gateway for so many fans of the league — but it’s also a blow to the idea of fan investment in the league’s success. Unfortunately, there’s no going back, but we’re lucky we had it for as long as we did.
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Especially as leagues become more corporate and focused with the business side, it can make your fandom seem hollow, especially when times are tough. MLS is certainly trending in that direction; the Open Cup is just one very concrete example of that.
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Growing up as an NHL fan of an Original 6 team, one barrier to my long-term fandom was the inability to feel like I ‘owned’ any part of that fandom. There is so much history and tradition in major North American sports. And that isn’t bad, but it doesn’t really feel like ‘yours’.
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And it’s not a coincidence that the heyday of ETR was the era of Seattle, Portland, and #SaveTheCrew. The fans were integral to the success of the league today; there is no Messi/Miami or Almiron/Atlanta without it. And ETR was an encapsulation of that era.
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