donald sterling is a horrible person

The Los Angeles Bulgogi Cheesesteaks

last sammich I had in LA was so good that they should name team after it

BTW can I just say I think "We Are One" is kind of cheap and stupid even if well-meaning, and I hate how they already had TV spots using it ready to go for last night's game

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:52 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no you cannot say that sorry this thread is not for the haters

still think an NBA team should call themselves the Ballers

i'm down w/the sentiment but the execution felt less grassroots and more like a really slick ad campaign, like let's take this incident and boil it down to a three word catchphrase as quickly as possible.

We've already decided to not be cynical about this and just enjoy it

see also: BOSTON STRONG

Well that was a scam with t shirts and everything

No cynicism until shirted

The Los Angeles Actors/Waiters

The Los Angeles Fear of Aging

ballers don't liars

The Los Angeles Old Man Nutsucks

The Los Angeles Lapbands

yeah the "we are one" was kind of lame as far as "statements" go, but imo just making any "statement" was enough at that point

ugh Boston Strong. That one doubly irks me. It's not fucking Dresden.

wow insensitive much

wow dude

The Los Angeles BALL

only beef with boston strong is I read that shirts were being sold under pretense that profits were donated but were not

they were prob donated to bostonians tho

good point. i am totally down with it now.

Would we otherwise expect a city to be "weak" a year after a terrorist attack at a sports event? I get that it's a trauma, but it seems like such an easy self-pat on the back for something that didn't directly impact most people in the city. Three deaths and 140 injuries.

sry injury number was low but same idea

hurting if i even meet you im going to literally beat u up then u will understand what boston strong is all about

they shut down an entire neighborhood for the manhunt iirc

it happened at a major public event

the whole city shuts down that day

you can imagine for a moment if you stop being a dick, how scared people would be. not just adults. kids, teenagers. have some compassion.

lol if by "entire neighborhood" you mean "5 towns and 60% of the city of Boston"

I am pretty cynical about BOSTON STRONG seeing as I brought it up here and all but I'm at least sensible enough to leave it at "I am pretty cynical about it" partially because I know someone who had her foot blown off and it seems beyond evil to be overly cynical about her actual missing foot

exactly. and even seeing it all (from a distance) happen at locations where you've been is scary and justifies a confidence building campaign.

did not mean to play things down with "entire neighborhood". I wasn't there, and I just remember how surreal everything that took place in the final neighborhood also was.

I live in NYC and I was cynical about a lot of the branding and sloganizing of 9/11, and I know multiple people who lost relatives. If "Boston Strong" is actually a balm to any of you then I take back what I said.

xp "play things down" = "downplay things"?, i don't know

oh you live in NYC, that explains it

i dont really care i was just making fun of the ponderousness of your argument fwiw

i mean obvs #bostonstrong is dumb but w/e it was a terrible traumatic event

I kind of don't feel like I deserve a "strong" badge because I got scared on the subway a couple times and survived.

its ok no one is trying to give u a badge

but no one would argue with you if you wanted one unless that person was being an insensitive dick

fair enough

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it's perfectly understandable for a community to rally together when it is PHYSICALLY attacked, and to affirm that it is too strong to be made to cower in fear by its past or future attackers. it's one of the few times most American urbanites are able to tap into a sense of community and togetherness, I'm for it even if I kinda roll my eyes at some of it.

she joined daft punk

#bostonpunk

bosstones strong

ho niice

mighty mighty

why didn't sterling stage a counter-demonstration outside the staples center last night, flanked by an entourage of angry supporters? it could have been like when the NWO showed-up in new york, to heckle the WWE outside a filming of raw. donald t. sterling needs to start thinking big.

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