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A-Tex Devil

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  1. This. I just presumed when he ran for Senate and they said he was a "venture capitalist" that he must have been a partner at one of the name SV funds or something. He was a super junior guy at Mithril Capital (Thiel) which has had lots of issues, then Revolution (Steve Case). He is probably a reasonably good salesman in the VC conference rooms to convince them to hire him, then seed his crappy Cincinatti VC. But TL/DR, he is a former venture capitalist in the same way a junior associate that leaves Wachtell or JP Morgan after a couple of years was a big time M&A lawyer or investment banker. I also think he is ultimately an escaped incel. So good for him, I guess, that he found his way out. But he strikes me as a guy who was a couple of bad decisions/strokes of bad luck from being a 4chan troll and digital currency "expert" working from a 1 BD apt in northern Kentucky.
  2. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    And is Giraud playing? Debut him at home. What a shitty draw given what the team just pulled off.
  3. Yeah, if you want to say Comaneci was the most important women's gymnast I wouldn't argue. But her "reign" was like 4 years, and I'm not sure she won anything other than 1976. Perhaps she got robbed of the all around in 1980 given it was in Moscow, but she wasn't the best performer on her team in 1979 world championships when they won the gold. The fact that these women are competing into their mid to late 20s now and doing things the teenagers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s wouldn't dream of says a lot about both the competition that Biles has to face vs. what was basically USSR or Romania back then, and their overall talent. So most important, sure. But Biles longevity, results vs. her peers, and sheer amount of competition are *objectively* well beyond what Korbut or Comaneci accomplished.
  4. Because she got a 10 in 1976 on a routine that wouldn’t get close to that now? Please. Simone has won more, more often, against more countries that are performing at a high level than Nadia ever did. It’s not close. It’s like saying Bob Cousy was better than Jordan
  5. Anyone that doesn’t think SB is the greatest ever is a fucking idiot. It’s fucking objectively true. She got the twisties 3 years ago. As someone that competed in gymnastics from ages 8-15, that’s a real thing. It doesn’t reduce her accomplishments. Historically relative to all past competitors she has dominated Olympics and world championships in a way that hasn’t even been approached. And she is 27 which is insane. Fucking. DT, man. Jesus.
  6. Has he endorsed Kamala yet? That’s not refuting the above but until he does his words are relatively empty.
  7. Oh, I thought it was most technically difficult. The two super extended tracking shots in Children of Men are my choice.
  8. Agree. I was fairly surprised that Kamala said she'd just sign the bill, but happy both that she will and how she communicated it (shitting on Trump in the process). And at the end of the day, if she gets the house and senate she wants, she can still add more to it to make the left happy.
  9. "perhaps, some would say, better"
  10. [DELETED SO AS NOT TO FEED THE TROLL. HE KNOWS]
  11. It's insane to me that he got double gold in Fly and Breast, much less on the same day. When I was swimming growing up, I don't think I can recall someone that excelled at a high level in both. I can't remember that ever happening on the world/Olympic level.
  12. Out of form Chinese swimmer comes in and breaks his own world record by a 1/2 second in a slow pool. Color me skeptical.
  13. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Liga MX Champs!
  14. NEvermind.. France won. Morocco it is.
  15. Presuming France doesn't lose by 2 to NZ, we draw Morocco. They aren't anything to sneeze at given last world cup, but prefer them to Argentina, I think.
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    Austin FC

    Watching second half again with my 6 yo who went to bed at halftime. That rabona the Pumas forward did that drew the penalty was pretty slick.
  17. I can agree with all this and still see value in getting Trump et al bent out of shape by suggesting it’s unclear whether it was shrapnel or a bullet. Because it shouldn’t matter but it does to him so use it to destabilize him.
  18. I’ve been saying that for 6 months. Ask Trump an oblique question about the end of 4 years and let him hang himself. “If you win, and after your 4 years is up, as you step down from being president, what do you think you will do next?”
  19. I mean fucking listen to what they are saying. “In 4 years you are not going to have to vote again.”
  20. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Top 4 win for club behind the two playoff wins and the LAFC beat down imo. Just given the circumstances of two shorthand goals, the PK save, and Pumas is no joke. .
  21. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    A+ shithousery by Austin FC tonight no matter what the outcome. Cleveland hasn’t been good but damn that was awesome.
  22. A-Tex Devil

    Austin FC

    Couldn’t go to game tonight but watching. Felt like we conceded up front by benching Stuver and it’s clear Cleveland is awful. But Ring and Perreira are on one tonight. This has been a lot of fun.
  23. “Executive experience at the highest level” also means McCraven and Stavridis. I love both of those choices in a different kind of race, but I don’t think either is strategically the best option to capture swing states here.
  24. I thought she was vehemently anti-Trump (setting aside her other issues). Did I miss something?
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