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  1. 8 hours ago, Chef Bezos said:

    The “They’ll see” narrative is poetry to me. I don’t expect any Aggies, nor any other SEC team fans to know it, but this isn’t the 2010s anymore and it’s gonna be beautiful when we predictably push their shit in in our first year in their beloved conference. 

    Plus, he talks about us playing in stadiums week after week filled with rabid fans. I got news for you, William, we play in stadiums like that every week already.

    I went up to Wyoming for the game there in 2009. The stadium was packed and the fans were wildly enthusiastic. I asked one of the Wyo Cowboys sitting beside me if it was like that every week, I was impressed.

    "Nah. The place is usually about half full but not when Texas is coming to town."

    I'm sure the Aggies have faced many half-full stadiums in their history because...well, because they're the Aggies and nobody cares that much about them nor is their any historic prestige to having a win against them. We're known everywhere, and everyone wants to be able to say they beat us that one time.

    Hell, when we were awful Macovic's last year, the stock price for companies that made goalposts must have shot way up. We were bad and we played in front of full stadiums where the goalposts were torn down whenever we lost. Baylor tore down their goalposts when they beat the Aggies, but I'm pretty sure nobody else ever has.

    Nobody cares that much. Well, unless they've got a facilities fetish.

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  2. 19 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

    This is what being "cancelled" actually is, as opposed to what right wing mouth breathers cry about.

    USC was only acting as a university and not some corporate middle management as evidenced by the below:

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    In the statement, Tabassum wrote that she met with the Office of the Provost Sunday to express her own concerns about safety at commencement, to which they responded that “the University had the resources to take appropriate safety measures for my valedictory speech, but that they would not be doing so since increased security protections is not what the University wants to ‘present as an image.’”

    It has always been the duty of colleges and universities to stifle differing opinions and pacify the majority by bowing to their tender feelings. Once we root out the groomers, woke-ists, and agenda-hiders, we'll be on the way to having a universal education approach that will be the envy of the world. 

     

    18 hours ago, South Austin said:

    USC should just give the speech to Vince Young.

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  3. 23 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    The line "did you have a nice sandwich?  Good, now run!" is a callback to Stewart's first nationally broadcast comedy special, written almost 30 years ago.  "Unleavened."  He has great bits in it on Israel/Palestine/Islam, etc.  I'm no talent scout, but you could tell he was going places.  His stuff was smart, hilarious, and approachable.......and made you think while doubled over laughing.  A few years later, he took the desk at the "Daily Show."  And subtly re-told the same joke as if to say, "Circle of life, Simba." 

    I think it resonates because that's how the US operates. In Latin America, we prop up dictators and train death squads. We also have American churches building hospitals and the Peace Corps doing what they do. That bolded line is so very succinct. 

    Stewart's vision is so clear and detached. I didn't much care for him prior to doing The Daily Show; since then, he has actually become important. He states things with no attached sentimentalism and he does so with brevity and wit. Truly an astounding figure. 

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    No AgTags for the posters, but there are a lot of irony-deaf up votes. Nice trolling or typical Aggie blindness.

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    From Aggie Outfitter site:

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    I don't usually have much of an opinion about team wear, but the above is indeed hideous. There's probably a burnt orange version for us, but I can't see any Longhorn wearing something so bad.

     

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  5. 17 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    looks like Walter Brennan. But then, old Walt was a raging racist his entire life.

    He was pretty hard on Pepita.

  6. On 4/11/2024 at 10:20 PM, Biff Tannen said:

    Good lord those have to be Eric's kids.

    Don't ask Trump. He has no idea what his grandkids look like.

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  7. On 4/13/2024 at 10:29 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

    If there’s no drug problem, how does there continue to be dealers to try and execute?

    From Brookings (2016)

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    As for summary execution:

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    Pretty clear his brother-in-law wasn't taken out and shot the day he was arrested or the day he was found guilty.

    My point? There is no point. We could put facts like these in a loop and force Trumpers to watch it for hours.

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    Fake! News!

  8. 1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    I shared that cartoon on my social account when it was first published. One of my fringe friends (the wife of a friend of mine and part of a larger social group) replied with a very sarcastic "Riiiiight", a roll eye emoji and feeble "both sides" argument. She was the first of several Trumpers I've since cut all ties with and haven't regretted that decision one bit. 

    I've been avoiding conflict with old acquaintances on facebook, but I begin to feel like a coward about it. There are such good feelings from people I rarely see who are now clearly somewhere towards the Christian Nationalist Trump part of the spectrum. Somehow, the girls I knew in high school turning into persons like this makes me sad. 

    Late teenage girls were generally bold and not as conformist as boys the same age. Beautiful and free-spirited is how I remember them. 

    Fortunately, none of my friends are Trumpers. I haven't had to make a decision about them. 

  9. 7 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    They didn’t “deliberately provoke Iran.” Iran has been waging a “proxy” war (and sometimes, really not bothering with the “proxy” part) against Israel for a long-ass time. Iranian backed strikes against Israel are a regular thing. Israel’s return strikes have NOT been to assets on Iranian soil. Objectively, Israel has been restrained with respect to Iran (note the qualifier - I am just speaking to Israel’s actions regarding Iran).
    They hit Iranian assets hard last week. Iran wants to hit back. This shit was always going to happen. Sorry, the fucking burden here is on Iran. It has ZERO natural reason to be at war with Israel. It’s a psychotic islamofascist war they’ve been waging for deranged reasons. Fuck em.

    I think Israel cynically attacked the embassy in Syria to provoke this shit.

    Are they wrong to want to strike at Iran? No. Iran is conducting violent operations against Israel. In a vacuum, I would always support Israel over the theocratic tyranny in Iran. 

    It is Israel's choice of targets that raises my eyebrow.

    I really want the US out of this fucking shit. Israel is not a state in the union. Trying to cast this as good guys versus bad guys is American naivete at it's worst and most dangerous. Israel is slaughtering Gazans and calling it a war. Iran is supporting attacks on Israel which kill Israelis.

    I suppose it's good that a number of countries united to augment Israel's air defenses. It's defensive and saved lives. I wouldn't commit to much else.

    7 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I don't disagree, but even Israel's own intel pointed to Iranian retaliation being extremely likely before they struck that embassy in Syria.

    With all they've got going on, can they really stretch themselves far enough to escalate and sustain an external conflict right now?

    My main issue is how many American weapons and dollars are being used here. That and everyone over there just being dead set on wiping each other out while we sit to the side and toss dollar bills like we just rolled up hood rich to Chicas Bonitas.

    I agree with a lot of this. 

    I've read all the posts to this point. The above exchange should not be forgotten in war fervor. I don't want American soldiers fighting in this conflict. I would only commit to helping Israel when evidence arose that they might be overrun. I don't want that country destroyed.

    Maybe we could deliberate about what we would do with the same alacrity the West is using to do anything to keep Gaza from being overrun and turned into an epic act of cruelty. We wouldn't wait until Israelis were huddling in refugee camps watching their children suffer, starve, and die. We shouldn't do that with Gaza. 

    I hate being involved in this shit fire.

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  10. 29 minutes ago, Bookman said:

    I still can't believe that an entire generation of Americans, who grew up when you could live a great life in America with a shit job and a shit education, overwhelmingly voted for a six-time bankrupt failed businessman to become President. 

     

    20 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    To be fair it’s like 2/3 of that generation, but yes.  There are some good ones. My parents. The @RomaVicta types, etc. 

    These posts balance out quite nicely. That so many boomers go for Trump after experiencing the 70s is sort of mind boggling but not too much so. Upper middle class-born Boomers were the yuppies of the 80s. They fell in love with Reagan and Gordon Gecko. That's when most of them picked their team. I'm at the same time as that group but, as Biff said, we were not a homogenized generation anymore than any generation is.

    On facebook, I see that most of the girls from my high school have children and have become vocally Christian. Blessed this and blessed that. Some seem like good examples of what that religion can do; most seem to think we're blessed by having a great man like Trump in the lead. I can't tell if any are all the way Christian Nationalists, but I doubt many recognize or oppose that movement. 

    I was never anything resembling a hippie. I was moderate and a bit hawkish in my college years. The spirit of tolerance, not taking things at their face value, and not trusting things done simply for tradition were a few values in there. They've stuck. I frankly think those are key values with millennials and those younger. 

    I was also never a yuppie or a preppy. I did want to strip Iran off the face of the Earth, but I now think that was a bit harsh. I also know more about our history with that country. Reagan was the first presidential candidate that I despised. Nixon had to work at it for 5 years for me to see him as a villain.

    Anyway, I think the Yuppies and neo-Christians of my group are the root of why the large number of Boomers find themselves backing an anti-republic, lying, failed game show host (all due respect to @WhatTheBuck) whom Jesus would kick in the nuts.

    16 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    My parents are pretty hardcore lib, my mom still clings to some churchy stuff but keeps it to herself.  My old man makes Bernie Sanders look like Richard Nixon.

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    I've missed her.

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