mattfromnj

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Am I crazy, or is her hometown misspelled on that sash?

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I've never seen it with 2 Ls either, I always thought it was "Wilmington"

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With NYC now ruled by communist muslims, and the knowledge we all now have that the 'war on terror' was just another MIC payoff with no real historical/political accomplishments.

I'm not looking forward to it.

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The 20th anniversary was pretty brutal too, with the Taliban retaking Afghanistan and the abbey gate bombing just a few weeks earlier.

I always remember the 1994 Michigan-Colorado game in Ann Arbor that ended on a hail mary thrown by Kordell Stewart. Might be the first game I really remember watching when I was a kid.

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This is a product of both the Education and the English Departments at almost all universities being insanely liberal.

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Along with the publishing industry which is probably just as liberal and radical as academia.

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I’ve seen quite a few kids hold signing day ceremonies for club teams (baseball, volleyball). Their parents need their butts kicked for allowing it.

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I haven't seen any ceremonies but commitment announcements for high schools now are everywhere. They look exactly like the ones for college kids only it's for some little 8th grader going to Bergen Catholic or wherever. Insane.

France and Belgium have as much if not more of a problem on their hands than the UK in my opinion.

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He would have never done that in NY.

Sometimes they need a change of scenery, new team/coaches, etc.

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After seeing Saquon and McKinney leave and produce elsewhere this was somewhat expected with Jones.

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Big time soccer teams have huge sponsorship ads on their uniforms and it’s not terrible.

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I agree but soccer also shows way fewer ads during games. It's annoying to be watching a game that's got 2 and a half hours of commercials and now you'll have ads on the jerseys, helmets, field, etc. on top of that. It's like a football game breaks up the commercials now and not the other way around.

They have nowhere to run. There's a perception- not entirely incorrect- that Israel keeps them hemmed in with few places to go and then bombs them relentlessly. This isn't like southern Lebanon where all the civilians could flee, the only safe areas are the "safe zones" Israel tells them to evacuate to and often enough those areas have gotten bombed too.

It's a sad situation that will hopefully end with a deal soon, because if not Israel said they're going in again and plan on occupying the entire strip indefinitely.

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Didn’t this happen a few years ago as well?

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In France they had a similar attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg and then they had years before that the Nice truck attack that was also similar to this. There are really too many to count at this point though.

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More just commenting on how people in the US revere this dude, yet he constantly lobbies against the interests of the american public and it's frankly unreasonable to believe the Israeli government, which he heads, was not aware of 10/7 before it happened.

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Netanyahu actually might be more popular in the US than in Israel. Most Israelis seem to see him as a "least bad option" currently and he is as hated by the left there as Trump is by our left here. Think of the protest movement against him prior to 10/7, it was the largest such movement in Israel's history.

I've read that the Israelis were, like 73, just lulled into complacency before 10/7. they feared a similar attack from Hezbollah in the north but even hearing chatter from Gaza they never thought Hamas was capable of doing something like that. After 2006 their focus was almost entirely on the north. It's why they could pull of the pager attacks and kill Nasrallah but even now they just lucked into killing Sinwar and can't find their hostages. Their intel on Gaza is actually pretty awful compared to what they have on Lebanon.

Hamas also did a good job of fooling the Israeli government into thinking they were going the way of the PA and becoming more interested in money and governance as opposed to terrorism, all while secretly planning 10/7. The Israelis thought they'd been successfully bought off and they were wrong.