AbuTheMonkey

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Golf fans have become the absolute worst and it's pretty sad.

It's the Waste Management and US Ryder Cup vibe transferring over to all tournaments.

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I'll say this about the WM - the players and you know exactly what they're getting into and what to expect.

It's getting worse all over but this issue seems particularly acute at Northeastern venues.

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Rory just says too much. Other players, like Scottie, just say "I didn't have it today and so-and-so played great and deserved it" and moves on. Rory always takes it one step or two steps further and it sounds like excuses and complaints.

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Eh, Scottie gets pretty snippy with reporters at times, too, especially lately.

Every single golfer on Tour believes deep down that nothing bad is ever their fault, and the greats believe it more than the rest.

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It’s not really a victory for anyone. Even hardcore MAGA dues see it as flimsy lawfare.

It’s more a sign of pressing and weakness than anything else.

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About 8 months left of having majority in both chambers and without the relentless onslaught on a guy who is clearly mentally deteriorating. Trump is in Biden territory at this point in incomprehension, incogent thoughts, etc. He has incompetents running the Departments, and they are getting flayed at every turn because they simply are not very good at what they do.

Let's not also forget the legions of "86 46" gear that was floating around out there just a few short years ago.

Don't recall too many indictments or prosecutions around that merchandise.

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the Aussie's made the list?

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Makes me question the methodology. I've spent some time in Rockhampton. There isn't a reasonable methodology that could possibly put it in the top 50 most violent places in the U.S. alone, much less the world.

It has its rough parts - it is a mining town - but it's no more dangerous than , say, Fort Wayne, IN or St. George, UT.

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He had zero online or QB in his first year. Every single grade from NFL scouts had Jeanty as a 7.1+ grade. Love couldn't crack 7. Fact.

Jeanty is also way, way stronger and has elite balance. Loves lower half is questionable at best. Skinny legs.

This is a future, like, 10 year argument but after 1 year in the NFL behind the worst Online in the NFL vs Love, nearly every GM would take Jeanty on durability and balance alone. Not close.

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If you think Jeanty is stronger and has better balance than Love, you haven't watched enough of both. Love is a true 5 - 7 year freak in a way Jeanty never was. Getting 25 carries / game against future insurance salesmen will tend to inflate one's perception of a player, but Love was a much better player than Jeanty in '24, and it's not close at this point.

The better comparison is whether Jeanty is better than Price. They are similar-ish players with similar skillsets. That comparison will probably come down to who plays in the better organization over the long term.

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Must be a very weak RB class outside of Love

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Can't speak to much of the rest of the class outside the ND kids but in many years in the past, JD Price would have been that ND kid that got all the hype, all the attention and media, non-stop fluffing and criticism, etc. (think Brady Quinn, Clausen, Teo, etc., etc.). He's a quiet dude who was splitting carries with the best RB prospect since Barkley, so he went well, well under the radar, but he is an awesome football player.

There were times last year, especially early in the year, where I thought he was a better pure RB than Love. Not as electric as Love (whom I would compare with Bijan or Darren McFadden), but he is fast as frick, extremely physical, just a great instinctual runner (incredible vision in the backfield - better than Love whose is pretty damn good), very patient and intelligent player, immediate plug and play top 20 in the NFL type of RB. The guy he is replacing in Seattle is actually a great comp - Kenneth Walker-esque. Also a great special teams player which I know Seattle values.

His knock is his penchant for putting it on the ground in big situations. He wasn't below average on a per carry basis by any means, but A) he had a knack for doing it in the highest leverage situations and B) his counterpart put the ball on the ground one single time in his entire college career (and recovered his own fumble, at that), so it will jump out a bit.

A low key big thing for both of them is that they both have light wear on the treads. Their combined amount of carries over the last two years barely eclipses what Jeanty had by himself in his final two years at Boise, for comparison.

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serious question, what country currently has the most powerful European military?

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France by a good bit. Strong military culture, very capable operators, wisely (thanks to de Gaulle) has never fully relied on the American umbrella. Only serious shortcoming is that they struggle to service the logistics of a truly modern 21st century force.

Britain is still soldier for soldier, sailor for sailor among the very best in the world, but they’ve been chronically under-resourced for a long time now.

Poland has all the makings of a modern military power but they’ve yet to be truly tested in any real way (outside of some Afghanistan support) since the Cold War ended.

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I would like to talk shite but that fiesty man has 10x the athletic ability of all of us combined

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A 6'3" D1 volleyball player at a high level California program is a superb athlete, whatever his sexual orientation.

Just watching the videos, that kid is approaching 36 - 38 inch vertical.

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When you join the military, you’re swearing an oath of allegiance to the commander-in-chief and the country

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This is mortally wrong. The military is not the personal army of the CINC. Both enlisted and officers swear loyalty to the Constitution; enlisted swear to follow the orders of the President.

Pedantic but critical difference. No one is swearing personal loyalty to anyone.

As for the OP, those kinds of people have always existed in our military. The military is better for it. Having soldiers and marines with the ability to think for themselves has been a strategic advantage for this country since its inception.