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Lorewarn

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  1. re: the bold, I think Twitter has done a horrendous job being inconsistent with their enforcement and lackthereof of their terms and conditions, and I think there's a massive conversation/reckoning about how badly social media companies operate and how bad their platforms are for us. But the 'town square' argument is just an incredibly weak and lazy one. The town square still exists, and you've got every right and opportunity there that you ever have. If you have to make it an analogy Twitter is closer to the modern day newspaper stand, aggregating/amplifying entertainment and news channels which... those have always been privately owned too.
  2. Facebook, Instagram, youtube, Tik Tok, Telegram, Marco Polo, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, Quora, individual messageboards of which there are hundreds of thousands... Plenty of "town square" options available. Hell, your actual town square is also available! But as far as I know millions of people from all across the world don't congregate in your town square and never did, so the sanctimonious whining is very much based off a strawman idea.
  3. Twitter is not the public town square lol. It's not even close.
  4. If all of the speculation is true I really hope people don't demonize the kid. Football is extremely valuable for a lot of things, but it's not and shouldn't be an all encompassing weight and identity in life (at least outside of a season), and if Betts has already figured out what's most important to him then that should be nothing other than celebrated. I don't know the kid or the situation and all its details, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know that something demanding more than you need or want to give isn't worth it for you.
  5. I mean have you seen his face? Looks like factual garbage to me.
  6. That's what I'm saying. The estimated room & board cost at UNL for 2021-22 is $11,920. If players live off campus, they get a check cut for $11,920 or something close to it because that's part of their scholarship. They're then free to spend that on whatever they want and if they get 4-5 people in a house to make rent cheap, that's a whole lot of free money left over.
  7. All of that doesn't even mention that all the off-campus players get a check cut for several thousand dollars when they're not using the 'room & board' their scholarship includes.
  8. Even right wing news made several mentions about how the main woman's accusation was credible. And despite the truth or lack thereof of the allegation, the way he acted and responded like a snively emotional little b!^@hass and started ranting about essentially a deep state conspiracy should've been enough for folks.
  9. That's because their competition is FCS schools. There are also DII and DIII schools in a better place than we are right now. There are also high school programs in a better place than we are - because they're more well positioned in relation to their competition and their goals. Do you think you're making a point here?
  10. Apparently we're getting new turf this season. Same design all around except no more alternating greens. That'll be the first design change to the turf since 2005.
  11. It used to be a standard 11 game regular season and then a bowl game. Then you add a 12th regular season game, then a conference championship (13), then now an extra 'bowl' game in the form of the playoffs and the dominant teams are playing 15 game seasons compared to 12.
  12. Don't think you need to be a biologist if it's clear. You're beginning to sound an awful lot like Judge Thomas
  13. So now you need to define what being born male/female means, which based on 'biological truths' is not always exactly clear.
  14. I'm struggling to imagine a ruling dependent on if a trans person is a woman or not. What would be an example of that? How would you define men in this case? Or, I guess a better question is if you were in her shoes what would your answer have been?
  15. Wow. The birds flying past frame made me surprisingly emotional. War is evil, avoidable and devastating.
  16. If that's the case, not only is there anything wrong with that perspective but it's actually probably healthier and better for him overall as a person, but yeah, probably not conducive towards a high stakes pressure cooker environment at this level. I thought the same thing Good for him if so. More people honestly need something like this in their life haha.
  17. Regardless of how you answer the question, her answer was refusing to participate in the gamesmanship of these partisan sound byte charades. There's nothing ridiculous about that, in fact it's exactly what judges should strive to do imo.
  18. Eric Crouch also wasn't a part of the team for a little while #glasshalffull
  19. Nah he'd be wrong either way. It actually just turns out that he was double wrong on this one, first by defining an entire non-homogenous group only by its most extreme fringe, and second by referring to a completely separate entity than Judge Jackson.
  20. In much the same way that Westboro Baptist Church doesn't define Christianity, the hate group extremist sects of Black Hebrew Israelites do not define the movement as a whole. There are no doubt sects which are radical, hateful, violent and dangerous (including the ones from the Covington Catholic high school incident at the capitol a few years ago), and all of this is easily found by looking at SPLC's list of hate groups, the anti-defamation league, really just any single google search. BUT. Here's the kicker... none of those groups are even related to the African Hebrew Israelites Jackson is referring to completely separate entities, the latter being a wellstanding community in Israel, recognized by their Foreign Ministry for being effective contributors to the country, and are pro-Israel. Archy thoughtlessly bringing some seriously garbage content into this thread with that one.
  21. Surely there are asexual people who actively choose it. There are also certainly others who through no choice of their own have little or zero sex drive at all, and instead of 'want to be labeled something', find comfort in a community knowing that they're not alone and not the only ones, when they've probably spent most of their life feeling like there's something wrong with them.
  22. Our own fans love to rag on how lame Memorial can be, but opposing coaches and players never have anything but effusive praise about it being an incredible and/or intimidating atmosphere.
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