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Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?
956 Worldwide replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
It really is lol. One of those artifacts to remind you that a Constitution with a king was not completely out of the question. -
Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?
956 Worldwide replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
This is a good post. Let’s think about how long the GOP has been outsourcing responsibility to the Dems. The encroachment of the crazies is deep but there are still probably at least 50 percent of the party who aren’t, and they’ve just let the Dems take over so they can posture. Want a budget? Dems will have to do that. Prevent an ephebophile addict sex pest from becoming AG? Let the Dems do that along with Collins and Murkowski. And it’s all well and good until you start asking them not just to preserve the norms when it’s in their interest, but also to do it when it’s not in their interest. -
I’m trying to get into a head space to understand this. You have the chance to send money to something you care about and choose a PAC? Wtf? Even if you’re owning the other guy is that worth taking 100 bucks from orphans or sea turtles or classical Christian education or whatever it is you really care about?
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Is this the case anymore for CFB though? There are some programs where there almost is no salary cap, just a wish list. But the vast majority of places are in a completely different game. Managing the pool of funds, shopping for talent/value balance in the portal, roster management, negotiating with players/recruits, tinkering with the ideal ratio of HS to portal….this looks a lot more like an NFL GM job where the Belicek model is rare. And its skill sets that are different from what a college coach has traditionally needed. The HC will be a voice in the room, but may no longer need to be the final one. The new thing Stanford is trying is unprecedented, to my knowledge. The HC will be under him. I think it’s an idea worth trying for sure and Stanford + Drew Luck is an intriguing place and way to do it. Luck is going to “run football,” not implement what the HC says like other college “GMs.” I am not saying it’s a guaranteed success, I just think it’s an idea that needs to be put into practice.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
956 Worldwide replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Back to trash-can people, the SecDef nom is a raging drunk, habitual sex pest, office nightmare, and ran his non-profits for vets into the ground. And of course Anastasis posted a long podcast with him hailing his ideas. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/pete-hegseths-secret-history -
Bumping my own post because we are seeing the first instance of something very similar to this at Stanford with Drew Luck. What a super interesting place to try this out. Stanford has plenty of draw and a rich donor base to tap into for NIL. Luck comes from a sports management family and has been in NFL planning rooms. He can bridge the gap between football guy, donors and money and is well placed to try and play money ball in the portal. He will have a long leash and Stanford can only go up. Watch this space, I think it’s the ideal place to try this out. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/42698084/andrew-luck-stanford-gm-means-cardinal-college-football
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Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?
956 Worldwide replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
I honestly don’t think that Biden had decided he’d do it until Kamala lost and Trump won. And I’m ok with that. Trump spent his entire campaign promising to use all the levers of federal power to get revenge on people. He named vicious toadies to lead the DOJ, FBI, and IC. All signs point to him doing it. So yeah, that makes you rethink. And my only concern here is that Biden won’t go far enough. He needs to tee up pardons for everyone DJT or a DJT proxy has publicly mentioned for targeting, and likely the entire leadership and select working level people at the FBI, DOJ, and across the IC. For those who argue in good faith on this (would have once been me) that it’s just playing into his narrative and breaking norms, my response is this: it’s not a political reality show with no consequences. More than norms are at stake. These are real people facing real earth-shattering persecution. Legal bills alone will ruin you. Biden has a duty to use every tool to protect people who fulfilled their oath of office with honorable service. He has no obligation to defer to “norms” in the face of an incoming regime that has and will violate all of them. And to the Trump supporters my response is this: Fuck you.- 3482 replies
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Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?
956 Worldwide replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
I can’t lie, there was a time just a while ago where I’d have said that this is unseemly and unpresidential even while agreeing this was a politically charged prosecution and intervention into a plea. But I’m an accelerationist now. -
Joe Biden 2024 thread - Dark Brandon Where Art Thou?
956 Worldwide replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
He really needs to issue blanket federal pardons to anyone DJT or someone in DJTs circle has mentioned as a target. -
Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
956 Worldwide replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
It is really amazing how everyone around him is just a total trash-can person. -
He’s the co-founder and general partner, it’s his fund. What actual fucking point are you trying to make?
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Reminder on Andreessen: He funded a fintech startup that collapsed and left thousands of people locked out of their accounts that turned out not to be covered by the FDIC. https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/synapse-bankruptcy-fintech-safety-183845965.html
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
956 Worldwide replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Oh, I know they don’t care but this is a formal process, it’s not possible outside those lines. It has to be done via the current head of the diplomatic mission with a formal note. Not saying he didn’t tell Macron it was coming somehow, but they can’t have gotten the actual process done and France still gets a vote. -
Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
956 Worldwide replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Intrigued about the process for Kushner. Ambassador nominees have to go through a process called agrement, which is a quiet check with the receiving country to ensure the person is acceptable. It’s extremely poor form to announce a name publicly before the process and often if that happens the receiving country will refuse agrement as a matter of principle if it happens. Kushner almost certainly hasn’t had it as the transition teams haven’t even been in agencies. That’s not to say I think it will happen here. Plenty of countries will accept the most odious people if they believe it will result in special access to the sending government or head of state. Just another example of Trump shitting on everything and making a mockery of the country though. -
Those are for sure L-39s.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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The Georgian Dream (National-populist Kremlin cat’s paw party) Prime Minister announced he was suspending accession talks with the EU, which is what caused this current round of protests. It’s currently required per the Georgian constitution to work towards EU accession. Georgian Dream soundly won recent parliamentary elections with lots of (as yet unproven) allegations of cheating. A reminder that a similar move (terminating talks on an EU free trade agreement) led to the 2014 Ukraine protests that booted Yanukovych. The next few days will be extremely important.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Does anyone but me read “Bluesky” as “bloo-ski,” like a Penn State middle linebacker? -
I think that Democrats might start asking whether “fuck America and Thanksgiving” is ever going to beat stupid ultranationalism in a national election. I’d propose that leadership needs to make it known that shit like this gets you on the House Administration committee for life.
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
956 Worldwide replied to Parliament's topic in Cloak Room
It’s not even that, having Zelenskyy on would hinder his ultimate goals. The new media literacy is to move from a content-driven analysis to an outcome driven analysis. The baseline question being: do consumers of this media come away with a more or less informed and reality based understating of the topics discussed. For Rogan, the answer is clearly less informed and reality based. You can clearly file his platform away as a manipulator of information. As such, his platform cannot be reformed or used successfully by anyone hoping to advance a reality-based conversation or solution. It’s important to note that even clearly slanted media can pass this test. For instance, though the mid-2000s a regular reader of either The New Republic or National Review would arguably have a better (if politically slanted) grasp of politics and world events than a irregular consumer of mainstream media outlets. The same cannot be said of Rogan, his listeners are far more likely to simply believe absolute bullshit. His posture as an unbiased and unafraid open interviewer makes him even more toxic. Elevating alien theorists and quacks to the same level of actual scientists or doctors doesn’t reveal the idiocy of the former. Rather, it introduces confusion and a plausible belief that fantasy bullshit and reality are both equally justified beliefs. Again— he exists to manipulate information and has become an extremely influential and powerful person as a result. The purpose of a system is what it does.- 3927 replies
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
956 Worldwide replied to Parliament's topic in Cloak Room
I am glad you posted this. Here’s the clip: It’s one to put to bed the notion that Rogan will talk to anyone and is working to present all sides of issues. The fact is that his show is a vector of information manipulation and that he will NOT open his to discuss viewpoints that run counter to his chosen narratives that mostly support the political populist low-information right. It’s also time to put to bed the idea that his offer to Kamala was genuine or that future democrats need to work to get on his platform. He’s there to undermine them, that’s the purpose.- 3927 replies
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Official Thread for Abortion Demagoguery
956 Worldwide replied to bad_teammate's topic in Cloak Room
Regardless of where you stand on this issue, Ana’s schtick here is so disingenuous. A bunch of people opposed to Texas’ law warned that it would have serious and dangerous consequences beyond its stated intent. The law passed, we see those consequences in real life and Ana’s response is: ”Those consequences are a result of misapplication of the law and none of you assholes are serious about fixing this law you didn’t want in the first place (and which is only being misinterpreted anyway so it doesn’t really need fixing).” Such utter horseshit. -
Official Thread for Abortion Demagoguery
956 Worldwide replied to bad_teammate's topic in Cloak Room
I’m in favor of reducing overpopulation by extending equal rights to women, putting every girl in school, ending forced and childhood marriages, expanding equal access to women’s health and birth control, and removing barriers to women in the workplace. This One Simple Trick of letting women and girls choose their own lives will bring your birthrate down. It also makes your society a much nicer place to hang around in. We will absolutely struggle with short term effects of navigating a graying world but we also have a duty to the living creatures we share the planet with to not destroy our only common home. The main problem is that the absolute worst people from every creed, race, and nation are united in their loathing of a world where women get a say in how many babies they have because their actual ideology is completely unattractive so all they have is reproduction.- 6267 replies
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
This is a conspiracy that Alex Jones really promotes. What it’s really about is that extending equal rights to women, expanding girls education access, promoting women’s health care, and ending childhood and arranged marriages is guaranteed to cause a birth rate drop.
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