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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4923279, member: 181"] He's more right than wrong in summoning mojo from the Muse. His sentencing charade is based on nothing other than his fear of the truth and his desperate need to claim and wield power. What he demands is a petulant fealty that would get stuffed back into his face before the ball even left his hand if he tried it on 10s of thousands of pre-teen girls up through strong women in every audience of every Taylor Swift show throughout North America and beyond to other continents. Get in line? Do as I direct you? This is twaddle from a twerp. You honestly support that antiquated, egomaniacal, intemperant, obnoxious, unimaginative twaddle? That stuff was born in the petri dish of insecurity your post challenges others to outgrow. Leveraging TSwift is another story, and the big boy pants are for men to be maturely manly, not some caricature that is offensive or pathetic to the women and girls in your life. There's no emasculation in calls for respect, decency, nurturing, collaborative creativity. You already know that the marvel of 2023-24 UConn basketball is unselfish play, connectedness, de-emphasis of personal aggrandizement, and a singular focus on winning through teamwork. [USER=25]@Deepster[/USER] knows this too, but he's caught in a toxic loop of thinking it's through him alone that the magic flourishes. It's more with self-respect and tender pity than defiance that his preposterous claims and increasingly shrill demands are rejected, even mocked. His opening words were pro forma, habitual cranky rantings that should just run out from their own lack of energy. But hitching a ride on an entertainer who has filled football stadiums with more fans, paying larger sums in live admissions than was is generated by two full squads of elite athletes is astounding , perhaps incomprehensible, but certainly need not be felt as a threat to any emotionally mature man who can admire performance skills on open display in real time. You're not asking people to man up. You're asking them to grow up. Doing so will benefit the University of Connecticut Men's Basketball team, as it seeks to fulfill serial challenges that are in unprecedented close reach, but need all hands on deck. This isn't about Deepster, and this isn't about shaming people to their highest heights by means of tired, angry, fear-based ways that would cut off unimaginably greater resources for rewards to be shared by larger audiences who feel welcomed and want to be a part of it. You've got somebody acting like a stooge, trying to banish those who want to help the cause more than help him, so he hides from them by disappearing them or threatening to. That makes no sense. It's tired and weak and childish and spent. Nothing wrong with supporting "the good stuff," just no need for the not good stuff. It's a legacy programming error during the time of transition to a positive mind frame that your post highlighted. Strong, focused, powerful, committed. Everybody pulls the sled. Go UConn. [/QUOTE]

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