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The f#&% are y'all even talking about anymore?

edit: double post

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

Yes, and they all lived in red districts and moved to blue?  

 

 

You are overthinking it...you don't need to do that.  This election was over a very long time ago.

Nope, an even smaller tinier percentage, which makes the likelihood of it being a factor more realistic, not less.

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

This is one of the oddest little conspiracy theories out there.  This weird idea that the only people that move are D's and they move out of hotly contested areas.

 

I don't know one single person that has moved in the last 4 years.  But for some reason every D is moving.

 

Interest rates blow and home prices suck.  No one is moving.

Or, you know, not every D, but just a few thousand out of roughly one hundred and fifty million, or less than .0001%.

2 hours ago, TGHusker said:

Many of the swing states had very narrow wins for Biden in 2020.  I don't think Trump picks up any more voters there.  I think he losses voters in those states due to his criminal issues as well as the abortion issue.  He can turn out his voters as much as he wants - he'll get those red states - that is a given.  But more and more thoughtful GOPers are leaving trump and they will either vote 3rd party, not vote at all for the top of the ticket or hold their nose and vote Biden - in all 3 cases Trump losses a 2020 voter.  The Arizona abortion case just tossed Arizona deeper into Biden's camp IMHO.  

Are the votes Trump loses in the states that had the most narrow margins in 2020 more than offsetting the votes Biden loses just by people moving from one district to another more populated one that was already blue?

1 hour ago, brophog said:

 

Pre spring game are there really that high of expectations outside of that building? Seems like us fans are so beaten down over the years that we're afraid of even having expectations.

 

From a neutral fan / national observer standpoint: Nebraska should be at the top of any sort of comeback / dark horse / breakout season....whatever you want to call it...list. There are several historically strong indicators to suggest this:

 

Year 2 improvement

5 losses by 3 points or in OT

Turnovers regress to the mean

Returning experience

 

The reason Nebraska fans may not think that way: Nebraska has been the team that bucks those sorts of trends over the years.

I've been dare I say impressed and surprised by our fanbase seeming to more or less keep a pretty cool leveheadedness in relation to Raiola. 10-20 years ago I think everyone would be drooling with their mouths open nonstop for any nugget that he's gonna win the heisman.

1 hour ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

The thing that makes me angry about these morons throwing the word genocide around is that it deeply devalues history and the important lessons to be learned from actual genocide in the past.

I don't necessarily land on either side of this, and think language is never static and people have likely always bemoaned the 'lessened impact' of words being used more frequently throughout time. 

My main question is, how and when do you know something is a genocide while it's happening in real time as opposed to calling that with the lens of history.

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

The ones that can’t admit many folks got things wrong in the beginning and/or the ones that said people were putting lives in danger for having alternative thoughts to the consensus but ended being correct.   
 

Had those posters been in charge of censorship, we would have silenced some correct perspectives while amplifying to incorrect ones.  This is the point Teach are and I are saying.  Just using Covid as an example.  

Okay, so who are they?

42 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

But I never felt betrayed by the information and warnings provided. It always was an evolving pandemic emergency, taking place on a global scale, with countries executing a full range of precautions having nothing to do with Anthony Fauci. I thought the scientists generally chose their words carefully, based on the best available information, and were not afraid to change course as better information became available. 

This is more or less where I land. The science was informed guess work and constantly evolving, and the political decision making and willpower was a very mixed bag as it always would be regardless of what players or what emergency were involved.

I will say, the dirt in the skateparks, hoops being taken off of public basketball courts, etc., were outrageous oversteps and left an awful taste in my mouth.

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

The ones that can’t admit many folks got things wrong in the beginning and/or the ones that said people were putting lives in danger for having alternative thoughts to the consensus but ended being correct.   
 

Had those posters been in charge of censorship, we would have silenced some correct perspectives while amplifying to incorrect ones.  This is the point Teach are and I are saying.  Just using Covid as an example.  

Okay, so who are they?

42 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

But I never felt betrayed by the information and warnings provided. It always was an evolving pandemic emergency, taking place on a global scale, with countries executing a full range of precautions having nothing to do with Anthony Fauci. I thought the scientists generally chose their words carefully, based on the best available information, and were not afraid to change course as better information became available. 

This is more or less where I land. The science was informed guess work and constantly evolving, and the political decision making and willpower was a very mixed bag as it always would be regardless of what players or what emergency were involved.

I will say, the dirt in the skateparks, hoops being taken off of public basketball courts, etc., were outrageous oversteps and left an awful taste in my mouth.

7 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

It’s amazing that posters here can’t admit that many people got many things wrong on Covid.  Figuring out what we did wrong and what ended up being right should be a priority going forward since Covid will not be the kart pandemic the world encounters.  
 

Instead, its like pulling teeth to get “The Experts” in this country to talk about it and just admit to not knowing s#!t at the time on what to do (or knowing it came from a lab and stop slow rolling the inevitable conclusion), letting the public know they were kinda making educated guesses, they are sorry for denigrating others that were correct on a few things, and now learn from the past.  

Which posters are you referring to?

A lot of mistakes were made in the early stages of COVID. A lot of 'best guess' guidelines and mandates as well, would be insane to expect otherwise considering the incompetency of our leadership combined with the fact that virtually nobody living had ever had any experience with this type of thing and also combined with the fact that it was a novel virus we needed to figure out on the fly.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

My Man, I’m sure you already know the answer. 

Is it lying once, lying always, or somewhere in between?

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

You are arguing with the guy who continually posted false stories during the Trump Russia investigation of 2017/2018 and heavily relied on Adam Schiff who as we know, was found to be a liar.  I think you are fine!

What constitutes someone being a liar?

9 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Damn they did Daniel dirty on this one

21 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

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

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?

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%

On the other, we've got averages of over 4,500 sexual abuse of minors claims in the catholic church yearly, and at least 260 claims of sexual abuse of minors per year in less than 1/3 of american protestant churches. And the higher numbers on this side are the ones that are assuredly drastically under reported.

1 hour ago, Decked said:

Because Palestinians overwhelmingly support Hamas. And hamas will gladly use civilian deaths for propaganda after placing weapons, rockets, guns, RPGs, etc inside of civilian homes and infrastructure. Hamas a radical Islamist cult & Israel who indeed is quite happy to kill for their own beliefs. They just enjoy killing each other. 

The numbers vary and flow, but 'overwhelmingly' is quite the overexaggeration.

In december according to one source, "At the same time, 44% in the West Bank said they supported Hamas, up from just 12% in September. In Gaza, the militants enjoyed 42% support, up slightly from 38% three months ago."

In december according to another source, "In Gaza, support for armed struggle has risen only slightly from 50% in September 2022 (a year before the current war) to 56% in December 2023. In the West Bank, however, support has been rising dramatically from 35% in September 2022 to 54% in September 2023 (a month before the war). This month, polled support for armed struggle reached 68% in the West Bank."

And another: 

And most recently, "Support for Hamas as a political party has fallen to 34% among Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, a 12-point drop from December 2023, according to a poll released Wednesday by a leading Palestinian research institute."

So Palestinians overwhelmingly support Hamas akin to how Americans overwhelmingly support Trump, which...they don't. But also keep in mind, Hamas has two built in innate boosts. #1 many Palestinians only support them because they thnk diplomacy is impossible and their only chance is violence, and #2 for years, Netanyahu used Israel's power to actively bolster Hamas and cripple Abbas and the PAP.

"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank. A great sense of mission guides us."

7 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

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 

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

6 hours ago, knapplc said:

And yet little to no ink is spilled on these pages about that by the same people who are ENRAGED by a coincidence of holidays. 

I see the inconsistency and efforts to make a mountain out of a molehill same as you, but I would describe archy as anything other than enraged.

7 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

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). 

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.

I can't get the search function to return any results.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

It’s my opinion that having these Transgender Days and celebrating Transgenderism is a disservice a great deal of confused young adults who get wrapped up into the false ideology by members who really don’t have the best interest of the said individuals well being.   They just want to advance what I think can be described as a cult that preys upon confused/mentally unstable young adults looking for where they fit in in life.  They are looking for acceptance somewhere and people wanting to promote the transgender ideology are more than happy to rope them in.  

Huh, interesting. You just described the exact same thing that I and millions of others experienced with evangelicalism  

So let me see if I'm getting this story straight..

Israel, with the most advanced targeting and missile systems known to man and with a drone fleet that can make out the nike swoosh on someone's shoes, and with reports and knowledge of the exact locations and movement of easily identifiable vehicles with a food relife charity, accidentally executes a strike against said food relief charity. The survivors notified  the IDF they had been attacked, some of them get out of that car and into another car, and Israel accidentally strikes that one too  (over a kilometer away), only to finally accidentally strike a 3rd car for a 3rd time over 2.5 km away. 

On 11/22/2023 at 7:04 PM, Archy1221 said:

Is it really always Republicans guilty of election fraud though?  Posts in this very thread make that source a lie.  

I seem to remember the Heritage Foundation (conservative think tank) putting out numbers a while back that showed out of the ~1500 or so documented cases of voter fraud in the last 15 years, 90+% have been by Republicans. I'll let you decide how you want to define that in relation to the term 'always'.

I am convinced we will continue to lose to Colorado until such a time when our fanbase will stop brazenly assuming there is NO way we lose to Colorado.

6 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

certain posters here will take words out of context in order to twist them into something it’s not

Ok Mr. "The ADL is saying that '100' is racist and is acting like none of us should use 100 anymore"

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Wait till the poster understands how many innocents Obama blew to pieces with drones. 

Way too many. And Trump had way way way more and also way too many. We are the terrorist state to the perception of many around the world, in the same way that Israel is to Palestinians, and not without evidence and reason for thinking so.

9 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

for #1) this kinda is how I view it too.

For #2) he coulda maybe possibly just took ownership of it instead of denying it.  
 

He coulda also said “hey, in honor of the upcoming Easter Holiday, we are gonna proclaim this day on Saturday this year while also remembering the 25 other days of remembrance coming up later in the year. 
 

For #3) if we are gonna make a funny, then It’s not very inclusive of him to deny a press release about all the other days of remembrance if we are going for inclusiveness. 
 

 

Look at the "small government" folks twisting themselves into pretzels clamoring for increasingly convoluted ways for the President to... exercise more authority in their lives