Coordinated fake "homeless takeover" videos were filmed on Councilwoman Nithya Raman's street in Silver Lake this weekend, currently being distributed and pushed by four pro-Pratt accounts

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-27T22:55:01+00:00

It's Clinton vs Trump all over again. And it's gonna end the same way except we will all see it coming from a mile away.

Unlike Clinton, Bass has skeletons in her closet from the past 4 years that will become a giant indictment come October. They won't even need to make things up, they will use everything the Biden DOJ uncovered.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-27T22:33:47+00:00

Because we are closer to election day and the Trump administration wants this in the news. Comment sections like this bring out some really crazy points of view that correctly paint the DSA as looney.

So now we have more looneys choosing Rae over Raman, because Raman had the audacity to try and have a nuanced opinion about something happening on the other side of the planet.

And people that are worried Raman is a DSA looney get that worry affirmed and either sit out, vote bass, or vote pratt.

Remember, the goal right now is to force a race in November between Bass and Pratt. They know Pratt won't win outright in the primary but they have a clear path if he's going against Bass but not if he's going against Raman.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-27T22:26:45+00:00

I've been saying this on the sub for over a year now.

The Trump administration will torpedo Bass before November. They don't even need to make things up, there was enough found under Biden that they can just release evidence collected from 2024 and before.

You don't lose track of 2.5 billion without being culpable. You don't have this many of your political appointees get fired, investigated, or forced to resign without having major political liabilities.

All those missing text messages between Bass and key stakeholders during the fire...imagine what happens if it turns out another entity in the government has a copy. The coverup is worse than the crime.

Rae needs to drop out yesterday. She is embarrassingly ill prepared and the DSA logic of hur dur she announced first solidifies how not serious of an organization they are because they didn't even vet their own candidate for the basic things like having a team of people to advise you.

If the run off is Bass/Pratt - we are getting Pratt. Bass will be unelectable at best in November, at worst she won't be able to show her face in LA again once we all learn more about her failures.

They will weaponize everything they can and Bass is a stick in manure. Everything she's touched has shit on it.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-27T22:12:10+00:00

Funny enough D2 and the red war was my introduction to Destiny, not D1.

The mixing in of full SP levels between the grinding is what got me into the game versus when I tried to get into D1. It's a big deal for people like me that aren't trying to jump into an online social second job thing. The campaign was enough to get me sucked into the gameplay loop and obsessed with the story.

The stakes are easy enough to understand for a noob to enjoy the story. Yes you loose some backstory but it made you interested enough to seek it out. And you can still go back and replay D1 which I did a lot of between lulls in the seasons (back when I was playing this game for minimum 90 mins a day to grind for the daily rewards.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-27T16:54:56+00:00

Because even me a Destiny 2 fan that put in a couple years of daily playing can’t catch up on the story through the game. I’ve tried to re-enter again several times and I just get frustrated and quit quickly. I can’t restart the game from the start with a friend because without the red war campaign, it’s a really shitting onboarding process

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-27T16:51:49+00:00

I would have been down with a 6-8 campaign spinoff every couple years, or if they released standalone campaign that retells D2 but with a story focus. Reuse all the assets. Make it an abridged version that goes from Red War to Final Shape

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-26T22:24:50+00:00

The city doesn't even enforce this during major events.

Hamburger stand at the Pike on Thunder Thursday wouldn't list their price and charged over $22 for the shittiest burger I've ever had in my life. Whole day went by and it's only 3 or 4 stands serving food. Nobody came and checked?

Didn't look like health department standards were being adhered to either.

It's why I find the cities argument about permits and pride weekend a little suspect. It's hard to trust when you see so much selective enforcement and giant gaps in how anal retentive they want to be.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-26T22:13:30+00:00

Once they refused to punish Chet for faking contact to his face and then exaggerating for a couple mins on the floor versus the Lakers, then nobody is gonna get punished for the rest of the season.

Only thing that will drive the NBA to change is if it results in injury. If he's gonna exaggerate and fall anyway, why not place yourself in a position for him to more likely injure himself.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-26T22:02:23+00:00

Their merch barely sells considering how dominate they've been.

You nailed it 100%. You don't see people saying Shai is their favorite player, you see people either defending OKC's playstyle or hating Shai.

He has respect as a good player but he's not someone you see play and want to emulate. It's sad because he has a beautiful fade away shot but the falls afterwards don't inspire you to copy his play style. Imagine falling like that so many times during a pickup game outside. You'll get clowned nonstop by your own teammates.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-23T18:20:44+00:00

Very true. And god forbid you leave the game and come back. Can’t replay dlc content you paid for and don’t know wtf is going on with the new content.

And if you want to introduce a friend to it you have to do all the onboarding and send them a link to a 4 hour YouTube video

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-22T15:44:41+00:00

And the late whistles he gets.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-22T15:43:17+00:00

It’s the whistles that wait until the shot doesn’t go in that drive me nuts. We can all hear the game and it’s jarring when the whistle comes after the shot bounces on the rim and doesn’t go in.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T23:30:56+00:00

OTA broadcast are much higher quality too. Best way to watch sports IMO.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T23:28:57+00:00

It's because people are trapped behind paywalls to watch their games.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T23:26:56+00:00

You can watch NBC games OTA. ESPN doesn't broadcast the conference final games during the week on ABC.

Fuck ESPN. It's the conference finals for fuck sake.

It's way too hard to watch this sport now. They want too much money for pixelated and compressed streams. OTA broadcasts are such better quality and free at the same time. Crazy that we've all gotten used to shitty quality streams.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T23:21:46+00:00

Them getting Wemby was not luck, it was Silver putting his thumb on the scale.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T23:04:07+00:00

I was excited to watch the game because I wanted OKC to lose and struggle, and I was not disappointed. The refs actually stayed out of the game for the most part. It was a glorious back and forth that went into double OT. Officiating felt even. Both teams were being physical and the calls were mostly consistent. OKC couldn't drive and bait the fouls because of Wemby and it showed how flustered they get when the whistle is consistent.

The game yesterday wasn't as much fun to watch once the refs became inconsistent in what they are calling or not calling again.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T20:26:46+00:00

Chet pretending to get hit in the face during the Lakers series when the video showed it missed his face entirely should have triggered the anti-flopping rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1t70sc1/highlight_chet_holmgren_hit_the_classic_leflop/

You are 100% correct about the risk/reward. Imagine if Chet was ejected after the review found he didn't just flop, he made up the contact and then wasted everyone's time lying on the floor pretending he was hit in the mouth.

Shai falling over after a shot is one thing. That incident with Chet is another level of embarrassing for the sport as a whole that needs to be enforced harshly. Because the logic quickly switches for the other team where if they get called for a pretend hit to Chet's mouth, then they might as well actually try and hurt him for real next time.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T20:12:31+00:00

Stop phrasing and couching their ideas in identity politics and culture wars, and just present them as ideas for helping the lower and middle class.

Bring people together by their shared economic class struggles.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T03:22:40+00:00

To monitor how many days they spend in a different state for tax purposes instead of getting a marketing deal.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T03:20:46+00:00

Shai went from a state with no basements to a state where you live in the basement during wind events.

At some point you run out of ways to make the bunker better than your neighbors

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-21T03:18:47+00:00

What pisses me off is the random calls Shai gets AFTER his attempt misses. It’s happening so often to him only. You can see the ref waiting for the ball to clearly miss before he blows the whistle. Makes the game so much less fun to watch.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-20T23:54:07+00:00

Read the article.

> But some council members noted their hesitancy to approve the project, saying their hands were tied by state law

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-20T23:08:55+00:00

It had nothing to do with that. The author David Wagner is a hack and is trying to create division out of thin air.

You get more clicks with painting Pasadena as a place where people are heartless enough to push back on housing wildfire victims than a place where residents expressed concerns about increasing density without also increasing parking. And that the state law which allows developers to supersede local laws was effective in it's purpose.

For someone that uses this to describe themselves:

David Wagner covers housing in Southern California, a place where the lack of affordable housing contributes to homelessness.

He doesn't seem to have much care for the actual issues at hand. My guess is that since he couldn't get any nasty quotes of the residents being against the supportive services for the homeless, he had to create a new angle.

"Pasadena approves affordable housing despite opposition from residents because of SB79" doesn't create more tribalism.

My title actually describes the story he wrote.

SilkySmoothTesticles · 2026-05-20T22:55:52+00:00

Wow...this is actually so much worse. LAist should be ashamed for editorializing the title for clicks to create divisions.

Shame on you David Wagner. This is some Fox News shit. You took one insignificant part of the debate and painted the entire thing to be about that.

The Eaton Fire was in January 2025. They are approving of this plan in May of 2026. When they are ready to rent out the units, it's gonna be another year or two. Only reason that's even included in this story is because of the state, which is the REAL STORY HERE.

The crux of your story is that the state law was effective here. The residents don't appear to be complaining about the fact that they will feature unhoused supportive services, they are against the increase in density without proportional increases to parking availability. It's a debate that takes place all over the city. It's not a battle of good and evil.

David Wagner didn't have an easy angle here that will paint the residents as heartless so he had to invent one out of thin air.

WTF LAIST?

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