Everything posted by formermav43
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
Roman Hispania included modern day Portugal.
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CFP expansion discussion
I’m not sure a board devoted to college football is the best target for that sort of rant.
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Caden Sterns
Alternatively, you could just assume he remembers he went undrafted.
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CFP expansion discussion
Agree. I not only like the bowls, I much prefer that to these 16 team playoff proposals. Watching two relatively evenly matched, decent 9-3 teams who don’t usually play each other is much more interesting than the prospect of a #1 Bama vs #16 MAC champion.
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
All I see here is yet another defense of Hitler.
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Eagles is...
He’d have to make the roster. So I’d be very surprised.
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Austin Homeless Free for All Ordinance
Exchanging verbosity for vapidity is no virtue.
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Woman who was shot at Capitol attack has family suing like a mofo
Who are you talking to?
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
Obviously, you are only pointing that out because you love Hitler.
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
No, I'm starting from a presumption that you are intellectually dishonest. You continue to demonstrate that in this exchange, as usual. There's nothing more that needs to be said anyway.
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
Well no, that's not what I did. You asked, "Are those 'conservative?'" I simply pointed out, from your own source, that estimates vary widely, from 1 to 20 million. Of course they think the number is more likely to be toward the low end, given their own estimate of 1.5 million. It would hardly be reasonable for them to say, "We estimate that the number is 1.5 million, though something closer to 20 million is more likely." And, to your point, using their own estimate to prove that their estimate is more likely seems rather circular. At any rate, I wasn't attempting to prove that any number was more likely than another, just that estimates vary widely. I would say that on a scale of 1 to 20 million, 2 million is toward the conservative end. Perhaps you disagree with that.
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
Do you think that's somehow responsive?
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
You might begin by reading your own cited source a bit more closely, as an example. The very next sentence after the one you quote states, "Estimates of fatalities during the Cultural Revolution vary wildly – ranging between one million and 20 million (though the former is probably closer to the true number than the latter)."
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
But defending Mao and Stalin with conservative death toll estimates is totally cool!
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
I could be wrong, but aren’t you an old white man?
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
I’m not sure a lengthy excerpt from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the most effective counter to the charge that this is “faculty lounge politics.”
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Carville: Democrats have a wokeness problem
Isn’t that precisely his point? ”Look at Florida. You now have Democrats saying Florida is a lost cause. Really? In 2018 in Florida, giving felons the right to vote got 64 percent. In 2020, a $15 minimum wage, which we have no chance of passing [federally], got 67 percent. Has anyone in the Democratic Party said maybe there’s nothing wrong with the state of Florida? Maybe the problem is the kind of campaigns we’re running? If you gave me an environment in which the majority of voters wanted to expand the franchise to felons and raise the minimum wage, I should be able to win that. It’s certainly not a political environment I’m destined to lose in. But in Miami-Dade, all they talked about was defunding the police and Kamala Harris being the most liberal senator in the US Senate. And if you look all across the Rio Grande Valley, we lost all kinds of solidly blue voters. And the faculty lounge bullshit is a big part of it.”
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Texas basketball '21-'22: Welcome Chris Beard
You realize they only figure up mpg based on the actual games you played in, right? An easy example from this year is Hepa - he averaged 6.4 mpg, but he only played in 9 games. If you figure his actual total minutes (58 - and 26 of those were in a single game!) over 27 games, he averaged 2.1 mpg. To put it another way, on paper we could satisfy giving everyone 30+ mpg the way you are worried about by playing, say, Febres 35 minutes in one game and never playing him the rest of the year. He'd show as 35 mpg in the stats - but that's not really how you distribute minutes, obviously. That's an extreme example, but the realistic point is that the only way to reach the totals you're talking about is to basically not play guys at all most of the year and play them a lot then when injuries hit, artificially making their mpg high. Plus there'd be some guy on the internet worried about distributing like 400 mpg if we applied that across the board.
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Texas basketball '21-'22: Welcome Chris Beard
UGA isn’t a bad school.
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Nothing to see here -- just a town declaring a state of emergency before releasing body cam of police shooting!
Live viewing of body cams by anyone. Who could foresee any potential problems with that?
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Texas basketball '21-'22: Welcome Chris Beard
Ramey hasn’t exhausted his eligibility (even without the COVID year), he hasn’t declared for the draft, and he isn’t in the portal. I get there’s been a coaching change and that we’re in a strange year with COVID (and a new world with the portal in general), but it seems weird to me that everyone is waiting on some sort of announcement from him. You’d normally assume he’s here unless he says otherwise, not the other way around.
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Howard University is making a colossal mistake
Howard University is making a colossal mistake. It's right there in the title.
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Another police shooting. This one in Columbus, OH
Yeah but if you take out your posts, it's probably like a page and a half.
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Defund the Police
Even if you’re an extreme cynic (or conspiracy theorist, whichever) that theory doesn’t hold water. If you’re really trying to exterminate the rabble, you let her murder the other girl and THEN shoot her.
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Another police shooting. This one in Columbus, OH
Everything about the Iraq War should be gone. I actually wanted to just see an update on this story, not Bill Clinton’s view of Saddam Hussein.