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BrickHorn

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  1. I found an example from the middle of the decade. Check this shit out. If you were Top 25% in your HS class, you only needed a 1050 SAT to get PRIORITY admission. Top 50%? No worries: score a measly 1150 or higher. Those are not even remotely elite admissions criteria.
  2. You’re hiding your metrics. What do you consider “elite” or “top,” on a percentile basis? I went to UT in the 90s and I believe I was the highest ranking student in my very large high school class to do so. I was somewhere between top 3-5%. The kids ahead of me went to places like Rice, Duke, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, etc. Most of my high school friends who ended up at Texas were well below that range. UT had some ridiculous sliding scale for admissions back then, too. I remember that based on my SAT score (which was good, but not Ivy League good), I could get in with something like a C average. Here’s another data point: in the 1990s, UT had generous merit scholarship programs. For example, National Merit Finalists received full tuition scholarships. This was done to attract top students who otherwise would go elsewhere. Elite schools do not offer NM scholarships, because they don’t have to. Don’t fall into the same trap as suburban nitwits do, convincing themselves they’re on the same team as billionaires because they leased the top of the line F150 and bought a bass boat on a 30-year note. UT provided a great education and attracted some very good students, for a variety of reasons. But it was not remotely “elite” in the 1990s and in many ways still isn’t.
  3. Hahaha. No. Not unless your definition of “elite” is really, really generous. In the 90s, UT was full of above average to good students. It was a safety school for the top students, who generally went to OOS private schools or Rice. Even today, UT is elite only on a single, flawed dimension. Its SAT average is far lower than the truly elite schools. I got a great education at UT. But it was not remotely “elite” among US universities at the time.
  4. Start a Sudan thread and literally everyone criticizing Israel on this thread will join you over there to criticize the perpetrators of that injustice as well, you fucking dolt.
  5. It’s a stupid fucking distraction and always has been. It’s the equivalent of going in for surgery to remove a malignant tumor and the surgeon saying “Why should we scrutinize this tumor when your arteries are calcifying?” The internet is littered with this kind of diversionary whatboutist propaganda. Shit, it’s basically the Anastasis playbook.
  6. Whether the criticism is “more strident” or not, do you disagree that the criticism is warranted? Because bitching about who gets criticized more loudly is an irrelevant distraction. But “irrelevant distraction” pretty much sums up your contributions on this board.
  7. Good point. Syrians killed a lot of Arab people, so Israel should be immune from criticism when it kills Arab people. That is the point you’re trying to make, right?
  8. “Stuff”
  9. Ah, Harrison Smith. Alex Jones’s faithful last resort. What a fucking dork.
  10. That was one of my first thoughts. I kept waiting for the drunk’s pot-bellied friend to take his shirt and pants off and tell the hockey guy to “frig off.”
  11. These people have the weirdest fixations. Reasonable people recognize that government exists to do things like providing basic public services, writing and enforcing laws, regulating commerce, providing for national defense, etc. But MAGA clearly believes the most important function of government is to release secret information that answers a litany of inane questions posed by wild-haired kooks on late night History Channel programs. They literally vote for any candidate who promises to release nonexistent top secret intel on sensationalist topics. Release the UFO files! Publish the Epstein list! Tell us who really shot JFK! Hell, Kamala might have won if she had only promised to let Americans line up to submerge their hands in the vat of formaldehyde the CIA is keeping Hitler’s brain alive in. It’s asinine.
  12. Fabricate increasingly detailed fictional biographies about an allegorical character, which will be widely misinterpreted to the world’s great detriment for the ensuing two millennia and counting?
  13. The man-baby is gone.
  14. The thing is: many of the victims weren’t from Kerr County. Their deaths are externalities of the kind of stupidity on display in that transcript. 27 young girls killed. But at least Jimmy Joe Bob Fucknuts isn’t offended by the existence of public safety measures bought with Biden’s criminal communist blood money.
  15. Good question. I would also like to know how MAGA enthusiasts are coping with what is surely their first ever bout of cognitive dissonance.
  16. This shit is cracking me the fuck up. All these MAGA dorks were so hyped up to find out all the juicy, top secret, non-existent details behind some Deep State sex trafficking conspiracy, only to be completely deflated. I anxiously await Bondi or Patel making the following announcements in the coming weeks: - Turns out there is no sex dungeon under that pizza joint. - UFOs really are just weather balloons. - We looked into it, and there aren’t all that many trans athletes out there, like hardly any at all. - The total amount Soros paid illegal immigrant caravans is $0. - Oh also: there were no illegal immigrant caravans. - They are technically chemical trails. It’s just that the chemical is H2O. - Vaccines work, really well. …but not at 5G; they can’t do that shit at all. - JFK Jr. is dead. - Biden legit won in 2020. - There were no FBI or Antifa provocateurs on January 6. It was just a mob of stupid MAGA assholes.
  17. One of the biggest dupes on our own DT board is angry that the admin has been lying about this shit all along. The best part? He’s also clearly stunned by this revelation. Can you imagine being so fucking dumb that it surprises you to learn, in 2025, that Trump is dishonest? Disheartening thought for the day: these people vote.
  18. Knowledge Fight is gonna be classic this week.
  19. Your professional experience as an Irish monk?
  20. Mexico is in a down cycle, but they completely dominated that game. I understand that was our B team or whatever, but we got dismantled. It really wasn’t close.
  21. EXACTLY. It is not partisan to note that a given politician performed poorly at his or her job. It’s not about policy or ideology. We’re talking about the basic blocking and tackling of state governance. And these fucking clowns went on stage and shit themselves on a live broadcast in front of God and Texas. Even fucking TexAgs saw it clearly for the distasteful brown nosing circus that it was, for Christ’s sake. But a handful of manbabies on the DT board can’t bear the embarrassment of their own sycophantic support for self-adulating narcissist windbags. Because they’re spoiled fail-children who have never had to face the consequences of any of their lifetimes of bumbling fuckups. For fuck’s sake. Grow up and learn to absorb uncomfortable ideas without crying to the board police like a giant fucking pussy.
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