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  1. KSU probably glad they went for the 2pt conversion. TD and a FG ties it up.
  2. 4 assists through 20 minutes. Very consistent pace Seriously this first half has to have set some records for offensive futility?
  3. Probably missed the discussion on this. But Abmas just passed Oscar Robertson for #12 on the all time scoring list. 3-11 are only separated by 240 points. Assuming postseason games are included (I think they are), there are a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 13-ish games left on the schedule, assuming they make it 3 games into the Big 12 tourney and 3 games into the NCAAs. So assuming he keeps his average of 18ppg, that will leave him somewhere between #8 and #4 on the all time scoring list. Should be able to make #8 by the end of conference play.
  4. Not bad. Lost from 2023: Portaled in for 2024:
  5. There's a strong national identity that will keep Argentina more or less functional in the midst of any political instability. They expect it and shrug it better than they probably should. Just bring US dollars. There's property crime but no worse than most major American cities. Violent crime also similar to US average.
  6. I think this is the power of labels. At the beginning of that Davos speech, his description of libertarianism sounds almost identical to the Federalist Papers. I think a lot of disgust with Libertarians in the US (including from me) is the propensity to hide behind Hamiltonian descriptions of society while they're trying to justify their right to marry a 7 year old. Or other vile shit. Then there are the MAGA folks who use a Libertarian wrapper to help their twitter following by making them seem edgelord-y, like oooohhh you're such an independent thinker, when in reality it's just an expedient ideology to hide sociopathic selfishness. Anyway, maybe you're right and Millei devolves into that. We'll see.
  7. He's more articulate and consistent (at least so far in these very early days) than other right wing leaders, whether that comparison is made to the present day or the last century in South America. The wave of privatization and de-regulation is the opposite direction of authoritarianism, unless there's a Putin-esque quid pro quo with the aristocracy/oligarchy. If he ramps of the nationalist populism and liberal use of the military, then maybe the comparisons to Pinochet won't be inaccurate. Argentina is racially and ethnically homogenous, with a very small indigenous minority, and Afro-Argentine descendants of slaves are also a tiny minority. So the left/right divide is seen less along racial lines, which makes this less of a social experiment and more of an economic one, at least as much as those can be disentangled. In other words, the oppressed/oppressor dichotomy is much more difficult to define and frame as a political movement in Argentina. No one can even agree whether Peronism, the dominant faction in Argentine politics for the last 80 years, is left or right wing, and I think that's what makes it kind of confusing for people observing Argentina right now. Either way, it was time to move on from the Peronistas. That had become an incoherent mishmash of left/right populism, corporatism, and corruption. Argentina has needed a political enema for decades. I don't know if this is going to work, or if they're going to end up worse off than before, but something needed to be shaken loose. That's going to come with a lot near-term volatility as markets evolve. But I am interested to see what happens with this experiment.
  8. Quinn + Arch on the field at the same time. 10 yards minimum
  9. So painful watching Arnold drop back over and over again and hop around in a perfect pocket for 8 seconds then scramble and throw an incomplete pass accompanied by a hold.
  10. stfu carpetbagger. Huskies aren't even indigenous to the east coast
  11. Like we would even care about the opinion of someone who went to school in our nation's capital
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