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I am struggling getting thru the first episode of season 2. In season 1 I had some sympathy for him after being fired to take his accounts and just using that he slept with the very willing woman from work, trying to sue to get job back, his wife cheated on him with his friend in his house, his wife still dating that same friend after the divorce, and also having to live in separate house from his kids; but he has chosen this situation now when he could have had his former job back and then some.

The daughter became unlikable in the interview scene.

I hope something happens in second half of episode that reverses me not giving a shite about what happens to any of the characters right now.

I am also already tired of his narrations. Early on in season 1 they served a purpose but got tiring after awhile, and Sam’s in the finale was just awful. His have started off being tiring already in first episode of season 2.

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You do realize the revolutionaries in '79 cited 1953 as their justification for taking the US embassy right?

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The future Ayatollah Khomeini and his mentor supported the removal of the Prime Minister in 1953. The shah was also in favor of nationalization of oil like the Prime Minister at the time.

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He was also a big fan of robbing the countries resources blind. He transferred all the money to his sister, who quickly amassed a billion dollar real estate portfolio in los Angelos that is still being litigated today.

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Yeah the shah and the PM were both shite at things while pushing for full control, and neither were a true representative of a democratically elected leader as a few have stated the PM was. Saying the shah supported nationalizing oil industry before the coup wasn’t meant to be a good thing, but saying more was driving the 1953 coup to secure the shah stayed in power per their constitution than just the British wanting to protect their oil company and that the future leader Khomeini and his mentor were supportive of the coup and pushed organized demonstrations even though Khomeini would later allow followers to believe it was all the US’s fault.

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You do realize the revolutionaries in '79 cited 1953 as their justification for taking the US embassy right?

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The future Ayatollah Khomeini and his mentor supported the removal of the Prime Minister in 1953. The shah was also in favor of nationalization of oil like the Prime Minister at the time.

The Prime Minister was also elected like the Speaker of the House is, and he did not run as a national candidate. When his party lost power and influence in their parliament he pushed for an election to dissolve parliament and give himself and his cabinet all the power. Also some of the elections afterwards won with 99:9% of the vote including the one basically giving himself all the power. Anyone thinking that was the result of pure and honest democracy or that Mosaddegh was pushing democracy needs to have their head checked (even before his push to ignore the constitutional power of the shah while also dissolving parliament).

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As early as August 1952, he began to rely on emergency powers to rule, generating controversy among his supporters.[57] After an assassination attempt upon one of his cabinet ministers and himself, he ordered the jailing of dozens of his political opponents. This act created widespread anger among the general public, and led to accusations that Mosaddegh was becoming a dictator.

By mid-1953 a mass of resignations by Mosaddegh's parliamentary supporters reduced the National Front seats in Parliament. A referendum to dissolve parliament and give the prime minister power to make law was submitted to voters, and it passed with 99.9 percent approval, 2,043,300 votes to 1300 votes against.

The official pretext for the start of the coup was Mosaddegh's decree to dissolve Parliament, giving himself and his cabinet complete power to rule, while effectively stripping the Shah of his powers. It resulted in him being accused of giving himself "total and dictatorial powers." The Shah, who had been resisting the CIA's demands for the coup, finally agreed to support it.

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Also while the US help create conditions there is some debate whether the US was directly responsible for most actions of demonstrators or any of the army for the 1st and unsuccessful coup. The 2nd and successful’s demonstrations were mostly organized by citizens. And again support by the future leader of the Iranian Revolution.

Regardless it was also pushed hard by the British for a couple of years as it was their company being naturalized (Britain and USSR actually invaded Iran towards the end of WWII with the USSR refusing to leave for a couple of years), so if Israel is to blamed for current Iranian conflict Britain should be held to same standard.

Additional info on the above including losing the support of the future leader of the Revolution.

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Mosaddegh's political coalition was fraying. To make matters worse, the Speaker of the Parliament Ayatollah Kashani, Mosaddegh's main clerical supporter, became increasingly opposed to the Prime Minister, because Mosaddegh was squeezing him out of power. By 1953, he had completely turned on him, and supported the coup, depriving Mosaddegh of religious support, while giving it to the Shah.[14]: 97 He was joined in this by a young and relatively unknown mullah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's future revolutionary supreme leader who also condemned the Mossadegh government.

Mosaddegh appointed a series of secular ministers to his cabinet during his premiership, losing his support with the clergy.[129] In 1953, Ayatollah Abol-Qasem Kashani and his followers organised a series of protests against Mosaddegh's liberal reforms. By July 1953 when Mosaddegh asked for a critical extension of his emergency powers, "... Clerical members of the Majles who supported Kashani left the National Front Coalition and set up their own Islamic Faction...".[130] (Muslim Warriors). This faction then boycotted the 1953 referendum about the dissolution of parliament.

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Embassy terrorists may have stated they were in fear of another “coup” to win Khomeini’s support in staying even though their new leader actually supported (students probably didn’t know that), but most were mad at the support of the US for the Shah’s secret police after decades of abuse, their belief that the US undermined them in the Iranian Revolution against the shah, that the US allowed him to seek cancer treatment in the US, and that the US wouldn’t hand the Shah over to them.

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As Khomeini's followers had hoped, Khomeini supported the takeover. According to Foreign Minister Yazdi, when he went to Qom to tell Khomeini about it, Khomeini told him to "go and kick them out." But later that evening, back in Tehran, Yazdi heard on the radio that Khomeini had issued a statement supporting the seizure, calling it "the second revolution" and the embassy an "American spy den in Tehran."

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With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment.

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The Shah's admission to the United States intensified Iranian revolutionaries' anti-Americanism and spawned rumors of another U.S.–backed coup that would re-install him.[37] Khomeini, who had been exiled by the Shah for 15 years, heightened the rhetoric against the "Great Satan", as he called the U.S., talking of "evidence of American plotting."[38] In addition to ending what they believed was American sabotage of the revolution, the hostage takers hoped to depose the provisional revolutionary government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, which they believed was plotting to normalize relations with the U.S. and extinguish Islamic revolutionary order in Iran.[39] The occupation of the embassy on November 4, 1979, was also intended as leverage to demand the return of the Shah to stand trial in Iran in exchange for the hostages.

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All the quotes are from Wikipedia across a few articles. You know that Wikipedia thats a notorious right winger and supporter of everything America…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis?wprov=sfti1#Third_embassy_assault_and_seizure_of_hostages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution?wprov=sfti1#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran?wprov=sfti1#World_War_II_and_post-occupation_instability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat?wprov=sfti1#Execution_of_Operation_Ajax

Not sure if a student, but here is another similar arrest in college station from just over a week ago.

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Full Name: Zoe Madilyn Mannes
Date:03/28/2026
Arresting Agency: College Station Police Department

#1 CSPD/Minor Public Intox

Arrest Age:19
Gender: Female
Birthdate: 12/08/2006
City: Chicago, Illinois 60647
Height: 5'09"

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Busting college girls for being drunk in public and vaping is a huge waste of police resources in a college town

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I would hope she was acting up very badly including fighting or talking BS to cops or was being a danger to herself to be arrested, but mugshot doesn’t look like someone who went off the rails crazy drunk.

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Iirc. They broke the election rules and got removed from the ballot. They the Gov and Ad stepped in and ordered they be added back. All because the Student President gets a vote on the LSU Board and Landry wanted that one in his corner. Thus the lawsuit.

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I have not read about the governor stepping in here or the winners ever getting kicked off the ballot. I did read that last year a campaign got kicked of and some state reps or Senators spoke up about the situation. https://lsureveille.com/256868/featured_story/lsu-dean-of-students-reinstates-disqualified-student-government-campaign-for-second-time/

True or not that is still a ridiculous thing to file a fake lawsuit in a fake student govt court.

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All four lawsuits have been settled outside of the University Court with no campaign being disqualified.

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…Since then, four of the five campaigns have been involved in lawsuits for violating the Election Code.

On Tuesday, Tyhlar Holliway and Gabreyela Gonzalez of the Heart ticket filed two suits against Benjamin Barousse and Anna Katherine Harrell of the Home ticket.

One suit involved a claim that the Home campaign went over the food and drink spending limit allowed for campaigns. It also claims the ticket submitted inaccurate spending and donation reports.

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The second suit the Heart campaign filed involves a member of the Home ticket’s legal team, Jackson Hardman, who allegedly threatened James William III of the Heart ticket to prevent the campaign from filing a financial suit.

On Tuesday, Hardman reached out to Ava Ryder, the campaign manager for the Heart ticket, to talk about “some election stuff,” according to submitted evidence.

In this conversation, Hardman allegedly brought up a case from last year’s election involving twice-disqualified presidential candidate Alex Foret, which prompted intervention from three Louisiana state politicians.

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(Thats where I read about someone getting removed from the ballot last year).

File a complaint with the election committee which then makes a decision, and everyone move the freak on.

EDIT: I was trying to copy and paste stuff to move around a paragraph when you posted about it being last year. iOS 26 is a pain in the arse selecting text in these kinds of message boxes (quickly auto scrolls and selects everything multiple times before finally doing it correctly) and getting the cursor in the right place.

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It’s student government. Of course they are going to have a judicial system. What alternative dispute resolution method do you think is more appropriate?

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I would honestly pick any other method I have ever heard of. I have never heard of a student govt filing fake lawsuits in a dispute resolution. If that existed while I was in school I never heard of it actually being done. Of course I didn’t pay attention to what they said or did and usually tried to stay away from anyone who took it seriously. People training to be politicians are part of the problem. Do they have students pretending to be attorneys, judges, juries, and so on?



EDIT: Wiki states student governments with a judicial branch are far less common than other forms. I am sure the majority has disputes that get settled without fake lawsuits.

It sounds like something leftist elitist universities or HBCU’s would do for different reasons. LSU is moving towards one, so maybe LSU having a judicial branch makes sense.

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Not with 62k+ applicants! That would be 45,260 freshmen. Last year, 8,200 freshmen were accepted into LSU.

*At 8200 incoming freshmen and 63k applications,v that would be an acceptance rate of 13.2%.

More likely, the 62k number is bogus

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Acceptance rate by the university is different than what number of those accepted/admitted actually then choose to enroll at the university in the fall.

A lot of students apply to backup schools or to see what scholarships they get offered and use that as part of decision (like if offer is too good to ignore even if not first choice).

Official applications numbers for 2024
New freshmen
Applied Admitted Enrolled
47,065_ 34,513_ 7,925

New Transfers
Applied Admitted Enrolled
_4,348__ 2,763_ 1,091

New graduate school
Applied Admitted Enrolled
_5,276__ 2,598_ 1,491

2016 - 2024 New Freshman only applications
Year - Applied Admitted Enrolled
2024 - 47,065_ 34,513_ 7,925
2023 - 42,558_ 31,491_ 7,521
2022 - 38,853_ 29,419_ 7,401
2021 - 36,561_ 25,907_ 7,045
2020 - 28,960_ 21,252_ 6,701
2019 - 24,501_ 18,272_ 6,132
2018 - 24,280_ 18,024_ 5,812
2017 - 17,907_ 13,236_ 4,917
2016 - 18,122_ 13,843_ 5,475

They haven’t updated report for 2025 yet. It was updated in March last year.
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/trend_report/appstats.pdf

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The OT has informed me nobody is going to college and the ones that do have kids going to college won’t be applying to LSU.

Interesting data.

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I thought it was that too many were going to college while going in debt with school loans used for degrees like sociology, rainbow/black studies, and similar that weren’t going to make enough money to pay back loans and have a life. That people going for these types of degrees would have been better off and in less debt by working straight out of high school and developing a skill.

Not sure who are the ones in “the ones that do have kids going to college won’t be applying to LSU.” Thats could be everyone with kids going to college now to maybe alumni with kids going to college now which sounds more like what I have read on the OT. I am not sure how the number of applicants by itself would prove that applicants are kids of alumni who are being pushed to apply to LSU by their parents.

Regardless at the end of the day if 62,000 is accurate and from graduating high schoolers LSU will admit around 45,000 new freshman and less than 20% of those admitted graduating high school students will actually choose to go to LSU.

Where the final enrollees are from, what scholarships or grants they received to attend, how many are Pell grant eligible (not sure I have seen LSU promote this since bragging in 2021 that the 30.3% of the fall 2021 freshman enrollees were Pell grant eligible), how many submitted ACT/SAT scores (for admissions, Honors college, and LSU based/controlled scholarships considerations), and how many are actually legacies would be better data to make this argument than the number of online common app applications submitted.

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Over 62,000 students appied to LSU this school year.

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how many normally apply?

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This is from 2016 to 2024. Without a link to source of 62,000 I am not sure if 62,000 is including only new freshman entering college for the first time or also including transfers, readmissions, and/or grad students. If LSU has posted 2025 applications it is not in same spot as 2024.
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/trend_report/appstats.pdf

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That has to be including online students for fall 2024 semester and maybe the non-degree students/duel enrolled high school students.

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Post graduates included
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Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge has a total enrollment of 42,016 for the fall 2024 semester, comprising 34,502 undergraduates and 7,514 postgraduates. The student body is 56.7% female and 43.3% male, with a diverse population including 57% white and 21% Black students. It is the largest university in the state.

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Can you provide a link to the data.

Enrollmentment at glance includes graduate students on campus as well.

Enrollment at a glance has total 36,946 for fall of 2024 which includes 3,480 duel enrollees from high schools, 4,642 graduate & professional students, and 28,824 undergraduate students.

Not sure if below link will keep data at fall of 2024, and you might have to select them again
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/dashboards/at_a_glance.php

Enrollment at a glance comes closest to matching census data for fall of 2024 which has a separate section for online enrollees and also has separate columns for non-degree students (but doesn’t define it there & doesn’t exactly match duel-enrollees while being close).
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/census-day-enrollment/enrollment-comparison/2_status_headcount/fall/status_fall24_day14.pdf

edit: found what makes up non-degree students, and it does include dual credit high school students but is not limited to that.

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Non-degree includes students in programs such as concurrent enrollment, integrated community studies, LSU Global, non-matriculated, exchange, cooperative education, or are not regularly admitted. Office of Data and Strategic Analytics

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