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If he wanted to play elsewhere, then there’s not much they could have done, but I don’t know if that’s actually the case or not. He was lights out playing last year.

Doesn’t matter how many times you repeat yourself in the thread, it doesn’t make what you say true. I guess in your mind we should trade Hughes, Petey, Miller, Horvat, Demko, Mikheyev and Kuzmenko for a 3rd rounder each? After all if we don’t get something for them now we might end up with nothing. That type of thinking is the real recipe for eternal mediocrity. No GM in the league is willing to do what you’re suggesting, none. It shows weakness, ties your hands for any future trades and doesn’t improve the team now or in the future. Like I said it’s lose, lose, lose.

Absolutely not. You don’t trade a guy like Kuzmenko for anything less then a 1st or blue chip prospect, otherwise you keep him. Trading him for a 2nd or a couple of bottom pairing D-men just to “at least get something”is ridiculous reasoning. I don’t care how many times it bites us on the ass by waiting, once you trade a guy for a pittance then every other team will only look to trade with you if they get the same deal on a player. They know when blood’s in the water and will circle like sharks. Getting a bunch of middling prospects or picks is just as bad as staying put because then we continue to be a middle team and lose our best trade chips. It’s a lose lose lose with that type of thinking.

One of the biggest opponents of “woke”, the Governor of Florida, who actually passed something called the Stop Woke Act is in a trial right now after firing a duly elected attorney who refused to prosecute those who provided or sought an abortion. DeSantis lawyers actually had to define what woke meant in the lawsuit. It’s only the latest iteration in the culture wars like crt theory, caravans, Hunter biden and more that they like to use to rile their base. This is what the right wing, Musk and his supporters are so angry about. https://www.fox13news.com/news/what-does-woke-mean-gov-desantis-officials-answer-during-andrew-warren-trial.amp During the trial, Warren’s attorney, Jean-Jacques Cabou, asked those within DeSantis’ administration for their personal definition of ‘woke,” a term that DeSantis has used to disparage Warren in the past. DeSantis’ general counsel, Ryan Newman, responded that the term means “the belief there are systemic injustices in society and the need to address them.”

That hit Höglander made was *chef’s kiss*

Honestly if someone offers a 2nd for him I’d take it. Not only from all the insane adversity he’s had to work through at only mid-20’s in his life that he deserves a fresh start somewhere. Also because he was picked 23rd overall, so getting basically a pretty similar pick back and shedding $6.65m cap is about as good of asset management as you can hope, for a draft picked player. Especially so given his current struggles. Wherever he goes though I’ll be cheering hard for him and will never forget that act of kindness he gave that wonderful young girl taking her to the prom. He’s a really good guy who has deserved so much more, hopefully he can put himself back together elsewhere.

If Bo goes then management has definitely decided to tank this season and next. I wanted them to sign Miller, but if I knew we would only keep one of them it’s no contest at all, I’d choose Bo every single time and have traded Miller for the highest offer even if it wasn’t as much as they wanted. Offering him 7 is an insult. He’s playing better then Miller and they signed him to $8m per. That should be the bare minimum he’d accept. 50-60 goal scorers are rare and very pricy. This new group is really starting to lose me. So many mistakes and assumptions that bit them in the ass. Maybe it’ll all work out fine in the end, but it’s a mess so far.

The gullible don’t care, as long as you say what they want to hear and piss off those against discrimination and the far right insanity that’s infected politics all over the world then that’s all that matters. Actions to you know actually follow through or prove they mean what they say instead of taking those gullible for a ride means nothing to them.

So when do the Musq fans decide to start criticizing him over the hate they say (yet never seem to show in actions or words, weird huh) that they don’t approve of? 1 month? 1 year? Never? You’d think if it was a bunch of trolls trying to test their limits (the argument used by supporters) after he took over that they would have stopped by now. Or maybe, just maybe those behind him just refuse to admit the reality: Musq doesn’t give a flying f about hate and discrimination on the platform, which helps lead to the murders of minorities like in the Club Q mass shooting. And to be frank it’s fairly easy to be against hate and discrimination and those who spread it, that’s just the bare minimum someone can do, but it means nothing if you stay silent, nothing. They seem to hate the wokeist libs more then racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia so none of his clan will ever criticize him for letting it spread like wildfire (especially not those here on CDC). At some point saying you’re against something, but never actually being against people who do that something is empty words. I hope some of you (you know who you are) prove me wrong in my lack of faith of those who constantly defend him and will wake up to the dangers and consequences of letting this stuff slide. It ain’t words to crazy people, it’s permission to murder.

Only last year I started watching MLB, so I might be unaware or out of the loop on something, but can anyone tell me what was the reason the Jays didn’t re-sign Ross Stripling? He was lights out last year and his cost didn’t seem to be that much given what the Giants signed him for. He basically single-handedly dragged the team into the post season. I don’t know why they wouldn’t want to keep him.

I really don’t believe that. In corporate positions of power? Definitely with you there. In political positions of power? The evidence just tells me otherwise. Of course not everything a person in power at any level does is good or the right thing to do, but when I look at the policies or laws changed or made there’s a whole lot of good things for society and for the average person that improves life. I truly believe government does more good then bad and it’s not because of party or partisanship, it’s actually looking at the bills and policies enacted, so I guess that’s where our agreement ends on the elected official level. Basically I view government as the only real counterweight to the wealthy and corporations. Of course, I knew that, hence my joking reply. I do too, like when me and Master Mind agreed on the Kyle Beach disgusting act or the appalling conduct of hockey Canada and the players who perpetrated those vile assaults. There’s always going to be at least one thing you agree with someone else on, be it small like loving hockey or liking the same movie or something larger like when it comes to a societal issue. The only things that are deal breakers for me is white supremacists (they exist, I’ve met them unfortunately), discrimination (this is more of a Grey area) and hurting other people intentionally. Everything else is just a disagreement on “insert issue here”. I’ll argue my side, but I don’t hate the other person for their opposing opinion.

Do some people believe the things they do due to social pressure of and from whoever they talk with or where they grow up or something like that before thinking about it themselves? Yeah, definitely. Do I think that’s how a majority of people form how they think about an issue? Not really. Those who care about tolerance as one example mostly do so because they want to be a good person to others. Most people have the ability to look into something and form their own opinion, does that sometimes get influenced by other factors surrounding them? Yes, but it’s not absolute. Or am I misunderstanding your point?

But that’s my point. Unfairness comes in many different forms: genes, upbringing, opportunities, size, wealth, time available and more can all be advantages that are unfair to someone who doesn’t have the same. Why should we specify that only transgendered people advantages over their competition (of which not all have, only some) are what matter and are where we should draw the line? Like I said either we play all men and all women regardless of the gender they’re born or else we’re discriminating for a reason that doesn’t make any sense to specify given how many other advantages and unfairness already exists in sports today. The variability between someone who can afford 24/7 365 days a year of training and someone who uses things around the house to exercise with is big too. So is a man who is 5’8 and a man who is 6’8. So is a woman who has a family lineage in the sport and a woman who is the first to compete in their family. So is someone who devotes all their time to training and someone else who works 3 jobs just to afford rent. That’s what I’m saying: there’s so many unfair advantages between athletes competing in the same sport already, why is this one potential advantage the one that is too big and shouldn’t be accepted when all the others are deemed fine?

Social status? Not sure what you mean? Can you elaborate? There’s definitely issues that are complex, but there’s also definitely issues that are black and white, good or bad, right or wrong too.

No, just mostly I kid, I kid. I don’t hate or take personally anyone who disagrees with me, they have their right to their own opinion. I will however argue against it if I do disagree and I guess that makes it seem like I do. It’s definitely the wealthiest and corporations to blame for the inequality that’s screwed over most working people. I can agree with that second part only if you can agree there’s times and people or parties that have a self interest in staying in power that can also align with helping out the average person. I don’t subscribe to the “all people in positions of power are crooks and only care about themselves” train of thought. There’s good and bad, just like with basically anything in life.

Actually it’s all true. There’s muscular behemoth men and women. It can be possible for anyone. If you want to get into the debates of certain genes being more likely to produce certain body types we can do that too, but my statements stands that anyone can achieve this. No one starts out muscular. It gets built from training. My point is that if transgender men or women playing amongst biological men or women causes concern due to fairness then so should the size of a person and not just what gender someone was born as. Otherwise it’s just exclusion for being different. It’s not meant to be hurtful and insensitive, it’s what every single smaller man or woman or less fit man or woman is told if their competition is better then they are in whatever sport they compete. They aren’t told that it’s unfair she or he is better then you are. They’re told to work harder to improve their abilities. We should either care about the unfairness of size differences amongst men or women which is a far greater advantage to someone bigger or we should let all men play together and all women play together.

It’s a mixed bag with Bettman, depends on your perspective. Yes he’s made the league overall bigger and more profitable. Yes he’s expanded the NHL in the US. Would this have happened with anyone in that position? Up for debate. Has he also screwed over Canadian teams in the NHL? Absolutely. Has he made mistakes and refused to address the refereeing inconsistencies? For sure. Could someone else have been worse then him? Yup. So it depends on if you look at it through a lens of the NHL reach overall, which is arguably good or a lens of the NHL in Canada, which is arguably bad or a lens of the NHL consistency, which is arguably bad or a lens of the NHL quality, which is arguably mixed.

It’s rare where we seem to be on the same page for an issue, but you’re absolutely right here in regards to most corporations public actions vs actual practices. Not all of course, but most use social issues support publicly as an easy deflection from changing the labour/wage/benefits/paid leave/quality of product issues that are pervasive among the biggest companies in Canada and the world.

Is there any straws left with how much you’re grasping them? Sir/sire in reference to someone of higher status is not the same as using a pronoun to make someone feel more comfortable and respected in their body. Why do you insist on believing all pronouns are the same? Because they aren’t. Also thank you for pointing out these new pronouns I wasn’t aware of, I learned something new today and now can be even more respectful and comforting to my lgbtqia2s+ friends and community that I care enough for to use their preferred pronoun/s.

The only issue I think you’re rightwing on in my experience on CDC Alf is abortion, but even then I think you support the right of women to choose for themselves even though you disagree vehemently with it, which is perfectly ok, lots of people are personally pro-life, but want the option for others if they choose to do so. Everything else is pretty much considered centrist/center left where 60-70% of the population in Canada is.

And that is exactly how you kill a company, get support from those who will never buy your products and lose support from those who would always (or at least used to) buy your products. The free market at work. Watching this all unfold is like a plane crashed into a train wreck that rolled into a dumpster fire.

Entitled to be respectful or entitled to be disrespectful. Yeah you can, but it’s not a great argument on one of the sides.

So you don’t have actual proof of this email, just your word?

Well why don’t you post it for all of us to see then?

Well that ought to get Elon really mad with all those pronouns he has to use.