TrippyFocus

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The NBA is strongly considering changing its 2025 All-Star Game to a tournament style format that would pit groups of All-Stars against one another, league sources confirmed to The Athletic on Friday.

The new concept would create three teams of eight All-Stars each, as well as a fourth team coming from the winner of the Rising Stars game. The teams would then face each other in a bracket competition.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago

The report documents how Israel’s extensive bombing campaign in Gaza has decimated essential services and unleashed an environmental catastrophe that will have lasting health impacts. By early 2024, over 25,000 tons of explosives—equivalent to two nuclear bombs—had been dropped on Gaza, causing massive destruction and the collapse of water and sanitation systems, agricultural devastation, and toxic pollution.

I knew it was a lot but the equivalent of 2 nukes really puts it into perspective.

Biden has had literally all the evidence you could need to trigger the Leahy Laws and stop the arms shipments but has been complicit in this the entire time.

 

50/6/2/1/3 on .621 FG% and 6/9 from the line tonight.

 

No Dame, Middleton, or Portis tonight so the Bucks needed every bit of it to pull out a win.

59 is the highest of the season for a player so far.

59/14/7/2/3 on .618 FG% and 16/17 from the line.

 

Pelicans going to have to start having fans play pretty soon here.

 

Can’t imagine it stays that way but pretty shocking when we’re 10+ games into the season already and only the Cavs and Celtics have winning records in the East.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

They thankfully have less b2b later in the season. Hopefully they can rest him a bit more in games too but Murray has to be out of his funk before that happens more I think.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah it’s sad since the potential is there. I don’t think he’s played in a single playoff game.

Closest was in a play in game against the Lakers where he was dominating but left with and injury which pretty much sums up his career so far.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Think if it wasn’t one of the defenders may get a hand on it depending on how quick they react but hard to say for sure.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They’re young and hungry too so its unlikely they take the foot of the gas lol

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

No Murray and no Gordon, this will be rough

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Robert F Kennedy and Chase Oliver voters are peeling off votes from Trump not Harris.

If you look at the count of the RFK/ Oliver/ Libertarian voters they more or less cancel out the Green and socialist candidate/party voters

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Lmao yes famous things leftists ask for like:

  1. Stating your difference from Biden would be to have a republican in your cabinet.
  2. Campaigning with Liz Cheney.
  3. Enacting the rights border policies.
  4. Walking back a commitment to ban fracking.
  5. Walking back support for Medicare 4 All
  6. Walking back support for the green new deal.
  7. Supplying and funding the genocide leftists and Arab voters explicitly wanted stopped.

They can’t even blame third party voters this time around because from the current tallies it wouldn’t have made a difference.

They didn’t activate what should be their base enough and instead tried to court neocons and these mythical moderate republicans that would abandon trump in swaths for a righter wing democrat (hint: they will always prefer the actual republican).

If the democratic leadership takes this result as anything but an indictment of their attempt to abandon popular left policies to become the Republicans of 20 years ago they are hopeless. I’m not holding my breath though.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

The only bright side is that it showed that the Dems can’t win while supplying and funding a clear genocide, courting neocons (who thought it was a good idea to campaign with a Cheney, the Hillary advisors lol), and just campaigning on being “not republican”.

It should be another slap like 2016 that they need to center around the working class that is desperate for change but given the leadership is beholden to the wealthy donors class and the fact that they didn’t learn last time I’m not expecting much outside of more incrementalism.

Leftist orgs definitely need to be pushing hard the next 4 years since there will be a lot of disillusionment among people like in 2016.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It’s wild to me that when she realized she had to somewhat distance herself from Biden she chose to say she’d have a republican in her cabinet. Not something about helping the working class more, or not supplying and funding a genocide that’s incredibly unpopular with what should be her base.

Stuff like that along with “having the most lethal military” and campaigning with Cheney alienated leftists, student, and Muslim voters which all could have been easy wins.

Economically people don’t feel better under Biden than they did 4 years ago which while the inflation largely isn’t his fault she still needed to meaningfully project she would be different than him to get working class voters and she didn’t effectively do that since she wasn’t pushing a populist message.

She clearly doesn’t know how to campaign well (pretty sure I heard she had Clinton staffers giving advice to her campaign lol) but that shouldn’t be a surprise since she was the first candidate to drop out of the 2020 primary.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun to watch and glad to see Levy win! I enjoy his YouTube walkthroughs of openings more than any others I’ve found.

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Crazy ending to the game, not sure how the Nuggets lost that one.

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