2
Piroko 2 points ago +2 / -0

What mainstreamed the NBA was FIBA ruling that NBA players could play in the Olympics. Come the 1992 Barcelona games, the USA utterly demolished everyone; nobody held America under 100 points. I mean look at this lineup:

  • Laettner
  • Robinson
  • Ewing
  • Bird
  • Pippen
  • Jordan
  • Drexler
  • Malone
  • Stockton
  • Mullin
  • Barkley
  • Johnson

After the medal game the Croatians were stripping down and asking the Americans to autograph their shoes and jerseys.

2
Piroko 2 points ago +3 / -1

The NBA realized that too many black guys were dominating the sport and they had to do something in order to keep drawing in the masses.

Do they though?

I don't think people care about the racial composition of the team, they just care "home team wins". The 1990's Chicago Bulls had like one white guy a season, and in the 90's everyone loved the Bulls (cuz they were winners).

People like teams that win (as long they aren't the team to hate cuz they always win). A few strange people in the midwest like teams that lose.

1
Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well I'm convinced.

You need a better visualization designer.

17
Piroko 17 points ago +21 / -4

People have been volunteering since the start and DoM has refused to delegate to anyone.

We just don't want him to delegate to you.

22
Piroko 22 points ago +23 / -1

Throwing the device at your opponent to activate it is a mode of operation and thus not patentable.

They merely need to cobble together an improvised grenade containing an angry badger.

1
Piroko 1 point ago +2 / -1

I am one. And we think John Brown sits next to Christ.

"Alvis was the holiest man ever to slap iron. He killed for your sins." -Sealab 2021

0
Piroko 0 points ago +1 / -1

are you actually

I am, because he is. This is uncontroversial in my branch of Christianity. John Brown was the bloody right hand of god, sent to bring the sword to a land that had fallen short of its promise.

16
Piroko 16 points ago +17 / -1

I want to hear the shooter's story before I jump to conclusions about the morality of his actions.

4
Piroko 4 points ago +4 / -0

for a new militia

They're not new. They're the remnants of al-Nusra.

What Happened

Hezbollah was propping up Assad, and Israel gutted them to the point that they couldn't keep wasting resources in Syria.

The rebels noticed this, started pushing, and never ran into serious resistance.

3
Piroko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Wasn't 1995 also the year FOX ran Escaflowne?

6
Piroko 6 points ago +6 / -0

JESUS FUCK WRITE DOWN SOME NOTES BEFORE YOU GO LIVE.

This is worse than ESL tech support.

-2
Piroko -2 points ago +2 / -4

Oh, so he's on our side this week?

19
Piroko 19 points ago +20 / -1

Doesn't matter.

Ohio, West Virginia, and Montana are done. We're at 52 firm seats.

10
Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

from Canada

Leftists worship Justin Trudeau. Don't conceal your accent and you'll be fine.

California

Big, loud Vancouver

Utah

Big, hot Yellowknife.

Wyoming

Big, empty Calgary.

Nevada

Big... yeah no, you've got nothing like Nevada in Canada.

1
Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

it was the best strategic move

Absolutely. Now we just need to get it to stick as party policy.

7
Piroko 7 points ago +7 / -0

Well that just settles it then doesn't it.

1
Piroko 1 point ago +1 / -0

That much is certain. If they thought she had an ounce of conviction about anything they never would have tapped her as a VP in the first place.

10
Piroko 10 points ago +10 / -0

Because above all else the democratic party elites are control freaks who wanted to deal with two situations:

  1. A chaotic convention that illustrates the neolib-vs-progressive schism in the party, and the risk that an ACTUAL progressive might come out on top instead of a manufactured faux-gressive.

  2. The relative ease of transferring state level campaign operations (and more importantly, money) from Biden-Harris to Harris-Walz.

She was the continuity-of-campaign choice. They would like to win, and Harris gave them a chance of winning, but losing control is more terrifying to the party leadership than losing the election.

view more: Next ›