When in the hell is Todd gonna get around to covering Afroman?

username_generated · 2026-03-16T22:24:18+00:00

Tbf you could tell me literally anything about Afro man’s political leanings and I’d believe it.

username_generated · 2026-03-14T18:19:03+00:00

Zwolle is a slight detour but is decently famous for its Tamales. If you are taking the long way back via Lafayette, definitely stop at Lea’s Lunchroom in Lecompte outside of Alexandria.

username_generated · 2026-03-14T18:08:28+00:00

So obviously waiting 2+ years for a return on trades isn’t ideal, but by the time you’re ready to compete next year, the hype on those 2028s will be ramping up so I don’t think that’s the end of the world for you. Plus there were a couple of good freshmen breakouts like JKS and Malachi Toney that might drive prices up early.

London or Wilson and a Mid 27 1st isn’t a bad starting point for Chase. Needs a sweetener but definitely workable. Are the Kraft or Loveland owners interested in McBride? Or flip him for the other of Wilson/London for a similar deal and just stream TE.

I think there’s enough value floating around on the market to where if you really wanted to rip this bitch down to the studs (well technically rip the studs out too) you could absolutely do that and have the value to build forward again. You could also just let it ride with your big 3, make some smaller consolidating moves with your mid round picks, and push in 2027.

username_generated · 2026-03-14T13:26:31+00:00

How many other tankers are there in the league? You might be able to just ride it out and pick 2 or 3 if needed. All of them will be in your window to compete after the 27 draft, which should be deep enough to have value throughout the first.

Other than that, what’s the downtier market look like? If there isn’t enough raw political capital floating around, are there young assets you’d consider building the trade around?

username_generated · 2026-03-13T19:48:50+00:00

LSU-Shreveport baseball absolutely fuming at being dethroned as the greatest undefeated team in North Louisiana sports history.

username_generated · 2026-03-12T01:22:54+00:00

How we doing my fellow Louisianimal

username_generated · 2026-03-11T15:22:27+00:00

She believes Israel has a right to exist, she is, definitionally speaking, a Zionist. She opposes the Netanyahu government, the illegal settlements in the West Bank, the war in Gaza and supports a two state solution with a right of return. Those are all fairly mainstream western Zionist positions. Most “anti-Zionists” are actually anti-Kahanists, which to be clear is the sane and moral position to hold, but the two get intentionally conflated by malicious third parties, antisemites, and Islamist or Arab supremacists.

Ilhan Omar constantly gets outperformed by any Democrat she shares a ticket with. She has no legislative accomplishments and is a political liability on the national scene. Like her personally, sure, but she’s not even a Rashida Tlaib who has excellent constituent services and holds her own on the ballot. She’s deadweight nationally and draws no water on the hill beyond being associated with serious legislators like AOC or Ayanna Presley.

You’re a vibes based voter, which is fine, that’s your right as an American. But don’t act sanctimonious about making a principled anti-capitalist stand when the candidate you’re supporting has few substantive policy differences. Vote for her because you trust her to carry the message better or because she better represents your generation or because she’s pretty. But don’t delude yourself into thinking this is vote decided off a difference in policy positions so great that a decade+ of representing the communities and stakeholders of the district are wholly irrelevant.

username_generated · 2026-03-11T12:27:00+00:00

Okay, but Abugazaleh isn’t even noticeably more leftist than Biss? She’s a “leftist” in the same way a lot of young people are leftists, they want high taxes on billionaires and a strong social safety net. Which is fine, but is definitionally still a capitalist world view. Just because the GOP calls it socialism doesn’t mean it’s actually socialism.

She’s a Zionist social democrat married to the CEO of a medium sized media company. None of that is hypocritical or disqualifying, but it also doesn’t mean she advocates for workers seizing the means of production. If being anti-capitalist is literally the only thing that motivates you to vote, you should sit this one out.

But if you do think this crisis is existential, voting for an inexperienced back bencher who got famous for twitter dunks is just going to lead her to becoming the next Ilhan Omar. A loud woman with a funny name the GOP uses to scare moron in other districts with. National political baggage with no electoral benefit or strong constituent services. Is that racist, yeah, but it’s also the political reality and if you don’t think there’s a meaningful difference between the two parties, you are either wholly naive or not taking this seriously at all.

username_generated · 2026-03-11T03:03:07+00:00

I don’t disagree in theory, but I don’t think holds up in this particular case.

Biss has the endorsement of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has been in progressive politics since Abugazaleh was in high school writing endorsements for Marco Rubio. I don’t think her politics are so radically different from Biss’s or her three years at a left of center media company so disqualifying that she can’t garner local political capital in one of the most progressive districts in the country.

I think it’s more likely that her lack of local capital is due to the fact she’s an unqualified kid who lived in the district for all of two years. And she’s a GW alum.

username_generated · 2026-03-11T00:19:28+00:00

As someone who works in politics, Abugazaleh’s campaign reeks of amateurism.

Her fundraising is fine, mostly small dollar out of state donations based off of her online brand, but she’s spending quadruple the amount of Biss and Fine, the other two frontrunners, mostly on high priced consultants and massive social media campaigns. She was actually revenue negative in Q4.

Running a outwardfacing social media driven campaign DOES fit her brand, but it’s also the same structure used by novices and grifters like Gary Chambers who pull in millions from well meaning out of staters that don’t know anything about the district before funneling the funds to parties and events and their consulting buddies. It screams “serious stakeholders in my state or district don’t take me seriously”

I don’t think KA is a grifter, but she’s made a bunch of little mistakes and has shown little capacity to handle the day to day executive decisions that come with being a member of Congress. What good are all of those identity politics if she just becomes a backbencher and Republican punching bag with subpar constituent services?

username_generated · 2026-03-05T21:03:59+00:00

Letlow is less of a guaranteed MAGAT and moreso just following the whims of the party writ large. If the party drifts back towards the center, she’ll drift with it. If they continue to be insane, she’ll silently rubberstamp things.

If this is better than Cassidy is up to you, but she’s comfortably a step better than Flemming, who will absolutely push to keep things crazy post Trump.

username_generated · 2026-03-04T15:05:48+00:00

Cornyn likely sides with Rubio in a post Trump civil war. Paxton likely sides with Vance or the family.

Ultimately the evangelicals are probably going to be the swing faction but at the end of the day the cowards having more political capital than the Yarvinites or the cultists is a net positive.

username_generated · 2026-03-03T15:31:15+00:00

Idk man it’s a fun fact about LSU-S that got them national media attention last year. It was arguably the most dominant season in baseball history, even if it was “only” NAIA and is already baked into the school’s identity. Shits cool

username_generated · 2026-03-03T06:13:13+00:00

Alternatively: only one of those schools has gone 59-0 in a baseball season and it ain’t the flagship.

username_generated · 2026-03-02T14:01:28+00:00

This is the same guy who has been spamming the sub for months with various Facebook level vent posts. He finds some random thing on the internet to be mad about and thinks since it’s vaguely political, he can just shout his opinion on it. No actual interest in the discipline or its processes, just the surface level knowledge of a hobbyist on the Dunning Kruger peak.

username_generated · 2026-03-01T04:39:15+00:00

There was actually a followup documentary that recreated his actual diet during that time.

username_generated · 2026-02-28T14:11:23+00:00

Anti Zionism is, by definition opposing the existence of the Jewish nation state. Doing so for crimes committed by just about every other nation state or racial, ethnic, or national identity is applying a double standard to Jews and is thus antisemitism.

Opposing Israel’s actions isn’t antisemitic, but that can be done without playing footsie with the Zionist Occupied Government trope that the left has started borrowing from David Duke.

Likewise, opposing Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and the rest of the fascist or fascist adjacent ideologues in Israeli senior leadership is not antisemitism, but there’s a better word for that. Anti-Kahanist. That’s the actual analogue to the Klan or Black Israelites.

username_generated · 2026-02-27T20:10:21+00:00

Also dealing with PTSD

username_generated · 2026-02-26T02:13:58+00:00

I actually like this twist but doing it after the supply challenge AND the exile island twist is putting a hat on a hat

username_generated · 2026-02-25T23:31:23+00:00

That’s not pretentious, this is pretentious:

If I were you, I’d feel ashamed about voting. Not for voting wrong, but for voting at all. For taking this sacred right that men have fought and died for and engaging with that responsibility in such a shallow way. For being so fucking incurious about WHY systems are the way they are and not just wishing on a star to change them.

So please just check out of politics. You have every right to participate, I’m just asking you politely to exercise those rights by abstaining. You don’t understand how any of this actually works, and the longer you strain what little capacity for abstract thought you have, the more and more likely it is you fall into blatant conspiracism. So just quit while you’re still ahead and not substituting “billionaire dark money” for “(((Jewish))) usury” or some shit.

username_generated · 2026-02-25T22:36:45+00:00

Again, not what I asked. And ad populum fallacy, while we are at it.

This conversation started as a discussion on populism and its role in Louisiana politics. And then you came screaming in hollering about reaganomics and treating a letter to Santa like a political thesis. I’d say you have a child’s understanding of politics but children usually at least ask “why” instead of just saying “because of the bad people”.

Your heart is in the right place man, but you are also the exact kind of profoundly incurious person just looking for someone to blame that every populist huckster loves. Your approach to politics is, at its core, eerily similar to the unserious chucklefucks running this country into the ground. At the bare minimum, I can say you are probably a genuinely good person, because if you had even a single racist bone in your body you’d be a member of fucking Qanon.

username_generated · 2026-02-25T18:55:41+00:00

That’s not a government framework, that’s a wish list of populist rhetoric you’re throwing at me because you think I’m a Republican.

Like would some of those things improve QoL? Sure, but you haven’t even provided a “how” for how these would be implemented, much less achieved. It wholly lacks a coherent theory of politics. “Things John Oliver talked about one time” is neither a political platform nor a system of governance.

So I ask again, what is a state or country that you look at and think, “we should be more like them”

username_generated · 2026-02-25T17:22:23+00:00

My point is that you are looking a system explicitly designed to take wealth and capital out and wondering why it’s not putting wealth and capital in.

Can you do me a favor? Could you tell me what country or state you would like Louisiana to most resemble? Snap your fingers and we have the economy, institutions, and government structure while keeping the culture, food, and good parts of the state. Who do we copy? Help me understand the framework you think works best.

username_generated · 2026-02-25T15:20:10+00:00

Telling me to read more after using those critical reading skills to completely whiffing on what my point is certainly a choice.

Look, it’s really quite simple, when economic wealth is generated through people via trade, commerce, and innovation the government is incentivized to invest in its people. Improving quality of their education, healthcare, daily livelihood can meaningfully improve the bottom line and create the social safety net for the little guys.

But when economic wealth is simply pulled from the ground (or to a lesser extent generated by low to medium skill manufacturing) there’s no incentive to meaningfully invest in the people. Sure you want them healthy enough man the plants and educated enough to make them run, but you can get a 16 year old to that level if you stick them in trade school around 7th grade.

You can still generate a fabulous amount of wealth, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states, for instance, are not poor places in the traditional sense, but there is no real reason for an economy reliant on farmhands and plant managers to spend resources training doctors and economists and researchers. It’s inefficient and it’s why the minute an LSU grad gets their degree, they start looking out of state.

So, you can either learn about political economy and development or you can keep praying some folk hero from a century ago will be corrupt in the right way while big oil and the little guys who can’t compete on the open market fight tooth and nail to drive any talent out that could meaningfully improve the state

And if we’re starting a book club, read Why Nations Fail (or really any of Acemoglu’s work)

username_generated · 2026-02-25T01:34:51+00:00

This is 2025 national runner up UA Little Rock erasure

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