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Looks like the game is live on nfl.net which may mean they don’t show the entire game. They just cut to the Rams at 10 even though it has been in progress at that point for an hour.
It is re-broadcast at 5 AM Sunday
ZN,
But could you actually describe his policies? I try my best, but it’s extremely difficult, for the reasons listed. If you know them, please list them
Yes. We all can. “Policies” is a very general term. It doesn’t mean “specific plans.” If you don’t like the term “policies” say “general ideas and attitudes concerning ________ “.
And if you’re watching the game tonight join us in the chat room gawddammit.
Thanks for the invitation, ZN. Much appreciated.
I suspend my cable service (Directv, currently) every summer. Usually for two months or so. So I can’t watch the game. Am hoping when I call them in early September, I’ll get a good deal on the NFL ticket, which has been the norm for me for a long time. We’ll see.
I suppose I could go to a sports bar tonight and watch it, but, frankly, I’ve never been really big on exhibition games. In fact, I wish they’d do away with them. I really hate the idea of players getting hurt in games that don’t count. I hate them getting hurt, period, of course. But it seems especially perverse when the games are meaningless.
It’s Goff.
However you do it watch the game.
How often do the Rams trade up to pick 1 for a qb.
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ZN,
But could you actually describe his policies? I try my best, but it’s extremely difficult, for the reasons listed. If you know them, please list them
Yes. We all can. “Policies” is a very general term. It doesn’t mean “specific plans.” If you don’t like the term “policies” say “general ideas and attitudes concerning ________ “.
And if you’re watching the game tonight join us in the chat room gawddammit.
Well, I don’t care very much about discussing the policies this time around because it’s like discussing whether I would rather be drawn and quartered, or tied down naked on top of an agitated nest of bullet ants. I imagine being drawn and quartered is worse, but I wouldn’t get any pleasure out of going into the details of either of these events.
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I basically agree with that. And i think we KNOW Hillary’s policies.
She’s been around for a long time. Her policies are essentially the same as Bill’s and Obamas. More of the same, with some likely Identity Politix window-dressing.Trump? We ‘cant’ know a lot of his policies, cause he’s Trump. But we know he’s got some hideous ideas and his supreme court appointments would be mind-bogglingly dangerous.
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vAnd what I am hoping for is a comparison of all 4 people’s policies. And btw Zooey has posted things that perfectly spell out some of those differences, which I commend him for. It’s a simple fact that we are better off economically with HC on the basis of tax policy alone, for example.
ADDED BY EDIT: I PROBABLY MISREAD HERE. SEE BELOW. AND stuff on women’s choice, race, sexuality…that’s only window dressing if you’re a white male. Don’t be shocked at me saying that…it’s true. Sometimes we tell each other truths here so they can be looked at hard. That’s among friends. It should at least be open for discussion. I know I have been told that it’s heavily pro-Hillary whites males who say that, but I am not one of those. I say it because I think it’s an unavoidable deep issue in our world, and I say it as a decades long left progressive who could give a shit what Hillary loyalist nazis say.
For example if Sanders were regressive on that stuff he would never have gotten anywhere.
In the real world I am surrounded by Hillary politicos who don’t want to listen or converse on any of this. They give you dismissive loyalty test type one liners and don’t care what effect that has. I used to avoid political discussion because I got burned out on it. That’s why I was even reluctant to get into the original Iraq war discussions years ago. What burns me out on politics, is politicos.
The way I see the major issues always is to be progressive on economic, social, cultural issues and to maintain a very vigilant eye on issues of race, gender, and sexuality (which to me does not reduce to identity politics. For example being white comes not just with an invitation to blind privilege, but restrictions on who and what we are and can be.) I do not think those things can be divided–they are all interwoven. So I tend not to accept any division of those issues, no matter which way the division goes.
But…I will restrict comments like this to this thread. It’s hard to both manage the occasional posting-style extremes on this board and also participate in it. Maybe someone else could manage that divide easier than I do. If so I accept my failings in that respect and just do what I think is right given the circumstances.
