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wvParticipantLatest map of the advance of Russian Forces in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/vXuYFSY3Ww
— ASB News / MILITARY〽️ (@ASBMilitary) March 5, 2022
wvParticipantJoseph-Day may be under-rated.
Or he may be another player who benefited
from the Aaron-Donald-Effect. (ADE)
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wvParticipantYanis Varoufakis:https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/03/05/putins-criminal-invasion-europes-response-americas-role-avvenire-interview-english-version/
“…What mistakes have European countries made to get to this point?
Regarding Ukraine, Europe’s greatest error was to defer to Washington and to NATO. Washington misled successive Ukrainian governments with promises the United States was never going to keep, egging them on toward a confrontation with Moscow that endangered peace in Europe. In an important sense, the United States succeeded in justifying the expansion of NATO with the argument that NATO was the only shield from tensions the United States had helped create. Washington did not care about Ukraine or Europe. And Europe blindly played along, serving Washington’s interests by going along with America’s investment in tensions with Russia. History will condemn EU leaders for falling behind the US agenda and, for this, reason failing to fulfil the EU’s fundamental promise to Europeans: No war on our Continent.
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What is your opinion of Putin’s decisions?
He will be included in History’s annals in the chapter reserved for brutal leaders who chose an avoidable war (rather than be forced into one). Long before Ukraine, to establish his regime, he had committed abominable war crimes in Chechnya. My greatest fear is that, if Ukrainians continue to resist bravely (which, make no mistake, I want them to!), he will flatten Kiyv with the same brutality that he demolished Grozny, killing tens of thousands of civilians.
wvParticipantCongress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill https://t.co/cDe3rSU0jh
— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) March 3, 2022
wvParticipantFormer insider and Colin Powell ally – Larry Wilkerson’s view, fwiw:
wvParticipantTaylor may have had a better year than Kupp.
hmmm… good point. the running back position is almost a forgotten position isn’t it? it used to be almost as important as quarterback. when i first started watching football, i watched guys like barry sanders and emmitt smith. legends. and then faulk and tomlinson. i thought gurley had a chance to reach that echelon. but that knee wouldn’t hold up. it’s rare that you get a running back putting up those kind of numbers nowadays.
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I suppose Deebo is the perfect modern RB-hybrid. Every team would
like a Deebo.
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wvParticipantwell. kupp has only done it for one season. maybe two. so that hurts him…
…kupp seems to fit this offense so well. not just with the catching and the running. but with the blocking. the run after the catch ability. even rushing the ball… he’s like a running back. i don’t know that the above mentioned wide receivers can bring all those elements to the table like coop can.
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Just as an aside, i was looking at Receiving stats, and Rushing stats.
J Taylor had 1811 rush yards. At no.2 Nick Chubb had 1259.
Thats quite a difference between the no.1 and no.2 rankings.
I dont think any other category has that kind of drop-off between
the top player and the no.2 player.
Taylor may have had a better year than Kupp.
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wvParticipantLook at the Yards per catch of Ja’marr Chase and Deebo Samuel.
Chase – 18
Deebo – 18.2
No-one else is close to those two. Now, I can see Chase having that kind of stat. But Deebo? Damn.
Receiving stats:https://www.espn.com/nfl/stats/player/_/stat/receiving/table/receiving/sort/receivingYards/dir/desc
Kupp is 13.4.
Davante Adams 12.6
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wvParticipantSo, who is the ‘best’ WR in the NFL ?
I still keep hearing the talking-heads
pick Davante Adams. I cant think of a single National talking head
who thinks Kupp is the best in the NFL.
I never watch Adams so, I dont know much about him.
I always think of Tyreek Hill of the Chiefs, myself. He seems like
“the most dangerous” to me. Then there’s Chase of the Bengals.
And then there’s that white guy on the rams.
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wvParticipantThis is a great season high-light vid. 49er in Kittle Jersey crying, like a baby.
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wvParticipantDonald is one of the best defensive player I’ve ever seen and I go back to Mean Joe Greene, Alan Page, and Randy White.One of the best? With all due respect to Mean Joe Greene, Alan Page, Randy White, et. al… they aren’t in the same class as Aaron Donald. I watched all those guys too, and none of them were as dominant as AD. I get the reluctance to proclaim a player ‘the best ever’, and the desire to be respectful of the great ones of the past, but c’mon… It’s like saying Alaska is one of the biggest states in the US, cheetahs are one of the fastest cats, Zooey is one of the most annoying posters… At this point, saying he’s only *one* of the best despite the statistical and videographic evidence to the contrary is actually disrespectful to AD. Hey, but if you want to risk adding another chip to those hyper-muscled shoulders, so be it.
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I dunno. I hate the whole ‘who is the best player’ question. I mean, how in the world do you ‘compare’ Jerry Rice and Merlin Olsen ? Lawrence Taylor and Orlando Pace? Deacon and Lance Allworth?
Its hard enough just to compare same-position-players from different eras.
Like Merlin vs Aaron Donald. Can Donald do it as long as Merlin did?
Merlin couldnt pass-rush the way Donald can, but Donald couldnt stuff the run as consistently as Merlin did.
I dunno. If i ‘had’ to play one version of the game, best I could do ….Donald
is the best DT of his era. His era being, somewhere around a decade or so.
Also, Zooey is the one of the most annoying “California” posters
of his era.
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March 4, 2022 at 7:56 pm in reply to: Rams internal FAs & contract issues (updated w/ big article] #137235wvParticipantWhat does it mean that OBJ “did not have an ACL” ?
Does that mean he had a different kind of injury or that he already
had a ‘rebuilt’ ACL or what?
wvParticipantGod, and Aaron Donald, and Von Miller
blessed him.
wvParticipantSpeaking out against the war, naming it the war in Russia is now punishable by a prison term. Between that and crushing sanctions, I am full of fear for loved ones there, but ones in Ukraine are still worse off, of course. I am absolutely hopeless and heartbroken.
— katya (@kazbek) March 4, 2022
wvParticipant…Cruz said. “But we should not be calling for the assassination of heads of state,” he added. . . .
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Course US sponsored torturing, bombing and mass-murdering of
‘ordinary’ humans all over the planet in capitalist-imperialist-resource-wars
is fine and dandy.
Just dont go giving people any ideas about assassinating…um…politicians.
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wvParticipant…Isn’t it natural that they want to move away from Russian influence? …”
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Well we just see it differently, and I’m pretty sure its simply because
we come at things from a different point on the political-compass,
and we view capitalism differently.
But that question you ask is a good one. But it brings up so many deep political issues involving ANY nation-state. Who is the ‘they’ that want to move away from Russian influence? What are the Ukranians’ options? Maybe ‘they’ prefer neutrality? What if the percentages are all over the place and depend on the amount and level of information the Ukranians have? What if ‘X’ group of Ukranians prefers russian influence, ‘Y’ group prefers Nato, and ‘Z’ group prefers neutrality, and ‘W’ group has no idea?
There’s a gazillion questions and I would never trust the US/Western media or ‘academics’ or ‘experts’ (or the Russians) to ask those questions, or answer those questions.
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wvParticipantRebecca’s views do not resonate with me, fwiw: “…One of the things I liked about the idea of an Elizabeth Warren presidency was her boldness and acuity in diagnosing the sheer scale of the problem and her radical but pragmatic solutions…” R. Solnit w v
Well, hopefully, you’re not dismissing her article about Trump/Putin based just on her views about Warren. .. Aside from her take on Warren, what do you think Solnit gets wrong?
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I dont think she gets anything wrong about Putin/Trump. But then I dont think Jimmy Dore gets anything wrong about Biden and M4A.
Solnit and Dore both give me problems. If you read Solnit stuff (and i have two of her books) she blames Reps, and was soft on Obama. She actually blamed ‘the people’ for not essentially moving Obama more to the left. She didnt blame him. So she triggers me, the same way Dore triggers me or any ‘blue team’ or ‘red team’ person triggers me.
The only ones who dont trigger me, at this late stage of my life
are the folks who rip into the dems and the reps, both. And that aint Solnit, and that aint Dore. Its the anti-capitalists. And there aint many out there in the US.
I mean, why doesnt she do an article about how her Dems and the reps
are both destroying peace and life on this planet? Why is that impossible for her (and Dore, and all the rest) to do? I suspect its because they would not be able to earn a living in this country.
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wvParticipantSo what are we expecting as far as Comp picks?
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- Fifth-round pick (own)
- Seventh-round pick (own)
- Seventh-round pick (via Miami in Aqib Talib trade)
wvParticipantmahomes, allen, and jackson for sure.
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I would not take Lamar J, myself. I want no-look passes.
And i want a QB with an eerie spooky connection with Mr Kupp.
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wvParticipantI did a study on this a while ago. 98% of the time the word "oligarch" is used in western media, it was referring to Russia or other ex-Eastern Bloc countries. https://t.co/jmCN5L2pyb
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) March 3, 2022
wvParticipantRebecca’s views do not resonate with me, fwiw:
“…One of the things I liked about the idea of an Elizabeth Warren presidency was her boldness and acuity in diagnosing the sheer scale of the problem and her radical but pragmatic solutions…” R. Solnit
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wvParticipant…It’s interesting that most of them could retain their friendships, despite major political differences. I imagine that would not be the case if they were coming of age today. Thanks for posting this.
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The problem/dynamic Marquez had, as laid out in that vid, fascinates me.
I see that issue play out all the time among leftists all over the internet.
I had a short exchange with Caitlin Johnstone on twitter about this topic.
And i got booted off an old british message board (the Lifeboat) because
of this ‘issue’ — Ie., do you refrain from criticizing Castro, Hugo Chavez, Lenin etc (or in my case Assad)
because ‘any’ criticism will just be used by the Capitalist-West to further its biosphere-killing-agenda. In the case of Marquez, he genuinely liked Castro as a friend, but he didnt like the authoritarian stuff. But he chose NOT to criticize Castro because, as he noted it would be used by the West against socialism. The other approach is just to ‘tell the truth’ however you see it.
I go back and forth on this. Its not an easy answer for me. Used to be easy, but I’m not sure anymore. I used to think “just call it like you see it” — but now, I think that may be similar to people saying “I’m color-blind” etc.
I dunno.
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wvParticipantStarted this at the 13:28 mark, cuz his sentence at that point is how i see it.
Finnish-Bolshevik:
wvParticipantLiberal outrage perfectly distilled in one image pic.twitter.com/BQU7d3zoCb
— Michael Parenti’s Stache 🚩☭ (@Karl_Was_Right) February 28, 2022
wvParticipantNot a tweet, but a short vid:
wvParticipantUkraine: the history behind Russia’s claim that Nato promised not to expand to the east=======
Strange, because he also wrote this in 2014:
https://gavinelhall.blogspot.com/2014/
‘…Ukraine is dependant on Russia for its energy. It is dependant on the European Union for far less other than harder to quantify aspirations to a Western way of life. Therefore, it may well be the case that history reflects that the EU and NATO have been complicit in the present situation by tangling an unreachable carrot for Ukraine.
Incidentally at numerous times during the 1990s Russia was given assurances that the EU and NATO would not impact Russia’s sphere of influence. The abandonment of this premise is a significant reason behind the current tensions…”
wvParticipantWouldn’t a better metaphor be–your dumb ass, drunken buffoon of a neighbor buys a big old pit bull. He, of course, treats the dog like shit and doesn’t train it. One day, the dog gets out and bites your daughter in the face. You get to spend a whole day in the ER, your daughter has a scar on her face for the rest of her life, and when you call the cops they don’t do shit. You put up a fence and tell your neighbor if you see his dog in your yard you’re going to shoot it. He spends the next decade pissing on your fence in front of your 8 year old daughter before one day he tears it down and has a bunch of his buddies attack you.
This analogy is getting unwieldy here, but you get the point, right?
Yes, NATO expanded before Putin ever came to power. But was that because the west coerced countries like Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, etc. or because those countries lived with corrupt Soviet control for years and felt legitimately threatened by their large, nuclear power neighbor who had a history of expanding its borders with imperialistic zeal? The only means of security and independence for some of those countries is nuclear weapons or joining NATO. This seems like an easy choice to me.
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Nah, i dont see that analogy at all.
I posted a long response, Cal, but after reading it, i zapped it,
because i cant respond to any of that without going down a rabbit hole
I dont wanna go down.
We just come at this from different points on the political compass,
I think.
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wvParticipantYeah, I was wondering about the Littleton and Fowler thing.
I had a feeling there was a ‘Donald Effect’ on all the other rams defensive starters.
I would think Donald improves the play of every single player on defense (offense?) including Ramsay.
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wvParticipantI’m gonna repost this Mearsheimer vid. I started this one at a certain point where he says “the west is leading Ukraine down the primrose path…”
He said this in 2015.
Now, I dont share Mearsheimer’s politics. He believes the west wants to “spread democracy” blah blah. But i still think he has some interesting insights on the geo-chess-game the west is playing with russia and china.
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wvParticipantWV, Good response. And spiced up with some of your ™humor too. That’s needed right now. My earlier long and winded road, regarding capitalism: I think if I hadn’t written it, I wouldn’t know what the hell I was saying either. ;>) Basically, on your earlier question about ultimate responsibility for the invasion: Yes, capitalism. It creates an entirely artificial climate of bottom-up competition for jobs and scarce resources, to go with the top-down stuff that’s always been there. It’s likely the first economic system in history that developed its own gaslighting infrastructure to create (a mostly successful) buy-in from the masses. Capitalism depends on that, unlike any previous system. It has to create a climate where people think they’re involved with this crap by choice, instead of via a matrix of force and dire necessity. This also leads to our being pitted against each other, and seeing this as “natural” when it’s not. That gets us closer to accepting war too. The concept of the nation-state does some heavy lifting along those lines as well. But it’s mostly the global economic system.
My take on Ukraine, however, is that this is a specific event, with specific moral agents involved, and only one of them can say No. Putin had the power to just say No. We’re not going to invade. We’re going to hold good-faith talks with Zelensky and company and try to persuade him to stay out of NATO, if that’s our desire. Not via threats — which is all Putin has done for two decades — but through actual negotiations. In my view, this specific case is entirely on Putin. He didn’t have to invade. Nothing forced him to, except for his own lust to extend his already gargantuan nation-state.
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I agree with all the stuff on capitalism, as you know. I could go on about capitalism all day, all night, all the rest of my days. Probly not healthy, but the fury inside me is never going to ebb. I just have to distract myself a lot, with rams and planting native plants, and poetry and scones and whatever.
And yes, I understand the position you (and zn) have on Ukraine. Its a ‘specific’ distinct decision by Putin and ‘nothing forced him’ etc.
My view is completely different. My analogy (dueling analogies all over the internet on this) is…oh….a bear. In a cage. With a sign. “Dont poke the bear, it has nuclear weapons.” And Mr Nato Countries comes along and pokes the bear. Repeatedly. And the bear warns Mr Nato Countries repeatedly. And…more poking.
The bear than decides to erupt. Yes its a specific decision by the bear.
No, he doesnt ‘have’ to erupt. But do i only blame the bear? Nah, I blame both.
I might feel diff bout Ukraine if I thought the Big-Capitalist-Gangster
actually cared about the Ukrainians. But they dont. Anymore than they cared about the Iraqis or Nicaraguans or Chileans or…go down the list.
Its just pathological capitalist chess games. Resource wars.
I F’ing blame them all.
…i was at a private dinner the other day. A former BBC reporter was there. She teaches at Princeton now. We were disagreeing about some things and she said “Is there ‘any’ politician in history you respect?”
Only one i could think of was Allende. Tried to bring socialism in a peaceful way. And of course the freedom-loving-west killed him.
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