Dr. Strangelove

It's mind boggling to think that Frost shouldn't be fired. Mel Tucker inherited a program in bad shape and turned it around in a more difficult division in a year. Frost is in over his head. He hasn't developed a foundation to build off of. There is no offensive identity other than the cute option wrinkle they developed a few weeks ago. They don't do a good job of developing players. Recruiting is a dumpster fire. They're going to finish last in the B1G this season. It's painful, it sucks. But it's pretty clear the schemes they've developed just don't work in the B1G. That's fine to admit. Frost isn't the guy and it's clear - with 4 years of evidence - that Nebraska needs a change.

It depends on the danger posed by those diseases. Have any of them killed more Americans than World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and The War on Terror combined? If so, yes, they should absolutely be mandated. My point is, it's not uncommon for the government to mandate vaccines. They do so in the interest of public health. Other vaccines are not mandated, however, COVID is far deadlier and causes a far bigger strain on our healthcare system compared to the diseases you've listed. For the record, I do think the HPV vaccine should be mandatory. It would prevent cancer in thousands of women, and HPV is prevalent in a huge number of adults. It does not, how, spread by breathing next to them in the grocery store so I can understand why it isn't.

It means that the government imposes vaccine mandates all the time. In order to attend school, children must be vaccinated. In order to travel to certain countries, vaccines are mandated. There are a lot of scenarios where the government imposes rules regarding vaccines. What I was asking is if you're for our against those rules and if your views on those rules are consistent with your views on a COVID vaccine mandate.

I trust you hold similar views regarding vaccines for school attendance, traveling abroad, at birth, etc. I want you on the record because I'm sure your views don't change based on the party line here.

God bless America. Easily the greatest country in the world.

I think that would be quite surprising, but I did see Lincoln's mayor give an interview to the NYTimes, who identified Lincoln NE as a city poised to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the infrastructure packages in Congress. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/upshot/biden-agenda-middle-america.amp.html " That could be a boon to places like Lincoln, Neb. Its population has grown slowly but steadily in recent years; investments in things like high-speed internet have helped it avoid the cycle of decline affecting many other smaller cities in the Midwest. It is home to the University of Nebraska, which has strong programs in computer science and engineering, and it has a vibrant agribusiness sector."

I'm hopeful, but I think cities like Lincoln and Omaha will see modest growth. Smaller towns are all mostly dying. Companies are mostly having an issue basing themselves in an area with tech-talent. UNL produces some, but there are other cities with more. So composites will move there first. Places like North Carolina, home to many big universities will continue to see explosive growth. Austin TX has been growing rapidly for the last decade.

All we need now is for the Right wing to blame all of society's problems on minorities, appealing to xenophobia, and to develop some sort of strange fetish for the military and to claim that anybody that doesn't hold these beliefs aren't true Americans. Oh wait.

It's possible. We'll see how the inevitable lawsuits shake out. OSHA has broad authority to require safety precautions on behalf of employees as long as they can prove there is serious harm that an employee could face at work. It's pretty obvious - and extraordinarily easy - for OSHA to prove that COVID poses risk to employees at work. However, the court system is dominated by Republicans, which might mean there is some momentum to get it overturned there. However, there is long standing precedent requiring vaccines for things like schooling, traveling abroad, etc. Long story short, get the vaccine. There is no legal reason to fight this and any Republican governor banning mandates should be laughed out of office by the voters. (Sadly we're living through a right wing race-to-the-bottom so I'm not holding my breath).

It's almost like dozens of studies have been done concerning this very topic and you'll ignore them all to support your pre-existing views. Look, I agree that personal decisions affect outcomes. But in our society minorities - especially black minorities - are not treated equally. They get less representation in government relative to their population, worse prison sentences for the crimes, worse education outcomes because minority school districts receive less funding, etc. The list goes on. There are hundreds of studies on topics of systemic racism in Healthcare, education, policing, housing, etc. Many of these exist in the South and stem from decades of repression because of Jim Crow laws and other policies in other states dating back relatively recently. It's been essentially 1 generation of black minorities enjoying anything close to equality - that doesn't undo 200 years of laws specifically designed to repress and treat them like inferior p people.

Decades of systemic racism can be fix with some good 'ol American pick-yerself-up-by-the-bootstraps. There are dozens - if not hundreds of studies that address systemic racism. But there isn't a number we can link for him to believe it. His mind is made up. But I'll try: One about healthcare: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953613005121 Education: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=studies+systemic+racism&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3D53baAMW7E_QJ There are hundreds of these.

Exactly. The thousands of sexual assaults on college campuses or in schools isn't news - sadly its common enough that it's not national news when it happens. But when the perpetrator is transgender - despite no evidence they're anymore likely to sexually assault somebody - it's international news.

Coming from a guy not sure if humans are causing climate change, this is hilarious.

Exactly. Just because you don't regard minorities as lesser - which I'm glad that @B.B. Hemingway does not do - it still misses the point of what systemic racism does. Do liberals overplay the impact? Perhaps. But systemic racism is present in many aspects of society, it's important to acknowledge that. As far as homosexuality, it's clearly natural and evolutionary. If you're curious, read up on Bonobos - a close relative of Chimpanzees and humans - and how that species uses sex in its society (hint: homosexuality is extremely present in that animal. Sex is also used by females in interesting ways that explains a lot of sexual evolution in humans as well).

Well, to be clear, people have used the version meant for animals in order to treat COVID. The reason people are doing that is because of people with a huge platform - like Joe Rogan - are peddling Ivermectin. You should be a lot more concerned about people dying because they listen to people like Joe Rogan and not CNN calling out him taking a drug not in any way meant to treat COVID - which is also used as a house dewormer. But I'm sure you're consistent and you've been posting videos of Rogan, Fox News, and other right wingers peddling anti-vaccine nonsense.

I mean, it is kind of funny that Joe Rogan has to defend himself and call CNN a liar (which I somewhat agree with, Ivermectin is used for horse deworming but also for uses in people) while simultaneously peddling anti-vaccine and overall bad advice regarding COVID for months. Hey, Joe Rogan, if you're reading this, next time science invents a vaccine for a pandemic take it. You won't have to defend yourself or your quack doctor for taking anti-parasitic drugs.

I corrected myself in a followup. I mistakenly said Trump and meant Biden. @DevoHusker I agree on a popular vote for Presidential elections, but would also like to see Ranked Choice Voting to determine House Seats

Hyperpartizanship is mainly driven by educational attainment today. People with educations tend to see the world one way - full of inequality, they fear climate change, and are more liberal than ever. People without college educations distrust what they perceive to be elites. Elites are elected officials, the wealthy, institutions, etc. They often distrust those with college educations. Voters like this are trending towards being more and more conservative.

Apologies, I meant Biden. My original post was making an argument that Trump will win election, if he chooses to run. The systemic advantages - which are growing - mean Democrats are likely to be uncompetitive in future Presidential elections.

You see, in the United States we have something called the Electoral College. Under this system, Republicans don't even try to win more overall votes, they don't have too. In 2020, the states of Arizona and Georgia were decided by ~10k votes. Wisconsin was decided by 20k votes. If Trump wins those states, the EC is 269-269. A tie means that Trump wins. Again, Republicans don't even try to win more votes - they can't. The issue with our democracy is the popular vote gap is growing. In future elections, Democrats will likely have to win by larger and larger margins in the national popular vote in order to win elections, which simply isn't possible. If you're interested in the political Science behind this, I can link a few articles and opinion pieces.

The fact that you think Trump won by 10 million and not 40k tells me you don't know how elections work. Democrats have won more votes in every Presidential election but one since 1988 (and will continue to do so). What has that got them?

This is not true. Firstly, just because the leader of your party tried - and failed - to stage a coup in the greatest democracy in world history isn't comforting. You might shrug off things like this but this is alarming to the rest of us. The assault hasn't stopped - states are passing laws, conducting audits to appease the QAnon base of the party, etc. Furthermore, the conservative structural advantages in elections make it higher than 50% that Trump wins in 2024, despite likely losing the popular vote by 3.5%.

This is the best post on Huskerboard. Will the conservative people in this thread - who are going to vote for Trump - change their minds? Not at all. Those Democrats raising taxes on the rich and expanding social programs is just too damn scary!

Exactly! You couldn't be more correct.

I've literally linked you multiple articles - the first one specifically talking about how the Budget Control Act of 2011. Republicans used government funding and the debt ceiling hostage in order to negotiate spending cuts and sequesters. I then provided you with a lesson in Economics - governments respond to recessions by spending money and by giving their citizens money. You were provided anecdotal evidence that compares the GOP response to the 2008 recession with the 2020 recession (HINT: they acted in the complete opposite manner in 2020 when their electoral success hinged on recovery). Because they know that economic recovery = electoral success. You are just choosing not to see the obvious. You're trying to rationalize this by getting caught up in the reasoning behind the recessions. Don't. The government response to any recession is the same in a big picture: increase money supply, make credit cheap, and send money to citizens. EVERYBODY knows this. Which is why it's easy to point to the 2008 and 2020 recessions as proof.