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We’re actually waiting till marriage hahaha. Both devout Catholic Christian so doing every to build our relationship with God at the center :)

Lol I’ve learned all of this. Did I say Europeans have never encountered oppression? Shoot even the word slave comes from Slav! My point is the US white population is not one of those single ethnic groups. If we were all Irish, it’d be different. If we were all Spanish descent, like in Latin America, it’d be different. Or even all French descent like in Quebec or even here is South Louisiana. But we’re not. I think all of those histories of individual groups gets a bit watered down and the ethnic identities mushed together in a way that makes it to where White American culture does not resemble one single coherent ethnic group.

Also a lot of those things happened centuries or millennia ago. Brits really don’t have the Scandinavian raids of 900AD burned into their national conscience. The Greco-Persian was 400 years before Jesus. Meanwhile we are friends with people who’s grandparents weren’t allowed to vote. That’s way more recent and gonna make for a stronger collective ethnic identity

Probably cuz white people don’t form a single ethnic/cultural community strengthened by centuries of exclusion and trauma. And I’m not some woke leftist, but from an anthropological perspective, the Black American cultural identity is much more cohesive and unified and communitarian than White American culture (which does exist, just much more loosely as a result of diversity of countries/cultures of origin, religion, politics, geography, etc) And until maybe the last decade, there’s not really been much external pressure to bind together as a unified white ethnic group against some exterior threat like Black folk had to do since the 1600s until like the 1980s

BET awards celebrate black culture, which is a fairly well-defined, unified thing. But as a southern rural white dude, I don’t really feel any kind of cultural affinity with someone just cuz they’re White, ya know? They most likely talk different, eat different, listen to different music, pray different, have different values, etc. Good for Caitlin Clark for being excellent but i wouldn’t feel like represented by her if she won something. Good for her, but she’s from a different white culture than me

I don’t follow baseball super close, but it seems to me surprising that only 3/8 of the top seeds will be advancing to Omaha. Here’s the breakdown:

1- Vandy: Eliminated in the regionals, didn’t even make final (lost to Louisville and Wright St)
2- Texas: eliminated by UTSA in the regional
3- Arkansas: Omaha bound (wins against NDSU, Creighton, Tenn, hasn’t lost yet)
4- Auburn: Eliminated in supers, 0-2 to Coastal Carolina at home.
5- UNC: lost 2-1 in super regional to Arizona
6- LSU: Omaha bound. Wins over UALR, DBU, WVU, one dropped game to UALR
7- UGA: Eliminated in the regionals, didn’t even make final (lost to Duke and OkSt)
8. Oregon St: Omaha bound. Wins against TCU, SMC, USC, FSU. Dropped one each to SMC and FSU.

so of the top 8, 3 are left standing. Of the 5 eliminated, only 1 lost in the supers to another seeded team (Auburn to 13 Coastal) Is this normal is baseball?

It makes me so happy to see Ole Miss and Texas get knocked out by the likes of Murray State and UTSA. I know, we barely survived UALR (which as someone from an hour outside of LR absolutely horrified me) but dang I’m really glad we aren’t most other SEC fanbases rn, esp Texas and Ole Miss

Idk man makes me kinda think all of these top teams are having their struggles. Only auburn and Arky have truly taken care of business.

I also was gonna say honey badger. I was a kid when he played and he’s basically the player that single-handedly got me into football

Yeah wtf?? Chase and Jefferson not having the 1 spot is a shock to me

to be fair I was being ironic there lol. the comment I was responding to was basically saying that is the best decade in LSU's history, kind of implying we cant have that kind of success anymore.

Which i find to be BS too

I get that, your perspective is likely pretty different and that's fine. Just was expressing that for me, I grew up on a decade of LSU consistently being in the cream of the crop and in natty conversation. On Honey Badger and Game of the Century and the lore of Saban and the grass-eating Mad Hatter. The past decade just makes me really nostalgic for that era of LSU football