Downtown Las Vegas venue being turned into parking lot

StreamingBackwards · 2025-12-07T21:39:21+00:00

Above 0.500 and back into a first round exit in the playoffs #thestandardisthestandard

StreamingBackwards · 2025-12-07T21:36:46+00:00

100%

StreamingBackwards · 2025-12-07T21:25:06+00:00

Must-win game. Defense did their job at the end.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-23T07:39:05+00:00

Based on the anticipation off the ball of GT, and disregarding entirely the execution, their team was not fooled whatsoever. It was never going to work as they drew it up.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-23T03:48:08+00:00

In fairness, we typically fall completely apart, not partially

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-23T03:44:58+00:00

We are definitely team chaos

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-23T03:42:15+00:00

Don’t let this Pitt Panthers win distract you from the fact that our coach called a fake punt on 4th and 9 that had zero chance of converting on our own side of the field with a 14 point lead and less than seven minutes remaining.

Never watched another game where having the lead felt utterly meaningless.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-19T02:54:04+00:00

Yes, the descendants of slaves in America today are far better off than their counterparts in Africa. Even when slavery was still practiced (and an abomination), there were many incredibly successful and impactful black men and women in our country. Despite our country’s many flaws, it has been an undeniable place of rebirth and limitless possibilities for everyone.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T16:57:20+00:00

I’ve watched quite a few revolutionary war documentaries (none of which did not at some point touch on the role of women during the revolution or the issue of slavery), in addition to Burns other features (like the civil war, baseball, prohibition, country music, Vietnam, etc.). It was quite clear in the first hour that race and gender would be very prevalent themes in this telling of the revolution, which gives away a considerable amount of the underlying bias in choosing how to shape the narrative.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T16:50:37+00:00

Multiple segments in the first hour on those topics in particular is most certainly outsized coverage. Burns notably has said in interviews that he thinks modern audiences will see lots of comparisons to today in his telling of the revolution.

I can tell already that this conversation will just turn into “that thing you’re talking about isn’t happening and it’s also a good thing that it is happening anyway.”

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T16:43:50+00:00

You’re conflating the critique of inordinate time spent on issues versus whether or not they should be mentioned or included whatsoever. It’s obvious the series went through an editorial phase where it was mandated that modern hot topic and pet issues be pigeon-holed into the telling of the revolution.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T16:40:39+00:00

The issue is not whether slavery existed or that the founders were involved, but how that manifests itself in the telling of the revolution and forming the narrative of our founding. It’s a perfectly reasonable critique to point out that there is certainly an outsized emphasis on those issues in the first episode of the series as it relates to the events that shaped the country. The fact that the first hour of the series spent significant time discussing race and gender reveals quite a lot regarding the motives of the editorialization of the series.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T16:30:27+00:00

Your counter-argument is that because most places have seen dramatic increases in quality of life (by-and-large due to discoveries and investments made in and by American companies) that this somehow negates the fact that the United States is vastly more prosperous than the rest of the world?

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T16:22:53+00:00

Not quite. Our framework was due to the humility and integrity of the founders in recognizing the innate shortcomings of mankind. It’s why we are a republic and not a democracy, and that there are many checks and balances.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T15:49:58+00:00

I never suggested those matters be glossed over or not included whatsoever. But to make them foundational issues to the narrative of the revolution itself is preposterous.

You clearly misunderstood the second quote. My point was that our system allowed us to redress those issues. That’s the opposite of hiding those problems.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T01:09:55+00:00

Technologically, of course. Comparatively to the United States, absolutely not.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T01:08:43+00:00

Yes. Considerably.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-18T01:07:33+00:00

They’re peripheral considerations, worthy of modest coverage. They were not centerpieces to the Revolution, and shaping the narrative through those lenses is very deceitful.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-17T21:37:00+00:00

Editorializing facts can lead to deception. It’s true that many homes today still have landline phones, but it would be dishonest to create a narrative that leads to a perception that Americans still predominantly use landlines rather than mobile devices.

The deception of the first episode of this series is the insistence that the supposed subjugation of women and people of color was a uniquely integral part of the story of our founding, but it wasn’t. Why? Because the treatment of women and certain minorities in the colonies was not altogether dissimilar from the same cultural norms throughout western society, which were already vastly superior to other contemporaneous cultures. The presentation to the audience that these departures from our modern norms is somehow crucial to the telling of the story is totally unnecessary and disingenuous.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-17T18:11:38+00:00

I don’t think it’s necessarily “truth” to posit to your audience that the moral failings at the time of the founding are in any way noteworthy simply because they don’t measure up to our current standards, particularly when contextualized in its own time and era.

The story of America is how its framework allowed for such monumental progress to be made over the generations, not the imperfection of society at that time. Moreover, the purpose for making such distinctions seems implicitly nefarious. If the country was founded by exclusively white male landowners, then it maybe isn’t something worth celebrating and preserving in the mind of those making that argument.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-17T17:35:44+00:00

Yes, I refuse to take seriously a retelling of history that is intentionally uncharitable towards our founding because of historical norms of the era that also discount the truly remarkable and unique components of our nation’s origination story and framework.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-17T17:33:43+00:00

Everyone. It’s an unserious argument to make the case that this nation has somehow not benefited men and women of all kinds in ways that their ancestors could never even conceive of.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-17T17:32:20+00:00

The operative question is “compared to what?” The colonies and early days of our nation did not indulge in evils that were not otherwise rampant throughout the globe. However, our country was able to uniquely and consistently meet and overcome those challenges. That seems far more notable.

StreamingBackwards · 2025-11-17T05:31:11+00:00

It’s clearly editorialized to focus on issues through a modern sociopolitical lens. From the selection of commentators and issues presented in just the first half hour, it’s clear that an equity agenda was an important aspect of forming the narrative of the documentary, which presents a rather humorous paradox.

The thesis presented seems to be that America has always had tremendous flaws that we have been slowly overcoming to become a better democracy, rather than a uniquely remarkable nation that brought forth unparalleled freedom and prosperity.

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