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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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/
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. It’s a great place if you want to nonce about and hobnob with genteel decrepit families hiding a Horrible Darkness.
  10. 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.”
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.”
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. I know about the medbeds from Knowledge Fight. They are pretty central to the Secret Space Program narrative. I miss the project Camelot episodes.
  18. I believed Joey Freshwater was at home in Oxford until the documentary about how he’s finally at home in Oxford and will never leave cause it saved his life. Order the pine box.
  19. Jackson is maybe the best QB of his generation and it feels like his window at a title may have already closed. At least with Baltimore.
  20. I’m an Aggie so feel free to toss this but as objectively as possible: Craver and Concepcion are good. Really good. They are open and open deep very often. Reed has no touch on his deep ball and that’s just who he is. I expect that a few of these will eventually land just due to statistics, but the deep ball is more of a theoretical than actual threat. A&M missed a few field goals, got a TD called back, and threw an INT on short yardage in the red zone at a time when Moss was falling for four YPC. Klein special. Also lots of penalties, the refs called a tight game but I don’t expect that to get fixed: sloppy play has been consistent under Elko. Auburn’s defense is very good— a top 30 even with their putrid offense with lots of NFL talent, and the final tally was 414 yards divided between rushing and passing evenly. 414-171 should have been a much worse score but the weakeness A&M showed is not fluky but a pattern.
  21. One of my pet peeves. Designed for the uniform reveal on socials and not for the game on tv or in person. This account shows the silliness of this stuff.
  22. Mentioned on the other thread but they should make a run at Jeff Traylor. He’s 57 and the shine is a bit off so unlikely to get a premier P5 job. Well respected in Texas HS circles, runs a solid program. Work with him for 7-8 years to get the NIL going and the program on the right track and then the next guy will be in place to elevate it.
  23. It’s crazy how good kickers have gotten. I remember when 50 yards was a bold call that only the biggest legs would try; now that’s like a 75 percent shot. Changing the game.
  24. Travel will be funded with fiscal year 25 funds including the return.
  25. DoD has different rules even in normal times and a GOFO getting back to command qualifies. . Although it’s a fun thought.
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