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Oct 5 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
If you liked Ted Lasso, you should totally check out #WelcometoWrexham. It's like real life Ted Lasso. Very cute & compelling documentary. The real life folks seem eerily similar to Lasso. From fans to bar regulars to volunteers to struggling players & staff to promotion hopes.
Ryan Reynolds & Rob McEllhenney bought this struggling club on the 5th tier of English football and hope to promote it up the ladder. I thought they were friends but no, they had never met before!

The celeb owners mostly stay in the background. Very interesting documentary idea
Don't go into the documentary expecting always sunny or mythic quest or Deadpool type jokes though. It's not really a funny watch. More like a big socio-entertainment experiment. The supporters needed to vote 75% for the celeb takeover. They voted 98%! Knowing of the doc plans.
Maybe even *because* of the documentary idea? The show is bringing a lot of fan following and attention on Wrexham. And who knows, maybe in a few years, the club actually WILL end up in the Premier League! It'll be like a collective reality sports show. Working so far! Image
It's an interesting sports documentary because it's not as much about the sport as it is about the people. It's a show for an American channel after all. So don't go in expecting too much technical detail about soccer. But there is detail on how a team is run. & supported.
Just like we went into Ted Lasso expecting snl-ish tomfoolery but were surprised by a sublime dramedy, #WrexhamFX is also not at all Rob & Ryan getting jokes out on the sidelines, but a look at how club sports following is so tied to working class lives in Europe & US.
Only complaint is about the show is not enough @KaitlinOlson 😭😭
They do a lot of tomfoolery on SM to promote the club, like this memorial urinal 🤣😁 but the doc series itself is more of a sober sensitive affair than a chuckle fest. You find yourself rooting for this random Welsh town. Googling current standing.

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Oct 7
This event showed the difference between how experienced Biden is at big league politics and how unprepared DeSantis is, staying confined to his bubbles. The optics of this whole event show Joe looking relaxed and presidential & Ron like a local comptroller there to greet him.
Fifty years in politics teaches you to know where the cameras and hot mics are without gawking straight at them like Modi or Trump. It becomes second nature, almost. But you can't learn it without being out in the field. DeSantis has followed a bizarre strategy for 2024.
Trump, say what you will about him, was out there everywhere talking to anyone who will talk to him in 2015 and early 2016. Liberal media too. Even now he talks to NYT so much. And he had 35 years of experience with cameras & mics & the press.
In his presidency, he bubbled up.
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Oct 6
That in the Marketing, Society, & Sustainability class, we did a deep dive into all the different ESG scores and indices. And the students were able to identify the structural flaws easily. Especially the MSCI scores. Especially their being peer-based.

Such a huge flaw!
Rating firms relative to peers, and using bond rating style AAA-CCC range means that some firms will ALWAYS get AAA even if they are doing little to be better for the planet. As long as they aren't as bad as the worse ones, they are golden!
Then of course, they saw the problem with the E,S,& G being clubbed together into a cumulative score where one can offset the other. So as long as you have great corporate governance, you can pollute easily and still get a good overall rating. Which is what's happening a lot.
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Oct 6
Which is the more assal Marhaati name?
Fun fact. Gaikwad literally translates to "Cow Door", cos that was the community's original hereditary profession. Managing the cattle doors of a fort & the supervision of cattle when they grazed nearby. Like many Maratha warriors, their roots lay in tending cattle.
I've probably known more Marathi folks named Thakur than Gaikwad. It's a reasonably common name in Maharashtra. Just not exclusive to Marathis like Gaikwad.

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Oct 6
Semi high-speed 🤔
Akal badi ke bhains?

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The Marathi word for this is तकलादू #SemiHighSpeed Image
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Oct 6
I agree with the larger point here, but there are two very real systemic things to also note.

1. Number of visa apps from China have drastically & dramatically reduced since covid.

2. Number of visa apps from India have drastically & dramatically gone UP since COVID.
Just heard in three separate faculty meetings about how the number of Chinese applications remains worryingly low. Not just in quantity but also quality. And that any further declines will start hitting student body metrics. Trumpism's effect.

US consulates in India otoh are seeing applications at a level they have never experienced before. Even in tourist visas. Turns out that despite pioneering cutting edge groundbreaking tech, Modi-5G can't stop people from wanting to get out of India while they still can.
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Oct 6
I love how participative American democracy is. It is so easy to volunteer to make a difference in whatever way you feel the most comfortable. Having seen the insides of how the Democratic party ground machine operates, I'll say it's quite the complex and thriving organism!
You can just sit around consuming 24/7 content on oh the Dems are so weak on messaging and wimps and whatever that makes you sound like a CNN audition.

Or you can remember you too are a Democrat and actually do something concrete like volunteer/donate.

It is VERY easy to volunteer, in whatever way you can, for campaigns. You don't necessarily have to go door to door. You can call. Or text. Or write letters.

Feel uncomfortable convincing people to vote? No problem. Just do reminder or info outreach to Democrats only. Etc etc.
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