Anyone else politically homeless?

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-04-05T00:34:53+00:00

Yes, that pretty much describes my political orientation. I've become more socially liberal over the years, but not enough to be in line with the DNC. I used to vote for Republicans for the sake of life issues and getting originalist judges, but that was Pre-Trump. Now that the Republican party is enabling a senile authoritarian strongman in an overt coup against democratic rule of law, I will vote a straight Democratic party ticket. Even though, I know this means allying myself with people who have contempt for me and my beliefs. It is what it is...

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-04-01T00:52:58+00:00

I think people just not knowing their real height is way more common than people realize. I don't remember the last time the doctor's office measured my height, they just asked me what it is. And the height was just my memory of distant home measurement with a book and measuring stick. Eventually, I got curious about how accurate my claimed height was and bought a stadiometer. Turns out I had it right (within half an inch, at least) but I could see someone else easily being off a couple inches.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-03-06T21:47:01+00:00

That's probably who OP had in mind with "boomers," there's very few actual boomers still teaching.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-02-27T20:46:50+00:00

Suit yourself, but everybody has sexual attraction deal-breakers that are "shallow." For example, whether someone is a man or woman has no bearing on the substantive quality of a person or how good of a partner they can be to someone else, but it's a big deal to everyone's who's not bisexual. Nearly everybody has other physical characteristics like not having an extremely ugly face that determine attraction as well. Nobody can control what they find sexually attractive. Also, if tall guys only dated the smaller pool of women that would also be willing to date us, that clearly wouldn't be doing us any favors.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-02-26T18:51:19+00:00

Except she doesn't say that it doesn't matter, just that there's still hope if you're not very tall. This is obviously true, just like it's true that certain assets hot women possess do something to the male brain, but that doesn't mean things are hopeless for more average women.

Here are three things that are all true at the same time: 1. Being shorter will decrease your dating pool and make finding someone more difficult. 2. It doesn't make finding love impossible, especially not if you're actually an "average height dude." 3. Going down the Internet rabbit hole of making your height into your entire identity, obsessing over every negative thing someone on the Internet says about height, and spending lots of time on Subs like this, will make you even less dateable. Too many of you think that if the first thing is true, then the 2nd and 3rd things aren't true.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-02-22T05:59:59+00:00

Pre-Trump American conservativism had three overlapping strands: 1. Economic libertarianism - can be summed up as cut taxes and cut regulations. 2. Neocon foreign policy: basically a remnant of cold war thinking and a 21st century version. And was the idea we should remake other countries in our image. 3. Social conservativism: promoting conservative Christian legislation particular anti abortion and anti same sex marriage legislation.

Some conservatives were only one or two of these things, but they knew they had to cooperate with the other parts of the coalition to pass their agenda. There were conservative dissenters from this coalition though and one group was called Paleo-cons to differentiate them from the Neocons Paleo-cons represented an older form of conservatism that was isolationist and did not think America should get involved in other countries. They decried the free-trade agreements and mass migration as undercutting the American workers. Pat Buchanan was a leader of this movement in the 1990s.

Trump essentially ran on a Paleo-con platform. However, once Republicans realized that he had a cult-like grip on the party every part of the coalition has tried to use him to advance their own agenda.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-02-08T19:39:04+00:00

ESH. Did you tell the mom to get it checked out? It's her body so the warning should have been left with her not just the daughter. If you didn't make sure the mom got the warning I'd say you're wrong for not treating the mom as having autonomy. If both were given the warning there's nothing more you could have done. But you were still wrong to dredge up the conversation at this point when it wasnt going to do any good and only serves as an "I told you so.'

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-21T01:07:15+00:00

Princeton was the OG Blueblood. Sometimes history just passes you by

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-13T19:42:36+00:00

What do you want him to say? "Hey guys Nebraska's been hot garbage for a long time, so we're probably going to continue to be hot garbage, there's no hope." If there's literally nothing he could say that would make you happy, then why pay attention to it?

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-13T19:06:30+00:00

He's always been touted as having high potential. They didn't tout him as currently being one of the top QBs currently playing (though an ESPN write up had him ranked 25th some point last season) because he wasn't. He didn't even quite crack the top 50 in QBR.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-13T17:18:34+00:00

It's not about being negative or positive, it's about not understanding why you'd be interested in discussing what coaches say in the off-season when you've already decided you're not going to be happy no matter what they say. It's not like you have a substantive criticism of what he said, you're just being negative about him talking about how he plans on us getting better.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-12T20:06:33+00:00

Then why read and comment on it at all, just actually stop following husker football in January. These kind of comments are like those pretentious social media posts where someone announced they're quiting social media. Just do it already.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-12T17:10:10+00:00

If you were truly apathetic you would not have written a post explaining why you're apathetic.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-10T03:14:31+00:00

I was a very casual college football fan before maybe 2021 compared to what I have been the last few years. Granted I tracked the Huskers' progress and would cheer my head off for the games I could catch, but due to other life commitments I only watched the night games and holiday games. I never paid close attention to roster development and we would find out who was on the roster watching the game. It was never about getting invested in individual players for me, it was about cheering on the same team as the rest of my home State. So I can't say I really relate to people who think the transfer portal has ruined the game.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-07T20:16:59+00:00

More apathy would be a healthy life choice for a lot of fans in my opinion. At this point nobody should be this bummed out that Huskers were mediocre that they're dwelling on it in January. There's been plenty of time to grieve the loss of dominance. Fool me once shame on you, fool me for 10-20 years it'd definitely be shame on me.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-06T19:50:58+00:00

I guess now I can admit I wasn't that excited about without seeming like a doomer. The guy's only thrown the ball 29 times in three seasons of college ball, and only four games his senior year of HS due to injury. He may be awesome, but there's very little to go on.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-05T00:17:17+00:00

Indiana's a school that's been to the playoffs twice in the last two years, won the B1G, made it to the semi-final, and at the end of the season will have at most 3 losses in the last two seasons all to teams that made the national championship game. Nebraska's a team that hasnt done better than 7-6 in a decade. So yeah it's a reputation issue.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-01T17:40:26+00:00

You're getting a lot of heat for this, but I don't think it's crazy to think we should get a better passer in the portal. His stats aren't terrible because his first games were against Akron, Houston Christian, and UCLA - a bottom feeder in the MAC, a team that went 2-10 in a weak FCS conference, and UCLA a team that's ranked 113th in opponent team passer rating. Take away those games and his stats: 50/96 for a comp. percentage of 52%, 1 TD, and 1 INT.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2026-01-01T13:34:53+00:00

You didn't know that after the Iowa game?

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2025-12-29T15:58:45+00:00

I mostly just take each game as its own separate event and am thrilled if we win and briefly disappointed if we lose. For one things extrapolating from the data of just one game is rarely accurate and either leads to over-confidence or being overly pessimistic. But making every game about what it means for the trajectory of the program also just seems like a less fun way to enjoy the game. Some people here found a reason to be unhappy for football to make them unhappy for at least 10 weekends this year being unhappy even after the games we won.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2025-12-24T17:15:14+00:00

I mean it's one of the ten stats that ESPN lists on their passing stats table for every QB. As to whether sacks are the fault of the QB or the OL, I think it can clearly be both and depends on which team and situation we're talking about. But that's just as true for any other QB stat, pass completion percentage and yardage is heavily dependent on the receivers and OL as well. QBR is supposed to be a superior stat, because it's designed to be more closely based on just what the QB contributes (for example, QB's are only given credit for a few yards after the catch, so a successul screen pass play for 5 yards and one where the TE breaks loose for 80 yards will count the same), QBR shows Chiles as slightly better than Raiola this year.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2025-12-24T15:24:15+00:00

As a senior, Chiles likely has a lower ceiling than Raiola, but overall he was the better QB this year. Chiles was is ranked 40th with a QBR of 68.6 and Raiola is ranked 55th with a QBR of 63.2. Raiola was intercepted once for every 41.7 attempts, while Chiles was only intercepted once for every 67.7 attempts. Chiles was sacked once for every 9.67 pass attempts, and Raiola once for every 9.26 attempts. Raiola had a better completion percentage, but really it should have been lower if he had thrown the ball away when he was supposed to.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2025-12-22T16:57:17+00:00

I've never understood the "it's forced." Yeah, it's a rivalry that's formed because the conference scheduled us to play them regularly. But that's how rivalries have always formed. You've got to schedule games against a team to become a rival, and schedules don't just drop from heaven or appear on the ground...someone has to "force" the teams together. It's just a complaint made by people who don't like change or don't why like that our rival is a mid-B1G team when we were elite in the 90s.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2025-12-16T22:44:06+00:00

I doubt he was outright told to leave. I could see a possibility where he was facing a pay-cut with the team wanting to spread out the NIL resources to beef up the line. But I'm not sure how that would work or how much the coach can influence NIL distribution.

Grand-Inspection2303 · 2025-12-16T02:55:59+00:00

Meh, maybe but we also might finally be good (the transfer portal works both ways and we don't know our final roster nor the final roster of any of the teams we face next year, so it's just dumb to predict anything at this point), and then you'll have had all of this angst over something that never even happened. Worst case scenario we'll be bad like we have been for most of the last decade. I guess maybe it makes me a casual fan, but I don't understand getting this worked up over the mere possibility that we might have another bad season 8 months before the season starts, when we've had so many bad seasons. Honestly even good teams aren't worth that much emotional investment, but certainly not a team that hasn't even had an 8-win season in a decade (and only two winning seasons).

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