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  1. I heard rumors this morning on Texas Sports Unfiltered of a group interested in bringing an expansion franchise to Austin.
  2. Of course, W and Trump have wiped all that movement away, so it's moot, but technically the Dems can't get 100% of the credit for the now-mooted few steps in the right direction on that issue.
  3. Yes. Obamacare was a half measure. Maybe you're too young to remember George HW Bush. No doubt his party has a worse track record on climate, but there actually has been bipartisan "movement" on that front in my lifetime.
  4. The Tea Party began while the republicans had no power. The policy differences between the GOP and the Democrats are clear to anyone paying attention, although Kamala ran to the right to try and close that gap. If you set those differences aside, are the parties any different? Yes, actually. The GOP actually wants to accomplish the things its base wants accomplished and is willing to do anything to deliver. The Democrats have never, not once, in my entire life actually wanted to accomplish anything its left-of-center base wants accomplished. Exhibit 64,973,651 (but who's counting): Yes I fucking hate Fetterman, but he got hit with the stroke gun and can't avoid saying the quiet parts out loud. Make no mistake, the entire party feels the same way as he does. It's hard to win a war when one side is busy running up the score as long as the other side refuses to acknowledge there's a war going on.
  5. I think it's one of those twitter portals
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  7. Without Samoan converts BYU is gonna drop down to 6-Man
  8. Do you think we'll at least get to see Arch lead the Horns to back to back undefeated seasons and national titles from the concentration camps?
  9. Don't even joke about this
  10. Or we've been lying about the full capacity range of the stealth bombers.
  11. No, if you scroll back you'll see my original point was that the nukes were unnecessary. I have no reason to doubt the truth of the MacArthur memo, but that doesn't matter to my original point.
  12. Lopez might be too old but yes
  13. Drafting bigs is always a gamble because so many simply can't adjust to the NBA. Much smarter to sign a proven commodity than trying to develop a rookie.
  14. You clearly haven't been following the Blake Lively thread
  15. He has no credibility on the world stage and I think the fracture in his base is still there. Disastrous consequences
  16. I completely understand the skepticism surrounding the MacArthur memo and Japan's willingness to accept virtually the same terms of surrender that eventually were imposed after Hiroshima, but the more important point that's still relevant today is that it was well understood by all sides that Japan had lost the war long, long before Hiroshima. There was no strategic justification for the civilian atrocities we inflicted and we're teaching a whitewashed version of history when we allow people to believe that the war was going to rage on without the atomic bombs. We are proud of it when we should be ashamed.
  17. Am I out of touch? No, it's the voters who are wrong.
  18. You're right about this. The consensus among the military brass at that time was Japan was already at the table willing to cede its sovereignty to the US. The reason was our non-nuclear firebombings were already completely effective in getting Japan to bend the knee, and yes people completely overlook how much destruction our non-nuclear strikes were capable of and did inflict in Tokyo. The nukes were completely gratuitous killings, for no reason other than to intimidate the Soviets. haven't seen as much press about it
  19. that explains it
  20. So that was worth killing 200,000 innocents?
  21. Then why were the same terms accepted after the bombs were dropped?
  22. Because he wanted to kill 200,000 civilians instead of end the war. Right? That's my point. It was completely unnecessary to end the war.
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