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Imagine if a republican pretended to be an Indian.
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Since these are pro athletes on pro athlete contracts it's time to start talking trades like a real league: Would Hawkeye RTC and CKWC make a deal: Spencer Lee for Real Woods? Former medalist for a current medalist at the toughest weight. Good trade for both sides...
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The Benny Podcast was published at 2:17PM Eastern time yesterday. The news articles that reported Kimmel being table off the air started appearing about an hour after that. The article you linked to to start this thread was published at 3:43pm. It is theoretically possible that the affiliates had made their decision before the podcast was published, but the decision was made public after the threats were made public. It is inappropriate for the FCC chair to make the threats. It either gives the wrong impression to the public or it chills free speech. Neither should be goal.
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Imagine if a white private high school liberal college educated person talked like they were from the hood like Jc does.
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Honor system, without going back. If you actually read the post, can you roughly breakdown my explanation? Then tell me why I would wrong with that approach?
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It’s morally reprehensible for a highly educated African American woman to deliberately adopt a “ghetto” speech or persona to pander for the black vote, because it undercuts the dignity and intelligence of her own community — the African American community has made real, measurable gains in education (for example, nearly 27–30 percent of Black adults over 25 hold at least a bachelor’s degree, with Black women often outpacing men in attainment.
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I was asking TPT.
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My. Name. Is. Neo!
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So was the Starocci thing a fluke...???
MPhillips replied to The_KC_Godfather's topic in College Wrestling
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Maybe instead of asking why I “talk down” to people, you should consider whether it’s coming from a mix of trying to be precise and careful — not from assuming I know more. If the tone feels off, I can adjust it, but being challenged doesn’t automatically make someone less smart. Let’s keep this about the ideas, not about who sounds smarter.
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Minnesota’s governor continues to incite violence
JimmySpeaks replied to headshuck's topic in Non Wrestling Topics
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So your conclusion is that there is nothing wrong or harmful. Because at no point did you prove any of the aforementioned points. Present evidence JC does any of these things frequently enough to rise to a harmful or unproductive level. Seems she got all your attention.
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Kash has shown; beyond any doubt, the last ten days what everyone who could think with logic and/or without MAGA glasses already knew….he has no business running the FBI.
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It took you 4 paragraphs to explain why you try to talk down to people? Maybe you aren't as smart as you think?
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Haha, thank you for the flattery and the gaslighting. Trying to tell me my lived experience. Not surprised tho. Conceding a point is rare regardless of how obvious. Better luck next time.
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Intellectual flattening erodes nuance and critical thinking. When one systematically oversimplifies complex topics, one risks degrading the audience’s capacity to grapple with ambiguity, evaluate trade-offs, and understand complications. What may be efficient in the short term becomes impoverishing long term: the audience internalizes a model in which issues are binary, reductive, or laced with black-and-white moral overtones, rather than multivalent, contingent, subject to empirical uncertainty. Manipulative potential and rhetorical distortion. “Dumbing down” isn’t just pedagogically neutral. It can serve as a rhetorical device that strips away qualification, caveats, and complexity so that one’s message becomes more palatable or emotionally resonant—but also more misleading. Constituents may be misled or misinformed (even if well intended), because they lack access to the underlying subtleties. Simplification for sound bites can become distortion for persuasion. Undermining of democratic agency. Democracy presumes that citizens are capable of making informed judgments, that they can understand complexities of policy, trade-offs, unintended consequences. If political discourse is persistently simplified, then the citizenry may become passive consumers of pre-packaged ideas rather than active, thoughtful participants. This threatens authentic consent, accountability, and informed decision-making. Educational hypocrisy and inconsistency. If coaches or politicians sometimes “dumb things down,” it may be defensible in certain contexts, but if it becomes routine, it reveals a disinterest in fostering growth, a tendency to condescend rather than elevate. In coaching, the goal is to bring athletes up to a higher level—not simply to make them temporarily feel good or “understandable.” In politics, likewise, the goal should (ideally) be to elevate public understanding. Loss of trust when oversimplification is exposed. When simplifications are later revealed to have omitted important facts, or when their implications turn out to be false, credibility suffers. Constituents may feel deceived, manipulated, or infantilized. A reputation gains value when the communicator shows both respect for the audience’s capacity and willingness to engage honestly with complexity. Alternative: tiered communication rather than permanent dumbing down. Rather than permanently “dumbing down,” a more sustainable strategy is to layer communication: use simple, relatable explanations as entry points, but also provide access to more elaborate expositions for those who want or need them. In coaching, this might be giving a simple metaphor first, then a more technical breakdown. In politics, this might mean having sound bites, but also policy documents, town halls, written materials. That preserves integrity, fosters learning, and respects the intelligence of the audience. Conclusion: While there is merit in tailoring language and complexity to match an audience’s background (to avoid confusion, disengagement, or inefficiency), there remains a moral and intellectual duty to preserve truth, nuance, and opportunity for growth. Overreliance on simplified frames or sound bites may secure short-term clarity or popularity, but risk longer-term damage to collective understanding, trust, and democratic health.
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Nah I’m making fun of you for saying people that don’t have a lot of followers aren’t popular enough to know whom they are. Are you really that slow ?
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If I were a politician, with access to more and detailed information than all but about 500 people have seen and I was talking to a constituent, dumbing things down to make a point would be beneficial for both of us depending on the subject. Them to understand a potentially complex issue and me not wasting my time, getting a good sound bite for a video to put out to the social medias. As a coach, we often have to dumb things down for younger or less experienced athletes. Watching their eyes glaze over when you try to explain how I think of a situation can be disconcerting for both us. They may feel dumb or feel I think they are, for not being able to follow a topic that is currently over their head. Would we ever condemn a coach for explaining something two different ways to two athletes at vastly different skill/experience levels? Of course not. We do these things on the fly all the time. Something doesn't land quite right we pivot and try a different tactic. Anything to get the message through and in a constructive way. Y'all seem like you just look for things to get mad at. But seeing how riled up your leaders keep you. Being in the red seems like your idle position these days.
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He has no thoughts of his own. He’s Trying to sound smart is all.
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Are you making light of a racist murderer that senselessly killed 9 people?
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Not with his mask on he’s not
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Are you an AI bot? Why are all your posts in a different font?
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Hey is she "towing" the line?
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Thursday at the 2025 World Championships featured the final four women’s weight classes, along with the beginning of the Greco-Roman portion of the tournament. There was only one American woman in action on Thursday, as Kennedy Blades was eligible for a bronze medal at 68 kg. Blades started the day with a solid 9-2 win over Ukraine’s Manola Skobelska. That set the stage for a bronze medal bout versus Turkiye’s Buse Tosun, a 2023 world champion and a bronze medalist at the 2024 Olympic Games. In the battle of 2024 Olympic medalists, it was Blades who came out on top with a 12-1 decision. After a pair of points from a step-out and a passivity clock violation, Blades broke the match open in the final seconds of the opening period. Tosun attempted an ill-fated arm-spin, leaving her vulnerable to a reshot. Blades took advantage with a double leg at the boundary for two points. Blades continues to turn up the pressure and shot Tosun out of bounds for another step out and a 5-0 lead heading into the second period. The second period saw Tosun make a concerted effort to push the pace and pressure Blades. The American correctly responded and was able to throw-by or side step the pressure from Tosun and respond with an attack of her own. That led to three takedowns in the final two minutes and a 12-1 win via technical superiority for Blades. In her short Senior level career, Blades now owns an Olympic silver medal and a world bronze medal. The US women’s freestyle team finished in fifth place, behind champions Japan, North Korea, the Russian team wrestling under the UWW banner, and China. Three US women earned medals (Helen Maroulis/gold, Blades/bronze, and Kylie Welker/bronze). That number is the lowest for a women’s team in a full world championship event since they had three in 2019. At the same time, it wasn’t totally unforeseen, being the first year after the Olympic Games - typically a transitional year. Judging by the draws for the wrestlers competing on day one in Greco-Roman, we knew the American squad had its work cut out for them. Both Kamal Bey (77 kg) and Cohlton Schultz (130 kg) were drawn into a first match with a former world champion and Olympic medalist. Each fought valiantly but lost a close decision. Bey, 2-1 to Malkas Amoyan (Armenia) and Schultz, 5-2 to Sergei Semenov (UWW - Russia). Amoyan ended up making the world finals, which brought Bey back into repechage tomorrow. He’ll have to win two matches just to wrestle for a bronze medal. The lone American to get his hand raised on Thursday was the youngest member of the squad, high school senior Jayden Raney. Raney pulled out a tight win over Koriun Sahradian (Ukraine) in the Round of 32. In his next bout, he pinned Iraq’s Sajjad Albidhan in a nasty armbar. Raney’s two wins pitted him against the three-time world champion and five-time world medalist Eldaniz Azizli in the quarterfinals. The younger acquitted himself nicely against Azizli, but ultimately fell, 5-1. Unfortunately, Azizli was upset in the semifinals, which eliminated Raney from medal contention. Wrestling alongside Bey tomorrow will be Max Black (60 kg), Alex Sancho (72 kg), and Michial Foy (97 kg). USA Results Women’s Freestyle 68 kg Repechage: Kennedy Blades over Manola Skobelska (Ukraine) 9-2 Bronze Medal Match: Kennedy Blades over Buse Tosun (Turkiye) 12-1 Greco-Roman 55 kg Round of 32: Jayden Raney over Koriun Sahradian (Ukraine) 2-1 Round of 16: Jayden Raney over Sajjad Albidhan (Iraq) Fall 4:26 Quarterfinals: Eldaniz Azizli (Azerbaijan) over Jayden Raney 5-1 77 kg Round of 32: Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia) over Kamal Bey 2-1 82 kg Round of 32: Shahin Badaghimofrad (Qatar) over Beka Melelashvili 6-4 130 kg Round of 32: Sergei Semenov (UWW - Russia) over Cohlton Schultz 5-2 Final Results 53 kg Gold Medal Match: Haruna Okuno (Japan) over Lucia Yepez Guzman (Ecuador) 5-0 Bronze Medal Match: Antim Panghal (India) over Emma Malmgren (Sweden) 9-1 Bronze Medal Match: Hyogyong Choe (North Korea) over Shokhida Akhmedova (Uzbekistan) Fall 3:59 62 kg Gold Medal Match: Sakura Motoki (Japan) over Ok Ju Kim (North Korea) 5-4 Bronze Medal Match: Orkhon Purevdorj (Mongolia) over Esther Kolawole (Nigeria) 6-5 Bronze Medal Match: Amina Tandelova (UWW - Russia) over Bilyana Dudova (Bulgaria) 4-2 68 kg Gold Medal Match: Ami Ishii (Japan) over Yuliana Yaneva (Bulgaria) 4-2 Bronze Medal Match: Kennedy Blades (USA) over Buse Tosun (Turkiye) 12-1 Bronze Medal Match: Jia Long (China) over Sol Gum Pak (North Korea) 6-1 72 kg Gold Medal Match: Alla Belinska (Ukraine) over Nesrin Bas (Turkiye) Fall 4:25 Bronze Medal Match: Nurzat Nurtaeva (Kyrgyzstan) over Pauline LeCarpentier (France) 5-0 Bronze Medal Match: Zelu Li (China) over Alexandra Anghel (Romania) 7-4 Friday’s Gold Medal Matches Greco-Roman 55 kg: Payam Ahmadi (Iran) vs. Vakhtang Lolua (Georgia) 77 kg: Nao Kusaka (Japan) vs. Malkhas Amoyan (Armenia) 82 kg: Gholamreza Farokhisenjani (Iran) vs. Gela Bolkvadze (Georgia) 130 kg: Amin Mirazazadeh (Iran) vs. Darius Vitek (Hungary)
