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Landlord

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  1. One thing to keep in mind to help understand but not condone what's happening right now is just like... imagine how amazing and cathartic it must feel to have a blood-pumping social solidarity of a public protest after 75 days of lockdown/quarantine/no social interaction/depression/boring existence
  2. My city is in rough shape tonight. Cop cars on fire, CNN Center getting destroyed, stores looted. Stay safe anyone that lives in urban areas.
  3. Sorry, when I said "you" I didn't mean you specifically I was talking rhetorically about all of us. I think you and I are on the same page with most all of this.
  4. To give a much more succinct and poignant context to what I was trying to get at and failing in way more words, this was the point: I would really recommend Propaganda as a twitter follow. Passionate, radically real hip hop/spoken word artist who offers a consistent and unique insight on race.
  5. I agree with you pretty much Enhance, I guess I wasn't saying it as an endorsement or a belief that it's effective as an approach, but more that I totally understand the logic they're using and think it's probably a somewhat inevitable reaction.
  6. I don't think all police officers are bad. Not even close. I know a decent handful of cops, all good at their jobs and good citizens. But I don't know how you can disagree with a conclusion that policing practices and training need a fundamental reform. We've seen too much needless and tragic death by cop to ignore it. It's not just rogue bad apples, the system of law enforcement has turned into its own entity with its own emergent qualities which at the very least allows for a reality where someone unfit for the work can be in the job, do something like this, and too often escape with impunity. Also I don't like the rioting and looting, but I understand it. Entire generations of communities being silenced, harassed, abused, told that we're past all that, and ignored will only stay silent, take it in the teeth and take the high road for so long.
  7. I'm all for looting the police district building honestly. It's horrifying, but burn it down. Even fine with Target going down. Wake up the powerful and the influential, especially those directly in conflict with justice and progress. The police have literal and representational/metaphorical blood not just on their hands but their entire existence. Target is insured. But small businesses and affordable housing getting burnt down is tragic and creates more lower class victims. A lot of people that show up in stuff like this are bad actors and opportunists though, who couldn't care about any cause or virtue other than what they want, and I refuse to define the entire things by them.
  8. It does say a lot. But there's room inside record for a wide range of specifics about how good a team is compared to another team with the same record. That's why some teams can go 10-4 and be ranked #10 at the end of the season and others, like us, can go 10-4 and end ranked #25.
  9. Records don't say much about how good a team is. Going from playing all games close, playing championship games close, playing in championship games regularly, and finishing in the top 25 to the opposite of all those things is a regression. But yeah, he was in the same place after year 6 that he was in year 1 - same distance away from competing for a championship. And coaches don't just become championship caliber after year 6.
  10. Bo did a great job in his first 2.75 years here. Then he ran out of Callahan talent and we switched to a conference he wasn't prepared for, and we permanently regressed.
  11. The Ohio State team he beat was 6-7 and had their all conference quarterback injured in the third The Michigan teams he beat were 8-5 (starting quarterback injured in 1st), and 7-6 The Wisconsin team he beat was 8-5 and then lost to the same team by 40 points The Iowa teams he beat were 7-6, 4-8, and 7-6 The Penn State teams he beat were 9-4 (days after the Sandusky scandal broke and JoePa gone), 8-4, and 7-5 That's not to say the accomplishments are nothing, but in addition to his abilities as a coach he was unfathomably lucky to get the worst versions of those teams in the last decade. When he played a good Ohio State team, he lost by 25. When he played a good Michigan team, he lost by 28. When he played good Wisconsin teams, he lost by 31 and 35.
  12. Sorry, instead of saying you are like, i should have said, "Blitz's pattern of bringing up the fact that Biden has lied about stuff several times per day is like the guy in these cartoons" and no i'm not trying to make a strong argument, but you definitely weaken your argument with the unrelenting incessance of it whenever possible.
  13. And Diaco probably would have done pretty well under a competent and cohesive staff not under toxic leadership. It's so weird when people think that coaches or players who come here and don't do well are showing their true colors instead of Nebraska being the poor performance anomaly because our admin has been so inept and corrosive. Diaco is a good DC - he's proved it all over. Except here, because the top 10 DC's in the country wouldn't have been able to do it here at that time.
  14. Well, lots of teams worse than ours have beaten teams better than those before. So, as long as we actually show up to play, we can beat any of them.
  15. Didn't Ford publiclly say they wouldn't let him in without wearing one? Shameful they didn't enforce it if so.
  16. This is an extremely popular opinion. The unpopular opinion is that Keller was quite a quality quarterback and had the starting job for a justified reason. I hold that opinion.
  17. All you guys debating based off of this post, he said good. We've only had four good skill players in the last 10 years, zero great ones. Ameer Abdullah Rex Burkhead Taylor Martinez Adrian Martinez Stanley Morgan Wandale Robinson Maurice Washington Roy Helu Jr Jordan Westerkamp Brandon Reilly Niles Paul Quincy Enunwa Andy Janovich JD Spielman Only four of these players were good. The rest weren't even good. You should be the coach.
  18. Jordan was the GOAT at the cost of not really being a person. He's seemed miserable ever since he left the game, and even with a 10 part documentary series there's apparently nothing memorable or interesting about him as a person, other than being the best basketball player.
  19. Yeah I find it more unlikely that someone came up with this brilliant idea and everyone agreed that nobody would notice a very obvious manipulation right in front of them. Anyways, I live in Georgia, and there is plenty of criticism to go around, but at the end of the day, the cases aren't jumping due to re-opening (at least not yet, remains to be seen, and even then remains to be shown as a causal not correlated relationship), the hospitals are able to manage and stay under capacity, the curve has been successfully flattened. For the time being, at least.
  20. This isn't the same guy who survived the crash with Foltz is it?
  21. I imagine if she was actually assaulted she's sick of people like you who don't actually care about her, or about women being sexually assaulted, but conveniently use her as ammo in your s#!tty conservative team gun.
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