Boycotting the World Cup (most watched sporting event globally) is a losing proposition from the get-go; might as well try to boycott Christmas. FIFA’s corruption is nothing new; FIFA-Trump is a corruption match made in heaven.

I’m glad this guy is clearly articulating his hateful and incorrect thoughts in writing, so they can haunt him forever

As usual, the Romans (praeteritio) stole from the Greeks (παράλειψις).

Update- TIL that paralipsis and preterition are basically synonyms. apologies to any classicist, possibly including my wife, who might disagree

I think this is actually an example of preterition!

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Very good post. However, re: "a claim this big cannot be fully substantiated in the space of a blog post. Still, the point is important enough to be worth stating sharply and concisely": I don't think you succeeded on the sharp/concise front; I "got it" after AI wrote me a one paragraph summary ;>

That's my Senator.

Precisely. This isn't a left-center axis, it's a bold:cowardice axis, or a good-at-strategy:bad-at-strategy axis