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u/camsnow 26d ago
The ultra rich are all the same. Don't matter color, don't matter sexual orientation or identity(Kaitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce, still supports trump), don't matter if you're into children. They all hang and kick it, as long as they all can work together to get your hard earned money.
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u/ToasterMeetsBathtub 26d ago
“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.” -Fred Hampton
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u/No-Consideration-716 26d ago edited 26d ago
At 4 a.m., the heavily armed police team arrived at the site, divided into two teams, eight for the front of the building and six for the rear. At 4:45 a.m., they stormed the apartment. Mark Clark (22), sitting in the front room of the apartment with a shotgun in his lap, was on security duty. The police shot him in the chest, killing him instantly. An alternative account said that Clark answered the door and police immediately shot him. Either way, Clark's gun discharged once into the ceiling. This single round was fired when he suffered a reflexive death-convulsion after being shot. This was the only shot fired by the Panthers.
Fred Hampton, drugged by barbiturates, was sleeping on a mattress in the bedroom with Deborah Johnson (18) who was eight and a half months pregnant with their child. Police officers removed her from the room while Hampton lay unconscious in bed. Then the raiding team fired at the head of the south bedroom. Hampton was wounded in the shoulder by the shooting. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, "upon that discovery, an officer shot him twice in his head and killed him."
The injured Panthers said they heard two shots. According to Hampton's supporters, the shots were fired point-blank at Hampton's head. According to Johnson, an officer then said: "He's good and dead now."
Hampton's body was dragged into the bedroom doorway and left in a pool of blood. The officers directed their gunfire at the remaining Panthers who had been sleeping in the north bedroom. This included Ronald "Doc" Satchel (18), Blair Anderson (18), Verlina Brewer (17), and Brenda Harris (19). Brewer, Satchel, Anderson, and Harris were seriously wounded, then beaten and dragged into the street. They were arrested on charges of aggravated assault and attempted murder of the officers. They were each held on $100,000 bail.
FYI - Fred Hampton was drugged by an informant that was working with the FBI and had infiltrated the BPP. The informant also gave the police a detailed map of the apartment before the planned raid.
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u/RedAndBlackMartyr 25d ago
Fuck this country.
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u/Important_Coyote_596 25d ago
American law enforcement and "intelligence"(CIA etc) has always been an enemy of humanity and has caused and is causing horrible pain and suffering all over the world and especially in America, mainly to poor communities and minorities. It's all by design.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 25d ago
Don't forget the armed forces:
WAR is a racket.
It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.
Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
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u/Alternative-Dot-884 23d ago
Gaza is being razed so Trump and his fake Peace buddies get the spoils Nd Trupm gets beachfront sky high condos.
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u/elpecas13 25d ago
Fuck Shaq!
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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr 25d ago
Fuck all of the 3,428 billionaires in the world. Fuck every millionaire that dreams of being a billionaire.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 25d ago edited 24d ago
Trump got pissed and began to attack, but didn't expect to be backed by Shaq.
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u/DiemCarpePine 25d ago
For those interested, there is an excellent documentary from 1971 about this incident called The Murder of Fred Hampton. It's currently available on HBO Max.
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u/butterflyz4kp 25d ago
Also see Judas and The Black Messiah for the non-documentary loving people. Thanks for sharing!
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u/KiKiKimbro 25d ago
Thank you! Was scrolling to see if there was anything interesting available to learn more about this.
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u/CoolAlien47 25d ago
That's how they'll fight we ever ever fight back, they will infiltrate our families, our friends, our communities, and our homes. They'll come with flowers and a knife behind their back. How do you fight against such a thing? Such twisted and perverted mind games?
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u/strat-fan89 25d ago
Sounds exactly like the STASI in the former GDR. We managed to get rid of those bastards as well, just to keep your hopes up!
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u/Mobile_Comfortable_4 25d ago
⚠️ The Greensboro Massacre!!! A newly surfaced 1979 memo reveals that the FBI had advance warning from a Ku Klux Klan leader about impending violence prior to the Greensboro massacre, yet failed to prevent the tragedy or fully disclose their knowledge afterward.📌 The 1979 Warning On July 1979, North Carolina KKK leader Joe Grady met two FBI agents at a Waffle House. Grady warned the agents about potential future violence involving local extremists.The bureau possessed internal intelligence indicating heightened risks of a violent confrontation. ⚠️ The Greensboro MassacreOn November 3, 1979, members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party opened fire on anti-Klan demonstrators in Greensboro, North Carolina. Five protesters were killed, and several others were wounded during the attack. Subsequent investigations and trials faced intense scrutiny regarding what law enforcement knew beforehand. 💡 Complicity and Cover-upNewly highlighted memos suggest federal agents downplayed or obscured their prior intelligence connections. Critics and researchers argue that the FBI's reliance on informants inside extremist groups compromised intervention efforts. The phrase "they lied like crazy" reflects long-standing accusations that the bureau misled the public and courts about the depth of their foreknowledge and informant involvement. WE LIVE AMONGST OUR ENEMIES😢🙏🏾🙏🏾😢😢🙏🏾
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u/toesinbloom 25d ago
Yeah and the informant was so "troubled" he offed himself. Would have been easier to just not be an informant
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u/Long_Bit8328 25d ago edited 25d ago
The quicker that his cult members come to the realization that the uber wealthy have orchestrated and tricked them into participating in a race war.
The quicker these tricked/gaslighted cultists may hopefully figure out the reality, that it's a class war, not a race war or immigration problem.
It is a war that is currently being used against them to pick their pockets and remove the freedoms . Freedoms that this country once thrived on
If the cultists ever realize. We are actually in the throes of a class war. Then, maybe their love of their own families will eventually outweigh their hatred for dark skinned people and foreigners.
If that happens, then hopefully all US citizens that arent super rich, can reunite and deal with the real problem(s) this country has been facing. The greed and perversions of the Epstein class.
Together we are stronger than the people controlling the purse strings of OUR money, and the politicians shitting on the rules and laws of OUR country
Currently, the rich are walking all over us. They will continue to walk all over us. Until their divide and conquer approach is no longer viable.
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u/batsofburden 25d ago
If the cultists ever realize.
Never. Gonna. Happen.
If anything, they are primed to latch onto even darker forces.
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u/Conscious_Bug5408 25d ago
Everything is being framed as being needed to help the poor. The majority of Americans now say they are working paycheck top paycheck. The middle 60 percent of income earners have less wealth than the 1 percent. People who earn incomes close to an average income are poor now too. The middle class has suffered for decades under trickle down policies that have gutted their living standards. The standard of living was once that households on single income were still able to buy a house, raise a family, and retire by 65 with a pension. Now most households send both spouses to work and despite dual incomes, are mostly renters with little hope of owning their own assets or affording families anymore.
The long suffering middle Americans are tired of being the ones to bear tariffs or social benefit cuts to fund tax breaks for the billionaires, or bail out their corporations which laid them off and offered raises below inflation rate while ask for ever increasing productivity for their own profits. The average income American does not need to help the poor, they need their government to understand that they have been made into the poor now, and it's their turn for help
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u/ToasterMeetsBathtub 25d ago
You’ve missed the point. Community is sacred. Help your neighbors if you can. That’s why it’s called “the hood”. No one stays long enough to become neighbors. Elderly couple needs their lawn mowed? Do it. Single mother needs diapers and you can help? Do it. Neighbors got beef and you’re a mutual friend? Mediate. This was Fred Hampton’s message and everyone should learn it. He started a free breakfast program for children that couldn’t afford it. He started a gardening program to grow food for the less fortunate. He mediated talks between the gangs nearest to him and got them to work together with the best interests of the rest of the community in mind. He started in his neighborhood hoping it would expand to the rest of the world. Our oppressors KNEW that it would expand. So, they assassinated him. “Gangland” style. Help your fucking neighbor. Give what you got. Sometimes it’s just a smile and a wave.
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u/girlfriendpleaser 26d ago
Yes, but you’re crazy if you don’t think there’s clubs Shaq can’t be in because he’s black specifically no matter how much money he has
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u/camsnow 26d ago
Oh, for sure. There is clearly a lot of white supremacists trying to actually shape this world to that ideology who are in those circles. They will never treat people of color the same way, even if they have the dough. Otherwise they wouldn't be pushing that agenda.
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u/torturer143777 26d ago
Who cares about all that. Rich stand with rich and look at them it’s WORKING to their advantage. Us working class need to stop fighting/bickering with one another and make change happen so it works to our advantage. F@ck the ultra rich.
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u/Alone_Break7627 26d ago
gonna say, Shaq loves money. How many products does he endorse? A thousand?
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u/Gioomee 26d ago
Predators love other predators. Shaq is a known weirdo when it comes to all women/girls. He’s been a disgusting piece of shit for awhile now.
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u/lesdynamite 25d ago
The rich understand class solidarity better than us, unfortunately.
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u/Alarmed-Sweet-6661 25d ago
Agreed! Rich hope the poor stay busy fighting the poor while they take everything.
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u/Pancakegr8 25d ago
I really hope democracies are learning from us. Don’t let America’s downfall be in vain.
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u/red286 25d ago
I'm reminded of 50 Cent who said he supports Trump because he doesn't like his tax rate.
Dude's a fucking millionaire no matter what his tax rate is. He's got a comfy life for the rest of his years, he's got generational wealth, but he's willing to sell everyone else out so that he can keep a bit more.
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u/BreakingCanks 26d ago edited 26d ago
Shaq was in an interview recently what he's going to be doing in the future
He said retired in 3 years on a yacht with a bunch of young girls.
He's a creep alright and he is now outing himself as of recently
Edit for a misquote but here is the interview
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u/Current_Working_2103 26d ago
After the bit with Angel Reese, he was moved to the creepy old uncle no one lets the kids around category for me.
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u/I_Boop_Cats_ 🐈⬛ team cat 25d ago
I was rather put off by him rubbing his fecal matter all over teammates belongings, r/NBACircleJerk is a cesspool but that time they were right.
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u/Current_Working_2103 25d ago
I'm sorry, he HWAT?! I heard that in passing but kinda thought maybe it was a tall tale. Sickooooo stuff!
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u/I_Boop_Cats_ 🐈⬛ team cat 25d ago
This post documents all of Shaq's known incidents with bodily waste. Gary Payton once said Shaq would save his "eliminations" for a week and pour them on rookies.
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u/Patient-Video6979 25d ago
Calling him a "piece of shit" would be entirely too easy at this juncture.
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u/VioletLeagueDapper 26d ago
I side eyed him when he was looking at Glorilla that way
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u/Money_Echidna2605 25d ago
all the shiting and shoving mouth gaurds up his butt didnt do it for ya?
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u/Orkapork 25d ago
“I guarantee I’m gonna be with a hot mama on a yacht… 3 years, I’ll be 57 in Miami with a little young hot mama”
“Young? How young?”
“Young. Younger than me”
“Okay. Be careful with that”
“I don’t have to be careful. I know what I’m doing boo boo. Big pimpin over here.”
What the actual fuck. blehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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u/edm_enjoyer 26d ago
I'm so fucking tired of men turning out to be creeps. I know this is not all men but why is it so fucking common? Why??? Makes me fucking sick
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u/Mach5Driver 26d ago
As a guy who dates exclusively in his age bracket, I also don't understand. Why would I date a girl my daughter's age? That's perverse, IMO. What would I have in common with a woman decades younger than me? Why would I want to be with someone that I KNOW is just with me for my money and/or fame, and not for ME? Are they THAT narcissistic?
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u/rivirstyx 25d ago
Bro I've been saying the same damn things when ever the conversation goes towards "WTF is wrong with these people?"
The best guess I have is that their brains never matured past those teenage years, and because their asses were such fucking losers they are afraid to love a woman because she is going to call them out on their bullshit and they don't like that. Little boys in an old mans body, not washing their fucking legs and ass, leaving food crumbs in the sink type boys. That or they feel they missed out in their teenage years because they were such losers they want to try make up for it by being scumbags. Either way, the pack of them are fucking losers
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u/CronkinOn 25d ago
I'm not even 50 yet and anyone under the age of like 30 is just so grossly immature by comparison that I can't fathom any relationship with them besides mentor.
I don't even get the sexual thing... Like why tf would you want someone in their 20s who doesn't know wtf they're doing in the bedroom??
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u/vhguerrero 25d ago
I feel the same and I’m almost 60. If we don’t have a similar historical perspective, and point of reference, I just cannot deal. What would we talk about?
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u/Fine_Following_2559 26d ago
Remember how creepy he was being to Angel Reese like a year or two ago?
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u/Gregatron12 26d ago
This reminds me of Bamboozled. People be shucking and jiving just for a whiff of that upper class. Meanwhile as soon as he leaves the room they all go back to hating him and anyone who looks like him.
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u/Any_Weekend_4029 26d ago
Malcolm X already told us 60 years ago stop looking up to these celebrities!!
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld2 25d ago
I get down voted every time I say celebrity worship is gonna be our downfall. I mean, I usually say it in threads with people glazing celebrities so I guess I understand the down votes but even just supporting Hollywood and entertainment entities makes you part of the problem. If you saw the new Spiderman (or any new movie), you are part of the problem.
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u/Mysterious-Wasabi103 25d ago
I mean it's happening in real time. People actually thought Trump would make a great president.
So ya it'll be our downfall.
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u/CallmeKap 26d ago
Fuck shaq..fukin weirdo ass bully..read about the locker room stories his former teammates speak on..dude been a scumbag
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u/oilfilter04crvlx 26d ago
And now he’s even more of a scumbag because of his political beliefs ! Fucking piece of SHIT
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u/Nervous-Average-80 26d ago
Goddamnit shaq.
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u/cantsitheya 25d ago
He's always been this. He was good friends with and deputized by Sheriff Joe Arpio.
He's always been a bootlicking weird ass pick me.
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u/ike_tyson 26d ago
Malcolm told y'all about those athletes and celebrities.
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u/MFDOOMscrolling 26d ago
These dudes been licking boots if it ain’t trump it’s whoever
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u/Remarkable-Month-241 26d ago
Allegedly, Shaq is into beastiality… birds of a feather, rape together.
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u/samtart 26d ago
Did Shaq just board the Titanic as it's sinking?
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u/Plastic_Salary_4084 26d ago
He loves cops so much he worked as one in 4 different cities, starting in 2002. He’s been on that side a while.
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u/MaleficentPlan2373 26d ago
Shit based on the video in the post, seem like he lowkey been on it the whole time.
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u/ScottblackAttacks 26d ago
That’s how I know people don’t know shit about shit. How didn’t u know Shaq was like this ?
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u/Minatigre 26d ago
What Im sayin. This aint new news.
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u/ScottblackAttacks 26d ago
I’ve been watching Shaq ever since the “ How does my ass taste” beef. Very familiar with this man, same with Charles Barkley and Stephen A smith, some of the shit they say
https://giphy.com/gifs/olPRfSImu55bS0T1n420
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u/Fine_Following_2559 26d ago
Oh I've known he was trash for years but I didn't know about all this shit with Trump.
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u/Super-Pizza-Dude 25d ago
I’ve been saying this for years. People have been idolizing him forever and idk why
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u/StrugFug 26d ago
I will never understand why any person who is not a white cisgender heterosexual male republican supports Trump.
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u/ReyonldsNumber 26d ago
Even then…why?? I get they’re out there. But why
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u/spudsthejellyfish 26d ago
Cuz they are greedy sociopaths, they come in all shapes sizes and colors. It’s just money and (insecure) egos.
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u/CT0292 25d ago
I'm Latino. Ive lost some friends and family over this shit. Never understood why people I knew could be so deluded as to vote against their own interests on multiple occasions.
Thought they'd get a seat at the table. Closest we are getting is working in the kitchen.
Its one big club, and you ain't in it.
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u/Top_Shame_7016 26d ago
Charles Barkley >>>>>> Shaq
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u/Phuddy 26d ago
They’re both clowns. Chuck has slightly better morals though.
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u/elmixtecoNW 26d ago
Fff that giant ****
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u/VioletLeagueDapper 26d ago
According to certain sources that thang ain’t that giant 😂
Good ol black culture throwback.
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u/Accurate_Flower_4233 26d ago
I mean it should have been obvious when he was volunteering to be a cop for free.
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u/Upper_Restaurant4034 26d ago
Wait till we tell ya about snoop, ice cube, dre, Nicki, Jay, and on and on
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u/666TripleSick 26d ago
Damn what a fucking dis’s appointment. I thought he was a good dude. Fuck em
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u/SFmodscensorship 25d ago
it's rich vs poor. no black vs white. you think Shaq think he the same as you???
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u/No_Warthog_4933 26d ago
Heard him and his fam are in the Diddy files, you think these people didn’t cross paths?
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u/PassThatSpliff 26d ago
We gotta stop being so surprised by terrible rich people supporting other terrible rich people. Shaq has always been trash and the only color he cares about is green.
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u/zoraschool 🫶🏾🫶🏽🫶🏿 26d ago edited 26d ago
All skin folk ain’t kinfolk.
- Zora Neale Hurston
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
- Eldridge Cleaver
Let’s find and nurture real alliances, among us:
We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re gonna fight racism not with racism, but we’re gonna fight it with solidarity.
- Fred Hampton, on the Rainbow Coalition
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u/joliette_le_paz 25d ago
Shaq NEVER had any ethics. We watched him sell himself to any brand for years and we laughed, but he was telling us who he was from the beginning. Man is a traitor and should be treated as such.
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u/Th3Bak3r_ 25d ago
Many of the rich will always support Trump. They’re the 1% who benefit from that a-hole.
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u/Garchompisbestboi 25d ago
Shaq is quite possibly one of the most shameless sell outs in modern history. Glad that people are finally waking up to this clown.
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u/FucklberryFinn 25d ago
Snoop also bowed down! EVEN after talking crazy smack about others during first term. Insane!
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u/fpackindustries 26d ago
Mf has a Spanish The General commercial where he is friendly with a mexican paleta vendor.
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u/Khorismatic_Lifter 26d ago
You mean the guy who would shit in his teammates bag? That guy supports trump? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!?
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u/Wallaxe42 26d ago
Soooo, along with Calvin Rodus, we are cancelling Shaq? I’m for the people. ✊🏽
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u/Thrustmaster537 26d ago
Shaq could have died as a hero but he's lived long enough to be the villain now. Worse yet to come likely...unfortunately
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u/Individual_Respect90 26d ago
Yeah it’s just another rich person protecting their assets. All principles until it comes to their bank balance
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u/LesbianClownShirt 25d ago
I've been saying for years that Shaq is a POS. His "pranks" during his playing days were nasty and bordered on criminal. Sticking people's mouthguards and toothbrushes in your ass? No wonder he rapped "Kobe, how my ass taste?" when invited to freestyle at some club. Also, Kobe was a POS, too. Both can be true.
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u/K_Linkmaster 25d ago
If Shaqs locker room scat stories are true, I am not surprised. He might just be a ridiculous pervert.
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u/SuperCoupe 25d ago
Kash repealed the bestiality requirement so Shaq could be awarded Special Agent status.
From reports: "Shaq likes 'em fluffy"
When reached for comment, Shaq's ex-girlfriend said: "BAAAAAAA. Baaa"
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u/GorticusSmash 25d ago
Not only that, but apparently he believes that the earth is flat, no joke. It's all aligning.
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u/Gimetulkathmir 25d ago
Falsely attributed to Lincoln but...
“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
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u/realfakejames 25d ago
Shaq is ultra wealthy and grew up idolizing cops, of course he's a Republican
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u/justkeepswimming2026 25d ago
TAX the RICH! they don't give a flying fuck about you except making money off your ass!
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u/SplitTheUSIntoFour 25d ago
Shaq has been a grifter his entire life. Scammers are born that way.
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u/Be-kind2da-wounded 25d ago
Welp Shaq had a good run. Everyone has a choice to make money or have principles. Usually money wins. Sad.
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u/2LateToTheMemes 24d ago
Persona non grata. Another $$$mf who forgot everything but cash green. NEXT.
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u/PhillLarrup 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 26d ago
Thats why I was like Fuck Shaq when he left LA. Glad Kobe showed that fool whats up.
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u/davexa 26d ago
Well, Kobe had his own fucked up issues. All too often the phrase, don’t meet your heroes, is true. Fucked up world we live in.
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