Commissar for Sports and Recreation

Actually likes sports

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

The facts may not agree with you, but your favorite podcaster does

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@evelyn_sco85231 @laralogan @SenMarkey Of course you think "I know you are but what am I" is clever, you're 12

[a🪴 @gennyIite]

mina kimes really is the only one at espn with a backbone huh

[HTB ♨️ @HenryTheBlasian]

NBA Players all “injured” before GTA 6 drops

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@charles2ofspain @alex_kirshner Not attacking you specifically, just saying this isnt something we havent seen from several other coaches, GMs, and owners before

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@charles2ofspain @alex_kirshner The whole "second chances" thing is just coach deflection for signing players that other franchises wont over character or legal issues. Its not unique to Reid and he isnt anymore sincere than anyone else, and the rubes of every fanbase lap it up

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@jonkmbz @alex_kirshner @thelatinochild I was gonna boldly declare that no one was under the illusion that Andy Reid was a good person but then I opened the comments and saw this, thanks for saving me bro

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@Britt4rva @eshaLegal It was funny at first, but after 420 days straight of this it did stop being funny

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@ShamebyJames2 https://t.co/Y74MZ5AtyZ

Have you considered that Hitler had trauma and some good ideas? No? Thats because you're not allowed to talk about Hitler in the West

[windtrack @windtrack_QH]

在中国，即使你谈到希特勒，但凡是接受过高等教育的人也不会用一句独裁者、疯子或者恶魔就盖棺定论，而是从他经历一战，民间的演讲，战后欧洲以及德国的经济和政治形势来看待他的行为。

而在西方，你基本不可能讨论，但凡说一句他行为的合理性都会被视为异类

西方对于底层的历史教育，就是思想钢印。

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@combatlibs You can post this without a VPN and face zero reprocessions aside from mean QTs.

Key difference I think.

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

A key difference, I think, is in America you can log onto Twitter without a VPN and post that Washington was a slave owner and if the post goes viral the government wont shut down the internet.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I know a lot of people in the West are baffled by the Mbappé-Mao storm in China - which in itself shows that Mbappé's ignorance doesn't come out of nowhere...

To understand it, here's the best analogy I could think of: imagine the biggest Chinese star in the NBA, with sponsorship deals all over the US. One day he's asked for his favorite meme of himself. He giggles: "the one where they put my face on some guy, I think he was an American slave owner." When the "some guy" in question is George Washington.

Whatever you think of the label, you know exactly how that would land in the US: an ungrateful foreigner getting rich off Americans, laughing at the country's founding father in an offensive way - at least to a big share of the population - without even knowing his name.

A founding father is the story a nation tells itself about where it comes from. Laugh at him as a foreigner while cashing in on that nation's consumers, and that's not going to go well in any country.

The label is also extremely un-nuanced: yes, all important historical figures have their share of darkness and Washington and Mao are no exception.

China actually recognizes this: the official line is that he was "70% right and 30% wrong," and the Party's 1981 resolution condemned how his "personal arbitrariness gradually undermined democratic centralism in Party life and the personality cult grew graver and graver" (https://t.co/gH2rs1FZqW)

Same for Washington: it's officially acknowledged too. Or at least it was until this year: in January, the National Park Service tore down an exhibit in Philadelphia about the people Washington enslaved there, under a Trump executive order targeting content that "inappropriately disparage[s]" Americans (https://t.co/MRLTnnllfq). Which goes to show China isn't uniquely touchy about its founding father...

[Garak Obama @ObamaGarak]

Literally every celebrity in America conducts themselves this way

[Ranthony @ChiefTeef8]

I think you people are really overestimating how much the median american cares about George washington

[Quicampoix @KTPLeGallois]

Chinois se connecte à un VPN pour expliquer aux Occidentaux sur Twitter qu'il ne vit pas sous une dictature

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@Elmi218 @Hezbolsonaro Not a real distinction here

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@evelyn_sco85231 @laralogan @SenMarkey Enjoy your time in the gulag bitch

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@JoelWBerry God Im so glad your friend is getting deported lol

[Goad Gatsby @GoadGatsby]

You're laughing. James O'Keefe and Cam Higby dressed like this in a Minnesota voting precint and got charged for unlawful voting and you're laughing.

[vick(BUSY STUDYING @v1renff]

My mom fighting with her far right sister and I hear “no wonder your husband cheated on you so much, you’re so easy to lie to”

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@facetedcarapace I work in a leadership role in field thats mostly women, and the temperature change when someone gets the boss at the demand of an irate 'customer' and the customer sees a dude walk out instead of a woman is palpable

[Commissar for Sports and Recreation @normalandwise]

@BasedGeologist @heliz_2 You dont get to just declare things a mortal sin, thats the Church's job.