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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Mole replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
As his first official act is self-appointed Longhorn Brand Ambassador, MackBrownTexasFootball leaks a hot QB rumor… -
The spreading phase lasted about 8 hours, followed by sleep, then the gathering phase, which is an all-hands situation. It takes a village to pack a bag. The gathering phased lasted about 12 hours although there was some early Festivus celebrations thrown in with some occasional airing of grievances. After the gathering phase, there’s the repacking phase, which overlaps quite intensely with the Airing of Grievances. Some was mutual and some was aimed at a particular in-law who no doubt earns the scorn. We didn’t quite leave at our agreed upon time, but that’s just Christmas I guess. I wish I were exaggerating what went down. It’s an annual tradition where all sanity breaks down. The worst 36 hours of every year.
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It’s Christmas travel time, which means that the kid and I packed last night while watching the game. Our stuff is staged and ready to go leaving time to tidy up so we come home to a clean house. My wife has created a massive list of unrelated busywork for her and me and is attempting to line the floor of the house with every article of clothing she owns. I look like I’ve joined the Ministry of Silly Walks trying to navigate all of the stuff she has strewn about. I guess my tidying made space for her to expand her territory.
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I’m pretty sure at Shaggy during the post-Mack coaching search, there were wishful jokes about replacing Mack with Belichick, and here we are. Life imitating whatever that was. Maybe he’ll hire Brady as his OC/QB coach.
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South Korea's president declares martial law - WTF is going on?
Mole replied to Laxtonto's topic in Daily Texan
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Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?
Mole replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
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Texas has a 14 year winning streak over A&M.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Mole replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Mole replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
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An observation: our culture dehumanizes everyone in special ways. We’ve made a lot of progress with marginalized groups. We’ve basically said to men, “it’s your fault,” or “pull yourself by your bootstraps,” or “it’s not happening.” See the general tone of much of this thread for examples. Just speaking from my life, I’m mostly treated as having value or dignity for what I can do for someone or my willingness to suffer for someone else’s gain, often at a great physical and mental cost. I live a pretty happy, privileged life, but most of the respect and dignity that I’m shown is based on taking from me, including in my own home. This is our culture. My basic humanity, dignity, and things that I truly value aren’t worth considering unless I can provide. I think this is a pretty common experience for men and it isn’t about the amount of sex. It’s a day-to-day constant drain on our self-worth. Sure, life sucks and life is cheap to our culture and historically, but we have made progress in recognizing the inherent value and dignity of marginalized groups — a great achievement and always last due — but putting on an imaginary MAGA hat, men are told that they are privileged when life just beats us down too and we’re told that our lived experience isn’t real or is simply entitlement. My imaginary MAGA self sure doesn’t feel entitled. He feels marginalized because he is marginalized. Failure to recognize that is at least part of the problem. He may not win the grievance Olympics, but we’re still beating him down and simultaneously tell him it isn’t happening or he just needs to go to the bar or gym or some other bit of nonsense. So discussions of the unique ways that men are dehumanized get pushed to the sleazy corners of the internet where valid complaints are finally heard and ultimately turned into misplaced anger. If “good” men and women won’t hear them, they will go somewhere else. I don’t identify with the anger, but it seems logical once you consider their lived experience. That the prototype “alpha” MAGA male is so weak, pathetic, and sad is just a reflection of the corner these young men found themselves. He’s the absolute personification of our rotten culture.
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It seems like reporting percentages as the main number, rather than total votes, so early in the count presents an inaccurate and unhealthy perspective of what’s going on. This is amplified with these little rural counties.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Mole replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Bizzaro world update for a mid-40s white in GA: Bizzaro point 1. I mentioned about a week ago that a Black college student of mine was asking trusted adults about whom to vote for. He’s committed to the biblical framework for voting, so despite his general inclination to vote Kamala, he was leaning Trump because trusted adults in his Baptist circle can’t see the open wickedness past the abortion issue. We share a similar faith background, so I presented bible-based reasons for voting for Kamala and left it at that. No pressure, just pointing him to a few bible verses and trusting him to make a thoughtful decision. He asked me to take him to the polling location on Friday. I didn’t pry; we only discussed the ease of the GA voting process. Today he told me that he voted Kamala. Bizzaro point 2. My wife and I voted the first few days of early voting, but tonight, she started expressing buyers remorse and talking about how maybe Trump would be the better choice. I’m note sure what social media propaganda got a hold of her, but I had to remind her that what she’s saying is insane. She’s smart, but the algorithm knows what buttons to push. So here I am, a guy who, based on where I live and go to church, what I look like, my age, background, regularly voting in Republican primaries, etc., is assumed to be a Trump voter, trying to help members of two historically marginalized groups rationalize and justify their votes against further repression. People are strange, propaganda is strong, and Charlie Strong was right about social media. -
My prediction: sometime around 1am Wednesday morning, that guy will give a speech/press conference where he lies about the results of the election and puts the lives of local public servants at risk. While you may say this is just a typical Wednesday for him, this will be specific to the ongoing count and will be particularly harmful and egregious, even by our current bar, which is on the floor of the bottom rung of hell. Also, Kamala wins 320ish electoral votes.
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