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19 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Insanity.   Plus more information from the media calling it a “don’t say gay” bill even after that garbage has been disproven time after time.   
 

 

Nice original tweet that quotes Buttigieg as saying "that's right" even though he never actually said those words.

Another reason journalists happen to lean more liberal/progressive is because part of the job involves the idea of exposing or holding accountable.

Conservatism is called such because it seeks to conserve - to hold on to how things have been. Some amount of that is fundamentally at odds with a profession that requires a willingness or eagerness to do the opposite.

It's hilarious that the "find local showings" button on the website takes you to a page that shows four showings at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln.....and that's it  

what in the actual f#&% is "letters and sciences"?

2 hours ago, Enhance said:

IMO media organizations that "lean" left or right... I don't care. And anybody who does care is just being myopic. If you're within generally average realms of objectivity, then as far as I'm concerned, you're doing pretty well. It is absolutely impossible for anything done by humans to be infinitely objective without failure.

 

The ones you need to worry about are the ones that don't "lean" left or right but have planted themselves in the left or right. Which, ironically, seem to garner way more attention than they deserve. I'm talking the Breitbart's of the world, but certainly Fox News and then to a lesser (but still worth mentioning) degree CNN.

In one of Jon Stewart's legendary conversations with Bill O'Reilly, he broke this down well. Basically, he said that of course his worldview (and the worldviews of people in journalism) will effect the way they see things. But there's a distinction between that and ideological or 'activist' news entertainment. They're different categories alltogether, which is why even if NPR is left leaning (because journalists are left-leaning folks generally) it's nowhere in the ballpark of Fox News/Breitbart/Jezebel/Young Turks.

3 hours ago, C-4 said:

Why is he such a big deal? He’s a 3* who’s averaging 3 sacks a season in a pass happy conference.

He was a 3* in high school, aka 5 years ago. Now he's a two-time 2nd team All-Big 12 player at a position we need playmakers at. 

Bringing up the stars of a player out of high school when they've been playing at a higher level for years is hilariously stupid. Imagine if the Seahawks didn't want Richard Sherman in 2011 because he was a 2 star recruit in 2005  

23 minutes ago, Enhance said:

By the way the law is written, you could be in violation for saying any number of things we might typically consider innocuous.

And by the way the rule is written, runningbacks commit targeting violations more than defensive backs do. But we all know the real reason the rule is there, and we all know that it will be enforced one way and ignored the other.

Something tells me that Florida's sex conversations bill isn't going to apply to references to cisgendered or heterosexual examples. Just a hunch.

Nice timing on John Oliver's trucking bit:

42 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

I wonder how clowns think Jim Crow laws are the same as the Florida Parental right law? 

CaN yOu PoInT oUt To Me WhErE mY pOsT sAiD tHaT tHeY'Re ThE sAmE?

I wonder if Jim Crow laws literally said things like, "Disenfranchise racial minority voters with extremely hard literacy tests"?

If they didn't, I wonder how many clowns in the early 1900's defended them because they didn't literally spell out their intended effects in practice.

Today I learned that twitter determines if newspapers can report on stories.

On 3/31/2022 at 11:44 AM, runningblind said:

That the administration won't acknowledge.  That's my point.

But it still exists. And even raises money for chairity every year.

7 hours ago, RichardHangslow said:

Well I thought I made it clear that I would like them to be lower.  I was commenting on them needing to make up that loss so it would only make sense that concessions would go up. 

Oh you made it very, very, abundantly, unnecesssarily clear, and people rightfully mocked your position on it.

6 hours ago, Hilltop said:

Seriously man...  Our staff was trying to help and it was a different era.

Be that as it may, our staff made plenty of mistakes, and moral ones at that, in that quest to help that were even very apparent at the time.

3 hours ago, Loebarth said:

Need the administrations and fan bases to get behind this.

Definitely don't need 50% of that.

@Hooked on Huskers do you have like a google alert setup every time there's a context where you can share this image?

Can't believe you didn't share the other one with the connected second deck.

6 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

But it’s definitely gonna suck soon for young people and first timers.

It's already sucked for us for a long time. This is beyond suckage.

6 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Probably the whole referring to him as white supremacist comment.  

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

All true, and the President insinuated he was a white supremacist. 

Make up your mind. Did he refer to him as a white supremacist, or did he insinuate that he was a white supremacist? Those aren't the same.

5 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Maybe he wants a well deserved apology 

I would like an apology for Biden not canceling my student loan debt doubt I'll get it

What does Rittenhouse want an apology for that he deserves acknowledgment from Biden on?

1 hour ago, Jeremy said:

No, Scott. There's a REASON why that offense was effective. Osborne was a repetition FANATIC, and I wonder if Frost has just forgotten what it takes to get 11 guys to work as one.

You nailed it! I'm sure Scott, who has played under or coached with Bill Walsh, Tom Osborne, Bill Parcells, Bill Belicheck, Tony Dungey, Mike Tomlin, Jon Gruden and Coach Kelly, has forgotten how to practice in such a way as to make an offense run well.

1 hour ago, Mavric said:

 

 

This was the same game where Suh got flagged for a personal foul for "slamming the quarterback into the ground". Didn't illegally tackle, just....tackled too hard.

19 minutes ago, Savage Husker said:

A subpar result because the pull of nostalgia is far greater than building something modern and accommodating to the times?

It's not just nostalgia. It's actual history, and character and tradition and a space that makes up and means a lot more than just the concrete and metal. 

I think of it similarly to how neighborhoods can go through aggressive gentrification and/or urban modernizing; lots of fancy things, but eventually part of the spirit and soul of a place gets sucked out. 

2 hours ago, nic said:

    What is "your town square"? The only social media I am on is LinkedIn, and this forum is literally the only place I post anything. My wife is on Facebook. I used to read those posts until 2020 and 2021 when I got sick of all the hypocrites. I suspect you approve of how the  Twitter police run their show, and are actually worried Musk will follow through. Musk is rich enough to create a platform with instant popularity. Heck, I bet my teenage boys would get on it just because it's Musk. I would not join it, but it would make me smile because the big techs could do nothing to stop it. If he needs servers....he will just buy a bunch. 

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. 

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.