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    19 days ago

    Hey, this is a days old post, stop reporting it and discussing whether or not the use of the n-word is okay or not. That is troll bait and I get why you respond once, but stop after that. The people refuting the word were pretty good under the circumstances, so I’m not locking it yet. If I removed your comment, it’s so the troll baiting won’t work anymore on anyone else.

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    19 days ago

    While racist, yes, it’s funny how money appears to be the bigger issue to him. Sounds like he would be cool with Diddy.

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      I’d rather happy. Like sure, if everything else is even, but money shouldn’t be in the top 5.

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    He’s right, everyone is a little racist. That’s what happens when you’re raised in a racist society.

    But that shit was really racist

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      And it was said privately that somebody filmed. Doesn’t make it right but neither is releasing a private tape.

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        In most states if you’re party to a conversation you have a right to record it and share it with others if you’d like. Federally it’s legal too, including phone calls. Some states do restrict recording without informing all parties, but most don’t as it’s important means of protecting yourself sometimes.

        I emphasized “if you’re party” above because it’s an important distinction. In many situations you cannot record the conversation of others if you’re not an active participant, though there are exceptions for things said/done in public and in/on your property.

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          I just don’t understand how private sex tapes get leaked. First of all, do people really regularly film themselves having sex? Also, surely only the couple would have a copy, and surely you’d trust someone before making such a tape, no?

          I’m just amazed each time it happens.

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        19 days ago

        Conservatives would do well to behave like everything they say in private will be published. If they can’t be good people out of empathy they can be good people out of fear.

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    Remember these things come in threes. Hmmmmmmm… I wonder what other major 80s/90s icons who had reality TV shows come to mind?

    I wonder…

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      If we’re doing “old guys with reality shows in the early 2000s”, I know a person that would complement this specific rule of three very well.

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      I have quite a few people of the same age in mind that I’d much rather have seen dragged to hell - not that I am too bothered with Hogan

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        I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun, darlin’ only the good die young.

        (Which, if no one’s noticed, is about a guy trying to get in the pants of a Catholic school girl.)

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      Dude pulled nearly $200,000,000 for charity giving his last concert. If he deserves to be hell, Hogan should be elsewhere.

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    19 days ago

    if you didn’t before, now you know why he was campaigning for mango mussolini

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    I guess we’re all a little racist.

    Cope. Racists simply can’t imagine that being a hateful bigot makes them a bad person- so they HAVE to pretend that everyone feels that way but we just keep it quiet.

    I had a co-worker who insisted he wasn’t racist, but he did hate ‘Sand-Nwords’. He said “Everybody hates one group or another”. He refused to believe that I hate literally no one in the world because of their race.

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      Yeah, this is straight up “I have a black friend” and citing the wealthy basketball payer as worthy is “You’re one of the good ones.”

      Bet if questioned publicly he’d have said he’s not racist.

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        He tried to walk it back after facing the consequences- who knows if it was genuine or an attempt to salvage his reputation.

        “Eight years ago I used offensive language during a conversation. It was unacceptable for me to have used that offensive language; there is no excuse for it; and I apologize for having done it. This is not who I am. I believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should not be treated differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious beliefs or otherwise. I am disappointed with myself that I used language that is offensive and inconsistent with my own beliefs.”

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          Isn’t it so crazy how these people talking casually among their friends is never “who they are” but them walking it back via a publicist because it hurt them is who they actually are?

          Just sooo crazy! And the one and only time they’re talking like “someone they’re not” someone happens to be recording it and it’s bad for their career! The world sure is a crazy place

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            Yeah weird that. The only reason I gave him the slightest benefit of the doubt was because it had been 8 years and people can change a lot in that amount of time. They usually don’t, but it’s possible. I guess a generic publicist written apology is better than doubling down on your ignorance, but I’m almost certain it was simply to protect ‘the brand’.

            It’s kind of fitting in a way that he turned out to be a chud. I was never huge into wrestling, but there was a couple of years there between 4 and 6th grade that I would watch it, Hulk was my favorite because he had a positive message and seemed to be a decent guy. His theme song “I am a real American, fight for the rights of every man” resonated with me because I was young enough and ignorant enough to believe in ‘America’ and that it was founded on everyone being equal. As I got better informed and saw that this country was built upon White Men being equal, and everyone else is treated as a subhuman- I realized that the American Dream was a lie and this country was built upon white supremacy, slavery, and genocide. So to find out ol dude was ‘A real American’ after all is just icing on the ironic cake.

            Never look up to anyone. Be your own hero.

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              it had been 8 years and people can change a lot in that amount of time. They usually don’t, but it’s possible

              If you don’t change after 8 years, there’s something wrong with you. That’s literally long enough to replace most of the cells and atoms in your body, you shouldn’t LITERALLY be the same person on a molecular level.

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                And yet very often people will replace all the atoms and most of the cells in their bodies, and still hold on to ignorant, hateful thinking.

                If only it were a matter of waiting long enough the world would be a paradise by now.

                The brain is like a muscle, you have to use it for it to grow. Unfortunately there’s no steroids you can take as a shortcut, you have to put in the work. 💪 🧠

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                  I can’t imagine not using your brain for 8 yea… remembers there are people who voted for Trump the first time, saw his term, and proceeded to vote for him again despite how Trump handled Covid and how we had to get rid of him to end it.

                  Okay you got me

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        Seems like it would be for anyone brown tbh. Y’no, cause racists think all brown people lve in the desert.

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        This was a derogatory term for middle easterners that cropped up (to my awareness, anyway, and I don’t care to go searching around to fact check myself on this point) in the xenophobia following 9/11.

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        You’re going to have to research that on your own. I didn’t ask for clarification and I don’t care to know what he meant tbh.