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wvParticipantCheck out some of the sources in the ‘leftist sites’ thread thats pinned at the top, Mack. Some good leftists up there, spreading the word.
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vwvParticipantThose cool funny Australians have a podcast:
wvParticipantI was wondering when he was going to get it. I’m glad the Lord smite-ed him.
I hope Trump gave it to his new Supreme Court choice.
Yes, I do.
Oh, and Fox WILL blame the democrats for this. I guarantee it. At some point. They will.
wvParticipantI watched the week4 Jets/Broncos hi-lites, for some reason. Darnold the young QB for the Jets showed me a lot. That kid was under serious pressure all night long, and he just kept making plays with his feet and arm. Thats a franchise QB, imho.
Just needs an OLine.
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vwvParticipantWhy is Howard Balzer covering the Arizona Cardinals? Just curious.
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wvParticipantYugopnik is an interesting leftist-utuber. Here’s a story about a russian lady sniper who killed over three hundred nazis and became a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. At least thats the story-myth. I dunno how much of it is true.
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wvParticipantIF you can get past this guy’s outfit, he makes some interesting points.
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wvParticipantReally was no “debate” so your right-pointless.
I wonder what Progressives think when the right attempts to make Biden out as a socialist and lots of people believe it. I know people who-when asked why they don’t want to vote for Biden-say its because they don’t want this country to become “socialism”.
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Well, we’ve heard it all before. Obama was a ‘socialist’ etc.
The fact that those propaganda-advertising-marketing-lies WORK so well, tells us
a great deal about the political-IQ’s of millions and millions and millions of American citizens.Hell, Bernie’s not really even a socialist in any hardcore sense of the word. He’s more of an FDR kinda guy.
We’re in the home stretch. Anything can happen this last month.
I’m tuning out the day-to-day political stuff. The various outrages of the week.
My brain informs me, i need to turn toward Nature, for a while. Trees. Birds. Caterpillars.w
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“I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany.”
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wvParticipantHakim talks about his favorite leftwing channels.
======================wvParticipantcrows:https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/
“…Now the birds can add one more feather to their brainiac claims: Research unveiled on Thursday in Science finds that crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals…”
wvParticipantThat is what David Axelrod said the public saw in last night’s debate. However, this study shows Americans value more about policies and actions from the President as opposed to his morality and unethical behavior. If true it only affirms my conviction that we have become a society where the only thing that counts is “what’s in it for me”. Sad.
Op-Ed: Trump may be immoral, but most Americans don’t care
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Well, its complicated isnt it. I know a lot of Rightwing-Evangelical-Christians.
And to them, Abortion is Genocide. So, if you believe abortion is mass-murder-on-a-huge-scale, then voting for a complete jerk is totally justified if he is going to save all those ‘lives’. So, in that sense, those voters are NOT “whats in it for me” type voters. They are thinking of others. To them, liberal-professionals are the selfish ones thinking only of themselves.…I assume the debate was pointless at this point. I dunno, but i assume, all the undecideds have decided by now. 33 days left.
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vwvParticipantHakim’s vids are awfully good.
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wvParticipantbetting:https://www.thelines.com/nfl-week-4-lines-2020/
Geez, Rams are 12.5 point favorites. When’s the last time that happened?
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vwvParticipantIs Ma-homes the best football player we’ve seen since….oh, i dunno…Jim Brown?
The Ravens have always had a tough defense. That was not a lousy defense, he was shredding.
I think Mahomes is the best NFL football player, I’ve seen, maybe, ever. I would take him over Lawrence Taylor or Aaron Donald, or any other player i can think of.
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wvParticipantArent those 3 QB ratings kinda low for this day-and-age. I’m used to seeing 100+ ratings for the top five QBs, or so.
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wvParticipantWell, as a senior-citizen-fan, I just take a philo-sophical view of football-flags in general. I just dont spend more than a few seconds thinking about whether this or that call was legit or not. My brain just doesnt value that type of synapse-work.
I’m waaaay more interested in the general flow of the games, the tactics, the trajectories, etc.
The really bad calls are few and far between, and about half the time, they will go in the Rams favor.
I spent three seconds looking at the call, and it looked like a penalty to me, but i didnt dwell on it.
A defense that gives up the big plays, in the Clutch, that the Rams gave up in that game, has a serious problem.
An offense that comes back the way the Rams did in that game, is seriously dangerous.
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vwvParticipantI only watched the ten-minute hi-lite vid. Sigh.
I dunno. Three games in, its still too early to say much.
But I’ll say this — it doesnt look like a Super-Bowl Team. It just doesnt. Not like the 99 Rams or the other ring-teams over the years.
But it does look like a well-coached, dangerous team. Certainly, could be a playoff team, and certainly could win a couple of playoff games. Or not.
Feels like an improved team from the Nine-Win team of last year. But its not a 14-2 type team, either. Somewhere in between is what it looks like.
Course almost all the NFL teams are a Left-Tackl-injury away from mediocrity.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantAnother avenue that progressives talk about all the time, is the link between Race and Poverty. There’s all kinds of facts/reasons why so many African-Americans ended up poor. A LOT of the reasons have to do with various forms of systemic-Racism.
So, you end up with ==>
1) Racism spawned Poverty. Or at least racism is a significant part of the problem of poverty. Not all, but a big part. (The rest of it, is just the evil of Capitalism)2)And then Poverty spawns People Living in POVERTY WITH STRESS, Stress, STRESS. Depression/Anger/Hopelessnes/frustration/bad-or-no-medical-care/drug-use/Etc.
Poverty also means people have a hard time paying for Car Inspections, Car Insurance, Drivers License Fees, etc. All kinds of Car stuff.
Poverty is a shit-storm, in and of itself.
Its been my experience that middle-class and wealthy white people simply Do..Not…Get…the ‘stress’ poor people live with every single day.3) So then you have Race/Poverty meets….the Police.
What would we predict would happen?
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vwvParticipantWell-to be honest I found each of those features to be quite candid and persuasive and consistent with my opinions on the subject. I also did not hear any one of them say they do not support BLM. Their concern is how people with a preconceived notion bias will affect their reaction to a black being killed during an interaction with the police.
A preconceived notion bias is where some will look at that video and take it to mean these scholars do not support BLM or somehow are defending criminal cops when in fact more than one calls these cops murderers. Whether it fits one’s preconceive notion bias or not the truth of the matter is that there are justifiable actions involving cops killing blacks and there are justifiable actions involving cops killing whites.
It’s also a preconceived notion bias when one turns the percentage data on its head to support their bias as was explained by the Columbia professor.
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Well i thought you would agree with them. I think a ton of people would agree with them.
I think they get some things right, and some things wrong. I think Adolph Reed Jr, has a better take on things. He would overlap some of their views, but diverge on some fundamental stuff.
The main problem I (as a leftist) have with them is this — Yes, they are right to point out that Race does not explain the Facts/Stats.
Plenty of POOR-whites are killed by police.
And yes, plenty of POOR-blacks kill other POOR-blacks. Many more than the Cops are killing.Yes. Those are indeed facts, and they are facts that get ignored by the “Race explains everything” crowd. (And the rightwingers make a lot of headway by pointing that out. And the libs lose ground by ignoring that, perhaps)
But here’s where those centrists in the vid (thats what I’m calling them)Fail. They dont say a word about how all those POOR people ended up POOR. They dont talk about the desperation and hopeless situation the poor are in. They dont talk about how CAPITALISM sets up the poor for all kinds of tense encounters with the Police. The sins of Capitalism are invisible to the Centrists. Its all about ‘individual’ failings of individual poor people, both black and white.
I’d also add this — the vid shows centrists talking about KILLINGS. Only killings. They do not talk about all the times black people are pulled over, accused of crimes, harassed, etc, etc, etc. They seem to ignore the facts on that dynamic completely. Its not just about Killings.
So, i would say, the Centrists in that Vid did some minimizing of the Race-problem, and they totally ignored how the capitalist-system creates a poor, desperate, stressed, UnderClass, which is vulnerable to ugly encounters with authority, such as Police.
37 More Days to the Election. Keep your fingers crossed.
PS — we all have ‘preconceived biases.’ There’s no escape from them. You have them. I have them. We all have them. There’s no such thing as not having them.
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vwvParticipantPolls still looking good.
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Corporate-idiots. They spend 5 Billion dollars on a stadium but they cant get the uniforms right. Even when the blue-print is staring them right in the face.
Can you imagine Dallas being that stupid? Yeah, lets change the Star on the helmet. Sure, great idea.
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vwvParticipantThis is why its not such a good idea to rake leaves. Just leave em.
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wvParticipantProgressive running in WV. Biggest donation has been 26 dollars. She’s raised a million dollars.
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wvParticipantI started this at 3 min mark. Little bit about ‘Fed-Soc’ and the rightwing-Corporate-faction and the rightwing-abortion-faction.
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wvParticipantWell, maybe he’s in the same backfield as Brian, now.
In that great Bear team in the Sky.
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