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RomaVicta

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  1. We're getting close to Aggie parrot mode on this point.
  2. Again, playing weak teams does not mean we are weak. We can only play the schedule we have. Florida? Five touchdowns and a shutout in the first half suggests a powerful team.
  3. Yeah. It was weird having the coach of the dominant national team for the last five years breathlessly celebrating as though he'd just unseated the VY or Colt McCoy teams. I'll add that pitiful defense cost us that OU game not under-preparation for a rivalry game. It looked like we went into a watered-down victory D which created a slow motion horror I never want to contemplate again. We've also got more at stake now where any loss is critical. I'm sure we'll be ready for the Aggies.
  4. In our place, they would have taken our "second half victory" as proof they were better than Georgia by the end of the game. I've seen posts where they note that Florida winning the second half against Texas has meaning. Intellectual gymnastics is not an apt hobby for the intellectually disabled.
  5. I actually don't like that my response to these stories is at best asympathetic but mostly, "Yeah? Fuck you, fascist." I begin to think my emotional resignation since the election has to do with the clear vision that election gives to what this country wants and who most of us want to be.
  6. I'm ashamed that we don't meet your party's standard.
  7. I wonder how many animals these guys tortured growing up.
  8. Yes, goddamn it. They've already pretty much made it open season on anyone who looks like a candidate for the deportation concentration camps. Joyful cruelty becomes our brand.
  9. Is there a brief synopsis of this. Maybe add a note about why I should care. ETA: Compliments to @Incredulity. His/her takes on specific topics are not boilerplate talking points.
  10. It comes the closest.
  11. The new conservatives are as bad at humor as the old conservatives. Thanks @Incredulity for posting stuff from the right. I like seeing it even if it is just about never funny.
  12. It's weird that they think our easier than expected calendar means we're not good. They cling to that incomplete reasoning like a snot-nosed kid clings to a security blanket. We've destroyed a number of teams where the game was over at half-time. It will be fun to gut them in their own stadium.
  13. It really is this simple. Except for the rifle she has, he describes a firing squad. Who describes battle as nine rifles pointed at your face? He didn't start heading for the firing squad description but it's all but unquestionable that this is the imagery he arrived at.
  14. Because she is not a cult leader, those shirts would have been on sale after the election no matter the outcome. The cult wears their colors and campaign stuff year round. They love the identity with Trump and never recognize his losses. Trump relies on this for income.
  15. Your username makes me wonder if it seemed to be Olé Miss at first. Thanks for letting me know the story. I kind of wish I didn't know it now. I always liked the nickname. Fuckin' South.
  16. There as a very interesting article in Atlantic a few months ago about Black people and the draw of the South. Some persons and families have long history there. Their family stories, both good and bad, are in those states. Many feel it's a return to their family roots. I thought it was interesting because I'd never considered that perspective. I don't know how that plays with Black athletes, but it could be a factor of them staying or choosing to move to a southern state school.
  17. The disinformation may indeed be lapped up. When it's discovered to be false, it's generally vomitted back out. The President-elect of the MAGAs keeps vomitting up lies- the same lies!- and his cult keeps eating it up and asking for more. They embrace lies. The poor pets of Springfield, for example. The notion that the attackers of the US Capitol are patriots deserving of no punishment. The notion that windmills are carcinogens and that global warming is nothing to worry about. The MAGAs embrace the lies that keep them in their delusional world where Donald Trump is chosen by God to keep the queer teachers from grooming their students for sex just prior to be dragged out of class for forced sex altering surgeries. You know all this. You perversely embrace the embrace of lies. You give no more of a shit about this country than Trump does. Spike that ball, fuckwad! You're a vicarious winner in the Dickhead Olympiad!
  18. Quite good. Quite.
  19. The above doesn't matter even if voters for Trump claim they do. I spent a lot of time in the car yesterday. Got to listen to more analysis now focused on what's wrong with the Dems. There was lots of Dems perceived as..., the economy perceived as..., and the Biden administration perceived as... Thank goodness a news organization needn't bother itself with analysing how things can be so errantly perceived. They'd point out that the perception was incorrect and stop there. No mention of how the MAGA electorate came to such wrong conclusions. The discussions advance on how the Dems have soul searching to do to correct these perceptions. They're perceived as elites by the party of the oligarchs! No discussion about repeated lying mistatements and false claims by the felon and his coterie or how such attacks on truth and reality should be addressed. There was just discussion based on the assumption that some political tactic by the Harris campaign could have been employed to improve her chances in the horse race. Not a single mention of Christian Nationalism's possible impact on women voting against Harris' stance on abortion. Nothing about how Christian Nationalist leaders provide the megaphone for Trump's fear/hate lying cloaked in the position that God has a position on the election and Dems. The reality-denying MAGAs aren't going to use a fact sheet like the above to call Trump out on failure. The failure won't be his. It will be the never-Trumpers hiding in the shadows sabotaging our great country for their own gain. The accusation/confession train rolls along. It was difficult living in a world where reason and fact have so little sway. I become resigned to it. It's all about spiking the ball and talking shit and really getting those whiny libs.
  20. NPR didn't know what to do with this story. They mentioned the Israeli fans' chants and actions as a mere footnote to the horror of them being attacked by outraged Dutch. Fuck Israel. Don't fuck the Jews in general. It's not hard.
  21. It's a ridiculous statement that the price of attending a public university is obscenely high?
  22. The problem there is the obscenely high cost of public university education. It's criminal robbery of college students no matter what they study.
  23. Universities are not trade schools. A review of courses and minors offered is not a bad thing per se. Having the review done by the board alone while ignoring faculty (scholarly) input while focusing on hot political topics is pretty much a bad thing per se. But there's this: And then there is this: The "Black journalist" was an esteemed journalist and educator who was also an Aggie graduate. I wonder which adjective won out.
  24. One side actively seeks "misinformation" to justify their hate and fear. Or maybe they seek lies and liars; I'm not really sure of the difference between intentionally generated "misinformation/false statements" and lies. The Mexicans are poisoning the wells!
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