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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Ah I see the guilt-by-association and guilt-by-accusation fallacies have come out
  2. I agree with you.
  3. Sure freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. But to say cancel culture doesn't exist is asinine. https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlynborysenko/2020/02/12/the-dark-side-of-metoo-what-happens-when-men-are-falsely-accused/ Dershowitz recounts his side of the story in the book Guilt By Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #metoo. His case is particularly interesting because it started before the #metoo movement and continues today. When asked if he noticed a difference between perception before and after, he said it was very noticeable. “There’s no question. Before the #metoo movement, I had won. It had gone away. I had the submission, I had the tapes, the recording, the emails, I had a full investigation by the former head of the FBI who said it was false, I had a judge who struck it [down], the lawyers had withdrawn it...it was over! It was completely over. And then the #metoo movement came, and suddenly it was resurrected.” “If you call a women a liar, even if you didn’t do [what you’re being accused of], you’re guilty of calling a woman a liar, so there’s no way out. If you don’t deny it, you’re thought to be guilty. If you do deny it, you’ve committed an additional political sin, so it’s a trap. And it feels just horrible...They either assume your guilt or they assume you shouldn’t be asserting your innocence. ... Dershowitz described the challenges he has faced in being accused, including the financial cost of fighting the accusation, to the embarrassment of having to tell every potential client of the claims while he is pursuing it in court, to the impact it has had on his family, including his grandchildren: “It’s been terrible. No one who knows me believes it, none of my personal friends. Even those who are really upset at me about the Trump thing don’t believe it because they know I’m not that guy. I’m not a player. But it has still had a terrible impact on my grandkids who are in school where people believe everything that’s said, and on my children. It’s had a terrible impact on us. I’m a victim, and no one wants to treat me like a victim.” Or if Dershowitz is too powerful/monied to possibly be a victim, how about this guy who was anonymously and falsely added to a list of "Bad Men" and was chased out of his work at the Washington Post and had to take the only thing he could get: janitor at Dave & Busters: https://nypost.com/2020/02/01/being-wrongly-metood-has-ruined-my-life/ A side note to the accusations leveled at me was the claim that an “HR file at The Washington Post,” where I was an editorial aide from 2005 to 2008, existed that presumably backed up the accusations. The Post keeps scanned personnel files on all employees, so a file on me does exist. But when I called the newspaper for verification, I was told my file contains no mention of accusations, investigations or disciplinary actions. (Ed. note: The Washington Post declined to verify this.) Baffled, I reached out to the former co-worker I had assumed was my accuser, a female reporter in my office whom I felt sure had at times found me rude or inconsiderate. She said she didn’t write my entry and didn’t know who did. Obviously, I’m drawing attention to the list now. I’m tired of trying to hide in plain sight, of feeling psychologically broken for actions I never took. The top of the Sh-tty Media Men spreadsheet admonished readers to take the allegations with a grain of salt because its charges are uninvestigated. But in my experience, more than a few people have equated inclusion on the list, regardless of the alleged offense, as proof that a man is undeserving of ever being hired or heard from. And there are many others as well who were given career death-penalties with scant evidence as part of these various movements, not for things they said or did, not under adjudication by a jury of their peers with evidentiary rules, but by the mob seeking blood.
  4. At some point as a society we went from: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." To: "When you say something I disagree with, you are the embodiment of evil and must be silenced." Whenever I walked through the West Mall, I would laugh at the chuckleheads shouting from atop their milk crates. I even remember going to see a few speakers on campus who had very different views than I did and thinking "well, that guy is an asshole." But it would have been antithetical to me to want to tar and feather them. A few wedge issues where there is a black/white worldview and you fall to one side or the other have amplified this problem. To pick one from both sides: abortion and Palestine. Many people have heartfelt views on either side of those issues. It's very easy to cast the "others" on the opposite side as uncaring and evil. If you believe "words are violence" all of the sudden you are justified, in fact obligated to shut them down, shout them down, silence them, de-platform them, and demand their firing. And if you extend that, all of those consequences should not just be reserved for the speaker but also anyone who follows them, anyone who provides them with a platform, anyone who scheduled them so speak on campus and so on. There are plenty of proximate causes for the coarsening of our society: softer parenting styles, everyone-gets-a-trophy culture, social media, but my candidate is the rise of narcissism. Plenty of studies have shown that narcissism has increased, especially in the past 15-20 years since social media became widespread. It tracks: in an influencer-culture, where it's all about look-at-me, you become the center of your own world. Any disruption to that is a Bad Thing for you. When you're surrounded by amplification of your worldview by the algorithms, your internal antibodies will be strongly programmed to reject any opposing view. #MeToo, Cancel Culture, DEI, and now their analogues on the right-side have taught those who seek power that you can "defeat the evil" by getting people fired, shouting them down, getting corporations to stop working with them, or removing them from a platform. Give that mouse a cookie and he wants a glass of milk, and it leads to more.
  5. Maybe Sark secretly prefers playing rested and NFL-ready KJ Lacey, but is just playing Manning to protect his draft stock.
  6. WTF is up with Colin Simmons? I’m at the game and looks s-l-o-w, slow BGO, getting locked up 1v1 against the tackle.
  7. Yes, it's a 6.5mm foam shock pad that designed to go under putting green fake grass. It's still really hard to get a ball to sit on the surface. 90% of the time I when I hit it, it bounces off unless I do a huge flop shot and even then. But, it's a good challenge. Here's the build, spoiler because it's long:
  8. Maybe y'all will be interested in this, I saw this online somewhere and thought "that looks fun" so I built my own cornhole-style chipping boxes. Basically you chip from one to the other. Put them as close or as far as you need. I was working my 60 degree and had them kinda close in this picture. It's actually super hard to land it, you have to put a ton of backspin on the ball. 7 points for holing it, 3 points for getting on the box, otherwise 1 point for closest to the pin. Play to 21. It's fun and you get to work on your short game. And no, I don't water our backyard grass during the summer I did a pretty extensive set of photos during the build process, LMK if anyone would like a post on the build.
  9. In theory but Texas plays best when we are challenged and can play up to our competition. If we're playing Houston, SMU, and Tech those games mean 10X more to them than to us (aka "jihad") and we get complacent and soft. That's not an excuse for losing those games, it's an observation of how it actually worked.
  10. Bama needs about a 50 year walk in the desert like we had over the 10 years from the end of Mack through Strong and Herman. Fuck those guys. After them, Ohio State needs a 100 year meltdown, since they've never had an extended down period, those fucks.
  11. God help us if we end up back with a SWC redux of Tech, Baylor, UH, TCU, A&M, and SMU.
  12. I don't think it should be shocking that we score fewer points on elite teams. Everyone scores fewer on elite teams. There isn't a chasm between Texas and Ohio State. It was a one score game and we didn't play well at the QB position. Last year it was also close in so called "big" games, other than UGA1. We're not losing due to systemic deficiencies, it's in the margins. Flip 1-2 calls or plays and the result flips. I believe Sark can get us there.
  13. You might as well post "Alexandria Daddario should suck my cock" because it's about as likely to happen as Sark hiring a real OC. Narrator: it's not going to happen. If the administration tried to force it to happen at some point, Sark would probably leave. He sees game planning and play calling as one of his strengths and views hiring an OC to do that as depriving the team of that strength, which to him would be dumb. You can disagree, but you don't get Sark the recruiter without Sark the play caller.
  14. The Good Defense - holding them to 14 when we aren't doing anything on offense was commendable Run defense - held them to under 2.5 yards/rush is good Pass defense - minimized explosive plays to 1 and took Smith out of the game again Punting - Boom-meister lived up to his name and buried one inside the 5. O line - about 200 yards rush, and they got a pretty good push. Pass blocking wasn't perfect but was good enough. Baxter had a really good blitz pickup at one point. Baxter - coming back from the injury, great to see it. The Bad Sark's offensive gameplan and script - looked to play to Arch's weaknesses instead of strengths. Not many screens or bootlegs. Didn't put Arch on the move where he had an option to pull it down and use his legs. Minimal motion compared to other big games, which helps decode the defense for the QB. No pony package to help force the defensive alignments. Penalties - too many false starts and holding. The Ugly Arch's accuracy - far too many passes were either airmailed, or in the dirt. Threw behind receivers (like Wingo on the 2nd to last pass), under threw (interception), or missed open receivers. Some of that is 1st real game timing issues, but for the first half it was really ugly. 37% of passes were off target per ESPN, highest by a Texas QB in the past 10 years. Woof. Arch's footwork and mechanics - related to the accuracy issue above but he threw many off his back foot and tried to sidearm several throws which was unnecessary. The Mahomes-effect? WR separation - namely the lack thereof. Wingo didn't break free much, and Moore was MIA. Credit to Jaggerson for getting just enough open on the TD catch.
  15. This can't be, because I know I've read multiple Derka posts on this thread about how Quinn was the 4th best QB on campus and Sark had "a fucking Manning" rested and ready on the bench.
  16. You play the schedule you get. Sayin didn't seem to have accuracy issues. That last toss to Wingo can't be on him. You're asking a WR who has created separation and has nothing but green field in front of him to anticipate that his QB is going to put it short and behind and throttle down? That's dumb. Arch straight up missed that throw, it wasn't even behind it was WAY behind him, and Wingo had to stop and contort his torso just to get a finger on it. If it was on target that was a first down minimum and potentially even an explosive play.
  17. Are you referring to the 1st one he threw into double coverage, or the 2nd one he threw that got intercepted?
  18. Mmmm gonna have to disagree with you on some of these. His pocket presence was OK and he didn't self-sack, which was good. But he did rush several throws and ended up airmailing or throwing them into the dirt. The long ball shot to Wingo was bad. It was forced into coverage, it was under thrown, and it was to the inside where the coverage had leverage instead of the boundary where at worst it would have been incomplete.
  19. You're maximizing QE's bad and minimizing his good. Yeah he had self sacks. He also was elite at hitting the short/intermediate throw on target, which was a key missing element today.
  20. Agree with this. But in the heat of the moment right now people are gonna say "that's aggy thinking"
  21. The last game we played the QB passed for 283 and 2TDs against the same team. That's a weird one to pick.
  22. It can be, and in this case was both the QB and the OC at fault. OC faults: Ongoing stubbornness in the red zone and on 4th down Not taking the points after getting stonewalled Poor game planning: minimal bootlegs, waggles, moving the pocket. Seemed to play to Arch's weakness vs. his strengths. Pre-snap penalties QB faults: Inaccuracy, even with minimal/no pressure in his face - I counted at least 4 throws just totally in the dirt and another 3-4 way over the head of the WR Forcing the throw to Wingo for the INT, coverage was there and throw was inside not to the boundary Missing wide open WRs to go to the higher risk option (first toss/fade in the end zone to Jaggerson)
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