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this Twitter digging up shit is getting out of control.

Posted by groiny (aka groiny) Jul 30 '18, 07:02

guy is pitching a no-hitter, comes off the field and has to explain his tweets from 7 years ago.

now Trea Turner, who by the way, plays in Washington DC has some tweets being dug up?

UGH

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Roseanne was the tipping point. Conservatives felt like it was a personal/targeted attack (despite it being posted not needing digging) - MDH Jul 30, 07:31 2
- Roseann has a history of being just a bad person, I can understand her getting outed. - groiny Jul 30, 07:33 1
  - He said some crude things years back that were clear humor - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 07:43
accountability trolling. -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 07:20 13
- I challenge anyone who thinks that at some point in their life, they have not made comments that were either... - groiny Jul 30, 07:22 12
  - I had terrible thoughts and beliefs when I was a teenager. I would say I was a bit racist. My parents were a bad influence in that way. - Krusty Jul 30, 07:37 7
    - this is my point exactly, - groiny Jul 30, 07:45
    - I agree that people have such limited life experience prior to... really, I’d say working in the real world. -- (edited) - Dark Callisto Jul 30, 07:42 5
      - and, let's be honest, I think the definition of racist has changed alot in the last 20 years. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 07:46 4
        
        Well, I think we’ve grown a lot as a society the last 20 years. - Dark Callisto Jul 30, 07:47 3
        
        Which is precisely the problem as they see it. - znufrii Jul 30, 08:05
        
        Yes, very much this. -- nm - Krusty Jul 30, 08:02
        
        of course, that is a huge part of it. - groiny Jul 30, 07:49
  - They don’t care as long as they can tear people down. - znufrii Jul 30, 07:26 3
    - I just have trouble with the end game. What is the point of it all? nm - Johnny Lawrence Jul 30, 07:30 2
      - Trolling, mostly. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jul 30, 07:45
      - Power fantasies of the angry and impotent. -- nm - znufrii Jul 30, 07:33
Not sure why Trea Turner's place of employment matters - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 07:07 3
- only our nations capital. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 07:08 2
  - So...that means what? - Will Hunting, King of Blood Feud Jul 30, 07:09 1
    - with the current guy in office, I guess it does not matter. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 07:11
No shit - I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better for everyone if Twitter would just do a mass archive of any Tweet older than 2 years. nm - Johnny Lawrence Jul 30, 07:05 12
- just shows me more and more how our culture loves to tear people down. - groiny Jul 30, 07:06 11
  - Group trying to register people to vote, tear them down. - ty97 Jul 30, 07:21 7
    - no, but it seems to be becoming much more frequent. - groiny Jul 30, 07:23 6
      - Football players trying to raise the issues of racial inequity, tear them down. -- (edited) - ty97 Jul 30, 07:24 5
        
        well, to be honest, football players are not the best people to hold up to a higher standard. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 07:26 4
        
        broad brush much? -- nm - ty97 Jul 30, 07:26 3
        
        NFL has a major image issue, players getting convicted of murder, Ray Rice slapping the hell out of his wife..... - groiny Jul 30, 07:27 2
        
        Slapping is a nice way of putting it... -- nm - Shaun Jul 30, 07:28 1
        
        yeah, I guess it was more of a beatdown. -- nm - groiny Jul 30, 07:28
  - Also, I'm kinda curious about the mindset of this group of people, cause it seems like it's - Johnny Lawrence Jul 30, 07:08 2
    - Cuz I don't want the KKK to sponsor a minor league team -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 30, 13:18
    - I posted an interesting vox article last week drawing a line from the current phenomenon back to gamergate. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 30, 07:18
and this on a weekend where 6 guys showed people what it is like to be major leaguers. - groiny Jul 30, 07:03

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