I saw a question why Vance, Neom, etc lie so blatantly when video shows otherwise. This is why, it gives the bootlickers their talking points so they never have to acknowledge that they are full blown supporters of fascism. Some of them are stupid and actually believe the lies, the rest know they’re lies, they just take sick pleasure in saying the same shit over and over for “lib tears.”
I heard on the radio this morning that Indiana has more living alumni than any other US college or university. I looked on wiki and they list their current systemwide enrollment as 110,000. The have a bunch of campuses around the state and consider them all part of the main university, even though a few play sports separately in the NAIA, so I guess they all consider themselves IU Hoosiers. It's not like like UT or Cal where the big system schools operate separately and have their own D1 athletics programs so there's no real loyalty to the main campus sports programs unless it's by independent choice. IU also has more promininet alumni than I thought, way beyond Cuban. The conversation was that there's no reason IU can't be a big time football program going forward if the investment is there even after Cignetti retires. With those resources though I'm surprised IU basketball hasn't made much noise over the last several decades except for a blip here and there since that's been their deal historically.
I think Cleveland had leverage because the team still had years on the lease and they got out of it by leaving the name and history behind and the league promised them a new franchise within a few years. The SuperSonics got to keep their name for the same reason (I think they had another claim too about the transfer in ownership). I suspect Houston had no leverage which is why the team could up and leave with everything. I used to watch Oilers games with my dad growing up and it still pisses me off.
She wasn't attacking the agents she was trying to get away from them. It's the equivalent of a homeowners shooting a burgler in the back from several yards away. The law does not allow deadly force in that situation. Cops can only do it if the person is an immediate danger to others which is an extraordinarly high standard like if they have a gun an are shooting randomly into houses or something. Fuck this country and fuck the resident surly bootlickers.
LOL, nice try with your stats and anecdotes. He has full blown CDS (California Derangement Syndrome). He was told that blue state cities are lawless murder havens and red state cities are clean safe utopias and you'll never convince him otherwise. Like all magats he's incapable of any form of indpendent thought. I too have been to SF, Seattle, and Portland a few times over the last several years. I jogged past a large homeless encampment in Portland at night more than once and got a beer near there during late hours and was never hassled once. I was also in NYC last year and there were some rough characters but again wasn't once hassled, the guy who tried to sell us coke was actually pretty cool and talked with us for a minute before getting back to work. I get hassled regularly for change at the downtown QT here in my red state utopia and saw a methhead zombying around an intersection dropping my kid of at school this morning. I swear, these people are the biggest bunch of dickless pussies when it comes to big ol scary cities.
I work with some of the casinos around here and have had morning meetings at the properties. The place is filled with old people just pressing buttons at 8:00 am and smoking like a freight train. I was in Shreveport a long time ago when I was broke and they still gave free drinks in the Casino as long as you were playing the slots. We just pressed the penny button every minute or so and got wasted. Fun times. They don't do that at Indian casinos in Oklahoma and I doubt anywhere else anymore
I watch a lot of Jomboy Videos where he gives out Draft Kings codes and it's no different to me than if he were adverstising for Better Help or Me Undies or any of the other companies that are big into sponsoring podcasts and youtube vids.
I can agree that it's too much marketing. It honestly doesn't annoy me as much as others I guess because I'm so uninterested in gambling they go in one ear and out the other.
Gambling is like any vice. Make it illegal and it just goes underground to be managed by criminal elements. I don't like it either, I seriously do not understand the mentality of doing something in which you are all but guaranteed to lose money, but its a thing and might as well be legal. I also support legalized marijuana even though I hate that half the people at the grocery store reek of weed.