WTF?    Who saw ‘that’ coming?

My goodness.  Hill was one of the reasons Ive been picking the Chiefs to win

the Ring for the last 3 years.   Wow.   They just aint as scary without him.

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Zooey wrote:

I think the media has now fully come to terms with the fact that they are the propaganda department. Media used to see itself as independent investigators, reporting the Truth. From time-to-time, they collaborated with Power to shape an “important” narrative, but still saw themselves as basically independent. That has eroded over time so much that I think now that no longer lie to themselves about that. They know their function is to spin stories, and it’s openly accepted. They don’t fool themselves into thinking they report objective reality. They weave it, and they know that’s what they do.

There’s probably a mix of things going on.   And some of the media is probably as you say — just outright, conscious propagandists.

But among ‘that’ group, most probably think they are ‘doing the right thing’, ie, ‘we are the good guys’, the CIA is battling evil, etc etc.

I would imagine they have internalized all the ‘proper’ narratives, that were successfully poured into their heads.

Which of course, raises the topic of the ‘how’ of it all.  How do these narratives get poured into so many ‘educated’ peoples’ heads….

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Just heard about the trade today.   Makes perfect sense to me.

1.) I think Robinson is probably a tad better player for what the Rams/Stafford now want to do.   And he’s not coming off an ACL and he’s a year younger.

2.) The cap is the cap.

3.)  The 6th rounder just tells me, they loved Woods.  I doubt there’s anybody else they would do that for except the team captain and beloved-ram: Robert Woods.   I also think they wanted him in the AFC.  Definitely not on Green Bay.

4.) We all love Woods.  I certainly do. He became an ALL-TIME fave in a short time.  But give me a straight up choice between Robinson and Woods — I think I go with Robinson.   Its close, though.   And who knows how it will turn out.

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The American mind is fascinating pic.twitter.com/BGxCrUf7IA

— Brandon Canning (@CanningBrandon) March 16, 2022

Zooey wrote:

Yeah, last time they had a draft that looked like that, this was all they could muster up out of it.

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That was an A-plus job by Snead and his personnel guys, but

I am skeptical that that kind of result can be duplicated.   I dunno.

I remember when Bobby Beathard was a personnel genius…and then he wasn’t.

As a Seahawk fan, you should accept the fact we are all in a

Post-Doom era.

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total, the Rams have one third-rounder, one fourth-rounder, one fifth-rounder, three sixth-rounders and two picks in the seventh round.

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3, 4, 5, 6(2), 7(2)  — 7 total picks.

This will be the Rams weakest draft in many years, I assume.  Barring some

miraculous drafting.

The Price for all the successful wheeling and dealing really kicks in this year,

I guess.

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JackPMiller wrote:

Only one 3rd round pick. We gave the Broncos, are 2nd & 3rd round picks in this draft, for Von Miller. We don’t start picking, until our 3rd round comp pick, which is near the end of the 3rd round.

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and we will Play good football.

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Perhaps, having a topnotch LT, is a key ingredient:

Orlando Pace

Andrew Whitworth

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All the usual power-blocs trying to control the narratives.

…as an aside, I have come to call this the ‘post-modern-condition.’   Just my own term, i use inside my own head.   Its the condition “I” feel because I can no longer trust 99 percent of the ‘info’ that I am assaulted with each day.

I have no idea how much of this Jacobin article is ‘true’.

So, I am left with what?   Well, I still trust my ‘big picture’ ideas.  For example Capitalism is destroying the biosphere.  Capitalism is a sophisticated Lie-machine.   Nation-States operate like Gangster states.     Etc.

I trust my ‘big picture’ notions (mostly.  always open to modifications).

But I do ‘not’ trust the more ‘granular’ info or specifics about ‘what is going on’ especially in real time.

‘post-modern-conditon’.   An unsatisfying state of mind.  For me.  Always skeptical about the granular ‘info’ and narratives.

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A lot of people ask me about the internal attitudes and dynamics in Russia surrounding the war, thankfully Alexey Sakhnin has written a very nuanced article on the matter. Highly recommended.https://t.co/iQUEhZuYez

— katya (@kazbek) March 15, 2022

I keep hearing this: “If you pay your QB more than 12.4 percent of your cap,

you dont win the super bowl”

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As long as hes not a 49er, I dont care.

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Zooey wrote:

The Lakers/Celtics rivalry in the 80s has to be one of sports’ greatest episodes. I don’t know what even compares to that decade in any sport..

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Godzilla vs King Kong.   Chris Evert vs Martina Navratilova.

I could go on.

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I’m waiting for the capitalist-media to tell me Putin is

murdering babies in incubators.

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