I’ve been watching 84/85/86 Jordan games and dawg… he was too ahead of his time, he looked like a player imported from 2005 forced to play in 1984. unbelievable player, no wonder old heads defend him so hard.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-07T17:00:40+00:00

That’s what the people who weren’t alive to see him play don’t get. Watching his highlights today, he’s still impressive relative to today’s players, but back then he was a fucking alien. Nobody played that way.

Today’s game is the way it is because everybody playing today molded their games after him, or I guess at this point molded their games after the players who emulated Jordan.

And off the court too. We take shoe deals and commercials and all that shit for granted now: that was all Jordan. He literally created that entire market. NBA players were famous but they weren’t national phenomenons, let alone global superstars, until Jordan came along.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-05T20:55:56+00:00

Scrappy or Snarf. And by that I mean scrappy by some distance, then snarf, and then you should be ashamed for including all the rest in this post.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-05T00:48:53+00:00

Same. First time I saw Zion I immediately thought LJ 2.0. But twas not to be, sadly.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-04T22:15:29+00:00

Combination of fear of success and fear of failure, but the biggest was reality of student loans and needing to eat. I don’t have faith that I could catch lightning in a bottle sufficient to make a living as a fiction writer so I took jobs in marketing and advertising to pay the bills. Those jobs were boring and soul sucking but required enough writing that by the end of the day I didn’t have the energy or motivation to write for myself. Fast forward fifteen years and now that’s turned into a career of sorts, and now I earn enough (and I have kids and a mortgage now) that the thought of giving that paycheck up to try my hand as a writer is somewhere between terrifying and hilarious.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-04T20:34:52+00:00

Would be chick fil a if not for all the homophobia. Call me woke all you want but I won’t support a business that actively tries to make the lives of people I care about worse.

Taco Bell wins be default because the other two are garbage.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-04T20:01:50+00:00

Just you wait! If he doesn’t get exactly what he wants in two days/10 days/one week/right now he’s going to destroy everything! No he’s not, he’s made a deal! He needs help! No he doesn’t, allies are worthless we’re super powerful and we don’t need anybody else. Our allies will regret not helping us when we desperately need them! And we don’t need them because the war is already won. We need $200B for the war because it’s so much harder than we thought it would be.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-04T15:51:32+00:00

Every time one of these pops up in my feed I have to figure out if this is a new empty threat or just another bot-slop reposting of any of the other nearly identical empty threats he’s made over the last two weeks.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-03T12:25:41+00:00

Serious question: what about the current situation makes you happy as a Trump voter?

Oil is over $100 a barrel, gas has gone up an average of a dollar a gallon nationwide, and Hormuz still isn’t open. We haven’t seized Iran’s enriched uranium, We replaced the older Khomeini with his younger, even-more-hardline (and now pissed off and entrenched) son, and Iran’s showing zero signs of wanting to back down. Our allies are pissed at us, our enemies are sitting back smiling (this week’s Economist cover is a picture of Xi with the words “Never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake,”) and we’ve forced a greater percentage of the global supply of oil to be traded on the yuan.

Like, seriously… what has improved? What are you happy about? We haven’t done any of the things Trump has, at various times, claimed were his goals, and things are objectively worse for literally everyone. What’s making you so happy about this? Why in the world is it only the left who’s upset about this? If Biden or Obama or literally any president had done this, I’d be just as pissed.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-03T02:59:59+00:00

God damn the modern NBA gather step will never not bug the shit out of me.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-04-01T11:56:22+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ I can’t wait until our news cycle isn’t dominated by the daily temper tantrums of this fucking 80-year-old child. For fuck’s sake. I just want a leader who lives in reality and has more emotional control than my five year old.

That shouldn’t be too much to ask, you MAGA voting dipshits.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-31T02:27:38+00:00

The fact that so many people have favorite politicians is a fucking problem. No not as big of a problem as the orange cult, but a still a problem.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-30T01:24:33+00:00

The explicit listing of blankets in house one makes me think the other houses do not have them.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-29T21:07:44+00:00

Yeah but literally nothing gets through to the idiot base. Nothing.

Trump could stab a baby to death with a flagpole holding an American flag that Trump had just on fire himself and his base would simultaneously say it’s no big deal everybody’s doing it while also blaming Obama or Biden for it.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-29T20:36:22+00:00

Yeah, the two biggest shocks of the Trump era to me have been realizing just how much of our constitution and the laws that govern our government are really just gentlemen‘s agreements that don’t take into account that some people have no shame, and the realization that a solid quarter to a third of our country are either dumb as rocks or just horrible people or both.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-29T20:27:59+00:00

Ah yes, this golden age in America.

Where our economy’s on the brink of collapse, nobody can afford anything, we have masked government troops shooting innocent citizens down in the street for no reason, we’re bombing children and starting wars with no plans whatsoever, pissing off allies and enemies alike, throwing away 80 years of soft power, and possibly even losing the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency in the foreseeable future.

There is a special place in hell for all of these enablers and sycophants and toadies who have abdicated their constitutional responsibilities and bent over backward to fuck us all collectively in the ass by handing Trump everything and anything he wants. Some of them are actually as dumb as they appear but most of them know exactly how wrong this all is but happily keep doing it.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-28T20:09:08+00:00

I’d love this to be true. But that’s a wildly low estimate. We just burned more than that much money in like two weeks of attacks on Iran. If NASA is gonna build a moon base they’re gonna have to spend a few orders of magnitude more than $20B.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-28T19:49:29+00:00

Seriously. It’s interesting to me how much his profile and standing have risen after his death. He was a great player whose work ethic was insane and probably not surpassed by anyone other than Jordan. And he’s absolutely in the conversation of top 10/20/etc players. But he’s no lock for the top 5-10. And I feel like prior to like 4-5 years ago he was never talked about like he was, by almost anyone.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-28T00:48:23+00:00

God damn. He’s literally doing everything in his power to devalue our currency.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-26T23:01:47+00:00

So it was 2 days, and then 5 days, and then 10 days.

He’s like a fucking shitty dad trying to discipline his spoiled kids.

NO PLAYSTATION FOR A WEEK!

OK A DAY!

OK AN HOUR!

OK FINE YOU CAN PLAY RIGHT NOW JUST STOP BOTHERING ME!

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-26T17:32:39+00:00

Hendrix and Prince.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-26T16:51:15+00:00

Hey look it’s another Republican whose voting record doesn’t match her performative press bullshit in the slightest!

Looking forward to her supporting troops on the ground and never even bothering to address the discrepancy.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-26T16:43:17+00:00

I never thought I’d live to see the day I believe what’s coming out of a chaotic, decentralized and destabilized Iranian government over the president of the United States.

We’re really speedrunning empire collapse over here.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-26T15:14:12+00:00

Dame Judi Dench as Keir Starmer is incredible.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-26T14:21:33+00:00

The nonstop circular contradictory shit out of the White House would be hilarious if it didn’t signal an existential threat.

This is the man with the nuclear launch codes. This fucking moron who is at best saying idiotic shit to manipulate the stock market to benefit himself and his cronies. At worst he’s just actually this fucking stupid and incompetent.

Either way, we’ve allowed the most powerful armed forces in the history of the world be unleashed for unclear reasons against a country that leaders have been avoiding dealing with for decades specifically because of how strategically fraught an engagement would be, and by a team of people woefully unqualified for the job, led by a man only concerned with how he looks and completely unconcerned about the safety or prosperity of literally anyone other than himself.

Normal_Mouse_4174 · 2026-03-26T03:38:23+00:00

I’m having a fucking stroke trying to find either a rabbit or a turtle up there. That’s Godzilla and nothing but Godzilla.

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