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3down10
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That meme is ridiculous. Someone's view is ALWAYS going to be imposed on everyone else. The goal should be to have your views being imposed. The idea that we will live in a paradigm where there is no governing worldview is fantasy. As soon as the Trump administration ends (and maybe even before), it will be straight back to globohomo. Extreme social liberalism paired with big business capitalism enforced by the military.
Because you've said yourself you do not deserve or want freedom. As such, you will not get the choice on how you are governed.
You have consented to the globohomo.
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re: The problem with this country is the freedom
Posted by 3down10 on 1/17/26 at 1:00 am to Neutral Underground
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Are you drunk? Too much moonshine?
I do not drink.
And I do not dine with Paul.
re: So everyone was trolling Bama for their transfer class but we finished better than UGA...
Posted by 3down10 on 1/17/26 at 12:59 am to crimsoncoded94
It's not over. Today was just the last day to declare, everyone will likely be getting more commits.
re: The problem with this country is the freedom
Posted by 3down10 on 1/17/26 at 12:54 am to Neutral Underground
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Those freedoms were founded for Straight white Christian Men.
To get away from fricks like you specifically.
Take your human sacrifice death cult and shove it up your arse.
The only thing saved by the death of truth is the lie, and the lie will live until the truth returns.
re: What happened to the libertarian movement re: immigration?
Posted by 3down10 on 1/17/26 at 12:52 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The 2 major libertarian institutions- reason.com and the CATO institute- are firmly on the left on illegal immigration.
Libertarians are basically conservatives and nobody listens to these places.
After reading this thread so far, there are some things that should be cleared up.
Libertarians are NOT in favor of open borders in the sense that anyone should be allowed to come over here illegally or whatever and just stay. That's like claiming you can't have a door on your house. Boundaries are there for a reason and it's the federal governments job to protect those borders from invaders.
Here's where you are getting confused.
Libertarians ARE in favor of legal immigration on the condition that they come here for the purpose of liberty and freedom. NOT for the purpose of coming here to be a leach on the welfare system(which shouldn't exist at all) and all this other bullshite that has been going on.
All these Chinese students for example Trump is bringing in - NOT cool. If they aren't coming here for the purpose of liberty and to assimilate, they are invaders. In this case, coming for an economic zone.
But if someone from anywhere in the world, from any culture, wants to come to American in the pursuit of liberty and to be free, and to understand what it means to be free, to be responsible and work for a living and to assimilate with the ideals of this country - those people are more than welcome to immigrate here IMO, and those are the ones who the borders are open too.
Of course, if you got rid of the drug war and the welfare system, you wouldn't have an immigration problem to start with because they wouldn't have any other reason to come here to start with than to work and so forth.
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You are right, but the American conservative's mind is conditioned to think of "freedom" as an absolute good. The problem is that freedom is one face of a coin with the obverse side being "order."
And if you're really honest with yourself, order is more important than freedom. Pure freedom is anarchy.
America and its Constitution were a leftist experiment and for that reason it's trajectory will always ultimately be to the left.
re: The problem with this country is the freedom
Posted by 3down10 on 1/17/26 at 12:41 am to grizzlylongcut
Weird how we became such a great country while having freedom of speech.
Now in order to save everything the country, we must destroy everything it was founded on?
All so you can push your bullshite Christian National views?
Go frick yourself or find out what the 2nd amendment is for.
Now in order to save everything the country, we must destroy everything it was founded on?
All so you can push your bullshite Christian National views?
Go frick yourself or find out what the 2nd amendment is for.
re: OM is refusing to let a young athlete leave
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 10:25 pm to geauxbrown
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The difference being that when you break a contract with the military, you go to jail.
Yes, due to the stacks involved. But the same principle is involved, you break a contract you pay the penalty involved. One is just civil and the other criminal.
re: I haven’t heard about and drug boats being sunk lately…
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 8:25 pm to Robin Masters
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I’m sure it’s temporary until they find a different way
Pretty sure the different way is the main way they already have, which is through Mexico.
re: How would you grade your portal/draft decision season?
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 8:10 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
I give Alabama an A.
We dropped 22 players to the transfer portal. 1 of those players was from DeBoers HS class. 2 of them were transfers that DeBoer brought in. There were 2 or 3 others that would have been welcome to stay, but the rest were players recruited by Saban that don't really fit the scheme.
According to On3, we've dropped about 5 million in NIL payments and the names aren't that big and that includes the players we have picked up. No idea how accurate that is, but it's all I have to go on.
So he's keeping players that he's recruited for his scheme and getting rid of players who are overpaid based on production and needs.
We'll also likely be picking up more players. The declare date ends today, but the recruiting period still isn't over.
Also I'm not sure how much longer these rankings are going to be relevant/useful. There probably needs to be some formula changes. Maybe they should be shifted from being more about potential to being more about production. Are 5 star HS recruits really worth the same if they aren't starting on day 1? In the past it happened sometimes that they started first year, but often times you were recruiting potential for what they would be in future years. At the same time, maybe a kid who was a 3 star coming out of HS who has been in a system and started for a few years is more valuable because of the production he can be if he's able to start right away.
So I'm not 100% sure what to make of the rankings right now. You look at what Indiana did and it's like maybe that big 5 star everyone has been going off about but hasn't got playing time really isn't worth all that money based on their production. At the same time, it still seems if you can get a guy out of HS, keep them the entire time and develop them, that is the best case.
One thing people haven't really talked about that I've seen is the amount of recruits and points teams are getting. Yesterday when I looked there were like 10 teams that had more points this year than the #1 team last year in the overall. Usually there are only about 4 teams over 300 points, this year there is 12 so far.
We dropped 22 players to the transfer portal. 1 of those players was from DeBoers HS class. 2 of them were transfers that DeBoer brought in. There were 2 or 3 others that would have been welcome to stay, but the rest were players recruited by Saban that don't really fit the scheme.
According to On3, we've dropped about 5 million in NIL payments and the names aren't that big and that includes the players we have picked up. No idea how accurate that is, but it's all I have to go on.
So he's keeping players that he's recruited for his scheme and getting rid of players who are overpaid based on production and needs.
We'll also likely be picking up more players. The declare date ends today, but the recruiting period still isn't over.
Also I'm not sure how much longer these rankings are going to be relevant/useful. There probably needs to be some formula changes. Maybe they should be shifted from being more about potential to being more about production. Are 5 star HS recruits really worth the same if they aren't starting on day 1? In the past it happened sometimes that they started first year, but often times you were recruiting potential for what they would be in future years. At the same time, maybe a kid who was a 3 star coming out of HS who has been in a system and started for a few years is more valuable because of the production he can be if he's able to start right away.
So I'm not 100% sure what to make of the rankings right now. You look at what Indiana did and it's like maybe that big 5 star everyone has been going off about but hasn't got playing time really isn't worth all that money based on their production. At the same time, it still seems if you can get a guy out of HS, keep them the entire time and develop them, that is the best case.
One thing people haven't really talked about that I've seen is the amount of recruits and points teams are getting. Yesterday when I looked there were like 10 teams that had more points this year than the #1 team last year in the overall. Usually there are only about 4 teams over 300 points, this year there is 12 so far.
re: OM is refusing to let a young athlete leave
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 7:23 pm to geauxbrown
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Perhaps the dumbest analogy I’ve seen in a very long time.
If you sign a contract people expect you to keep it, thus the entire point of a contract.
re: OM is refusing to let a young athlete leave
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 7:21 pm to BigUglies10
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Coaches do it all the time Einstein.
Coaches have buyout clauses.
Sign a contract on your house and then tell them you don't want to sell it anymore.
re: OM is refusing to let a young athlete leave
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 7:07 pm to Adam Banks
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What do you call someone who refuses to allow another to adequately get compensated for work and wants the to be forced to stay on site and labor for them without be compensated?
Someone who signed a contract.
Join the army, sign that contract and let me know how your argument goes if you decide you changed your mind.
Hope the NCAA wins honestly. All these extra years of eligibility aren't good for the sport.
re: Is it fair to say LSU has gone “all in”?
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 6:33 pm to friendlyobservation
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When is the last time you felt LSU wasn't all in for any of their coaches since Saban?
Don't know why it's so surprising LSU is hungry so they sling money at the problem. We've always had deep pockets when it comes to football. I think Underwood pissed a lot of LSU boosters off and that's where the billionaire collective decided they had enough with this new era.
I'm not exactly sure how to treat the Childrens Hospital.
On the one hand, going that far definitely speaks towards being all-in no matter what.
On the other hand, it doesn't actually scream unlimited amounts of money to spend when you do that.
Also, the coach you hire is kind of important. With all that money you have to wonder why you never hired Saban back.
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Speak for yourself, I picked OM to win that game.. Like I said, OM lost by one score on the road the first time. Not like they were overmatched
Well they only lost the first time because Kiffin blew a 9 point lead in the first quarter. So I guess that's fair.
However, Golding had to come back from being down 9 points to win that game. And nobody knew what to expect of him and Kiffin was gone, so Ole Miss should have been worse.
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None of that has anything to do with you saying Kiffin didn’t think OM could beat Georgia.. What a dumb arse thing to say
The claim is Kiffin when to LSU so he could have a chance at winning a national championship. Kiffin left Ole Miss because he didn't think Ole Miss could do that.
Pretty sure none of us expected Ole Miss to win that game either.
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So the roster max is 105 .... walkons and scholarship players apparently count the same but the absolute limit is 105.
I remember the days when schools like Notre Dame and SoCal would have 200+ players on a roster. They would suck up players just to prevent other programs from getting those players.
Yeah, people use to get mad at Alabama and Bear for the number of scholarship players. Claimed we were putting kids on scholarships just to keep them from going to other SEC schools.
But I think it was Title IX that had a big effect. That is a few years before my time, but close enough that people would always tell me Alabama only won because we put so many on scholarship and hogged up the talent.
Of course, a lot of them were freshman.
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They lost by one score on the road with Kiffin as their coach, not to mention beat them last year.. You really think Kiffin didn’t think they could win that game? Swear to God you Ole Miss fans are fricking dumb!
The 2024 team rated much better than the Ole Miss team this year. Mostly because their defense was better. They did beat Georgia, it was the 2nd big win of Kiffin's career.
However, he also blew a game @ LSU, and lost games to Kentucky given them their only SEC win of the year as well as getting another loss to a Billy Napier lead Florida team. So they missed the playoffs.
re: We all are aware LSU is not Kiffins dream job/destination
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 3:28 pm to The Pirate King
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At LSU he's positioned for a Saban run. He has everything he needs and more here. Not saying he may not scratch the NFL itch at some point, but if he asks Saban, he will tell him not to do it.
He was already an NFL coach is considered one of the worst NFL coaches ever.
I suppose it's possible, but I'll be downright shocked if any NFL team hired him.
re: We all are aware LSU is not Kiffins dream job/destination
Posted by 3down10 on 1/16/26 at 3:27 pm to SouthernInsanity
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I mean... he was hired at bama, was hired at FAU, was hired at OM, was hired at LSU.
Seems like a lot of hiring.
Hired at USC, hired at Tennessee, Hired at Oakland in the NFL if you just want to be a dumbass and list teams to avoid the fact the entire context of the conversation was that he spent 6 years at Ole Miss.
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