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So none of the players that played today will be playing next year at LSU?

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The way college football is now with NIL and the transfer portal. Probably no more than 20% of the team you saw last night will take the field wearing an LSU uniform next season.

So honestly, yeah, hardly any of the players you saw last night are going to be players that Kiffin is coaching next year. Kiffin's appearance was for PR purposes and for recruiting, nothing else.

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Well I hope you're mad at the Trump push to eradicates states rights and expand federal power.

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State rights have already been mostly eradicated thanks to Democrats. States now are more Administrative Zones than they are truly states anymore.

And where did I ever say I agreed with every single thing Trump does? I voted for Trump, but that doesn't mean I agree with every decision he has made. Unlike Democrats, who believe you have to have the exact same views as your Democrat leaders.

Care to provide specifics on how Trump is "eradicating states rights?"

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I say yes.. it's only a matter of time.

Some cultures don't mix and this "American Experiment" might get dicey as the years wane..

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I've thought for years now that the only real solution that doesn't involve a Civil War, massive bloodshed and loss of life is an amicable divorce. Balkanize and split the lower 48 into 5 different countries.

- South (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas)
- Northeast (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland)
- Midwest (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri)
- Big Sky (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho)
- West Coast (California, Oregon, Washington)

Let New Mexico rejoin Mexico, it has more in common with Mexico anyway. Let Hawaii become it's own country again. Let Alaska either join Canada or become it's own country. All the territories would just become their own countries again.

The U.S. can no longer stay together long term. It's not just policy differences anymore. Conservatives and Liberals have fundamentally different views of the world that are simply not going to change. If anything they'll get more radical and Conservatives and Liberals are going to slide further apart.

With this, the U.S. will become impossible to truly govern. The only long term outcomes I see are a peaceful split, a Civil War or true authoritarianism or socialism. Only a peaceful split spares us massive pain and loss of life.

The individual countries of the former U.S. would set their own constitutions, law, cultures and forms of government. To make it fair, provide a 5 year window where people can move in between the countries with no issue, just like people can move in between states today. After 5 years, the countries are solidified are you would have to immigrate to move countries, if that country allows it.

And yes, it will be hard. Conservatives who have lived in places like California and New York their whole lives will have to move or accept being under a socialist or even communist government. Liberals who have lived in places like Texas or in cities like Chicago their whole lives will have to move or accept being under a conservative government that is going to make them be viable on their own and provide very few government services. Perhaps even a government that is a Christian theocracy, where there isn't a firm separation between Church and State.

But balkanization is the only good way forward. Otherwise the U.S. will end up destroying itself. It will take things getting worse, but I think when that does happen, most will agree that the two sides can't coexist anymore and that balkanization will make both sides happier.

This is a good example of what even average men are now facing with women:

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Wow....just Wow!!!!! I've known my fair share of Rummel guys in my life, went to college with them, have some friends that went to Rummel. None of them were whiny arse bitches like you.

You're telling me you never approached Chapelle girls or Mt. Carmel girls? Were you scared of them or something?

Please turn in your man card and Rummel diploma

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I'm not going to say I never hung out with girls from other schools, I did off and on at various events. But I was pretty introverted in high school and didn't have a lot of self confidence so no, I never flat out just went up to random girls and talked to them or asked them out. I won't lie, for prom my friends just luckily hooked me up with a random girl that also needed a date. That was nice and we were friends for awhile but nothing serious.

That's why I say I think the best learning environment is single sex core classes, but the school as a whole being co-ed. It forces you to interact with the other sex every day. Definitely would've helped someone like me. It really wasn't until college that I started to get comfortable talking to and approaching women.

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and I'm not laughing at you, but wondering if you asked first or just went for it.

I can agree with your list. Other than the draft one. We don't need females in the military, other than some basic administrative purposes.

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My preference would be just do away with the draft completely. But again, if we ever do a draft again, women should not be exempt. Equality means the good and bad, not just cherry picking when women want to be equal and when they want "tradition".

I would say you could do all female units and have them do less dangerous missions, but they shouldn't be exempt. But again, it's more the principle than anything else.

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Seems like this is the fault of the boys not taking their studies seriously. I don't see a need to intervene here.

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Wrong. Our public education system is completely oriented to how girls learn and all they want to do with the boys is medicate them or kick them out. It's been proven in many ways that boys learn very differently than girls. So when you set it up for how girls learn, we shouldn't be surprised that girls then move ahead.

Look at all boys private schools (religious or secular). Those boys for the most part can easily compete with the girls and do just fine. And that's because the learning is geared towards how boys learn. Unfortunately, most parents can't afford to have their boys attend a $15,000-$25,000/yr. private school.

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Well that's not something you can really change politically. If it's that important to you then you should probably be clear about it before the date.

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I do and I've lost dates over it before. But yes when I was dating I was clear with any woman that it's dutch and she's paying her half. But it needs to become the expectation in our society.

I would also like to see women be expected to approach more as well. If women do and get rejected like men commonly do, they might start to understand how much of a risk it is and to be more respectful of the men who do take that risk and approach them. It's the height of female privilege to just sit back and wait for the guys to take the risk and come to you.

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Sounds like you might need more confidence. Sorry you feel that way

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I don't think it's confidence as much as I no longer really care. Even if there was a woman out there for me, I don't think it's worth the pain of going through the current dating scene. At least with strippers it's an honest transaction. I might even look at one of those AI girlfriend dolls when they get more realistic.

I'm also just tired of women expecting men to bring more to the table, when those same women themselves are bringing less to the table than ever before.

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what would you like the system changed to? and let me know when you actually touch a real woman's breast, and your sister doesn't count!

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I would like to see true equality. To give you just a few examples of that:

- 50/50 first dates until the relationship is established. Women make money now, it shouldn't be the man's responsibility to pay for everything on a date. That whole concepts comes from a time when women didn't work and had no money, so if the man didn't pay, there was no date.

- Fair Divorce and Child Custody Laws - We all know how badly divorce and family courts are against men. I don't think I need to say much more here.

- Truly recognizing that boys are falling behind at school. Acknowledge that if the situation was in reverse (girls falling behind), it would be considered a national emergency. Stop medicating young boys for acting like boys. Separate and make all girl and all boy classrooms if needed, but tailor school to how boys learn best. Stop trying to force boys to learn like girls do.

- Military Draft - I know it's unlikely to ever happen again, but it's the principle. Women want equality, that means taking the bad with the good, not cherry picking when they want equality and when they want tradition. Women should have to be registered for the military draft at 18 just like Men.

- Stop Demonizing Men - Stop blaming every society problem on "the patriarchy" or "toxic masculinity". We've easily had 3 generations (Millennials, especially Younger Millenials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha) of Men who have been told their entire lives that their gender, their very existence, is the problem. And we wonder why men are more lonely, stay isolated and are far more likely to end their lives.

And these are just a few examples to start.

And the answer your last question, I touched and squeezed a real woman's breast just 2 weeks ago. Yes, she was a stripper, and yes, it was during a lap dance that I paid for. But heck, at least it's an honest transaction. I understand that at my age the only way I'm touching a woman's breast again is by paying for it. So be it I guess.

Knowing Notre Dame's arrogant and pompous administration and fan base, it being the Pop Tart Bowl was probably a big reason they declined. I'm sure ND feels like are "too good" for such a "gimmicky" bowl game.

You know ND would never have done the sprinkle thing on their helmets.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how can they do that? The states have no jurisdiction or even control over federal income taxes. If they did, you would've already seen NY and CA stop paying federal income taxes to stick it to Trump.

The Federal government simply bypasses the states and tells the employers, based on the employee's W-4, what to take out.

Or is this that NY and CA are saying these people still have to pay state taxes on tips?