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RomaVicta

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  1. Would you base any policy on whether or not it "pleases" the entities you list? I wouldn't. The only standard for US policy (I know this is naive considering the state of the republic) should be does it serve the long term interests of the US. If making a decision using that standard, I would hardly be swayed by someone pointing out that this act may "please" a bunch of terrorist groups and their state supporters. I wouldn't care if anyone liked or disliked an action determined by the standard I describe above. The only weight that would have would be in the decision about our interests. If a policy were to benefit us only if it didn't trigger violence against us, I would have to weigh the likelihood of that action not that sentiment.
  2. I've only read this page, but I think antipathy towards Anastasis is affecting judgment around here. I agree what I've read of his on this page. Perceptions that strike me as odd: Hamas will exterminate Israel if we don't support Israel right now in their shamelessly brutal slaughter in Gaza. This page has a lot of posters that I respect. They are intelligent enough to recognize what Israel perpetrates in the West Bank and Gaza and even use the harshest terms to describe them. Hamas deserves whatever fate they meet. They are not an existential threat to the country that is leveling Gaza with impugnity and support from this country. Opposition to American military support must mean the opposer doesn't care about Israel at best and is fine with Israel paying for their crimes by being genocided off the planet. Nope. Were the situation reversed and Israel under the kind of attack they have launched in Gaza, I would support more than materiel support. I'd be fine commiting forces to the fray. I think the position that Gaza and the Palestinians shouldn't be subject to this slaughter is a position against slaughter such as this in general rather than a particular sympathy for the Palestinians. I have the impression that I'm describing the position of many people on this page. I'll tiresomely repeat my stance. I don't want my country associated with the vicious slaughter going on in Gaza. I would halt all materiel aid right now. I would extend humanitarian aid and support to both countries as needed; clearly the greater need there is in the country that has sustained a lengthy attack by heavy, conventional forces. Some have answered that stopping military support would spell the end of Israel. Again, nope. Suspension of war aid need not be a permanent policy no matter what. As I said above, I wouldn't be party to seeing any nation or people obliterated. As Jerry said to George once, "We're trying to have a civilization here." Written without rancor.
  3. If Syracuse has a good year for them and A&M manages a winning record next season, it would be fun if they met in a bowl game. Fortunately Elko will have held the Awesome Class of 2022 to fulfill the sacred Plan 2024. There they are, standing by.
  4. If you don't look like a Heisman candidate in your first two college starts where you're stepping in for the injured starter, you'll never amount to shit. Nobody ever changes or improves.
  5. You can't hardly help but take a person who uses tu or t.u. seriously.
  6. Guy who earns money to write. Presumably a college graduate. Fumbles the meaning of the first hilighted word and shoots himself in his shortsided dick with the second. The last sentence suggests lack of sleep and drug abuse. You gotta complete the pass, get over the hump! Buck up! Tighten your chinstrap and put on your big boy pants because it's a free-for-all on Hell's Highway! Anybody's game and it could go either way! Keep your eye on the ball and your hands out of your pants!
  7. The Russians paid me to do it. Now I must either deal with my shame or become a GOP. I'll have to have a look at a price index for the cost of a soul. I did correct it. Sorry for the error.
  8. [Apologies to @Foosters The quote above was originally attributed to him. Pilot error.] That sentence is as apt for today as a an article written on the Titanic about football when the players wore leather helmets. The game has changed and moved to a new arena. Think Rollerball. As for Ukraine, they will learn what the Kurds feel like. The GOP: continuing the policy of abandoning those risking their lives in a cause in which they thought we had mutual interest. We cover ourselves in shame.
  9. Better tie up his dog to the car. Gotta protect them tires.
  10. He elevated everything he was in. Great voice. What an unpleasant surprise for a morning. RIP
  11. It's an often used gif, but so appropriate for Hamm's re-emergence. Can't stop himself.
  12. It must have been repeated five times and is now Aggie fact. Not one person has substantiated that we're going nuts with money. They know that's the only way they can get talent, so they assume it's the only way we can. They also have repeated the delusion about both the bounty of the portal and the ordinariness of so many players leaving their team. They say this as though all parties are equal. They don't observe how the flow works. The best players leave middling to poor programs to find either more playing time (they couldn't beat out the guy at the school of origin) or to get a better situation commensurate with ability proven on the field. The former find their way to A&M. The latter find their way out the door at A&M. The better situation that I mention above can certainly include things other than money. I think a top player would sacrifice some money to play for a winner in a great place. To play for a loser in a shitty place? Hee hee.
  13. Amid the absolute degenerate hate mongering which I despise, I am a little amused that they see inter-racial marriage as this: with fairly easily distinguishable "races." How do they racially characterize the people below? Anybody wanna guess if the below is inter-racial? We sending Rashida to jail? They don't care about the purity of any race but one.
  14. They. Will. Hit. The. Portal. Hard. It's a new age. Aggies are great at adapting. Duck soup!
  15. I went over to 247 (I know I know) to look at A&M's list of verbal commitments. Here are their six remaining players above the three-star level: I think Davis, Evans, and Bussey are shaky, but I'm not sure. I suppose I should have included Jernagin as he is the 3-star LB that they love more than suddenly worthless 3-star Tyanthony Smith. Anybody feel like using the list to give a status report? I'm just not as in the know as most of you about the general ocean of recruits.
  16. The parrots are really getting into this mindset over on TexAgs. Some wonder why even recruit high schoolers in "age" of the portal and NIL when you can find whatever you need through the portal. Let players develop somewhere else, then just "hit that portal hard" to get proven guys. And again: That they have picked up a receiver from Old Dominion to replace Ainias Smith doesn't register. They seem to think that players will become good and then follow everyone's natural inclination to be an Aggie. Just gimmee. Yep. A&M's facilitiesfacilitiesfacilities and Aggie network and the bestest fans were just fools gold when Jimbo peddled it. Now a morbidly obese alchemist has come along to change it into real gold with real coaching and real recruiting. When talking about recruiting, nobody factors in the loss of Jimbo in that regard. They seem to think it was all E-Rob whom they all now hate. There's your big time selling point! And look at the proof of how much that matters to all their defensive stars leaving and recruits flipping! These guys know they can't compete for playing time against the absolute studs who will be racing to play for the most famous defensive mind of the day! I must have missed that bullet point in Plan 2024. Too bad, it looks like the only one that they will achieve. Only money could make a player go to tu instead of dear old A&M! We are the richest school in the world, money is no object for A&M! Ahhhh, dissonance! 1 Set us up the bomb? 2 Debils, I tell you! How could one conclude anything else when the top 5 recruiting class Jimbo had verbally committed is disintegrating its way out of the top 20 now that he's gone? 1 + 1 = 2. Duh. The Texas A&M University Fightin' Texas Sour Grapes!
  17. I'm unpersuaded. This reads like the apologists for Bush who pointed to Clinton suspecting wmds as being the same thing as a disastrous policy to invade as we did. No sale. I'm not going to rehash it, but feel free to keep throwing your massive intelligence around and insulting the intelligence of anyone who disagrees. It's a great look.
  18. That young man will never want for fresh corn for the rest of his life. Hi, I'm Dylan Raiola. Eat Nebraska corn. It's good. Nebraska corn. Dylan says, "it's good!"
  19. Well, I hope you feel nice and snug and warm in your odd little tower of knowledge. My poor little auto-lobotomized pea-brain recollects, or "seems" to recollect, I suppose. Who can be sure when lobes are missing? Anyway, I'm pretty sure we had a reasonably successful effort going in Afghanistan finally using special forces in the role they are designed for. Suddenly, the president of the US and his minions start telling lies about Iraq's WMD capabilities and constantly suggesting that Iraq had something to do with 911. So Bush did lie. He also said that the WMDs Iraq had threatened the US. They didn't. The neo-cons stated a purpose about the delightful welcome that our boys and democracy would get after we finished killing people. That was on the surface. After the invasion, pallets of cash were shipped to Iraq with virtually no accounting because a PO Box operation was hired by the GOP administration to track it. (Vanity Fair) Also, sweet deals for buying up Iraqi industries were handed out to the rich GOP faithful. (Atlantic) Cheney's old friends at Haliburton where he had been a board member raked in 100s of millions of dollars. Oh, and we squandered the unity of the world behind us after 9/11 and created more terrorists than we killed. Annnnd, any possible success in Afghanistan was squandered because we pulled the special forces out of that country to attack Iraq from the north where Turkey, one of those gravely threatened by Iraq's WMDs wasn't worried enough support the invastion in any way. I can't imagine anyone other than fucking lobotomized morons not privy to your elevated knowledge believing that maybe things would have been different without neo-cons holding sway, an administration willing to lie to set neo-con wet dreams into action (at least on the surface), and big money wanting to use their GOP puppets to do stealing on a large scale. The Dems opposed the invasion but were too weak and cowardly to risk their seats to say and vote so. Everything would have been exactly the same, I'm sure. Thanks for the convincing argument, my friend.
  20. Rep for remembering the double n in Branndon. We played them back when we had James Brown at QB. It was in Austin. Branndon was trying to bring the Aggies back and he took off running on third or fourth and long. He ran out of bounds on the wrong side of the stick on the Texas side of the field. Brown stepped up and gave him shit about it. Quite beautiful. I loved James Brown.
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