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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Feb 16, 2019 20:45:30 GMT -5
To be fair there's nothing that's fantastical at all about "gay black man is a victim of a hate crime". Its perfectly believable. This particular story did not pass the smell test from the very beginning. I agree. Baldo, you’re obviously a good dude, but you went after me pretty hard for thinking this was bullshit, and it is. Own it.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 16, 2019 20:48:13 GMT -5
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Post by 4TheGlory on Feb 16, 2019 20:49:12 GMT -5
This particular story did not pass the smell test from the very beginning. I agree. Baldo, you’re obviously a good dude, but you went after me pretty hard for thinking this was bullshit, and it is. Own it. How about you take these conversations private. This thread shouldn't be anyone's victory lap for having the "right" opinion. Let's just report and comment on the news as it unfolds and keep it civil.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Feb 16, 2019 20:50:19 GMT -5
I agree. Baldo, you’re obviously a good dude, but you went after me pretty hard for thinking this was bullshit, and it is. Own it. How about you take these conversations private. This thread shouldn't be anyone's victory lap for having the "right" opinion. Let's just report and comment on the news as it unfolds and keep it civil. I mean he even called him a good dude, that’s pretty civil.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Feb 16, 2019 20:54:06 GMT -5
I agree. Baldo, you’re obviously a good dude, but you went after me pretty hard for thinking this was bullshit, and it is. Own it. How about you take these conversations private. This thread shouldn't be anyone's victory lap for having the "right" opinion. Let's just report and comment on the news as it unfolds and keep it civil. No. my initial post in the original thread was 100% respectful, just saying I thought it sounded fishy, and mods deleted it. Then I got attacked pretty relentlessly with “OMG WHY DONT YOU BELIEVE THIS, YOURE STUPID!” even though I’m really far to the other side of the aisle. I don’t want politics here and that wasn’t my motivation, but I was right.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 16, 2019 20:56:04 GMT -5
Guys we ain't doin this. If y'all want to discuss who called out who and all that shit, pm about it
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 20:59:58 GMT -5
I'm not gonna backtrack from what I wrote in the last thread, I will believe victims unless something comes out that proves otherwise. People want to turn this into a "HA! I was right!" situation and I don't think it should be. If this was staged, people should be justifiably angry. I know I will be. Not just in a sense of I was duped, but more so the damage this does to real victims.
We see it all the time with sexual assault cases, there's always those voices who will bring up a time when a case was false. 54 white supremacists apart of a racist gang were arrested recently for hate crimes(among other things), but the attention will be "HOLLYWOOD HATE CRIME HOAX". It's just infuriating and like... Why?
I have the flu right now, so between this and the Corey Graves stuff, I feel like I'm hallucinating this, but it's looking more like reality. I don't really get what this would've accomplished. It's harder to fake a crime than commit one, and with everything being traceable nowadays, it's extremely foolish/arrogant to think you can.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 16, 2019 21:00:59 GMT -5
I said I'd apologize about it if I was wrong in the last thread and I will live up to that if it turns out that it was indeed staged. And also be really pissed at Smollett for faking such a thing.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Feb 16, 2019 21:04:46 GMT -5
I don’t think his show, in the wake of an attack, is likely to acknowledge “oh yeah he was totally gone next season”. seriously. and i get called out like I'm the idiot for posting that may have been what happened here That didn't happen. One poster quoted you that the show came out and denied it. Y'all getting a little dramatic all of a sudden.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Feb 16, 2019 21:09:55 GMT -5
This particular story did not pass the smell test from the very beginning. I agree. Baldo, you’re obviously a good dude, but you went after me pretty hard for thinking this was bullshit, and it is. Own it. As I said I refuse to respond to gloating. And I'm withholding judgment on this until we know more. I'm open to the possibility of this being a hoax now but I'm still waiting until this finished to render judgment. And I stand by my initial assertion that there's b9thing inherently bizarre about how story at all.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Feb 16, 2019 21:11:13 GMT -5
And we're done here.
This topic is not to be reposted on here.
And there's several suspensions on the way.
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