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Tiger1242
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What has happened to this country? Everyone now craves the control of big government?
Posted by Tiger1242 on 1/16/26 at 8:40 am
When I was growing up and trying to understand politics it seemed to me that most of the crucial political arguments centered around the idea of government control. As I studied history and read about the decisions of our government I started to see a pattern where people often stood up to try and limit the control of the government, sometimes successfully and often times not.
You can point to crucial moments in our history when the government found a way to gain power, slowly and also quickly at the same time. Unfortunately there are very few moments in history where our government has lessened any of its power.
It seems like over the last 20 years or so, our population has been groomed into giving government control. I used to believe conservatives generally wanted the government to have less control, but now I see most people just want the government to control them in a way they like. Political arguments no longer center around whether the government should be able to do something, instead it’s how they should use their power in a way that one side likes.
I fear that the political climate today has everyone unable to see the forest through the trees. As long as the government uses its power to advance an agenda we agree with, we are all so willing to just allow them to control us. Very few people think forward about the implications that can have into the future, and what it might look like when the government is using that same power you so happily let them take to push an agenda you do not agree with.
I fear for the future of our country when our citizens so willingly allow the government to do whatever it wants and the fight is over what they are doing with their unlimited power and not over the fact that they have that power in the first place.
Aren’t the people supposed to control the government and not the other way around?
You can point to crucial moments in our history when the government found a way to gain power, slowly and also quickly at the same time. Unfortunately there are very few moments in history where our government has lessened any of its power.
It seems like over the last 20 years or so, our population has been groomed into giving government control. I used to believe conservatives generally wanted the government to have less control, but now I see most people just want the government to control them in a way they like. Political arguments no longer center around whether the government should be able to do something, instead it’s how they should use their power in a way that one side likes.
I fear that the political climate today has everyone unable to see the forest through the trees. As long as the government uses its power to advance an agenda we agree with, we are all so willing to just allow them to control us. Very few people think forward about the implications that can have into the future, and what it might look like when the government is using that same power you so happily let them take to push an agenda you do not agree with.
I fear for the future of our country when our citizens so willingly allow the government to do whatever it wants and the fight is over what they are doing with their unlimited power and not over the fact that they have that power in the first place.
Aren’t the people supposed to control the government and not the other way around?
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Rory is playing cavity back irons now which begs the question. Why use blades?
Posted by Tiger1242 on 1/15/26 at 2:16 pm
If you didn’t know Rory made an equipment change and is no longer using blades. He’s using cavity hacks for more forgiveness LINK
This brings out a great question that Grant Horvat asked on Twitter. If Rory freakin Mcilroy uses cavity backs, why would anyone still be playing blades?
This brings out a great question that Grant Horvat asked on Twitter. If Rory freakin Mcilroy uses cavity backs, why would anyone still be playing blades?
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re: Why do pros not just have one divot mark?
Posted by Tiger1242 on 1/15/26 at 11:41 am to DestrehanTiger
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Yeah, totally. I guess my thought should be that it would take a pro a lot longer to get his line to the back than it would take me.
It probably does take them longer. They probably just hit a lot more shots at the range than you or I do.
re: Why do pros not just have one divot mark?
Posted by Tiger1242 on 1/15/26 at 11:35 am to DestrehanTiger
Think of the physics though. You are hitting down on the ball so before the ball goes up it interacts with the ground. So even if your club isn’t hitting the grass, the ball is sitting on, the ball is which can remove the grass it’s on. Also turf is connected together so when the club impacts the ground the force can also remove some of the turf behind where it impacts. Think about throwing a rock into water, the waves don’t just go forward from where the rock hits, they also go backwards.
Do you play a softer ball in the cold?
Posted by Tiger1242 on 1/11/26 at 6:38 pm
Makes logical sense, ball doesn’t compress as well in the cold, greens don’t hold as well usually. Does anyone here do that? Do pros?
re: TGL is DOA, huge viewership drops between last season and this season and week to week
Posted by Tiger1242 on 1/9/26 at 8:46 am to The Pirate King
I’m sure there is some kind of copyright or whatever legal issue with it. But I really wish the had them playing real golf holes on the simulator and not gimmick golden tee style holes
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Him, Obama and Hillary. And maybe sleepy Joe too iirc.
Yea let’s arrest and imprison our political opponents in this great free country of America
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I did not like a single character on this show. rich = bad & poor =good lazy plot.
:lol: what?
That is absolutely not the plot of this show, the poor people were awful humans and half of them were drug addicts, thief’s, and murderers.
First 4-5 seasons of this show are awesome
Anybody actually care about the bowl game?
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/24/25 at 9:40 am
Any news on who’s playing and who’s not? How good is Houston? Who’s actually going?
Does anybody actually care? Who’s even coaching the game?
Does anybody actually care? Who’s even coaching the game?
The 2012 “Red Dawn” remake
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/24/25 at 9:35 am
Spoilers if you care
Obviously doesn’t hold a candle to the original but I’ll give them credit for knowing what kind of movie it is. There is basically no dialogue and very little character development which is perfect. They give you very obvious action movie hero tropes so you know who the characters are and care at least a little, and then it’s just action scene after action scene.
I mainly wanted to give the movie a shout out for having the balls to kill the main character with 10 minutes left in the movie and for not showing us a happy ending. The movie ends and they’re getting new recruits while the war goes on, and most of the original people are dead.
Obviously doesn’t hold a candle to the original but I’ll give them credit for knowing what kind of movie it is. There is basically no dialogue and very little character development which is perfect. They give you very obvious action movie hero tropes so you know who the characters are and care at least a little, and then it’s just action scene after action scene.
I mainly wanted to give the movie a shout out for having the balls to kill the main character with 10 minutes left in the movie and for not showing us a happy ending. The movie ends and they’re getting new recruits while the war goes on, and most of the original people are dead.
re: The Odyssey Trailer #1 - Releasing Summer 2026
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/23/25 at 5:25 pm to rebelrouser
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The Aeneid and Homer's epics form a trifecta of ancient literature, epics that tell tales of war and peace, gods and men. In the Aeneid, Vergil draws on Greek themes and characters and blatantly Romanizes them. The resulting epic molded Roman national identity into a cohesive narrative.
Molded into a cohesive narrative for us today to study. The Aeneid was written for that purpose for sure but to take anything from is as having anything to do with anything based on history is like using the Marvel movies to explain our culture
re: The Odyssey Trailer #1 - Releasing Summer 2026
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/23/25 at 2:37 pm to rebelrouser
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While the story is not factually true, it was written to explain and define the national identity of the ancient Greek city states. Therefor, it is true in a sense and historical accuracy seems kind of important.
:lol: that’s putting the cart before the horse my friend.
These stories were written (or more accurately spoken), to entertain people during the dark ages after the Bronze Age Collapse. Ancient Greeks didn’t have a “national identity”, they were enemies with each other as often as allies
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The Aeneid did this for the Romans.
:lol:
The Aeneid was written to entertain Caesar Augustus and create a way to connect the Romas to their Greek heroes. It was written 1000 years after the Illiad and has zero basis in any real history at all.
re: Jonah Hill turned 42 on Saturday
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/23/25 at 7:48 am to hawgfaninc
I think the fashion choice is worse than the weight loss. He’s definitely taken the weight loss too far but in other pictures he doesn’t look quite as weird
re: Canadians release Full 60 Minutes Cecot video. Currently viewable not blocked.
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/23/25 at 7:41 am to RCDfan1950
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RCDfan1950
Wow an actual thought out, reasonable, coherent post on this board :bow:
You nailed it man, unfortunately since you made a good point that doesn’t have a lot of holes and isn’t 100% pro-Trump, no one will respond to it and it will be totally ignored.
Great post though :cheers:
re: Has any FIRED LSU Coach ever done better once leaving LSU?
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/19/25 at 10:25 am to BadatBourre
If we are strictly talking college football and not other sports, can we expand that to ALL D1 schools?
How many D1 head coaches have been fired then gone on to have better success at the D1 level? Plenty of examples of guys getting fired from the pros and coming back but I’m talking D1 to D1.
Take assistants and coordinators out of this discussion because there has to be 1000 examples of that happening
How many D1 head coaches have been fired then gone on to have better success at the D1 level? Plenty of examples of guys getting fired from the pros and coming back but I’m talking D1 to D1.
Take assistants and coordinators out of this discussion because there has to be 1000 examples of that happening
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Orcs are evil
They’re evil when they serve their evil master, the question is are they inherently evil or are they corrupted by evil?
If a good person got a hold of a bunch of Orcs good they be used for good and not evil?
Here is an AI answer that gets to my point pretty well
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Yes, orcs in The Lord of the Rings are fundamentally evil and serve the Dark Lords, but Tolkien wrestled with whether they were inherently evil from creation or corrupted beings, suggesting they were twisted elves or men, making their evil a product of their origins and servitude, though they exhibit traits like cruelty, malice, and a desire for destruction, acting as agents of darkness and profanity, but some instances hint at their base motivations being fear and desire for freedom from Sauron, rather than pure love for evil itself.
re: “Looks like meats back on the menu boys!”
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/19/25 at 10:09 am to hawgfaninc
I read a thing the other day about Orcs and the idea that they are sentient being with thoughts and emotions and how that kind of crushes Tolkien’s whole world of good vs. evil.
In fact what I read claims Tolkien spent much of his life trying to find a way to explain why it’s okay that his good characters indiscriminately killed orcs when at the end of the day they were just following orders. What makes an Orc truly evil other than the fact that the people controlling them are evil? What’s to stop the “good guys” from gaining control of a group of Orcs and all of a sudden they’re not evil. At the end of the day they’re just pawns in a game following orders.
In fact what I read claims Tolkien spent much of his life trying to find a way to explain why it’s okay that his good characters indiscriminately killed orcs when at the end of the day they were just following orders. What makes an Orc truly evil other than the fact that the people controlling them are evil? What’s to stop the “good guys” from gaining control of a group of Orcs and all of a sudden they’re not evil. At the end of the day they’re just pawns in a game following orders.
re: Lesson from the confederate monument saga
Posted by Tiger1242 on 12/19/25 at 10:05 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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And they’re selling the wrong message anyway. I have a ton of respect for Lee for his values and the way he carried himself with dignity at the end of and after the war. He was a true warrior and had class.
But the message a lot of people want to send with the statues is “the south will rise again” shite instead of highlighting his honor and ability to reconcile back into a united nation.
You nailed this. Lee was outspoken about the South rejoining the Union after the war and definitely would not have supported this “lost cause” narrative or the idea that “the South will rise again”. I seriously doubt he would support a lot of the things that people used his name to represent.
In fact I imagine if Robert E. Lee was around today people on the far right would label him a liberal
Like with most political things both extreme sides were off and the common sense approach was somewhere in the middle.
For example there was no reason for a Robert E. Lee statue somewhere like Dallas, Robert E. Lee never spent time in Dallas. I had no problem with common sense replacement of some of the statues, but some of them made sense where they were and getting rid of them was very dumb.
Whether we like history or not we shouldn’t try and erase it, but we also shouldn’t try and mold it into what we want it to be.
For example there was no reason for a Robert E. Lee statue somewhere like Dallas, Robert E. Lee never spent time in Dallas. I had no problem with common sense replacement of some of the statues, but some of them made sense where they were and getting rid of them was very dumb.
Whether we like history or not we shouldn’t try and erase it, but we also shouldn’t try and mold it into what we want it to be.
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Alan Dershowitz just wrote a book alleging he can indeed run for a third term because the constitution is "unclear" on this matter.
Dude it’s the first line of the 22nd amendment
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Section 1 No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,
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The Amendment intentionally leaves room for a two term President to serve again in an emergency situation, they just can't be elected again.
They’ve got a word for someone seizing power without an election and that word is not President
I’ve personally flown a ton with clubs and never had a problem. Just make sure you have a case you trust, I have the club glove with the metal rod that has always worked great. Take the head off your driver and wrap it in a few towels and put it in your bag if you’re worried.
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