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BrickHorn

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  1. Hmm.
  2. This is some Grade A Weird-Ass White Knighting. How do you not understand that this is a justifiable case of FAFO? First, he’s a rich CEO in an increasingly exploitative capitalist system. Everyone enjoys seeing the privileged elite fall on their faces. Second, she’s an HR executive. She should know better than to date her boss. Everyone loves exposing a hypocrite. Third, they’re cheating on at least one spouse. In full public view. That’s on them. Nobody forced him to grope his mistress in public.
  3. MAGA: I just pray to God that one day we’ll find these pedophiles and bring them to justice. Law Enforcement: Here’s one. He was marching next to you on January 6. Here’s another. He’s a local GOP party leader. Oh, and we found another one. He’s the youth minister at your church. MAGA: I just pray to God that one day we’ll find these pedophiles and bring them to justice.
  4. Some Things Considered, imo.
  5. Even my most cynical family and friends don’t seem to grasp this possibility. They’re all still talking about how the midterms or 2028 will be a bloodbath for the GOP. And I’m like “Have y’all never seen how authoritarian dictators operate?” Normalcy bias is a helluva drug.
  6. Maybe spooning on the Jumbotron is some new award-winning HR icebreaker exercise.
  7. He’s mourning the loss of half of his shit.
  8. This kind of shit is a big reason I’m sending my kids out of state for college. It’s sad. I always hoped my kids would be Longhorns, too.
  9. Any more info on this?
  10. Not sure about that. He went all the way back to early 2000s Hornfans, at least.
  11. It’s all pretext. All of it. MAGA treats politics as a team sport. Or, more aptly: pro wrestling. There is no logic. There is no moral code. There is no policy. It’s all just “I picked the weird orange guy and I will root for him no matter what.” So when the Blue Donkey gouges eyes, it’s a horrible crime and grounds for immediate disqualification. But when Cheeto Benito does the same thing and also smacks his opponent with a steel chair when the ref is distracted? Totally justifiable. It’s not really against the rules, and I’m not sure that there even are any rules. Has anyone ever actually seen a WWE rule book? Does that even exist? If it does, there’s probably an immunity clause for the defending champion. And OH MY GOD THE BLUE DONKEY JUST USED POCKET SAND—WON’T ANYONE HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS DISGUSTING VIOLATION OF THE RULES AND COMMON CIVILITY?!?!?
  12. As a leftie, this is making me nervous.
  13. The more interesting debate is whether UT is elite now. It might seem obvious given how difficult admission has gotten. But that’s driven entirely by Texas’s hyper focus on one flawed metric. On other academic measures, the Texas student body is pretty unimpressive. According to this site, UT ranks #133 in the US in terms of median SAT score of enrolled students. Considering the ranking appears not to include test-blind schools (which would include some of the most prestigious public universities in the country: eg UC Berkeley, UCLA), that ranking is pretty eye-opening.
  14. That was most certainly elite. And they were dumb as fuck, too, which made it even better.
  15. I found an example from the middle of the decade. Check this shit out. If you were Top 25% in your HS class, you only needed a 1050 SAT to get PRIORITY admission. Top 50%? No worries: score a measly 1150 or higher. Those are not even remotely elite admissions criteria.
  16. You’re hiding your metrics. What do you consider “elite” or “top,” on a percentile basis? I went to UT in the 90s and I believe I was the highest ranking student in my very large high school class to do so. I was somewhere between top 3-5%. The kids ahead of me went to places like Rice, Duke, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, etc. Most of my high school friends who ended up at Texas were well below that range. UT had some ridiculous sliding scale for admissions back then, too. I remember that based on my SAT score (which was good, but not Ivy League good), I could get in with something like a C average. Here’s another data point: in the 1990s, UT had generous merit scholarship programs. For example, National Merit Finalists received full tuition scholarships. This was done to attract top students who otherwise would go elsewhere. Elite schools do not offer NM scholarships, because they don’t have to. Don’t fall into the same trap as suburban nitwits do, convincing themselves they’re on the same team as billionaires because they leased the top of the line F150 and bought a bass boat on a 30-year note. UT provided a great education and attracted some very good students, for a variety of reasons. But it was not remotely “elite” in the 1990s and in many ways still isn’t.
  17. Hahaha. No. Not unless your definition of “elite” is really, really generous. In the 90s, UT was full of above average to good students. It was a safety school for the top students, who generally went to OOS private schools or Rice. Even today, UT is elite only on a single, flawed dimension. Its SAT average is far lower than the truly elite schools. I got a great education at UT. But it was not remotely “elite” among US universities at the time.
  18. Start a Sudan thread and literally everyone criticizing Israel on this thread will join you over there to criticize the perpetrators of that injustice as well, you fucking dolt.
  19. It’s a stupid fucking distraction and always has been. It’s the equivalent of going in for surgery to remove a malignant tumor and the surgeon saying “Why should we scrutinize this tumor when your arteries are calcifying?” The internet is littered with this kind of diversionary whatboutist propaganda. Shit, it’s basically the Anastasis playbook.
  20. Whether the criticism is “more strident” or not, do you disagree that the criticism is warranted? Because bitching about who gets criticized more loudly is an irrelevant distraction. But “irrelevant distraction” pretty much sums up your contributions on this board.
  21. Good point. Syrians killed a lot of Arab people, so Israel should be immune from criticism when it kills Arab people. That is the point you’re trying to make, right?
  22. “Stuff”
  23. Ah, Harrison Smith. Alex Jones’s faithful last resort. What a fucking dork.
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