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[Sam @SamGR_77]

@PrimeManzardo @its_Devn_ @oodhamboi A public figure was very publicly assassinated. A little RIP hat message falls more in the bucket of a mournful gesture than political activism. If he was shouting out kirk a week earlier, then it's a different story.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@MapleTakes Sure but since Hasan is an anti-israel campist, that was the only issue that mattered at all to him (caring about the hundreds of thousands of dead African kids from USAID cuts doesn't have the same Fuck The West emotional release I guess)

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@YungxJayy Kinda funny that Hamas had like one morning with access to Israeli civilians this whole time and there's more footage of them doing deranged executions and mutilations than there is of Israel doing the same in like 3 yrs of live streamed mega genocide.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@MapleTakes Lol sounds like this clip is him spazzing out over Carney giving a speech about anti-Semitism. But if you hate fascism and like helping the working class then I'm not sure Hasan "Kamala is just as bad as Trump" Piker is your guy.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@don_wadds @mattgurney @TonyMarinaro Some of us (unfortunately) watched the games

[Sam @SamGR_77]

So the debate becomes defenders saying like "he is awesome and got railroaded" while others are like "he committed a terrible crime and should be in prison", when the best info we have says that neither of these conclusions are likely true.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

Big issue with how people absorb these stories is that they don't understand that on the spectrum of human conduct, there's a large chunk of space between "good" and "so bad that the gov will lock you in a cage for years". That zone is just very unsatisfying for everyone.

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i’m so tired of people acting like them not being convicted means they did nothing wrong

men are disgusting.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

Thing about Marner is that he intentionally hyped up the first thing to distract from the second. It was easier on his ego and reputation to pretend he was leaving to protect his family/safety from psycho fans than it was to take responsibility for his own poor decisions/failure.

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I think that there were times where Toronto “fans” 100% crossed a line when it came to Marner (aka threats, doxxing, vandalism, etc), but I also think Marner is a big bitch baby with a huge fragile ego and superiority complex.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@MWBII I like the November hate. Terrible month that avoids criticism too often

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@mdmrules @BudsAllDayCast Luck is a part of sports but yeah that was especially insane yeah

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@mdmrules @BudsAllDayCast They won a game 7 in which they had 9 shots and 2 mega fluky deflection goals. That's not just lucky compared to the leafs, it's one of the luckiest performances ever.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@brianros1 Similar issue is that it just makes it hard for teams to somewhat quickly change their fortunes. You get the same teams being good or bad for years because there's no mechanism for improvement other than pure drafting/development.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@oletoletolet_ @barrettweet @NateSilver538 Taxes have become a bigger deal lately because the slow growth of the salary cap really exaggerated the importance of tax savings as a factor in player decisions, but now with the cap starting to explode, higher revenue teams might be better able to just outbid other teams.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@coreylandsberg Yeah having faith for a while was ok but eventually you had to come to terms with the reality you were witnessing every year

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@SunnySuperFan__ @hobson_alex16 @pennypacker_h @TLNdc And yeah any player who performs poorly in a big market will face criticism and if they don't like it then yeah they should be traded somewhere with palm trees where fans would take a week 5 NFL win over a Stanley Cup.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@SunnySuperFan__ @hobson_alex16 @pennypacker_h @TLNdc Marner gave himself these expectations when he went on an unprecedented contract negotiation campaign to become like the 4th highest paid player in hockey. You can't do that and then say "you expect ME to score big playoff goals!?"

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@coreylandsberg @hobson_alex16 @HackswithHaggs My other fave is people pretending that leafs fans are psychos for being critical of their team over its 2-9 playoff series record (0-7 in game 7s) this era as tho any fan base wouldn't do that and as if these same people weren't laughing about the choker leafs this whole time.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@SunnySuperFan__ @hobson_alex16 @pennypacker_h @TLNdc Is goaltending and depth why he couldn't put the puck in the net in a big game over his past like 6 playoff runs?

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@parandeye_zard And yeah the fact that European Jews/Holocaust survivors were a very highly educated and culturally successful group within western society also played a big role.

[Sam @SamGR_77]

@parandeye_zard Holocaust was recent, was unique in its industrial scale massacre methods, was carried out by the bad guys in America's largest ever foreign war (and the largest war in world history), and was carried out by a society with lots of cultural similarities. There are lots of reasons.