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wvParticipantI think it would have made legitimate news media within an hour or two if this was real. People who fill the sports airwaves 24 hours a day have to talk about something, and this would have been mentioned.
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So. You admit you are posting postmodern, disorienting, and unsettling
fake news.
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wvParticipantThe Whitworth thing made me smile; I am convinced he would pull a Weddle
if they need him come playoff-time.
I dont think he’d come back for a bunch of regular season games…but playoffs?
If they were desperate? And he was in shape…..he’d ride in.
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wvParticipantwvParticipant49ers are ranked 24?
WTF are they smoking?
Some of these exciting, high-flying offenses might not look so good
against the 24th ranked 49ers.
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wvParticipantThere were ‘terrestrial’ crocodiles: ‘Kaprosuchus’
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May 13, 2022 at 2:18 pm in reply to: Are millennial leftists aging into right-wingers? by J.J #138885wvParticipant… Zooming out, moving away from the particular kids in question, the issue is that there is no organized left in America. Individual leftists exist, obviously.
We just have
no organization.
No money.
No mainstream media,
and very little media overall, period.
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Yes.
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wvParticipantSam Farmer@LATimesfarmerAn indication of how the league has shifted on Rams and Chargers: When these teams played four years ago, their game was available over the air to about 10% of the country. Junk. Now, it’s the last scheduled SNF game of the season. Not just about the Rams winning the Super Bowl.====
I wonder if there are Still, paranoid-ram-fans out there who type
things like, “the NFL hates the Rams.”
Do they still exist?
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wvParticipantI can see the postgame storyline already:
“The Bengals played that preseason game like it was the Super Bowl”
wvParticipant… Btw, any of youze guys doing Directv for all the games? What are your alternatives if you’re not going that route? . . .
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I like that game replay thingy. Its cheap. And I havent watched a ram loss
in three years.
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wvParticipantIts Kafka-esque. Ungodly.
I dont know that I’ve ever seen anything like that.
Its so horrible its funny. Is there a word for that? When something is so horrible it becomes funny?
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wvParticipantMay 11, 2022 at 8:46 pm in reply to: Are millennial leftists aging into right-wingers? by J.J #138851wvParticipant…I get why young leftists would be disgusted by the two parties. But I find it appalling that they’d choose the GOP over the Dems, rather than just saying a pox on both houses..
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Well, sure, its appalling. Its beyond words. But (1) I dont think that particular group was ever really ‘young leftists’. I think they were dummed-down-young-americans. And (2), I dont think there’s anything we can do about it, because late-stage-capitalism has won. Its massacred its leftist-opponent ideologically. There’s virtually no actual-left in the US. Dems and Reps. Where’s the ‘left’ ?
I know there’s an argument that Bernie and AOC and the Squad, and some of the ‘democratic socialists’ have showed that there’s a growing movement, etc.
But I just dont buy that, anymore. I dont think they are leftists and I dont think it would matter if they were, cause they are a tiny minority.
Dark view, I know. Just how i see it.
I’ve turned to nature. Planting seeds, etc. Non-human stuff. Thats how i deal with it.
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wvParticipantYou know there ‘is’ something to be said for being ‘battle tested.’
I do believe that. Dallas and Green Bay have cake schedules/divisions
(it looks like). That may not serve them well come playoff time.
A cake schedule gets you ‘into’ the playoffs and gets you a good ranking, maybe even a bye — but there’s a down side. Looked to me like the Packers were not ready for the physicality of the 49ers last year. The Rams were.
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wvParticipantSome of those animal thingies are awesome.
That whale photo? Jezus H Christ.
The singing bird made me laff.
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May 11, 2022 at 3:08 pm in reply to: Are millennial leftists aging into right-wingers? by J.J #138845wvParticipantI dont share much i-dee-ology with that first writer (he called AOC the ‘hard left’ in another article) — but I have often thought about this dynamic:
“…Fueled in part by anti-liberal animus, Sanders-to-Trump voters were a well-documented phenomenon that helped Republicans retake the White House in 2016. Many of those voters never came back, and the Sanders coalition became smaller and more ideological in 2020. Yet the Sanders-to-Trump migration continued, with some polls taken before the 2020 vote suggesting the number of converts could be as high as 15 percent. Doubtless this played a role in Trump increasing his share of the millennial vote by 8 percent…”
I think ‘that’ is an interesting, complex, often infuriating, sometimes faceplanting topic.
‘Part’ of the phenomenon (to me) seems simple — capitalism has dummed down American voters. Often they simply do not know much about policies. They just dont. And so they can ‘get mad’ at this or that party and end up wildly flipping to something else. I dont think they know what they are doing.
They were never really Bernie-bros and they arent really Trumpies now. They just end up places.
Capitalism dums people down, politically. They dont have critical-thinking-skills POLITICALLY. They might have them in other ways, but not politically.
I think politicians know this, of course.
Anyway, looks like the duopoly will be having very very close elections
for the rest of our lifetimes.
…i told my 92-year-old mom somethin yesterday. It just came out of my mouth. Didnt give it much thought. Totally spontaneous. But i knew in a millisecond it was coming from a deep place, and i meant it:
“I’m never voting in this country again”
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wvParticipantWell…’on paper,’ at this point, that is the toughest run of opponents
i can ‘ever’ remember. Ever.
We must, once again, pray for crippling injuries.
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wvParticipantRemembering the acerbic Ron Cobb on World Cartoonist Day pic.twitter.com/4cfT8H3iQK
— Robert Skvarla (@RobertSkvarla) May 5, 2022
wvParticipant‘the gathering’ ?
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"The Gathering" is both a yearly, week long meeting of billionaire & centi-millionaire families that fund the American religious right, and also the community which has coalesced around the yearly event. In 2012, I discovered the phenomenon & downloaded 15 years of audio…
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OLB Andrzej Hughes-Murray, Oregon State
He was a semifinalist for the “Academic Heisman”In each of the last three years, he was a Campbell Trophy semifinalist, which is essentially the equivalent of the Heisman academically. He was also a Senior CLASS Award candidate and graduated with a degree in psychology.
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I dunno what the ‘academic Heisman’ would be exactly — but I’m wondering
what the trophy looks like? Einstein? Sid Gillman? Karl Marx?
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May 4, 2022 at 11:46 pm in reply to: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows #138762wvParticipantWelp, considering I live in FL, the den of evil, aka the home of Ron DeSantis, very likely our next President… fuck… Yeah, we’re moving likely to MN in the next two years. My youngest is Non-Binary Trans and I’m sure if we don’t have it we will have trigger laws in effect not only to make abortion illegal in all cases here in FL, but also they’ll set up to challenge Obergfell and Lawrence, thus making gay marriage illegal and making gay sex illegal in this fucked up state. CO is the most forward, but so much CA money has gone to the state that it’s too expensive… and we like MN and it’s super LGBT friendly Prolly gonna take a few years to make it happen, but yeah… it’s on now…
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I wonder if blue-ish people will move to blue states and
reddish people will move to red states, and the US will become
even more…ya know. If thats even possible.
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wvParticipantTired: The Ratchet Effect
Wired: The Crank Effect pic.twitter.com/cQTckJaAgb— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) May 4, 2022
wvParticipantWho is the Asian actor with long hair and a mustache that always showed up in action movies from the 1980s and 1990s in speaking and non-speaking roles?.by Ken Miyamoto.You’re talking about the man, the myth, the legend — Al Leong.
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That was cool. I think we all remember him.
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wvParticipantOurlads… can run routes and catch the ball like a receiver, he can be fully trusted as a blocker, and he can create as a rusher in space. The team-first, tougher- than-nails attitude and play style will be highly sought after by coaches if they have much say in the draft room. He is a safe pro…
…A rusher, pass catcher, and returner…
…Elite in and out quickness…
….Anticipates and reacts to tacklers as if the game were being played in slow motion. Has a rare level of suddenness to him with the ball in his hands. Patient and crafty, will create on his own…
, lacks the final gear to run away….
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Sounds like a version of Cooper Kupp to me.
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wvParticipantHow do you replace a Hall of Famer like Vonn Miller? Get better in the secondary and LB units, i guess. I dunno.
As has been said before, a defense with Von Miller is different from a defense with Wagner. A defense with Wagner and a stocked secondary means less of what we didn’t like last year–those endless long drives by opposing offenses milking the short pass up the middle. (This is admittedly an impression and not the result of dedicated film study.) If that is your defensive strength instead of weakness, you can also script in blitzes, stunts, and tailored 3rd down packages designed to isolate specific guys. Last year the Rams were just 15th in Yards Per Passing Attempt Allowed, 13th in First Downs Allowed Per Game, 14th in Completion Percentage Allowed, and 20th in Opponent Time of Possession Percentage. Just a little improvement in those areas and its a good defense but in a different way. I want to see more punts from the other team (Rams were 15th in opposing teams punting.) Anyway I wonder if Morris’s thing is turnovers more than sacks. It may not go the way I’m saying but it could.
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In my mind, this next season will show us a lot about Morris. I know he did well last year, but if you have Vonn, Jalen and AD, I expect any DC would do well. Vonn and AD on the same line is just nutz.
But this year, will require something different. More…oh, i dunno the word…more ‘tactical’ or somethin.
Anyway, it will be inter estin.
Last time the Rams had a chance to repeat, the defense was atrocious
as i recall. It was like they all gave 17 percent of 110 percent.
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wvParticipantI dont have a take, since I dont know anything about any of them,
but how can we not trust mcSnead at this point?
Other than the tutu-debacle, they’ve been as good as it gets
in the NFL.
Looking forward to seeing these kids play.
How do you replace a Hall of Famer like Vonn Miller?
Get better in the secondary and LB units, i guess.
I dunno.
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wvParticipantCesar @ClappedCesarLooking back, the Rams losing to the 49ers in week 18 was probably one of the best things to happen to them. Humbled them before the final stretch of games where they couldn’t afford to lose.=======
I agree but i dont think it humbled them at all.
I think it angered them.
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wvParticipantCan we put TuTu back?
Why cant we put things back?
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wvParticipantDunno if this has been posted, but i dont see it:
wvParticipantThe Brian Allen thing is something I wish fans would pay more attention to.
So many times we ‘think’ a player has ‘regressed’ or ‘sucks’ etc,
and then we come to find out about an injury.
We dont always know wtf the situation is.
Granted, when in doubt, the best approach is to stick with the mantra:
“Fire the Offensive Co-ordinater!”
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wvParticipantA thread.
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People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):
— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) April 18, 2022
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