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Brian Fantana

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  1. 1 minute ago, William Bludworth said:

    I'm finished. Got worked up, I'll admit it. Tbh, after I hit submit, I completely forgot I even went on a drooling rampage. It was 'click', OK what can I do before basketball tonight? 

    I didn't know y'all were playing, I'll have to tune in.

    e: Ooops I guess you aren't, fuck me.

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  2. 19 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Ok, well, that’s not a platform. If your argument is “promising to do what people want” is good politics, I won’t argue. I
     

    Mamdani is really, really unpopular at the national level. He’s killing it in NYC, no argument. To extrapolate his winning coalition of upwardly-mobile, highly educated people and young foreign born New Yorkers to a national electorate that is much older, less-educated, more native-born, and less wealthy is a bit of a stretch. Not to mention— there are actually Republicans out there fighting back. 
     

    Especially since the data shows he’s really not well liked at all among people who have heard of him. 

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    I don't agree, it absolutely is a platform. It's what politics is supposed to be. Listening to your voters, speaking to them instead of at them, learning their pain points and offering ways to ease them. He's popular locally because he is offering things that people (actual people, not business leaders) in his constituency want. Yeah sure, those specific pain points don't necessarily play well at a national level but who cares? You alter your messaging and policy positions to fit a national audience, something that the Harris campaign failed abysmally at, which no one ever wants to admit.

    Mamdani is just doing the same shit Obama did, as you alluded to earlier, which is what works.

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  3. 39 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I am slightly skeptical that freezing rent, making buses free, and opening state-run bodegas resonates in Grand Island like it does in NYC, but sure. I’ll keep an open mind here. 

    Good fucking Christ, man, you are a smart person. Just think for one second instead. It's obviously not about shipping those specific policies to the rest of the country.

    It's broadly about listening to your god damned constituents and talking about shit they actually give a fuck about, and promising to do things that will materially make their fucking lives better, instead of doing the classic establishment Democrat bullshit like throwing out inane policies no one fucking cares about like tax breaks for small business owners (thanks Kamala, or whatever thimble-headed moron on her team that came up with that), as if most of the potential Democratic voter base in America gives a shit of a fuck about shit like that.

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  4. 1 hour ago, South Austin said:

    We squeaked out wins against two of the worst teams in our conference and lost to 3-5 Florida who fired their coach after they beat us. This is not the time to get cocky about the prospect of playing in Lubbock in the playoffs.

    Or about a "McDui" coach when your head coach literally got fucking fired from a prominent head coaching job because of his alcoholism, literally in the same year.

  5. Just now, Bevo&Pevo said:

    WTF?  no DPI?  Dude straight tackles the receiver.

    It's been like this all day in every Big 12 game. It's like they got a directive from the league office or something.

    I say that and then they finally flag Cincy for DPI lol

  6. Just now, TexArcher said:

    Tech just got absolutely jobbed on a grrat touchdown.  Ball.was a full foot across the goal line when dude's body hit.

    Why is this so difficult?  I knew that was a touchdown in real time.  Y'all had like 5 angles of slow-mo.  It wasn't even close.

    Seriously lol....didn't matter in the end but that was a touchdown by a MILE

  7. 21 minutes ago, I Plead Da Fif said:

    I like sportsurge.net more. Their full screen streams on the iPad function a little bit better.

    Yeah it doesn't matter as much for me, I just load it up on my laptop and then mirror my laptop on whatever TV we're watching.

  8. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    In a serious take: I don’t birdwatch but have accepted a few invites to go. It’s not bad.

    You’re outside, first of all, and you have a reason to disconnect from the bad news machine in your pocket. You engage your senses and combine it with just the right amount of focus. You’re listening and looking and paying attention but it’s not an adrenaline dump into your brain. And then if you do it right, you see this whole little animal that maybe you never saw or noticed before but that shares this planet with you, doing its own thing. And that’s cool. It’s some time using our senes the way they evolved over millennia to be used. 
     

    I think you can get the same experience hunting or fishing or hiking or almost anything that motivates you to go touch grass, literally. 

    You're not wrong, but it's possible to have multiple hobbies. I go hiking a lot with my dogs as well as playing games and doing other things that force me to socialize/touch grass.

    Addictive things are only problematic if you don't practice moderation.

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