I was shocked to hear we already released Irving. I had high hopes for him...however he was reportedly released because he didn’t show up to OTA’s. Yes, they were voluntary however, Stills and Philon were there and were reportedly impressing and working hard. If Irving can’t be bothered to show up and compete for a spot against Philon and stills then he doesn’t belong on this team.
I have zero issues with Gruden/Mayock pulling this move. This is leadership and maintaining the culture and that’s how it has to be. Show up, bust your ass and earn your keep or your out. No more freeloaders..I’m looking at you Trent Brown.
This guy is an absolute joke. He got suspended 3 times for banned substances or substance abuse. He refused to follow rehab protocol or show up to practices. He basically quit on his team and says,"I hated going to work for the Cowboys." Then he says about playing for Las Vegas, "You've got some real people here who can appreciate a unique specimen like myself. I am a bit different on and off the field, and they understand that."
Good riddance...the Raiders absolutely deserve you.
I was just reading an article on the Athletic about him - I know copy-pastes aren’t allowed, but one of the things that came through the most is how god damn excited he is to play for the Raiders.
He was pretty damn productive for the Cowboys (12 sacks in his last 25 games), he can play both outside and inside on the DL, and with a full offseason to get up to playing condition I think he can be a beast.
Plus, read this and tell me you don’t love the man:
“You’ve got some real people here who can appreciate a unique specimen like myself,” Irving said. “I am a bit different on and off the field, and they understand that. I am comfortable here… not only that, man, but I see a team here with a bunch of good, young players that have been missing a little leadership.
“And I know that that’s going to be me, and everything is lining up perfectly for it to be that way. I see this as my team and my defense and I am going to put in the work, and I am going to back that shit up.”
That’s the god damn Raiders for you right there.
2021: Year of David Irving. Calling it now.
Anybody knows where I can get audiobook of this?
thank you
I just watched that film Denial, and after looking up David Irving's name I found that he was once a semi-respectable historian. Now I have two questions relating to him, and holocaust denial in general.
The first is: How could anyone have found anything Irving said to be even remotely plausible in the first place? Considering not only all the eye witnesses that the Holocaust happened (which I the film showed him to dismiss as liars) but what about those who were employed in the German death machine who admitted to it? He must have been aware of the Eichmann trial yes? As far as I'm aware, Eichmann's defense wasn't that he hadn't committed these actions, he admitted that he had participated in mass killings because he was 'forced to.'
Someone one must have asked him 'David, come on. Do you think Eichmann was lying about participating in genociding civilians?'
Don't mistake me, I'm not suggesting that Irving's theory is plausible. But this was before the whole 'post-fact' hell we find ourselves in now. How did this ever get off the ground?
Second: One of the things I've learnt about the Nazis is the constant use of euphemisms, and then the Nazi's own Special Action 1005 wherein they tried to erase all evidence that the genocide had happened, including destroying the camp at Treblinka.
The 'weaker' version of Holocaust denial I've seen is that 'it may have happened, but if so Hitler either tried to stop it or didn't know about it.' First, I find it very difficult to imagine that such a massive enterprise was going on in a fascist empire and the fascist dictator with ultimate power didn't know anything about it, but let's say we were entertaining the convoluted conspiracy theory:
Now given those above practices of euphemisms, the eraser of evidence, and the very practice of leaders having 'plausible deniability' while their lackeys (in this case Himmler, Heydrich, etc) do we have any documents or other kinds of evidence that directly, and necessarily, with no room for doubt, link Adolf Hitler to the Holocaust?
