Landlord

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.

33 minutes ago, BIGREDIOWAN said:

I never said that I don't agree that some things need to be changed so I'm not sure where you're getting that from? Simply put............................THEY DO! There's obviously other threads that have been created for that discussion so I'm trying to keep my thoughts pointed towards the riots and what occurred in Minnesota. 

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.

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. 

25 minutes ago, Enhance said:

IMO this doesn't wake up anybody - it does more to harm the local community and peoples' livelihoods, people who had absolutely nothing to do with any of it. It takes away paychecks... the ability to pay rent or buy food. It perhaps forces people to apply for unemployment. It could raise taxes to repair the damage they caused.

 

Someone was also shot and killed during the riots. There's some speculation that this person 'may' have been involved in the looting but nothing concrete has come out yet.

 

And on top of all this, virtually all top officials have condemned this officers' actions including the governor and police chief. 

 

I understand the aggression that leads to rioting, too. And what happened to George Floyd was deplorable and inexcusable, but there are a lot of people suffering (and people who will suffer) as a result of the actions of a few. Most of the people being punished right now for Floyd's death had nothing to do with it.

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.

7 minutes ago, BIGREDIOWAN said:

When taxes go up in that area to rebuild the police building and damage created what's your thoughts then on the building being burnt down then?

 

You won't "define entire things by them" but you'll basically lump law enforcement together as a whole with "their entire existence" statement which is interesting, but not surprising.

 

Look what happened wasn't okay, I've said that and I'm happy that the officer has been charged, but to justify burning stuff to the ground makes little sense IMO. As the saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right. Looting and rioting is a poor way to get a point across. Just like putting a damn knee on the back of a guys neck and crushing the life out of him is a poor damn way to do your job as a police officer. Just saying.....

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.

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.

2 hours ago, teachercd said:

I am one of those odd people that sort of think records say a lot about how good a team is...

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.

On 5/25/2020 at 9:14 AM, teachercd said:

He literally had the same record all the time, regardless who was on his team.  

 

He also recruited RG and LD.  Compton too, right?  Burkhead?  Ameer?  VV?  Collins?  Those guys are all in the NFL or were in the NFL.

 

He didn't regress, he stayed the same.  That is what pissed off fans.

 

As far as switching conferences, that was a huge mistake.  

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.

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

If Frost did in his first 2 years what Bo did...we would all be having Frostgasms

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.

2 hours ago, Danny Bateman said:

 

All politicians are liars teach.

just

stop feeding the troll

5 hours ago, Toe said:

Like him or not, he's the last Nebraska coach to beat Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Penn State...

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.

3 hours ago, BlitzFirst said:

 

 

Love it Landlord! 

 

Instead of attacking the post, you attack ME!

 

Tell me, does that strengthen an argument against what I said?

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.

1 hour ago, Frott Scost said:

Theres no question he did it

i mean...

yes there is.

1 hour ago, TheSker said:

Bob Diaco was an experienced DC.

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.

On 5/20/2020 at 4:10 PM, SFW said:

What makes to think that we can beat any of those teams?  Based on what?  Kool-aid?

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.

7 hours ago, knapplc said:

Here we are at the Ford plant. Guess who's not wearing a mask.

 

 

 

And... why does he stand like that? Bad back?

 

 

Didn't Ford publiclly say they wouldn't let him in without wearing one? 

Shameful they didn't enforce it if so.

6 hours ago, TGHusker said:

 

Ganz should have been the QB all season instead of Keller.   If so, BC may have lasted another year maybe 2. 

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.

27 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

I don't disagree with that.  But he didn't say "great".  He said "good".

you're quoting the guy that said it

18 hours ago, SFW said:

I can only remember 4 good skill players in the last 10 years and zero great players.

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.

11 hours ago, SFW said:

Frost doesn’t get that pounding a superior talented team into submission and winning in the fourth quarter is where it’s at. 

He thinks he can out smart them and talent them.

 

That’s what he doesn’t get. 

You should be the coach.

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.

2 hours ago, Nebfanatic said:

That said there are probably less noticeable ways to cook the numbers so maybe this was just an honest mistake

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.

This isn't the same guy who survived the crash with Foltz is it?

1 hour ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

How do think Tara Reade feels this week?

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.

Just now, Notre Dame Joe said:

a demonization of "the other" is not confined to any particular ISM it is a human thing.  Both left and right factions do it so I don't find it relevant to the curious argument that the US hasn't gone left far enough.

nobody cares

2 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

What people do you talk to that want property and production to be owned by the state? I don't know of progressives who want this.

I'm not talking about people defined by the specific policies they want, but rather by the same underlying philosophy/perspective that's defined by class warfare, ideological purity, resentment towards capitalism, the state as the solution vs the individual, and so on. They think very similarly at a fundamental level even if they don't have all the same policy beliefs.

Anyways, this is spiraling into a different conversation; the only point of my initial post was that as a matter of efficacy, there are reasons why very progressive leftist parties/platforms don't often succeed.