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  1. I think there’s plenty of room for ambiguity and skepticism on this but “I can’t believe Tulsi might lie to us all” is a bonkers take.
  2. I am disturbed at this thread. People are saying bless you for coughs? “Get untracked” like it is a good thing? Are you all mingling too much with the deltas and epsilons?
  3. Its been a tough campaign but I have brought down Ana de Armas’ defenses, paving the way for some large scale operations in her territory.
  4. Yeah, the US would be happy to have a free, secular, and stable Iran. But you run into a similar thing to the debaathification problem in that any semblance of civil society or technocratic ability has been concentrated in the clerical-military repression apparatus. There’s no bench or shadow opposition to step in and do it.
  5. Watched this last night. There is no way Gym didn’t know something was up. What finally got the OSU doc was when he started treating regular students. With no scholarships on the line, they complained.
  6. I think some of it is where the women choose to play (and their parents). Bluntly: for years the face of women’s basketball has been psychopaths like Summit or Mulkey, the game is “physical,” and the fan base heavily lesbian. Without judgment, you are only appealing to a small slice of potential players. I think a lot of athletic and competitive girls did get steered into volleyball or tennis. Look, Sharapova was 6’2 of fast-twitch muscle and coordination, don’t tell me she couldn’t have destroyed on the court. Venus Williams could have been the best PG of all time. Its like when people ask where the next great American heavyweight is. He’s an all-pro DE for the Cleveland Browns. The previous generation’s CC was trying to win Wimbledon. Players in the pipeline can change the image and grow the game. But the league has to get shit together. Eye-raking? Come on, that’s not physical or hard-nosed basketball. That’s some catty, talentless bullshit. Most women and girls are not here for that stuff.
  7. Agree, with the key difference being that chippy and aggressive hockey is a fantastic product that people want to watch. Put guys in pads and skates, let them hammer each other and drop gloves and you have gold. But this is still basketball. You can’t play it like hockey. Tall women plodding around court and shoving each other below the rim is a snooze. It would be if men were playing that way. The WNBA old guard has a curious conception, against all evidence, that they always had a great product and now CC is getting everyone to notice that. No. CC is creating a new great product for them. Time to get on board.
  8. Completely disagree, and I’ll even go so far as to say CC needs closer reffing like the NBA does for its stars. People turn into the NBA to see Steph Curry hit dimes from the logo or to watch Jordan make defenders look stupid. Not to watch them get knocked around. Trotting out a bunch of big girls to bruise each other is shit basketball and completely uninteresting. Watching CC run circles around the bruisers is appointment viewing. Just about anyone can claw someone’s eyes and call it defense. The Bad Boy Pistons these ladies are not.
  9. Ronda Rousey had incredible cultural influence for about a year including some deeply stupid speculation about her potential to fight men. Before CC she was one of the few woman athletes capable of getting general men sports fans interested and talking about her or tuning in just to watch her. CC, if the league can keep her healthy, has the biggest potential.
  10. I honestly think this is an act. The dude has 12 NCs and 3 gold medals. I bet he makes more than a top WNBA coach at UCONN. He’s a giant a-hole but you can’t accuse him of not knowing women’s basketball. He has to go recruit a bunch of players who are jealous of CC and is playing to his audience by being a hater.
  11. Simone Biles is a megastar and cultural phenom. Plenty of little girls dressing up like her for Halloween. Serena, Caitlin, Simone are the contenders. I agree that Kournikova was a cultural fixture but not because of her game. Livvy Dunne is kind of an equivalent.
  12. Honestly the more I think about it the more I wish I had something like this to pull out for my wife at key moments. Not sure if a review from her or an ex would be more “effective” at escalation.
  13. Yes, a great move to get dates is to produce pieces of paper from your wallet that proclaim you a good boyfriend and pipe-layer. If I ever find myself single again I might make some laminated cards to that effect.
  14. Not a universal rule of thumb but I find most women will internally decide if they will sleep with a man on a first date or within a few shorter interactions. Once they have decided, its just a few factors like alcohol, follow-through, and mood that day whether it happens on a first date. And also not universal, but a man will often need to decide if he wants a fun time or something really serious. Many women will file you away as a fling or one night stand if they sleep with you on the first date especially if internally she is “not a girl who does that.” If you’re really interested, a good path is to make clear you really want to and make sure it happens on like date 3 or 4. But you can absolutely close your own window if you wait to long and make her think you’re not really into her. YMMV if like you and me, you are innately charming, worldly, and debonair and can make it happen whenever and wherever on your own terms. Advice above is for the regular guys.
  15. Tulsi (and to a somewhat lesser extent Pete) were never intended to actually be advising and deciding, they were selected for one real reason: to demonstrate that Trump owned the GOP and could make them bend completely to his will and whim. Of course they are not letting Tulsi do anything really important. They know she’s a loon. Honestly one of the few somewhat sane proposals out there from Trump world is just to do away with the DNI and let the CIA director dual-hat government-wide intel coordination.
  16. I am missing the theory of victory here, either from Israel or us. Wreck shit, mullahs run away, ???, profit? I don’t mind seeing enrichment plants and ballistic missiles get vaporized at all but beyond that it’s hard to see the goal here and so I question any U.S. involvement. Letting Israel bomb till they agreed to talk de-nuclearization is at least something.
  17. I don’t feel like recreating my corpus on the Ukraine thread going back years for someone thick enough to post this shit in 2025. All over this board there are actual experts on some things if you care to pause and read carefully.
  18. This is a pudding brain take on Ukraine and what happened and you should sit some of these convos out.
  19. He is a life-long dweeb who got a taste of popularity from the algorithm and got into a positive feedback loop by being edgy on the internet. Adult version of eating ever-grosser bugs on the playground for attention. Many such cases, SAD!
  20. “Get rid of all exquisite capabilities for missiles and one-way drones” bros are oddly quiet these days. Turns out you can have both and it works really well.
  21. Khameni is holed up in a bunker posting AI slop while Israel freely explodes everything in his country. Truly wild times.
  22. And then when you get them added on Insta, BAM! Unrelenting dick pics.
  23. Good night, sweet F-14 prince! The reason the rest of the Middle East is silent or complicit is simple. Iran has long been a destabilizing, revisionist entity trying to achieve regional hegemony by undermining other nations and messing up trade. Iran has been the engine behind the Houthis, Hezbollah, much of the Syrian civil war, Iraq instability, and more. Its long been a truism that the actual most likely target for an Iranian bomb is not Tel Aviv, it’s Riyadh. That’s not necessarily the opinion of the “Arab Street” which is more motivated by longstanding insecurities and grievances and just wants to see the West take a bloody nose, but it is the unified opinion of anyone in a position of responsibility in the entire region.
  24. Not to be a complete reactionary here. I think a big part of the problem is that we have as a society done away with male only spaces. And of course, colleges and workplaces and jibs shouldn’t be closed to women. But the pendulum really swung and any male-only club or activity outside of a few sports got smashed along with the patriarchy. When you made those things and spaces transgressive, then actual transgressives like Tate filled the gap. I was reading an article a while back about how some wives in the UK elbowed their way into their husband’s model train club meetings because they didn’t think it was fair for them to keep women out. I think about that a lot.
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