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wvParticipantI’ve only seen the Highlights at NFL.com. Were they flat ? Looked like there were a lot of missed tackles. Thats usually the biggest sign of a flat team, in my view.
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vwvParticipantI’ve heard some pretty interesting arguments that some kind of ritual use of psychedelics would be a good thing for humans.
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Not without a Barbie Bucket.
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vwvParticipantThere’s a strong pull on my imagination to believe that what comes next is Mad Max.
But I also think that visions of the apocalypse have always seeded the imaginations of humans, and humans have had a tendency to believe throughout history that the apocalypse is just over the horizon. I dunno. Maybe humans just lurch along as always, finding ways to adapt, finding ways to eliminate other humans from competition for food and water, and doing without polar ice and commercial salad dressing.
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All true.
But I dont ‘think’ i have a ‘strong pull on my imagination’ about the mad-max future. I might, but I dont think thats it. For me its just looking at the science. The trajectories of environmental science. Thats prettymuch all I’m basing my dark-view on. The Air, the Water, the Ground, the Food, the Population, the Extinctions, the Climate, Modern Weoponry, Etc.
Coupled with Corporate-Personhood. And Human-Fear-Ignorance.Its not a ‘romantic vision’ for me. I dont ‘think’ so, anyway.
And again, the past is of no help. Because nothing like these conditions have ever existed before. This is something new.
What the hell do i know though. I’m just looking at a bright pebble or two on the vast shore.
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“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.” ― PlatowvParticipantFederated, localized, democratic enclaves, publicly owned, for the common good . . . etc. etc.
I won’t live to see it, if it ever happens. But my faith is usually strong that it will, eventually.
Thanks for your response, WV.
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Well, I can envison ‘that’ kind of place too, BT. …maybe North of the Wall, in the Lands of Always Winter, past the Haunted Forest…ice clans, snow bears, and free peoples. Where capitalists are roasted on spits, and no-one dares to even think of ‘owning the land.’
Yeah, i can envision a good way of life in that version too.
…but pray that the Oil under the ground is not discovered….humans….
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wvParticipantDisagreement on FOX
The Judge “is a fool”
wvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantHe won’t be the last president to try and take away a woman’s right to agency over her own body or deport brown skinned people who are simply looking for a better life, but I pray to Cthulhu he’s the last president to invite destruction of the last few pristine areas on earth by opening it up to his fossil fuel overlords.
Damm that was articulate. Nicely put.
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Um….except that Trump works FOR Cthulhu.
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wvParticipantThanks, WV.
Jane Goodall is a treasure. She’s like Chomsky for animals and the environment.
Much appreciated.
If you get the chance, would like to hear your own take on capitalism and the environment. Do you think it’s compatible with saving the planet?
Hope all is well —
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Capitalism. Its such a big giant huge subject. If I were to write an epic fantasy novel with seven kingdoms, and I had to do some new ‘world-building,’ I suppose I could envision a society somewhere in Westeros, where Capitalism might work. I can envision it. It would require an educational system that emphasized critical-thinking. And compassion. Without that, it couldnt work.
On top of the Education System, it would require some way to protect politics from Money. Thats possible to envision. Just put it in the constitution.
It would require Nationalizing Energy, Education, Health Care, etc. The Big stuff.
Cant have too much inequality so we’d have to regulate that somehow. Thats do-able.
A capitalism of many many small businesses, and the big stuff nationalized.So, yeah, i can envision a kinder gentler form of Capitalism. In the abstract. In a fantasy book. Where i get to start everything from scratch, without history getting in the way 🙂
Dunno what the coat of arms would look like.
But can Capitalism work in the real world? Signs point to No.
But it aint going anywhere, BT. So even though my heart is deeply anti-capitalist and wants revolution, my head whispers just settle for do-able-reforms. Like Bernie’s policies. Just some tinkering with the beast. Better than nuthin.
At any rate, Whats coming to replace Capitalism will probly be worse.
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vwvParticipantI understand why some people don’t see the point of impeaching Trump when there’s little chance of him being removed from office.
Polls show that less than half of the country wants him to be impeached. The same was true for Clinton’s impeachment and it backfired on the Republicans. His approval rating shot up to 60% as a result. Impeachment could be the best thing that could happen to Trump.
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Well, I cant imagine it changing one single solitary person’s mind about the situation. Thats the thing for me. People on Planet-MSNBC will cheer and people on Planet-Fox will jeer, and how will it change….anything?
The ‘symbolism’ wont mean anything except to the people who ‘already’ think he’s the devil. To the rest of the Nation it will just look like Dem-bullshit.
Just feels like taking a case to trial where you KNOW its gonna be a hung jury. What is the point? Ya know 🙂
I dunno. I should shut up. Maybe my algebra is way off. Maybe I’m too influenced by all them rightwingers around me. They still blame Bill Clinton for everything 🙂
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vwvParticipantFirst off, it’s simply not the norm for a sitting president to use taxpayer dollars as bait, threat, carrot and stick to go after political opponents in the upcoming election. Second….
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Ok, no big thing. We just disagree on that. I think LBJ would do that kind of thing without giving it a second thot. Kennedy. Nixon. Reagan. Yeah, I think they all do it, regularly. Cant prove it though.
At any rate, I have no emotional investment in the impeachment thing. Maybe it would do some good, I dunno. But I think its just as likely it will backfire.
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vwvParticipantFollowing up on the above.
I think Western civilization took a mad, dangerous, spectacularly horrible turn when it went from feudalism to capitalism.
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Well Jane Goodall agrees with you:wvParticipantI would take that logo. They may have “leaked” it to test the waters. Or it could be somebody trying to promote something, or start an internet rumor, or a host of other motives.
But I like it, actually. It does combine the two, and I never loved either one of them: the skull, or the newer one. This is a living Ram resembling the old logo. I like it, fwiw.
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Yeah, I like the new-fake-one better too.
Not that I care about ‘logos’ much. Its the helmets that matter. Its all about the helmets.
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vwvParticipant“…Trump may have withheld military aid to seek a probe into Biden, but it is hypocritically being framed by Democrats as an abuse of power out of the ordinary. But it is very much ordinary…”
=====================Well, I just dont get yall’s take on impeachment. Cuz if you agree with that quote up there, from the article up there, I just dont see how you can think Dems voting yes on Impeachment, and Reps voting no on Impeachment leads to…anything. I just dont see how any of it changes anything in today’s political landscape.
I mean read that quote slowly. Let the consequences of it sink in.
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vwvParticipantHollywood ending.
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vwvParticipantI haven’t had a chance to see it yet.
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It stays with ya. Works on ya.
People will have a hard time talkin about what “its about.”
For me it was ‘about’ how racism/capitalism cause people to dream certain dreams, and lie to themselves about certain things.
The commentary on the dvd is refreshing, and honest.
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vwvParticipantFwiw,
41 percent of Independents support Impeachment.
38 percent of Independents oppose impeachment.
21 percent are Unsure.
According to Harris poll.wvParticipantwvParticipantIn my own defense, I’m actually thinking of this in terms of morals and ethics. To be honest, “laws” are secondary to me.
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Well, ethically and morally you are right. But ethically and morally every modern President should have been impeached, I would say 🙂
I not thinking ethically/morally. I’m just doin my own political-race-horse algebra. And i suspect Impeachment would just make Trump look like a martyr with undecideds. With Dems it wont change any votes. With Reps it wont change any votes. Its all about undecideds.
Can you imagine, there are undecided-humans out there in Amerika. Scary times. Walking Dead times.
Perhaps it doesnt make one iota of difference what the Dem-politicans do regarding impeachment. Didnt Kiergegaard say something about marriage once: “Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way”
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vwvParticipantTrump handed them the impeachment issue on a silver platter, and they’re screwing it up already. .
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Well we disagree on this one, comrad. The country is divided. I promise you, at least half the electorate thinks this is all bullshit. Just Dems playing politics. Rightly or wrongly those are the facts we have to deal with. On top of that we have a Rep-Senate that will not vote to impeach Trump, so any proceeding is going to fail. And the American people will get very tired of the whole thing. They will want to decide who is the next Prez, themselves. They wont want the Dem-politicians deciding things.
It just seems to me you are looking at this like a Lawyer. You are arguing ‘law’ and ‘rules’ end such.
See, I look at more like its…oh… Lord of the Flies…or Animal Farm 🙂
We both agree Trump is a vile, corrupt, dangerous, unqualified, narcissistic, lying, biosphere-killing piece of shit. But…my mom loves him. As does about half the electorate. Amerika.
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vwvParticipantJust adding Tulsi’s view:
wvParticipantI like what Nathan was pointing out at the 40:37 mark. “means tested” vs “universal” stuff
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vSeptember 26, 2019 at 7:04 pm in reply to: media folk & posters set up Tampa game & Rams v. Suh #105718wvParticipantWell Suh has a history of showing up big in games he cares about. One would think he would care about this one.
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vwvParticipantLMU93
The Rams have surrendered a league-high 49 quarterback pressures on 115 pass-blocking snaps. Per PFF.==============
How can they rank them 10th out of 32 Olines, if they lead the league in giving up QB Pressures?
At any rate, I dont think the line has been ‘terrible.’ We’ve seen ‘terrible’ during the Fisher-Injury-Plagued years.
But they aint been ‘good’ either. They’ve looked like a middle-of-the-pack OLine to me. One can still hope they will improve as the year goes along and as the young linemen get more experience. But then there’s the wearing-down that will be goin on with Whitworth. So, who knows.
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vwvParticipantI would have gotten rid of the couple introduced a bit later in the story, for instance. Had to jog my memory via wikipedia, but I think it was Dorothy and Ray. To me, they were the least integrated into the story, the least “organic.” I was also just so so about the computer whiz kid.
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Yup. Agree.
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vwvParticipantWell, if its true, what was the one american novel published between 1770 and 1779?
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vwvParticipantShe could beat Trump…because so many voters just don’t like the chaos of Trump. They would prefer a wonk to a bull in a china shop.
But Ball is right…she fits the profile of a long list of Democrat losers, and she COULD lose at the end of the campaign because she’s NOT going to get the passionate turnout the Dems need from POC and the youth vote. Those people will come out for revolution, but not for policy papers. At least not in the same numbers.
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I agree, she could beat Trump. Trump could beat her. It will be close whether the Dems go with Bernie or Biden or Warren. All four have their bases and its hard to say whats gonna happen.
Ball is a diehard Bernie supporter so she tends to ‘see’ things that paint Bernie in the best light, etc, blah blah…
What Ball didnt mention was how the VP choice could swing things one way or another. In a razor close election, one would think the VP choice would be critical. I would say a Bernie/Warren ticket with Bernie at the top would be…interesting. Where would the Centrists go? They would be done-triangulated for a change 🙂
Then again maybe a more viable ticket would be Bernie and a Centrist as VP. I dunno.
I used to devote more brain-energy to the horse-race aspect of the corporotacracy but since I fell into the pit-of-hopeless-despair, I dont really keep up on the electoral-window-dressing anymore. I mean, the Ring-of-Power is on Sauron’s finger, shadow has fallen over the Land, the shire is in ashes, the Elves have sailed away, the Trees are burnt, the Nazgul-birds have eaten all the puppies, and we are voting on whether a Mordor Orc, an Uruk-hai, or a Cave Troll should be makin the prezidential tweets for the next four seasons.
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wvParticipantI just can’t tell yet. I dunno about the new Gurley. Sometimes i get the impression he’s lost a bit of explosiveness. But I cant really tell for sure.
Given the fact he doesnt get as many touches, its gotta be harder for him to ‘find a rhythm’. And then there’s the new OLine issues. And teams have adjusted to McVay more. So them three things make it hard for me to figure out what part of it is Gurley and what part of it is other factors. I dunno.
Its great having Wade and McVay on my team though. And Snead. I just dont worry about the future/big-picture with those three making the decisions. Its just a pleasure to have those three brains on the Rams.
I didnt like some of them other brains. These new brains are better than those old brains.
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vwvParticipantWV: I expected those two to be good early. But I’m always expecting them to be in trouble as the games pile up.
I don’t expect them to wear out.
It’s not like Donald where peak physical effort is the key to their games. They’re playing on smarts and veteran savvy…
Whatever they are now I expect them to be all year.
This D is as good as if not better than the last top Rams D, which was 99. In the end it may just rank with some of the great 70s Ds.
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Well yer just a crazy man. Those old guys are not gonna hold up.
It does have the potential to be a great defense. Tough to compare D’s anymore due to the rules changes and all, but yeah, it could end up being a great one. Then again, they have faced a mediocre version of Cam, and Saints offense without Breeze, and dynamic but inexperienced QB in whats-his-name. And they wont have to face Big Ben, I guess. Bears dont have a good QB, Cincy’s QB is mediocre…Tampa? Winston isnt really scary is he? I guess I wanna see how they do against the good QBs. Russell Wilson, for one. I dunno what other top ten QBs they face.
I’m looking forward to the Bear game, btw. I wanna see if they can improve on that shit-storm of a game they played last time. How’s this OLine gonna hold up against da bears?
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