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2 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

 

 

Gotta respect the Yutes.

4 hours ago, Twinkletoes Flintstone said:

I have also thought about the sales tax aspect of this.  But maybe it's tied to Lincoln hotels and a bit heftier than 1/8 cent.  

 

Not to thread jack, but what do the Royals do now?  I'm surprised the ballot measure failed.  IS a KC KS burb willing to do it?

Royals will still end up in or near downtown I believe. Chiefs may end up in Kansas near the racetrack.  

2 hours ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

I'm always tickled when ardent right wing supporters unknowingly embrace left wing ideas. 

I’m always tickled when people think getting ALL employees access to RSU’s is a left wing or right wing idea 

51 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

 

Charlie Kirk is an a$$ and a grifter and it’s getting worse with him.  
 

many years ago he had one or two good points on some Covid stuff, but since, he grifts and grifts. 

7 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Good questions.

 

First off, the tax situation in Nebraska right now is such a hot topic right now that I think if this were to be proposed, it would make people's heads explode.  

Yes, the football team is important to the state.  However, economically, the VAST majority of it is in Lincoln.  I, personally, would have some issues with me sitting in small town central Nebraska being charged the same sales tax for the stadium as people sitting in Lincoln where the vast majority of the economic benefit is.  Maybe Lincoln needs to have an additional 1% sales tax.  I go shopping in Lincoln, so I would still be paying some of it.

 

On the project as a whole, I'm just not for a new build.  First off, it would need to be somewhere out away from down town.  There just isn't anywhere else to build it in that area unless you would tear down an entire neighborhood somewhere and I can't imagine where that would be.  A football stadium like this takes up a huge amount of room.  And, being right down town is part of the overall atmosphere and experience going to the game.  On the economic side, I would hate to be the owner of one of the bars or restaurants downtown and then being told they are moving the stadium somewhere else.  Those 6-7 Saturdays in the fall are what make or break some of those businesses.

 

Second, I just still like Memorial stadium with all it's quirks.  I'm not someone who needs to be sitting in a brand new shiny stadium to have a great time.  I also think the history in the stadium means something.  It's like Wrigley field.  It's old.  It's not as nice and shiny as some brand new ball park.  But, it has character and history and it's in a neighborhood that is a lot of fun to be in during the games.  No way in hell would they think about tearing it down and moving it.  They just went through a huge renovation of the park and I'm sure it might have cost more than a new build.  But, now, we still have the same park but upgraded.  Win win in my book.

 

I also want to add.  I get so friggen sick and tired of sports teams always thinking they need a new stadium and it falls on tax payers to fund it.  Then, 20 years later, Oppp....we need a new stadium and the mortgage to build the previous one isn't even paid off.

 

 

And....let's not forget, they just built a brand knew state of the art football facility right next to Memorial.  They are NOT going to now tear down Memorial and build it somewhere else.

 

OK, I'll end my rant now.

Thanks for the feedback.  
 

If renovation is the best way forward, it still seems that a small sales tax alone or in conjunction with private donors is the best funding mechanism vs only private donations.

I think others have stated that private donors don’t have unlimited amounts of money and will be making choices between NIL or facility renovations.  
 

One other thing to mention, now that athletes are getting paid in college, is that in the professional leagues, many facilities aren’t up to top notch college facilities because the professional athletes are getting paid and money goes to them vs facilities.  College athletes may have to accept that the facility arms race may slow down (Hopefully!!) now that funds are going to them vs potential facility upgrades.  

I think it will be interesting to see how much improvement the WR group makes because they have what looks to be competent QB’s getting them the ball on time or when open.  A great WR group can make a QB look good, but it also works on reverse to where a great QB can make WR’s look better.  

Here’s to hoping both groups are top shelf and they feed off each other towards greatness!

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

I think the vast majority of fans understand something needs done with South Stadium.  But, the big question is, can something really nice be done cheaper than what was proposed?

I don’t live up that way and I know you have the pulse of things in a variety of areas of NE so have a question/s on funding.  
 

In KC, a huge mistake was made in the early 2000’s when both organizations (Chiefs and Royals) tied themselves to a renovation project instead of new build.  Fast forward 20 years and now the Royals want, and really need a downtown stadium, and the Chiefs want hundreds of millions to fix/renovate Arrowhead which is just gonna kick the can down the road a little farther when a new build would be money better spent.  Both should have been playing in new stadiums by now.   These are for profit organizations asking for public money for stadiums they will not own.  Jackson County threw good money at bad projects that only lasted 20 years.  
 

Not sure who actually owns Memorial Stadium, (University, city, county, state) but it’s a different case study vs professional sports.   Private donations for the stadium usually are how these things get built for colleges, but since the football team is so important to the state in terms of tax revenue, name recognition, etc…what would be wrong with a small statewide sales tax increase, or statewide car rental tax, to pay for a new build?  The money wouldn’t be going to billionaire owners which is the common objection in pro sports for these things.   The benefactor is the State University.  Would a 1/8th cent sales tax increase over 25 years or something like that be palatable to state in order to pay for a new Memorial Stadium? 

6 minutes ago, teachercd said:

We also have a HUGE job jumping work force...They basically figured out the best way to get more money was to move from job to job, which is true.  But it can/does leave openings. 

Don’t forget about the Gig workforce.  So many people now make their living driving Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, or on YouTube, Instagram, etc….that normally would have been with a traditional employer.  

21 minutes ago, teachercd said:

What do you end up doing, just keep raising your pay?

 

At my school we are lucky to get 3 applicants for open teaching positions.  Couple years ago it would have been 15-20

That’s the teachers quitting and going to Only Fans effect. 

10 hours ago, Lorewarn said:

 

Then why are you actively concerned about abuse and neglect and negative impacts towards children at the hands of the trans community and not similarly, or equally, or proportionately (pick your poison) concerned about the same from the christian community?

As you have eloquently said before…you are arguing with ghosts, my man.  Search up how many times I’ve brought up the Trans mental illness issue and how many times I’ve talked about or agrees with Church abuse issues.  Unless you do your homework, your words ring hollow.   Then add in how I was asked to comment on the issue, my man. 
 

10 hours ago, Lorewarn said:

 

I mean, on one hand, since the chopping off of privates was brought up, "The Komodo analysis of insurance claims found 56 genital surgeries among patients ages 13 to 17 with a prior gender dysphoria diagnosis from 2019 to 2021." 56 out of 26 million, or .0000002%

Could be wrong, but I don’t think there are 26 million identified trans youth.  Where did your direct quote come from? 
 

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sex-reassignment-surgery-market
 

Recently, there has been a significant rise in the number of children in the U.S. who openly identify as a gender different from their assigned sex at birth. This increase can be attributed to the growing recognition of transgender identity and rights. A study conducted by Komodo revealed that, between 2018 & 2021, at least 776 mastectomies were performed on individuals between the ages of 13 and 17 who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808707
 

Results  A total of 48 019 patients who underwent GAS were identified, including 25 099 (52.3%) who were aged 19 to 30 years. The most common procedures were breast and chest procedures, which occurred in 27 187 patients (56.6%), followed by genital reconstruction (16 872 [35.1%]) and other facial and cosmetic procedures (6669 [13.9%]). The absolute number of GAS procedures rose from 4552 in 2016 to a peak of 13 011 in 2019 and then declined slightly to 12 818 in 2020. Overall, 25 099 patients (52.3%) were aged 19 to 30 years, 10 476 (21.8%) were aged 31 to 40, and 3678 (7.7%) were aged12 to 18 years. When stratified by the type of procedure performed, breast and chest procedures made up a greater percentage of the surgical interventions in younger patients, while genital surgical procedures were greater in older patients.

Just because one form of abuse is true doesn’t make the other one not true

46 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Trying to figure out if Catturd is the dumbest or the people he convinces with this BS. 

 

The Twitter thread and responses are funny. 
 

 

Community Notes for the win.  Biggest reason X is better than old twitter. 

38 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

 

How it pertains is that if you, generally speaking, don't think, "...Christians are advocating for looping off your privates ... or chopping off your boobs", which they aren't

Thanks for confirming

39 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

, but parents and doctors aren't really advocating for either of those things either (anomalies exist),

Thanks again for confirming that minor gender assignment surgery does exist .  Minors can’t consent to a gender assignment surgery without parental consent.  
 

41 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

and it's worth pointing out that Christians do/are/have advocated for other things that are horrific and dramatically life altering in their own ways, at a much more massive volume than whatever amount of people actually are "advocating for looping off your privates"

Feel free to discuss that till your hearts content.  I doubt I would push back on ya! Just because one is true doesn’t make the other not true and vice versa

2 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Amen...and the peace dorks only make it worse.  

 

They don't want peace over there.  It is not an option. It is just a waiting room.

56 minutes ago, Decked said:

The only way this could end is if an entire group is forcibly moved or destroyed. Two incompatible groups and ideologies. 

That’s the way it seems

33 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

But that’s all you mentioned. 
 

 

You got a strange twitter feed imo by the way if you are getting tons of those.  

30 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

But that’s all you mentioned

Well I did mention pastors to Guy.   Priests were the very first one mentioned by Lorewarn so that’s what was responded to.  If you think I don’t believe many pastors, parents, friends, relatives, non relatives, other children (hopefully that covers them all for you)  over the years have abused children, you are flat wrong.  

23 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I don’t need to, other than making people realize it’s not just catholic priests. 

I don’t think anyone here believed that to be the case  

46 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

It’s not just priests. My Twitter timeline has headlines almost every day of Protestant ministers found to be doing the same thing. 
 

I could go on. 

I’m sure you could and Sounds like some disgusting people, start a discussion on it.  

14 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

and the diversity will likely have a positive return for the business.

Diversity is great for business, it’s not just a positive return but great.  

Interesting commentary 

7 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

I'd venture to argue that the number of people advocating for genital surgery in minors is drastically smaller than the number of people who, say, are catholic priests raping young boys or are parents/leaders/regular members of any number of denominations of faith who disbelieve the claims of abuse being cried out by their youth in protection of the church, if we're in the comparison game.

If you want to talk about being in the comparison game, then you replied to the wrong person.  Guy made a comparison I replied to.   Take it up with him.

If you want to talk about the disgusting behavior of Priest over the course of time, I’m all in 99.9% and would back you up.   How that pertains to the discussion at hand, well, I guess that’s for you to decide and have with yourself my man 

9 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

To put it another way: if we were to collect all the stories of devout Christians raising their kids with visions of cultish fundamentalism, scientific denial, and physical punishment for their sins, would the trans community perhaps want to distance itself from Easter?

It’s possible, yet I don’t think Christians are advocating for looping off your privates if you think you are a girl at 13 years old, or chopping off your boobs if you play kickball with the boys at recess and your parents now think your a boy (or wish they had a boy).  
 

11 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

I'm going to take a wild guess that the "story after story" about transgenderism run amok appear in the conservative media you consume, specifically culled for your outrage and conveniently ignoring more baseline evidence.

Depends on if you consider, YahooNews, NYT’s WAPO, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, TMZ (the Hollywood angle) as conservative media run amok.  
 

13 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

If we're going on a case by case basis, all kinds of parents -- well intentioned and not -- can f#&% up their kids.

Yes sir.  Including devout Christian parents, Pastors, etc..

26 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

Shared ownership is a smart corporate move that's been available to them forever and avoided for the selfish reasons that create class conflict.

I’ve been a proponent for a very long time that RSO’s RSU’s, etc should be more broadly used and whatever the C Suite level folks qualify for, every other employee should qualify for on an equivalent basis.  
 

It isn’t the salaries that have driving the income gap, it’s the stock awards that only a few are privy too.   If what I’m saying is considered Marxism, then I’m part Marxist I guess.  
 

And I believe much of the DEI spending is wasted.  Some of it is spent very well though and I learn from it.