I think it’s important to point out that there may be a language issue here. What Embiid might not realize is that traditionally, in English, you are supposed to lie about the Referees. 

Dog!

Yeah, this feels like a real half-measure. Not the least of which being that the few times I logged into RDRO the player blips being visible were useful because I could use them to avoid other people. 

I feel like there are two questions there. One is whether or not she’s wrong and the other is whether or not she said anything anti-semitic.

I do disagree with some elements of that, a lot of the wealth in Connecticut comes from parts of the state that are effectively suburbs of NYC and as I mentioned before their “market” existed prior to the Whalers existing which means that a lot of their fanbase is inclined towards the Bruins or Rangers(which really…

I can’t wait for Markelle Fultz’s Virtual Boy ones. 

Ok, so let’s go back to the beginning. I think it is wrong and misguided and occasionally bordering on anti-semitic to “blame” AIPAC for American policy in the Middle East, whether in regards to Israel or not. This doesn’t “absolve” them of their actions, which as I’ve said deserve criticism as I think their vision of…

Again, I’m really struggling with how “AIPAC deserves criticism” is being read by you as somehow not “blaming” them. I think they’re deeply self-interested and I don’t think their aims are for a just peace in the Middle East but they’re a symptom, not a cause here. 

Well, you saw in my original post where I still said AIPAC deserves criticism, right?

Yeah, again, the comparison that I’d make to the NRA here is that the influence the NRA has isn’t about the money they spend. If it were, I think progressives could easily raise enough money to counteract them.

Luckily after these two incidents the Panthers instituted safety policies that ensured that stray pucks would only ever hit empty seats.

Yeah,I think it can be effective for building personal brands which can be a good thing if the politician seems to be a generally good one but the idea that important policy is effectively communicated is horseshit.

That’s taken from the Official Labour Party Statement on Jews, right? 

Corbin gets it for “criticism” or for inviting people who repeat the Blood Libel to parliament? Or defending blatantly anti-semitic artwork? Or, at the very least, palling around with the kind of people who lay wreaths for the Munich terrorists?

It’s almost as if political twitter is actually really fucking stupid. 

Because I have no patience for Americans who would rather blame their country’s own shitty behaviour on a pack of shadowy and nefarious Jews?

I think they’ve got a point. There really was a market gap in my life for a guy who so successfully represented a basketball brand that amounted to “Oversensitive Frontrunning Dipshit”.

I actually think blaming AIPAC for a lot of this is horseshit. It passes the buck from the messianic warmongering Republicans who would look at the Middle Eastern oilfields as America’s god-given ATM regardless of Israel’s existence to a relatively small lobbying group of dickwads.

It actually does change the answer to my question because regardless of what Cole did that you think justifies the instigator, the question isn’t about that. I think it’s pretty plain that I’m referring to any situation where there’s a clear instigator in a fight rather than this specific one and the question is about…

I still think a player in Cole’s position should actually defend himself rather than just hoping a ref will do it for him. You can say Turtle and hope a ref is right there to step in but we saw with Bertuzzi that even one undefended punch can do lifelong damage.