Mark Davis

Yeah that's kind of my sentiment as well. The kid at Ole Miss was out of line and it's fine to call him out. But the folks wanting to call him out are often quite dismissive of the heavy Marxist and antisemitic views that started on these campuses.

Go to bat for him? Here is my initial wording for what he did: "This guy certainly made a mistake and got carried away in a moment, and he is going to pay for it even if outside the legal system. " If you want to believe those protests didn't have heavy anti-semitic undertones and in many cases outright support for Hamas and anti-American views, there's no need to discuss further. There's been more than enough videos showing those instances so it's pointless to discuss.

I'd contend his online doxxing and having to answer for this going forward is way more punishment than a bus ride down to the precinct, only to be let out by dusk the next morning. If Alvin Bragg ends up getting jailtime for those people, then we can have that discussion as to what is worse. As to the second part, I don't consider what he did any worse than what some of the protestors are openly saying and chanting who also technically have committed no crime. Also, some of those people have openly supported Hamas. So yes I believe those people who are doing that are committing worse acts than him, yet again, he will get the worse end of it as far as being identified and asked to explain going forward in life.

You asked about arrests being made for those in the video, that is why not. On the other hand, those acts have been committed by people in other videos and we will see what jail time they get, how many get the response individually on social media that he is getting. I have my serious doubts Alvin Bragg is going to throw the book at the Columbia and CCNY folks so I feel like they'll get nothing in the end. I also feel pretty certain in saying the Ole Miss guy is going to have quite the hurdle to clear in answering questions and reforming his image before getting any job in the future. Maybe he should have worn his covid mask and he could skate as well. But the truth of the matter is there are many, many more on the other side of the issue saying incendiary things. It's hard to individually hold people to account in a group versus this one guy. So yes, I feel he's going to pay an individually higher price.

I didn't see any vandalism or violence, or even the disruption of classes in that video.

In some ways I agree with you. But looking forward, who do you think is going to pay a higher price for their actions, this Ole Miss frat guy, or some of the people unmasked who made hate filled remarks, supported a terrorist organization, as well as destroyed property and disrupted classes at colleges? It's like when the bot guy who posts here constantly about Jan 6. Yes that should be condemned as well. But those folks are serving pretty lengthy jail sentences, they are paying for their crimes. This guy certainly made a mistake and got carried away in a moment, and he is going to pay for it even if outside the legal system. But he didn't actively plan to go spend several nights in an encampment, continually support a terror organization and repeatedly make hate filled remarks. Yet I'm willing to bet you that he is to pay a much higher price for his actions.

Yeah, as someone who spends a fair amount of time on SEC campuses I'm going to go out on a limb and say these protests that they try to fire up on them are probably going to be met with some pretty nasty opposition. Some of it is going to go too far in the rhetoric for sure. But I don't think the pro Hamas wing is going to find the land too hospitable around here.

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I had a buddy who has rentals and is also a realtor get me my first agreement. I managed it myself for two years to learn the ins and outs, figure out what legit expenses there would be, then hired a property manager after that. It's a large headache unless you are in the business full time and have time on your hands to go out and do small repairs or let repairmen in, etc.

Is it an actual woman, you know, one with two x chromosomes?

Keep up the good work! When I started my second job of my career back in 1998 there was a guy who started the week after me where we had a discussion once in a conference room about lifetime financial goals. We are the best of friends now even as we live in far ends of the country from each other, still bounce our business ideas and investments off each other, etc. Back then, the initial goal was $1MM. After that, it was levels of wealth. The next step up in lifestyle was at $2MM, $5MM, $10MM, $20MM. I still look at those goals and adjust for inflation. Yeah we shot high for 24-25 year olds. Getting to that $1MM is always special, congrats on getting to double that! It truly gives you a sense of security and freedom in life.

I'd be intrigued as to who determined they were wrongfully arrested. I'm pretty good friends with a bail bondsman. Usually people don't have time to have charges investigated when they try to make bail from my experience in being around him when that phone rings. From my recollection of those events, I'd be interested to see where police had the spare time and manpower to arrest people who weren't actively causing problems. But when it comes to bail, especially on anything of scale, how is anyone to know that rapidly beyond just taking someone's word for it?

Case in point

Unfortunately it doesn't take radicalizing very many of these outcasts to take action that could cause a much bigger issue. The problem doesn't stop with just racist or Marxist ideologies, it goes further when Hamas is glorified with the chanting etc. When do some of them decide to take Hamas type actions? Everyone on the right wants to point fingers at the faculty, and I agree there are a lot of issues there. But where are these kids parents? I remember my first semester at college being in a sociology class and thinking my professor was a damn kook when he blamed three criminals poor upbringing on why they raped a woman and why they were less accountable because of that fact. Those values are instilled by parents. Just because some faculty member stated something as fact, it was pretty obvious to me that was just his opinion, one I didn't agree with. So while if I saw my kid out in one of these things I'd go down there and grab them up, it's pretty obvious the parents in many of these cases were asleep at the wheel, don't care, or share some of these looney views.

Try going into your nearest library and spray paint a few walls and break out a few windows. Compare the charges you will get to the ones you're going to see for these folks.

A bunch of misfits with no place to belong and no prospects who have been used to find a place to belong by Marxists and Islamists.

I was wondering when groups were going to have had enough. It’s easy to intimidate, harass, and bully people when you’re a group and singling individuals out. When you come back with a group in response it’s a little different.

God bless the SEC, these are some homely people on campus

Same cast of characters and with same goals. They just move on to the next victim/oppressed group.

Here's some video of the damn police instigating again at UNC.

Zero interest ruined it, from the jump

And here's their fearless leader, more Marxists

I'm not one to judge. I've logged more hours in Vicksburg MS than anywhere else. When I was fresh out of college my first job was in Jackson MS. Vicksburg was 1 hour door to door from my apartment. There were nights I'd go gamble til 2-3 AM, drive home, then sleep 2-3 hours and go to work. I usually focused hard on the cards but one time I looked around the casino there at 2 AM on a weeknight, boy it was depressing to see the folks who were there. I didn't pull that shift very often. I had a bad habit of gambling hard on football, losing a bunch, then going and counting cards on a late Saturday night to get it back. If I'd only had the sense to not gamble on football and just invest the money from counting.

The administration at places like Columbia are to blame for this. Had they dealt with this earlier they wouldn't be in this spot now. Now the protestors have no reason to believe any of their threats, I know I sure wouldn't. They obviously feel they can do whatever they want and these administrations will yield to them. So far they are correct.

Interesting. Never been to AC, lots of Vegas trips and MS casinos. Used to hit a few wherever I was when traveling for work. I did hear at some point AC was struggling pretty badly so they were looser with rules to try and gain customer share.