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RomaVicta

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  1. I think we've carried this conversation to impasse. I appreciate the quality of the discussion, my friends.
  2. You're getting tiresome if you're addressing what I wrote. In fact, you can't break out of the mindset that I decry. I described a disposition where one wants to believe that a fight is between good guys and bad guys. You inferring that I mean to say there are no bad actors on the anti-Israel side is absurd. I've made it clear on this page that the acts of Hamas were unspeakably horrific. If Israel caught those guys and skinned them alive, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow. I'll make my position even clearer: I don't know what the solution is in this conflict. It's complicated and inherent issues such as described by Brisket above may indeed make it impossible to solve through negotiation. I don't know. I don't want the US to have any hand in the slaughter going on in GAZA. Even speaking in terms of being "friends" with Israel or any other nation is a silly notion cooked up for the morons watching at home. We have been allies. Our obligations are lined out by agreements and treaties. If those pieces of paper and that relationship no longer serve the interests of the US, then they must be altered. Our name is tarnished by supporting the corrupt and bloodthirsty Israeli government's slaughter of innocent Palestinians. We should only be offering humanitarian aid. We should never have rolled a carrier up off the coast and stood in that way with Israel. @Brisketexan I appreciate the tone and intelligence of your post about genocide. I think I've described my position for the most part, so maybe we come to foundational point of our disagreement. I will only add that in your description of the two nations, consider the the relative capabilities of carrying out genocide. Israel is an actual nation state with a relatively huge military capablility. Cutting that capability lose to do whatever it may is akin to the US firing nukes after 9/11. Bye, Afghanistan. We can use tactical nukes instead of Hellfire missiles fired from drones. I wouldn't support that level of retaliation. I would be shocked if you would support such a thing. That's what I see going on in Gaza.
  3. Is Israel fighting a state army comprised of a cross section of Palestinian society? If Israel needs to level the place to get rid of Hamas, what exactly would a grass roots domestic campaign of civilians against Hamas look like? It's my understanding that Hamas is not a popular government and its legitimacy, such as it is, relies on an election held 15 years ago where they were not elected based on antipathy towards Israel. Someone here posted a credible polling effort. Palestinians are no more riding with Hamas than Americans are riding with the Mafia or Colombians are riding with whatever cartel is now established there. They have little say. I keep seeing smart people using what appears to me to be rationalizations to support a visceral desire for this to be simply a matter of good guys versus bad guys. I don't believe that is the case in the MidEast at all.
  4. That is an exercise in absurdity. Are we doing okay as long as we're not acting in the way of Iran or Hamas? Is that the standard? None of the named entities seem to care much about the Gazan civilians. Look at all the people on this thread finding reasons to justify what's happening to them.
  5. Well, that's embarrassing.
  6. I had no knowledge of this. I haven't had a convenient Whataburger nearby for quite some time. The World needs Meat Pimp now more than ever.
  7. I talk about no one else. I dream about no one else.
  8. Plenty of all three. With the odor, we're talking the Four Horseman of the Fartocalypse.
  9. There's something creepy and losery about hunting down pictures of this woman (because you found her sexually arousing) and then talking about how unacceptable she is. In the end, you are just talking about masturbating to a photo. I guess it makes the whole thing sorta sad, too.
  10. I launched a life-threatening fart just looking at it.
  11. We found those close wins frustrating because at one point we were dominating all of those games. Going for the first down instead of kicking a field goal gave Houston a big lift. Kick the field goal and they would have been like four scores behind. I don't think any of those games were highly contested throughout. Our problem was not putting guys away. I get the feeling Sark has learned his lesson. Kick. The. Fucking. Field Goal.
  12. It's been in all the news. Here's one satellite image: Deleted because I'm an idiot. I read Gaza where @DDD Dad wrote West Bank.
  13. You'll be shocked to hear that I think you're the one reaching. You have to go outside of what I describe in some cases and in others you ignore what I wrote. One might think you're closely guarding emotional imbalance regarding this subject.
  14. So, let's see. Say my brother were to break into a home and visit unspeakable brutality including rape and mutilation on an innocent family living within. Pictures of that would justify killing me and my family in a full military assault? Say I didn't even know the guy. The same pictures justify my home being bombed and everybody killed as you try to find the monster? The pictures are facts, indeed. Propaganda may not be the right word for them being used to inflame public outrage in order to cloud judgment and confuse other facts. Fact: Hamas attack beyond horrible. Reading the above about the brutality to women victims provokes sickening outrage which is a valid emotional response. Fact: Israel has every right to pursue Hamas and, to a limited extent, err on the side of thoroughness. Fact: Israel's use of high explosive bombs in thousands of airstrikes prior to the invasion killed thousands and wounded thousands more who had nothing to do with that attack. Fact: Israel has cut off vital supplies to the people of Palestine resulting in deprivation and agony including the necessity for Palestinian physicians to operate on children with no anesthetic. That is an outrage. Fact: Israel continues to carry out a bloody conventional ground assault with air support in an urban area leading to what may be tens of thousands of deaths and making the place uninhabitable. What do I see? A cynical Israeli government using the righteous outrage over the Hamas attack to obliterate the West Bank Gaza. This is similar to the way the W Bush administration kept suggesting that Iraq was somehow involved in 9/11 and had the wherewithal to do even more horrible things. Anger and fear are the basis of the justification of Israel's actions right now. Those actions are gruesomely and grossly out of proportion. Israel can only maintain this campaign so long as they fuel righteous emotions to justify wicked ends. Written with neither rancor nor disrespect. I don't see much of anyone posting here as propagandists.
  15. The Texas one (I didn't even know about it, so I don't have to say ours) worked! Those 472 redass Longhorns made Ewers to Texas happen! Woo-hoo! Hook 'Em! I-35 runs two ways, ya know.
  16. Climate Cataclysm, Climate Crisis, Climate Threat, Climate Disaster, International Climate Emergency, Worldwide Climate Emergency. I hate that editors and talking heads and even reporters are too fucking lazy to look at the way they are wording something and see that it is inapt. Climate Change is safe for them because it's so milky and dull. It's also inaccurate at this point. Somebody needs to yell, SHARK!
  17. Yep. Scrappy losers. Yea, you guys have been on fire since 2009. From @Elmer_Fudd's link: The epitome of Aggie opinion formation: And again regarding DeBoer: More on DeBoer and their chances with him (all speculation, of course) Thank goodness they're not in big trouble. I greened that one phrase for extraordinary eloquence. Vander states an outcome that seems impossible: Shambles? Not worse now that Elko is here? Hold Melko's beer, dumbass.
  18. Y'all have already pounced on that big but. Them plucky fightin' Texas Aggies showed plenty of fight. Trailing by 18 points at halftime...one fumble away. You got two turnovers, so what the fuck are you talking about? OSU was going in to cut your balls completely off when their QB made a horrendous error. Good for you, but how many turnovers do you need? OSU missed a makeable field goal, and you still lost by 8. Upsetting OSU is a big deal? Really? When we crushed them all you could talk about were their horrible losses to UCF and Alabama Directional U. Beating them could not possibly be a good reflection on anybody. Now they're the vaunted Big 12 runner-up. The funny thing is that scraping by OSU would put you in your accustomed place not holding a trophy you didn't create yourself. And get a fucking dictionary. Infested? If you got a degree from Texas, mail it the fuck in. Not the historic 2020 team that would have won the "natty?" if not cheated by the committee who are all on the t-sip payroll? Didn't they show enough passion in each season since then to make y'all think the natty was in reach? It's all Jimbo's fault. Nobody there says they were wrong about Jimbo. Jimbo just stole their money. Thus you get this: That fetid sludge sliding like vomit down the walls of the toilet didn't force its way past the glory holes into the vortex. You hauled it in there. Then you kept feeding it. And then you started drinking it. Don't drink that, it's poison. No! It used to be great! The people that threw it out did so because it's toxic. Who thought you'd buy it for 100 million dollars? You're just jealous. I'll drink this down and finally be great! Suit yourself. OMG! This is poison! This poison has betrayed me! My bowels! My bowels! It's the poison's fault that I'm not great! Sadly, it won't klll you.
  19. I can't imagine he wants to move to another Purdue in College Station. I can imagine the Aggies hyperventilating about their chances.
  20. I think he wears a t-shirt and that same pullover for any engagement he has. It's really flattering to his sloping shoulders. How long will it be until he shows up in pajama pants holding a Big Gulp. You're on TV representing your university, and you can't even manage a collared shirt? He speaks well and seems like a fairly likeable cuss. I can see him having an amiable conversation with a Home Depot worker. The worker explains to Elko for the fourth time that he really shouldn't try to fix his own dishwasher. "Sir, your in over your head on this one. You might get electrocuted, scalded, or all kinds of shit. And you won't be able to make that old dishwasher run any better. It'll most likely get worse." "I'm calling a couple of friends to help." "Do they have experience with this sort of stuff." "Well...some. They're mostly just regular guys. Friends. You know." "Make sure your health and life insurance are up to date. I don't see good things happening, sir." "We'll figure it out. We'll be able to turn it into a brand new shiny machine better than any other machine on the block." "Well, you can find proper clothing for the work on aisle 6. Good luck." "Don't need 'em. Anything you can do with collar and blazer you can do in a t-shirt and sweat top. See you!" "Don't forget to unplug it!" "We got it figured out. I'll find a few more old friends to help and then look out." Sigh.
  21. I think I've identified 6figs over on SEC Rant. I don't know if it's already been surmised or not. I don't go there often but when I went to read a linked thread about Shaggy, I saw the Aggie Game Thread. I'm generally not good at recognizing socks because I don't really care usually. The claims of this guy about his soaring status and earnings just jumped out at me. He mentioned that he was actually in Colorado, and even that sounds like the crafty genius of the Hamm. And here's something I haven't seen since we haven't been playing them: OSU beat OU who beat Texas therefore OSU is a better team than Texas. Let's not talk about the game where they actually played each other. A similar bit of Aggie logic when they lost to us would be to compare scores against common opponents. This could include comparing losses. Nobody has more quality losses than A&M. Nobody. A&M knows quality losses. Anyway, they were always better than us whether they beat us (rare occurence since joining Big 12 in the last century) or not.
  22. And, of course: Another loss with plenty of excuses and a moral victory. Their losses are better than anyone else's losses.
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