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3 minutes ago, Captainant said:
Counterpoint: if the only news we had in this country was fox and OANN, and the government attacked everything else as fake news and prosecuted those who said anything else, as it is in Russia... I dont think there would be any issue.
The complete strangle hold that putin has on information in the public discourse, and his mechanisms to label and prosecute """fake news""" are enough to manufacture consent. For now, at least.
Not true. Twitter Facebook TikTok telegram all say hi. If you want to argue that there wouldn't be a precursor civil war by repealing the first amendment then that's a whole different "what if" - we just went through 4 years of pretty close to anything not favorable being fake news, including a fair election. Twitter played an ENORMOUS part in how Jan 6th went down, as did surly and hundreds of other sites where people could get real time information.
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5 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
I have now heard military commentators saying that brutality was written into Russia's plan for the war according to US intelligence. I'd heard that alluded to, but I hadn't seen the whole story. That does differentiate this round of atrocities from the policies of most disciplined armies.
As for "universal" criticism of American atrocities, I'm not so sure about that. The My Lai debate in the US had a huge number of Americans arguing justification due to enemy tactics or outright denial. Calley got off remarkably lightly. We were dumping napalm all over the place which is a pretty horrible weapon in an insurgent war.
We don't promote it, and we're not proud of it, but we do atrocious things in war. Look how we rationalize our errent bombings of weddings, suspicious gatherings of automobiles, and the ROE that says anybody within a hundred feet of a targeted terrorist can be considered a hostile.
I'm not saying we're the same as the Russians now or the Japanese when they conquered Asia. Not by a long shot. But we do let ourselves off the hook a little too easily with the whole American Exceptionalism thing.
If we were doing what Russia is doing now to Mexico there would be an all out civil war.
I've been vocal in this thread about operation Iraqi freedom being pretty fucked up, but Saddam was an actual proven shitbag, but what we did was all kinds of against every international law. It wasn't good for America and no one looks back fondly at our time in either iraq or Afghanistan. After all the dust settled we didn't bring much more stability to that region, but we sure as fuck got them natural resources and pumped up the war and industrial machine. That was not this. I think it started out very similarly, but the shift in rhetoric to genocide and the provable mass execution and civilian targeting makes this apples and oranges.
Americans aren't at all innocent of rape, civilian murder and massacres in our history, but it wasn't a circumstance of deliberate eradication of an ethnic group which is an important distinction, not a justification. Americans have also never had to deal with real time reporting of atrocities and most of the ones that have been confirmed weren't even widely discovered until years to decades after the fact, again not a justification, but it's a lot harder to actively protest when it happened 10 years ago.
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Just now, Pig Bellmont said:You think you’re more clever than you actually are. It’s painful to read, frankly
Don't worry he's on a long vacation, if he's lucky he will be able to post about the spring game. This is the wrong thread to troll in or victim blame.
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Just now, futureman said:
so, members of the russian orthodox church in austin deserve to be harassed? at home and in public. because “fuck those mother fuckers” as you so eloquently put it. I was a little unsure of where I should stand on that but you’ve helped.
See ya.
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4 minutes ago, futureman said:
I mean, I’m truly perplexed. there are russians in austin. there’s a russian orthodox church in austin. we’re supposed to treat those people like shit now? I’m just trying to figure out what’s right and what’s not.
What are you even on about? I'll play anyway.
1) Russians in Austin are not protesting and being pro Russian any more than they were before and chances are they are not at all sympathetic to the current Russian special military opposition and are likely protesting as well. The ones that aren't fall into the same category as people who are pro Russia and the special operation. This isnt hard calculus.
2) Russian Orthodox church is legitimately and repeatedly calling for genocide, so yeah fuck those mother fuckers. Saying God hates Ukraine is bullshit and you know it.
3) No one is advocating for treating people any which way, but you don't get to complain about pro Ukraine and anti Russia things when those things have nothing to do with you and have to do with a much larger social and global crisis.
Pull your head out of your ass and read what I posted for what it is, a mockery of those who think their beliefs are being stifled by people who are exercising their right to not be trampled on and genocided.
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6 minutes ago, Tex Long said:
It's all well and good that we use this forum to laud Ewers and a few other players who seem to be standing out. Moar kuhlade, mighty fine.
At this point, it's looking 100% for Card in the portal, unknown when, but not whether. Concomitantly, surly appears to be spending 100% (close enough) of its posting about QB on denigration of Card and crying for a backup from the portal, even while we have several on the squad right now. Card shows as better than anyone but Ewers, but that is because Sark likes his throws, and that is because he, Sark, is discounting Card's proclivity for skipping open reads and dawdling around the pocket until he gets sacked, or throws a pick... and then going catatonic the next possession.
I'm hoping we see Maalik move up to QB2, with mostly the same playbook as Ewers, but with an addition of Marion's go-go book, featuring RPO/TripleOption. Maalik is a fascinating prospect, closer to Blessed Vince than to the 18-Wheeler. At least, he appears to put his 6'5" 225 # frame to good use as an actual run threat that D's absolutely must account for. I think, were I in Sark's position there, I'd be looking at Maalik for the backup role. Maalik is not the passer Ewers is, but he's a much better runner, less likely to get injured, changes the opponents' D (or iff they don't change, shreds that D).
A QB2 like that is literally a game-changer, as many are, but not many in such a good way.
Card isn't transferring. Stop it.
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1 minute ago, futureman said:I mean I honestly don’t understand. so you think it’s cool to shit on russian people now?
I'm saying maybe right now isn't the time to be a proud Russian. Shut the fuck up and be European, no one wants Russian bullshit right now in Europe because they are destabilizing the entire fucking continent and committing atrocities. Just like it was inappropriate for the white supremacists movement to protest not being able to be racist when #blacklivesmatter happened.
So yeah, there isn't any sympathy for Russians right now- in fact they are sanctioned to hell and back.
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1 minute ago, futureman said:
they are protesting being discriminated against for no other reason than being russian.
#alllivesmatter
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Just now, Codaxx said:
Sark had to like that. He is getting pressure, steps up in the pocket, keeps eyes downfield, and delivers a catchable ball downfield for a big play.
Sam did that, but he couldn't make that throw the actual quick release tight spiral on the outside shoulder in stride plus all those other things.
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That Ewers throw was the best throw I've seen a Texas QB make since Colt was on campus, so there's that.
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6 minutes ago, cdain3 said:
By: Justin and Eric
Normally we’d wait for a more comprehensive recap but it’s getting later in the day.
The scrimmage wasn’t over until about 2:45.
— Quinn Ewers looked really good. He made some plays out of nothing. He handled the blitz well and stepped up and delivered.
— Overall a good day from the receiving options, including Jahleel Billingsley who caught a TD from Ewers. Ja’Tavion Sanders made a play or two. Xavier Worthy caught a TD. Jordan Whittington and Casey Cain were also mentioned, as was Kelvontay Dixon who almost housed a bubble screen.
— Hudson Card was late on a deep ball to Worthy allowing the DB to knock it down. He’s better on the underneath stuff when given time.
— As far as we know there were No INTs. Even better news, there were no injuries.
— Bijan Robinson made his typical unreal cut that led to a TD
— Obviously the offense won the scrimmage a week after the defense had its way.
We’ll have more as we get it.so Hudson Card hasn't improved at all and Quinn Ewers can actually throw a football down field? Wow such analysis.
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1 minute ago, WhatTheBuck said:
Back atcha, bro. I thought that was totally uncalled for and very disappointing.
I think you are reading into it in a way that is fucking inappropriate and bullshit. You fucking braindead moron.
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Just now, WhatTheBuck said:Shame on you.
Go fuck yourself.
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This is less surprising than it should be
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3 minutes ago, Eastwood said:
The Chinese don’t appreciate anything involving discussions about their business, internal or external. But if we make the distinction that we will step in if it involves invasions (Taiwan) but not internal struggles, that sends the appropriate message. That has been our policy towards the numerous genocides in Africa since the Somalia experiment failed.
And in the end, China has no say because they are not an ally to any party involved. They are hostile, culturally and economically, to almost every country on the planet.I'm not saying it wouldn't be appropriate to stop genocide in China, I'm just saying that mission is far more unclear and far higher in risk of full scale war between super powers (real ones).
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Not to get into whataboutism with China and it's own human rights issues, but they are not the same. They aren't Holocausting the people, but there is definitely a bad humanitarian situation going on there that we should pressure them to stop.
Ukraine is straight up genocide being committed by a rational bad separate state actor. As someone else pointed out, China is also happening within China so even if it was exactly the same that's "their business" and invading a country is invading a country, regime change is the only option to stop the genocide there (although I don't think it meets the UN definition of genocide, like Ukraine does) Ukraine is actively ASKING for help as a sovereign nation who is getting genocided. The solution is just to expel said rational bad actor from their lands, much much different of a situation.
It's just too different to compare them just because innocent people are affected in both places.
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Fuck everything about Russia.
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Just now, Hookem2147 said:
We gave up 57 points to Kansas and a 3rd string QB at home.
People don't realize how bad this team really is. It's bad bad, they over perform because of some really elite skill players and a coach who can get those players open for explosive plays. If they shut down explosive this team is weak as fuck. Basically we have to have rojo put the team on his back (or bijan in the case of TCU) to win grindy games.
This team for the most part lost 6 games in a row. The upgrades we got are good, but weren't where we needed them. If the freshman step up (unlikely) and show they are difference makers early, then maybe there is some hope.
That is not to say that they can't win 8-9 games this year, it will just be like Texas tech circa Mike Leach. Those teams were trash (but better olines) and won games based on pure scheme and skill players.
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I wasn't aware that moro ojomo sucked and was part of the problem.
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8 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
It's definitely Genocide.
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as
such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;I mean, duh.
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;Russia State agency declares desire to exterminate Ukrainians
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;No evidence yet.
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Ukrainian Children taken and sent to RussiaRight, and I feel like we have to step in and let the world know that genocide is not acceptable full stop. I mean when the Pope starts calling the UN Impotent, it's basically an invitation for the world to do the right thing.
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Idk how much longer it's acceptable for us to sit on the sidelines while Russia is straight up killing civilians. This isn't a war anymore it's genocide due to losing the war.
They have already backed off from the nuclear threat and opened up the possibility for us to eradicate them from inside of Ukraine, just not pursue into Russian territory. It seems like it's quickly approaching go time for this and maybe that's what all the UN posturing is about.
If china wants to start WW3 to defend genocide then WW3 was inevitable.
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The answer is Matt's. Who cares if you aren't close, no need to compromise.
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16 minutes ago, Barbacoa said:Not sure Im a big fan of calling your teammates out by name to the media. I like what he has to say, but handle it internally. I get he was asked about specific players, but I think the criticism is way less constructive when done through the local media like that. Its great he wants to be a leader, but part of that is having your teammates back to the outside.
Bro fuck that. He's tired of the loser culture and dudes needing to grow the fuck up. It's nice to have confirmation that someone is trying to do something about it instead of being a bitch ass bitch.
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18 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Probably due to Russia threatening to cut them off.
Uh Germany seems like it sucks.
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If we are going to say absurd shit then Malik reminds me of Bijan.