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RomaVicta

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  1. You can probably ask Vlad Putin if he's ever had anyone killed.
  2. Such is war. That's why I'm slow to criticize soldiers in the field or some of the ferocious decisions made by warring governments so long as it stays within some bounds. The Nagasaki bomb is a questionable choice. Hiroshima likely isn't. This isn't war in Gaza. Israel wants that label for the line you use regarding monstrous actions. They want that lattitude that can be claimed by an attacked nation. They have that lattitude with Hamas as far as I'm concerned. They don't, IMHO, have the lattitude allowed for war in their campaign against the Gazans. We used a nuclear weapon against a nation state refusing to surrender. We didn't kill everyone in Japan or force them off their island. Pointing to atrocities is an emotional argument for justifying something no longer related to those atrocities. The atrocities have simply become the stated reason for the war. Think of the Maine or the Gulf of Tonkin. This is the equivalent of, "what if it were your sister?" Even if it were, I wouldn't advocate killing or displacing everyone within a 20 mile radius of where the suspects were hiding.
  3. We are inevitably one of the wishy-washiest too-cute-by-half participants in international affairs, or we're bloodthirsty invaders without a clear policy at all. You see, this is very clever and subtle. We didn't vote against the kind of measure we've used to justify invasions which we now claim are non-impactful to our policies. You see, we voted that this slaughter was bad, but we're still going to fund it until Israel reaches its goal. Then we'll denounce the carnage and send crates and crates of Band Aids to show how we're really not attached to what precipitated their need. Fucking embarrassing and cruel. Please don't explain why it's politically essential. The embarrassment and cruelty won't be diminished. @chainsaw responds to @956 Worldwide I missed the first part of this, but I think I get the gist. Comparing the relative evil of two slaughters or debating the use of the word "genocide" is pointless. They're two slaughters. I hadn't heard of the horrors visited on Rohingya until today. It's terrible. It's irrelevant to the discussion of the Israel obliteration campaing in Gaza. I don't have an answer for the Rohingya. I'm glad we're not part of it. If we are part of it as in the case with Israel, then I'm horrified yet again. Chainsaw boiled down the essential elements of the Gaza campaign (not war). It's a brutal campaign executed by a first-rate conventional military force against a nation possessed of no way to defend against it. It's moving at high speed to meet its bloody goals before there are any consequences. We, the goddamn USA, are helping. It's all monstrous.
  4. She's involved as the accused in a number of legal actions. She has a uniquely tinted face. She's a big fat liar. Support Donald Trump? Hell, she is Donald Trump. She's just a weird haircut and some overtly racist, anti-democratic ejaculations away from being president.
  5. The Elk is re-inventing football with his crack staff of ex-Florida guys. No hands will be tipped. High five. I got this. Lookin' sharp. Don't leave a brother hangin'.
  6. She does. It's strange to recall her as rather beautiful and see the same person and be kind of disappointed. Says something about the world, I think.
  7. Dead Calm Tight thriller with Sam Neill, Billy Zane, and Nicole Kidman (pre transformation). A couple sailing the ocean encounters the survivor of a large schooner. He's a little creepy. Solid movie.
  8. Wow, an ugly picture that you claim is someone you don't like and the utter genius of a cartoon of Trump flipping the bird. Right wing wit as pointed and funny as usual. Is there money in this? Here's Hillary Clinton on a good day:
  9. Here's your fucking acuity test. Woman with birdbeak, camera the size of a horse, red grass. To the home with you! Or maybe one of the Trump camps should he take office. It. Is. The. Electorate. Get back to me on that one, Skippy.
  10. Can you imagine the intense, tingling anticipation of their audience counting down the seconds to the Democratic Leadership Debate? It's just so dumb that I couldn't not make a dumb comment.
  11. Compliments. Same for @Ghost of LL Edit a last time to add that I'm not anti-Israel per se. I think Brisket and Ghost represent much of my history of opinion of Israel. Heroic underdogs to imperial power. I'm sick that we abandon Ukraine who have won my support the same way Israel did at the beginning. Ukraine fights for its right to exist, but the GЯP shames us all terribly as we let another worthy ally down as we trend toward being...well, we all see the trend.
  12. That loss has to be the greatest achievement of their basketball history. If I knew how to do gif photoshop, I'd replace Jimbo's head with Buzz'.
  13. I they concocted that embarrassment (it's a series with those guys), after the Covid season when they were sure that they had arrived as a permanent fixture in the top 4. Their intense delusion that they are important and their insecurity-based desire to believe everybody is scared of them leads to the woefully misplaced arrogance displayed above. It occurs to me that that commercial is what they want to believe the LHN was. It's a national TV embarrassment that hurt their image and likely cost them money. LHN was a good product, Texas made money, and it wasn't generally profitable because as soon as the ink dried all three of our big 3 sports ceased being national contenders. There's no reason for anybody to be embarrassed by the LHN. The above with their strange insistence on their greatness being followed by the pathetic "we're not weird" national campaign so perfectly sum them up.
  14. Great post yourself. Thanks. I quote the above because it's so shocking that fascism is once again on the rise. I, like most of us, sported the attitude that democracy was the end of an evolutionary process. After the great lesson of WW2 and refighting that war on the lawns of newly suburbaned America plus watching TV that was full of WW2 shows as were the movie theaters, I suppose the lesson was ingrained. Now I re-learn the usual lessons. Memory fades. Lessons fade. It all fades as part of a cycle. The process that brought us to democracy was not evolution. It, too, is a cycle. The Greeks had it right as usual: government goes in a cycle. Monarchy, Anarchy, Democracy, Anarchy, Monarchy... (or something like that). It also seems that whichever pops up between autocracy and democracy is always embraced.
  15. Hitler and Stalin were hardly subtle threats. I gave him credit for his resolve and emotional leadership. His view on racial superiority that was (is) all too common is one of the reasons nobody wanted to go to war with Germany over the extermination of the Jews. As you likely know, there was a strong, pro-Nazi fascist contingent among the elites of the UK. Germany and Japan did not become enemies to fight until they attacked the would-be Allies. Churchill responded to attack which was natural and represented the consensus of England to resist. I don't know what the world would be like without Churchill's resolve. Germany was doomed when their attempt to seize the Soviet Union was halted. Russia was defeating the Wehrmacht without the Western front being opened. I think it's 8 of 10 German soldiers who died in WW2 were killed by the Red Army. I'm not sure Churchill's resolve does the trick for England if the Japanese don't bomb Pearl Harbor and Germany does not declare war on the US. The Royal Navy would have prevented any invasion of the British Isles as it had done for centuries. England would have had to just take the battering of the Luftwaffe and missiles until Germany fell. Churchill was a terrific symbol. Please have the last word. I'm sure nobody needs to read any more on the subject from me. Thanks for your response.
  16. I'd not heard or read that quote, but it fits his actions. He was the 20th Century promoter of colonization conquest in Ireland and Palestine. He employed an army of brutal thugs in both places to act against the indigenous people. The more you know about him (I still don't know a lot) the more he seems kind of like a Reagan for the Brits except he was smart and served his country in the field. His main service to the UK seems to have been his use as a poster boy for British resistance and perseverance which did help his country. His problem seems to have been that he didn't give a shit about helping or tolerating anyone else.
  17. Oh! Oh! Oh! Maybe they're not....SEC ready. We're in the SEC. Tougher competition. It's a grind all that iron sharpening iron and the week in week out erosive processes and such. They're all terrified and neither brave nor manly enough to put on the ol' big boy pants and compete in a line-of-scrimmage league. They'd likely be killed or maimed after a quarter of tough SEC football.
  18. Rushmore is among the best films of the last fifty years as far as I'm concerned. A remarkable thing about Anderson in my experience is that I like the movies more and more as I see them. I'd place Bottle Rocket among his elite group of films for this reason. I can't even say I liked it much when I saw it in the theater in LA. Maybe the problem was that the review was over the top. I only watched BR again when a friend and I were thinking of doing a low budget short. The second viewing completely captivated me. The interplay between adults and children that he is so great with appears in this film. The characters are rich and unique and feel true. I still love checking in with Bottle Rocket every five years or so. The Royal Ts and Steven Zissou also got better with subsequent viewings although I liked both on first viewing. I think he'd do well to do something totally out of his style sort of like Stephen Soderburgh does. The disappointing films of late suggest that he's becoming hidebound by the style he's most comfortable with. Opening a window might do him good. Even if he never made another film that appealed to me, he ranks among the best filmmakers of his time.
  19. More from Texags Yes, that's why we're the ones looking under our beds and telling everyone that A&M is the Great Satan, Destroyer of Conference, King of Media, and Very Homosexual! Dildos, man! Dildos! And it shows on the field and in the amount of national respect you generate. Truly remarkable all that A&M has achieved in this century that's nearly a quarter over. tu launched their own network at huge cost to themselves and to the detriment of everybody; Disney is bailing the sips out and keeping them afloat. Why is this so hard to understand? Exactly how it happened. We should never have unilaterally launched our own network hoping it would make any money. How much did we lose on that deal again?
  20. Not for us, dumbass. And you passed on the opportunity, dumbass.
  21. It's the 2025 college football season. Do you know where your children are?
  22. I only browsed the article and responses. It seems the author is applying the usual lack of depth to his analysis typical of sportswriters. Only highly rated players can be busts. Does his simple percentage analysis allow for the notion that your chances of having a bust with two top 75 players are less than than having 10? Does it account for the fact that a highly ranked player will be more likely to at least start on a team with less overall talent thus making becoming a bust less likely? Players that might bust at Bama won't as likely bust at Ole Miss or Florida because their backups won't be as good. Three stars can't, by definition, be busts. If their development to NFL players is used only as a positive, how does that impact a team that has a relatively much lower proportion of 3 stars? As many have said or alluded to, imprecise ratings by sportswriting hacks, incomplete understanding by sportswriting hacks, and simplistic analysis by sportswriting hacks rarely produce a clear picture of anything.
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