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  1. The far left and the far right are both committed ideologues who are going to express extreme dissatisfaction with anything that happens within our current framework of liberal secular democracy. They want to dismantle that system and replace it with a cheap facsimile but gut the underlying principles. Their voices are amplified to 11 through social media and captured institutions which makes the centrists believe that the center is not holding, everyone is angry, and thus Biden is not doing a good job. This, fundamentally, is the problem with social media and new journalism, it gives equal time to voices that do not deserve equal time.
  2. There’s a very satisfying genre of video out there with German police using compliance grips to remove hippies from roadways.
  3. I’m looking forward to this thread going again. Last week I grill roasted a leg of lamb and used @jimmyjazz horseradish sauce and it was INCREDIBLE
  4. While Elon is announcing that Hitler was basically right on main, Gen Z is circulating Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” on TikTok and saying “yass queen, the Jews have taken control of our money, it’s all right here.”
  5. There’s not a massive, big-name hire out there. It is striking how rare it happens, moves like Brian Kelly to LSU or Fisher to A&M or Riley to USC just don’t happen that often. There was a flurry of them it seemed, which made it seem like the new normal. Of the four active HCs with a national championship, two were promoted from coordinator jobs and a third is Mack Brown.
  6. If indeed the hospital is just a hospital with refugees sheltering there, then the IDF should just be able to walk in, confirm that there’s no military or terrorist infrastructure, and offer aid. The people getting treatment will undoubtably be better off and no harm will come to them, because who’s going to be offering resistance at a hospital?
  7. So then you can take it easy because if there aren’t any Hamas fighters there, there won’t be any fighting.
  8. Just a thought, but it shouldn’t be possible for the IDF to storm or raid a hospital, as a hospital should offer no resistance if indeed that’s the only thing it’s being used for. I am assuming that any violence will be the fault of the IDF, since there are of course no terrorists there to go after.
  9. Respectfully on this, we aren’t talking about political reporting. This isn’t a who said what about a budget deal or even a big Pentagon contract. This is reporting on intelligence skullduggery with at least two of the major actors at war with each other and boasting intelligence services the operate in the Soviet model at the highest level. I’m a big fan of the WaPo and the dinosaur media, you can check my posting history. The WaPo editorial board is not equipped to handle what they would run into if either the Ukrainian or Russian services want to go all in on an information operation. My hesitancy is not over just over anonymous sources, it’s the whole picture— the only person named is someone already in jail, the investigative parties are keeping quiet, and there remain open questions about what other state actors were up to at the time.
  10. That wasn’t a promise, it was a threat: win one or you’re gone. Now Jimbo sleeps with the fishes. True competitors will appreciate our mafia style ruthlessness and subtle communication.
  11. Y’all are thinking this is a big win for you, a nice moment of schadenfreude. Don’t let me ruin your fun. But think about this before you smirk too much: 1. We are about to pay the biggest buyout EVER. How many teams win a national championship? One per year. But how many have paid out the largest buyout in history? I don’t know and neither do you, but it’s fewer than one per year. Literally making CFB history here. And that’s catnip to recruits: come make history. 2. What was the story line coming into this week? A&M playing ACU at 6-4 and looking to play its way into a second tier bowl instead of third year. Not now. Now, it’s history making A&M looking for a new coach. Biggest story of the week in CFB. That’s what they’ll talk about on ESPN. And who watches ESPN? That’s right, recruits. Script flipped! Enjoy not being the biggest story in Texas CFB this week! 3. We are getting a new coach and you know what that means? We have at least two, maybe three years where the new guy has a pass to get his guys and the right chemistry. That’s longer than Sark’s leash! Ha! Owned. So yuk it up. We’ll just be over here making historic power moves.
  12. There are numerous reasons to be a bit doubtful of the WaPo story and it doesn’t have to be a Russian info op. It’s all a bit weird when the only people cited are anonymous and the only person they’re throwing under the bus is a dude who’s in prison already. It’s absolutely not a good look for Ukraine if there’s some individual score settling going on. Wait for Sweden or Denmark to say something, these are not nations known for playing political games when it comes to serious matters. If they think it was a Ukrainian op they will say so.
  13. As a non-$9.95er, I honestly have no idea how much autonomy a P5 AD has in negotiations or selections of the HFC at A&M or anywhere else. I suspect there’s no standard answer.
  14. But we will get to have our own Bobby Bonilla day, just like the New York Mets. Advantage us.
  15. I am not a fan of firing coaches mid-season. Although that appears to be more of the SOP than waiting till the end now. It was clearly time to get rid of Jimbo, you’re either paying him 76 million now or paying him 76 million to keep phoning it in and make chaotic coordinator hires for several more season. I expect the transfer portal to bite hard but then again it bit us hard last season when we kept Jimbo. The bottom line is that he kept losing games to teams with objectively worse players than he had. During his tenure here I think we can say he identified and hired one truly good coordinator in Mike Elko. I’d like to see Elko back on the sidelines, although I can see the argument that Traylor is better positioned to recruit the state. After several seasons of flaming and creative collapses providing the only entertainment for me as an Aggie, let’s go get Lane Kiffen and take this shit to straight to streaming levels of explosive crap.
  16. HI Sutton is good and not a conspiracy theorist. I’d remain in wait and see mode for official investigation results.
  17. Whatever else Tlaib says or does, she has a problem with posting demonstrably false takes and then refusing to climb back down even when proven wrong.
  18. Not really. If they want to live in a free, secular, tolerant Israel they could just say so. Clearly an important part of this is “Israel” going away and something called “Palestine” replacing it. The most charitable reading involves eliminating a country.
  19. If it’s just a call for one nation between the Jordan and Med where everyone lives in a nice secular democracy with equal rights and no discrimination…… Then why aren’t they chanting “Israel shall be free?” They could likely get a lot more traction with that one.
  20. I don’t know anyone who tries to dissemble and say that the phrase doesn’t mean what it means when it’s pointed out that it appeared in Likud’s founding documents: it meant one nation, Israel, where Palestinians were either gone or politically dominated by Jews. It is bullshit in that context and I don’t understand why it’s cute to play games the other direction about what it really means.
  21. Can you find evidence that it means what you want it to mean, outside of some Western college campuses? By all means show me. Where is Palestine’s Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa? Where is Palestine’s Nelson Mandela? Where is Palestine’s Simon Bolivar? Or Palestine’s Zelenskyy? The world is littered with freedom fighters— violent and non-violent— who demonstrated that their calls for liberation were based on calls for human dignity, fundamental rights, tolerance, and respect. I am unfamiliar with any similar political force among the Palestinians. The best among them can only boast “we are not actively doing terrorism now.” None of them have a vision of equality, liberty, and tolerance for their own people let alone Jews. Is your argument really that Israel is so much worse than (checks notes)….the Soviet Union, Apartheid South Africa, Putin’s Russia, and Imperial Spain… and so there’s no way for Palestinians to give birth to a political movement that values freedom for THEMSELVES?
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