I tell ya, some of these memes, theze days, are so god-dam-good

they wanna make me cry/laugh on a deep level.    Such good work out there on the internets.

…btw, I have reached the point where i no longer even check in on the mass shootings.   They are so common now, I just nod, and go on with my day.

I’m not saying my reaction is good (or bad), just noting it — Another shooting.  Ok.  Its a late-stage-capitalist hellscape.  Of course there are shootings.   And the response will be – the people will buy more guns, the gun manufacturers will make more money, the ‘security companies’ will make more money, the rich will build more gates and separate themselves even more, and the government will spend more on capitalist-police.

And so it goes.

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pic.twitter.com/fZNMbiBMtX

— pictures of the end (@neighbours_wifi) May 18, 2022

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Elijah Garcia, Rice, IDL
BAUMGARDNER

“…he’s not boring.”

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Ok, this is my guy, then.   Thats what I’m lookin for

in an IDL.

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Does it seem like there isnt as much UDFA ‘buzz’ this year?

Seems like in past years, ram-fans were in love with this or that UDFA,

but I’m not sensing much of that this year.

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Zooey wrote:

Yeah. They are better than that, even if they go with Trey Lance, and he isn’t any good.

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Well, they still have Jimmy G, and who knows, they might keep him as insurance.

At any rate, the Trey Lance thing is interesting.   The media have practically all decided he is a bust.   Based on a few hints here and there about him ‘not being ready.’    I dunno.   What if he ‘is’ an upgrade over Jimmy G?   Imagine that beastly 49er team we saw last year, with a slight upgrade at QB.

The 49ers are a kind of wild-card.   All depends on Trey.

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The 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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49ers 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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Billy_T wrote:

… 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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I can see the postgame storyline already:

“The Bengals played that preseason game like it was the Super Bowl”

Its 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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Billy_T wrote:

…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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Some of those animal thingies are awesome.

That whale photo?  Jezus H Christ.

The singing bird made me laff.

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Well…’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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‘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…

— Bruce Wilson (@brucewilson) May 5, 2022

Mackeyser wrote:

Welp, 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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