"These are not 'squirters' getting through," the service member added, referencing language used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the deadly March 1 attack on Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait that killed six U.S. troops. "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed."
This absolutely breaks my heart. We had started grieving as fans over the prospective loss of Manu, and to have this sprung on us in the middle of a losing season, just ahead of probably the biggest regular season match ever is a gut punch.
We know the club has added names to the roster, but this feels like more of the club operating as it intends to: as a money making operation.
What gets me is the fans that are excited about the club making money off this. Maybe they shareholders in a way I'm not? Because unless this translates into at least a playoff run (not just a play in), I don't see how a fan benefits from this at all. Mr Monsour and Mr Machado benefit. I really don't at all.
Manu Duah (San Diego FC):
One of the best young center backs in MLS, Duah remains at San Diego for the time being as Olwethu Makhanya (Rangers) and Herrington head to Europe.
San Diego has rejected bids far below their valuation, sources say, which is expected to be in the range of $10 million. It’s very possible Duah signs a new contract and sticks around at the club a bit longer before heading to Europe but the situation is fluid at this time of year. Progress has been made on a new deal, sources say.
Duah, 21, has been a revelation over the 18 months. He was selected No. 1 overall in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft out of UC Santa Barbara as a defensive midfielder before San Diego developed him at center back.
A RAND report discussing hypothetical ways to pressure Russia is not evidence that the U.S. secretly planned and initiated Russia’s invasion. An opinion article by one strategist in 2021 is not a declaration of NATO policy. Chomsky, Kennan, Matlock, and a 1997 open letter can all argue that NATO expansion was strategically unwise without establishing that Ukraine forfeited its sovereignty or that Putin was compelled to invade.
You’re also confusing "this policy might provoke a reaction" with "the reaction was caused by the policy and is therefore justified." Those are not the same sentence, no matter how much links you attach to them.
The report was published in 2019, after Russia had already invaded Ukraine in 2014. It discusses escalation risks; it does not say Russia was entitled to invade then, nor in 2022, nor does it transfer responsibility for Putin’s decisions to NATO. Try reading the dates as well as the adjectives.
The report was published in 2019, after Russia had already invaded Ukraine in 2014. It discusses escalation risks; it does not say Russia was entitled to invade, nor does it transfer responsibility for Putin’s decisions to NATO. Try reading the dates as well as the adjectives.
Ah yes, a RAND report listing hypothetical US policy options two years before the UNPROVOKED RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE is apparently the same thing as NATO personally forcing Putin to do it. By that logic, reading a menu means you cooked the meal. The report may discuss escalation risks, but it doesn't even suggest that NATO caused Russia’s aggression, much less turn the aggressor into the victim like we see here.
I bolded the correct answer to "what war" up there for ya, since I don't think you were ever going to get there.
Heard. Lots of us looked past that in season one, but the club really hasnt wasted any time in doing away with the actual responsibility of havinf displaced our beloved club. Highest prices allowable by law, cheapest hotdogs we can supply, 5¢ Temu giveaways, and only players off the clearance rack that are "lucky to be here."
Putin is playing the victim. Did you read the article you submitted?
Moscow increasingly views the Ukrainian strikes as attacks by NATO states because alliance members supply Kyiv with weapons and intelligence, the people said. The current phase of hostilities isn’t the peak of military escalation, they said.
President Vladimir Putin signaled his intentions in weekend comments to a state TV reporter, as he shrugged off the impact of the attacks on Russia’s economy. Ukraine “opened this Pandora’s box,” he said. “Well, be ready to get a blowback on your most sensitive sectors of the economy.”
Talk is indeed cheap, and I think the damage is done, but I'm of the same mind. Opted out for next season in San Diego for exactly the same reason, except SDFC has stood by their guns and refuses to take any accountability as an org. At least Sounders have acknowledged the problem.
A definitional aspect of detention camps is that they strip people of, or at least diminish, their legal personhood. And while people held in immigration camps are not completely outside the sphere of law, they are mocked by the law. As the scholar Dan Stone writes of people held in immigration camps: “They are very close to falling into [philosopher Hannah] Arendt’s category of the superfluous stateless person from whom the ‘right to have rights’ has been removed.”
"These are not 'squirters' getting through," the service member added, referencing language used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the deadly March 1 attack on Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait that killed six U.S. troops. "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed."
Excuse me, what?
An article that isn't CNN for those that want to read.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/kennedy-center-renews-call-for-trump-backed-shutdown-after-part-of-a-ceiling-collapses
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This absolutely breaks my heart. We had started grieving as fans over the prospective loss of Manu, and to have this sprung on us in the middle of a losing season, just ahead of probably the biggest regular season match ever is a gut punch.
We know the club has added names to the roster, but this feels like more of the club operating as it intends to: as a money making operation.
What gets me is the fans that are excited about the club making money off this. Maybe they shareholders in a way I'm not? Because unless this translates into at least a playoff run (not just a play in), I don't see how a fan benefits from this at all. Mr Monsour and Mr Machado benefit. I really don't at all.
Here's the bit about Manu:
Manu Duah (San Diego FC): One of the best young center backs in MLS, Duah remains at San Diego for the time being as Olwethu Makhanya (Rangers) and Herrington head to Europe.
San Diego has rejected bids far below their valuation, sources say, which is expected to be in the range of $10 million. It’s very possible Duah signs a new contract and sticks around at the club a bit longer before heading to Europe but the situation is fluid at this time of year. Progress has been made on a new deal, sources say.
Duah, 21, has been a revelation over the 18 months. He was selected No. 1 overall in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft out of UC Santa Barbara as a defensive midfielder before San Diego developed him at center back.
There it is. Glad we found the position you're working from.
A RAND report discussing hypothetical ways to pressure Russia is not evidence that the U.S. secretly planned and initiated Russia’s invasion. An opinion article by one strategist in 2021 is not a declaration of NATO policy. Chomsky, Kennan, Matlock, and a 1997 open letter can all argue that NATO expansion was strategically unwise without establishing that Ukraine forfeited its sovereignty or that Putin was compelled to invade.
You’re also confusing "this policy might provoke a reaction" with "the reaction was caused by the policy and is therefore justified." Those are not the same sentence, no matter how much links you attach to them.
The report was published in 2019, after Russia had already invaded Ukraine in 2014. It discusses escalation risks; it does not say Russia was entitled to invade then, nor in 2022, nor does it transfer responsibility for Putin’s decisions to NATO. Try reading the dates as well as the adjectives.
The report was published in 2019, after Russia had already invaded Ukraine in 2014. It discusses escalation risks; it does not say Russia was entitled to invade, nor does it transfer responsibility for Putin’s decisions to NATO. Try reading the dates as well as the adjectives.
The paper written in 2019 describes how the invasion in 2022 was provoked?
Ah yes, a RAND report listing hypothetical US policy options two years before the UNPROVOKED RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE is apparently the same thing as NATO personally forcing Putin to do it. By that logic, reading a menu means you cooked the meal. The report may discuss escalation risks, but it doesn't even suggest that NATO caused Russia’s aggression, much less turn the aggressor into the victim like we see here.
I bolded the correct answer to "what war" up there for ya, since I don't think you were ever going to get there.
What war? Keep going, you're almost there.
Heard. Lots of us looked past that in season one, but the club really hasnt wasted any time in doing away with the actual responsibility of havinf displaced our beloved club. Highest prices allowable by law, cheapest hotdogs we can supply, 5¢ Temu giveaways, and only players off the clearance rack that are "lucky to be here."
Holy fuck. Did you read the comment you just replied to?
Putin is playing the victim. Did you read the article you submitted?
Talk is indeed cheap, and I think the damage is done, but I'm of the same mind. Opted out for next season in San Diego for exactly the same reason, except SDFC has stood by their guns and refuses to take any accountability as an org. At least Sounders have acknowledged the problem.
it appears to be collateral damage (likely debris) from an attack aimed at other targets, not a planned strike on the childcare center
If it looks like a duck...
Ain't no learnin down in the mines. Back to work.