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wvParticipant“…That’s what I want to bring you at The Athletic. The little, powerful moments that can change people, that can help people. The hard news. The big picture, as this football team moves from archaic to cutting-edge on and off the field. I want to ask questions that make people feel like they matter; that what they feel and say and do is important in the world. I want to uplift all voices, speak truth to power and maybe move you to laughter or to tears. [5]”
Jourdan Rodrigue
JR:https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/jourdan-rodriguewvParticipantI wonder if this causes people in Alabama to wear masks https://t.co/ACx74EdPET
— Dangerdav (@dangerdav) October 14, 2020
wvParticipantWtf??? Trump is based? 😳 pic.twitter.com/MzE2NbKIKP
— Shallah Gaykwon the Hell Chef 🏳️🌈🏴🚩🐧 (@GramsciFag69) October 14, 2020
wvParticipantI realized the other day, that i know the EXACT date i became a Ram fan. December 8, 1968. That is the day my dad and i watched the Rams play the Brian Piccolo Bears on TV. Rams lost 17-16. Loved the Horns on black and white TV.
So, after that game, I started paying a ‘little’ attention to pro football and i started looking to see how the Rams were doing. They lost to the Unitas Colts the next week 28-24. Finished 10-3-1. Out of the playoffs.
The first 49er-Ram game I was aware of was in October of 1969. (I didnt even know who all the teams were in the NFL at that point)
George Allen’s Rams won 27-21, over John Brodie. That was the year they started 11-0, of course.
That was the year the dark and dreary Viking-Curse began.The 49er rivalry seems more intense back then. I could be wrong, but thats how it seems.
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49ers lead series 71-67-3
series:https://www.49erswebzone.com/alltimescores/opponent/los+angeles+rams/wvParticipantThis is Do-or-Die for the 9ers.
Backs against the wall.
That kind of thing.
If they lose, they are Done.
Looks like they are Done anyway. But if they lose this game, it is Over Over.
The radio in NoCal has been eulogizing the 9ers for a month.
The time has come to strike the finishing blow. That much is certain.
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Well, a Portugal fan would say all that.
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vwvParticipantVegas Raiders are 3-2, and looking pretty dangerous.
I remember when every single celebrity-pundit said Gruden was an idiot for letting K.Mack go, etc etc.
I cant stand Gruden, but I remember thinking at the time, they were jumping the gun. He may know what he’s doing. We dunno yet. Celebrity-Pundits arent allowed to say “we dunno yet.” Its not good TeeVee.
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vwvParticipant“I’m standing in the line because my life depends on it,” one Atlanta voter says, as early voters continue to encounter lengthy lines to cast their ballots https://t.co/hjWzVk90GL pic.twitter.com/NCHNdCoDMx
— CNN (@CNN) October 14, 2020
wvParticipantUm…..Ice Cube supports Trump.
==We've reached the point where Joe Biden has more credibility in the hood than Ice Cube. 2020 is the twilight zone.
— I Smoked The Good Old Days Of Segregation (@Dknight10k) October 14, 2020
wvParticipantGurley fourth in rushing with 375 yards.
4.7 yard average.
5 TDs
Only 8 receptions for 38 yards though.
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News: 3 days agoGurley ran for 121 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries, adding four receptions for 29 yards during Sunday’s 23-16 loss to Carolina.
Spin: Gurley joined Hall of Fame company with his efforts Sunday, reaching 75 career TDs in his 78th regular-season game. The only running backs in NFL history to have reached that milestone in fewer games are LaDainian Tomlinson (72 games), Jim Brown (72) and Emmitt Smith (77). Though Gurley has just eight receptions and 38 receiving yards through five games as a Falcon, he has been prolific on the ground with 258 yards and four touchdowns the past three weeks. The two-time All-Pro capitalized on a favorable matchup against the Panthers on Sunday, and Week 6 offers yet another optimistic outlook, as the opposing Vikings entered the weekend allowing the sixth-most rushing yards to opposing RBs on the season (495).
wvParticipanti see a Judge extended the Virginia voter-registration after the Cable was ‘accidently’cut. Every MSM article on the topic emphasizes the word ‘accidently’ in the headline.
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A federal judge extended the deadline for registering to vote in Virginia by 48 hours after the state's online voter registration system went down because of an accidentally severed cable. https://t.co/y2yaRVKjAA
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 14, 2020
wvParticipantAll QAnon adherents should be exposed and removed from sensitive jobs. All of them…their instability makes them incapable of doing such jobs faithfully. QAnon letter carrier raided by federal agents — who found undelivered mail in trash bags: report – https://t.co/A0iBn2kjl6
— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) October 14, 2020
wvParticipantlink:https://www.rainbowbuilders.org/health/russia-usa-life-expectancy
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Post-war USSR: a spirit of optimismLet us start chronologically, with the case of Russia after World War II. Between 1946 and 1964, Russia went through the period of fastest increase in life expectancy in its history. It should be noted that Joseph Stalin was still in power until 1953. This might surprise many, but all the data used here comes from international organizations like UN organs (UNPD), the World Bank, the IMF etc. and from recognized Western academics like Angus Maddison’s team. This is definitely not some kind of “communist propaganda data”.
From 1953 on, Nikita Khrushchev progressively introduced some degree of liberalization. The fact that the rise in life expectancy slowed during this time is certainly not due to his policies, but rather to the fact that life expectancy in the Soviet Union came close to life expectancy in the most industrialized Western countries.
However, Khrushchev’s policies were not that popular among many senior members of the Communist Party and did not lead to faster economic growth. He was deposed in 1964 and replaced by Leonid Brezhnew who undid many of Khrushchev’s reforms and imposed a more conservative policy. Until 1973, this did not have any impact on economic development: between 1950 and 1973, the Soviet Union maintained an almost constant yearly growth rate of 3.3%, ranking between the postwar booms of the US (2.5%) and France (4.0%). However, as soon as Brezhnev came to power in 1964, the rise of life expectancy slowed down abruptly or stopped altogether in the European Soviet Republics of the USSR (Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania shown on the chart above; for the other republics, click “Select countries”).
The Soviet model reaches its limits
wvParticipantI did not know this.
============Average life expectancy in the USSR went up by 18 years under Stalin even after accounting for Holodomor, which is fucking crazy
— No Cap(italism) ✡️🍞🏴🚩 (@ReverseMarxism) October 14, 2020
wvParticipant“As a Nordic immigrant to the United States, I noticed something else, too. Americans, and many others around the world, did not seem fully aware of how much better things could be.”
― Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life— Mark (@masada2118) October 14, 2020
wvParticipantHow come nobody ever posted anything about this guy: Dr.Gerald Horne. He’s written a gazillion history books. Kindof a Howard Zinn type historian.
And he gives talks in actual BOOK stores, with actual books. I saw him in a vid with Chris Hedges today, and i see he has lots of youtubes but they are all an hour long. This one is short.
This is now the History thread.
wvParticipantWell…my thoughts were complicated by this:
No…I don’t want to endorse corporate Dems…but I sure have a strong urge to repudiate fascism…AND the wider the popular margin of victory is for Biden, the better. Especially because it’s going to be litigated unless the Republicans lose by such a margin that there is no pathway to victory, even with stacked courts. So there’s that.
I’m just in “enough of Trump” mode when it comes to the vote. I have no argument with leftists who can’t vote for the centrist Dem. But I am with Zooey when it comes to swelling the numbers of those who repudiate the orange man, and so I not only want to see the republicans lose, I would like to see a high turn-out.
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Yeah, makes perfect sense.
Some of the twitter-Greens really want the Green Party to make it to five percent. I forget why. But something-or-other happens if they get five percent.
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vwvParticipantDoes Donald make that list?
he has to finish his career first. he’s less than halfway there.
longevity is the only question with donald at this point. but everything else is there.
but i’m not an expert or anything. i just watch donald, and i find it impossible to believe that there are 10 defensive linemen out there who are/were better than him.
i saw that you listed 8 so far. 2 of them being merlin and deacon. it’d be wild if donald made that list. that’s crazy. and i’m sure youngblood would make some people’s lists.
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Aaron may actually be better than M…Mer…Merl…..No, I just cant write it. I just cant. But….
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vwvParticipant11 hour lines. Wow.
I suppose we should be grateful they are not having to dodge German Shepherds,
or fire hoses. Or bullets.I’m gonna vote today, and i was gonna vote Biden but I checked the latest WV polls and Biden is in the 30s here. Cant even make it to 40 percent in WV. So, i suppose I’ll go ahead and vote Green. If this was a swing-state, Id vote for the Imperialist-drone-murdering-Wall-Street-Loving-Corporatist.
I’m guessing there wont be an 11 hour wait in WV.
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vI’m torn. I’m actually considering voting for Biden…I have every other thing filled out on my ballot. But I live in California, and Biden is going to DOUBLE Trump’s vote tally in this state.
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Yeah, i ended up voting Green. I checked the latest WV polls and Biden cant even break 35 percent in WV. If this was a swing state, I’d have voted for the Imperialist-Dem. Kinda felt good, to not have to do that.
There was no line here in west, by god, virginia. Too twenty seconds to turn in my vote.
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vwvParticipantI like the 49ers uniforms. They didnt screw around with their tradition.
The Rams blue-jersey-blue-pants uniforms may very well be the worst uniforms since the Swiss Guard:
===========As far as the game, I dunno. I know the Rams are solid, but the NFC East has been so bad, its hard to say whether the Rams are a ten-win team or a Division Champ type team.
Rams 24
49ers 20w
vwvParticipant11 hour lines. Wow.
I suppose we should be grateful they are not having to dodge German Shepherds,
or fire hoses. Or bullets.I’m gonna vote today, and i was gonna vote Biden but I checked the latest WV polls and Biden is in the 30s here. Cant even make it to 40 percent in WV. So, i suppose I’ll go ahead and vote Green. If this was a swing-state, Id vote for the Imperialist-drone-murdering-Wall-Street-Loving-Corporatist.
I’m guessing there wont be an 11 hour wait in WV.
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You criticize Noam Chomsky, yet you do so using language, which he invented.
— Sridhar Ramesh (@RadishHarmers) October 12, 2020
wvParticipantJeezus. What if the polls are right. I dunno.
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wvParticipantThat’s insane to me. I never, ever believed it was possible for a interior defensive lineman to be this productive.
now there are some great dlineman to have put on a rams uniform. just crazy that donald belongs in the same conversation as them.
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Deacon, Merlin, Aaron Donald, Jack Youngblood.
Can any NFL team match that?
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vwvParticipantSomething happened in the game I’ve never seen before. Rams at about midfield go for it on 4th and 1. They didn’t get it–that was the Robert Woods slippery ball throw. So Washington takes over. They end up in 4th and 1, go for it, and are stopped. So the Rams get the ball back at roughly the same spot they had it in the first place when they went for their 4th and 1, which was just the first of the 2 consecutive 4th and 1s in the game.
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Your mind is a labyrinth isn’t it. A maze of twisting, winding gossamer entanglements.
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vwvParticipantTotal Collapse Of Democracy So Horrifying America Decides It Hasn’t Happened Yet https://t.co/FJUxHqv77X pic.twitter.com/V2ZeFVv85h
— The Onion (@TheOnion) October 12, 2020
wvParticipantTwitter thread with a gazillion responses. On the issue of Chomsky telling the young radicals that voting for Biden is the best approach.
At on point Nathan Robinson chimed in and supported Noam.
==================Me and @briebriejoy argued with Noam Chomsky for an hour on the latest episode of @BadFaithPod. We won the argument. Listen here: https://t.co/ATPFCi0TyS pic.twitter.com/T34a5hkp3R
— Virgil Hexas 🦇🦇🦇 (@virgiltexas) October 12, 2020
wvParticipantHenderson seems to be living up to his potential now. Love him. I’ve said it before, but I can’t handle Sloman. I just don’t the mental fortitude to deal with his kicks.
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He needs a nick-name. Maybe that would help him.
I got nuthin. Slo-a-tron?
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vSammy-Three-Points?
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I like the question mark at the end of it.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantIn Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” the worst thing about turning into a giant bug is that Gregor Samsa loses his job and his means of supporting family. In other words, the problem is not turning into a bug, it’s capitalism. In a social democracy, Gregor Samsa could live happily. pic.twitter.com/fj2wQx2N4x
— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) October 11, 2020
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