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ZooeyModeratorHow the human sense of good taste degrades over time.
I remember getting Football Digest in the late 70s and early 80s and they occasionally printed results from various best uniform polls. In every one of those polls I remember the Rams uniform was either 1st or 2nd.
Now, those exact same uniforms are only 6th?
Society is in a free fall; morally, ethically, aesthetically…
They have the Raiders number one. And I’ve never heard anybody praise their uniform ever. It’s not bad. It’s probably top half. It works fine, but it isn’t distinctive, imo. They also have the Seahawks ranked above the Rams, and their uniform is a candidate for worst. Neon lime green is not a color grown men should wear. Their original uniform was very good, but they hurt my eyes now. And the Saints. Another team that took a good uniform and made it much worse. So…whoever wrote this article probably thinks blacklight posters are really cool.
ZooeyModeratorYep. And the other source of heavy crude for Koch Industries is the tar sands in Canada which – guess what – gets transported to the Gulf via the DAPL.
The Koch brothers are most certainly destined to burn in hell for a very, very long time.
ZooeyModeratorIt’s not true in any event.
Senator Inhofe brought a sack of grasshoppers into the Senate just last week.
ZooeyModeratorYeah there’s lots of this kind of thing going around.
It’s a symptom of the decade and all I can think of is, seek solace from allies and hang in there.
The breadth of this kind of thinking is the most disturbing realization to me.
I guess I assumed that most people are not “personally” racist beyond the indoctrination of racial stereotyping, but I am stunned by how wide racial resentment actually is, and how many people are now exposing themselves whereas before DJT, they politely kept quiet about it.
I officially do not want to live in the USA anymore. I currently have no alternative, and I am also held back by the recognition that people suck everywhere because Americans aren’t any different genetically than anybody else. Our culture is fucked up, and it promotes some of the uglier aspects of humanity than cultures past and present that have benefited from the inculcation of collective values…the Other rather than the Self…but there are racist assholes everywhere you go.
The human need to tribalize supersedes everything anyway. If it’s not race, it’s religion. If it’s not religion, it’s politics. If it’s not politics, it’s diet, or fashion, or musical preference, or football.
There is just nowhere to go. People hate each other for no decent reason whatsoever.
Just gotta hang in there, as you say, find allies, and build. There is no other decent response.
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ZooeyModeratorTurns out that this painting is a parody modification of a right-wing artist’s work.
ZooeyModerator“Ain’t no way I would ever support Obamacare or sign up for it,” he tells Metzl. “I would rather die.” When Metzl prods him about why he’d choose death over affordable health care, Trevor’s answer is telling. “We don’t need any more government in our lives. And in any case, no way I want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans or welfare queens.”
And there ya go.
These people think their tax money is going to minorities.
ZooeyModeratorNothing about books in that article.
ZooeyModeratorI literally did not know that a serious-minded person could believe that Trump is not racist. I did not know that. I thought it was pretty obvious that his racism is one of his major appealing characteristics to a significant number of his followers.
ZooeyModeratorHere is the quote: “She is a hater. A polarizer. A politician feeding on totalitarian instincts combined with moralizing.” A Donald Trump supporter literally wrote that on one of my other idiot brother’s post.
He also said in the same breath, “‘Racism’ is a silly anti-Donald insult repeated ad nauseam as if it means something. Yet what we see in real life is Nathan Phillips and Jussie Smollett.”
And so…I just hit the back arrow because there is nowhere to start with that, and nowhere to go once you start anyway. People who genuinely believe that racism isn’t a thing are simply impossible.
ZooeyModeratorMy idiot brother, the Trump apologist, has announced that AOC is a “hater.”
ZooeyModeratorAs usual (going back to the Mack draft) I am in favor of drafting a Center with the number one pick. If there’s a cant-miss prospect ie.
To me having a great center is like having a great DT.
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vI have been whining about a Center forever. I don’t think he has to be a first rounder (or she), but I think he has to be good. I have no idea if Allen is any good. Nobody does. But a good Center is important. And the gooder he is, the gooder.
ZooeyModeratorHow can a 29-year old bartender be the smartest person in congress?
Oh…the question answers itself.
ZooeyModeratorField Yates@FieldYates
you don’t draft a player simply because of production. It’s the traits that lead to production/or lack thereof that you are identifying.Thank you, Captain Obvious.
ZooeyModeratorRussell Okung@RussellOkung
The injuries that NFL players sustain throughout our careers last for a lifetime. So why don’t our health benefits? Even Roger Goodell enjoys lifetime healthcare for being the @nflcommish of the game — and good for him. #RogerCareFunny how that works.
There’s always money for the health benefits and pensions for the people at the Top, but not the workers. I am struggling to think of an explanation for that.
ZooeyModeratorI asked @Saints Coach Sean Payton about the trend of teams hiring young, offensive-minded head coaches. He delivered a strong, honest response, capped by him saying some teams are making mistakes and the Saints can’t wait to play them. This is damn good.
Sure.
Sean Payton knows perfectly well that what teams REALLY need is a nickel corner who knows how to time his hit to arrive well before the ball.
ZooeyModeratorUnlike other people, I did not find Hope in the end of that book. The ambiguity did not reassure me. I merely found nostalgia, wistful sorrow, and a bleak resignation that “It is what it is.” A poetic acceptance of Fate…even though the road never actually ends.
ZooeyModeratorThe left, I am sorry and sad to say, has its “flamers” too.
Analogy with Rams talk. I say, in my defense of Snead, overnight turnarounds are rarely if ever done without considerable inherited talent on the roster. (No one in this thread has to agree or disagree with that, it’s just an analogy.) And one type of response is, why do you want to deny McVay credit. You know our board joke. Why not just move to North Korea if you hate the Rams so much. There’s dogmatic flamers on the left too. Which sometimes belies my wish/hope/belief that being left means being in favor of open inquiry and honest debate. That obviously exists of course, on some issues in abundance, but now and then we run across flamers, like watching for snags while boating up a river.
I never bought the narrative that the Dems mainstream view of Russia defined the issue. So one take is, there’s the Dems on Russia, and then left opposition to the Dems Russia narrative.
I have always said this simply does not reduce to those 2 positions. There’s others, including one I have tried to drum up–that there’s also an internal dissenting Russian critique of Russia. Among other things.
You know who amuses me…the World Socialist Website…or whatever it is. I follow it on FB, and those guys are out of their fucking minds. And I say that even though I see a lot of things the same way they do. But I mean…they just take this hardline attitude that anything less than a total socialist transformation by this time tomorrow is a terrible sellout. It’s just ridiculous.
Anyway…I haven’t even finished reading Taibbi’s bit. Read only a quarter of it probably, on account of the fact that I am about to open up a contender for the world’s stupidest show in a little over a week. But I have noticed a bit of a circular firing squad on the left for this Mueller Report. Everyone is scrambling for for a plot of ground that is above water.
But AOC is right. Even if we got rid of Trump…we have a major problem in this country, and I am tempted daily to think about a better place to live, but the REAL problem is…it isn’t just America that sucks. Humans suck. And there are humans everywhere, man. Most of them are just a bunch of misinformed bigots, and 100 years from now, if there are any humans left, they will be living in swanky billionaire underground shelters where they are their descendants will have to spend the next 25,000,000 years. Perhaps they will learn something from that experience…but I doubt it. They will just emerge from underground, and do it all again. Because people suck.
So I don’t know what to tell my kids. One is 21, and one is 16. How can I tell them that…yeah…we’re doomed? We could have saved the planet, but we were too damn greedy.
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ZooeyModeratorI think Seth missed the point on the “Yes or No.” He tries to transition away from that with “You don’t know which one they are saying Yes to.”
I think she was saying people were saying “Yes” to the question, “Are you a capitalist or socialist.” She was (badly) making the point that we live in a blended economy.
This is the worst I’ve seen her look, btw. Her story-telling skills are not her strong suit. This made her look a bit ditzy, and Meyers didn’t help.
The second half – when she talks policy rather than celebrity – she came across much better.
She’s grown on me, I have to say. Her questioning of Cohen, her questioning to the panel exposing legal bribery, and…what was the other one?…about a week before Cohen…she just looks very smart, and well-prepared.
Pity she has to work with Nancy “Green Dream, or whatever-they-call-it” Pelosi.
ZooeyModeratorI guess we will see how much they believe in Justin Smith, and what they think they can keep CJ for.
ZooeyModeratorIs he any good anymore? Injury history? Compensatory picks?
By position, it addresses a need, for sure.
ZooeyModerator<span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: red”>FrantikRam</span>
Bortles didn’t have a great year last year, but would be the perfect backup QB. Check out his career stats.
For the last three years, he had arguably the worst group of WRs in the NFL. The one year he had a legit number one WR he threw 35 TDs. He’s also never had a great offensive coach.
For the Rams, he’d have a mixture of his WRs from 2015, his running game from 2017, the best coach and most likely the best OL he’s ever had.
In other words – we would be better in every facet around him than the team he was on when he threw 35 TDs. IMO he would instantly become the best backup QB in the NFL, and if the unspeakable should happen, I would still feel like we could win.
That’s actually a pretty decent argument. Not for Bortles to contend for a start job, but to take him as a backup. He could be better than the media give him credit for. It’s not like the media know much (with a few notable exceptions), and Jacksonville isn’t a team most of the Talkers in national media are going to actually spend time watching.
ZooeyModeratorDowntown Rams@DowntownRams
If you are keeping score.2 Free agent meetings. 2 same day signings. When you meet with the #Rams…you sign a deal.
The Rams are a hot, young team with a bright future, a hot, charismatic coach, and they are opening up play in the world’s hottest sports complex in a couple of years.
If the money is more-or-less equal…the Rams have the hottest offer on the table.
And, of course, the helmets are the hottest is the NFL.
ZooeyModeratorRight. The second I saw that, I thought, “Who said it wasn’t?”
It’s a straw man. Nobody ever said it isn’t okay to be white. It’s a statement calculated to make it look like white people are on the defensive. They are being victimized because of their race.
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ZooeyModeratorThat’s bleak.
ZooeyModeratorSo your story is a lot like America’s in Vietnam. You tried to attempted to use St. Lucia for your own selfish purposes, but had to make an embarrassing retreat.
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