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Near Dylan
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: trees]
#26459686 - 01/30/20 06:32 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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Really? You honestly can't think of any examples of famous people who have died that were alleged not good people, but whose loss was felt by the public?
Regardless, if you think Kobe's legacy 'got away scott free' after reading this thread, which mostly consisted of everyone calling him a piece of shit and a rapist and joking about him and his daughter's death, then idk what to tell you.
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I'm drawing a blank on it. You can't think of any either? To say "every musician that ever died". That's a load terrible shit.
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: trees] 2
#26459697 - 01/30/20 06:41 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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trees said: Has anyone else died recently who recieved a lot of praise and grievance despite having a publically known rapey and gluttenous side to their personality? Trying to see some phenomena of reality
I spent 20 minutes reading comments on a Kobe joke on twitter the other day.
Not exactly recently, but the reactions of his fans reminded me of Michael Jackson fans. One joke got a swarm of like 100k people full on raging attack mode, acting like the man was their father and they 100% knew he did no wrong, just like with MJ. Almost cult-like behavior. The comedian that made the "joke" ( it wasnt actually funny) got his show cancelled due to death threats to the club because of his joke.
That's the type of stuff that boggles my mind. People risking prison time to threaten someone's life because they made a joke about the death of someone who was good at basketball, regardless of whether or not he raped a mentally ill teenager Kobe was my favorite player growing up and was the only basketball jersey I ever bought, it sucks that he died but the hero worship stuff I saw on the media and twitter is just hard for me to understand. News media spent more time covering Kobe than the fact that Trump gutted the law that was keeping corporations and agriculture from freely polluting our ever decreasing fresh water supply. Weird stuff
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: feevers]
#26459716 - 01/30/20 07:02 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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@all the media bangers gobbling up the rape accusations  Key word accusations The guy probably bought his wife the ring because he was CHEATING on her either way. He also has more money than god so it’s like buying your girl flowers when you get in the doghouse. A ring doesn’t mean the victim isn’t just a crazy bitch. Did you read what seriously trippin posted? She wore DIRTY PANTIES with MULTIPLE semen samples in her cooch. and was on ANTIPSYCHOTICS. let’s just call it “rapey” when we would look like a fucking idiot otherwise calling someone a “rapist” when tbh you don’t know jack shit of the facts, just another person reading the media. Yes I’m a Kobe fan but for someone who was defending the Middle East as a “fun raving wonderland” it seems like you like to pick and choose who gets the benefit of the doubt.
Also I’m a KOBE fan for life and have yelled Kobe every time I hit a good trash can shot at every job I’ve had for the last 10 years and so if that’s all you got CYA
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: feevers]
#26459719 - 01/30/20 07:06 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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Well of course theyll broadcast Kobes shit over anything else because it generates wayyyyyyyyy more money and profit than reporting the same old Trump shit. The kobe lovers are just the sheep providing the attention needed to power the machine
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: feevers]
#26459720 - 01/30/20 07:06 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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It just how humans act. I’d like to see a brain scan of someone caught up with a celebrity and see if just the sight of them fires off some section of their brain or dumps dopamine. There’s something going on there that’s more than just “I like that person”.
Add to that, it takes effort to have proper, accurate critical thought and a lot of people aren’t up for lifting heavy weights in that regard so it basically amounts to charged up stupidity. There has to be a separation from the signals your body sends off. Somewhere back in the day that “hero worship” served a purpose.
Was OJ guilty or innocent? Look at the spread.
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People also act like athletes are strictly worshipped because they’re celebrities! NOT AT ALL! as someone who has tried my hand at many endeavors the determination and sheer amount of GRUELING hard work any athlete does to become ELITE at their sport makes you and I waking up and putting in an 8 hour day 5 days a week look like HIGH SCHOOL. Change the numbers al you want, a 50 hour work week is still tame compared
Not saying there isn’t retarded sport fans but I respect the HUSTLE and DETERMINATION a lot of these guys got.
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Burke Dennings said: And you’re the edgelord that has to tell everyone you don’t care about a dead guy.
I’m with you about not caring about Kobe- until Sunday I knew nothing about him except that he played basketball. But I’m not so up my own ass that I feel the need to tell his fans that I don’t care. I’ve made three posts in this thread before this, because I found things in it I wanted to converse about. Stopping in just to say “idc about kobe lol” is just stupid. The pub is cluttered up with a ton of non-content these days, absolutely worthless posts that didn’t ever need to be made. Don’t contribute to that, especially just to look like an angsty teen.
I shared my view on the subject and people replied with their view. I'm pretty sure that's how message boards are supposed to work.
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: Bikerfool] 6
#26459767 - 01/30/20 07:43 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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Bikerfool said: You guys are the people that slow way down at a car accident to gawk at the mangled bodies.
Okay so let's assume that's true for a moment. And this thread is us slowing down at a car accident to gawk at the mangled bodies.
So what does that make you?
The guy who slows down at the same car accident to point out that we're the people who slow down at a car accident to gawk at the mangled bodies?
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: Niffla]
#26459820 - 01/30/20 08:34 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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Sorry for being callous everyone. I won't post in the Pub again until my sensitivity re-training is complete.
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: Bikerfool] 2
#26459826 - 01/30/20 08:38 AM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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It’s funny how the same people complaining about the PC police get so touchy when it comes to their sports...
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Burke Dennings said: When Ferris Bueller dies, remember that he killed a couple people in Ireland.
Be careful,that was my most hated meme of all time, people love ferris
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I think that chick "Brandy" did too, and Laura Bush.....
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This was pretty devastating news for me personally. I can't think of any other athlete that embodied dedication, grit, fierceness, and doing whatever it takes to get past obstacles. His reach culturally was definitely bigger than basketball. RIP
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I just watched this doc about the murders Aaron Hernandez committed. I was blown away when the investigator said, "All this evidence kept pointing me towards Aaron Hernandez, but I kept thinking, it can't be him". Then he killed someone else while the investigator wasn't bothering to follow the evidence.
It's a sad truth but being physically superior and having talent at playing a stupid game makes a LOT of people to think someone could never commit a crime like that.
Doctors' statements back up what the women said about Kobe raping her and her injuries weren't consistent with consensual sex. She dropped it after months of being shredded by his attorneys and the media.
So yeah, it's sad for Kobe's kids and family...but I can't be sad about a rapist dying just because he could throw a ball into a hole
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I think it is more to due with that person having so much to lose, and seemingly having so little incentive to take a risk like that.
The doctors said that her vagina had bruising, but bruising considtent with having sex multiple times within a couplel days, which she claimed was not true, but later admitted to after another mans semen and pubic hair was found in her panties. The other wounds were the bruising on her neck, which as I said earlier is pretty typical in rougher forms of sex. Consistent with pinning her from behind and squeezing the sides of her neck, which is typically done sexually rather than from the front, which would actually restrict breathing and would be real 'choking'. Obviously not even mentioning the other suspicious evidence.
The case was debatable, I really am not confident at all to say he was a rapist. There wasnt enough evidence on either side, and imo most of the evidence was not really in her favor. There is enough against Kobe to be suspicious and not to pin him up as a hero, but that being said, there is certainly not enough to pin him as a rapist who didn't deserve to live. That's a pretty big leap to make based upon such a small amount of very questionable evidence from an anonymous source about 17 years ago.
I am very curious to see if she maybe comes out with some sort of statement now after his death. That would be interesting to see.
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Why are you still defending a rapist?
Kobe Bryant was a piece of shit, if you want to believe otherwise, that’s your problem.
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Re: KOBE BRYANT DIED! [Re: lowbrow] 2
#26460157 - 01/30/20 12:23 PM (4 years, 18 days ago) |
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People seem to think even though there was this one incident that is known (who knows what else, if anything) and the fact he was an inspiration to them as a kid (media forced it, friends, family, peers, etc...push "pro sports" and how they are so good for people to learn how to be on a team and other BS ad nauseum) that there is no possible way he could have ever done anything bad or wrong. The hero worship of pro sports figures in particular is really strange, weird, and disgusting to me. It's all just a show/distraction from reality.
It's like roman times and the gladiator shows etc...to me. I would even say it's like pitbull dog fighting. Cap all this money off they get, then see who loves to play. I am not speaking ill of the dead, but that whole fucking pro sports BS is sickening beyond belief. If it helped ANY of you people in some way, great! I do not have to condone it, nor do I have to shut up about it in a thread that is mainly about a pro sport player, so the game itself is up for debate. IMHE. What kind of twisted reality do we live in where a person gets millions and millions for playing a game? What about teachers? Shouldn't they get like 100 grand a year or more? Especially public school teachers, lol!
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George called it!!!
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Ohhh, I'm done.
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