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wirinet:
Excuse me, confederates of the wild south.

If a legal adult is caught blowing up the world trade center in a suicide attack, will the wife, friend or leader that merely sent them be indicted for it?

How many times has what somebody said made ISIS and Boko Haram members to go and rob, rape or kill?

Is it possible you ever learn to blame offence on the offender rather than fish around for Osama Bin Laden (who never even stepped a foot in America) to rope in?

Lool you overestimate these Trumpanzees.

tesppidd:
But the guy was so good at Chelsea.

Such a mystery!

Mschewww. Some of us knew he was a hype job. We told them a player with 4 goals in open play at 28 was not worth it but Zidane fall mugu.

They swore Chelsea was holding him back and he would shine against mediocre La Liga defenders like Neymar. Good times

Obrigardo:
trump cultists don't even know trump, ivanka, don jr and most of the crooks in his cabinet have been voting my mail in the last five years. Major re-education is needed.

That is Cultists mentality for you. They are zombies incapable of critical thinking

mattfeuter:
Hmmm, so in other words, you’re banking on them to win games by outshooting the opposing team?

You know that’s a trap right?

Can’t wait to see how it all unfolds

How big were Klay and Steph? Of course they can absolutely outshoot the other team. My worry is where their headspace is and how committed they are to each other and the sacrifices they would be willing to make.

etidy:
Make we leave matter for Matthias, this is a slam dunk win for the Brooklyn Nets.
There is a level of talent that makes chemistry issues less relevant

Bruh! Imagine not been able to double team KD or Harden wahala dy oh.

Harden and Cp3 took the warriors to 7 games, imagine what he would do with KD. Chai,
They definitely need to learn to play with each other and also get a serviceable wing + Center but the east is definitely in trouble.

I am kind of happy for the Nets sha, from been the laughingstock of the NBA without draft picks for many seasons to a Juggernaut within 7 years..

Their lack of size might be an issue but they can really bludgeon teams with their offense if they get their shit together and are ready to sacrifice. They can give all types of sound bites off the court but when they hit the floor it would be easy to see if they mean it or not

Can definitely see them adding a couple of role players to help them with their depth. But the key for me is Brooklyn did not lose anyone they absolutely couldn't afford to lose.

It's championship or bust IMO but they must not have the mentality that it would be handed to them. It won't

Hidden Fraudzard. Surely this guy has to be the biggest flop in the history of modern football

Apparently only LeNomad is allowed to form or join super teams. Any other player does it it becomes a problem.

etidy:
AD takes KD seamlessly

is it the same slim reaper I know or a counterfeit

You go fear analysis oh.

mattfeuter:
I agree with this.

Just saying, that will be a significant loss to them.

Allen is a role player at best. A guy like him can never be the difference between winning and losing a title. Holding on to Harris and Dinwiddie was more important IMO

They can get veteran glue guys like Ariza or any other defensive wingman that can shoot

Afromentalist:
They do have an entire season to figure out how to play together, and at least 2 of their superstars are not load managers a la Kawhi. So they will build up chemistry.

Main concern should be defense and the ball distribution and even coaching. I am no sure Nadh can handle that , but these are lesser problems.

KD and super teams though

Won de.

In today's league who is not assembling a super team or trying to do so.

mattfeuter:
They lost Jarrett Allen.

You don’t think that’s huge?

Im not sure if DeAndre can protect the rim like Jarrett.

They have cap room to get a serviceable big. As much as I'm not much of a fan of Harden or his game, you don't have the opportunity to get him and balk at that because of Jarrett Allen.

I still think Brooklyn won this trade sha. Being able to hold on to Kyrie and Dinwiddie and they still have small cap space to get one or two more bodies. They didn't lose nearly as much as I thought they would have

Indy are also looking good potentially

birdman:
I think they are going to. Harden Kyrie and Durant on the floor is too much, all need the ball. You trade Kyrie and get pieces that dont need the ball to be successful. Plus you save some drama

KD on the other hand can play off the ball. Even Kyrie. The only absolutely ball dominant guy there is Harden. Personally I'm more worried about their mental makeup and how they respond when things don't go their way. KD is sensitive but low maintenance

Kyrie and Harden on the other hand are two of the most high maintenance divas in the league. I'm expecting that we see the best of Harden again now that he's gotten what he wants anyway.

Meanwhile they are people that swear Kyrie is acting up on purpose so he didn't get included in a potential trade.

Roland17:
@A40, the NHL season starts today..Any thoughts? What are your expectations for the Penguins? I dey watch my Blackhawks like dis..

None whatsoever bro. The title window has been slammed shut if you ask me

Afromentalist:
Kyrie doing a Zoom call while the Nets are playing denver

I sense Harden is insurance of sorts for Kyrie's skoin skoin

Plus looking at the Nets record it can be argued that their depth might have been a tad overrated. Like it's always said the team that got the best player won the trade.

They didn't even lose Dinwiddie who can come back next season. Don't be suprised if Brooklyn trades Kyrie at this rate

Hahahaha omo I have no words

I take God beg this coach. This highline business is bordering on insanity.

I saw the clips and I was just laughing. We have not kept a clean sheet in 11 domestic matches in a row. This is unheard of. We are headed for embarrassment and we will get found out in Europe this season if we keep this up

Dapcity007:
LMFAO
We are rejoicing
Can't wait for the red wave in 2024
Let me see the excuse Dems will use when there is no Corona to allow mail in ballot


No fraud in 2024

We will use VOTERs ID

Trump has really hypnotized you sorry lot. I feel pity

salford1:
As per Trump, some of the republicans begged not to impeach him and asked for unity instead.

Basically, don't prosecute the criminal because it might hurt the feelings or upset other criminals.

Let me drop this here

AbdulSleeky:
Please, I have one question- what would loyalhustler1, the penis hustler, do when Biden is inaugurated?

What happens when the order of ishawuru fails?


Biden will be a great president (if his Democrat members of Congress push him towards progressive ideals)


By the order of ishawere

Won ma sunkun egbere

Dapcity007:
It becomes my business when you want to pass legislature and use my taxpayers money to fund abortion and transition hormones therapy for Transgender under the guise of health care

Your taxpayers money? Lmaooooooo. I need your dealer's number. His dope must be potent

mattfeuter:
I’m just wondering where he thinks he can go and win a chip at the moment.

I feel bad for John wall too.

Maybe Philly, maybe Brooklyn. But if you are a GM you have to ask yourself do you really want this headache? If you give up the house for him and he doesn't extend you're all types of bleeped.

Honestly the Rockets should just sit him till they find a trade partner. Playing him after that presser would be sabotage. Get all the teams to come with their best deals. Pick the best one and move forward

That roster shouldn't be 3-7. OKC is probably the worst roster in the West and they still have 5 wins

mattfeuter:
Did you watched his post game interview?

Lool he needs to take several seats. The only player allowed to whine about his current situation is Bradley Beal and he's not even using it as an excuse not to ball.

I have never understood the hullabaloo about Harden as it's pretty clear you're never winning a chip with that guy as your best player

James Harden has scored 20 points or fewer for the first time in 8 years. Something fishy going down

timay:
@bolded.

Like. Izzou has said before, when the table turns in future, because it definitely will, the will also accuse you of doing whataboutism. by then it will be too late and a precedent will have been set

Let it be. Let it be. Anybody that still thinks it's about infringement of free speech and not rules that Trump has abused over and over again is on to their own agenda and they need to own it with their chest and stop disguising. Unless you're claiming Trump has never broken any rules on Twitter

If you don't believe Trump has caused sufficient carnage then that's on you. Like I said, a reprobate mind will always have excuses to display their whataboutism and not judge cases on their merits.

People are acting like this guy is Mandela fighting apartheid or something like that

nihilistjnr:
Twiiter did not say it was a culmination of anything - The said specifically that they banned Trump for those two tweets.

Look, if Twitter were really concerned about Trump inciting violence, that tweeted threat to a Nuclear Super Power should have been enough to ban him. The Threat to shoot BLM protesters should be enough to ban him especially as white supremacists actually went on to shoot and kill black protesters.

Twiiter did nothing.

This level of coordinated action from parties who either had previously either actively refused to police Trump(facebook) or turned a blind eye(twitter), were under threat of being sold(TikTok) or only God know's what(Spotify, Shopify, Reddit, Pornhub) must be triggered by something far more serious than the excuse that Trump has been inciting a mob.

The man came to power on the slogan 'drain the swamp'. It didnt take 4 years for the world to realise Trump was a neo-fascist piece of shyttt...so why is this action happening now? In such coordinated manner? And should these companies whose owners have clear political bias really have this kind of power?

This is my own concern, not whether Trump is a piece of shytt.

They don't need to say it. You should be able to read the fine print that after what happened last week there was some need for a reaction. Trump's defiant response was just the alibi needed.

I have told you before that banning a sitting US President still eligible for reelection is naïve. You're being unrealistic if you expected such an outcome. Trump is always and has always been that lousy neighbor, gf, teammate etc that you tolerate till you don't have to anymore.

What you see from other so-called platforms is a form of esprit de corps. You don't want to be the one that didn't kick out a President that led an insurrection on his own country. Same way we saw Merkel lament Trump's ban. There is esprit de corps in all industries for the most part.

When have these companies and Captains of industries with political biases not had this power? Which kin JJC yarnin be this Bros

Now my question to you is why are Trump's known associates also abandoning him. Is Bill Belichick also in on this plot? Deutsche Bank? Signature Bank? Or were they enabling his excesses till the point they didn't have to anymore or they could do so without consequences.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-youtube-twitter-remove-video-trump-amid-chaos-capitol-n1253157

He was enabled till he could be enabled no more

Ibime:
Zuckerberg wanted to step out of policing politics on his platform simply because of the cost of doing so (hiring a lot more fact checkers, Facebook police etc) and for the fact that it would absolve him of the Cambridge Analytica scandal by taking a position that we just don't police.

Make no mistake, Zuck is very anti-Trump. His wife is Chinese and his children speak mandarin, and I'm sure they can't stomach Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric. But the guy just dey separate Business from personal, although they hired a lot of Facebook police to police right-wing groups, infact 10 times more than Twitter but he never challenges Trump directly, same with Bezos. It was Zuck that busted the kidnap plot on Michigan Governor by monitoring right-wing groups on Facebook for example.

So basically he's a bit more measured and less of a radical than Jack. Makes sense

nihilistjnr:
This is why we're questioning what's going on, because this is too coordinated to be a result of some protest. If you're looking primarily at Twitter, I am not.

Did you read the Tweets Twitter banned Trump for?

These are the tweets
1:


2:


Are you honestly telling me that these are the tweets that broke the camels back? What rules did these break really?

In the past this man has tweeted that he will physically beat up Joe Biden:


tweeted a threat to start a war with Iran:


tweeted that congresswomen of colour should go back 'home'
,

tweeted when the looting starts the shooting starts during BLM....


but was he taken off twitter? No. Were the posts hidden? No.

But it's now that he said he's not going to inauguration, that the camel's back broke., and somehow backs of all the camels at all other tech companies broke at the exact same time.

Stop it my guy.

Instead maybe we should look at what Biden thinks about regulating Social Media

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-biden-nytimes-interview.html

Essentially, a man who believes Social Media companies should bear civil and even criminal liability for the posts submitted by their userbase, has just become President of the United States. Not only that, his Party now control both the Senate and the House of Reps.

All of sudden, Big Tech are falling over themselves to ban a known enemy of this new President who could make life difficult for them - bruh that's a very dangerous precedent.

Anticipating that a US president still in the middle of his term and still eligible
for reelection would be banned is a bit naïve

I have told you that the events of last week and a culmination of the past misdeeds of Trump was what led to the ban. I don't recall saying it was about his tweets else this mass boycott of Trump would have started and ended on social media.

His banks, PGA, Bill Belichick are they part of Big Tech as well?

Section 230 is a double edged sword. If it gets revoked even better, it just means every single thing you tweet would most likely be fact checked. Most likely Trump does not grow to this monster he's become and less nutjobs running amok all over social media

pamcode:
That was fire for fire I believe. Trump is very undiplomatic, has an arrogant attitude and a bad mouth. The man is ready to abuse anyone who is against him which is a very bad character for a president or anyone in authority to have. Even then I have a feeling the criticism against him goes beyond issues of politics like it is something personal. Before Trump ran for president in his first term, did he already have a bad record?

P.S I am not supporting Trump here just trying to make sense of the whole situation.

Had Trump conceded he lost an election he actually lost by over 6 million votes, not dragged a whole entire electoral system, health system and legal system down the mud don't you think the criticism would be less harsh?

Is he the first person to be President of a country? Or the first entertainment personality to be President or Governor? No be person be Reagan (who was not a saint by the way)

nihilistjnr:
I dont think the bolded is true.

Zuckerberg in particular has faced congress grillings around 3-4 times over the last few years and specifically refused to police political statements on Facebook.

This statement below is from Nick Clegg, former Deputy Prime Minister under Cameron...and now Vice-President, Global Affairs and Communications for Facebook

https://about.fb.com/news/2019/09/elections-and-political-speech/

The above was facebook's official position in 2019. It is still on their website. Throughout 2020 companies were boycotting facebook for their refusal to police Trump and his followers.

More than 750 companies including Coca-Cola, Hershey and Unilever, Walgreens, Best Buy, Ford and Adidas refused to advertise on Facebook and Insta.

Despite losing a reported 7.5 Billion dollars in ad revenue in 2020, Zuckerberg refused to budge.
According to the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/07/03/facebook-advertiser-boycott-hate/

So, please I dont buy the argument that Facebook suddenly developed a conscience. The 5 people that died now are not greater than the number of black people killed to death by racists who no doubt share ideology with Trump. I'm too cynical for that

There's something more sinister at play when Facebook goes against it's own principles to deplatform Trump as part of a coordinated move with the rest of Big Tech.

For one, I can see how the Democrats cleansweep might incentivize Zuckerberg to back the winner, and do what's best..for HIM. Today we like it, but tommorow we might not.

This is the point I'm trying to make.

I was speaking primarily about Twitter after all they initiated Trump's ban across other platforms. I don't know too much about Mark Zuckerberg's dealings and political leanings. But I know Jack is a bit more of a conscious cat or a SJW if you will.

Now what you need to understand is Trump is Chernobyl right now. This is not about Big Tech again as even vocal supporters of Trump are all backing out on him. His long time friend and supporter Bill Belichick just refused to collect their highest medal for a civilian from Trump, Deutsche Bank a bank that Trump owes hundred of millions of $$, a bank that literally bankrolled the Auschwitz camps say they are done doing business with him.

I don't even see why people are doing all sorts of gymnastics to defend Trump as if everything he's facing now is not self inflicted.

There was a line that was crossed last Wednesday. Whether you agree or want to downplay it or not. What he promotes is what we saw glimpses of last week and everyone has decided they want no parts of that. It's pretty simple

afrodoc2:
Many people are actually ignorant about what democracy and about how fascism develops.

Trump is not your regular POTUS. He is a lame duck President who is fascist in all but name and used his office and social media to instigate insurrection against the government.

The only reason he is not going to be impeached again is that he is going soon anyway.

Everything about Trump speaks of Jim Jones of Guyanatown/Jonestown fame. I'm always wary of leaders with cult like following and cult of personality behavior. They are skilled at evoking undeserving sympathy and that makes them very dangerous. When somebody who bankrupted a Casino is able to convince people that Doctors, Journalists, Lawyers and actual professionals don't know their jobs then you should be worried

He might not be as devious as a Hitler, Mussolini or Stalin but he would create just enough of a conducive environment for Neo-Nazism, Fascism and Populist agenda to thrive so that the next in line would be more efficient and they would infiltrate society and leadership positions enough to turn Fascist ideals to a way of life.

Trump apologists are conveniently glossing over the fact that he is being rightfully punished for going above and beyond what a President should not do. They are deliberately acting like Trump was not given enough rope as if Jack just banned him because he doesn't like his face and not that Trump actually abused his platform to the point that his stay there was untenable.

Amoto94:
It is like you're focussing on Twitter alone and forgetting that Amazon, Apple and Google removed Parler an alternative to Twitter

Yes. When you commandeer an invasion that has not occurred in 200+ years getting deplatformed should be the least of your worries.

What do you think happens if Trump is banned only on Twitter and their right wing propaganda forum Parler is allowed to exist on their platform? It will only multiply and make Amazon, Apple and Google accomplices of sort. If they are against Trump and the carnage he unleashed it's common sense they ban him on their platform

Future cases should be argued on their merits as it should be in any sane society not this whataboutism I'm seeing here.

iamJ:
But wait

People are mad cause trump got suspended


Unless you wanted to see america destroyed or divided further, I don't see any other thing that will make someone mad over his suspension


If someone post nudes on twitter you are ok if they are suspended


But if someone pushes an agenda that divides a country and caused the deaths of 4 people, he should be left alone cause free speech


Na ment?

I don't understand. You would think this is like me opening a forum and banning someone who says LeBron is better than Michael Jordan. The false equivalence is doing my head in

Not the fact that Trump's tweets and rallies and divisive agenda is tearing their democracy apart over an election that he LOST!!