Citizen of Atropia

It doesn’t matter how you got the pot o’ gold, all that matters is you beat the leprechaun.

[BMORE Reeta @theNFLchick]

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[Nic Mason @British_Raven19]

Steve Smith throwing Adam Jones to the ground is easily one of my all-time favorite Ravens highlights!

[Richard Cooper @Rich_Cooper]

This is what women do when they don't marry their first choice.

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

I told a friend that most L.A. girls are glorified escorts. Not in the literal sense but rather that they are optimizing to seek out the highest status activities & experiences. Men are conduits by which they can achieve that.

He was skeptical so I told him to do an experiment. Pick a girl who he went out with but ghosted him when he texted after the date. No HR text, no follow up, nothing. Total radio silence from her. At least 3 months must have transpired.

Next, send her a text that he’s going to a private all expenses paid party at Nobu Malibu (very fancy sushi restaurant) and that he wants her to come along. I said with 95% certainty that she would respond. Maybe she won’t remember him and will ask who he is but at a minimum she will be curious and text back, despite the ghosting.

Sure enough, I was right.

[Ivo Daalder @IvoHDaalder]

The US has the most powerful military in human history.

It has not won a war in 30 years.

These two facts are not unrelated.

My new @POLITICOEurope column on the American Way of War — and why it keeps failing. https://t.co/2AoYslTSXp

[TierZoo @TierZoo]

One of the tragic things about Revenge of the Sith is that they cut out half of the entire reason Anakin turned to the dark side.

He turns on the jedi because he wants to save Padme, but in that moment he is still doing what he believes is necessary to save his wife from certain death.

What actually seals his fate and *causes him to turn away from everyone, even those he loves* is seeing Obi-wan arrive on the ship with Padme, because to him, it confirms that they are having an affair.

But why? Is that really all it took to get him to doubt his wife loves him? Showing up on a ship together?

No, the reason he calls her a liar and shouts "YOU'RE WITH HIM!" before nearly killing her is that there's an entire subplot of the film that was cut.

In this subplot, Padme is secretly setting up the beginnings of the rebel alliance. She has figured out that Palpatine is an evil dictator and wants to remove him from office. She doesn't tell Anakin about this, aside from vaguely hinting at it when she says "have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side".

Palpatine figures out what Padme is up to, but instead of directly cracking down on the rebels, he uses the fact that Padme is keeping a secret from Anakin to drive a wedge between them. Anakin knows *something* is up with her, but not exactly what. Palpatine exploits this by implying on multiple occasions that Padme is having an affair with Obi-wan. He tells Anakin that this is why he was kept off of the council.

From Anakin's POV, Obi-wan is keeping him down, stealing his girl, preventing his ascent to Master (and from accessing secret info that only masters are allowed to read), and even stealing his valor by taking on General Grievous alone despite being the less powerful jedi. And the Jedi Order is enabling him to do so.

So, when Obi-wan shows up on Mustafar with Padme, Anakin "realizes" that he has betrayed and killed children to protect someone who didn't even love him. He's lost everything and been played a fool.

Palpatine seemed to be the only person in the universe who wasn't lying to him and trying to keep him down. Or so he thought.

[Tuxedoarsch @tuxedoarsch]

Ich brauche dieses Outfit unbedingt

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

@RobH02050318 I did not think I would make it out of the EC-130E alive. I said to myself, "Oh God, is this how it is going to end." Flames were everywhere and ammunition was cooking off. Everyone in the back of the plane made it off.

[Baltimore Ravens @Ravens]

MARK ANDREWS TAKES IT HIMSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tune in on CBS

[Citizen of Atropia @EasySteazy]

@rArmyReddit @rArmyReddit isn’t 25ID doing JPMRC? Not sure this is exactly abnormal

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Department of Veterans Affairs’s $193 billion disability program has become a rich target for fraudsters, according to a Post investigation.

Each year, the agency opens dozens of criminal cases against veterans who are suspected of faking injuries or illnesses for money. https://t.co/CQDRB5E3sO

[Lamar Jackson @Lj_era8]

@BetsLikeJagger @WyoMere @chef_mj This you? Lol

[Cole Jackson @ColeJacksonFB]

I don’t know why people think it’s on one thing.

The team looks unprepared.
Play calls don’t look understood.
Guys are missing tackles.
Guys aren’t communicating presnap.
Lamar doesn’t look himself.

It’s a shit smoothie of poor coaching, poor execution and no preparation.

[Citizen of Atropia @EasySteazy]

@RapSheet “Still working his way back” yea ok

[Baltimore Beatdown @BmoreBeatdown]

It was 40-25.

[JosinaAnderson @JosinaAnderson]

After a beautiful TD pass to DeAndre Hopkins, #Ravens QB Lamar Jackson had to deal with this interaction with a #Bills fan.

[RAMEY @HoodieRamey]

EJECT THAT BILLS FAN FROM THE BUILDING ASAP @NFL

[NFL @NFL]

VINTAGE DEANDRE HOPKINS.

BALvsBUF on NBC
Stream on @NFLPlus + Peacock

[All 22 Films @All_22_NFL_Cuts]

Literally holding 12 yards down the field is not DPI apparently.

[BMORE Reeta @theNFLchick]

New Few Months* and we ready!