excuse me? I’m not actually interested in actual discourse? On what grounds? Here I am preaching that people communicate more, and actually listen to each other, and not discriminate against each other, and you are dismissing me. I’m trying to actually have a conversation with you, and you are shutting me down.

How…

Are you actually trying to argue that black people as a whole were better off before segregation because some black communities were thriving within their own little circle?

Besides, that doesn’t actually answer my question, my question was about equality. How does thriving black communities equal equality?

You can’t give an example because it HASN’T FUCKING HAPPENED! So STOP creating divides between people. Solve issues by working together, by actually being inclusive, and stop judging people based on their gender, their age, their sexuality, and start treating everyone (and I do mean everyone) with the respect you wish…

TIL anyone who opposes racism is a “White Supremacist”.

Or, you know, the people opposing this truly believe that you cannot successfully fight discrimination with more discrimination.

If you believe you can, show one example where segregating others actually achieved equality in any meaningful way.

Where on earth did I say it was common thing? I said that “there are people that choose”, not that “most poor people choose”. I never said it was common, or presented it as if it were a norm. I simply said these people exist. Don’t put words in my mouth.

As for that logic class, perhaps you’ve heard of a place called a…

Quick question: Do you think it’s luck that Roger Federer always seems to play his best tennis during Grand Slams? Top tier athletes actually train to “peak” at the right time, since performing at a top level is not sustainable for a full year. It’s incredibly common for Olympic athletes to do to try and be at their…

Of course luck exists. “Bounces” can easily change the outcome of any game in any sport that depends on physics. But you’re saying it’s lucky for the top players on your team to be the top players on your team. It’s lucky for a shot from the point to ricochet off four different players, hit off the post, hit the…

... it’s both. But then again, most “spectacular saves” that goalies have to make are a result of fucking up their position previously. Most of the truly great goalies make more “routine looking saves” than others.

Sometimes that 10% that’s covered is the part that they were 90% most likely to shoot at. Many of these “lucky saves” aren’t nearly as lucky as it appears on the surface. Just think about how effective the butterfly is - the main reason it’s as effective as it is is that the vast majority of shots a goaltender faces…

It’s not variance and random chance. Goalies don’t perform at a top level due to “luck”. Ever. This guy is a three time vezina finalist, and three time all-star for pete’s sake. We’re not talking about Mike Hutchinson or some other guy that’s been a career backup carrying his team through the playoffs. We’re talking…

It’s not luck at all. They signed him, and kept him expecting him to play hockey at this level. If he didn’t play at this level in recent years, that was a disappointment, not the opposite.

That’s like saying it’s “lucky” for the Warriors that Steph Curry has become one of the best players in the league. It isn’t,…

Sorry, but nobody wins a 7 game playoff series out of luck. Maybe a game or two, but not four.

But what if it wasn’t a fluke? What if the Portland Trailblazers were close enough in talent that they simply out strategized or out-willed the Warriors, Jazz and Rockets? What if they beat those teams not because they got hot at the right time, but because their players played much better as a team in a way that…

You’re assuming you know how she was wearing it, and that this girl is being honest.

Well it’s not that. The key is not be able to predict who is going to be playing at the very least in the conference championships every year. In the NBA it’s pretty easy to be confident to predict at least 2 of the 4 teams that will make the conference finals every single year. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Let’…

TWO GAME SEVENS? In a playoffs that has had 13 Playoff series completed so far? Stop the fucking presses. Now that’s entertainment! Let’s ignore the fact that the Cavs and Warriors have ONE LOSS BETWEEN THEM IN THE ENTIRE PLAYOFFS.

When the most interesting thing about the NBA playoffs is watching two teams who are…

I mean, just look at that list of champions. A team ranked lower than 3rd seed in either conference has only won the NBA championship twice. Ever. The NBA has never been about parity, and the only way you’ll get more parity is if you cap how much time any one player can spend on the court in any one game. One player…

The Wings are not a Dynasty. The Devils win three cups in 8 years, and made 3 Stanley Cup finals appearances in a 4 year period, and no one considers them a Dynasty, and I’d argue that 4 year period is far closer to a Dynasty than anything the Wings put together during that entire playoff streak.

And who says I have not called CPS? Who says their kids are still under their custody? What does that have to do with anything I said about my anecdote?

Are you literally trying to argue that when you referred to “people who believe conservative premises” that you were not referring to what people commonly refer to as…