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Rome became too big to manage? The Empire had the same enemies for 500 years and was at its largest under Trajan, around 100 AD. The Empire didn't fall for another 350 years. The real issue was the loss of Roman virtues. At one time, it was an honor/privilege to be a Roman citizen, and the...

Oh lord, here we go again with a triggered MAGA snowflake. "Readers should be advised". What a joke. Yeah, I took the definition from Wikipedia, and if you don't like it, you can go edit it. I gave people something short and simple to read, unless you want the textbook definition from a...

I have no problem with priest-as-point-guard for the mass itself. I was talking about, in the bigger picture, every other aspect of spiritual guidance. Let's not forget, at one point, most people were unable to read/write, and there were very few printed books. Heck, the invention of the...

Lots of tough issues bundled in there. My dad's family was super-Catholic, 8 kids in 9 years, 4 girls named Mary, they had a houseful of relics. They all grew up with Latin mass. I took Latin in HS, so I could hang with it. But there was also a component of distance, of the priest having to...

I remain undefeated. But keep tryin', Mr. Appropriations.

I pretty much agree with your points, historical and political, and the sum of all my "differences" is probably negligible. The only thing I would add is that communism pretty much tends to be...communism, while socialism has several distinct variants which are very different, including the...

I agree with you on "raw materials" (food, crude oil, etc.), but I would say that we are very dependent on other countries for manufacturing capability. Hopefully we can reverse that in the future. I would also just say that "socialism" can be mis-applied in certain contexts. For instance, it...

You are a gentleman, sir. "Old hat" certainly makes a lot more sense than "old hate"! I also share your concerns on the trend towards dictatorial rule, whether it be from the right or left. As a person who studied Roman history from a young age, the Romans had an early period of kings and a...

First, the "age of electorate" stuff is not "hate" in my mind at all. I hear what you are saying about baby boomers, but I also think that baby boomers still were raised in a "certain America". Consider this - the voting age decreased to 18 in 1972. More recently, we have had the first...

Nobody gives a **** about you, that's just your megalomania and delusions of grandeur. If you think the CF-HOF is irrelevant, you could ignore this thread and stop derailing it with your personal animus towards me.

Here is the list of UM players from 1980-2005 who are in the College Football Hall of Fame: Bennie Blades (9 year wait after initial eligibility, Thorpe Award winner) Gino Torretta (7 year wait after initial eligibility, Heisman Trophy winner) Russell Maryland (11 year wait after initial...

Appreciate the civil debate. Ignoring the MAGA Muppets, I'll say this. Voter turnout has always been important. I worked on the Bush campaign in 1988, and they had a huge effort to assist with transportation to/from nursing homes, so that elderly Republican voters could get out to vote. It...

You can set your clock by the MAGA Muppets showing up to derail yet another thread with their political frustration and anger.

It's all good. We can have our valid debates and not turn everything into politics and grudges and chasing people around on the internet. It is sad, though, when a so-called Miami fan can't put aside his political vendettas simply to acknowledge the truth that the Miami Hurricanes have been...

For the College Football Hall of Fame, a coach has to have a .600 winning percentage, and Schnellenberger falls short.

I don't love to argue. I love to be right. I gave the relevant stats on the CF-HOF. Nothing changes that. Canes have been snubbed for decades. The CF-HOF has been around for 70 years and they are STILL voting in guys from the leather helmet/no facemask era. CF-HOF has nothing to do with...

This year will be insanity when it comes to the electoral college, I think the truer indicator will be states that allow absentee ballots vs. those that do not. Again, some guys on the board don't know how to DISCUSS politics without making things political. I was a Political Science major, so...

The thread went in an obvious direction. 1LuvCane is a MAGA boy who picks fights with me over politics...oh, but he'll "disguise" it by acting like he is nitpicking my post on the CF-HOF. Miami won 5 national championships under 4 coaches over a 20 year span. Ranked nearly every year for a...

Don't ask me. You've been on your knees in front of guys plenty of times, you're the expert.

I realize all the Covid threads have been disappeared. You are one lucky guy, you don't have to be confronted with the crazy stuff you said previously. You know you said it. You even started to defend yourself with the "no statistically appreciable number", because you knew your starting...