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MADem

(135,425 posts)
30. I asked you a direct question. You are not giving me a direct answer.
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 10:24 PM
Aug 2015

I really don't want to play twenty questions.

I just want to know if you were comparing sharks to black people who have been killed in this post:


Nuclear Unicorn (16,526 posts)

How I know you hate the Mojave bull shark.

The plight of the Mojave bull shark is pretty dire. I think it's fair to say there aren't many left in the world.

But you decided to get together with your friends and watch the season premiere of Big Bang Theory. You know, the one where Leonard and Penny are having uncertainties about their relationship. You weren't hurting anybody but neither were you bringing awareness to the Mojave bull shark.

So I came into your house. I just walked in the door, marched right up to your TV, changed the station and made you watch a half-hour documentary about the endangered bull sharks of the Mojave desert.

You even offered me some of your guacamole and chips but it was the kind with the peas in it.

But now your friends are blasting me on social media as if I was somehow out-of-line. Excuse me for not living up to your expectations, Mr. "We were watching this other show." It's obvious the kind of people you hang out with. Just like it's obvious how little regard you have for this important issue.

Stop being such a hater, hater.
What Fa Duck? Hoppy Aug 2015 #1
Ugh. I know you think you're being clever, but I think you're coming off as flippant and tone-deaf. MADem Aug 2015 #2
Good heavens! elias49 Aug 2015 #3
Maybe you can explain what that means. I'm not getting your point. MADem Aug 2015 #4
Oh well. elias49 Aug 2015 #5
I guess you're not going to explain what you meant, then? nt MADem Aug 2015 #6
Nice collage anyway. nt elias49 Aug 2015 #7
It's a collage of dead people. Click on the link and you'll see their stories. nt MADem Aug 2015 #8
god. cyberswede Aug 2015 #35
I could be wrong, but I think what was meant........ WillowTree Aug 2015 #10
I think the OP was a dismissive allegory mocking the real urgency/angst of the #BLM protesters. MADem Aug 2015 #11
I wasn't talking about the OP. WillowTree Aug 2015 #14
This whole thread is a trainwreck. MADem Aug 2015 #17
So you weren't really interested in the explanation you asked for more than once. WillowTree Aug 2015 #19
No--as you can see, I asked for an explanation and never got one. MADem Aug 2015 #20
Not dismissive of the fact the polic are out of control. I have made plenty of posts about the Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #22
I am sorry, I don't see any "soul crushing injustice" in your OP. MADem Aug 2015 #23
BLM is not the end-all, be-all expression of outrage over what has been happening. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #25
I'm not getting anywhere, here. Let me ask you directly, then. MADem Aug 2015 #26
I'm comparing a legitimate, worthy and important cause to bull sharks. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #29
I asked you a direct question. You are not giving me a direct answer. MADem Aug 2015 #30
There is no one particular cause I'm speaking to. Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #31
Your evasion is indicative of a person cowering behind implication LanternWaste Aug 2015 #42
I know many would find it convenient if they could pin #BLM to the OP but the fact remains Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #43
And a politician giving a canned stump speech in public isn't friends sitting watching tv KittyWampus Aug 2015 #28
I find it odd hfojvt Aug 2015 #32
Seriously? You think he deserved to DIE, and his body left on the street for four and a half hours? MADem Aug 2015 #34
so I can put you in the denial column? hfojvt Aug 2015 #40
You can put me in the "Bad cop, idiotic escalation, unnecessary death, brutal and disrespectful MADem Aug 2015 #41
denial by any other name hfojvt Aug 2015 #44
Yeah? Well you have a very nice day. Mike Brown did not have to die--bad policing killed him. nt MADem Aug 2015 #45
yeah, sorry hfojvt Aug 2015 #47
Don't be so surprised. BKH70041 Aug 2015 #9
Ya know what this forum needs? Adrahil Aug 2015 #12
Huh? The Mojave bull shark is our civic mascot! KamaAina Aug 2015 #13
Good grief. This is about as LiberalElite Aug 2015 #15
Sorry, I thought s/he was talking about the Mud Shark hifiguy Aug 2015 #16
Well, it's destined to take it's place in your mythology. cyberswede Aug 2015 #36
UNREC. zappaman Aug 2015 #18
I can believe in the existence of a Mojave bull shark, but petronius Aug 2015 #21
or more accurately edhopper Aug 2015 #24
More like watching Big Bang Theory in the town square not in someone's house…. KittyWampus Aug 2015 #27
The frickin Mojave bull shark is the reason nobody surfs anymore at Zabriskie Point struggle4progress Aug 2015 #33
Are your guns safe or ought I be concerned? hunter Aug 2015 #37
I know your trying to be entertainingly foolish but there actually is potential for odd fish in the west now. DaGoogler21 Aug 2015 #38
Yeah, this is about your level. Starry Messenger Aug 2015 #39
lalz Blue_Tires Aug 2015 #46
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