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That's not helpful. If you have a point, please say it. If you don't want to post it, feel free to message me.
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All of the Jews I personally know are highly supportive of the state of Israel, while not necessarily being supportive of the current government. I would argue the opposite. To indicate an opposition to the state of Israel is conflated with antisemitism. My observation has been this is a tool used to try to suppress criticism of the state of Israel.
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I have no familiarity with NAACP other than what I've read. I do not think of the NAACP as influential or persuasive as AIPAC. It's my opinion AIPAC historically is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States, at least post WWII.
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All I can tell you is that all the wealthy Jews I am friends with are heavily pro Israel, donate heavily to both parties. When I have attended AIPAC functions in Houston I am often one of the few goyim there. If you say that money is coming from Republican megadonors then so be it. That's just not my personal experience.
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So you see AIPAC money as being non Jewish money? BTW, there is plenty of Jewish money donated to political causes outside of AIPAC. Not all of it is single agenda donations revolving around Israel, but a lot of it is.
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Hiding immigrants in their home and encouraging Latino teen daughters to write diaries?
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Pro-Israel groups spent big to oust two Squad members in primaries - ABC News
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Maybe it is. But the truth is Muslims in Michigan didn't have a good choice between either party, both of whom are dominated by Jewish money to one degree or another. That said, while there wasn't a good choice, there was a clear choice, and they chose poorly in a way that was not good for their community. Bottom line though is that it's tough sledding getting a pro Palestinian president elected in this country regardless. The best that can be hoped for is less of a hardliner in terms of being pro-Israel.
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This isn't really about the Director's Cup, as much as it is another comparison of baseball and volleyball. I always hoped volleyball would somehow magically put it together in the postseason and then steamroll through the Final Four the way they did the year before. Obviously, it never happened. I always thought the baseball team was put together with chewing gum and bailing wire to some degree. Just a clutch team that seemed to do what it took all season long, with heroics from everyone up and down the lineup. But I never thought of us as a potential juggernaut, particularly after we lost our one true stud starting pitcher. The volleyball team had the talent. Just something was off all season long. Didn't even win the conference, which I thought was practically a given, while the baseball team did, in a sport the SEC has been better at than volleyball traditionally (nothing against Kentucky, who has absolutely been a great program, along with Florida). Skinner for one, IMO, should have been the best player in the country by far, and she simply wasn't able to attain that level for a variety of reasons. In any case, it's not over either way, but I am nervous about our track and field performances. To carry the metaphor further, I feel like we have a huge lead in the 4X100 with the baton handed off to our anchor, but USC has the equivalent of Johnny Lam Jones on their side.
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This upsets me a lot less than you might imagine. Rodney Terry had to go. We're very fortunate we got out of that deal in a minimum amount of time.
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"We should want college sports to collapse on itself like any poorly regulated market in a normal boom/bust cycle." That's what you just wrote without intending to.
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I can't agree with you there. I'm not rooting for them, but I'm indifferent about their success.* Winning the director's cup is a big deal to me. I watched as Stanford dominated this thing for a couple of decades because they fielded so many more sports than we did. Now that they've limited the advantage having extra programs gives Stanford (I'm not completely on board with this, since I think fielding more teams should be incentivized, but that's a different topic) with only the top 20 results counting, Texas has been dominating. Personally, I love it. *That's not true. I get a great deal of entertainment value at watching their reactions to repeated failures. So I'm not indifferent. I also can't imagine being indifferent about them winning a national championship in football. I'm not concerned about it, but that wouldn't be an ideal outcome. I still remember OU winning a national championship in football in 2000. That was a dagger through the heart. I'd prefer they remain awful, because that's fun. But I'm not going to be too bothered if they manage to become good in something aside from meat judging.
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No no no. THEY'LL understand it. They just won't be able to EXPLAIN it. -
I know one of the things Del Conte is doing with the proposed House Settlement money sharing is fully funding the available spots with full scholarships. So now every sport that Texas fields a team will have every slot as a fully paid ride. Assuming something doesn't change via legislation or through the courts.
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Are they playing OU? No? I'm not rooting for A&M.
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It's a great high school type venue. It's their all everything arena. Not really a bad seat in the house. All bench seating. It should be a good crowd. The students will show up for sure. "Safe-Ty Schoo-oool" clap clap clap is their favorite chant. If you can, get seats towards the middle of the court. Doesn't matter which side. I would be a little surprised if it sells out, but not entirely. Rice will give out tickets to high schools and local club teams in group packages to try to make sure the place is full. In any case, the place will be pretty packed. 3000 minimum. I've gone to multiple matches there. It's pretty full even for exhibition games if Texas is playing. Try to take her to Gregory Gym if you get the chance. I didn't compare the home schedule to football, but sometimes you can make it an extended weekend. It's arguably the best home court atmosphere in volleyball.
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I saw one list where he's the 16th best punter in the country. The 5 star ranking is by the kicking promoter that runs a camp and promises to promote the players that go through their training. At this point it seems dumb to me not to recruit punters out of Australia.
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I can't even discuss NIL and the transfer portal with people who don't follow it. Eyes start glazing over very quickly. They prefer their convicted opinions based on sheer ignorance. That's a complicated subject, but it's nowhere remotely close to as complicated as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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The idea there's this clear line of demarcation is false. The lines are very blurry and not at all obvious. First, you have the far right, with ideas of white purity, who are absolutely convinced the Jews are behind a grand scheme to weaken the white race by blending the blood lines. Then you have the far right that thinks the establishment of the state of Israel is a clear sign of The Rapture. They want to put the full might of the United States behind Israel with no strings attached because they feel like in some way there's a religious duty to do so to herald the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Jewish Americans who consider themselves rabid supporters of the state of Israel encourage this in any way they can. Then you have Jewish sympathizers - like me, for example - who support the Israeli state out of some level of sympathy and possibly admiration - at least in my case - for Jewish heritage and culture. Then there are plenty of people who feel like the Jewish cabal is responsible for all kinds of ills, and the concentration of wealth, even if they don't believe the Jews have a grand scheme of weakening one race or another. Then there's the people who have decided their sympathies are with indigenous people of all stripes - never mind that it's often a nebulous term since homo sapiens have been conquering, settling new lands, committing genocide, and generally changing occupations of land ever since moving out of East Africa. It's not to say that any genocide is acceptable because that's how we've always done it, but it is to say that saying that one group of people or another have some kind of greater claim on a land because their ancestors lived there doesn't really mesh with reality. But that's neither here nor there as this growing sympathy with displaced populations, especially from colonialism stemming from the expansion of Europe throughout the world, has gained greater traction over the last few decades. This group fully backs Palestinians as the victims, and in my mind there's a very legitimate case to be made. I think you'd have to be stupid - or blindly loyal to the Israeli cause - to see how the Israelis have conducted themselves towards the Palestinians since the Zionist movement gained steam in the late 19th century to believe otherwise. There's also this strange to me amalgamation of identity politics, where people who identify themselves as disenfranchised have also glommed onto the Palestinian cause as a fellow group of people who are also disenfranchised and ultimately powerless against a state sponsored oppressor. Think of the LGBTQ+ groups and their allies. Some of these groups not only don't identify with each other on any other issue, but actually are active enemies of one another. I'd also say there's not just an adding to antisemitic ideas. There's an adding to anti-Arab, anti-Islam, and anti people who look different. And that's not just a US thing. That's very much a European sentitment, too, as we can clearly see from recent election results. And of course, none of this is new. What is remarkable is that we even try to build a multicultural society in the first place. I, for one, think it's the grandest experiment and the highlight of what we can achieve as a human race. I also believe it's filled with landmines that we refuse to acknowledge, and continue to minimize. As if we just have enough good intentions it will all work out in the name of human progress. Which I do not believe. And then there's social media with its algorithms, measurements of engagement, vehicle for bonding and successful reinforcement of views no matter how extreme - in many ways the more extreme the more successfully and tightly knit the bonds that are formed.
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Previous ADs are now at LSU, Alabama, and Ohio State. And I never thought any of them were all that great. My assumption is if they get lucky on the AD hire he'll be hired by someone else and get him and his family out of College Station as soon as possible. -
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I knew some of them, but I only know what happened to a few. And yeah, speedgoat was awesome. -
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UT baseball and softball are still playing. This has the potential to get so much worse (better). Neither Texas team is a juggernaut per se, but they have some clutchiness. I have to acknowledge while I predominantly root for our teams because I want to see Texas do well, there's also this part of me that wants to see us do well simply to watch the Aggies completely implode. -
It probably was Aggie, but it could have been a Sooner family, too, being in Plano. Horns down is literally their hand sign. They've been doing it since the 1970s. Aggies caught on from them.
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What takes the cake for me is she called you out by your internet handle rather than your real name. It feels like that would add to the awkwardness.
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That's dumb. Why keep a username from that old site? Also, that site only allowed 8 characters No spaces. So I know that's not true. Don't ask me how I know. - slxpress
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