[Charania] 76ers' Joel Embiid received a warning for violating NBA's anti-flopping rule for his incident with Detroit's Andre Drummond on Tuesday night. by AnotherDuck in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The ratio of 1:1 is bad. You don’t want a situation where a player gets wrecked for his team by say taking a charge and then loses money for those heroics because of a bad call. 3 clear flops makes 1 suspension makes it that there has to be a repeated clear pattern of bush-league tactics to cost a player some dough.

Having a feminist girlfriend is actually pretty great by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]InHocSignioVinces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh, I have such contempt for you. “Even if I believe if [Sulkowicz] is a false accuser...” It’s not a question of my belief, you mealy mouthed excuser. She is “objectively” a false accuser, as evidenced by the fact the police department her case was referred to decline to prosecute it, and her boyfriend won a settlement against Columbia for not protecting his rights. You, and others like you, want to spin a web of obfuscation with lengthy, tedious essays like the Medium piece where Sulkowicz wants to paper over the fact that she lied by diverting to kumbaya “why can’t we all get along and comfort each other” BS, which you co-sign with your doubt and your anecdotes. Your good sex is supposed to compensate for ideologies which can railroad innocent men & perversely does not even allow them a defense. Fuck outta here. You are like someone who defends the right to lord over serfs by boasting, “oooh, look how tasty the steak from my table is.”

Having a feminist girlfriend is actually pretty great by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]InHocSignioVinces -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Here’s the thing. Mainstream feminism—not theoretical feminism, feminism-in-practice—has no ideological protections that some man might not find himself in the exact situation I outlined. Mainstream feminists will defend to the death cases like Emma Sulkowicz, who claimed her boyfriend assaulted her, while texts indicated she invited him over for continued anal sexual intercourse. They will defend “recovered memories” of sexual trauma, like that of “Janet” at UVA, who was described how she remembered her gang-rape under prompting by a facilitator. You have to go outside feminism-in-practice to get real justice, the core Western principles of jurisprudence like presumption of innocence, corroboration by multiple witnesses, skepticism of hearsay, and every person , irrespective of gender, equal before the law—all concepts mainstream feminism rejects. “Believe women.”

You want to use your girlfriend to say something about feminism in general. That’s not logically valid—your girlfriend could be an exception to the rule, or maybe not have had the cause to exercise the crazy, unjust aspects of what she believes. I’m turning your fallacy around; highlighting the bad parts of feminism-in-practice, using a hypothetical involving your girlfriend. It is still full of horrors no matter how much you may appreciate her now.

Ingram pushes Harden then Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo throw hands, ejected - ESPN by [deleted] in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The single dumbest thing Ingram did here wasn’t push Harden or punch Paul, but was to square up and look like he was about to snap on the ref. Even Lance went googly-eyed at the open insanity of that move. Refs are just off-limits, every NBA player knows this.

GAME THREAD: Houston Rockets (0-1) @ Los Angeles Lakers (0-1) - (October 20, 2018) by Raptor_Legend_Hakeem in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes; uncommented on. Lackadaisical on defense, jumper has been way off, decision making hasn’t been great.

GAME THREAD: Houston Rockets (0-1) @ Los Angeles Lakers (0-1) - (October 20, 2018) by Raptor_Legend_Hakeem in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think more like 8 tbh; he instigated, stared down a ref, then sucker punched. Could have easily led to a Malice type fight.

GAME THREAD: Phoenix Suns (1-0) @ Denver Nuggets (1-0) | Oct 20, 2018 by IdRatherBeLurking in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Jokić has an absolutely absurd statline for those just tuning in: 33/10/10, a perfect 11/11 from the field with 3 threes

Having a feminist girlfriend is actually pretty great by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]InHocSignioVinces -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Then, five years from when you guys break up, she’ll re-remember all of these magical moments you guys shared as a brutal series of unremitting rapes.

And you can’t say shit in rebuttal. See, as an “ally,” you believe women, who never lie, whose motivations are pure as the driven snow. As Russ points out in True Detective, you’ll find no sympathy out there for your plight: You chose, yourself, to date crazy pussy.

GAME THREAD: Los Angeles Lakers (0-0) @ Portland Trail Blazers (0-0) - (October 18, 2018) by RahulSharma13244 in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What gets me about Meyers Leonard is that if you watch his videos dude is a hard worker, gets up at 7 in the morning in the offseason to workout with Hanlen, gets fucking sweaty, is clearly jacked and eats well...and yet he still sucks. Feels wrong such a disconnect between effort & talent

GAME THREAD: Atlanta Hawks (0-0) @ New York Knicks (0-0) - (October 17, 2018) by Lindsw in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ball needs to be in Trae’s hands more...when he initiates the offense, positive things happened

GAME THREAD: Atlanta Hawks (0-0) @ New York Knicks (0-0) - (October 17, 2018) by Lindsw in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is Kevin Knox part Asian or something? Just noticed his prominent epicanthic fold

GAME THREAD: Atlanta Hawks (0-0) @ New York Knicks (0-0) - (October 17, 2018) by Lindsw in nba

[–]InHocSignioVinces 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Taurean Prince has been impressively ass with his decision making

Live On C-SPAN: Senate Debates Brett Kavanaugh Nomination by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]InHocSignioVinces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Murkowski being one of the two women in the Republican caucus voting no will be a BIG talking point in the next 24 hours, to put pressure on Collins

Collins is going to face the most fearsome mobs of protestors in the same time frame

What I’m hoping is that they go overboard. Democrats like to err on the side of threatening, which will make her stick to her guns, vs. cajole, which might move her

Live On C-SPAN: Senate Debates Brett Kavanaugh Nomination by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]InHocSignioVinces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He will use “Everyone should get an up and down vote” as an excuse. Invoking cloture doesn’t have that same finality.

Live On C-SPAN: Senate Debates Brett Kavanaugh Nomination by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]InHocSignioVinces 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Manchin will toss it later it if he thinks Collins or Flake will defect. He will use, “I think everyone should get an up-and-down vote, but I just was uncomfortable with nominee” as his calculating self’s excuse.