Nick

Orthodox, husband, father, teacher, and trainer. Boston born and raised now living in the sunshine state. GOC-K ☦️🇬🇷 🇺🇸

[Nick @headbutts247]

@JasonWall740 @JCrossover Sherman Douglas, “the little general” as Heinson would call him. Learned how to shoot a floater thanks to him

[Nick @headbutts247]

@ConquerSportsIO Still have their picks and Henderson 🤷🏻🤷🏻

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Tucker Carlson has never read about the pogroms against the Greek Christians of Constantinople carried out by Muslim Turks that took place in 1955, just 70 years ago. These events took place roughly 30 years after the Greek-Armenian-Assyrian genocide, which was motivated by both religious and racial hatred. By then, the goal was to completely erase every remaining Greek element from Asia Minor.

Their next target was the once-Greek Constantinople. It was a warm September evening in 1955, in the heart of Constantinople, a city still echoing with the ghosts of its Greek-Byzantine past.

The Greek community was already marginalized by years of discriminatory policies, felt the weight of suspicion. After the fall of Constantinople, thousands were slaughtered, but they tried to keep the flame alive.

But, on September 6 (1955), a false report spread like a spark in dry grass: a bomb had allegedly damaged the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, near the house where Mustafa Kemal was born.

The bombing was a staged provocation, orchestrated by Turkish authorities to incite rage. By dusk, Constantinople was a tinderbox. Mobs, organized and armed with clubs, knives, and gasoline, poured into the streets, targeting Greek homes, businesses, and churches. The government’s role was clear; lists of Greek properties had been prepared in advance, and the police stood by, complicit or indifferent. It was all staged. A plan with only one purpose. To murder innocent Greek Christians that were living peacefully in the land of their ancestors, in the City that was built by their fathers.

A crowd, chanting Kemalist slogans just like the days of the Genocide of 1922, smashes windows, looting everything; shelves, ovens, even family photos. The mob moves with precision, targeting Greek-owned properties. Churches, like the Zoodochos Pigi in Balat, are desecrated; holy icons are shattered, and altars burned. The Greek cemetery in Şişli is vandalized, graves defiled in an orgy of destruction.

4,348 Greek businesses, 110 hotels, 27 pharmacies, 23 schools, and 73 churches were damaged or destroyed.

Many Greeks were killed, hundreds injured and numerous women assaulted. The mobs, often transported from outside Constantinople, carried out their rampage over two days, September 6–7, leaving the Greek community in ruins.

The pogrom was a death knell. Many lost everything; homes, livelihoods, security. Greeks of Constantinople were reducing over time already after the fall in 1453. But that was the final hit.

The exodus of Greeks from Turkey, reduced the community of over 250.000 to fewer than 2.000 today.

As dawn broke on September 7, Constantinople became "Istanbul". The last Greeks, descendants of those who found the City, who built the city, who defended the City, who had history in this City, were expelled from their ancestral homeland.

Streets were littered with broken glass and shattered dreams. The Greek community, a cornerstone of the city’s history, was left to pick up the pieces.

That was, the anti-Greek "Istanbul pogrom" that took place on 6–7 September 1955.

These events are fresh in our memories. How can we forget all the thing they did to us? They came and they expelled Greeks from their homes.

Constantinople, Asia Minor, Cappadocia, Pontus, Cyprus, Ionia.

We will never forget, everything they did to us.

We will never coexist with them.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@MayeFlowerFan The kid from Portland and a bunch of picks. Use the picks and whoever else and get someone like Murphy. Something like that

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

If a rando nurse practitioner can bilk our government for nearly a billion dollars, I think it’s safe to say we’ve probably lost trillions over the lifespan of these social welfare programs.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@TheOriginalBouk @bostonradio Tony Meola?

[Nick @headbutts247]

@TheOriginalBouk @bostonradio There’s a reason Turner didn’t start the 1st 2 games.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@Brycen2047 Never paid that much in my 15 years with season tickets nor did we resell them for that much.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@Cerrone_Battle @Savageboston Problem is that any team where he’d be the clear 1 might not have anything significant to offer. Thats another reason he shoul have gone to the Bucks

[Nick @headbutts247]

@JumboHart There are definitely 🏀 reasons for it. This team is like the Bergeron B’s, they’re underachievers. Time to break it up and build a team that can win now. Also new CBA makes it hard to keep 2 max guys.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@ConquerSportsIO Said this earlier, he just tries way too hard to fit in or seem cool. The upgrade from Mac and whoever else to Maye is off the charts.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@semisammsa @JimmiesJim @TheOriginalBouk @HomerPavlos Did you just prove our original point by saying “dump you in the sea again”? I’ll say it again, barbarian!

[Nick @headbutts247]

@TheOriginalBouk @semisammsa @HomerPavlos 😅😅

[Nick @headbutts247]

@TheOriginalBouk @semisammsa @HomerPavlos Could be stressed because his team is about to get eliminated from group play.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@semisammsa @TheOriginalBouk @HomerPavlos No one is talking to you, barbarian!

[Nick @headbutts247]

@TheOriginalBouk @HomerPavlos I expect him to convert to Islam at this point, go full tard!

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Tucker Carlson says that the Ottomans were very kind to Christians. Don't forget that 200 years ago, in Chios, 42,000 Greek Christians were massacred by the Muslim Turks and 52,000 were sold into slavery. It was a taste of their kindness.

[Nick @headbutts247]

@JoeLFGPatsPod I wanted him to succeed here, glad he didn't because we got Maye. The thing that gets me with him now is that all of it seems so forced. He tries too hard to fit in and look like he's having fun, and definitely looks coked out here. Career backup at best.