WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT !!!!!! You are, as I thought, conflating things. I hate religion, HATE what it does to people, all religion, which means I don't tolerate hypocrisy on Christianity, Islam, whatever.....and I believe religion has killed more people than any other thing in Human history. I also HATE MAGA, which is primarily a racist ideology at it's base level - and do not think it is ok to black bag people without due process. I do think though that if you are in a country as a guest you should be smarter than trying to rile things up - and the same could be said if you were in Saudi Arabia as the USA - it just isn't smart in today's climate. My thoughts and views from the D&D are consistent, and on more of a "how can we solve it" thought level than a "I am ok with it"......but people that are overly sensitive always read things into it...for instance, I think it is flat out silly that you can't make a cartoon of Mohammed, but I wouldn't dare do that if I lived in a religiously dominant country in the ME, at some point people need to read the room. Now back on the thread topic. I am hopeful that Jalen uses this playoffs to find consistency, but we have been saying that for 4 plus years, so I believe he is what he is....a SG that is hot and cold but not one to build around. DD
You hate religion and therefore believe "war is war" when it comes to ethnic cleansing campaigns and defend the black bagging of student activists who are empathetic to Palestinians. You disgust me. Is your hatred of religion going to make you say "war is war" when it comes to the god damn Holocaust of Jewish people in WW2? No. You aren't going to make light of their genocide because the genocide was happening to a specific religious group. It's a specific hatred of Brown Middle Easterners that you have a specific blind spot for in regards to empathy.
"The least tolerant". I bet you bootlick for a man who said "migrants poison the blood of our nation" as our president without a hint of self awareness.
If we want to redirect insults back to basketball, then you living a sedentary morbidly obese lifestyle that has never once ventured into athletic endeavors of your own makes you unqualified to suggest Jalen hasn't improved at all since joining the league because you don't understand how much of a drain to your legs it is to start playing for a winning team that has high standards for defense. His massive defensive improvement and energy output on that end has stagnated his offensive numbers the past two seasons.
When your country falls into fascism, it trickles down to all levels of conversation. Blame those who voted in fascism.
Dude, been on this site for over 20 years and still I am not interested in talking, or in your case ranting, about polítics. This is a basketball forum. Sounds like you cannot handle the internet and how people have differing viewpoints. Right or wrong. So ya, least tolerant, for sure. Reflect on your temper tantrums you have posted in this thread. Also, I live in Colombia and have no interest in US polítics, so take your unhinged accusations to someone who actually cares.
If you weren't a right wing chode trying to mask yourself as some reasonable centrist who just wants to talk basketball you'd just attack me as an individual rather than saying the term "leftists" as a general statement trying to make a political point about your ideoligical enemies being more crazy. You might be too stupid to be coy about your right wing ideology being offended rather than you being offended about politics trickling to a basketball forum. Use your words more carefully if you want to portray yourself as some innocent centrist trying to discuss basketball. It's very easy to see through people like you.
It's sad that there's no mods to ban people like him. At the end of the day, he's just a bad person, that's all it is. Those exist unfortunately, never gonna escape that.
Has to be an absolute cesspool of political vitriol. American politics is worse than European football hooliganism/ultras with their weird ultra-zealous loyalty to their "team."
Dude, good lord. I don't classify myself as anything relating to polítics. We don't even have those terms here in Colombia. However, I know how a leftist lunatic acts. Someone disagrees with you and you resort to personal attacks and conduct yourself as if your Mom just told you that you have to eat your vegetables. Take a breather, compa.
"I know how leftist lunatics act" "I'm a centrist who just wants to talk basketball" I'd actually believe you like other posters here if you were more intelligent in framing your distaste of politics in here rather than making it obvious your offense is more in regards to your ideoligical enemy expressing these opinions on here rather than just political talk in general. Can you be intelligent enough to just insult me without bringing up my political alignment to show people that your offense isn't tribal but just "I want to talk basketball". Is it within you?
You are just wrong as usual, and you are on ignore for a reason, you are like Yosemite Sam, just jumping up and down screaming for people to respect you, not realizing that will never happen acting like a little spoiled brat. Good luck to you though..... You are IGNORED, because you are boring. DD
@Clutch needs to do something about @fchowd0311 bringing politics into the GARM. This is not the first time he has done this.
For real though, this back and forth about politics and ad hominem attacks is really not it. We're back in the ****ing playoffs, get out of the weird bullshit echo chamber (newsflash, all of your politics is right-wing by every body else's standards - the argument's idiotic) and enjoy your basketball team coming out of a period of dark days. Arguing about politics seems to be all y'all do the rest of the time from the outsider perspective, have a break, sports is way better.
There is literally a sub-forum for you to spaz out about politics. I am a centrist? No, I am someone who does not live in the United States and couldn't care less about your pissing war over which side of the political spectrum someone is. Not everyone makes polítics the center of their universo. Take this to the D&D. People there, I am sure, would love to internet keyboard war over polítics with you.
Cade has made a way higher leap than Jalen its not really comparable at this point. He runs the offense essentially by himself as a floor general. With that said we never even had a chance at Cade so who gives a shet at this point. Jalen naturally does not have the vision and passing of Cade, so he can never play that role anyway
Obviously the hope is that Jalen gets consistent at his peak performance, because in the same stroke Cade couldn't hope to do that in his wildest dreams either. I might have higher hops than Cade lol
I'm edging Clutch to ban me so I can see him ignore all the dehumanization language of brown people on the d&d and pretend as long as outright dehumanization is stuck to a sub forum, it's okay to have deserting right wing Nazi rhetoric pour in the open. Literally see posts about Muslims being elder humans not being moderated just because it is in some magical sun forum and because of that it's okay to have your forum spread Nazi rhetoric. "As long as it's not on the GARM". **** that. I'm not that fickle in my convictions. So if me getting banned make people at least confront the outright Nazi behavior of posters here where they use the shield of "it's not in the garm" then I'm fine with it. I've reported outright dehumanization language there with no luck so understand where my righteous indignation comes from. Because of the lack of moderation of dehumanization that is rampant in the d&d, I feel emboldened to not care about politics being separated in the garm. I don't see any moral reasoning to separate the two places when I see people who dehumanize constantly in one sub from come in to the GARM as if that dehumanization is magically within the bounds of a singular sub forum and I just simply can ignore it when they discuss playoff basketball.
