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12 minutes ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:

What are you even talking about??

 

I'm not lobbying for no gun laws or increased gun violence. I was making the point that some random European's opinion on the state of the US shouldn't matter too much to those of us who live here. Why would it? That's like worrying about what a Saints fan thinks about the Commanders. Why does it matter? 

In and of itself it doesn’t matter, but when you have a third elementary school shooting with more to come because nothing is being done, what do you expect the perception to be? My outrage stems from dead 1st graders needing DNA recognition because their bodies were ripped to pieces by a gun that’s a simple retail item in some states, rather than the mean things Europeans say. 

23 hours ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:

 

Funny. 

 

But, that's a pretty ridiculous thing to worry about. "Talking to Europeans" who've never been here about their perception of America really shouldn't matter to many of us. Do you think they care what we think? 

 

I have cousins who live in France...when they came to visit several years ago they honestly told me that they thought actual cowboys still galloped around Texas all the time on horses. I'm not overly concerned with how that group views our safety - when they are getting everything from inflammatory headlines and TV shows.  

Yeah don’t judge our country by the elementary school shootings alone  🙄 

4 hours ago, Dan T. said:

Good time to repost this.  Jon Stewart with an OK State senator who wants to loosen gun laws and ban drag shows:

 

 

 

Full interview here:

 

Jon Stewart spars with Oklahoma state senator on gun control (tulsaworld.com)

On the mismatch scale this is like me challenging LeBron to a 1 on 1

59 minutes ago, tshile said:

 

 

I think most people would be surprised. Most people tend to think it’s just about kids not concentrating or an excuse for poor behavior. 
 

I barely understand a tiny bit of it so I don’t want to start teaching the topic because I’ll screw it up. But emotional regulation and impulse control are huge components of it, and with young people particularly it may result in violence in the absence of more appropriate conflict resolution tools 

 

I promise if you google it you’ll find plenty of reputable resources on it. 

Kids with ADHD are more prone to defy authority and become aggressive when frustrated. That’s a huge (and very convenient for your argument of course) leap to say they’re prone to states of psychosis or severe paranoia, of which mass shootings are a manifestation of. 

10 minutes ago, bcl05 said:

Watching some of the cop's body cam footage from Nashville.  I'm no expert, but it sure seems to me like they responded quickly, competently, bravely, and in a totally organized fashion.  Heroically.   In other words, exactly the opposite of Uvalde.  And still, 6 innocent lives lost.  I don't see how we police our way out of this.  We need a culture change where people stop fetishizing guns and violence and where people struggle with mental health disease get the help they need.  I wish we were a country where it was easier to find a counselor/therapist/psychiatrist than a gun.  I'm not optimistic.    

All we need now is individuals with that sort of training and capability, squeaky clean background, squeaky clean mental health (no PTSD), at every K-12 school in the country, which number around 150,000. Easy fix right 

2 hours ago, tshile said:

The problem with this talking-point-turned-“common sense” is… well… you got other countries warning about our mass shooting problem (which I don’t refute that it is a problem and our inability to do anything about it is pathetic)

 

to….

 

being targeted for kidnapping, mugged/robbed, and definitely murdered, not all entirely because of but certainly significantly influenced by just being a tourist. 
 

but really what usually escalates those advisories is the lack of local police response, or even corrupt police that will participate in targeting you, draconian laws that are nothing like what we enjoy here, and complete lack of influence or help from the USA should something happen to you. 
 

none of which are concerns for other people visiting us. And those are the concerns that matter most. That should something happen, you can’t get real help. 
 

I find it laughable this talking point has gained so much traction (and it is a talking point, you can observe it being used more and more in this forum over the last few months) 

 

the only way I can reasonably think a person might conflate mass shootings in the USA with the travel advisories of other countries, is that the person never spent any real time reading and understanding travel advisories, and likely took their opinion from a tweet of a headline  😂 

So your argument here is no one should care about the words used in a travel advisory?

 

sure. Why read anything. Words don’t matter 😂 

I apologize if the context of my post was too complex (it wasn’t) but what I meant is everyone is aware the U.S is safer than Mexico, but it’s not relevant to this discussion and it doesn’t make our strains less dire. You’re condescending to people expressing alarm over a THIRD elementary school shooting. That’s kids under 10 years old ripped to pieces by an AR15. 

44 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

Just like Fox News needs a disclaimer, this post needs a disclaimer warning that it is lazy, stupid, and painting with the broadest brush in history.

You have a talent for picking out posts to respond to that offer an opportunity to venture off the path of the issue at hand. Who gives a kentucky fried **** about the verbiage of travel advisory warnings. 

Given that they believe trans people are mentally ill, and the guns were purchased legally, how can they possibly skirt around the issue of an unfit gun owner being allowed to purchase an AR15, thanks to Tennessee’s waste of the paper they’re written on gun laws? 

Nothing will be done. Guns and rifles are just retail products in this country and that won’t change and teachers aren’t going to transform into trained SWAT officers at the drop of a hat. Elementary school are not chosen at random. Shooters want notoriety and this is simply a degeneration of high school shootings on the shock scale. More will come and one day someone will come along and “one up” Sandy Hook. In certain areas in Mexico, Cartel violence is just part of everyday life and the authorities that aren’t on the take try their best with the **** hand they were dealt. In the United States, school shootings are just part of every day life and the lawmakers that aren’t on the take try their best with the **** hand they were dealt. 

14 minutes ago, xxprodigyxx said:

all i want is a late round 6'4" or 6'5" anthony mix/marko mitchell type wide receiver to fawn over.

Nothing beats handing out golden jackets in the preseason after a slightly difficult catch. 

Derpy pup ftw 

7 hours ago, Est.1974 said:

Liverpool got old in midfield. The fight to get Bellingham is critical to them IMO.

 

The impending change to FFP rules noted above might trigger some big January moves in the next week to beat that change. We may actually see a couple of near 100mil moves coming up.

Something new for City to circumvent they must be excited. 

You really can't compete at the level Liverpool have been under Klopp without more complete midfielders, and that's not just true for Liverpool. The days of drifting number 10s and strictly defensive midfielders that can do the bare minimum on the ball are gone. This is what's holding United back more than inconsistent attackers IMO as they only have one such midfielder. 

On 1/15/2023 at 9:05 AM, Fergasun said:

But.... that first Man U goal vs. Man City was ridiculously called as onsides.  I was tought in youth ref training that running toward the ball is active participation.  

 

Even if fhe head read overturned the AR flag... VAR should have flagged it as clear and obviously wrong. 

I was taught to play to the whistle and watch for the late runner. 

On 1/15/2023 at 9:58 AM, Long n Left said:

I’ll tell you what’s wrong with Liverpool. 
 

They’ve kept a large part of the team together, and have not gotten ready replacements in behind to take over as these guys age out. We have young talent, but YOUNG. That, and we’ve had a LOT of injuries this season.  
 

The biggest problem being in the midfield where we’ve continually run out Henderson (32), Fabinho (29 but playing/running like he’s 40), and Thiago (31). All very good players in their day, but none renowned for their athleticism, are getting run through by every opposing midfield.

 

Jota been out all season, supposed to be back in Feb. Diaz, who had been electric since he came, out in October, won’t return till March. Firmino started the season well, but has been struggling with injury since before the WC. And, now Nunez is out for a game or three. Virgil looks to miss another 4-6 weeks, Salah has not been in form, and Oxlade-Chamberlain and Keita have just been back since the end of the WC.

 

The midfield is the big problem that needs to addressed, IMO. Henderson has been a stalwart Captain for us during these salad days, but is a shell of his former playing self, and should be no more than a late game sub at this point. Fabinho has always been one of the slower players, but has even lost a step from that, and doesn’t make the break-up tackles that he had been so good at before. Gets played around like he’s standing still now. Thiago is still quality, but he has a lengthy injury history, and can’t be depended on to play 90 minutes every game. He is nearing the end of his window too.

 

Think this squad has a lot of good pieces for the future, especially in attack (Nunez, Diaz, Jota, Gakpo), but the midfield and defense need a rebuild, I believe. Think they kept some players on too long, played too many matches last season, an all-time record high, and had a short and busy off-season. All this has led to an older and more tired squad this season.

 

I wouldn’t be arsed if they offloaded some big pieces this summer to fuel the rebuild. I could see Salah and Van Dijk moving this summer for the right price, and hope that Bellingham decides to be part of the Reds redux.

I'm not sure what's going on with Fabinho, but when you see how different Chelsea look without Kante, Arsenal without Partey, or United without Casemiro, it's difficult to get by without those players. In general, so much of what Liverpool were able to do relied on Fabinho, Henderson and Wijnaldum suffocating the other team. 

That hold they didn’t see 

Well looks like the number one overall pick might be made available 

It’s actually going to happen. All three of them are going to lose

Another interesting little tidbit to follow today is how many teams that won’t take a QB end up in the top 5. 

If you have an offensive coach that understands how to take advantage, playing QB in the NFL has become so much easier than it was 10-15 years ago. 

Back when I was coaching one of our players collapsed the same way during practice and died from a ruptured aorta. Christian Eriksen collapsed the exact same way in 2021. I hope to god I'm wrong but this looks like a heart issue. 

9 minutes ago, capcrunch98 said:

 

No, I'd just go eat at another restaurant, there's lots of them out there, especially for a pro athlete like Griner who has the money and job opportunities a lot of us don't  Actually, she did try dining at another restaurant, didn't work out too well for her.

 

And please give me one example of how Griner has access to only "a third" of America's menu options, compared to say, Paul Whelan.

You think black athletes kneel strictly due to their own personal experiences? 

10 minutes ago, Redskins Reparations said:

The United States received a professional athlete while Russia received an international arms dealer who had the intent of weaponizing the FARC to use against U.S. personnel operating in Columbia.

Worst comes to worst we’ll do what we do best. Covertly depose whoever’s in charge over there and install a violence prone ruler that has agreed to play ball! 👍

26 minutes ago, capcrunch98 said:

 

Correct, which is exactly why I said she has a right to do what you propose ("kneel for the anthem wearing a Kaepernik jersey").

There's also no obligatory tipping in American restaurants. But stiffing a server who worked hard for you, even if the dinner wasn't perfect, still makes you an ungrateful a-hole, regardless of what your cause or gripe is.

You wouldn’t tip if the server slapped your grandmother across the face a few times and called it self defense, nor would you tip if the server told you that the entire menu is available for the rest of the of the guests but only a third of the items on the menu are available to you. 

2 hours ago, The Sisko said:

I think it’s possibly she may not have had anything and it was planted and she had no choice but to go along to avoid a harsher sentence. However I think what’s more likely is that she fell victim to a couple of things. First, she probably assumed that the usual not having to play by the rules thing applied as it often does here. See, a one Walker Herschel with no arrests or charges for domestic violence as one example. Second, I suspect that given the nature of the corruption in Russia, she had probably done this before without any issues. Therefore, she may have taken the Russian tactic of holding criminal charges in abeyance until needed as just more athletes privilege. Ditto for why she’d even travel there at all under the circumstances. She may have even asked about it beforehand and was given assurances. It wasn’t the smartest thing to do but there are scenarios where one could understand it.
 

Given the worship for the military in this country, I get the outrage over the way this played out. However, the reality of the situation is that life isn’t fair. The rich and famous get a ton of perks and privilege in this country. It also matters in these cases how much pressure you can put on the Govt. Whelan and the others suffer from the same problem as unknown political candidates, i.e., no name recognition and the lack of a large motivated constituency to push the issue until it gains traction.

 

Finally, as for the Viktor Bout angle, it sucks from the punishment perspective. However, if you think international arms dealing stopped or even diminished while he was in jail, I have some prime Florida swampla… ‘er beachfront property I can offer you for a really good price. Like drugs, the market for weapons goes on no matter who gets removed from the picture.

 

She’s “rich and famous” on the every day person scale, but relative to her profession she isnt. If she was counted on to put butts in seat for an NBA or NFL owner she would have been out in a week. 

8 hours ago, capcrunch98 said:

And that's the beautiful thing about this great country - she has a right to do that (minus the blunt part, depending on what state she's in). Would it be low-class and hypocritical of her to do so, considering the U.S. government went to bat for her and saved her from damnation in a labor camp, with Griner's family begging them every step along the way? Certainly. But she has a right to do it.

Certainly in your opinion. The great thing about Western nations is there’s no obligatory nationalism. 

Releasing Viktor Bout is a drop in the bucket compared to the mayhem we've caused around the world over the years, so welcome home Brittney! I hope she lights a blunt while kneeling for the national anthem in a Colin Kaepernick jersey. 

How people think wins is a black and white QB stat in 2022 is beyond me 

4 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

 

I think this is a fun team but I'm not sure what dance you're talking about.  Best ride since 1991?  Low bar to hurdle there.  

Best case scenario this is 1999 with the offense and defense flipped. Production wise we’ve seen better offenses with less talent than we currently have at WR/TE/RB 

2 minutes ago, CommanderCarson said:

This place would blow to smitherines if we went to the dance with heineke. You know there would still be people in the game thread leading up to the big game saying “that taylor heineke does nothing right and he’s the worst passing QB that I hope will be a starter on another team in the east next year.” 🤣

 

That being said, I’ll take some of what you’re having. Id love to be wrong but I think eventually they lose a close game in the playoffs. Hope they can steal at least one though. 

Shall we cross that bridge when we come to it.