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@PardonMyMeme Taylor would have caught that ball if he used two hands

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@chrisdimino 100%

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@philthatremains Phil from the Top Rope!

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@joinerGTwreck Was blind but now I see!!!

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@LM_Sports_Media This take is not going to age well.

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@RustyMansell_ Got to be Raiders of the Lost Ark

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@RustyMansell_ Even par with my best friends and a lit cigar!! Drinks on me. All day long

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@RustyMansell_ 100%

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@IrishNet Put down the crack pipe TIN

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@greg_price11 🎯

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

As an American Soldier, I grew up hating Iran.

We fought their proxies. I watched friends bleed from their weapons. Over time, I did what war teaches you to do: I simplified. I reduced a nation to a threat, a flag to a simple chant, and a people to a slogan. I turned to caricature that which required complexity to understand.

“Death to America.”

I saw the videos and filed the whole country away as lost. I told myself I didn’t have the bandwidth to separate a regime from the people trapped beneath it. Iran exported terror before I was born. It’s all I’ve ever known them for.

But over previous weeks I finally looked closer.

Beneath the jackboot of the Ayatollah is not what I was taught to hate. It’s a people pressed flat by force, surveillance, fear, and faith weaponized into chains. It’s courage strangled daily and still refusing to die.

I am not easily moved by talk of regime change. Wanting freedom is cheap. If people truly want it, they bleed for it. They risk everything. Careers, families, their own lives. Anything less is just words said safely.

The Iranians appear to be paying that price in spades.

Unarmed. Unprotected. Outmatched. And still they stand, sing, bury their dead and came back the next day.

That changes how I see them.

Power fears one thing above all else: people who have nothing left to lose.

Guns can suppress. Prisons can delay. Terror can exhaust. But when a people decide they would rather die standing than live kneeling, history starts to bend.

The lesson is simple, and it is hopeful.

Regimes are loud. Nations are quiet. But it is always the quiet ones (the men and women who endure) that outlast the slogans. Tyranny looks permanent right up until the moment it isn’t. And when it breaks, it’s never because of words.

It begins when ordinary people decide the weight is no longer bearable. And if the Iranians win, they will know a quiet satisfaction the rest of us inherit secondhand. The hard pride earned by fighting, and dying, for a country that is truly yours.

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@GrahamCoffeyDC 100% accurate Graham! This game was similar to the 2017 Florida game 42-7, where we forever exorcised the demons in that series

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@RadiNabulsi Same

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@HBTFD1 Truth

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@SmallwoodTrent 100% correct

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Watching this helped me better understand ❤️Charlie Kirk’s❤️ message and see through some of the misinformation. I agree with some parts and disagree with others but I enjoyed this very much. Thank you Amir for making this.

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@aaronmurray11 Is that Brock or Josh Pate’s lost twin brother?

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@caroljsroth I was in the pool!!!!!

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@LSU_Shawn @BarackObama Well said brother Shawn!

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@julieroginsky It is not an exaggeration to say that you are wildly uninformed and low IQ