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  1. 8 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    reading that thread now is a trip. i think quite a few posters deleted erased everything and deleted their accounts, in addition name changers, so not all the crazy is trackable. 

    Oh I remember that thread. One of my favorites ever. 

  2. 3 hours ago, Captainant said:

    That first year UTSA football was going was wild - went to the first ever game with some friends and the Alamo Dome staff just gave up and let folks bring in big ass 24 packs of beer lol. Good times

    Really was an incredible atmosphere which I didn’t think was possible in the Alamodome 

    1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

    This is not about UTSA

    the hobbit bilbo GIF

  3. 10 minutes ago, Helobious said:

     

    Did you fuckers not see UTSA beat Illinois last Saturday? Team is on the rise big time. Doing it with a fuckton of local SA and south Texas players too. RB McCormick is going to be a high draft pick. Get with the program. 

    Multiple players in the NFL including a 1st round draft pick. They’ve also been to two bowl games in ten years

  4. 2 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    It was a flag flown by a group of immigrants who had been welcomed to settle in another country that then started to get a little nervous because the immigrants didn't look or act just like them and decided to get all oppressive. If anything removing the flag is anti-immigrant and racist.

    Yea I think you’re missing some context 

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    Since 2016, UTSA home football games have featured a fourth quarter unfurling of an enormous Come and Take It flag across the student section, accompanied by the firing of a cannon. The last time this was used was during the 2019 season. It was not used during the entire 2020 season because of COVID-19 protocols that I had implemented.

    Like I said, was never a tradition. The hand wringing over the decision to stop doing it is beyond stupid. Why don’t we try coming up with something that’s actually unique to the university and the city it represents. 

  6. 6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Another one from the "Time is a Flat Circle" file. 

     

    https://www.axios.com/migrant-children-biden-administration-a597fd98-03a7-415c-9826-9d0b5aaba081.html

    By the numbers: During the first five months of the year, care providers made 14,600 required calls to check in with migrant minors released from shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Services. These minors typically were taken in by relatives or other vetted sponsors.

    • In 4,890 of those instances, workers were unable to reach either the migrant or the sponsor.
    • The percentage of unsuccessful calls grew, from 26% in January to 37% in May, the data provided to Axios showed.

    The big picture: More than 65,000 unaccompanied kids crossed the border illegally during those months, and July set yet another all-time record for young border crossers. That suggests the problem of losing track of released children could be compounded in the months to come.

    • The data also indicates calls aren't happening with the frequency they should. Between President Biden's inauguration and the end of May, HHS discharged 32,000 children and teens — but the government placed fewer than 15,000 follow-up calls, according to the FOIA response.
    • In both March and April, the number of kids discharged was twice as high as the number of check-in calls the following month — indicating that half of the released kids might not have gotten a 30-day call, according to public agency data.

    Flashback: In 2018, the Trump administration was criticized for being unable to account for the whereabouts of around 1,500 children released from HHS shelters during a three-month period.

    • There were around 4,500 such minors as of the end of May who had been released under the Biden administration.

    Except the trump admin intentionally separated parents and children and intentionally lost track of them. Same same.

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  7. 11 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

    Everyone has their own lived experiences in addition to their learned and social attitudes, which combine with a fundamental worldview or belief system, that all intersect and combine to inform a political belief or identity.
     

    I don’t discount that “repeated lies from the foxnews squaxbox or Joe Rogan podcast” is a big driver of informing a lot of people’s views which a lot of people feel are illegitimate and based upon lies— but the sword cuts both ways. A lot of progressive, “enlightened”, or otherwise liberal beliefs can also be said to be built upon a framework of lies which can also invite the same range of emotions towards them, the same emotions you or others might feel towards those who disagree with you, from pity to scorn to intolerance, etc.

    And that’s America; two different tall skyscraper apartment buildings, the slabs poured by two disparate and distinct fundamental views, whose landlords each want the other building for themselves. I’m just proposing we, as tenants, be polite to our neighbors.

    When you say things that aren’t tethered to facts and reality your opinions will be met with contrition 

  8. 1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    It's an odd feeling because regardless of what you think, your views are more in line with 1950's America than 2021 America. My grandparents and for a while my parents held the exact same beliefs as you. My parents are in their 60's. I get the sense you're not nearly that old. If they can see through the bullshit and how they have been lied to over the course of their life, perhaps you can too.

    Not just that but many of the views are just unsupported by any facts. They are just grievances based on lies presented over and over for several decades in this country by one side of the aisle.

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  9. 2 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

    I know a lot we’re disappointed with 2 and 3 (or maybe just 3?), but I was not. Other than the weird dance orgy. It’s difficult for me not to get incredibly excited and hopeful about this. 

    Benny Hill What GIF
     

    That said, I’m hopeful this will be good

  10. On 9/3/2021 at 8:43 PM, Tom said:

    Yeah, but the final hand when Le Chiffre got all cocky and wouldn't quit talking shit while splashing the pot before Bond flopped a nut straight, leading Le Chiffre to tell his henchman to "pay that man his money" because he beat him straight up, that was a great payoff.

    time teddy GIF

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  11. 9 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    The gmo questions bothered me too. No genetic modification at all? Wheat, corn, and anything else you put in your piehole has been modified for millenia. Good luck making your tacos with teosinte. 

    The super rich can't give to campaigns?

    How about some enforceable limits? And separate corps from individuals maybe?

    I hit unsure/neutral to about ten or so.

    Yea multiple questions had two or more factors that needn’t be considered together. The rich individuals/corporations one was one of the worst 

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  12. 4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Were they McIntosh speakers?  I'd be surprised if a normal collection of electronics could get close to $300K, but exotic speakers can definitely ring the bell.

    I think I see a Mc tube, pre/pro, 2 power amps, and a couple other things. That grouping probably is maybe $50k but I have no clue on those reels or the speakers 

  13. 3 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

     

    I think it was a success. I think anyone stating otherwise is being disingenuous at best and outright lying at worst. I don’t speak for everyone so not sure what point you seem to think you’re making.

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