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chainsaw

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  1. Not going to rainey street with you though
  2. I'd love to see a deep TD from Maalik on this drive
  3. fuck the rig 12 we have the worst officials for this
  4. I think Keldon, Vassell, Sochan are a solid core. At least one of them is capable of elevating to the caliber of a "star." Would that be enough to reach the finals in the era of superteams? I really couldn't say. Even the "Big 3" era had guys coming off the bench like Boris Diaw, TMac, Antonio McDyess, Michael Finley, Richard Jefferson, and eventually Pau Gasol, LaMarcus Aldridge, David West. A get or two like that could be what it takes for the solid core to transition from a playoff team to a title contender. At that point, it will come down to coaching, luck, and staying healthy. How many more years does Pop realistically have left in him? I don't believe he will be coaching Wemby for Wemby's entire career. There's just no way he's got 20 more years left in him (as a coach, that is).
  5. I was very excited about Cissoko. Should I not have been? I feel like he has the potential to bring a lot of playmaking and scoring off the bench like Osman has been able to do.
  6. Not to be too CR but those subjectively "pleasant" people voted by 21 points (Utah) and 30 points (Idaho) for a demonstrably incompetent authoritarian fascist who campaigned on, and delivered, the overturning of Roe. The LDS church also opposed desegregation as well as interracial marriage. It wasn't until the late 70's that they even acknowledged black people are people, too. Despite all that, I agree with you that we all probably have something to learn from how LDS families and communities are structured. Some of my best friends grew up in the faith and while they each eventually drifted away from the doctrine and towards anticapitalism, social justice, and secular values, they found ways to harmonize the "good" parts of the culture they'd grown up in with the "good" parts of the secular world they had been missing out on. Back to the topic, I agree with the people who say prayer doesn't accomplish anything external to the prayor, and I agree with the people who say prayer is basically a species of mindfulness which can be beneficial to the prayor for reasons we don't fully understand. In that sense, prayer is a positive thing, but when prayer is used to justify inaction or when prayer (regardless of the intentions behind the prayer) has a tendency to prevent changes that need to be made, the cons begin to outweigh the pros. So I can't really agree that prayer (or religion more generally for that matter) are "harmless." There's a persuasive case to be made that prayers have been used to prop up a decades-long pattern of inaction in the area of gun control, which has led to the harms of nutcases having easy access to weapons of war, which those nutcases used to slaughter countless innocent people.
  7. Pretty much everywhere will extradite you for the right price, unless you make yourself priceless like Snowden or (for a hot minute) Assange did.
  8. Just got my first mailer asking me to vote yes on 1. Texas Farm Bureau, I believe. Unsurprisingly, they are a mouthpiece for Big Ag.
  9. Great start now do Elon (confirmed fraud and confirmed piece of shit)
  10. Thank you for continuing to pray. Your prayer is very important to us. Your prayer will be answered in the order in which it was received.
  11. He made a play on the ball, which is only going to result in a foul if there is hand contact affecting SQBR and the video wasn't clear and conclusive that Jones's hand swat affected SQBR. At most the video presents a debate about whether it was marginal or merely incidental contact. That ball was gonna get stolen with or without the grazed fingertip, and the league's experts agree, it was a correct non-call.
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