Recent content by dismal

Given she’s known for junk research maybe this is a Nixon to China thing.

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Sorry this doddering 85 year old triggered you so much Jimmy!

Sorry that you were triggered by this snowflake.

ooh, poor baby snowflake got triggered by fake ads!1@1

Oh, it's another brilliant "someone is triggered" argumenrt here at the forum. BRILLIANT!!!!! I thought Higgins had the patent on this but others share his remarkable keen intellect it seems. I just wish I was the one who could come up with intellectual gems like this! If you want to object...

if the election of a buffoon like Trump and the subsequent outbreak of even scarier "Orange man bad" delusional insanity doesn't cause you to lose any possible faith you might have had that Democracy is going to produce reasonable outcomes then you're not paying attention. But since the...

Wow, if girls are that good it seems like the answer is to stop having women's competitions at all. Just let them play with the guys. Maybe when the Equal Rights Amendment passes we can do away with this "separate but equal" mindset that pervades women's sports.

Not necessarily. It depends how instrumental the specific players are in generating the revenue. If I can sell just as many tickets with any one of 1000 people in my uniform the odds of any one person being able to negotiate a high share of the revenue generated are small. Take something like...

I put "outcomes" in there to soften the absolute statement "there is no place for equality in sports". I believe in equality of opportunity. For example, I think women should be able to play for the (not necessarily men's) National team. I think all athletes should be able to negotiate for...

Exactly! You nailed it. There is no reason why people in different competitions should be paid equally. There is no reason why people in the same competition should be paid equally. Maybe the women should be paid more than men. Maybe some women should be paid more than others. Equality has...

I prefer to look at it as a sad reflection of the reflexive stupidity of society that people are able to convince themselves there should be equality of outcomes of any kind in sports.

Oh good Higgins is calling people “triggered” as a form of argument again. Brilliant!

The idea that there should be equality of pay for athletes in different competitions is ridiculous. But then, the idea that there should be equality of pay for athletes in the same competition is ridiculous too. It’s noy like LeBron James and Ryan Broekoff make the same.

I don;t doubt there are some "undocumented" immigrants paying into Social Security but this is only half the question. If they are also taking out of Social Security them paying in doesn't help, it hurts. The way you accrue SS benefits is by paying in, and the average person only covers 80% of...