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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 30, 2024 10:00:49 GMT -5
Where are these people here? (please don’t say Twitter) I think pinning the weight of Eric Bischoff dislike on AEW criticism is white knighting with extra steps, frankly. Dude's done enough things that have had him be disliked for so long that pretending they don't exist is just scrubbing him clean as a side effect. Who are the people that are “so upset and deranged” by Tony Khan’s existence?
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Mar 30, 2024 10:03:54 GMT -5
I think pinning the weight of Eric Bischoff dislike on AEW criticism is white knighting with extra steps, frankly. Dude's done enough things that have had him be disliked for so long that pretending they don't exist is just scrubbing him clean as a side effect. Who are the people that are “so upset and deranged” by Tony Khan’s existence? I'm not naming names and plunging this thread into ten years of darkness, but welcome to the AEW board there's a lot of different types of guy here. I was just pointing otu that there is absolutely white knighting behavior for Bischoff going on in here right now and not twitter, and not all horses need to be led to water.
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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 30, 2024 10:05:39 GMT -5
Who are the people that are “so upset and deranged” by Tony Khan’s existence? I'm not naming names and plunging this thread into ten years of darkness, but welcome to the AEW board there's a lot of different types of guy here. I was just pointing otu that there is absolutely white knighting behavior for Bischoff going on in here right now and not twitter, and not all horses need to be led to water. I honestly don’t think those people exist on this board outside of maybe one or two random posters that don’t post a lot. Certainly not enough for the arguments against them to not come off as virtual strawmanning.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Mar 30, 2024 10:10:57 GMT -5
I'm not naming names and plunging this thread into ten years of darkness, but welcome to the AEW board there's a lot of different types of guy here. I was just pointing otu that there is absolutely white knighting behavior for Bischoff going on in here right now and not twitter, and not all horses need to be led to water. I honestly don’t think those people exist on this board outside of maybe one or two random posters that don’t post a lot. Certainly not enough for the arguments against them to not come off as virtual strawmanning. The post claiming that's the source of Bischoff hate has two likes and then one agreeing reply and that's at least four people. Like there's an observable behavior with maybe niche support, but it's still actually a thing happening. If one person posts some rancid-ass shit in a thread the thread still stinks. I'm grateful that a lot of the most insane people have generally removed themselves or been removed from the forum but the entire history of this section is littered with people who get so insane about Tony Khan that when Swole accused him of smoking her weed and then stabbing her in the back the OP kept trying to drag it back to how Tony was doing weed crimes. It's not strawmanning when the people are in the room with us, and threads about Tony's twitter bring out an energy.
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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 30, 2024 10:23:44 GMT -5
I honestly don’t think those people exist on this board outside of maybe one or two random posters that don’t post a lot. Certainly not enough for the arguments against them to not come off as virtual strawmanning. The post claiming that's the source of Bischoff hate has two likes and then one agreeing reply and that's at least four people. Like there's an observable behavior with maybe niche support, but it's still actually a thing happening. If one person posts some rancid-ass shit in a thread the thread still stinks. I'm grateful that a lot of the most insane people have generally removed themselves or been removed from the forum but the entire history of this section is littered with people who get so insane about Tony Khan that when Swole accused him of smoking her weed and then stabbing her in the back the OP kept trying to drag it back to how Tony was doing weed crimes. It's not strawmanning when the people are in the room with us, and threads about Tony's twitter bring out an energy. I mean if you’re talking about the post I’m thinking of, it’s a short one-liner with not much traction and there’s already people before that post writing about how the deranged posters are out in this thread. I guess it’s just that one poster that really gets under my skin, as he writes the same things here and on the Meltzer boards about how “deranged” people posting criticism of AEW are.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Mar 30, 2024 10:39:19 GMT -5
it's funny how all threads end up going the same way thanks to the same posters
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Post by polarbearpete on Mar 30, 2024 11:02:45 GMT -5
it's funny how all threads end up going the same way thanks to the same posters Yeah I think I’ll just bow out of these threads now, so I can stop wondering if the passive aggressive veiled shots at posters are about me or not.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Mar 30, 2024 11:57:46 GMT -5
eric bischoff is as close to a real example of a dracula that we have on earth right now
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Mar 30, 2024 12:20:23 GMT -5
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Mar 30, 2024 12:46:35 GMT -5
My advice for Tony and everyone else when this inevitably happens again
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Mar 30, 2024 18:41:20 GMT -5
My actions in Bischoff threads have everything to do with the little opinion I think of a guy who had the world as his oyster and through hubris and stupidity led us into 20 years of McMahonoply of pro wrestling, yet still has the balls to have two podcasts based on his success, which should be making billions off a TKO deal, but instead is running the anti-AEW, anti-Meltzer gimmick to get dummies to buy t-shirts such so he has something to tell bankruptcy court.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 31, 2024 8:06:55 GMT -5
I do definitely find TK cringy and annoying and he strikes me as a real asshole, but I take a lot more umbrage with having people like Flair and Hager and Lethal and Ospreay around than I do him saying stupid shit on Twitter, even if a lot of his Twitter stuff is indeed quite stupid. And it's not like WWE's any better on that even ignoring the Vince stuff when you've got McDonagh and Valhalla on the show every week and Gallus hanging around. How does Tony Khan come off like an asshole specifically? You’re aren’t just mistrusting the guy because he’s got a billion dollar account, are you?
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Post by lucas_lee on Mar 31, 2024 9:01:36 GMT -5
I do definitely find TK cringy and annoying and he strikes me as a real asshole, but I take a lot more umbrage with having people like Flair and Hager and Lethal and Ospreay around than I do him saying stupid shit on Twitter, even if a lot of his Twitter stuff is indeed quite stupid. And it's not like WWE's any better on that even ignoring the Vince stuff when you've got McDonagh and Valhalla on the show every week and Gallus hanging around. How does Tony Khan come off like an asshole specifically? You’re aren’t just mistrusting the guy because he’s got a billion dollar account, are you? For me, I knew of TK before he did AEW and he was a laughing stock for the Jags and Fulham. He'd get into Twitter spats with fans and players. At some point if everyone around you is an asshole, maybe you're the problem. I think he found his niche with AEW but glimpses of old TK comes out when he has Twitter fingers.
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Post by The Ichi on Mar 31, 2024 9:12:02 GMT -5
Said it before and I'll say it again. Tony isn't perfect, but these days a Billionaire just being "not perfect" is some Mister Rogers shit.
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Mar 31, 2024 10:01:00 GMT -5
His actions at Fulham are exactly why he’s more toned down for AEW. I remember him there too. He’s not that right now, despite his issues with Rossy and podcasters.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Mar 31, 2024 10:37:26 GMT -5
Tony Khan is the most poster a wrestler promoter has ever been and we should be embracing that
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Post by Kalmia on Mar 31, 2024 10:48:26 GMT -5
Khan is just a shit poster with a few billion in the bank. And he's not even the worst type of shit poster either, as he stays away from being racist/sexist/homophobic etc. He's really annoying and I wish he'd shut up but in the grand scheme of shitty wrestling promoters, he doesn't even rank.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Mar 31, 2024 20:11:50 GMT -5
Khan is just a shit poster with a few billion in the bank. And he's not even the worst type of shit poster either, as he stays away from being racist/sexist/homophobic etc. He's really annoying and I wish he'd shut up but in the grand scheme of shitty wrestling promoters, he doesn't even rank.
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Mar 31, 2024 20:39:11 GMT -5
They are probably the two "nicest" major promoters by default now Vince's skeletons are dancing out of the closet, once he retires from the Wiseman character Heyman's thieving antics at ECW will be scrutinized more, and Dixie Carter's pisspoor treatment of injured wrestlers sully her "Aww shucks!" in over her head persona.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Apr 1, 2024 12:03:27 GMT -5
Since I made a fairly snide comment let me attempt to get the thread back on the right track.
It is absolutely fine to dunk on Tony for poor tweets, it is fine to defend him. We probably have to accept that this specific case there's a lot of built up bad blood
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