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The world banking system is essentially a giant Ponzi scheme

I just sort of read up on sort of the banking system... And that'll scare the shit out of you. What is the banking system conspiracy? Well, I mean, it's kind of a big Ponzi scape... If you just read up like the Federal Reserve, it's not really federal. It's a private [bank].

While some economists criticize the Fed's structure, calling it a 'Ponzi scheme' is a rhetorical hot take.

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America is sick of Aaron Rodgers winning games in predictable, dramatic fashion

He will win a game late, and he will do it in dramatic fashion, and he will drop dimes and all that. I'm sick of it. I think America is sick of it, to be honest, if I'm just going to speak for America here.

This is subjective, but Rodgers' style of late-game heroics continued to be a major NFL storyline for years, though 'America' was likely more entertained than sick of it.
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Jason Witten was hired by ESPN solely to mend the relationship between the network and NFL owners

Jason Witten is in place to mend the ESPN-NFL relationship, which makes sense... they put him in there, and it doesn't really matter if he's bad for the audience. It just matters that the rest of the owners and Roger Goodell likes him.

While Witten's hire was widely criticized for his lack of experience, the specific 'mending relationships' motive is a matter of corporate strategy that hasn't been officially confirmed but remains a strong industry theory.
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The NFL referees are being bullied by the internet into not calling the game by the rules

The refs are getting bullied by the blogosphere and the twittersphere into not calling the game by the rules. I would have liked to see [Clay Matthews] get penalized for that [hit on C.J. Beathard].

Whether refs are 'bullied' by social media is inherently subjective.

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The internet should be shut down or strictly monitored

It's really a, it's a low point, you know, point in, I think the internet should be shut down and, or at least monitored. You gotta somehow, like I've been doing this bit about in cells that, you know, a bunch of people who aren't don't know how to talk to women, talk to a bunch of other people don't know how to talk to women. And in the end, they're all blaming women.

This is a subjective policy opinion.
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NFL ratings and money are the only reason quarterbacks are over-protected by rules

I think their ratings went down when quarterbacks got hurt and people didn't want to watch the games. So they just started protecting them more so than they ever did... I always choose this money. It's always been about the money. If they actually cared about the players, they wouldn't address this issue decades ago.

It's an opinion on the motive of a corporation, which is subjective but widely debated.
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The Seahawks lost Super Bowl XLIX because they followed analytics over the human element of coaching

Analytics and numbers is also why the Seahawks lost to the Patriots because that play the whole year, the worst it was was an incomplete. And that's some of the high percentage. It was a touchdown except on that play that lost in the Super Bowl and it was an interception... What wasn't in the analytics was Bill Belichick knowing about that play and having everybody practice it.

This is a subjective analysis of a past event, though the factual basis of the Seahawks' play-call history is accurate.

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