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softlynow

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  1. It's way past time the left stopped holding itself to that, or really any, standard. That's the first step to making the media have to treat the left and the right equally. Unfortunately, that'll never happen, because the left loves to "but ackshually" and purity test itself more than it loves winning and taking/keeping power. Power is ALL that matters. Truth is irrelevant. Facts are irrlevant. Fairness, kindness, decency and so on, completely irrelevant. No one is coming to save us. We're bordered by oceans and two countries that are, combined, less than half our size by population and about 1/7th our GDP. No one will stop whatever our holocause looks like. No one will prevent whatever the worst impulses of the hateful Right triumphs over the coming decades. I give us little chance to change course, but if there is any chance, the left has to start playing by the rules in place right now. Learn Calvinball and play to win for a change.
  2. People keep thinking that bringing awareness to his despicable words will have an effect. These are things our right-leaning neighbors want to say, but are afraid to. This murder will only embolden them. They can dodge our remonstrances in the fashion of Incredulity and the hateful newcomers coming in hot with eye rolling takes about how hateful we are, blowing right past the words we are actually saying as they build up the courage to espouse bigotry. Nothing fucking matters except power. The right is lost to the power of hate. The grifters running our government only gain more power through his death. There is nothing good about any of this because the flow of power is accelerating into the hands of people who will exterminate their opposition when they feel safe to do so.
  3. For the record, I was "defending" a generic rotting corpse's governing ablities vs. our current fucktard. I gave a speech in a class (in the CMA, IIRC) on the virtues of The Communist Manifesto, though, I will admit, I tailored it from a centrist perspective. That semester I also wrote a paper on the probable unlikeliness of Jesus's divinity, though I was hesitant to go as far as @BrickHorn and others would have and argue along the lines of a Christ myth theory (that JHC was not a real person, but merely a symbol meant to lead one on a journey for truth). What's the point of me saying this? Get over yourself. You don't have a monopoly on fuckall, let alone how anyone should think about historical figures. Your posts of late have been the worst kind of purity testing pablum, neither insightful nor particularly interesting. Get a new schtick.
  4. Reagan in his current state would be 1,000,000x the president Dotard is.
  5. The voters knew what they wanted, and they're getting it quickly.
  6. Yep. This is the most entertaining page of the last several.
  7. He really doesn't look that bad. Y'all had my hopes up. Unfortunately, he looks and sounds good enough for another term or two.
  8. Yep. He speaks moron, and does it well. Maddeningly well.
  9. That's actually a comforting video to watch, w/r/t whether it was nerves or something more troubling. It seems Arch just needs to go back out there and be comfortable regardless of the jerseys the other guys are wearing.
  10. I’ve only read the last two pages of this thread, and based on those I’m not clicking on the first 8. As retarded as some of y’all apparently are, I’m assuming Daniel Day Lewis, Meryl Streep, and Gary Oldman have been mentioned.
  11. I'm with you everywhere on the field except inside the opponent's five.
  12. So, we’re revisiting Greg Davis’s tenure now? Fuck. Today blows.
  13. That’s a meh take. Even with the vanilla plan, guys were open, Arch just couldn’t make the throws. Arch fucked us more than Sark.
  14. Agreed. Not sure we’re disagreeing about anything.
  15. Reverse that. Arch had a miss rate we haven’t seen since Swoopes. That stat is the difference in the game. The only argument Sark had a worse day is if you think Arch should’ve been pulled at the half. Arch was ass. Sark manufactured more yards, first downs and 3rd down conversions than the opposition despite that. With a replacement level QB, Sark produces a win.
  16. Glasses, undershirt, whatever it takes.
  17. This is a fine take. But it’s ok to be concerned about both of them. I can only think Sark expected Arch to settle in and find his accuracy and rhythm running what they planned. Clearly blew that call. There’s also the matter of Arch having his success when tOSU’s defense was clearly not fresh, and quite possibly against a shifted late game defensive plan from Patricia, so how much of the success was because of those factors.
  18. It’s a data point that he isn’t up to it against great defenses. You have to consider that we ran the ball well and the defense gave him plenty of chances. This wasn’t a young QB being asked to overcome multiple other team failures. This was a young-ish QB being the obvious weak link while guys around him were succeeding. Out rushed them, outgained them by 133 overall, 2 more converted 3rd downs, only -1 TOs, penalties weren’t out of control (though timely in the way they fucked us), 5 more first downs. This wasn’t a mediocre performance by a QB, this was full on shitting the bed for 3+ quarters of the game. I’m not saying hope is lost, but this was concerning.
  19. Agreed. If Arch looks like ass against Florida or OU, we’ll have 2 data points to know that we’ve got a problem.
  20. We may have cursed Arch by not putting a “seems like he sucks” in the title of this thread. Guess he won’t be winning the Heisman. As far as optimism about improvement, he’s in year 3 here, so I’m not gonna be surprised if this is just who he is against great defenses. Maybe it’s first game rust. Maybe.
  21. Which Jesus? Evangelical Jesus? Well then:
  22. Mental illness on display. Don't be angry at him, pity him. Then ignore him. He knows he needs help, but refuses it.
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