I'm in a +50 Harris neighborhood btw, they were blasting fireworks and honking their cars, all night long... I not sure how they can just be so happy... 🤷♂️
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Well, whats the difference in watching a football game vs playing a video game? I'm equally "distracted, pacified, and worried about the other thing with stakes."
For one your video game hobby doesn't involve states subsidizing stadiums to be built moving money from public services and education amongst other things so that a new flashy stadium can be built whenever they decide the old one's no longer good. It's so bad it's even done at high school's foregoing science and other education programs but will definitely be getting those flashier stadium and sport facilities. It's morbidly hilarious. It happens across the entire country. And if you're going to try and say "but it creates jobs" let me just say, lmao, and if you think its an adequate trade check out the recent test score data and reading aptitude nation wide. We are going to have to live amongst these people that can barely read and write eventually. But at least we got that cool stadium that one time.
This. Decades ago when I was in college as an education major, the county voted down a .25% sales tax on infrastructure. The following year, after the new owner of the Tampa Bay Bucs threatened to move the team without a new stadium, suddenly the tax passed, with 100% going to the new stadium for the first five years. “Community Investment Tax”. Pissed me off as a budding educator where the priorities were.
What does any of that have to do with your original point? Moving the goal posts to make sure you're more morally correct?
Lol.