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1 minute ago, Skipper said:

Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I'm truly glad it's that way for you. The same forces that have made politics what they are have infected every level of sports so badly I haven't watched pro football in almost a decade and college is going that way. It's not that "politics" are in sports, but the societal forces that all this shit is downstream from are. American sports are basically unwatchable to me anymore.

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Like I said, I don't expect others to follow suit. Most people love their bread and circuses. 

But I personally am not going to send money to support the public face of an entity controlled by and capitulating to this stuff any longer. 

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Gotta love Dan Lanning saying common sense should prevail … so we should have armed guards at every one of the ~130k schools when we only have 470k local police officers for reference. 

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20 minutes ago, Skipper said:

To each their own, but I'm struggling to appreciate the nexus between Texas One Fund/Burnt Ends and Texas Football and MAGA.  I appreciate that Texas is a public institution with Abbot largely dictating policy.  But like the rest of the country, the players themselves are largely diverse in every aspect including political beliefs.

If people are letting politics impact their sports fandom, then what's the fucking point?  I would probably just leave the country at that point.   Sports is the best release from all this shit IMO.   Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I liked what Dan Lanning had to say last week:  

 

What’s it like to have nothing but straight white people make up your entire family and friends?

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Regarding the NIL funds:  people pulling their donations will surely get the attention of other donors, and I'm really really really sure a lot of them are MAGAbbots.  So yeah, UT football can sit and spin for all I care.  We suck anyway.

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23 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A lot of nothing and both sidesisms. 

Dan mentions both sides while stating issues that are only negated by one side--guns and mental health.  I'm fine with what he said, and nobody can say that democrats aren't for gun control and mental health assistance, especially when universal health care is a central tenant of the parties platform.  Similarly, if I were to say it was foolish that both sides can't agree that abortion should be legalized, I'm really only speaking to one side's cutting access.    

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28 minutes ago, G650 said:

I'm truly glad it's that way for you. The same forces that have made politics what they are have infected every level of sports so badly I haven't watched pro football in almost a decade and college is going that way. It's not that "politics" are in sports, but the societal forces that all this shit is downstream from are. American sports are basically unwatchable to me anymore.

I just have a life, and to spend three hours watching somebody else living theirs is three hours I can't get back.  Now if I'm sharing that time with the wife, that's another story.  However, Texas football is mostly my only exception.  

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3 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:

 Now if I'm sharing that time with the wife, that's another story.

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

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29 minutes ago, bluto said:

Gotta love Dan Lanning saying common sense should prevail … so we should have armed guards at every one of the ~130k schools when we only have 470k local police officers for reference. 

Hey, if we're not going to support reasonable gun control and mental health access, then we probably should spend more on protecting our kids.  And I do not want to be defending Dan Lanning, so that's my last take on it.    

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57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Night putting?  You know, putting, at night?

. . . with the fifteen year old daughter of the Dean.

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I hope IFC isn't under the boycott. Because Inglorious Basterds is on right now, and I'm taking notes.

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7 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

So Disney is talking to Kimmel to try to get him back on the air. I assume they are telling him exactly how cowardly they are and how nice they want him to be. If they come to an agreement I'm certainly not restarting my subscription but I'm sure many will. 

I'm using this as an opportunity to trim costs from my life by eliminating money sent to corporate beasts in as many places as possible. Unfortunately I've also had to include contributions to any entity associated with capitulating to this authoritarian regime, which means I've canceled my Burnt Ends and Texas One Fund recurring payments as well as deciding no further contributions to UT academics will happen either. 

So far with just media and recurring UT-related cancellations I'm at about $3500 per year saved. Imagine getting paid to have a clearer conscience, that's a win-win.

I respect your decisions and support anyone who feels the same to follow suit. This isn't me trying to blow up burnt ends subs, but it really is as you said - the face of an organization that is capitulating. 

7 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Understood. Sucks immamac/BurntEnds had to be collateral damage to the general UT machine having to, as you said, go with the flow on a lot of things as a state institution. 

Treefiddy is fine if you want to support the site. I lose money on every burnt ends subscription (processing fees I gross up) 

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

That's actually been a nice little side note to our empty nest stage: the wife has really gotten into soccer.  We get up on Saturday mornings, sit on the couch with our coffee, visit, and watch a Premier League match.  We go to most of the Austin FC matches together.  She'll even ask, when I turn the TV on sometimes "is there a match on?"  We'll watch mexican league, or some obscure international match, and do it together.

The fact that football is dropping way down my enthusiasm list is tempered by that, a bit.

That sounds terrible.

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50 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I guess that's why we lost the Burnt Ends Badge? ;)  I think I still pay, but it's cool.

I think its just that if your sub dates are off the last one wins. I thought I had a script fixing people but I guess it's broken. 

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1 hour ago, immamac said:

I think its just that if your sub dates are off the last one wins. I thought I had a script fixing people but I guess it's broken. 

It's cool.  I donate for the room, not the badge.

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8 hours ago, Skipper said:

To each their own, but I'm struggling to appreciate the nexus between Texas One Fund/Burnt Ends and Texas Football and MAGA.  I appreciate that Texas is a public institution with Abbot largely dictating policy.  But like the rest of the country, the players themselves are largely diverse in every aspect including political beliefs.

If people are letting politics impact their sports fandom, then what's the fucking point?  I would probably just leave the country at that point.   Sports is the best release from all this shit IMO.   Politics/Trump BS are the absolute last thing on my mind every college football Saturday and very thankful for that.  

I liked what Dan Lanning had to say last week:  

 

Just cause you can escape to the circus, doesn’t mean the rest of us can exist without being accosted. My 78 yr old mother was told to go back to her country at HEB mueller in late August despite being a citizen for 50 years+. So to answer your question, how can you let sports impact your national duty to tell racist pieces of shit to go fuck themselves until they bleed to the point the world is a better place?

im done letting shit heads ruin my country. Do better skippy

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11 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Didn’t see it mentioned in here, but Sinclair backed out at the last minute from airing that Kirk special last night.  Something is working.

I’ll take any positive news at this point, no matter how small.  

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15 hours ago, immamac said:

Treefiddy is fine if you want to support the site. I lose money on every burnt ends subscription (processing fees I gross up) 

I'd happily pay processing fees on both my treefiddy and burnt ends subs if that were an option 

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25 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Didn’t see it mentioned in here, but Sinclair backed out at the last minute from airing that Kirk special last night.  Something is working.

It got shot down… 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just like Charlie? 

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1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Didn’t see it mentioned in here, but Sinclair backed out at the last minute from airing that Kirk special last night.  Something is working.

It's probably the multiple news articles about their cancellation page going down from too much traffic. They've really stepped in it and the SGA and WGU are pissed at them too.

Apparently they tried to make Kimmel apologize and donate to TPUSA and he refused. What a fucking world

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7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Apparently they tried to make Kimmel apologize and donate to TPUSA and he refused.

For what? Did he even say anything negative about Kirk? I know he talked about how awful his murder was and how he felt for his family.

God I hate this country right now.

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

I'd happily pay processing fees on both my treefiddy and burnt ends subs if that were an option 

Yeah, what's the bump on treefiddy?  I'll do it.

1 minute ago, Red Five said:

For what? Did he even say anything negative about Kirk?

No, he didn't.  It's just typical right wing snowflake bullshit.

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10 minutes ago, Captainant said:

It's probably the multiple news articles about their cancellation page going down from too much traffic. They've really stepped in it and the SGA and WGU are pissed at them too.

Apparently they tried to make Kimmel apologize and donate to TPUSA and he refused. What a fucking world

Good. I was hoping Kimmel would tell them go pound sand.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

No, he didn't.  It's just typical right wing snowflake bullshit.

It's crazy, I read the FCC chairman's comments prior to reading what Kimmel even said. I assumed there had been some "This is what you get for spreading hate speech for a decade" type comments, but nope. Just his condolences.

But now the narrative is that Kimmel was fired for talking shit about Charlie Kirk. Up is down in upside down world. 



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