TheRealTigerHorn

Late freeze here in CenTex seems to have really knocked them down

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If they reinstitute their old criteria, it will once again go back to all Asian students. Asians and Jews are the only people smart enough to get into these top schools on their own merit. Whites, blacks, Latinos are all too dumb.

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The stats used to be about 1/3 Asian, 1/3 Jews, 1/3 mostly white with a few Hispanic and a tiny number of other.

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Where's Werner Von Braun when you need him?

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Werner and the boys blew up a few themselves.

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Expendable income (for a single, childless adult) by state is relevant to this discussion (of course it only tells you if you are above or below average for your state based on your wage)

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Interesting data, but FWIW, I looked at the methodology of the MIT COL calculator that it's based on, and there is some bias to it. It includes some mushy stuff like cost of "civic engagement", doesn't fully account for total tax burden in a state, counts access to public transit, etc.

It's a number to be proud of, but be aware that not every SEC school totals research the same.

For instance here, the LSU number that includes the NO medical campus and Shreveport would be the equivalent of Alabama including UAH and UAB (med school, the lion's share of the number). Texas usually does not include its satellite campuses and medical institutions either. If Texas did, the total runs something well into the billions IIRC. Other schools like Auburn do not have a med school, which yields a smaller number even though they do a good amount of research by non-med school standards.

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I cannot get enough of the Nick Fairley perfectly clean sacks of Aaron Murray in the 2010 UGA game. And the fact that Aaron Murray's mother was still complaining them about a decade later! Legend!

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Oregon lines up for what should be a sure TD inside the 5 - was it on the 1? Fairley blows up the OL and tackles both QB and RB in the backfield to force a field goal. One of the most dominant plays I've ever seen.

So, your engineering school is trash?

And you took funding from established engineering schools in Georgia to build it? Sounds par for the course in both AL and GA.

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This. Are there any other former athletes at any other schools that show as much love for their school as Shaq does for LSU?

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Bo Jackson, Charles Barkley, Takeo Spikes, and Cam Newton just from Auburn alone, and they are the more public ones. Hasn't Herschel Walker always been there for the Dawgs?

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If you really dig into the philosophical backgrounds of communism and fascism, their end games are more alike than not. The WWII rivalry between them was driven more by racism and the false religions of the two than it was by socio-economic policy.

I mean, they are very similar philosophies for a reason that is clearly going past you, but their differences are not rooted in racism or the religions of the two. Though, seeing this is your interpretation, it makes your other analogy make a lot more sense in its absurdity.

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Found the guy who's ignorant of history. Let me fix that for you.

The Nazi's considered all Slavic peoples to be "untermensch" - sub human. This was part of the entire "Aryan Race" religion that they built their philosophy around. At the infamous Munich torch rally pre-war, Hitler called upon the German people to "discard their facade of Christianity and return to their roots". This is why the SS used so much pagan symbology. Their false religion was absolutely core to Nazi beliefs, but not at all to Fascism. That, along with "liebensraum", was used as the justification for Barbarossa. That's the German side.

As for the Communists, the party is literally their religion. IDK why you need that explained to you, but whatever. Anything opposing that religion is an enemy of the state. Hence the whole Nazi-Aryan Race-Occult thing was a threat to them.

The founding philosopher of fascism was an Italian by the name of Giovanni Gentile, who himself had roots in Marxism. Because the state represents the absolute will of the people, Gentile argued that the Fascist state was the truest form of democracy. This justified totalitarian control over all aspects of public and private life, effectively eradicating the distinction between individual interests and the interests of the nation. This is exactly what communism purports to do. The sole difference is that in Fascism, private ownership of the means of production is allowed on paper, whereas in communism it is not. I leave the research on Marx, Lenin and Stalinist policies to that effect to you as a homework assignment.

You are welcome for the enlightenment. Now, be what you claim to be Auburn man and edit or delete your post.

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Everytime there's a mass shooter, sites like Reddit start looking for every pro MAGA, fascist white person evidence it can find.

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What's ironic about this one is that one of the guys they killed, the clearly not white security guard, was also a Muslim fascist who had posted "Hitler was right" memes to his social media. For those who don't know, portions of the Muslim world found a lot of common ground with Hitler and the Nazis. Iraq's Ba'ath party (Saddam Hussein) was modeled after the Nazi party.

Now that you mention the "extreme right wing dude who is also gay", I have a distant family member who exactly fits that description. Strange times.