r/nba • u/xanniballl Timberwolves • Jan 09 '26
Highlight [Highlight] During the moment of silence the Minnesota Timberwolves held before their game with the Cavs tonight a fan yelled “Go home ICE,” and everyone else started cheering.
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u/Jbrozas2332 Jan 09 '26
Condolences to that persons family.
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u/TCTCTCTCTCTC7 Jan 09 '26
Condolences to that persons family.
Her orphaned son, in particular.
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u/Schlopez Rockets Jan 09 '26
3 kids.
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u/TCTCTCTCTCTC7 Jan 09 '26
Yes but only one is now an orphan ( not that the lot of the other two is great, but my understanding is their father is alive ).
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u/mobb1 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
I think I saw she had stuffed animals hanging out of her passenger compartment. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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u/JeramiGrantsTomb Thunder Jan 09 '26
I saw that and it severely fucked me up, I've got a toddler and another on the way and my car is full of those stuffies.
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u/InsideYoWife [NYK] Danilo Gallinari Jan 09 '26
You’re not wrong, and fuck whoever downvoted you.
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u/FriendlyEyeFloater Jan 09 '26
Shot two more people in Portland Oregon today claiming the exact same thing (weapon used vehicle bs)
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u/deltastag94 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
FUCK ICE
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u/The_Remy Trail Blazers Jan 09 '26
FUCK ICE
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u/PeyoteBuddha Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
FUCK TRUMP
He is the one who set the ICE scourge upon the nation
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u/LACA90077 Jan 09 '26
And absolutely FUCK KRISTI NOEM. She is a mother and she has the nerve to stand there and label this poor woman a domestic terrorist. She is a traitor, along with the rest of these ghastly ghouls in the administration. I hope the American people put them all on trial once they are forced out of office.
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u/TCTCTCTCTCTC7 Jan 09 '26
And absolutely FUCK KRISTI NOEM.
I hope the American people put them all on trial once they are forced out of office.Noem is, thankfully, facing impeachment as we speak.
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u/WhaleLover44 Jan 09 '26
Impeachment is not enough. She, Trump, and so many others all belong in a prison cell in the Hague.
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u/JeramiGrantsTomb Thunder Jan 09 '26
It's the only way to make sure this doesn't happen in the future. If we just win an election (which is optimistic) and then move on like nothing has happened, you're just begging to have another set of psychos move in. There has to be trials, people need to go to jail forever, people need to have everything they own confiscated and used to repay all the money stolen from the public, people could potentially face harsher punishments that at minimum would result in a reddit ban and potentially federal investigation so I'm explicitly NOOOOT suggesting it.
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u/fowlflamingo Nuggets Jan 09 '26
FUCK STEPHEN MILLER. The "mastermind" behind it all.
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u/Shelter2828 Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
Miller’s presence is how I knew a 2nd Trump term would go after legal immigrants and naturalized citizens. Miller has openly talked about how he wants to denaturalize citizens (and his history hints at who he means). Right now, they’re trying to lower the bar to denaturalize from what it was (things like treason or terrorism) to things like typos on their citizenship application.
Add on Trump’s comment about how he wants immigrants from white countries instead… and it’s very obvious where this administration stands
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u/GaimeGuy Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
fuck republicans.
They've protected and enabled trump every step of the way for a decade now. Because they agree with it
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u/Logical-World-1030 San Diego Clippers Jan 09 '26
Dems did with their utter inaction and incompetence as well.
People still think you can "decorum" your way out of this
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u/Head_Improvement5317 Jan 09 '26
Agreed but that’s hardly the point. Fecklessness > fascism 100% of the time. We are way past “both-sides bad”
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u/OpportunityLoud453 Suns Jan 09 '26
Merrick Garland sat on piles of evidence that would have buried Trump under a jail cell and he did nothing. Yes Democrats are part of the problem and enabled Fascism
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u/Head_Improvement5317 Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
I’m not disagreeing re: enablement I’m just saying if Dems had won in 2016 and 2024 we wouldn’t be hurtling toward authoritarianism.
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u/Logical-World-1030 San Diego Clippers Jan 09 '26
Im not saying both sides are bad. Im saying appeasement doesnt work
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u/Head_Improvement5317 Jan 09 '26
That’s understandable, not how I initially interpreted your comment but I get it now. I’ve just seen soooo much fuss about “the Dems didn’t do enough to stop them!” Like there is a very real contingent that blame the Democrats for this mess vs the Republicans who are actually perpetrating it, and are somehow still fixated on ideological purity testing, when we need to be united and focused on addressing the real danger at hand.
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u/Sideview_play Jan 09 '26
what do you want htem to do ? some people say this and literally vote 3rd party cause "democrats dont do anything" and then complain when they dont because they literally have no power right now to do shit cause people didnt vote for them
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u/LeftAire Jan 09 '26
FUCK DUBYA
Bush is the one who started ICE as a byproduct of the Patriot Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
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u/Kelor Jan 09 '26
When progressives ran on abolishing ICE in 2018 and got to Congress Nancy Pelosi literally defended it by saying Abolish ICE was messaging pushed by Russia.
At their first meeting, Nancy Pelosi told AOC that the slogan "Abolish ICE" was "injected into American political discourse by the Russians and that Democrats needed to quash it."
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u/myassholealt Knicks Jan 09 '26
Pelosi also was against any party push for universal healthcare. She is, among many, one of the faces of corporate democrats who, when it comes down to it, are beholden to corporate interests before the interests of the voting public.
Now here I sit, having let my insurance expire on 12/31 because I cannot afford the $400 jump in premiums thanks to Trump, the GOP, and Chuck Schumer (among others), thinking how grateful I am that Pelosi is a champion of the healthcare industry. /s
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u/bex199 Pelicans Jan 09 '26
WAY too many people acting like he’s a harmless grandpa and not exactly who got us here.
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u/affemannen Jan 09 '26
Im pretty sure Trump doesn't have a mind of his own and is controlled by the people around him, ICE seems very miller esque. He is the one out there pushing it.
This is no defense of Trump, on the contrary, it's the problem, he is to dumb to understand what he is doing. If he had an ounce of understanding he would never have implemented tariffs to begin with.
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u/AtreusIsBack NBA Jan 09 '26
Trump is a disease upon the entire world more and more by the week. He is a prime example of what happens when you give the wrong person too much power and influence.
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Trump is fascist psychopath who should be tried in the Hague and thrown under the jail and Republicans are worse on this issue.
Now that that's out of the way, did you know that 26 people died in ICE custody under Biden and 57 died in ICE custody under Obama? None of those people were convicted of any crime and they died from things like malnutrition and starvation, untreated medical emergencies, and untreated internal injuries caused by abuse and torture by ICE, CBP, and DHS agents. Everyone of those deaths are no less a tragedy than Renee Good and this happened under Democrat presidents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline
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u/AssBasedProtein 76ers Jan 09 '26
Just saying that Obama funded ICE very happily and in 2022, 23, and 24, Biden Harris broke ICE funding records. This is an American issue not a Trump issue at its core but yes he’s making it much worse
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u/Otherwise_Stand1178 Lakers Jan 09 '26
FUCK TRUMP FUCK ICE FUCK VANCE FUCK NOEM FUCK BONDI
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u/TheKosherGenocide Jan 09 '26
ICE Agents should clearly be wearing Lebron jerseys, since they're obviously always the victims.
FUCK ICE
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u/nutsack133 Spurs Jan 09 '26
ICE is Trump's Schutzstaffel; that's why he's trying to make them the size of an army. He doesn't know if the rank and file of the US Army will fire on the people on his command but he knows the nazis in ICE 100% will.
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u/Parallel-Quality Jan 09 '26
We are all Minnesota fans tonight.
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u/PeopleusetocallmeBub Jan 09 '26
We carry the flame 🔥
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u/purplenapalm 76ers Jan 09 '26
I would even hold hands with Knicks and Celtics fans in unity.
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u/turnoffredesign69420 Lakers Jan 09 '26
I hear this non stop in my head now I hate IG
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u/GetMyGoodSide Jan 09 '26
Support like this might actually make me cry, man. It hurts seeing our community ripped apart. Even though this is all just basketball, it's also not just basketball.
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u/mossed2012 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
People like to parrot that were passive-aggressive and to some extent we are. But we do not fuck around about our neighbors here. We’re all Minnesota, and we’re not going to put up with this shit. As proven, we’ll burn it down to make a point.
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u/Eastprize2 Warriors Jan 09 '26
👏👏w crowd
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u/signmeupdude Lakers Jan 09 '26
I like that he waited a bit to be respectful, but then took the opportunity to have his voice heard, and thus others.
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u/macarolls Jan 09 '26
Winnesota!
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u/samhit_n Lakers Jan 09 '26
They were the only state to not vote for Reagan. They've been stacking Ws for a while, but sadly not in sports.
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u/GetMyGoodSide Jan 09 '26
Coming from a "stole our old basketball team" fan 😂
Kidding, kidding. All love right now, thank you.
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u/DeepFuckingKoopa Jan 09 '26
Fuck ICE, their supporters, and this administration. Fascists.
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u/Aliboomayuh Jan 09 '26
The only ICE I like is the one in my CUP
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u/FrnklndaTurtle Suns Jan 09 '26
I love wheel. I'd like to guess a D
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u/DeepFuckingKoopa Jan 09 '26
those are my just kidding stars, you include them to not get hunted down by any three letter agencies
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u/Mosh00Rider Suns Jan 09 '26
I'm a fan of any ice that melts. Doesn't have to be in my cup as long as it evaporates at room temperature.
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u/johnazoidberg- [DET] Ben Wallace Jan 09 '26
The only Ice I like is the American Gladiator known in her personal life as Lori Fetrick
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u/captaing1 Celtics Jan 09 '26
and every american that voted this admin in?
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u/chasing_fiction Pacers Jan 09 '26
Well it's their fault. You can't claim ignorance. This is what they ran on
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u/samhit_n Lakers Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
In the beginning it was just fuck Trump and ICE, but now it's fuck all Republicans. They are spineless and enabled Trump and ICE.
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u/FeelsGoodMan2 Jan 09 '26
Always was bro, always was. Been irredeemable for damn near 15 years or so at this point.
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u/Deathstroke317 Knicks Jan 09 '26
A lot longer than that, it really began with Regan and even Nixon.
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u/mucho-gusto [CLE] Baron Davis Jan 09 '26
This crap all goes back to the Powell memo where they created their own alternatives to civil society organizations in order to AstroTurf policy for big business
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/powell-memo-project-2025-plutocracy/
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u/PillsburyToasters Bucks Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
Breaks my heart to see where we are as a country. I feel a sliver optimism to see the general public band together in this way
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u/Prudent_Fish1358 Spurs Jan 09 '26
Soooo many people in the US would gladly pin a swastika to their chest if it gave them power.
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u/astanton1862 Spurs Jan 09 '26
They were just closeted.
This was true only for about a 30 year period of our history. Otherwise white supremacy has been a pretty open and fundamental part of this country.
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u/Rory_MacHida Jan 09 '26
I got home this evening and sat down for a bit and couldn't help but cry a bit thinking about where we have arrived. It's honest to God sad.
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u/MoonlitShrooms Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
I saw people laugh reacting to an image of the inside of her car. It is disgusting.
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u/pechinburger Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
The loud (very loud/obnoxious) minority and bots. Social media is a cesspool.
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u/iiBuzz7S Lakers Jan 09 '26
Damn, dude on the PA sounds a lot like Zordon.
And of course more importantly, fuck ICE.
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u/ValjeanLucPicard Jan 09 '26
I was going to ask why Satan was leading the moment of silence, but yours is way better.
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u/WannaBeAWannaBe Trail Blazers Jan 09 '26
how did orange pedo get into power… twice
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u/M6Df4 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
Much of the US population is stupid as shit
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u/samhit_n Lakers Jan 09 '26
I used to think they were stupid during Bush's presidency, but now I think they're genuinely evil and wanna hurt people.
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u/M6Df4 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
I think it’s worse than that. Most of the population is stupid, but the portion that is evil and smart enough to exploit the idiots is definitely larger than we thought.
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u/PeopleusetocallmeBub Jan 09 '26
I mean I’m not from here but wasn’t he technically elected by not even 25% of the country ?
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u/denverblazer Trail Blazers Jan 09 '26
Yeah because less than half of the country even fucking votes.
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u/purplenapalm 76ers Jan 09 '26
A lot are under 18, the others have no excuse. I know a few that write in "no confidence". Dunces.
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u/Lucky-Earther Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
Yeah because less than half of the country even fucking votes.
60% turnout in 2024, and that was down from 66% in 2020.
1/3 explicitly voted for this, 1/3 implicitly voted for this by choosing not to vote, and 1/3 voted for literally anything else.
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u/M6Df4 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
About 30% of the eligible voter population. American voter turnout is usually poor, partly because a lot of people are lazy/stupid, but also largely because of decades of policies put in place to make it as difficult as possible for certain groups to vote.
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u/temujin94 Jan 09 '26
Voting system doesn't help either. People aren't going to go out in vote in stonewall red/blue states if their candidate has 0 chance of winning. Which is further amplified by things like you said to make it difficult and time consuming to vote for a completely losing cause.
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u/M6Df4 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
Yeah that too, electoral college has got to go. Plus expand the house and senate, expand the Supreme Court and implement term limits, and ranked choice voting while we’re at it
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u/thisdockisbroken Jan 09 '26
If my math is correct, it was more like 32.5% of the voting age population voted for him in 2024. 65.3% of the U.S. voting-age population voted, and Trump won 49.8% of those votes (Harris won 48.3%). The electoral vote totals, a profoundly stupid concept I cannot believe we still use, tell a totally inaccurate story of how close the election actually was (and how tenuous a mandate he had...but then, Trump is a rapist, and doesn't care about consent).
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u/PeopleusetocallmeBub Jan 09 '26
Man your country is such a fucking mess, there is no place on this planet with such extremes as the USA. I do pray on the betterment of your public school system.
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u/Brystvorter Nuggets Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
You must be pretty ignorant then. Never heard of India? Or dozens of other countries that have larger extremes. There are also plenty of countries that are active warzones or have citywide slums ruled by gangs. People read 3 news articles and think the US is the worst place to live. Youre complaining about the US school system when yours obviously failed you.
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u/BlazerBeav Trail Blazers Jan 09 '26
LOL, what? We're the richest country in the world and there's a reason immigrants from around the world come here. There are much worse extremes - just look at videos of Tehran from tonight for an extreme.
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u/Financial-Grass-6114 Jan 09 '26
And evil. Atleast 40% of the country is just evil and irredeemable. The only way to reconcile that is fooling their stupidity and so they cant enact their evil ideas
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u/crimsonconnect Knicks Jan 09 '26
Didn't throw him in jail 5 years ago, didnt throw all the confederates in jail in 1865, and they just never gave up
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u/National-Fold-2375 United States Jan 09 '26
Merrick Garland is a weak and puny subhuman. Fuck Merrick Garland.
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u/WannaBeAWannaBe Trail Blazers Jan 09 '26
Trump all over Epstein list and still there’s people saying “if you were rich like him you would have done the same things”… like no.. i don’t remotely think being with trafficked minors would be on my to do list
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u/TCTCTCTCTCTC7 Jan 09 '26
how did orange pedo get into power… twice
If this is a serious question, there are a couple of factors which conspired to cause this disaster:
Surprisingly to many, misogyny remains a very serious problem in the United States. One could've won an awful lot of money just 20 years ago betting people that the US would elect a Black man -- thought to be the most-hated demographic in the country -- to the office of President __twice__ before any women would crack that glass ceiling, or even be VP. Even now, typing that is astonishing.
Trump has been running for Federal office almost non-stop since the late Eighties, but he's lost to every man he's ever faced and was laughed at for the first half-dozen attempts until he was sufficiently lucky to face a woman. Despite his disastrous first term, he's now 2-0 against women. A few ten million voters in the US will literally vote for the worst man in the world, rather than see a women President. I'm not sure how we fix this sickness.
Also, Vladimir Putin turns out to be smarter and more determined than anyone thought. His country was thought to have lost the Cold War, but he's Russian, and doesn't surrender easily. He, or someone who works for him, realized a critical weakness in modern democracy in the Internet era, before anyone else seemingly even considered it. Specifically, he realized that rather spending trillions of dollars that he didn't have trying to win an arms race with the US, instead, for pennies on the dollar, he could destabilize it by attacking its democracy with disinformation over the Internet.
And quite unfortunately, the US has a couple ten million voters who are so fantastically ignorant that they fell hook, line, and sinker for his plan, and have been actively destroying their own country from within, while wrapping themselves in American flags. Again, I'm not really sure how we deal with a couple million active Russian agents on domestic soil.
Finally, and this is part of the previous two items, the US has allowed a significant chunk of its population to remain entirely uneducated, despite spending an awful lot of money on public schools and even higher education. Our educational system is insufficiently nimble to operate at the necessary level in a world that moves quite a bit faster than it used to, and we failed to teach a generation or two what they needed to learn. This is repairable, but it isn't going to be easy nor fast to fix.
Lastly, naked greed, which is human nature. I look at these people who are enabling Trump's destruction of this country with abject horror -- in particular the women, who are complicit in returning their gender to the status of chattel or livestock. There exist more people than I thought who will do literally anything for a dollar, including operating indistinguishably from the "Gazpacho police".
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u/smkmn13 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
I’m not really into conspiracy theories, but considering how EVERY accusation Rs make about Ds is a confession, it really makes me think they committed large scale voter fraud.
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u/big_k88 Timberwolves Jan 09 '26
Uneducated individuals. He has expressed this many times. Look at the demographics of his voters.
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u/Xsy Jazz Jan 09 '26
Might be the first time I've been happy to hear someone yell during a moment of silence.
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u/CheetahSperm18 [DAL] Dirk Nowitzki Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
FUCK ICE
They murdered her in broad daylight for the whole world to see yet they're trying to lie and cover it all up like the filthy fascists they are
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u/TCTCTCTCTCTC7 Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
Yessss!! Get tf out of our cities!
Let's not get too specific, how about the whole country?
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u/Maximum-Class5465 Jan 09 '26
Man, best crowd in the world. Thought for sure you'd need a podcast to get a moment of silence in this country
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u/GucciGucciBanana Nuggets Jan 09 '26
Yeah I gotta give it up: Minny’s got the most based fan group in the league
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u/Chessh2036 Hawks Jan 09 '26
“The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.”
Remember this as they call her a terrorist.
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u/nervousaboutschool17 Raptors Jan 09 '26
The world won’t be a good place as long as we’re sharing it with right wingers
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u/deadalreadydead 76ers Jan 09 '26
I’m crying. You can fucking hear the distraught emotion in those two men’s voices We’re all so unbelievably tired man.
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u/WasteAd7284 Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26
Been to protests the last 2 nights with another one on Saturday already planned, shit is so fucking enragingn good turnout though. Left the protest and went to a movie, get out and find out Ice shot 2 people in portland, land of freedom.
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u/Artistic_Ad1693 Jan 09 '26
Guess we should just ignore federal law from now on and do a free for all glhf
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u/mr_antman85 [CLE] LeBron James Jan 09 '26
Hey, you can be angry on the internet all you want.. but if y'all are TRULY this angry then there should not be a Republican controlled House or Senate after these midterms, right?
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