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  1. 11 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

    Why is it when I see the pictures of the party involved in these fake hoaxes, I’m like, yeah that doesn’t really shock me…

    Not to mention to concern we should all have that she 1) graduated from medical school and 2) apparently had a semi-important state job.

    Never mind - I just remembered the guy from Dr. Death graduated from Tennessee Medical School. #secsecsec

  2. On 8/15/2021 at 7:39 PM, Lobo said:

    So much of what we're discussing is Chase's tacit commentary on what he thinks of the American Mafia.  That we're looking in on an group of people...that aren't all that fucking smart.  They are given, as Henry Hill says, a license to steal.  And they still fuck it up.  They have a built-in, multi-generational racket that provides income and insulation for decades.  And every new group manages to fuck it up.  It's because they're stupid.  Chase and Grey manage to breakdown the romanticism we have with the Mob during the Sopranos.  Mainly by showing us a much deeper dive into their family/personal life.  But also, episode after episode, demonstrating to us that these are not only shitty human beings (as stated above), but they are also complete and utter morons of the highest order.  These are the dumbest fucking criminals in America but they thrive on legacy and inertia.  I know Tony got a glimpse of a high IQ one time, but overall---these are the dumbest fucking people in the American Northeast.  They think it's because they're Italian they are owed something, but it's actually their biggest liability.  Chase is so fucking obvious about it that every dumbfuck Chicago and Jersey Italian I know thinks the show is a fucking compliment.  That's how my suspicion is confirmed.  

    That being said, one of the greatest 3 shows that will ever be watched.  

    This plus the show makes a mockery of the whole Omerta bullshit. I mean not only are these guys morons but also they would turn on each other at the slightest opportunity whether directly via greed or cooperation with the feds. A group that has stupidity, greed, and machismo turned up to 11 is not going to end well.

    Some of the little things I noticed in the re-watch was 1) how the bosses feel obligated to receive a piece of everything (Tony not only not letting the one guy go to Florida but then taking a piece of his aunt's inheritance was the nadir for me) and 2) the crazy spoils splits: the guy that finds the score gets 50% while the guys that risk their lives get 50% ... what happened to the 10% finder's fee.

    And Tony's too stupid to realize shoving his wealth in his capos' / soldiers' faces is not a great way to win loyalty.

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  3. 1 hour ago, utxmike05 said:

    We were disappointed. Booorrringgg. Had its moments.  But boring.  Everyone basically sunk back into their original ways or gave into “the way things are”. Except Quinn’s goofy ass. 

    Good acting by some though. Hated the daughter and her face/comments. But she had a secret great rack. 

    I actually thought that was the point, and I really liked the ending. Not to get too deep about an HBO show, but it is akin to what Bonhoeffer described as "cheap grace." People tend to be attracted to the slogans and the ideas of living radically, but at the end 99% find the comfort security too hard to resist and reject sacrifices required to live authentically according to the slogans. It was obvious earlier with Paula and Kai - although she felt like here skin color gave here some sort of shallow solidarity with him, she reverted back to her own privilege and would not sacrifice her comfort and security for her T-shirt cause.

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  4. 2 hours ago, NoName said:

    Tennessee wanted him badly and pushed hard. They were in his final 2.

    King had a very good Jr year (when surrounded by a ton of legit talent at Longview, they went undefeated and won the State Championship) and a very, very, very bad Sr year.

    Jr Year: 184/266, 3877 yards, 42:4 TD to INT

    Sr Year: 123/213, 1926 yards, 20:8 TD to INT

    Again, that 2018 Longview team had a ton of talent on it and the 2019 team didn't but King looked terrible as a Senior after looking great as a Jr and really good in camps.

    Being a coach's kid helps, but I never remember thinking "Haynes King is carrying this team." I mean he was good but I never remember thinking "greatest QB in Longview history." He was no Eric Harris.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, ouflak said:

    I'll just post this and take my lumps (or be completely ignored). But I think everybody and anybody blaming any U.S. executive is missing the point by an astronomical unit. The only way to put something in that country that is stable and friendly would be to:

    1. Eradicate entirely the culture of corruption, including the expectation of such, from all public life.
    2. Have all changes and institurions established by the people themselves from the ground up - not based on some super power that can call air strikes in on anybody who gives them any trouble.

    Without both of those being thoroughly accomplished, no president administration, no chancelor of < insert European country >, no dictatorship of the proletariat, no shah/khan/ayatollah of a neighboring country, nobody from the outside is ever going to march into Afghanistan and 'win'.

    China likely will have something to say about that during the next 20 years.

  6. 55 minutes ago, OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys said:

    The system is built with some fundamental assumptions.  One is that the elected will be incentivized to promote the interests of those they represent.  

    that has largely been replaced by two things: the nationalization of every issue such that there is no such thing as a local interest anymore and the politics of resentment when making others suffer is more important than your constituents succeed.

    I don't disagree, but that's a much different issue. The motives of those elected is one thing, but the system was designed in very particular, particularly ingenious way.

  7. 17 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Houston is fairly representative of not just American but world cities in that the close-in suburbs are already shit for the most part. The old town is gentrifying, the 1950s-1980s ring is rotting, and the outer ring is booming. If affluent whites were to push farther out than they are, that would bring not just Sealy but also Columbus and Hempstead and Brenham more into something like Houston proper, and that is ridiculous.

    Yes, people have been saying "I remember when this was all just farms" for generations now but absent flying cars, I don't think it will be the rich who end up farther and farther out in bumfuck. It will be the poor and the middles. The rich will more take over the central cities, where there is more to do, and force the poor farther and farther out. Those wealthy enough in the outer ring will try to make it to the inner ring. Covid and other diseases are not selectively ravaging Manhattan-type areas the way we thought so i don't think it will create the great sprawl that once seemed logical about a year ago.

    That's what's seems to be happening in Dallas. North Dallas and the immediate suburbs, which were the place to be in the 70s and 80s and began to decline in the 90s and 00s have been gentrifying with upper middle class re-doing homes. Cities like Richardson, Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Irving have made dramatic revitalizations in the last 10 years.

  8. 4 hours ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    You say that like it is a bad thing.  That's why the constitution provides for equal representation in the Senate for each sovereign state that joined the union of states, and a House of Representatives whose composition is based upon the relative population of each state.  It is genius and part of what makes our constitutional form of government exceptional.  The moose out front should have told you.

    Exactly. We clearly need more civics taught. Without the Senate we get:
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  9. It will be interested to see how this trend changes five years post-covid. People have been migrating from the countryside to urban areas since the dawn of time, but that trend might slow as remote working becomes more prominent. I know a few folks that have chosen to move out of large cities because they can given WFH capability. That definitely will not change the patterns but could change the rate.

  10. 17 hours ago, sidis said:

    i guess the point i was making is that i can't believe she allowed herself to make it as far as she did and put all the effort in that she did.  her behavior on the boat ride alone should have been a "welp, this is fucked, nevermind" moment but she went off and put a ton of work into a business proposal and continued to endure being present for all the insanity even after that. that it took her deserting her for rico at the bar for her to realize she was completely wasting her time seemed a bit unrealistic.

    it is so minor, it doesn't matter.  and delusion/hope can let you string things out even on a long shot.

    Don't fault her for trying. It is a low-risk, high reward outcome. She realized at dinner that Mrs. Stifler is just co-dependent and she was a short-term bridge between mom and cock.

    The Rachel stuff feels like the most forced on the show. She's obviously not a Mensa member, but she went through the wedding and ostensibly did not meet Shane last week, so pretty silly to think the lightbulb just now went off. Shane clearly has always been Shane.

    I love the juxtaposition of the honesty of Armond and Mark with the satirical fakeness of the vapid Zoomers.

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  11. 9 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Do you have some links? It’s interesting take. Most people immediately associate the Sopranos with DeCavalcante Crime Family. The Jersey thing, similar leadership structure at the beginning of the show, and the similarities between Vinny Ocean and Tony. 
     

    But I could see Genovese Jersey Faction too. Phil always called the Sopranos a glorified crew. 

    I can dig some up. Usually it is more of "both" vs. one ... rethinking it the idiots in the Brooklyn crew are probably more akin to Colombos.

    https://richardlinnett.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/the-real-sopranos.pdf

    https://nypost.com/2007/04/08/brutal-and-grisly-truth-of-garden-states-real-sopranos/

     

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