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Every once in awhile, browsing 4chan, you come across an intelligent post. I can't stomach John Oliver, and couldn't put my finger on why. This post helped me understand why I thought he was such a slimeball. Anyways, regarding the video. People who consider themselves comedians because they specifically attack one side of the political spectrum tend to be not funny at all. The worst part about it is that people with no sense of humor are now characterizing actual funny people like Dave Chappelle and Norm MacDonald for making fun of targets that humorists and satirists shouldn't be allowed to pursue. The state of comedy is quite pathetic right now.

For me, age 50. Somewhere around that time, my risks from a severe COVID infection will outweigh whatever misgivings I have about potential side effects. For people who are younger? People under 18? The risk of myocarditis to males is increased particularly in male populations with the Moderna vax. It's insane to me that the world seems to be okay with passing risks for the old and unhealthy to the young and hale. And this only factors in the effects that show themselves this early (i.e. - the ones that are getting headlines this year and last year). My big concern, and a question that won't have an answer for decades, is if it increases your lifetime risk of autoimmune disease. If that's the case, then my vote is to let nature run its course like it did with the Spanish flu.

Who gets to decide what those are? I personally don't think we should mandate risking the young and healthy to the unknown long term side effects of the vaccine because the virus is killing the elderly, diabetics, and hypertensives. And not a single one of those is an mRNA virus that creates the massive immune response that the COVID vax does. The left seems to be cheering on these mandates. Political power is cyclical, and what do you think conservatives are going to do with the precedent that's been set when they're back in power again? If you thought that they were draconian about abortion before...

And Baker overthrew OBJ to get a go ahead score. His long accuracy just isn't there anymore. The only completion he had where the ball went 20+ yards in the air was thrown behind Higgins. The Steelers defense was able to sell out on the handoff on 4th and 1 because they KNOW Baker isn't going to sneak it. The guy is holding the rest of the offense back. Get your fucking surgery, go on IR, and quit taking first team reps from Case. The receivers are overpaid. Landry's performance was awful. This team can't play a complete game. They cause way too many penalties. Ultimately, this is a failure of the head coach. He really needs to step the fuck up.

Get your fucking surgery, Baker. Stefanski, grow a spine and bench him.

IR by tuesday

But they were literally the worst baseball team in history.

Yeah, what do I know about torn labrums. I didn't say he didn't have arm strength. His ability to get the ball downfield is among the best in the NFL. He doesn't have long ball accuracy. That wasn't an accurate ball, it was a hail mary to everyone who was waiting in the end zone. You want to see the accuracy that he is lacking? Go rewatch his KC game and look at the windows he was hitting 20+ yards downfield. He hasn't done that since his week 2 injury.

Baker's too stubborn to call his own number. If he is the long term solution, then he needs to be shut down before he risks his career with further injury to his non throwing arm. He might be able to better deal with the pain now that it's a complete labral tear, but that comes at a cost of a significant amount of stability. He's going to get tackled, he's going to come down hard. It's not a question of if he gets injured again, but when. Without any structural stability from the labrum, his shoulder is at higher risk of dislocation and all the fun neurovascular complications that may come with that. My read is that the doctor has spoken with Baker about this, and that Baker stubbornly accepts the risks and chooses to play. I think Stefanski needs to pull rank and bench him, because Baker has not been the same QB since his week 2 injury, and his downfield accuracy is gone. This won't get better without surgery, so I wish he'd quit stealing reps from Keenum. It's not like we won't franchise him if he sits the rest of the season. He's still our QB of the future, but if he has another major injury to that shoulder, it's his whole career at risk. Sorry Baker, you can't prove human anatomy wrong.

I think that there's some responsibility that the fans bear. We did nothing wrong during bottlegate and it's about time opposing teams and referees start fearing D batteries raining out of the dawg pound again.

athletic training staff and strength and conditioning staff should be fired

Stick a fork in the season.

This team cannot play 4 quarters of football against playoff caliber teams.

Yes.

We agree. You got your post in before i hit the post button. I shoulda quoted delusional zombo.

Over the last two games - 53% completion. 200 passing yard/game. averaging 4 sacks per game. Sorry bud, while that can beat the 1-win Vikings and 2-win Bears, that won't cut it against Herbert.

No one cares if you do this the weekend after winning a national championship for the Buckeyes. Hell, skipping the plane ride home to stay with your family might even be forgiven. But when you are the owner of a failing NFL team, and you give someone a contract with $55 million guaranteed to fix that shit, and he cancels a Monday team meeting. And then you see that he wasn't at home with his family, or prepping the team to win next week, but instead getting a lapdance from a whooore. I can understand why you might give that coach notice. Same goes for the players. Remember when Terrance West was on the Browns and showed that he was about to have a 3way on social media? If Nick Chubb did that right now, no one would give a fuck. It's just a bad look when your team is losing.

Shut down Baker right now. As it's not a complete tear, he may not need surgery. Any time he goes out there, you are risking a complete tear if he takes a hit the wrong way. Shut him down. He's playing at a backup level, and you have the best backup in the NFL next in line. Let Keenum win games and on the chance that Baker's shoulder gets better by December, you give him a chance to play then. You have a great OL, the best backfield in the NFL. That's a situation in which a lot of backups, let alone Keenum, could do well.

"They kept trying to drag me out to the dance floor" Sir, you were sitting at a bar stool, getting a lapdance.

He dropped his injured shoulder on an ill-advised run in the first or second drive today... He's kind of a dumbass.

This line of thinking really bothers me. Let's apply it to another problematic healthcare population - diabetics and hypertensives. COVID more or less just made it so that the people with these diseases are the most likely to be hospitalized. They're preventable diseases. If you didn't bother to take care of your body over the last 20 years (by choice) and you clog your arteries and get COVID, should your hospital bed go to someone more deserving? If that same person got the vaccine, but still ended up with COVID, do they deserve the bed more because of their vaccination status? The implication that the unvaccinated bear the blame for allowing the virus to mutate is unfounded. Even if we achieved herd immunity, this virus would still be mutating. But for the vast majority of young and healthy, it is just a flu. If you want to bring up the 10-25% chance of long hauler symptoms, that's fine. I agree that it is a common severe side effect of the virus. But if you're going to bring up the Myles Garrett anecdote, it sure as hell didn't look like it was affecting him yesterday! The point I want to illustrate here is that youth, the human body, and modern medicine can do wonders for healing lungs. However, the same cannot be said for the nervous system. If a nerve gets damaged, the body has very limited ways of fixing it, and there is no medicine out there to regenerate nerves. 10-25% chance of me becoming a long hauler versus the fraction of a percent that I might be crippled from neuromuscular side effects of the vaccine is a no-brainer for me. If given that choice, I'd take the risk of being a long hauler every time.

We've spent first round picks on Ward and Newsome. Second round picks on Delpit and Greedy. We've spent a bunch on free agents who can cover. With all of this talent, why the fuck does Joe Woods insist on playing so much soft coverage against Tyrod Taylor? Also, I wonder if Baker is going to be able to throw the ball at practice on Monday. He didn't make a single long throw after his non-throwing shoulder injury.

I'm honestly glad to hear you make the distinction. I find it troubling that the talking heads in MSM aren't doing the same.

The word "terrorist" became pretty meaningless when GWB started using it. He took that word and changed its meaning to not just include al-Qaeda, not just jihadists, but "evil." And then when he used this good vs evil dichotomy to justify assassination, indefinite detention, mass surveillance. So, in his speech he talked about "our continuing duty to confront them." That sounds a lot like a rally cry for a domestic war on terror. So again, I'll ask. Do you think that the people who invaded the Capitol, or hell, even the antifa kid who threw a firework at the Portland courthouse should be subject to the rules that we applied to the people we accused of being associated with the 9/11 attack? I find it incredulous that I even have to ask this question.

He did. The worst felony that any of the Capitol invaders were charged with was obstruction of an official proceeding. And Bush compared them to people who rammed a plane into the World Trade Center. And the blues who cried out about Bush and Trump's authoritarianism are now cheering on authoritarian measures against his supporters. Anyone who doesn't like Trump or his supporters want to weigh in? Do we really want to follow this asshole down his authoritarian rabbit hole?