If this isn’t SF in 2019, I don’t know what is. 

....Ok I’m lost here. How does calling LeBron James an uncle tom justify throwing someone out of a bar?

Translation: I’m black and only care about my tribe.

The problem with lebron isn’t that he didn’t want to be stuck with a mess he didn’t make. It’s that he still insisted on painting himself as the smart hero (or victim, depending whichever whims he decides to cater to at any given moment). As you said, he could’ve just stayed out of it, but he had to get a word in…

And it’s definitely not just from the basketball side of things, either. He is a producer now, and is about to star in a rather large sequel that will have massive international appeal. We have seen for decades how Hollywood bends over backwards for the Chinese dollar. Now that LeBron is a part of that world in…

Yeah, I really don't expect your average (or goat) basketball player to be able to say anything intelligent about China. But it is pretty fucking obvious the NBA is ignoring human rights violations because they have dollar signs in their eyes. Pretty fucking simple. 

LeBron showed his true colors: Green. And not with envy. He knows that this could affect his bottom line in ways that his speaking on social issues at home would not.

Large groups of people don’t take to to the streets unless they have no other option. My rule is: If the protesters are peaceful, and the government or other overlord responds with force and violence, SIDE. WITH. THE. FUCKING. PROTESTERS.

It goes even further than that. The words “territorial integrity” and “sovereignty” are not only code for dominion over Hong Kong, but Taiwan as well. The Tsai statement supports that code. Likewise, the NBA statement also included Taipei in the list of Chinese cities where the league does business, a subtle nod to…

His company Alibaba could be shut down in minutes if he came out in support of HK. He’s not stupid. Morally bankrupt, but not stupid.

If China had a big boy internet, maybe they could look up the Streisand Effect. Throwing a massive temper tantrum whenever anyone notable in the NBA mentions Hong Kong is the absolute surest way to get other NBA notables to bring up Hong Kong in the future when they otherwise wouldn’t bother to, especially if China is…

Complicated is short-hand for money on one side and morals on the other.

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To be fair....its much more attractive than the Model 3.

he was talking about only American politics, not global politics...

Nope, he was totally normal, typical grandpa sort of guy. Of course hindsight being perfect, my husband realized that the first step he took with our son was something he’d done with my husband also: Showing him porn (my husband, to be fair, was 15-ish I think, and it was justified as a form of giving him “the talk”).

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There’s a very simple reason why McQueary didn’t go to the cops right away: sometimes when we see things that go against our pre-existing beliefs, our brains work their asses off to come up with reasoning. McQueary respected Sandusky as a football coach and seeing him rape a child was outside of what he expected. So…

Finally a gymnast that Nassar won’t molest.

Fitzy would have been in his late teens when AOL started hitting its peak, so I can totally see him still keeping that email address account around because he didn’t want to transfer all his contacts to Juno or something.

Saban’s humorless hyper-competence follows in the footsteps of Bear Bryant as modern day versions of the generals that Alabama didn’t have during the Civil War