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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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The JV absolutely quit in the 4th quarter.Â
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10 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
Name them.
We’ll be waiting awhile on this one. This guy is Tahoe with more curse words interspersed into his non-sensical rants.
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1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:
i don't even need a crib sheet any longer.
does this person have an (R) next to their name? yes? fuck this person.
This is where I am too. I walked past a storefront yesterday for the guy running against AOC. I can’t vote for her AND against him and his cult fast enough.
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There’s a small coffee place in Harlem I really like called Lenox Coffee on 129th. It’s local and the people who work there are always really pleasant. I wasn’t paying attention that my jacket was unzipped and it showed the shirt I am wearing that I am sure many of y’all have seen that says “Arrest the Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor.” It has her picture on the back and says “Say Her Name” The woman making my coffee saw the front of my shirt and put their sign back out front (Getting close to closing time). She said I should call the number so I did and left a message like I am sure thousands and thousands of other people have. The frustration with this case is so widespread. It’s embarrassing that these cops have still not been arrested.Â
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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Also note the plural. He is extrapolating one animal into an entire, specious group of animalS. The you-know-who.
I was watching Axios last night on HBO and they had a think about Trump boaters at Lake of the Ozarks. They were all olds, 60+, and white, of course. They ran out the usual defenses of Trump. But one old dude said basically, I'm afraid, I've never been so afraid in all my life. He was not a small or timid-looking man. Â
He is absolutely giving the signal to commit violence against “The-you-know-who.”Â
ÂThe fear quotient is a direct result of messaging from Dotard. He has repeated the same lie so many times that the person you saw on that show has bought the fear. That irrational fear of the others will drive every decision that man makes. There are millions more like him. I do not believe that to be an exaggeration. The messaging worked. I don’t want to use words to describe what we are seeing as something that causes me fear because it does not. I do have a genuine concern that this many of our fellow citizens hear his message of hate, fear and racism and either feel compelled to load up on weapons or feel fearful of this group that is coming for them even though this is not reality. It is not going to be easy to help these folks out.
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34 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
Uhh. How is that not yelling fire in a theater?
That would be a textbook example of it. A functioning government would not allow someone like that to be part of it, but we crossed that bridge a good while ago.
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1 hour ago, Pancho said:
It's been mentioned on this website thousands of times as to why Black people backed Biden while knowing full well that he wasn't the best candidate of the group. Instead of constantly asking a question that's been answered numerous times, you should do more research first. But it's not even about doing research, it's also about just having basic common sense.Â
It's not that common.
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15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Of course he did.
The current collapse of social order and peace has nothing to do with police consistently and arrogantly abusing people and violating the law with minimal repercussions for decades. Nope. The problem is them uppity...well, you know.I do not condone killing police. It is not constructive, at all. Anyone who attempts to use the BLM Movement to propagate violence needs to receive some help from a trained professional and needs some time away from society in order to get help. Short of that we as human beings need to recognize folks who have violent tendencies and get mental health professionals involved so lives are not senselessly taken. You can’t do an eye for an eye and expect to get the societal change that most of the country would like to see. The example John Lewis set with his life and beliefs is the one I follow.Â
ÂHowever, I saw Dotard use the word ANIMALS in connection with the video of the shooting. He’s one step closer to saying the n word. We all know what calling people animals implies. Get ready to watch an escalation in violence towards black people because of it. He gave the cult the dog whistle they needed to use deadly force and now he has footage to fire them up with.Â
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8 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:
You should've taken a selfie with her. You know she wouldn't have turned you down.Â
It would’ve been cool I think. Most of the time if I see someone like her I just let them be. The only time I have made an exception recently was the March on Washington when I decided to briefly meet Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and take a selfie with her. She was standing 3 or 4 feet from me on the platform near the speakers so I asked and she was kind and obliged. She did the same for several others who recognized her.
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Sounds like Maninblack found himself a new girlfriend.
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10 minutes ago, workswithseed said:
Putting feelings you feel on others. He's mad that Slorch ain't voting for Biden, which makes him say "then your behavior is almost as disgraceful as Trump," somehow not voting for trump makes him as worse as Trump, since he isn't voting for Biden as well. Almost like he wish he didn't have to vote for .either as well, but since he doesn't believe that Biden will win, and that he knows that Biden is what he says Trump is, he has to call Slorch as worse as Trump to make himself better.
So you have the definition right.Â
I do not believe he is mad at Slorch (I look at Slorch as a contrarian in every sense of the word)Â in particular. He is upset with the mindset of not voting for Biden because in Dbeasy's view, and my own as well, voting 3rd party or not voting at all in this election is the coward's way out. There is ample evidence, thousands of tweets, statements on the record, conversations our president has had publicly and privately that show he is a narcissistic racist, is completely in over his head and is actively destroying the country through his actions and his party does nothing to stop him. If he is upset about anything it is seeing a mountain of evidence right in front of someone's face and then seeing that person go "Yeah doesn't matter not gonna vote for Biden."Â
I am no Joe Biden fan, but I do think he is an actual decent human being. I will vote for him because voting for the other guy would implicity endorse a president who runs on a platform of racism, scare tactics and fascist rhetoric. Voting 3rd party or not at all does not abscond the voter of blame. It means you are not principled enough to take a stand and do the right thing. In this case the right thing, however hard that may be for some to do, is to vote for Joe Biden. I would have preferred the vote be for Warren, Sanders or Harris being at the top of the ticket. That is not the case, but I will vote for the guy who can put an administration in place that can at least attempt to fix all of the damage of the last four years. That is what is important right now. Whether it can be fixed none of us know, but Biden winning the election at least makes it a possibility and that is good enough for those of us voting for him. Taking a contrarian's stance is to say you have no actual stance at all.
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6 hours ago, workswithseed said:
This seems like projection. I'm sorry you're voting for Biden and hate yourself for it.
Explain the definition of projection. Then explain your definition of projection.
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48 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
In an alternative universe, Nick Saban uses his enormous platform for good.Â
In an alternate universe he would come out in an ad supporting Doug Jones. The amount of death by exploding head in that state would give Jones an easy win.
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I wonder how long it takes before Dotard rails about this article from LeBatard. I never thought I'd see ESPN run something like this even though it is absolutely spot-on. The last part of the article is what will get Goodell and Dotard to lose it.Â
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29860915/colin-kaepernick-absence-haunt-nfl
QuoteThe NFL's owners not only refused to be on Kaepernick's side regarding protests but exercised an obvious institutional pressure upon him and his peers ... choosing en masse, really, to kneel before Trump instead. These owners, with all their power and F-you money, either didn't have the stomach for any kind of public fight or chose the wrong side, and they did so for almost four damn years, while Trump was at the height of his powers but they were also at the height of theirs. That the NFL has totally about-faced on this is not an act of nobility; it is the spineless swaying blown in by the day's wind because of all the unrest in their huddles, in their banks, in their streets. Even as piñata Roger Goodell goes on an apology tour on their behalf, Kaepernick remains unemployed. The Dolphins are wondering: How can these owners be trusted to exert their power over anything in America when they can't even get Kaepernick a job in their own sport?
QuoteAh, regardless, turn on the big TV lights and get ready for action because here comes our beloved King Sport without a martyred Kaepernick again, grunting to push an apocalyptic 2020 like a blocking sled one note closer to normal, trying to give our sick, coughing country that escape elixir it needs, like a junkie.
Goodell is probably relieved he can stop apologizing and get back to the escape of counting money, but some things require more than an "I'm sorry," even in the land of second chances.
We all saw who you didn't kneel beside. And we all saw whom you kneeled before.
Some things are so wrong that they can't ever be forgotten.
Or forgiven.
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1 minute ago, Catdaddyhorn said:
Great read!! Thanks for posting the article.
"The researchers also couldn’t figure out why Black people are always initially charged with more serious crimes than white people. The easiest explanation was that Black suspects commit worse crimes than white people, but the data disproved that assumption. Then, they hypothesized that prosecutors may be overzealous when it came to convicting violent cases but that proved not to be the case. When all was said and done, Black people were arrested more often, had higher bail and received harsher sentences. But when they examined convictions, they discovered that Black people were surprisingly less likely to be convicted than white people. Essentially, according to the researchers, a white person has to commit an egregious offense to wind up behind bars while all a Black person has to do is...well, be a Black person."
This part tells the tale so to speak.Â
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The concept that the pigmentation of your skin will automatically put you in a position where you are viewed as more of a threat to others than someone who is white is still the dumbest construct that white people ever came up with. I mean it is startlingly dumb in every imaginable way to view African-Americans in the way the police do. The construct they have formed in their mind is obviously racist, but I just try and think about how we are in the year 2020 and we still cannot get past this as a society. The knuckledraggers continue to weigh down the part of society whose construct is not one with racist undertones. It's highly unfortunate that so many of the people who have this construct wind up in law enforcement.
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20 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:
First Baptist Church of Mabank had one of these when I was in about 7th grade. Â One of my classmates started going on in the classroom about how Led Zeppelin had a song called "NATAS" Â ("Satan" spelt backerds, get it?) and all the bad shit it said when you played it backwards. Â I was like, "Man, I own ALL the Led Zep records and NONE of them have that shit. Â You must have some cool ass bootleg shit. Â Can you get me a copy?" Â He didn't. Â
I was in Mabank exactly once in my life and Good God it was memorable for all the wrong reasons. It was a high school basketball tournament they hosted some years ago. They lost to a team from DISD and it was either the sheriff or one of the deputies that would not let the teams shake hands after the game. He told the team from DISD to get out of the gym or else while Mabank's players were waiting to shake hands. The storefront racism was on display that night.
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A friend that I met this summer while protesting told me about a young man that lost his life back in May. There are so many instances across this country of excessive force being used and this to me is among the worst. It wound up causing the death of a 16 year old named Cornelius Fredericks. He had a very rough life if you read about him. Throw a sandwich and lose your life not long after. This is another instance where actual professionals are needed who understand how to communicate without using overwhelming physical force. The video shows there was no reason to have restrained this young man as he was no threat to anyone.Â
The video is in the link. It is sad to say the least.
QuoteFredericks, 16, went into cardiac arrest after he was tackled and pinned to the ground for throwing a sandwich in the cafeteria.
Cornelius Fredericks was restrained by staff for about twelve minutesCredit: Fredericks Family HandoutÂShocking footage captured the incident and the teenager died two days later on May 1, according to a lawsuit his family filed.Â
Cornelius Fredericks was a teen living at Lakeside Academy, a residential treatment facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan.Â
The center accepted young adults ages 12 to 18 to receive behavioral health services as they were placed through the foster care system or by their parents.
Fredericks had been a ward of the state for several years, following his mother’s death when his father was incarcerated.
The young boy entered cardiac arrest while restrainedCredit: Fredericks Family HandoutWhen did he die?
Fredericks passed away on May 1 at Bronson Methodist Hospital after entering cardiac arrest as he was restrained on the ground.Â
His family filed a lawsuit against the staff and center for not using proper protocol with their own restraint policy.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) launched an investigation into the facility.Â
ÂThe department's documents stated that officials said that the staff initiated restraint that was "significantly disproportionate" to Fredericks' behavior, CNN reported.
He passed away two days later after the accidentCredit: Fredericks Family HandoutThe MDHHS has since terminated all contracts with Lakeside Academy and has begun the legal process to revoke its license, according to a press release from the agency.Â
At the time of the investigation, MDHHS found "10 licensing violations, including a failure to follow rules related to resident restraint and discipline," the press release said.
Fredericks’ family is seeking $110M dollars in damages.
What happened to him?
A video from Lakeside taken on April 29 shows the young boy allegedly throwing a sandwich at a teen in the cafeteria.
A member of the academy then tackled him on to the floor.Â
The footage shows Fredericks being held on the ground by about six other staff members of the academy for several minutes.Â
The family filed a lawsuit against Lakeside Academy for his deathCredit: NBC NewsThe family's lawsuit says that Fredericks was already struggling and that he said "I can't breathe" while he was restrained.
The members then release him and try to resuscitate him as the video ends.Â
The family's attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, obtained the security footage and claims that when the staff stopped restraining Fredericks, they tried to sit him up but his body was limp.
Fredericks urinated on himself during the restraint, Fieger said.
The family lawyer says his body was limp as they tried to sit him upCredit: NBC NewsFieger addressed the press during a conference.
"Certainly this type of behavior is not human," he said.
"It can only be akin to a subhuman-type species that would inflict this behavior on children."
A medical examiner ruled his death a homicide.Â
What happened to the staff members?
Two male staffers and a female nurse were fired after Frederick's death.
Michael Mosley of Battle Creek, Zachary Solis of Lansing and Heather McLogan of Kalamazoo have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse in Fredericks’ death.
Mosley, Solis, and McLogan were released on $500,000 personal bonds, according to court records.
Fredericks had shouted that he 'couldn't breathe'Credit: NBC NewsMosley’s attorney said that he pled not guilty, citing that he was following guidelines and the proper protocol.
The Kalamazoo County prosecutor also charged McLogan, 48, a nurse, with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse.Â
Prosecutors allege that she failed to seek timely medical care, as she did not dial 911 until 12 minutes after the restraint ended.
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3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
Well this is quite the thread, but are there any opinions on the social justice options put out there by the NFL tonight?  I was very happy with Collinsworth putting out his opinion out of the gate as an announcer and it’s been really good to see them bring the player’s opinions out as well.Â
ÂI could have put this in the football forum, but, you know.Â
It’s progress from what the NFL usually is. Jerry Jones is probably biting his tongue on what he wants to actually say about all of this. To me it still rings pretty hollow since Kaepernick still has no NFL job and a guy like Chad Henne does. Kap isn’t a Hall of Famer, but Good Lord some of the guys who have jobs over him is ridiculous. He is still being froze out by the NFL. Perhaps that leaves me jaded to the NFL’s social justice message, but that’s just how I feel about it.
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10 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
I thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster every day for Bill O’Brien. We’re so lucky to have the most hilariously shitty coach and the most hilariously shitty GM all in one person.
I have watched more of the NFL tonight than all of last season. No idea how you watch an O’Brien coached team.Â
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8 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:
Only crisis I have is having to drink Evan Williams while watching the Texans. Because I have cheap friends.
Nice deflection, though. Gotta be something wrong, if I don't go with the approved message. So typical.
Son,Â
In case you haven't noticed I'm not interacting with you. Yet, you keeping quoting me, quoting other posters regarding me. If anyone here has a problem, it is you. That's some pathetic internet stalking. Do I need to file a TRO on you?
And trust me I'm much happier than you will ever be. How do I know this? Because I'm not the pathetic loser who is trying to get attention from me on the internet.
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No need. The idea of rep is more important to them than me.
He asked, I answered. The negs just prove my point about the politics.Â
You need some help man. I do not like your constant attacks on people in this thread and most of them are filled with angry profanity-laced rants. You show zero restraint and your posts get progressively angrier consistently as the evening or night goes on. You need help. Many of us here needed help at some point and got it. You are displaying an anger that could eventually cause harm to people who interact with you in real life. Your pride is what is standing in the way of you receiving help. Get it and find a better way to live life like many posters here have done in their own lives. Or keep going down the path you are on that will not end well. I find it sad, whether I agree with someone or not, when they will be obstinate and steadfastly refuse help. Get evaluated or do an intake session by someone and go from there. I’ll never meet you, but you’re still a human being and I hope everyone, you included, that has personal demons is able to overcome them.
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25 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
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I mean I just don’t know who to believe here!Â
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15 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:
And there it is. Seriously please get some professional help before you harm someone in real life. It isn’t funny watching you break down repeatedly here and resort to this. If it’s a substance causing you issues there’s folks here that can help or find a person who can. Plenty of people here can point you in the direction of the help you desperately need to manage that anger if you would only set aside your ego and go for it. Going through life like you are is not a fun way to live.
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7 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:
Then maybe you shouldn’t criticize others without knowing their story. You know the thing you accuse others of doing constantlyÂ
You haven’t done what this humble man, who would never write out a lengthy post bragging about he has done, is doing. If you aren’t doing what he is doing then you’re a punk who hates black people.Â
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1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:
Is this guy for real or just a full of shit troll pretending to be black?
Real, but in need of professional help. Kinda sad in a way to watch this continue to play out.
2019-2020 NBA Season Thread
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I have maintained this about Paul George since he was in Indiana and it's nothing personal against the guy, but if he is your best player, like he was in Indiana, you aren't winning anything. If he is your 2nd best player, like what he is supposed to be for the Clips, then you do not have a 2nd best player.