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  • in reply to: the election #153145
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    in reply to: the election #153144
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    I see a lot of voices (tweeter) on the left trying to make out that Harris lost bc of Gaza, and…you know…that’s not it. One thing I’ve noticed in my life is that few people get upset at the suffering and deaths of people they do not know personally. Is that a Leftist thing? I’ll have to ponder that.

    Yeah, Leftists took the genocide seriously, but the rest of the country couldn’t care less or were misinformed, or loved jesus-and-israel etc.

    I dont think the US-Israel genocide had much of an impact, except maybe in Michigan.

    Which sez a lot about the complete moral-decay and capitalist-pathology of US primates.

    At any rate, I’m pretty disconnected from Dem-Rep politics, though, these days.   So, I dont have a good sense of the exact algebra of why the soul-less Duplicat lost and the Buffoon Replicant won.

    But I am curious.   (In a quirky, doomer, apocalyptic, wry way. )   I like to keep up on mainstream capitalist-pathology and ecocide-culture.  🙂     So, i will read around, the next few weeks, as i did in 2016.    Probly the same exact forces are at play.  Same factions.

    My gut tells me, that Kamala is John Kerry.  She’s Bob Dole.  She’s just got a dull personality that did not excite enough people.   Shallow amerikunz.  Ya know.

    Leftists often like to say Dems lose because the party moved too far right, and abandoned the working class. (see vid with RD Kelly below) I mean, leftists always say that.   Could be truth to that.  I dunno.  Thats why LEFTISTS didnt like her.  But Clinton won twice by moving right.  Obama won twice by moving right.   I mean, the Dem ecocide-coalition sometimes works.  Sometimes it doesnt.   I dunno.

     

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    in reply to: setting up the Miami game (MNF) #153133
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    I am in favor of the Rams dominating and obliterating the Dolphins.

    I vote for that.

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    in reply to: the election #153132
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    Yeah…I saw Bernie’s statement both on twitter and facebook yesterday, and I didn’t read it. I did watch the video you brought here, and I guess I’m glad he’s found his voice again, now that the bargain he made is at an end, but it feels like too little, too late. His capitulation to the party went exactly the way we all expected it would…

    Bernie’s got a vid where he solemnly, calmly states he ‘disagrees’ with Kamala’s Israel policy, etc.

    I watched it and thought, what if a Nazi politician had done a vid where he ‘disagreed’ with killing all the commies and jews.

    ‘Disagreed’.     Jeezus.

     

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    in reply to: the election #153119
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    Ralph on the Dems.

    in reply to: setting up the Miami game (MNF) #153118
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    Saw on a vid, that Tyreek Hill has not caught a ball over 30 yards since week 1.

     

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    in reply to: the election #153113
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    I dont have much respect for Bernie anymore (‘my friend Joe’ etc) but he did at least say some useful things to his buddies in the Ecocide-Party.  (and i hate TYT, btw, fwiw)

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    in reply to: the election #153080
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    Saw this today, fwiw.

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    Shocking class realignment tells the economic story of the election

    in reply to: the election #153079
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    Saw this, fwiw.
    ….Among the more shocking exit poll results in the presidential race is a class realignment from 2020.

    This year, Harris carried voters whose total household income is over $100,000 by a 53% to 45% margin. In 2020, Trump carried the same demographic 54% to 42% against Biden.

    In contrast, Trump reversed his fortunes amongst those with incomes between $50,000 and $99,999 and those who make less than $50,000, winning both by 2%. Biden carried those demographics by 15% and 10%, respectively, in 2020….”

    https://www.msnbc.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/election-results-2024-trump-harris-live-updates-rcna176539

    in reply to: around the league, week 10 #153094
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    My second Brady post.   I dunno why.

    Anyway, these dufus-es are good on what made Brady a special leader.

    in reply to: the election #153093
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    ..I agree. I don’t know how you fight the system when it has so much influence and power over every aspect of daily life. This has to be unprecedented. No society in history has been under this much control while not realizing they are under control…

    “Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

     

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    in reply to: Rams offense and defense after the bye #153090
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    J.B. Long@JB_Long Since Rams came home from Chicago at the end of September: 4th in defensive EPA. Since Week 6 bye: 1st Defense in that stretch… · Points allowed: 79 · Points scored: 22 · Net: 14.25 ppg against

     

    Certainly feels like the Rams defense is one year away.

    I mean, they are definitely coming along this year, but they still need seasoning and a few more parts.

    Lets hope Shula is the next Spags.

    It’ll be interesting to see what McSnead does in the draft.   Where do they see the needs on defense.  Linebacker?  DB?

     

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    in reply to: around the league, week 10 #153087
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    Brady on facing teams with awesome offenses.   (at the 12:40 mark)

    in reply to: the election #153086
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    Jason Hickel All the takes about Trump winning the US election are correct and yet they also miss the point.

    Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms….

     

    Well, I’d say capitalism has failed.   I dont think of it as ‘liberalism’ or neoliberalism etc, etc — its just capitalism to me.   And yes, its failed.   If ‘fail’ means ecocide.

    At any rate, as a certified doomer, i see no way out.   Kamala was not a way out.  Neither was Bernie.  Blah blah.

    And I really think generation after generation after generation of capitalism has ‘done something’ to Americans.  The american mind/soul.   I dont think there is any way to turn it around at this point.   Not given the power of the system.   How do you change people when the system controls the education system and the Media and the Institutions?   I mean, exactly how do you ‘get thru’ to the masses when they are this far gone, and they continue to be inundated with capitalist dogmas as well as all the other capitalist induced factors? (ie., exhausted workers, distractions, addictions, atomization, etc, etc etc)

    Well, I’ve said all this before, so i dont intend to repeat the doomer mantras.   To be a ‘good leftist’ you have to ‘believe in the People’ — You really do.  Che did.  Martin Luther King did.  The list is endless.   I’m a bad leftist, now, though.   I no longer believe in the people.  And it has nothing to do with this election.  This election is just more of the same.  I’m not sure exactly when i stopped believing in the people.   Maybe back around the Obama years, I dunno.

    I think humans can, or could have been, stewards of the biosphere.   I think they can, or could have been decent.   But not under this system.

    This system turns them into pathological dangerous beings.  (and i dont mean ‘everyone’, but the vast majority) And the system gets stronger, not weaker.   As it rolls over more and more species and people.

    So, the big picture to me has not changed.   I’m delighted the Dems lost.   I’m disgusted the Reps won.    I think ecocidal biosphere-killing capitalism wins either way.

    There have always been doomers though, of course.   Maybe I’m just another misguided wrong-headed cynical doomer.

    I dunno.   But fuck the Democrats, and Go Rams.

     

    I did vote, btw.  Jill Stein, fwiw.

     

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    in reply to: the election #153081
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    “…US stocks rose sharply Wednesday morning following a decisive and consequential victory for former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s US presidential election.

    The Dow soared 1,334 points, or 3.2% at the market open. The S&P 500 surged 2% higher and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose by 1.8%. If the Dow maintains its implied gains throughout the trading session, it will mark the sixth-best point gain ever for the index — but nowhere close to a record percentage gain…”

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    McVay on GMFB.  He’s having a good time on this show.

    in reply to: the election #153073
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    in reply to: the election #153072
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    I have come to despise the Democrats so much in the last few years, I just feel zero regret about this election.   I know what Trump is, and i know what he will do (judges, environment, war on the poor etc etc etc etc) but genocide is genocide, and the Democrats are pro-ecocide.  Just at a slightly slower rate.  Blah blah blah.

    I’m glad the Dems lost.   I’m not glad the Reps won, but I’m glad the Dems lost.

    And now, we get to see the Dems blame the LEFT for the loss.   And the Dems will now turn even further Right.

    They disgust me.   More than the outright fascist Right.

     

    I’ve been wondering all year who would be the Dems NEXT presidential candidate.

     

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    in reply to: around the league, week 10 #153039
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    Ya know….the Chiefs are without their two top WRs, their top RB, and their no.2 and no.3 TEs.

    I guess their OLine is in good shape, though.

    Quite an organization they have.

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    “Seahawks have to gain an average of 8.9 yards on third down.   Worst number of any NFL team since….1980”

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    Geno ranked much higher than Stafford in that game? “turnover worthy plays”

    Smith was heavily under pressure behind a shakey OL and he’s not a consistent qb. But he did hit more than his share of chunk plays. Stafford was under some pressure too (not as much as Smith) but also according to things I’ve read Seattle threw an unexpected defense at him. They ignored motion, which tells you they’re playing zone, but then played man anyway. It took the Rams a while to sort out what the Seattle defense was doing. Plus, the run was not as reliable as normal for the Rams, and they kept getting penalties on offense. Then in overtime, Stafford was “on.” He was just on. Another Stafford late win. Rams defense was mostly great throughout the game but then let Seattle have more than its share of chunk pass plays, which is what kept Seattle in the game.

    Well, i respect the fact they stick to their algebra even when it seems a bit wacky, but in wv-algebra, a QB gets more points for what they do in the clutch.   And what Stafford did in the clutch outweighs what Geno did to me.   Not by a lot, but they had Geno, at like ten points ahead of Stafford, and i just dont buy that way of ranking.

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    in reply to: the election #153030
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    Fwiw, Nick Wright picks Kamala.  (this guy is a serious, professional-ish gambler, btw.   He studies)

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    Geno ranked much higher than Stafford in that game?  “turnover worthy plays”

    in reply to: our reactions to the Seattle game #153028
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    J.Rodrigue:

    “…he threaded a pass 24 yards toward the right sideline to another veteran, Tyler Johnson, through two sets of defenders’ arms. The throw and catch definitely, assuredly, convincingly were not possible. Except they were.

    And before the Rams’ otherwise constipated and error-filled offense got the ball back in overtime…”

     

    That throw to Tyler Johnson, was one of the most heart-stopping throws i can remember any Ram QB throw.  Ever.    I dunno if it was a TERRIBLE decision or an awesome decision.   Is there a throw that better exemplifies the essence of Stafford, more than that one?    The gunslinger.  Ice-water.  Assassin.  Reckless.  Pinpoint power-accurate.  Stubborn.  Tough.

    I wish some football expert would go over the details of that pass.

    The TD will get all the press coverage, but the pass to TJ was as interesting a play as the Rams will have all year.

     

    …btw, Tyler Johnson, a 5th Round pick,  caught a pass from Tom Brady in the Buc’s Super Bowl win in 2020 over the Chiefs.

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    in reply to: injuries & roster issues for week 10/game 9 #153027
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    Sigh.   You know, didnt the 99-2000 Rams have the whole OLine together the entire season?

    I forget, did the 2022 Super Bowl team have its Oline intact all year?

     

    I’d like to see this team be healthy for just one month.  One whole entire month.

     

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