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09-22-2025, 11:32 AM
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#176 | | linguistic ninja
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Originally Posted by VRYALT3R3D  | "I forgive my husband's killer, but we need to send him to god immediately for eternal forgiveness."
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09-22-2025, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues "I forgive my husband's killer, but we need to send him to god immediately for eternal forgiveness." | I hope Charlie's killer gets killed by firing squad.
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09-22-2025, 12:37 PM
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#178 | | linguistic ninja
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Jimmy's Back.
SUuck on that.
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09-22-2025, 12:42 PM
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#179 | | Performance Moderator
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He went away for programming reasons... brain programming
Meep morp Trump is the best... God is good... Trump is the best
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09-22-2025, 12:53 PM
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#180 | | RS.net, where our google ads make absolutely no sense!
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues Jimmy's Back.
SUuck on that. | I am happy for you, bro.
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09-22-2025, 04:41 PM
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#181 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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So in 2014 LA Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, was banned for life from the NBA and forced to sell his team due to racist remarks he made - those remarks were widely condemned and everyone at the time said it was clearly racist.
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On April 25, 2014, TMZ Sports released a recording of a conversation between Sterling and his mistress, V. Stiviano (born María Vanessa Perez, also known as Monica Gallegos, Vanessa Perez, and Maria Valdez).[47][48] In the recording from September 2013, a man confirmed to be Sterling was irritated over a photo Stiviano had posted on Instagram, in which she posed with Basketball Hall of Fame player and Laker great Magic Johnson.[49][50] Sterling told Stiviano, who herself is part African-American: "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people," and, "You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want," but "the little I ask you is ... not to bring them to my games."[51][52]
| Those two statements were enough to get him banned for life from the NBA yet 11 years later we have a huge catalog of Charlie Kirk saying many things of a similar nature but folks like Hehe will go around saying he's not a racist and just misunderstood.
Was Donald Sterling wronged? Should Sterling have been allowed to keep his NBA team? Was Donald Sterling just misunderstood?
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09-22-2025, 04:55 PM
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#182 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Supa there is no point trying to rationalize some people's arguments in favor of the hateful crap Charlie Kirk spewed.
There has long been a history of attempting to normalize anti-black ideologies and sentiments within the US. Charlie Kirk was a standard bearer of that goal. That normalization has come so far from 11 years ago that here we are arguing with people to "prove" Charlie Kirk's words were racist in the first place.
This just shows you how Trump, and this whole MAGA movement has been so successful in moving the narrative and proverbial goal post in such a short amount of time.
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09-22-2025, 05:29 PM
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#183 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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The schism on this whole thing is even more apparent in the NFL, another sports analogy.
When players were kneeling back in 2016, players were suspended, the outright outrage on the right was palpable with cries of "keeping politics out of sports".
Less then a decade later, teams are jumping on board (or perhaps forced) to assign a moment of silence to commemorate a racist political podcaster in a league full of black dudes. The teams that did not participate are being attacked online by government officials within the Trump admin, and Trump himself.
Funny times we're in.
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Originally Posted by westopher LOOK AT ME IM MIKE AND I HAVE A BIG HOG AND I DRINK TEQULA AND WORK OUT AND LISTEN TO CHARLI XCX ON THE BEACH IN BERMUDA
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09-22-2025, 05:37 PM
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#184 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Things have shifted so far right it’s a completely different spectrum now. If anyone would have been saying that shit in 2015 at a college campus they’d get knocked the fuck out by the third person they said it to at the very latest. Now you have half the population not only justifying it, but treating it as the second coming (or third?) of Jesus. It’s really embarrassing, as I think millennials and Gen Z will be the first generations which will be MORE racist than the previous generation.
Oh but the CONTEXT of saying the civil rights act was a mistake! THE CONTEXT ITS NOT RACIST
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09-22-2025, 05:48 PM
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#185 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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They went so extreme in 2016 that nothing seems extreme anymore. And on top of that they've built a cult around it
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09-22-2025, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by mikemhg Supa there is no point trying to rationalize some people's arguments in favor of the hateful crap Charlie Kirk spewed.
There has long been a history of attempting to normalize anti-black ideologies and sentiments within the US. Charlie Kirk was a standard bearer of that goal. That normalization has come so far from 11 years ago that here we are arguing with people to "prove" Charlie Kirk's words were racist in the first place. | Bromigo, I agree with you.
Also just LOL @ Charlie having only a high school education. He uses so many boomer arguments during his debates.
I still don't think he deserved to die the way he did. That was a pretty sad moment for America. The symbolism of shooting someone you disagree with during a college debate at a public campus with an audience. Pretty bad look, brah
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09-22-2025, 07:14 PM
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#187 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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My understanding from a friend who is a pilot (co pilot?) is that you start on the bottom rung ( in his case flying for pacific coastal etc) and need a lot of experience to move up to the larger airlines . As is the case in many industries..like just because you go to cooking school doesn’t give you the experience to be an exec or even sous chef. You need the real world experience as well as the technical qualifications.
Wasn’t there at some point on here someone involved in the airline industry ( pilot maybe)? Be interesting to hear from his/her perspective ( I realize this was only a cherry picked scenario by Kirk in this situation trying to create a wedge issue).
Lastly I have a friend who is a crown prosecutor and we were discussing the idea of him becoming a judge . He’s white / male. When I asked him what the prospects of that happening was he said “ well I’m not really the right demographic etc of what they are looking for”. Or something along those lines .
He went on to say they were trying to diversify the roster of judges to include more Indigenous , women , etc ( anything besides white men and to some extent white women).
I was a little annoyed on his behalf because I thought he is/was qualified and being not seen as a good candidate because he’s white seemed unfair. To his credit he mentioned he was totally ok w it . We talked about how important representation is in places like the legal system. And while I understand it and ultimately agree with it I still find it hard to square that circle sometimes .
What the crux of the issue is with Charlie Kirk is his false assumption / assertion that you have to drop qualifications in order to achieve representational hires. It’s not true in technical aspects like pilots and not true in more esoteric things like Judges. The judges they are hiring now are every bit as qualified as my friend . They’ve just also have the bonus of bringing with them representation which is an important qualification in the legal ( and health ) system .
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09-22-2025, 07:19 PM
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#188 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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I mean that and that it’s a dog whistle ( whether or not he meant it that way).
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09-22-2025, 07:24 PM
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#189 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by rymack Lastly I have a friend who is a crown prosecutor and we were discussing the idea of him becoming a judge . He’s white / male. When I asked him what the prospects of that happening was he said “ well I’m not really the right demographic etc of what they are looking for”. Or something along those lines .
He went on to say they were trying to diversify the roster of judges to include more Indigenous , women , etc ( anything besides white men and to some extent white women).
I was a little annoyed on his behalf because I thought he is/was qualified and being not seen as a good candidate because he’s white seemed unfair. To his credit he mentioned he was totally ok w it . We talked about how important representation is in places like the legal system. And while I understand it and ultimately agree with it I still find it hard to square that circle sometimes . | Good on your friend for his take on this - depending on the domain/sector a white male may be genuinely disadvantaged due to DEI in that the rebalancing is so aggressive that new candidates are negatively impacted but on the whole, the diversification efforts are just rebalancing an existing injustice - ie, white males were so over-represented for so long that what's happening isn't bias for minorities but equalisation.
In software development we were seeing women be ~35% university graduates (depends on the decade you look at) but we'd somehow only end up with 25% of intermediate developers being women and then something like 10% of mangers being women. So when tech companies say we want 35-40% of their devs to be women, they're really just trying to get to the numbers that they see coming out of school.
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09-22-2025, 07:35 PM
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What I've learned from pilots in my family is that to get the hours a lot of them start out flying bush planes to places almost nobody has heard of. Pacific Coastal would've been a big upgrade over the stuff they were doing lol. If someone has made it to where they're piloting for any major airline they've got a lot of experience and they're a solid pilot.
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