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  1. Ghandi- blocked roads, disrupted state industries. Incredibly unpopular with the not just the British but the Indian client power structure. MLK and SCLC- routinely blocked roads, inspired wild and violent overreaction and profound unpopularity not only with whites but many older black leaders who believed in gradualism and felt they were counter productive. Christians- two many examples of art smashing, chaos and defacement to list over the last 2000 years. So unpopular that Rome literally fed early Christian leaders to lions for fun and at one point were nearly driven to near extinction outside of India, Africa, Ireland and Syria/Turkey while Europeans worshiped a mishmash of local pagan deities, Roman gods, and flirted with Mithraism and other historic also-rans.
  2. “As previously stated, we are in complete agreement with the director that communist influence is being exerted on Martin Luther King, Jr and that King is the strongest of the Negro leaders. As we have stated before in a memorandum, we regard Martin Luther King to be the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.” Dep FBI Director William Sullivan, 1963 the “previous memorandum,” written two days after the March on Washington speech (the one we hear a soundbite from, never mind the rest) used much the same language- ““We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security” so in 1964, the Deputy Director of the FBI (and head of COINTELPRO) sent King this unsigned letter, presumably with J Edgar Hoover’s approval, as part of a multi pronged effort to disrupt King’s work. Correct. @Rex Kramer the MLK they present to us every February is a comforting fiction created to protect the things the real King wanted to destroy. I realize you don’t fully disagree, but the American political establishment and white public at large was absolutely terrified of MLK in the same way and for even some of the same reasons that the Temple crowd and Greco-Jewish clients of Rome who ruled Judea were terrified of Jesus.
  3. In 1966 MLK was putting together a coalition of the American rural and urban poor and working class of all races to smash the unjust and dehumanizing social and economic order of society in the name of Christ’s gospel and the moral edicts of God. Then he was killed by racists, his message was compressed into one great line divorced from all context and his memory was retconned by the media from “the most dangerous negro in America” into a civil rights version of Bagger Vance. MLK was a moral and political revolutionary. We should never forget that.
  4. What’s the ballpark word count of the top 25 on an average day?
  5. Edit: but seriously- gross Justin
  6. Bozo_Casanova

    LBGTQ

    Or a toaster license.
  7. Of course you don’t. I take your posts posts as a sort of avant garde comic performance. I knew Andy Kaufman wasn’t dead. Thank you for your service.
  8. not for nothing, it’s his site
  9. Whatever you say. The core group over there were mainly Republicans on Hornfans, and that’s relevant to the plot.
  10. Agree, but (serious question) do they use forums like this?
  11. I don’t really think that’s completely true. I think they provide a useful framework for quantifying achievement and diagnosing problems, or comparison in highly similar context, but I don’t think they are more than that.
  12. Well I’d certainly put Ewers ahead of Simms, but I tend to view statistics as providing important quantitative information inside a particular context- the offense, the players around them, the game planning philosophy of the coaches involved, etc. Charlie Ward is universally acclaimed as the GOAT of FSU, and I agree. Charlie Ward isn’t clearly an all time top five QB at Florida State statistically. That doesn’t mean stats aren’t important (he led the country in QBR his heisman year, if I remember correctly, but the passing leader was the Nevada guy. The top statistical QB in FSU history is Chris Weinke. A good player! Not on Ward’s level. Im sure you would agree, btw, based on where you have Street and Carlisle (and Layne). My point is that Ewers was very productive and the team around him was good, particularly this year’s defense. But I saw every snap of his body of work, and I’d rather have Applewhite’s killer instinct and capacity to shake off adversity (even the self inflicted kind) or a healthy Jame’s Brown than QE. And that’s not disrespect.
  13. I agree with your first tier, and I’m fine with Carlisle at 5, but I’d put Applewhite and Brown next, with Ewers at 8 rounding out the second tier. in the Third tier I’d have Simms at 9, then Sam and Gardere, with Akins at 12. Quinn Ewers is ahead of him because of how far we got with him, but I see Ewers and Simms in the same category of very talented but also very frustrating. I rank Brown a lot higher than most people for two reasons: 1) when he wasn’t hurt, he was absolutely electric, as good as anybody on this list other than Layne, VY and Colt, and got the most out of his ability. He was also a tremendous leader of the offense. 2) We were trending towards permanent mediocrity at a critical time when he came in, with key people in the athletic department literally saying that it was unrealistic for Texas to be nationally relevant on a consistent basis. I don’t think the modern era of Texas football happens without James Brown.
  14. Incidentally- in my opinion the problem with the CR is not so much that it’s an echo chamber (it’s not) but because it’s full of ex Republicans and other politically homeless people who are mostly politically motivated by anger and fear, however legitimate. It’s just very hostile vibes. Still funny and sharp at times and occasionally everyone gets their hopes up but hostility is the prevailing mood.
  15. I think what made the Shag what it was were the circumstances of how we came together. In 2007 blogs were very important. We still all read the sports pages in the morning. Social media was more about affinity/connection and less about curation and everyone online was primarily consuming/creating long form written content first and pictures second. The GenXers that formed the original core of the shag came together as a result of our online but also real life shenanigans, after having already been together for 10 years on 2-3 other forums with the same handles (Hookem, OBs, Hornfans etc). Our exodus from Hornfans (basically because we wanted a place to freely talk shit and crack wise) attracted chaos-agent millennials, and the result was chaotic but routinely hilarious. But it was also a smart group, so even the cloak room/west mall content was good, not because it was tolerant, but because it was serious, thoughtful, and sharp. Not to mention that it was in good faith. The angry ex Republicans on today’s CR were still Republicans back then. Now we’re all 15 years older, which means the GenXers are simply old and the millennials are in the busiest part of their lives. Those of us that are left either still have the same sense of humor and care about the team, but rarely have the energy or patience or time to read, let alone write 500 words at a time, and aim not sure people younger than us think about content in those terms. Twitter sucks. I agree. This place is better and I do come here first. I hope this place is around longer than I am. But the medium is the message and honestly I’m not sure what kind of future forums like this one have beyond your generation.
  16. Bozo_Casanova

    LBGTQ

    There was a Caberet, and there was a master of ceremonies, in a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany, and it was the end of the world.
  17. NOT GOOD!!!
  18. Real ones know. Say yes to your future!
  19. How about an Immamac looks like a Gilbert Shelton Cartoon thread
  20. Im so sorry for your loss, brisket. It was a honor to meet him and shake his hand before he moved on.
  21. @Wulaw Horn - sorry to pull you into a CR thread. Does this impact VA loans and applications in process?
  22. The descendants of covered wagon era western pioneer families sometimes still have family traditions that girls don’t eat eggs or that only boys should like eggs, passed mother to daughter, because of the brutal nutritional shortage that many frontier families lived with. The most nutritionally dense foods (and eggs are the single most nutrient dense and plentiful food on most farms) were allocated to the men and boys first, and women lived on what was left.
  23. Gooby plz
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