donald sterling is a horrible person

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmfnCz9CcAEbaGh.jpg

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.

http://www.wwe.com/f/wysiwyg/image/2013/04/20130430_DX1_642.jpg

Good to see the thread is back on track.

chyna looks so happy there.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/clippers-retire-donald-sterling-jersey,35910/

A friend of mine created this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx9pXSaAAps&list=UU0vRcJh1-GQL_V4qm5F6xFw

that's great

ha

nice

kudos

so, who's in the running to buy the clippers?

• oprah
• diddy
• mayweather
• magic
• rick ross
• matt damon
• the most interesting man in the world
• the exhumed body of ronald reagan

mitt romney

i knew it.

bruce wayne

Been needing to buy some new clippers for a while.

would be cool if bruce wayne bought the clippers. plus invites tie-ins with the clippers existing superhero team.

http://www.mybs.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/the-griffin-force.jpg

Maybe the Winkelvosses can buy them and change the name to the Bitcoin Ballers or something

los angeles generals of south park

http://feedly.com/k/1pQ8YiQ

Sterling beat his kids in the presence of reporters.

[S]o much of his behavior — extreme parsimony, discriminatory practices, wild sexual escapades — was deemed too weird, too cruel, too contemptible. An editor told me, "You've demonized him."

is literally a demon

Whatever the official line is, I don't really buy that no one is considering his past in this decision. I'm guessing there are at least a few owners and league officials who have thought he was bad for the league for a while now.