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  1. I wish. One of my old drinking buddies relocated to New England and is in-the-know about politics there. His read on Maine is that the people are unpredictable and skeptical of outsiders.
  2. Nazis are proud of their imagery, in-group jokes, and memes. They can't shut the fuck up about how oppressed they are for being "race realists" in their message boards. If they get called out about their racism they double down. "Badass" military/police bros meanwhile will cover their trucks in Punisher skulls without ever having read a single pane of the comics and without knowing anything about the Punisher. We can no longer assume someone with a lot of Punisher decals is necessarily a fan of the comic, or even aware the comic exists.
  3. this is the first time I've noticed his hat and i've seen other gifs of the same guy
  4. It's definitely a skull and crossbones. It is not a "cool" design, at all. My gut tells me that if he was an actual Nazi, he'd have turned out much differently, and his reddit comments would have been a lot more damning. Instead the worst comment was treating rural white folks with too broad of a brush. He called them racist, and not in a complimentary way. It's for the people of Maine to decide if they can look past a dumb tattoo. But from where I sit, I'm not buying the idea that he's some sort of secret Nazi.
  5. If he got it removed after finding out what it meant, I think that's acceptable. Not great, but again I don't believe they have a very deep bench in a state that's 100% white. Find me a replacement candidate, I'm all for it. However, I still pick him over Susan Collins.
  6. I know about the SS. I don't know any of their symbols besides the swastika.
  7. this looks goofy as hell, can't say i've heard of it
  8. What kind of tattoo is it? I am not up on biker culture
  9. There's a reason Ohio State wanted him.
  10. If he's a present day Nazi that's a problem. Otherwise, isn't this exactly the demographic people have been handwringing about winning back from the Manosphere? You gotta meet people where they are. A working class millennial veteran from rural Maine is more likely than not going to have made some unsavory friends and participated in some unsavory shit. Afghanistan ain't Vassar.
  11. There are probably heated emails and group texts being exchanged right now. Hopefully they get leaked to journalists or retrieved in a public record request
  12. What Starts Here Ends The World
  13. You replace Sark with like any texas high school football coach and we get at least 250 yard on UK
  14. I bet the UNC fanbase really misses Sally these days
  15. Are you repudiating free content from our friends at the Lowey Law Firm and Duck Camp?
  16. I should buy a used laptop to quarantine the methstreams aids
  17. It's the system, stupid.
  18. The tourist taxes (hotels and entertainment, i believe) play a role but it's not clear to me what the role is. Something about servicing bonds? This sort of ties back to the opposition's point: we have no clue what we're signing up for, maybe we should get an independent economic assessment. And maybe it's kind of suspicious how much pushback that simply doing due diligence is getting. Like a car salesman getting mad about the customer asking for Carfax. Does it mean it's a bad deal? Not necessarily, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
  19. Honestly I don't like discussing Project Marvel in this thread. I want ridiculous Wemby clips and seeing Dylan Harper / Carter Bryant hype. HEB commercials.
  20. When the gameplan is simple, and Arch doesn't have too much to think about, he makes his throws. When Sark insists on overloading his brain with complicated, slow-developing MENSA horseshit, his mechanics suffer and his aim suffers. That is the most plausible explanation for Arch's performance. The OU gameplan allowed Arch to do what he does best. The UK gameplan did not. If Arch transfers somewhere else, and the HC/OC lets him hang his nuts low, he is capable of winning a Heisman. Sark is very clearly trying to make Arch into something he is not. That is dumb, and having a shitty OL makes it worse.
  21. I'm not a construction guru but it's been my understanding that a TIRZ is a special district with special tax incentives that state law creates. The idea is to attract spending on projects that will benefit the local economy. https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/development/prop-tax/ch311/about-tirz.php The tax on the "before" values (low, SHSU football team quality) will still go to the city (county, school districts, etc), but the tax on the "after" portion (high [Bama quality] minus low [SHSU quality]) doesn't go to the city (or other taxing entities) anymore, it goes to into a separate piggy bank that benefits the developers only. The rules of the piggy bank can be fast and loose, too. In 2035, you could see palatial developments all over downtown, but the city's tax revenue from those palaces will be the same as the revenue from a condemned shack full of heroin addicts, because most of the appraised value of those palaces is going to be taxed under the TIRZ deal and most of the money will get diverted into the piggy bank that the city, county, school districts, and other taxing districts can't touch.
  22. No (companies can train their own goddamned technicians) No (we should be able to raise money however we need to in the future) No (don't micromanage judges, better to let 99 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man be jailed, yada yada) Yes (see @Brisketexan post above) No (only benefits a few people who are probably Abbott's friends so fuck 'em) No (we should be able to raise money however we need to in the future) Yes (drop in the bucket for our budget but huge for the worthy beneficiaries) No (we should be able to raise money however we need to in the future) No (only benefits a few people who are probably Abbott's friends so fuck 'em) Yes (drop in the bucket for our budget but huge for the worthy beneficiaries) No (close call, but it hurts school districts at a time they can't afford to be hurt) No (judges should not get a slap on the wrist if they're bad) No (close call, but it hurts school districts at a time they can't afford to be hurt) Yes (drop in the bucket for our budget but huge for the worthy beneficiaries) No (meaningless culture war bullshit, doesn't belong in the constitution) No (don't enshrine racial dogwhistles in our constitution) No (don't enshrine racial dogwhistles in our constitution and we sure as fuck don't want to burden the state budget either)
  23. Is it time to fly a banner?
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