Rio Az

Engineer | Introverted, willing to discuss fpl, soccer, cats & dogs 🐈 🐕
FPL last 4 ranks: 19k, 6k,30k,14k | 5xTop 10K |
UcL: 3xTop 1K |Rossoneri Forever ❤️🖤

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@UTDIMole mesut

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

OR: 849.
Teams converge to be mostly similar. Will be hard for a 500 finish.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇩🇪 BREAKING: Jürgen Klopp as new Germany head coach, here we go! 💥

Klopp has accepted to take over; long term contract details, project and RB Group exit still under discussion, but he will be the new head coach.

RB considered Glasner as replacement but he signs at #NFFC.

Klopp is back.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@FplMode Happy for you Andy.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@FplMode People get genuinely excited in fpl mode. Trust me.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

Useful tool. #fpl https://t.co/f1EEDzoYVj

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

A long season ends with total chaos in the last GW. Will always remember this one as the first one in the defcon era.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@FPL_TomHadley I appreciate the tireless effort you have put in throughout the season for all fpl related content. I have always read your posts so wanted to drop a thank you. If there are ways to support your work, be it through any patreon or such platforms, I would happily contribute. Cheers

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@Pras_fpl I see what u doing

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Nobody wants to believe they're the villain in the story. Nobody wants to believe their government is run by psychopaths who are inflicting unfathomable evils upon populations around the globe in order to rule the world.

It's much nicer to believe you're the Good Guys. Much easier to sit with the idea that your government might make an innocent mistake here and there, but overall is a driving force for the good of humankind, and is certainly superior to the villains it makes war with.

That's a fiction, though. It's a comfortable lie. A fairy tale that westerners tell themselves to avoid a profoundly uncomfortable truth.

The truth is that we are the villains.

We are the terrorists.

We are the tyrants.

We are the evil regime.

Our soldiers aren't out there defending our country, they're out there murdering people for defending their country. They're not fighting for freedom and democracy, they're fighting for money and power.

Daniel Crimmins from the US Army 3rd Infantry Division wrote the following about the Iraq War in 2015:

"Then you realize you haven’t seen anything to support the idea that these poor fuckers are a threat to your home. You look around and you see all the contractors making six figure salaries to fix your shit, train Iraqis, maintain the ridiculous SUVs the KBR dicks ride around in. You consider the fact that every 25mm shell costs about forty bucks, and your company has been handing those fuckers out like shrapnel flavored parade candies. You think about all the fuel you’re going through, all the ammo and missiles and grenades. You think about every time you lose a vehicle, the Army buys a new one. Maybe you start to see a lot of people making a lot of money on huge amounts of human suffering.

"Then you go on leave, and realize that Ayn Rand has no idea what the fuck she’s talking about. You realize that Fox News and Limbaugh and John McCain don’t respect you or your buddies. They don’t give a fuck if you get a parade or a box when you get home, you’re nothing to them but a prop.

"Then you get out, and you hate the news. You hate the apathy, and you hate the murder being carried out in your name. You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you."

That's the reality right there, folks. We can wake up and start living in reality, or we can remain asleep in the fiction.

It's time to wake up to the reality that western civilization is a depraved dystopia where most people are sleepwalking in a propaganda-addled stupor under an empire that is fueled by human blood. And it's time to awaken to the fact that as westerners it is our duty to tear that empire down brick by brick, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and for the sake of our fellow man.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it's a fucking video game, like "hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win," when really war means shredding human bodies to bits.

Children burning to death in front of their parents.

People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away.

People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration.

People picking up pieces of their beloved family members.

Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn't something that happens to us. We've never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We've never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to. We've never had the experience of seeing our child's shredded body after a blast and thinking about how we'd carefully helped them dress that precious body for school just hours before.

We just see the movies. The propagandistic war documentaries. The sanitized news reports.

It's not real to us. It's not personal. It's just this cutesy Hollywood image of sexy Good Guys doing flips and spin-kicking evil Bad Guys off cliffs.

You know this is true, because if it wasn't then nobody would support US wars. If westerners had an actual, visceral understanding of what war really is and what it actually means, and if they could truly, deeply grasp that the people on the receiving end of those airstrikes are human beings just like them, there's no way they'd support inflicting such nightmares upon their fellow man.

Which is why everything in our civilization is aimed at hiding that reality from us. War is made to look heroic and glamorous. Middle easterners are framed as deranged subhuman savages. The flesh-and-bone consequences of western warmongering are hidden from public view as much as possible.

They need to do this because the western empire depends on war. War is the glue that holds the empire together. They need the mass-scale bloodshed to continue, and they need the public to provide no resistance to the bloodshed. The empire cannot exist without war. Peace cannot exist without the removal of the empire.

You watch these bespectacled pundits and pampered politicians babbling about war the way they'd talk about their plans for a kitchen renovation or a trip to Paris, and you just know if actual war ever showed up on their doorstep they'd literally soil themselves. They'd never recover. They'd spend the rest of their lives in shock and trauma, because what they saw would have shaken them irreparably to their very core.

It would impact them in this way because war is the worst thing in the world. Anyone with a functioning empathy center and a truth-based worldview would move mountains to prevent war from happening. And yet we are ruled by sociopaths who actively seek it out. War is the worst thing in the world, and we are ruled by the worst people in the world.

The world will never know peace until we cease to allow such creatures to rule over us.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@FPL_Brandon @gauravmundra08 This user farms interactions this way. Posts screenshots of partial fixtures and points for a random player weekly. It’s pretty sad

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@TheStourbridge @Sofia_5070tg Love a community note and fact-checked by a cat. Hail Sir George.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@Ghono_FF Hope all is well. Pod will be resuming this week I assume? @Parz13_Ghono_FF

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@FplMode In fpl mode even in dreams. Soo good Andy!!

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@Pras_fpl Nice to see a maverick fpl player get rewarded for sticking to his core philosophy and get handsomely rewarded.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@Javedakhtarjadu @Wisdom_HQ Religion sells hope Javed Ji. Kiu le false hope.

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@Ghono_FF @Parz13_Ghono_FF No pods this week guys?

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@FPLPremTipster Thanks mate

[Rio Az @RioAz99]

@lateriser12 @ZopharFPL @Pras_fpl Highlight: @lateriser12 trying to sell Ekitike to @Pras_fpl .
Also his butt was tight when watching Bruno.
Good fpl discussion.