I’m kind of kidding about the pronunciation, too. It’s just an entertaining argument, and nobody is really attached to it, including me. In the context of a forum, it literally CAN’T matter, since it’s never actually pronounced anyway. We are all silently typing, so it matters exactly zero.

Yes, any populist agenda would be well-received by the electorate. And we know why they don’t do that. They can get elected by pretending to support a populist agenda, so why bother actually pursuing one?

Billy_T wrote:

It’s possible that Zooey Deschanel’s parents weren’t experts in phonology.

And “Jaxon’s” and “Kaytlinn’s” parents were not experts in spelling.

Well, as we learned in the wonderful “Almost Famous,” Zooey Deshanel’s mother is Francis McDormand, and she’s never wrong.

I don’t know Jaxon and Kaytlinn from Adam or Aoife. But I’m guessing they’re just trying to be quirky.

{you won’t find a single instance of the dipthong oo pronounced as a long O vowel sound in the entire english language is allimsayin}

That guy.

What was his name?

He was a good poster, but a bit of a dick. And started his own board. Had a lot of quality stuff to post, but… you know… undone by ego. Whatever happened to all those people we used to post with. {sigh}.

Billy_T wrote:

Billy_T
Participant
Thanks for the responses.

I agree with both of youze, mostly. Except, if memory serves, Zooey still doesn’t know how to pronounce his own name.

Okay. Now I no longer care about the end of the world, or anything else this thread is about.

Find me ANY instance in the English language in which “oo” is pronounced like the Long O vowel sound. There isn’t one.

“oo” can be pronounced like

book
look
cook
nook
crook

or like

moon
noon
spoon
room
zoom
doom or

zoo

That’s it. Those are your two choices.

Longer answer:

They could put the GOP out of business. Get rid of the filibuster, make DC and Puerto Rico states, abolish the electoral college, pass a voting rights act, create universal health care, and spend a bunch of $ on stuff that helps people, and raises their standard of living. Republicans would be relegated to about 1/4 of the seats in congress, and bit more in the Senate, and they would never win the White House again. That would be the end. So…they COULD do that, and they don’t want to.

They don’t want to do any of it. For all the talk of investment in greenery, the Democrats placed Joe Manchin as the chair of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. It’s self-evident that if Democrats were honestly committed to moving away from fossil fuels, Joe Manchin wouldn’t even be on that committee at all, let alone the Chair of it. I mean… FFS… this isn’t an oversight that nobody considered the consequences of.

It’s the same right across the Senate and House. Look whom the Dems have placed where on the various committees.

But it doesn’t make much difference at this point. I really don’t think there is anything we can do about it. Literally. It’s too late.

The media conglomerates control what Americans know, and to a large extent, what they believe about what’s going on. You can’t unravel the propaganda model because the 1% control congress. You can’t cut the $ from the 1% to congress because you will never convince people to vote for people who will do that because the 1% controls all the media messaging. And even if we got control of congress, the 1% would use their influence over the legal system to jack up attempts to reform the system. They have tentacles everywhere, and you can’t remove them one-by-one.

Try removing this tree without damaging the structure:

So you’re looking at a complete revolution…which you can’t get people on board for because of the propaganda model…and even if you succeeded at that, the supply network would come to a halt, and food would stop being delivered to grocery stores, and in 3 days time, the violence would start. And within a few short weeks/months, we would have several million people displaced and dead, and that would be that.

Some indigenous communities in a few places around the world might be equipped to deal with that, but industrialized societies would go down the crapper in minutes.

And we are past the point of no return on a few tipping points. We are to the place where we need to actively reduce the carbon/methane in the atmosphere, and we aren’t going to do that with a broken down supply chain.

To sum up: We can’t reverse climate catastrophe without revolution. Revolution will destroy the supply chain. We can’t reverse climate catastrophe without a supply chain.

So we’re screwed. IMO.

Short answer for now:

Billy_T wrote:

*** My leftist GM hopes: The Dems destroy the GOP, and then leftists finally form strong coalitions and force the Dems into the dustbin of history too.

This is EXACTLY why the Dems don’t do it.

Sloppy, but decisive, and 5-1 is a good thing.

I didn’t watch the second half after the opening drive.

Okay, so nothing about whether Stafford “likes” play action or not. That is apparently not the issue, or not the main issue, in any event. What this looks like is that McVay called more play action with Goff because he believed he HAD to. And with Stafford, he uses it differently because he can.

nittany ram wrote:

Jim McVay (Sean’s uncle) was one of the people Gruden was emailing.

Okay, but that doesn’t tell us anything about Sean.

I have two idiot brothers and a father who were livid about Colin Kapernick and BLM, and I doubt that they would voice objections to anybody who said something like Gruden did.

They doesn’t mean I share those views, too, just because we’re related.

wv wrote:

Gruden and McVay are good friends, right.

Sigh.

w
v

Maybe. They know each other, and share a love of football, and like each other, I guess. I’ve never seen any evidence that they play together outside the office. I have “friends” at work whom I never see socially.

But…maybe they are, and maybe McVay shares similar views. In my experience, there are a lot of a-holes in the human species.