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"freed Black men got the right to vote in 1865-66" And how did those rights hold up against the weight of segregation and Jim Crow laws (which, given black population concentration in the south, covered the vast majority of blacks)? Is there a reason we needed a Voting Rights Act in 1965?

@_Nescience_ @constans @gyc Well, freed Black men got the right to vote in 1865-66, while Women at large couldn't vote until 1920. You might have lived better, but still had no rights.

Both Obama and Biden ran on a platform of “let’s return to normal and let bygones be bygones, because republicans deep down just want to move beyond partisanship” It’s been the Dem message for almost *20 years*. And no Dems even want to pretend to believe it anymore

Imagine being in Kuwait and seeing this. Your economy is getting raped and Iranians are bombing you on a regular basis, but Americans are posting stupid memes about how Trump owns the Strait of Hormuz, which he evidently can't reopen at the moment.

@p_chris4743 @constans @gyc "America hates Black Men, but not as much as they hate Women." Do you genuinely believe that white women are held in lower regard in American society than black men? Has American history really reflected that?

@constans @gyc The naivete of thinking that the first Black U.S. President didn't think the GOP was fucking evil is just nuts to me. Its even more nuts to me to think that a White Woman would've had a better time of it. I mean, America hates Black Men, but not as much as they hate Women.

Republicans can’t govern. Give them Congress and the presidency and you still have gridlock.

GLP-1 drugs are the ultimate validation of the techno-solutionist approach to society's most challenging problems. The obesity crisis seemed liked it would just get worse and worse forever. Scolding from public health officials didn't work. Proposals to completely overhaul our food systems were dead on arrival. Instead, we invented a weekly shot (based on Gila monster venom!) that fixes obesity directly. And now, thanks to the economic incentives in our biomedical industry, we have follow-on drugs that will be cheaper, even more effective, and easier to administer (by taking a pill instead of a shot). Policymakers should be focused on figuring out how we can get more breakthrough drugs like GLP-1s (and faster). They also should think hard about which slopulist ideas might inadvertently kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

- DUI hire - FBI director who got phished TWICE - Health Secretary whose whole thing has been defunding health research and telling you to drink milk - Commerce Secretary who hates any commerce from foreign countries & whose family business bets against the policy - Attorney General that protects pedophiles - Director of national intelligence that is cut out of every briefing bc she’s probably a Russian asset - Chief of Staff who gossips about her boss to newspapers Etc They’re all like this Maybe Doug Burgum doesn’t totally suck but I’ve not seen much about him, he does look like someone who enjoys… land though?

This is really at the heart of republican politics. They purposely break government and tell their base government doesn't work. Just so their donors can privatize everything they possibly can.

higher gas prices in one month than when biden was dealing with covid economic inflation is insane

Two things 1. I’ve never heard anyone admit this out loud 2. That’s gotta be crazy because everyone who hangs out with him knows that he’s thinking they’re all losers

Imagine Biden’s FCC chair going to a left-wing conference and bragging about getting Fox hosts fired and new liberal ownership for rightwing media outlets.

Found this under the Druski vid about Erica kirk. This is one of the wildest "This you" ive ever seen.

Talked to an HVAC guy who's working two jobs to pay rent. He has no savings and worries about retirement. Tariffs make it hard for him to import parts. Then this big strong guy who never cries, he said, he said to me, "I just wish Trump's name was on the dollar." Then he cried.

NY Times reports Hegseth just struck 2 Black and 2 female officers from a promotion list — and says Hegseth’s Chief of Staff told the army secretary “Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events” More: nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/…

@dontmindme85 @eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 Notice that he still has not answered the question posed below. He never will. x.com/i/status/20376…

@eaglesfan9181 @_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 You have *responded* to every question over and over. You haven’t actually provided any answers.

Senator proposing this had 3 head coaching jobs in 6 years, and walked out of a dinner with recruits to secretly take another job Source: usatoday.com/story/gameon/2… This was all when there was no portal so players were stuck playing where he signed them believing he would be there

@eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 "The time investment is the same" "Youre lying." There is a certain level of detachment from reality beyond which productive discussion really isnt possible. This post confirms you are well beyond that level, so best to end this one here. Good talk. Have a nice weekend.

@_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 Your first point isn’t correct, are some schools working around it maybe and probably likely. But it’s all levels. The time investment is the same. All levels to demand those things. You’re lying. And I know, I lived it.

@dontmindme85 @eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 Take it from the guy who has been going back and forth for a while now: he is never going to answer your question. He will continue to dodge, obfuscate and otherwise avoid actually responding to this query. Save yourself the effort, it will be fruitless.

@eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 @_Nescience_ I see you’re back on that illogical argument. Please tell me, with actual sense, why students on music scholarships can transfer anywhere and immediately be participants in musical performances, etc. but students on athletic scholarships are “different” and have to sit out a year

My first point is correct, and you already explained why: at the D1 level, everyone works around that limit. This is not hard to do - game days, for example, count as 3 hours against the limit, but in practice take up much more time. Voluntary training, film study, and recovery sessions are necessary to remain conpetitive, and are outside of those 20 hour limits. Players do not even have time to maintain side jobs on campus, and are actively discouraged from doing so by the programs. These are 40 hour weeks in season. Off season time is definitely less, but not dramatically less if you are a competitive athlete who does not want to be replaced by the next big name 4 star recruit your school will inevitably recruit. Off field commitments are also higher in the offseason - hands need shaking, the programs needs its players to reach out to the community constantly. Standards are not the same at every level. Football players at Amherst, Bowdoin, Cornell and Yale do not have the same demands placed on them as athletes at Alabama, Ohio State, Penn State or USC. The standards to enter and remain at these programs are far higher - and that standard isnt just about talent. Practices, film study and physical training are more technical and more demanding, and the amount of time one must devote outside of the mandatory 20 hours to recovery, voluntary training and study (in addition to media, fan and program cultural engagement) is much, much higher. Doing the bare minimum at that level isn't enough to even remain on the roster, much less actually play a snap. I really should not have to explain why a Big 10 or SEC athlete must meet a higher standard for time and performance than an Ivy Leaguer or a NESCAC player. You are really, really stretching believabilty here. Finally, the revenue is very consequential. The higher standards and greater time demands are directly correlated with revenue potential. Bigger programs have far more money at stake, and so push harder. Even programs that "lose" money at the D1 level are generating nine figure revenues annually. That kind of money comes with responsibility and higher demands. There is no free lunch. At lower levels, there are lower revenues and less pressure to generate higher ones. That means coaches have longer leashes to build their programs and players can spend less time on football. Absent all of that money, things would not be the same at all. All of college football would basically look like the Ivy League or NESCAC. These college programs are billion, sometimes multiple billion, dollar businesses. Those businesses cannot run on D3 or Ivy League standards and continue to be what they are. Your argument basically boils down to this: you can have absolutely elite levels of performance and revenue (D1 FBS) with performance standards and time investment that are on par with the lowest level (D3). In your world, one does not need to do more to get more. What players at Colby College do is more than enough to generate the results that players at Notre Dame are able to get. That is not how college sports work. That is not how ANYTHING in life works. There is no free lunch.

@_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 You’re 100% wrong. On your first point NCAA restricts athletes to 20 hours a week do they work around it, I am sure that they do. In the off-season is not nearly as much. I know I lived it too. And it is common in D1 AA, D2 and D3. D3 added spring practice about 15

Top level college football is a job. I will explain why: 1. The work is full time. At the top level, players devote 40+ hours a week to the game, and that extends into most of the offseason. This is not common at lower levels of football. At the top level, players must treat the game like a job. That is a requirement. 2. The standards are very high and very strict. Players must meet a very high bar to perform at the top level - schools admit only the best, and constantly cycle through to eliminate underperformers. Failure to meet the standard means elimination. 3. Revenue is massive. D1 FBS football generates over $14 billion annually. Top programs are worth more than many professional teams in major sports leagues like the NHL or MLB or MLS. This is why the standards and time demands are so high. Now, you said a couple of other things. First, you argued that playing at D3 and other lower divisions is not really a job. And I mostly agree, actually! D3 guys generally do not have football as a job. But here is where you slipped up: you argue that top level D1 guys do the same thing as D3 and other lower divisions guys, and use that comparison to explain why the top level guys do not have a job. That is not true. As I said above, what makes football a job at the top level are the extreme demands on time and the exacting standards all players must meet continuously to qualify at all times. These things are, in turn, driven by revenue - its the money at stake that forces more time and stricter standards. Players at lower levels do not have the time demands elite athletes do. They are not held to the same strict standards for competition. And there is far far less money at stake, so everyone is OK with that, and there is no pressure for everyone (including the athletes) to grind for more dollars. We arent fooling ourselves. You are just ignoring a clear reality. This is a job, because it makes demands of a job. This is done for profit - you need more pressure to generate more revenue. Top programs have chosen revenue as the focus. Now, does it have to be this way? No! We can make it something else if we like, and ensure football isnt a job. Lower standards for athletic performance (focus on grades more), reduce time demands, and just focus less on revenue. Do all of those things and you will have something akin to Ivy League Football or D2/D3 football. And I would agree, as someone who played Ivy League football myself, that this is less of a "job". Back in the Ivy League, admissions were based first on grades - you had to be a great athlete, but couldn't get in without meeting a tough score cutoff. We practiced a lot, but the focus was on school first and foremost - we devoted more time to studies than sports. There were ZERO athletic scholarships. Players could leave the team whenever they wanted and stay at the school. Transfers existed, but they were less common (and still are today in the portal era) because of the academic standards. Coaches were paid well, but nothing outrageous - a good Ivy League head coach made less than a top professor at those schools. NIL and money are there, but not in huge numbers. No fights over TV deals - its a few games on ESPNU and ESPN2 each year, then ESPN+ for the rest. Simple and easy. When you say "college football is not a job", I think this is what you have in mind. But that is NOT what you have at the top level. And this is the disconnect. If you reorganized the top level to look more like the Ivy League, you would have a great argument! But most fans dont want to do that, do they? They want to keep the elite standards and extensive time demands so that their schools can keep producing elite on-field product and generating massive revenues on par with professional spprts franchises...but then they want to insist that their players are just amateur students, like D3 athletes. This just does not work man. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. You need to pick a side.

@BudElliott3 @_Nescience_ It’s not a job. It’s never been a job. It still isn’t a job. We’re fooling ourselves.

@leo1_ss @dje2606 @Algeria_FC Blah blah blah "Jewish conspiracy", blah blah blah "you are gay retard", blah blah... Like a 13 year old bot. Boring and pathetic. You are a loser backing a losers ideology. Its over for you. 4 replies to one post is enough. Go outside and touch grass.

@_Nescience_ @dje2606 @Algeria_FC There’s almost no one in Jamaica especially ones that are black. Which is clearly is not you. That would a team full of Hindus. You’re a retard.

France's 1986 World Cup squad: Manuel Amoros 🇪🇸 Luis Fernandez 🇪🇸 William Ayache 🇩🇿 Patrick Battiston 🇮🇹 Michel Platini 🇮🇹 Jean-Marc Ferreri 🇮🇹 Bernard Genghini 🇮🇹 Jean Tigana 🇲🇱 Yannick Stopyra 🇵🇱 Daniel Xuereb 🇲🇹 Again, not qu(wh)ite sure what the issue is .. 🤔