Diego Ricardo

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Help me understand how so many academics hold all 3 of these "truths" at the same time.

1. Jesus was not white. He would not have had fair skin and blue eyes.

2. Jesus was a Jew.

3. Jews are white and often have fair skin and light eyes.

Heck, even a lot of modern day residents of the Levant have blue eyes. What am I missing here? Where is this "fact" that Jesus was not white come from?

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You realize there are several Jewish ethnic groups, right?

The entire University of Alabama model depends on putting a high quality football product on the field. If that diminishes, then that's like having a busted foundation. Everything else above begins to crumble.

Admissions go down, UA starts having to cut programs and faculty, Tuscaloosa becomes pockmarked with LUXURY STUDENT HOUSING that has been sold off to Section 8 and shopping centers going to ruin.

It'd be bad. UA is just not setup to be a top crust academic institution yet. It needs football or the whole house of cards collapses.

I feel the same to some degree. I imagine a great team would change my opinion but I don’t know if what I’ve come to expect a great team to look like is possible anymore.

In the early 2000s, due to the dotcom bubble, state governments were confronted with budget shortfalls across the country that would affect education funding. Since K12 is compulsory, politicians decided that higher education would bear the brunt of these cuts because it isn't universal and already had a model for pursuing payment from those who utilize it. This movement had been happening for most of the 1980s and 90s but the dotcom bubble really kicked it into high gear. Partly assisted by more favorable legislation for student loan lenders passed in the 1990s.

The decision to pursue out of state enrollment was effectively trying to replace the subsidization they lost from the state over successive tightening of state level funding. Again, UA is not unique in this respect. The growth in "student life" initiatives across the country - essentially making the university experience into a resort and spa for young adults - was happening from Oregon to Alabama and beyond. Many schools who were not already academically prestigious played the angle of being the fun backup school option if, say, you didn't get into UT-Austin or couldn't get into the college you preferred at Austin, etc. This was the Robert Witt plan in Tuscaloosa: be the fun backup school, build out cheap student housing and force everyone to use it their freshman year under hand-wavy research that says it is better for student outcomes, have a winner on the football field, ???, profit (well not in the red at least). The long term goal - something the Bell presidency really prioritized - was increasing UA's research/academic prestige thanks to generally bringing in higher quantity of quality students than Alabama can produce on its own.

Now look at the alternative: WVU. They are mocked for being a trash university because they decided to prioritize serving their state population as the flagship university. When you're a flagship university in a small state, you're simply going to have a lot of out-of-staters if you intend to increase your prestige both in terms of student quality and the ability to afford quality faculty with all that out-of-state revenue.

Won’t have to worry about younger than millennials because old school message boards are “unc” and they’re functionally illiterate besides

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No we shouldn’t be offering retirement after 20 years of service. I am sorry that hurts your feelings. The military has become an easy retirement for most military veterans. Vietnam veterans got denied care quite frequently as did others before and after them who served in combat. A veteran who never left the lower 48 shouldn’t be retiring in their early 40’s on 60k. That is unaffordable. That is the problem with the military as a whole. It is too bloated and far too political to sustain itself

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"Hurt my feelings"

Brother, my feelings have nothing to do with it. You're just softer than baby shite.

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Correct, the military and most veteran funded pensions are a massive drain on the government. Joining the military and sitting behind a desk for 20 years shouldn’t be a golden ticket for the rest of your life. It’s unaffordable and illogical. If you are a combat veteran with combat issues, that’s one thing but the vast majority of veterans on retirement or disability aren’t and that is the problem. Most of the funding is getting eaten up by the massive bureaucracy it has created post WWII

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This is the dumbest shite written on this site. Militaries need a lot of guys who aren’t shooting at the enemy to function. We should take care of all who serve. What we shouldn’t do is glorified corporate welfare to defense contractors who make overwrought equipment that doesn’t scale to real warfare.

DeBoer has outright fired at least one coach and probably essentially fired OLC without busting him out during bowl practice like the 2024 safeties coach.

He doesn’t seem emotional tied to loyalty. He’s pushed out guys who weren’t performing.

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At some juncture the Hebrew State is going to have to re-enter the fray....tell Turkey, Greece and anyone else of like mind to take a walk

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We got played by Israel. They want us to wreck their regional competition but leave us in a weakened position of control over their region. They have seemingly succeeded. The petrodollar system is more at risk today than it has been since Nixon made the secret deal to start it.

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Being former military let me explain something to you. No one on this board has the security clearance to know what we had, have used nor what is left. To even make a statement on our inventory is ludicrous and shows a pure lack of knowledge on how security clearance works.

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This is 100% true. That information is a serious national secret not the sometimes ridiculously overly secured information you see with our federal government.

I have some hunches but they'll only be hunches until we start seeing the ramifications of stockpile exhaustion in the field.

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I haven't seen the bourbon in the ABC stores either.

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I got some in early December of last year. Not sure if that was a one-time run deal or nah.