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henrygandorf

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  1. point of order, the defendant was too dumb to know the difference.
  2. i enjoyed the part about whether certain acts were done by "the president" vs "the candidate seeking re-election". did trump do one thing in 4 years that wasn't in aid of his re-election bid?
  3. to whomever hasn't paid, go ahead and pay. don't make me send in the brute squad.
  4. judge will get hurt if i have to go full gillooly myself.
  5. pretending to do shit in dc is just honoring a campaign promise.
  6. well i still have 2 years to get there, so i guess you weren’t a calendar major, were you?
  7. must be my imagination.
  8. guessing you don’t spend much time on the platform.
  9. is this a serious post? i said it was bad timing to crack down on it. that’s not really something that anyone can be right or wrong about, let alone dead wrong. but sure, take your victory lap, you’ve probably earned it for all your obsession. as for my 3 year prediction, you know what the word “or” means, right? the second part of that sentence has already happened and it took less than a year. they’re a legacy streamer, which is an advantage, and other streamers are run by morons or shouldn’t have been started in the first place, which also helps them. in general, people are lazy. that’s why most will keep netflix despite the drop in quality or price increases, just like most olds keep cable, because that’s what they’ve always done. the good news for netflix is that they can afford to keep making multi-billion dollar mistakes. yay.
  10. go reread what i actually said and you’ll see that most of my prediction has already happened. their library is for shit and about half is foreign language. they have done a nice job of picking the bones of the other suffering platforms though. oh, and their stock is down 50+ points today. but sure, go netflix.
  11. i engineered the whole thing. it came from a joke and shadow op is still tied to my gmail from derka’s initial banning. 2.0 couldn’t load up anything original i guess.
  12. my wife would watch this movie.
  13. derka has alerted me that a deal was struck to chop the championship pot at 400/300 (instead of the pre-arranged 500/200) so it seems you're owed a hundo more than you initially thought. he wanted me to pass that along, as a continuation of his relentless efforts to poison this website.
  14. hello fantasy basketball players. you all did well and should be proud. you should be proud that you almost did as well as derka. but you did not. you have failed. you sicken me. his venmo is blake-ross-24 he can't post it himself because of reasons. good day to you.
  15. i go back and forth on this. i really don't see a decision made because a vp pick is a "good" fundraiser. and didn't some of haley's people leave and start raising money for biden? remember, trump still thinks campaigns are run like 50 years ago. i think he will choose someone to attack a perceived (obviously real) weakness. he's been doing publicity stunts to gain black support, but at the end of the day, the gender gap will fuck him. i think he's gotta get a noem type to try and bring in the suburban women. not saying it will work, i just think it's the move he will think is best. also, fwiw, the site that once had biden at +202 (when i first bet it), now has biden at +115, and has dem vs gop at pick'em. which i guess accounts for the chance something happens to biden's health in the next 6 months. predictit has biden up 52-45. that site leans right but has always been more accurate than polling.
  16. he died how he lived. sitting in judgment and shitting his pants.
  17. my people will call your people.
  18. i had a gaping hole in my outfield and y'all just let me pick up colton cowser? seems like a tactical error.
  19. all black people’s last names look the same.
  20. if you strike down derka, he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. good luck with that.
  21. which of you ranger nerds wants to buy high on bradford?
  22. that's why i used the word "basically".
  23. i've been on these boards for 25 years. this is not "the internet", and should never be dismissed as that, especially to excuse or allow what might be labeled "typical and unavoidable online bullying". this is not elon's twitter. this is not reddit. this is a community, and always has been. i know many of you in real life. some i knew before and separately from these sites, and others since. i've met a whole bunch more out in the world just once or twice. i've met some of you for lunch, a beer, scored coke for one of you, and connected another of you with a midget for a bachelor party in vegas. rip donny. i am friends with derka. not "friendly", friends. i knew he and bob had been meeting and working on things, and i thought that was great of bob to do, and i know derka appreciated it. i did not become friends with derka to help him through his mental issues, i became friends with him because i like him and we have a lot in common and i enjoy talking sports and tv shows with him. we text most every day. i've texted with his mom, and she is a wonderful and supportive human being. happy birthday, betsy. derka gets worked up here, like others do at home, a sporting event, a bar, or a grocery store. everyone has their outlets. that's who he is, and if you don't think he's worked hard and gotten a shit-ton better over the years, you haven't been paying attention. derka has an issue letting things go and settling back down from a worked-up state. he'd be the first to admit this. he has bitten his tongue, so to speak, dozens, if not hundreds of times, when people would antagonize him. it's bullshit it was happening to begin with, but he was doing his best not to exacerbate the issue. what you've seen from him on this site is not perfect, but it was the best he could do, and i consider it admirable. again, i'm his friend, so i am a biased commenter here. there's nothing about this situation that doesn't suck. i think most of us are on the same page on that. surly is not groupthink. it's not an echo chamber. even the cloak room isn't that way, though it's often characterized as such. anyone who says that hasn't been over there in several years. there are lots of opinions, lots of discussions, and lots of characters that fill out this community. but there's only one derka. immamac is trying to change that, and i disagree mightily with this decision. it also sucked that it was made in advance, which makes this even more inexcusable. flying off the handle and making a rash decision at least could be understood, if not justified. yes, it is his decision to make, no one is disputing whether he has that ability. yes, it sucks that derka and bob were on the road to recovery, and immamac stepped in and reversed that progress. ironically, this type of reversal is exactly the type of thing that drives derka over the edge. he jumped through the hoops, he did the work, he shared himself, he was honest and self-deprecating about it. and now he's told no, it's easier just to rid ourselves of you. someone upthread called derka a cancer. i know because i negged him. it's probably my 2nd or 3rd ever neg-rep and i stand by it. cancer needs to be removed to make the body stronger. that's not what's happening here. if derka is gone for good, it will make things worse. worse for him and worse for this community. from reading through this thread, it's pretty obvious that i'm not alone in this opinion. a few pages ago, immamac said that sometimes derka would get banned, and he would get pm's asking for him to be reinstated, because derka had asked people to do this. as someone who has sent one of those pm's, i can say i was not asked to do so. if you know derka at all, you would know he doesn't go around begging others to fight his battles. shit, how could anyone not know this? i saw what happened and sent those messages on my own accord, because while i don't always do what's right, i always know what's right. and this is not right. reinstate him. it's what's right.
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