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Everything posted by 956 Worldwide
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Most. I know for sure Rooney and Blank (Steelers/Falcons) are not.
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Cool concept of liberty, I think your HOA should be forced to let someone open a combined dispensary, package store, and jack shack massage parlor in your residential zones neighborhood. Either you believe in the freedom to do whatever anyone wants anywhere or you don’t.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
956 Worldwide replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
One thing we haven’t discussed here (and I’m generally bearish on shutting the government down) is that there’s not a lot of utility in Congress having these talks if ultimately Ross Vought gets to decide the budget and size of the government. A basic D demand should be public POTUS commitments not to try a future pocket recisson, for GOP leadership to pledge to vote down any formal recission requests, and for any shutdown layoffs to reverse. If they continue to play a stupid “heads I win, tails you lose” game on funding the government then this really will be pointless. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/30/congress/trump-vought-cancel-food-research-funding-congress-00588358 -
Are we not supposed to be dreaming of that? Am I doing my dreams wrong?
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Alice Walton went to Trinity in San Antonio. You get rich so you don’t have to send your kids and grandkids to Arkie. Why the hell would they give money to football players to make the hillbillies happy? Names on buildings, scholarships and arenas for state schools are a different story, that’s standard rich people noblesse oblige shit. Giving money to defensive backs at a school you didn’t attend does not scratch that itch. -
You can persuade me that casinos have the right to physically trespass whomever they don’t want there. Online books? Fuck out of here. They should be required to accept action on any bet they are currently offering from anyone who wants to take them up on it. Exceptions only for actual cheating or criminal activity. Don’t like advantage players or arbitrage? Do better with your odds or choose a business that isn’t gambling.
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The officer corps has a long tradition of not applauding elected political leaders especially at the GOFO level.
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I’d settle for no ads and cash/debit cards only. Truly lunatic to have people going into credit card debt for sports gambling; it’s the definition of negative value economics. Re: Casinos I think they should be allowed but only in shitty places. Yes, I’m a NIMBY about this. I don’t want my island turned into a casino economy.
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Hegseth spent a lot of time calling people fat and raving about shaving and PT. The drill instructors are going to be mean again. A bunch of the generals are there because of DEIA and they’ll get fired. Now that it’s the war department our enemies can “FAFO.” Absolutely as stupid as you can imagine.
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I hate the fucking gambling stuff out in the open. It really was better when teams maintained the polite fiction that they discouraged it and didn’t want to be associated with it. Yes, we all knew sports are a business but they made an effort to tell fans that the goal was memories and they were part of something with the team. That sports were part of a healthy community life. Gambling ads is just: “You’re a fool to be exploited. We don’t care about you or your well-being, just give your money up for nothing.” Just pure extraction.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
The Deep South is what used to be the Cotton Kingdom: wherever the local economy and most powerful social class depended on the raising or export of cotton sustained by intensive and extractive exploitation of slave labor. Some states that was wide-spread enough to just say they are Deep South: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina (although not uniformly, parts of Northwest Alabama are very different for instance). It also includes chunks of Arkansas, East Texas, and Galveston/Brazoria County. Tobacco Road in Virginia, NC, and parts of Maryland shares important similarities but important differences as the way the crop is raised and marketed— and the origins of the planters— created a different dominant values set and mentality; ditto with Appalachia and places like much of NC where yeoman farmers may have owned enslaved people but worked alongside them to raise food crops for the household. The Pine Curtain is somewhat of a good secondary indicator. Pines moved into abandoned land either naturally or were planted industrially and thrive in poor soil that was subject to intensive cotton farming. The pre-Cotton South was covered with hardwood forests that would eventually return absent intervention. It’s all still monoculture. -
Man, I wrestle with this. It sucks but I remind myself that this is what they want, to shrink America and all of public life down into MAGA or not and to make the “not” section small and sad. MAGA wants a world where only MAGA stands for the anthem or enjoys a ballgame. Authoritarians do this everywhere. Shortly after New Year’s Day 2021 I went for a sunrise paddle on the Laguna Madre. Paddling back to shore, a group of boaters roared passed me in a no-wake zone, Trump 2020 flag flapping (remember the boat parades) and I heard some hoots as I stabilized and balanced from the wake. An asshole attempt to ruin a stranger’s day. But— I’m the one who got to spend the morning with the stingrays and dolphins and sea salt, all while not thinking about Donald Trump at all. And they couldn’t do even that. I won the day. Bottom line: Why should I change what I like? They’re the ones who suck.
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Absolutely convinced that this guy is a dry drunk. And that is probably great for POTUS and the truly evil crew because they hold so much power over him. https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-aides-expose-pete-hegseths-manic-meltdowns/
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Lashlee to Arky seems like a “you can’t go home again” type scenario. The vast, vast majority of college head coaching jobs end with hard feelings on one side or another and you’re just adding to that sense of betrayal if you’re an alum. -
Surely this asshole has enough money by now. He should string them along in genuine contract negotiations and then demand a “coach gets use of a motorcycle” clause right before signing for the lulz.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
It’s a great place if you want to nonce about and hobnob with genteel decrepit families hiding a Horrible Darkness.- 1771 replies
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
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I had completely erased the McElwain era from my mind. I saw him in a wiki article when I got curious after Napier crapped out against Miami and thought “oh yeah, they had that guy.” -
I would rent a car and do three of those days, maybe the back end, outside of Paris in the Loire Valley. Three days is enough to really feel like you did Paris. I usually advocate against over scheduling but three days is a good chunk. I enjoyed Loire much more, frankly. Blois or a village nearby would be a great base; see some chateaux and get a feel for real France. It’s a couple hour straight drive to Paris, you can drop your car and fly out.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
956 Worldwide replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
It would need to be a Jimbo type of stupid guaranteed money. Freeman makes 9 million a year or more at ND. He almost certainly has a longer leash and is dealing with a more pleasant group of boosters and alums. Look at BK, he chased that SEC money and Freeman has been to more CFPs and played for more championships. I think that in the NIL era, ND is one of the best jobs in the sport. -
I get you. I think it’s for sure fair to say that the rhetoric inspired some of the direction of his anger, if not providing the type of framework and strategy associated with political violence. I did somewhat misspeak: while this stuff doesn’t remind me of formal ISIS fighting for a caliphate in the Near East, it does very much remind me of the lone figures who “pledge allegiance to ISIS” and erupt at a Christmas market or train station. In both cases, they are men who choose to identify with a triumphalist, intolerant reading of a faith that would if implemented transfer significant power to them. They transfer their own disappointment and failures to society’s alleged failure to align with the rules they would set for it. And again— the acts of violence are not meant to realistically bring about changes to align with their visions, they’re meant to relieve their own incandescent anger and frustration.
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I think that even in Alexandria there is a good chance that 14 of 23 people will agree to something with the justification “Trump wants you to.”
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I’d be a bit cautious at saying this was Christian Nationalism in a real sense; it’s likely that the person harbored bigotries towards Mormons but would be unable to articulate how shooting them and burning their building advanced a political-religious agenda. I posted upthread but to clarify more: these people (Kirk, ICE, LDS, etc) are not Gavrilo Princip or John Wilkes Boothe or ISIS or Al-Qaeda. They do not commit horrific acts of violence with an aim to shaping external reality or influencing others. They are angry, hopeless, and marinating in the most toxic stew of simmering resentment and violent currents that humanity has ever created. They express directional grievances and sympathies but the anger is what’s centered and the “cause” is an accessory. Their outbursts have horrific effects on other people. But ultimately they are acts of violence designed and carried out to disrupt their own internal worlds— not the external one. It is socially contagious but the target is really the host.
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There’s a great podcast called Knowledge Fight where two comedians take apart Alex Jones. Sometimes Alex is boring so they do episodes about even crazier shit, and there is a YouTube channel called Project Camelot where a woman sometimes interviews people who claim they are in the “Secret Space Program.” Just awesome stuff. It’s hard to untangle but the basic thesis is that there are secret space wars that have been going on for decades and some teenagers are abducted, Shanghaied into the program and modified into Super Space Soldiers. After serving a hitch, they are either time-traveled back or maybe just their consciousness is put back into a clone and they have their memory wiped, but some residual memories remain. Medbeds are a key element to this narrative, they fix the super soldiers with them. I am not joking when I say that listening to this gives me better insight into what the hell is happening with MAGA.
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