WNBA star Brittney Griner transferred to Russian forced labor camp

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  1. dixon76710

    dixon76710 Well-Known Member

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    What gives you the impression she is "wrongfully imprisoned". Did you expect Russian drug laws not to apply to Americans?
     
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    Your posts prove otherwise

    You've been asked to back this up and you refuse to....yet you double down on the lie....telling.

    LOL

    So here you, obviously blissfully unaware, admit that the reason we like those is because of their beliefs and not their skin color.

    Thanks for playing. You really should quit now (I really hope you don't though).
     
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    Brittany has more than a decade to go before she will catch up with the 12 years in prison already spent by Julian Assange.

    His crime? Exposing the many crimes of the US government.
     
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    Just over half a gram of oil. Haven't done the research, but I doubt Russian prisons are packed with Russians busted for weed. She was arrested because President Braindead is throwing billions at Ukraine. Putin made an example of Griner to embarrass Brandon. Period.
     
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    Eleuthera Well-Known Member Donor

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    That certainly is plausible Bud.
     
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    yes, racist white people love a certain type of black person.
     
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    "They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it."
    ~ Thelonious Monk
     
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    Russia has some of the strictest drug laws in the world and has a reputation of having zero tolerance. Max sentence by the statute is up to 10 years and she got 9
     
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    If you don't understand this is pure politics, I have a health plan to sell you. It'll save you $2500/year, and if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor!
     
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    What nonsense. She had hash oil in her baggage. Had she been a Russian, she would have gotten the same treatment. If you want to proclaim she has been "wrongfully imprisoned", youll need to at least string together a few words and formulate an argument. The above is rather pointless and childish. They throw people in jail for marijuana according to their laws. Nothing wrongful about it. Bet you never claimed that white American teacher imprisoned for pot in Russia was "wrongfully imprisoned", but Brittany is black, so as a victim of American white supremacy, for you thats different.
     
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    Kindly cite where I have ever stated, suggested, or implied anything of the kind. Especially the "victim of American white supremacy" part.

    Bueller?
     
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    You guys have pushed the 'everything is racist' beyond any tolerable reason. Why is it in the minds of the left ONLY white people can be racists? And, a person who doesn't have 'everything is racist' on their mind 24/7 would be looking at Griner as an American and not a black person.

    And it's true, when a conservative walks into a room full of people s/he sees a room full of people. When a liberal progressive democrat walks into a room full of people s/he takes a head count of all the different genders and races to make sure people aren't marginalized or underrepresented.
     
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    Preach.

    PF won't permit me to use my preferred nic: Sl@nt Eyed Pol@ck. If self-righteous white libs (& posers like dixon76710) care to dip their toes into real racism & bigotry, I invite them to take their pasty white asses to the Land Of The Rising Sun - whence half my ancestry comes; of which I remain proud despite their shortcomings.

    If for no other reason, America is the greatest country in history because we've been able to see past the bullshit and recognize individual merit. Have we done it perfectly? Absolutely not. Have we done better than anyone else? Absolutely.

    On the other hand, I've been reliably informed that merit is racist, so maybe I'm David Duke on steroids.
     
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    Marc Fogel and Paul Whelan imprisoned in Russia get no mention at all by the White hating woke progressive party Democrats or the radical Leftist media, because it doesn't fit their narrative, but the Russians stepped over the line according to Liberals when they arrested Brittney Griner and threw him in prison for essentially the same crime. I'm a proud WHITE! man and Liberals can go F themselves for declaring law abiding biological white christian heterosexual men as oppressors and born racists. I didn't pick this fight, but since Democrats have declared me their enemy, I'm not tolerating any of their BS ever. I'm a proud American and as far as I'm concerned a American hating freak like Brittney Griner can stay in that Russian Gulag for the rest of his miserable life as far as I'm concerned.
     
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    Did you ever wonder why it's racist cultural appropriation for a white guy to wear a sombrero or sell tacos but not racist cultural appropriation when an Irish guy calls himself Beto?
     
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    I was on the air in radio once upon a time. One day after a shift the GM sat me down & said there had been a complaint about my inauthentic pronunciation of Latino names. My reply that I didn't speak Spanish didn't get a lot of love; 'we need to be as respectful as we can of other cultures.' I knew where the complaint came from; another jock whose name I won't mention, except to say that it rhymes with Hidalgo Monotolongo.

    I advised the GM I'd be filing a complaint with HR against the entire staff for the mispronunciation of my surname: Kotowski. In Polish, W is often enunciated as an F. That no one does that across the fruited plain is irrelevant - how dare you disrespect my ancestry. I also advised if I saw anyone using chopsticks with their Chinese take-out, I'd be filing another complaint for Cultural Appropriation®.

    There were no more complaints about my Spanglish after that.
     
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    I once lived in Puerto Rico and a guayabera shirt is often worn by businessmen instead of suits. I didn’t care for them at all, but still, I was warned that gringos shouldn’t wear them. Oh, and I was often referred to as a gringo, very often, but the word just rolled off me, I didn’t care one bit.

    I’m sorry to say the lottery is now racist. Only people obsessed with race or are indoctrinated to be obsessed with race see racism in everything.

    Lottery accused of 'systemic racism' after massive Powerball payout
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/lottery-systemic-racism-massive-powerball-payout
     
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    Yes, in Japan we were reffered to as Gaijin. Not by a lot, to be honest, just by a few. Still one of my favorite countries in the world. Happens everywhere, to be honest.
     
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    Had to google "guayabera" lol. Looks like maybe the PR version of a Hawaiian shirt. Me slant-eyed mum is from Hawaii, and I've spent a ton of time there. If you'd like a variation on gringo, go to the islands where you can look forward to being called a haole. Rolls off just as easily as gringo. Although my eyes are slanted enough that I'm generally recognized as hapa haole.
     
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    Says the guy constantly insulting Hershel Walker.
     
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    Well, yes:
    He/she/it (wouldn't want to commit the sin of assuming pronouns) has made it abundantly clear that he/she/it is a racist who only loves a certain type of black person. He/she/it will happily piss on all the other black people who don't measure up to his/her/its mandate how dem darkies oughtta behave.
     
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    I don't often travel to other countries, but when I do, I expect that I don't have any rights there and I behave accordingly, precisely so that this doesn't happen to me.

    ...I gotta wonder how much 'America sucks so Russia can't be any worse' was going on here to lead Griner to be less than careful about obeying their laws. America is still the most free nation on earth despite its many problems, and folks need to be more recognitive of that before they travel overseas, lest they end up rotting away in a forgotten corner of a real hellhole somewhere. I figure the folks who bash America constantly oughtta share at least a little blame or guilt here, clearly Griner wasn't made aware of just how bad people can be treated by the state outside of our borders.

    But then again, I spose Griner isn't much worse off than some of our own citizens who merely found themselves trespassing into our own capitol building... so maybe I'm just way off base here.
     
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    "youll need to at least string together a few words and formulate an argument" and then we can entertain your distractions from the topic of discussion.
     
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    Running away like a scalded dog from the reality that you've lied about me. Copy that.
     
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    As a guy who is Italian, German, Irish and Armenian, I've heard all the slang names from the day I was born. The Irish/German side of my family would make fun of the Italian/Armenian side. I'm immune to verbal insults and don't see why mere words make some people go off the deep end.
     
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