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  1. He’s a really good back who has a seriously violent running style, and he wasn’t even as much of a workhorse this year. They tried to protect him more, it didn’t work out. I also think with his absence we leaned a bit too much on RB by committee and I never saw a rusher have time to establish a rhythm and sync with the OL. In addition to the aforementioned red zone issues, there were quite a few inopportune short 3-5 play drives at times when A&M needed to settle Marcel down and let the defense sit a bit in the last three games. Again a spot we missed the ability to hand off twice and be confident we’d get 6-8 yards. No coincidence last year’s total collapse happened after he went down. I’d like to see them settle on a back who will get fed next year between Owens, Morrow, and Edwards. Edwards has it in him to be a Moss-like back.
  2. National Alliance for Eating DisordersWhat’s the Deal with #SkinnyTok? - National Alliance for...#SkinnyTok is a social media hashtag used for content that promotes disordered eating behaviors. Take a deeper look at #SkinnyTok and join the conversation.
  3. I tell myself that people pay good money for roller coasters.
  4. I love the words men and boys have to use for these things. I’m not getting beauty treatments, I’m looksmaxxing. I’m not trying to be the prettiest girl here, I’m mogging. I’m not going on a diet, I’m cutting. I’m not flirting, I’m running game. Many such cases.
  5. If I know one thing about women it’s that they very rarely get competitive and want to be perceived as more attractive than other women. That’s something weird about the male Looksmaxxing community.
  6. A Minnesota Somali-American fraud investigator made exactly the points I make here in 2024. Almost all of this could be written word for word about Italian crime networks of an earlier generation with some tweaking for local lingo, right down to being victimized by the same networks and often not aware of it. And the points on funneling public money via third providers as a blind spot. The existence of even nastier nativism in the early 20th century did not mean organized crime was a made up issue. https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/17/a-somali-american-investigator-heres-why-youre-hearing-so-much-about-fraud-in-my-community/
  7. I demand potential suitors also be Master Masons.
  8. This young scholar is not smashing his face with a hammer, he is lightly tapping his cheeks with what appears to be a child’s soccer trophy. I do not think we have an issue here with anything other than basic cognitive function for people who watch his stuff.
  9. I don’t have sons I have daughters. Much easier, I just tell the girls every day not to settle for less than six figs/six-six/great bone structure. #doingmypart
  10. Minnesota has a nonpartisan legislative auditor who had been flagging oversight breakdowns and a concerning (to her) dismissive attitude from the state gov. The Governor’s response is pretty awful and patronizing in retrospect but not great even at the time: I cannot emphasize enough that it’s always a bad look for good government/civil society/institluitonalists to get defensive and dismissive of IG or GAO type reports instead of pouncing on them as an opportunity to show bona fides. The whataboutism with Trump is just that— they ran on the idea of destroying things and doling out favors and dismantling important government functions and protections while attacking enemies. That’s the schtick! That’s not a line of attack with them! But if you’re trying to convince people of the need for transparency and accountability and good governance you need to deliver it and even when you think the IG as wrong, you have to publicly vow to take the reports seriously and not just disagree and say it’s no problem. This is a door Walz walked into. You have to do the good governance part!
  11. Yes, and also deer camps and also tee times and church parking lots and softball leagues. This also where the young bucks learn to act like men. Not to steer this to an incel discussion but women also need to avoid dismantling these little clubs and also pushing men to socialize like they do. I’m not suggesting women encourage every night happy hour. I am suggesting they maybe encourage joining a sports league or the Elks before telling men to do “therapy.”
  12. One has to be able to mentally do work. It was always wrong to assume that any Italian you met is a criminal or wise guy. However, it would have been stupid not to focus on Italians with connections to sanitation and unions and deny that the problem existed. One issue is that Americans of all political stripes prefer to do welfare via grants and social organizations rather than just running them. The right typically has a mistaken belief that the government will fuck it up less than an NGO, business correctly see a way to grift. Special activist groups correctly recognize that it’s highly more effective at delivering “services” to preferred recipients directly. It’s like public schools, we just open those and you can go if you need it. It’s not that you can’t steal from coffers, it’s just a hell of a lot harder to do at scale.
  13. Folks, sometimes things are as they seem and one needs to surrender to reality before deciding that the NYT is being manipulated by Trump and tricksy Somaliland activists. It should surprise absolutely no one that an insular, clannish set of first and second generation immigrants from a notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden locale, who are virtually all dependent on state welfare, have become the focus of massive welfare corruption in a high-openness, high-social safety net society. This sort of thing is replicable against time and space. The comparisons to Italians are hilarious because all of that was completely true! Generations of overlapping clan/criminal networks completely took over entire public and semi-public activities in northern cities and hid within an ethic community thanks to a combination of fear, mistrust of the outside, clannishness and cultural solidarity. Those networks bought and installed local politicians, and even legit politicians were afraid to take it on because of the power of the groups and voting blocs. The Feds had to engage in generational crackdowns to get a handle on it and the same deflections got tossed out. I can agree that the DJT tactic is distasteful and politically motivated. Success against other similar crime rings and phenomena depended on a pathway to pull ordinary people out of insularity and into the mainstream and things have gotten toxic because the right doesn’t want to allow in and influential swathes of the modern left has determined that actively pushing for integration and assimilation is violence.
  14. A&M went from one of the most efficient red zone teams in the nation through most of the season to shit over the SCAR—UT—Miami games. There were 9 red zone trips over those three that ended in turnovers or missed/blocked field goals. That is the type of shit that both loses games on the scoreboard and takes away a team’s will to fight. Some of that was WTF and others worrying signs: No idea what happened with Bond, who was reliable previously, this year. Clearly the shuffle attempt on “who has the hot leg” was a disaster for both kickers. It’s inexcusable in 2025 not to have a solid kicker on a P5 roster; I don’t know if Bond got the yips or someone messed him up. Elko needs to look at ST as an area of focus. Losing the crutch of Leveon Moss messed with both Marcel and Klein. It made Klein too enamored with his own cleverness and in turn put more pressure on Marcel, who is very good with guardrails but terrible without them. With Moss, they had the confidence to feed him at least twice in scoring position. Without him Klein got antsy and tried stupid shit after the first punch-in try failed. It’s a question to see how the next OC handles that; I think Reed is who he is. Someone needs to get Owens to a sports movement clinician because I’ve never seen someone fall forward into green grass as much as him, it’s like anti-vulnerability to contact. 10 wins is (likely) going to be harder than 11 this year but not impossible— LSU with a first year HC. Alabama is not a juggernaut under Kalen. UTe is beatable, Venables is also not a genius. These are hard but not completely daunting games and getting two wins of those four needs to happen. It will show whether the program is getting better in the hard ways, because the low-hanging fruit is gone. And he needs to beat UT at Kyle in year three to have me bought in. Like I said, time to do the hard stuff to make me believe.
  15. Looking at single games (and really even single seasons) is never an intelligent way of judging the health of a program because very good to great programs will always have WTF games where they lose or look terrible in a win; and programs that are truly on the ropes pull off really great games all the time. This is doubly true in the SEC where nearly every roster is loaded with future NFL players and even sub-.500 teams are capable of playing like the blue chips they are. Kirby Smart delivered a L to a USCe team that went 4-8 under Muschamp in his fourth year (later lost to LSU in the SECCG). That game said very little about the health of either USCe or UGA as programs. At the time UGA fans were beginning to worry that Kirby was the next Richt, though (basically mirror images through four seasons) and games like that were a big reason why. The games at UK and MSU likewise say very little about the overall health and trajectory of either UT, MSU, or UK. You recognized this in your own post, and then came up with a reason why this sort of thing was really important for the team you don’t like but is not important for the team you cheer for. It’s kind of like when your first instinct on a test is correct but you talk yourself into a wrong answer. A&M avoided true upsets this year and was in a position to win every game they played in. Going from 8 to 11 wins is important and while some luck is involved it is not completely sufficient. That is a a change in trajectory while at the same time ugly familiar habits still popped up, especially down the stretch. That— along with things like recruiting success, and assistant decisions—of where a program is heading as well as the types of things that can really derail or stall it. Next year looks to be a much harder schedule but that is not guaranteed, new assistants will be calling plays, and the OL is going to need retooling. A 10 win regular season will be an indicator that the Elko plan is in a good place although fans will be furious.
  16. They share a family tree which (somewhat surprisingly) branches off from the sober and staid folks at your local Wesleyan Methodist Church. Holinesses started within Wesleyan churches as a “second work of grace”— sanctification and Christian perfection which follows conversion. Holiness Pentecostals added the “baptism of the Holy Spirit” which is evidenced by the charismatic stuff: tongue speaking, etc. Within that group, a second group decided Wesley’s holiness was bunk (“finished work”) and that the only acts of grace are conversion and Holy Spirit baptism. Then a third group among the finished work group tossed out trinitarianism and became Oneness Pentecostals. Snake Handlers are Holiness Christians and often Holiness Pentecostals but are marginal even within that group. I view these groups with fascination and some bit of sympathy. A lot of radical egalitarianism, a complete lack of concern with the mainstream of society, and a near total rejection of its aesthetics. And uninterested in temporal power and influence structures, just concerned with another world entirely. Definitely intense groups but not quite cults in the compound and discipline type way. Actual, real radical, counter-culture that does not get profiles in national magazines or the movie treatment.
  17. Rigjt but they’re incredibly influential and deserve at least a genealogy type treatment. The actual Met policy aimed at Masons is that anyone has to declare membership in a “hierarchical organization where members pledge to support each other.” Which would seem to include Catholics, the Church of England, Lions, and Rotary too. For the real vintage, finely-crafted Eastern European boomer schizo take, look up Rotary conspiracies which I’ve come across in the wild. I never a knew a Mason who was secretive about membership. The rites and internal stuff was not for the public, but none of them hide membership (that I know of?). I guess with the bizarre anti-masonry of Scotland Yard you might. If 2/3 of your workforce is concerned about Masons that is a cry for help and not validation.
  18. It should not be lost on anyone that among the first real, genuine, black people and white people equal and egalitarian movements in America was Pentecostalism and the Azusa Street revival, in a way that none of the progressives of the time or later times could recreate or desired to. People who are on fire with the Holy Spirit do not always behave as expected, remains true of enthusiastic religion today. Holiness Pentecostaliam is actual counter-culture. They are not larping.
  19. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and Fundamentalism and American Culture are sober, critical, but not jeremiad culture war examinations of Evangelicalism and fundamentalism in America, including how to tell them apart. Highly recommend. These are serious histories and not tracts. I honestly don’t know of any serious studies of Prosperity Gospel stuff. It was pretty new when I was doing my religion reading. For a peek behind the veil, The Late Great Planet Earth is deeply influential and insane and a direct line to the conspiratorial, politically chapter apocalyptic version of fundamentalism we have today, and Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life for a more meaningful look at what mainstream Evangelicals actually consume and aspire to. I am not Evangelical, BTW. And Anastasis is basically right that almost any unusual church with no clear denomination you see is basically just Baptists in a different costume. Sometimes you get lucky and it’s something fun, like a holiness inspired bunch. Down the road the real growth industry is in the Spanish speaking Evangelical and holiness groups. Everyone is in for some interesting times.
  20. No, losses are losses and wins are wins. Almost doesn’t count for anything either way— whether it’s an almost win or not. Georgia had that insane come from 17 points down behind 8 OT win against Georgia Tech. Many such cases. There were multiple almost catches and almost plays in the Miami game. If Rueben Owen’s hangs on to a clear catch it’s in OT. But he didn’t and it’s a loss, period. Very good teams have some wins that they “shouldn’t” have had. Only a very few great teams clearly beat everyone up.
  21. It’s not realistic to talk about any program taking a step forward or backward until portal dust settles at this point. No one will know if you’re this year’s Indiana or this year’s ASU. A few things that IMO are indisputable: We haven’t won 10 plus games in over a decade and son getting to 11 is an important milestone. The SEC schedule shook out very favorably for us, although most pundits thought it was going to be very challenging when the season kicked off. It is very hard in college football to simply win all your games against teams that you have more talent than; and that’s been especially true for A&M. We did not suffer a genuine upset much less more than one, which has not been true for years. Under Elko, A&M has demonstrated intelligent and impactful use of the portal which is key for any team looking to win big. The players on the roster next year will match up decently against any team in the SEC. Elko got outcoached by Sark again and also we had a second year in a row where Reed devolved over home stretch of a season. The Klein replacement is going to be a key test. For a guy who preaches culture and disciplined football, he put a team on the field that drew tons of truly stupid penalties, idiot special teams, and undisciplined play on both sides of the ball. Bottom line: A set of ingredients are there for A&M to regularly contend for the CFP under the current and planned future formats. If Elko can simply continue avoiding the usual 1-2 bad upsets past Aggie teams were always good for, he is already down the road of getting there. It remains to be seen if he can elevate those ingredients beyond that, or even recreate this season’s real successes. All of us have had experience really nailing a dish and never doing it again. IMO he is on far better footing than Jimbo or Sumlin.
  22. It was sort of a given thing for white Protestant men to do who were aspiring or actual pillar of the community types. And it is true as well that an earlier generation of enlightenment/democratic types discussed these ideas at Masonic lodges. The analysis of Masonry as a secret society of powerful puppet masters, though, is very much on the “wet roads cause rain” level. Also very en vogue as a Tsarist bete noir, which is equally true for many ideas later adopted by schizos.
  23. Give it a shot @Hagbard Celine . I think it can be done in good faith. I wasn’t trying to spark a political discussion, but I don’t see how you can talk about the movie without acknowledging that it’s Trump-inflected if not inspired. In a prior era the too-close-to-reality version of America would look different; Lockjaw likely would have been CIA and his target Muslims. Which ties into the Reddit thread which got a lot of shit but has some element of truth: the French 75 is very clearly a 60s inspired activist revolutionary group of the type that simply doesn’t exist at all now. Today’s America hasn’t yet produced a Weather Underground or SLA type group.
  24. It cant be emphasized enough that these currents were all extremely modern and an attempt to work a framework of rationalism and historicism into a religious foundation. They were wrong, but that’s what it was. Many humbling similar lessons out there on various dead ends of Progress and Reason for those willing to see.
  25. Of all the things that didn’t happen, this guy smashing his face with a hammer didn’t happen the most. Go Google Jake Paul hospital photos to satisfy yourself that he did not achieve chiseled features via blunt force facial trauma. He’s just a full of shit online personality.
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