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Posts posted by Sheep Have Wool
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Just now, SL Xpress said:
Nice high low from Vokietaitis to Traore.
Traore is just rusty out there. Couldn't finish.
Swaim directing traffic. I really really like this kid.
Maybe learn to spell his name, then?
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23 minutes ago, Majorcholas said:
I feel like I can hear vulcanitis cursing in Lithuanian the entire game.
My favorite traditional Lithuanian curse is "varpa užpakalis".
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1 minute ago, ztejas said:
Pope is a good shotmaker he just has no idea how to run offense.
I've also noticed him standing around a few times off the ball.
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Swain looking awesome, but it would be super cool if we didn't need 4 rebounds to score.
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I see these refs also attended the Vanderbilt College of Refereeing.
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Hopefully we can go back to standard officiating now that Vandy covered.
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Just now, ClubWhatever said:
Fire Torre Becton. All the skill guys look and act like toothpicks
Yeah, and he's obviously not using the latest in sports science to prevent injuries.
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Solid drive, although we were definitely gifted some free yards with all those missed tackles.
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2 minutes ago, aggie08 said:
95 people probably pretty wisely deciding that it's not worth the harassment that they'd receive for a NO vote on something that's going to pass anyway. "Every single Democrat voted against honoring a great man" is exactly what Fox News was hoping for.
They'll still do some variation of that, mind you.
This post brought to you by Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
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12 minutes ago, Enchubben said:
Still waiting on specific examples. I watched one of the videos above, and in addition to many of them being taken out of context or cut short, most of them are valid agreements and statements.
What year did you graduate from the Charlie Kirk School of Debate?
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5 hours ago, Red Five said:
I question reality all of the time now. Especially when people I have known my entire life talk to me about how great Trump is. The short answer I think is people mainlining insane right-wing propaganda for decades. But then you watch five seconds of that shit and go "How could anyone fall for this?" and you're back to questioning reality. I don't know, man.
Short answer? Our stupid human brains were ill-prepared by the ancestoral environment for 24/7 propaganda.
See the Asch conformity experiments as one of many examples. Most people will fall for it, given enough exposure.
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2 hours ago, Spankytoes said:And what interest are those? Why do you give a shit what the rest of Europe thinks about us? Are they going to attack us or write a strongly worded letter about it? It’s great that they are picking up their end of the slack trying to stabilize their own region. I’m totally fine with people being embarrassed to be an American because we aren’t being empathetic enough to give some crybaby more money because he wants to hide behind big brother instead of actually broker peace. We have given Ukraine much more than they deserve and are owed by us. Time to put the big boy pants on and accept concessions…unless they can find someone else to meet their terms. If so…great! Win/win for everyone.
I'm going to do my best to answer this question in good faith, @Spankytoes.
It seems like you're okay with the war in Ukraine degrading the Russian military, you just think it's silly for the US to spend money on someone else's problems when we've got things to fix here at home. Additionally, cutting US funding might spur the EU into fully funding Ukraine's defense, meaning that we have our cake and get to eat it, too. Ultimately, though, even if it doesn't work out that way, the worst thing that happens is that Europeans get pissy about having to pay what you see as their own bills. Is this synthesis correct?
It seems like you're operating under a few misapprehensions.
First, your use of "empathetic enough" seems to imply that you think we're giving Ukraine support because we're trying to be the good guys, and protecting the weak is what the good guys do. It is what good guys do, and that's a great PR benefit, but if that was actually what we did, we'd be intervening in every humanitarian crisis worldwide. We don't. The US isn't heavily involved in conflicts in Myanmar or Sudan, for example, even though there's a ton of similar horrible shit going on. We do a bit, but it's nothing compared to our support of Ukraine. Why not? Because helping there would cost money, many Americans probably can't locate Myanmar on a map, and most importantly, we don't really give as much of a fuck. Sure, we can broker a talk or two and send some strongly worded letters, but we're not handing over F-16s.
So why the interest in helping Ukraine? Well, there's the obvious: it fucks over Russia, which frequently openly opposes US interests. They look immensely smaller on the world stage than they did before the start of this conflict. Other countries aren't as interested in their military tech, and they're less willing to pay heed to Russian interests. There are myriad reasons why this conflict is bad for Russia, and the more trouble they have with Ukraine, the less likely they are to do horrible shit like it in the future and/or cause other problems for us because they're busy spending their entire GDP there. You seem okay with this, but think it would just be better if the EU got off its collective ass and took charge of its own security, and all that could happen on their dime.
This leads to your second misapprehension, and it's a biggie: you seem to think events on the world stage like this happen in a vacuum. The United States didn't spring into being as the sole world superpower. We got there because we could outspend everyone else. We're the fucking Joneses. A single carrier strike group can take on entire countries' militaries. We have 11 of them. They are expensive as fuck. You think we need all those just to patrol our coastal waters? We have them so we can project power when and where we decide, and we don't really care what anyone has to say about it. This is true not just militarily, but economically and culturally. We are the world's reserve currency. We make the TV and the movies that people watch. McDonald's is ubiquitous. What the US wants, it generally gets, and if another country doesn't like it, too bad. They can go drink a Coke and be sad on Facebook about it.
Being seen as the world police is, for the most part, great for the United States. Countries give a shit what we do and say. They're polite to us. We get the friends and family discount. We can pull together coalitions to do, well, pretty much whatever we decide to do, even if they think it's a dumb idea. This is good for the US, and It makes us even richer - furthering our advantage - and it makes us more secure. Pulling back from the world stage lowers our importance to everyone else. And if you think that this one incident can't directly impact us, European stocks closed at a record high today. Why is money moving to the EU? Because people are investing in Dassault, and not in Lockheed. And the US stepping back from something that the EU - one of our biggest customers - thinks is important means that they'll just need to go make their own shit. We don't actually want them to. We want them to buy our shit and talk like us and think like us. It means we can keep getting our way.
Given all that, why in the actual fuck would you want to lessen our involvement in world affairs? To save some pocket change that is mostly going back into our own economy? When we do things like support Ukraine, we're not wasting money - we're making smart investments.
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1 hour ago, TrashMaster G said:
That poor daughter has a sixhead.
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On 1/17/2025 at 4:56 PM, msucolt45 said:
Arch has the size, speed, arm, and running ability that Sark spends sleepless nights drawing up X and O’s for the future schemes. IMO - Sark can’t wait for Spring Ball to implement 50-75% of the plan. The rest will come on the Fall camp.
We do need to portal 2-3 IOLs to help solidify the plan prior to Fall camp.
Hook’em!!!22 hours ago, msucolt45 said:
I’d rather watch their version of MNF than the regular feed/show on ESPN. They bring so much more “insight” to the play calling and pre/post play comments than your average color commentator. Plus they usually have 3Qtr guests that add to the funny activities.
Hook’em!!!12 hours ago, msucolt45 said:
Awesome - thanks and CAN’T WAIT!!!!
Hook’em!!!2 hours ago, msucolt45 said:Thank you Chris for your insight - priceless!
I do appreciate what you did on the 40 by the way, just saying.
Hook’em!!!Is this...is this a bit? Or are you auditioning for a role on TexAgs?
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4 minutes ago, Slacks said:
I'm talking results.
I seem to recall Colt beating Ohio State and playing in a championship game.
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1 minute ago, naija said:
why did I stop following her?
I suspect it had something to do with the restraining order.
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53 minutes ago, Helobious said:
I’ve been reading a lot of G. Elliott Morris on Twitter, guy knows his data. Says Selzer is no better or worse than any other poll and that it’s still just noise at the end of the day. So I think a lot of people in this thread need to really tamper their expections just because Harris finally got one good poll result. He still has Trump as a favorite (not a guarantee) to win
I sometimes wonder what would happen if Helo invoked the George Constanza opposite rule with his life.
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8 minutes ago, bolverk said:
To be fair, I don't think "the guy spouting facts about sheep" is defending the appropriateness of that statement within that particular political context. Instead, I think he was making a broader and more general statement about supporting the notion that comedic speech shouldn't be limited. Of course, that's my assumption, but maybe he does believe it's totally cool to blast out your hatred of accents, spices, and color to your beige world.
Look, I'm just here to educate the masses about sheep. You need wool? They've got it.
Also, @bolverk got it - apologies if that was unclear. Comedic speech shouldn't be limited. It doesn't always need to be tasteful. It should definitely be funny. Hinchcliffe's comment wasn't clever insult comedy, nor was it thoughtful subversive humor. Read the "joke." It's lazy and terrible and not funny. It was the sort of joke my 10 year old nephew would make if my nephew was a right-wing hatemonger at a Nazi rally.
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8 minutes ago, softlynow said:
If I was the richest person in the world I would never go to a political rally. What’s the point of Scrooge McDuck money if you’re just gonna post on SM all day and go be bored surrounded by insane levels of idiocy and mediocrity?
Buy a sports franchise like a normal rich asshole.
The same way that you become the richest person in the world: it's never enough. He's pretty clearly another insecure person trying to make themselves feel whole.
Also, I suspect you're greatly overestimating Elon's smarts - he's got a lot of intellectual peers there. Did you miss Habba's walk up song?
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Another second amendment patriot successfully defends himself from....a brown person who knocked on the wrong door
in Cloak Room
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From 2007, and still relevant.