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Dareon posted:I would much rather tell my friend to successfully sink his free throw and bet on that happening, instead. He's in the NBA, he can make a free throw. He feels good about himself for making the free throw, I feel good for having faith in my friend's abilities, we both make money. Whoa it's Pete Rose
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D-Pad posted:I.. don't think you understand how this works? Much like war, winning sports is easy: simply don't lose.
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Dareon posted:I would much rather tell my friend to successfully sink his free throw and bet on that happening, instead. He's in the NBA, he can make a free throw. He feels good about himself for making the free throw, I feel good for having faith in my friend's abilities, we both make money. We know Jordan and Barkley would make prop bets with each other during the game for real cash. But no one really cares because their egos are too large for them to shave points or bet against their team.
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Push El Burrito posted:My conspiracy theory is that bears are just dogs we aren't allowed to pet.  Checks out.
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Nov 17, 2021 21:01
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Kitfox88 posted:All Hitler needed to do to win was not lose, astounding analysis Wasn't there something about how the Allied nations had various plans to assassinate Hitler, but decided against it as he was such an incompetent military strategist that leaving him in command was likely to end the war sooner than killing him and having someone capable take his place?
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christmas boots posted:If the CIA was behind his assassination then why is he dead? I thought about coming back and saying "look I said all that with tongue in cheek because obviously it's impossible to know the final truth", like I just have fun stating it matter-of-factly when obviously I don't know. But all the conspiracy posts after that are great so I'm glad I didn't make it about me. I really like both NBA ones. The frozen envelope, drat that's good. But if you still want my answer to this: I reckon it's like a Charles Manson type situation. Some CIA-backed weirdos and loose cannons - in this case, right-wing Cuban self-exiles, some of whom have made deathbed confessions along these lines - did something without the CIA necessarily intending it to happen as it did. An unsuccessful attack on Kennedy, for example, might get him on side for a Cuba invasion? I dunno, but the CIA loving up with some assets wilding out, and then having to kill drat near everybody who knew much and might leak (which did happen with a lot of connected figures over the following years) seems more plausible than the CIA pulling off the perfect crime, like Dulles putting a big "FIND HIM AND KILL HIM" stamp from the movie Top Secret on a dossier of JFK. joke answer: 
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I absolutely believe Jordan bet on himself, I don't believe his ego would allow him to point shave.
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Skwirl posted:I absolutely believe Jordan bet on himself, I don't believe his ego would allow him to point shave. Also better yet, why would he bother? Not like he needed money. That’s the #1 reason I don’t buy it. Even with staggering gambling losses, MJ had more money than god
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zoux posted:Sports conspiracies are good to believe in, because they seldom lead to nazi stuff. With the post right above yours being about F1, I have my doubts on that. Like, a major F1 figure was the son of British fash party leader, for example. TinTower posted:The big sport conspiracy theory I believe is that Benetton were actually using traction control in the 1994 F1 season. You want to go further? Benetton's systems shenanigans caused accidents at the 1994 San Marino GP, which caused the restart, which made Senna have cold tyres... I don't believe it, but... This is kind of the opposite of a conspiracy theory, but my unshakeable belief is that Jim Clark's accident was mechanical, not a mistake.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:I thought about coming back and saying "look I said all that with tongue in cheek because obviously it's impossible to know the final truth", like I just have fun stating it matter-of-factly when obviously I don't know. But all the conspiracy posts after that are great so I'm glad I didn't make it about me. I really like both NBA ones. The frozen envelope, drat that's good. But if you still want my answer to this: Mine was a kind of tongue-in-cheek statement too Personally, I've always been partial to the idea that the CIA wasn't actually behind the assassination itself -- maybe someone hosed up and didn't put to together the extremely obvious clues that something was going to happen, maybe they were planning to try and turn Oswald or otherwise use him as an asset and underestimated his willingness to act or something -- and that the coverup afterward was mostly a way to cover their asses.
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Frank Frank posted:Also better yet, why would he bother? Not like he needed money. That’s the #1 reason I don’t buy it. Even with staggering gambling losses, MJ had more money than god yea people tend to conflate 'MJ is a gambling addict', a true fact, and 'MJ was also a pretty bad gambler', another true fact, with 'so obviously he was broke' which is what happens when NORMAL people are those things. MJ and Barkley are two of the NBA's most famous 'oh you have an actual addiction to gambling and you're also kinda bad at it, that's no good!' cases of their time and they're both incredibly rich and successful regardless. The idea that either of them would actually take an L just to win money they didn't need is silly.
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Push El Burrito posted:My conspiracy theory is that bears are just dogs we aren't allowed to pet. well, not with that attitude
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christmas boots posted:Mine was a kind of tongue-in-cheek statement too Yeah that's in the same ballpark i favor. They continue to do that kind of screwup to this very day (older tsarnaev brother...)
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Idgi. Isn't she saying she's criticising Georgia for spreading conspiracy theories, not that she's advocating them? Am I missing some important context? E: oh, yeah, I totally am - the actual article in question. https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-governors-press-secretary-christina-pushaw-walks-back-rothschild-dog-whistle-tweet-after-backlash But your criticism of her is misplaced. It's not that she's a conspiracy theorist, it's that she assumes everyone responds to anti-Semitic dogwhistles, and that that's a normal way to think about the world Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 00:42 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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sexpig by night posted:yea people tend to conflate 'MJ is a gambling addict', a true fact, and 'MJ was also a pretty bad gambler', another true fact, with 'so obviously he was broke' which is what happens when NORMAL people are those things. MJ and Barkley are two of the NBA's most famous 'oh you have an actual addiction to gambling and you're also kinda bad at it, that's no good!' cases of their time and they're both incredibly rich and successful regardless. The idea that either of them would actually take an L just to win money they didn't need is silly. Yeah the money's the thing. If he didn't have god-tier basketball prowess and the wealth that came with it, Michael Jordan would have ended sealed up in a barrel in a toxic waste dump for failing to pay his vig one too many times
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I'm pretty sure the CIA would rather have people believe that they were involved with the Kennedy assassination rather than complete fuckups that were supposed to be keeping an eye on the guy that defected to the Soviet Union but came back because he thought they weren't ideologically pure enough.
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Poops Mcgoots posted:Oh great, another one of you kooks. Yeah, just like that "Moon" thing you weirdos prattle on about. 
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https://twitter.com/lackingsaint/status/1461099676904611843 The Twitter crop fucks with the first image so here it is 
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the new GTA3 is bug-for-bug compatible https://twitter.com/DarkwingDust69/status/1459929293023236096 https://twitter.com/The_Rabbit42/status/1460662035621031952
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Memento posted:https://twitter.com/lackingsaint/status/1461099676904611843 
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Halloween Jack posted:The most difficult thing on that list is telling an Italian military leader to be not stupid If anyone spoke their language, it was Hitler. 
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zoux posted:The week or so when the queen dies is going to be the worst week on twitter in decades Sounds like all that attention is making you royal jelly
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zoux posted:The week or so when the queen dies is going to be the worst week on twitter in decades
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zoux posted:The week or so when the queen dies is going to be the worst week on twitter in decades Ellie Trashcakes posted:Yeah well at least the terfs will be too busy crying in their poppies to gently caress with us 🤷🏻♀️
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zoux posted:The week or so when the queen dies is going to be the worst week on twitter in decades Being British and living in the US means I’m expecting to be ask about it a million times like I’m some kind of Royal expert, and not someone who doesn’t really give a gently caress either way.
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Pilchenstein posted:"the queen died of trans rights" I might get this on a t-shirt
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EL BROMANCE posted:Being British and living in the US means I’m expecting to be ask about it a million times like I’m some kind of Royal expert, and not someone who doesn’t really give a gently caress either way. just say you're a republican and bask in the confused anger
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Mr. Fix It posted:just say you're a republican and bask in the confused anger It's like that in Australia, too. The Liberals are actually the conservatives, and people who are republican are usually pretty liberal. I once saw someone with "no Republicans" on their dating profile and was like "huh, a weirdly aggressive monarchist?" until I saw they're from the USA.
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Platystemon posted:The gun that killed Garfield was not lost by the Smithsonian Institution in the early twentieth century, but has in fact been deliberated concealed in order to foil Guiteau’s wishes. Guiteau is on record as choosing the ivory-handled revolver because it would look good in a museum one day. This would be incredibly fitting, as Guiteau is the closest real-life equivalent to Ignatius J. Reilly to have walked on the Earth.
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some plague rats posted:I might get this on a t-shirt
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some plague rats posted:I might get this on a t-shirt Picture of Liz wearing a name badge that says "Elizabeth Windsor (She/HRH)"
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canyoneer posted:Sounds like all that attention is making you royal jelly
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