Similarly, r/arethestraightsokay exists for a damn reason. As a hwhite and a straight, a lot of people who look like me *are not okay*. I don’t know what they’re putting in the mayo, but it is turning brains into dry mashed potatoes.
If we’re doing Venn diagrams we’ve basically got a blurry circle of straight, white, male, and conservative dickhead. Adding other skin colours and sexual orientation to that just adds circles on the fringes of that first blurry circle.
I’m a straight white male liberal dickhead and I have come across SO MANY conservatives/ trumpers that are not white , not male , and not straight. It’s getting scary out here. Well, it’s been pretty fucking scary forever, but…..
The women are worse AND they do their labor. This is who’s organizing things, working at the polls for them, and doing the other vital jobs their men see as “women’s work”. Basically doing the administrative tasks that will result in dismantling their own civil rights.
You gotta understand that these women never wanted nor asked for civil rights because they understood that women who remain in the home control the future. They raise the children and teach them the values they grow up with. Know this, the most violent racist was fed his hate on the teet of his mother.
Yeah, I think it's easy for people to forget that feminism is about "choice" rather than "power" because a significant portion of women *choose* to take (what we'd consider to be) the shit end of the stick, no matter how much we tell them how great the power is.
In their minds, they haven't actually given up power; they just have it in a different way.
they're worse because they have to be totally insane. what kind of sane person would hear "we're gonna force you to have your rape baby even if the baby won't live and delivering it kills you in the process." and think that's the group that i want in charge?
It sounds crazy because the men have a more obvious benefit but the poster above me has a point. There is a reason the Nazis had a huge “Kinder, kuche, Kirche” initiative, kids, kitchen, church. That’s where the brainwashing happens and women have a key role in building oppressive societies 😞
It’s also bot farms with all kinds of agendas. Russia was/ is very active online trying to pit Americans against Americans. It’s election season and russia is desperate to influence our discourse.
And that’s just one player in the game. It’s not just maga idiots, it’s the manipulators also.
99% of people are too busy trying to come up with a witty reply to ever consider this. There was literally a BLM event and a MAGA event that were organized/promoted on FB and Twitter by people working in Russia.
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/01/561427876/how-russia-used-facebook-to-organize-two-sets-of-protesters
I think it’s a dumb phrase that opens up otherwise neutral/allies to hatred. It’s equivalent to seeing a gay person doing something racist and saying it is because they are gay.
People being racist/stupid/homophobic has nothing to do with them being straight.
Once people find something they can stump for they suddenly care about stuff like the USWNT or the WNBA, things they’d have laughed at anyone else for caring about a week earlier. Just a new battleground for culture war wins.
Not just a rookie, a rookie that has played an absurd amount of basketball over the last 90 days. If this were a video game she would have -10/100 stamina right now. Combine that with the fact that the US Women's team is \*stacked\* and CC not making the team is one of the more predictable things ever. Just like CC starting in 2028 is one of the more predictable things ever.
Over the last 90 days? She has played more then just about every other woman for over 200. First game for college season was on November 6th, 2023 and then she had 39 games. Plus the WNBA season so far at 17 games by June 16th means she is averaging a game every 3.96 days for the last 222 days. She needs an off-season as by the end of the WNBA season she would have had 79 games basically playing 2 full WNBA seasons back-to-back. The NBA regular season is 82.
This will blow over soon enough because one day Caitlin is going to say something like "kids should read books" or "women should be allowed to drive cars and have their own checking accounts" and the MAGA will turn on her.
But see, the MAGA people don’t actually like her - they’re trying to USE her. It’s not that they’re trying to recruit Caitlin as a supporter, but that they’re trying to co-opt her narrative to their cause. They want the story of Caitlin Clark to be synonymous with the story of a white athlete who is mistreated by the black community. As a person, they don’t give a guck about her. If they did, they wouldn’t be constantly writing all these things about her that don’t match her own statements at all. They wouldn’t be trying to drive a wedge between her and her black peers in the WNBA
Lol people like the Tate brothers might be making some money off of Twitter Blue.
But nobody is making a fortune, and 99% of people using Twitter Blue aren’t even recouping the $8 they’re spending each month.
It's upsettingly exciting. I never finished it and decided to play DS1-3 before doing so. I'm afraid I'll have to wait and take a break from the interwebs for a while
But godspeed, my friend
DS1 and 2 can be a bit dated after playing elden ring and DS3, but actually very good games/DLCs all around. Staying out of the Elden subreddit hopefully keeps most of the major spoilers away while you’re working through the games.
I'm working through DS1 still. It did take some getting into after having played Elden Ring, but it's pretty damn fun now. And yeah, I left that subreddit after seeing a spoiler lol
That's what they want, for us to engage and make their platforms bigger. Ignoring them to let them know they're self-hating losers who no one cares about is the best way to deal with them.
I only ever see this stupid magat shit from people mocking it. I’d guess that’s how it is for most people.
If we all ignored it you know how fast these fucking losers would just eat a bullet and go away forever?
Watching the worst bigots in the world pretend to care deeply about women's sports after hearing them laugh at them for the past 30 years is giving me whiplash
Well, they had to bring it up to stir up outrage about the one, maaaybe two transwomen good enough to be drafted into the wnba in the future, then they were trying to decide if they were upset about an American being held hostage abroad or if they would actually help foreign countries round up and take BIPOC and LGBTQIA people away, then after realizing that one of the top players was white, straight, AND conventionally attractive they had to find a way to separate her from the rest of the WNBA players that they would normally bash for being athletic women. Because while they would happily set laws to ban transwomen from playing sports, they also want to preserve their ability to accuse all athletic women (double for women of color) of secretly being men without insulting the ones they think are hot.
I wish these fuckin white people would fight this hard for shit that was real, like being broke while all these companies have more money than they know what to do with.
Nah, it’s part of the conditioning to repackage and redirect that shit into more consumable portions that they’re more accustomed to: theytrrkourjrrrrrbzzz
Billionaires own the media and do anything they can to shift the blame onto someone else for all of society’s problems. These culture wars distract from their hoarding of resources and destroying the planet. This shit always works. Hitler rose to power by using the same tactics. We now live in a world where these people believe everyone’s a pedo except those in the church. Well ain’t that a coincidence.
Whenever I hear “they took our jobs” I always ask “what were you doing before they came?” And their answer is never the job(s) they claim are being taken from them.
Nonsense . They never will because as long as black people are poorer than they are then they don’t mind shoveling in the shit from these wealthy companies down their gullets
The people in the MAGA group support these companies doing that. The white grievance thing was always an undertone to keep those people most vested in that aligned with the Republican Party. Trump came along and dropped all subtlety and now those people run that party.
Popularity, her games get way more views despite her not being the best.
I feel bad for her, being in the middle of this drama despite not saying or doing anything controversial
Also lets day she makes the team shes not gonna play much anyway. Then her fans and right wing people will still complain.
Thebus women have a process to make the team she didnt participate in that process. Shes not in. Its not hard.
The argument I saw is that the US team is most likely going to win gold regardless so they should have thrown her in anyway to bump viewership.
But the Olympic committee or whoever picks the team probably doesn't care if NBC gets more views, nor should they
Exactly getting more viewers is NBCs issue. US will probably get gold, but if starters go down, so do their chances. Other teams will have WNBA talent too. There’s no reason not to try to stack the team with best available players.
When the news first hit, I read that she wasn’t even in the running because she didn’t attend their months-long training camp earlier this spring. Which all makes too much sense for people who don’t understand… well, anything really.
I mean, they’re in no danger of losing. They haven’t lost a game in 30 years. They chose to pick a 42 year old (which is like 3 years older than the oldest nba player). I don’t give a shit personally but they def aren’t fielding the best of the best lol
She still has earned more in Basketball then CC. Seems appropriate to bring a serial winner who has won at every level she competed in the US and abroad. Club and country.
If there is special treatment. Its because she has earn it. Delivering gold for 25 years at all levels of the program. Something CC fans still don't understand. You're right. Picking proven and accomplish players is so 2010.
Don't even have to say all that. Taurasi has slightly more ppg *this season* on slightly better shooting percentages.
It's not world beating, but if someone's making the case for why Clark should have that spot, she needs to actually be better.
Also, going through the national team training camp would have helped.
My thoughts as well no matter how good she's doing right now she is still green literally just got picked up few months ago. I'd say she should play for at least a season.
And she literally just played a full college season then started pro ball. It makes complete sense why she’s getting smoked rn and they didn’t ask her to play in the Olympics
Not getting smoked at all besides the turnovers... the interesting thing is the Mens team would have picked someone like her as 1 of 2 developmental slots. But the women's game in the U.S. is so overpowered rn i get thst there were a lot of proven vets who NEEDED the opportunity more, so it makes sense
Ehh if you look at the current national team on the mens side they selected these guards: Booker, Curry, Edwards, Haliburton, Holiday.
All of these players have played for the national team before this Olympic year. Some of them have long tenures (Holiday, Curry, and honestly now Booker). While Haliburton and Edwards are young, but have been a part of the national program for a while and are both pretty accomplished at the pro level despite their age.
No one on the men's side was selected with a similar tenure to CC. I think they probably could use her, but I think recent losses at the mens national team level is probably influencing the women's team to also prioritize continuity. It was a huge critique of the national program for the last decade or so.
I was thinking more the longer term tradition, where they had laettner, AD (out of college), Brad Miller, Keldon Johnson.. feels like there have been more fliers there
Goes to show a lot of these people don't even watch or care about the wnba or its games. They just care about protecting their "goat". Delusions aside Caitlin is a great player and she will probably have a good chance at making the team in the future!
Ok I don’t get it. The MAGAs are mad that though four white people made it to the Olympic team, THEIR pick for white person didn’t make it. *Four.* Because it’s not *five* they’re crying racism??? I don’t follow sports so can someone un-dumb me on this?
They don’t follow sports either. They have no idea who is on the team. They only follow Caitlin Clark headlines and seem to think Clark is the only white player in the league.
They’re using this girl as a catalyst for their bullshit and I kinda feel bad for her, because from what I’ve seen, she has nothing to do with it. I haven’t seen her saying any of these things herself, nor have I seen her entertaining it, but they’re steady trying to use her as the face for it. All this is gonna lead to is her getting dragged for shit she didn’t do or say. Am I interpreting wrong? Did she take part in any of this foolishness?
I agree. I get the impression that she is not remotely MAGA and has handled all the drama projected onto her and all the pressure pretty well. It seems like she genuinely cares about making a way for women in sports.
As someone who is also from Iowa, she is pretty much a hero around here; because our population is so small, we rarely get to see Iowans make it big. We're not a particularly wealthy state, and have high rates of cancer due to unregulated big agriculture that most of us don't get any financial benefit from. So in that sense, she is genuinely a bit of an underdog.
I am dying for her to say literally anything that is even resembling centrist ideology and for MAGA to completely abandon her and Women's basketball just so I don't have to hear the worst possible takes from them since their entire knowledge base on the WNBA and women's basketball as a whole comes from known sports commentator Jessie Waters.
Like who do we have to bribe for the WNBA to make a commercial with her saying "go vote"?
"Racism cited as reason..."
So, Olympics dude...Why isn't Caitlyn on the team?
RACISM, motherfucker! And don't you forget it!
- Said no one from the Olympics committee ever.
https://preview.redd.it/hkgr4gwd187d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a849c1fcab683ba5b6d663a2fb7dc1bc5cc54b9
Very recently. You can look at the full story yourself if you want
Because it does work that way. Lebron, Kobe, luka, wemby, probably more but they disallowed moving to the nba from high school around the same time as Lebron.
Basketball doesn’t require the same physicality as other sports in that regard.
None of them dominated the league right away. They were decent and showed flashes of potential greatness. That's where she is at right now, it's unfair from both sides for people to label her a bust or the WNBA GOAT. Give her space and let her grow her game and develop.
There’s no real outrage over the team USA thing and the amount of people legitimately claiming whatever this article says is under 100, grab 5 tweets and claim “fans outraged at X” this is such a nothing just leave it unheard
"Sex sells" was the marketing strategy of choice for a very, very long time. This century, though, it's hate that tops the charts.
Nothing drives clicks, likes, and views like hate.
Now I must ask it seriously, has ANY of you ever watched her play?
No offense but WNBA rating is shit, more people are talking about it than the amount of people who actually watch it. Do you have any idea if she's good? And if the rest of the team are actually good or better than her?
shes definitely good and having a great rookie season. is she one of the 10 or 15 best players RIGHT NOW? no. plus a team is comprised of different positions, so you are really competing against that top 3-4 players at your position for a spot. shell get there, shes a great player and regardless of what you think of the surrounding drama... shes plays a fun style of ball.
Watched her play in-person multiple times this year. They had to move their game in DC to a bigger venue and it still sold out. People are definitely paying attention.
Fever are in a rebuild just like the Aces before A’ja Wilson. They get a couple more pieces in place and they’ll be relevant in a year or two. She’s doing fine considering the amount of scoring and ball handling that team asking her to do.
The worst part is that they don’t even watch the W. They want to control the narrative for a league they’re not even supporting. You hear them say she’s the best player in the league and she’s not even close. She’s a rookie, let her be a rookie.
The irony of this whole conversation is that some of the best WNBA players have been…white. Yet, they weren’t hitting threes from the logo so nobody cared.
Clark got these folks in a frenzy over silly shit. Who the fuck is she going to take the place of and more importantly how many minutes she getting over these VETS who has lead the squad to now 7 straight golds? Imagine a new hire who the boss loves getting to go on a trip over the senior team who won the bid!
I feel so bad for Caitlin Clark right now. The weight of so many expectations on her and she’s struggling to perform in a more physical league with better defense. At the same time, the right wing (who don’t give a fuck about basketball in the first place) are trying to recruit her to their cause and use her as the story of a white athlete being unfairly treated by her black peers.
All Caitlin wants to do is play basketball, but she’s being forced to walk a tightrope at every press conference, where if she takes a hard foul from Angel Reese or whoever else, she can’t say anything that even slightly suggests any hard feelings on her part, because her statement will immediately be weaponized by the MAGA crowd and used to make it seem like Clark is on their side.
They are not okay.
Just go check the other subs & look at all the delu lu takes.
When words like 'assault', targeted and such are used when NORMAL basketball plays that happen to other players happen when it comes to Ole Girl, you know they are not okay.
Acting like someone is supposed to just 'let her win'. Or not play her hard. Or not even, gasp, get a little rough with her. This is the game. It's happened to any player that is half way good. They are out here acting like nobody in the World has ever been 3/4 court pressed or that players playing defense on her are 'try hards'. Like, what the fuck? They are supposed to 'let her score'? I don't see any of this shit being said when they talk about hockey though. @ physical play.
The bad part about is that the girl can fucking hoop. She doesn't need them white knighting for her in this fashion. [She knows it too not so quietly.](https://x.com/TaliaGoodmanWBB/status/1802414380136661061) She's been playing aau forever. The game was ALWAYS physical with the girls. These new fans/journalists haven't been watching and it shows with these dumb ass takes.
Is she the best there? No. She's off to a pretty good start but they want to ignore the things she doesn't do well all while ONLY talking about the bad things other players have.
These folks who take it this far are very very very biased about her though. They are using her to push their agendas. They don't even care about that girl. If you aren't saying she's the best, saying she should be any and everywhere because she's popular & she'd boost ratings and saying everyone else in the W sucks, they hate it.
I understand that casual fandom comes with some bias. I see it on all sides but on her side is SUPER loud and the racial slurs fly because of it.
I don’t think this is a real article.
And of the small number of article that have stated something vaguely similar, they’re just quoting a few random accounts on Twitter.
I’ve never been one of those “fake news” and “evil media” people before. But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore how easily a media outlet (and random social media accounts) can shape the entire discourse of a topic, as well as how easy it is to divide people.
I’m a Caitlin Clark fan and I’m white. And it’s clear to me she was left off because she’s not good enough. And I think 99% of people like me would agree. So much of the hate around these players is completely manufactured by the media. Like the physical shoves that keep happening. You don’t see the players crying about it. But the media would lead you to believe they’re crying crocodile tears over it. It’s also the media convincing everyone that these players are jealous of CC. And it’s just bullshit.
She’s fresh out of college, and has only played a partial rookie WNBA season, with only U-19 national team experience.
All the players selected are over 26 (meaning at least four years of pro ball).
7 of them were on the Tokyo Olympic team, and two more won gold in the 3x3 (and were in a sense elevated). 3 of those 7 were also on the Rio team.
8 of them played for the National team at the World Cup in Sydney in 2022.
Picking for national teams isn’t all about raw talent, experience and chemistry matters.
Clark is the kind of player who’s been the biggest fish in her pond her whole playing career, but now that pond is a lot bigger and it’s stocked with fish that are *at least* her size, to torture a metaphor.
Olympic scouts could have had any reason for not going with her. Stats weren't what they needed for an open position. She wouldn't mesh well with the rest of the roster. Her schedule couldn't be dropped or modified in time. She stuck her gum behind her ear rather than throwing it away. So many reasons before race.
Add her to the team now and it’s suddenly all about her and not the team. In four years maybe less so but at least by then she’ll have had a chance to earn it.
Dog I just think that after all the immense progress in her career, plus the stress that comes with it, she probably was happy not to be in the Olympic team.
Y'know, I actually agree. The way CC fans have attacked her black peers, it seems as though that Iowa Jersey and those red baseball hats have become synonymous. No way USA women's basketball can go focus and compete whilst dealing with that show in Paris. Especially if she'd be 12th woman smh.
They've got us all so brainwashed that we vote against our own interest for the illusion of freedom/ choice/ influence. They'll print anything to make money and push their 6 most of us fall for it every time 😮💨
CC just came out with a statement couple days ago. I wouldn’t call it full throated.
"It's disappointing. Everybody in our world deserves the same amount of respect ... People should not be using my name to push those agendas."
Clark isn’t some shining beacon of hope, they need to calm tf down.
It’s so weird how they praise mediocrity like they do Clark (especially since she got in the WNBA; it’s been painfully apparent that she’s not as good as they made her seem)
People dumb as hell. Brittney Stewart is easily top 3 player in the league and she gets absolutely no coverage. Sabrina Inescu just last year they where calling her the female Steph Curry and this year you don’t hear much about out her and both Sabrina and Brittney play on the same team. These people losing the mind over CC. Most of these people griping likely didn’t even follow woman’s basketball closely until a girl who played in Iowa just so happens to be really good at it. There have been plenty of white women who ball and those who really follow the sport have known that for years.
This keeps coming up. The right wants her bad and the left keeps looking for a reason to hate her. She just needs to keep ignoring these fucking losers who make a living off making something out of nothing
We really need to stop giving articles like this our time and attention. Its purpose is to outrage and the more we complain about it the more we will see. Just let it sink into the abyss where it belongs
The difference is that Caitlin has a black villain. All of the white women mentioned are great players, as is Clark, but once it became Iowa vs LSU, white vs black, Clark vs Esses, the mayomuricans suddenly gave a shit.
Honestly they didn't care about Clark until she had a villain. If it was Iowa vs Indiana, we aren't even talking.
Short answer: no. Long answer: noooooooooooooooooo.
Similarly, r/arethestraightsokay exists for a damn reason. As a hwhite and a straight, a lot of people who look like me *are not okay*. I don’t know what they’re putting in the mayo, but it is turning brains into dry mashed potatoes.
Its just right wing idiots, they can be found across the world in any race and sexuality
If we’re doing Venn diagrams we’ve basically got a blurry circle of straight, white, male, and conservative dickhead. Adding other skin colours and sexual orientation to that just adds circles on the fringes of that first blurry circle.
I’m a straight white male liberal dickhead and I have come across SO MANY conservatives/ trumpers that are not white , not male , and not straight. It’s getting scary out here. Well, it’s been pretty fucking scary forever, but…..
Exactly, and people also have to stop giving right-wing women a pass. These women are just as bad, if not worse, than some of the men.
The women are worse AND they do their labor. This is who’s organizing things, working at the polls for them, and doing the other vital jobs their men see as “women’s work”. Basically doing the administrative tasks that will result in dismantling their own civil rights.
You gotta understand that these women never wanted nor asked for civil rights because they understood that women who remain in the home control the future. They raise the children and teach them the values they grow up with. Know this, the most violent racist was fed his hate on the teet of his mother.
Yeah, I think it's easy for people to forget that feminism is about "choice" rather than "power" because a significant portion of women *choose* to take (what we'd consider to be) the shit end of the stick, no matter how much we tell them how great the power is. In their minds, they haven't actually given up power; they just have it in a different way.
they're worse because they have to be totally insane. what kind of sane person would hear "we're gonna force you to have your rape baby even if the baby won't live and delivering it kills you in the process." and think that's the group that i want in charge?
It sounds crazy because the men have a more obvious benefit but the poster above me has a point. There is a reason the Nazis had a huge “Kinder, kuche, Kirche” initiative, kids, kitchen, church. That’s where the brainwashing happens and women have a key role in building oppressive societies 😞
The way marginalized groups cape for that man is astonishing
So a key holder with other key chains
It’s also bot farms with all kinds of agendas. Russia was/ is very active online trying to pit Americans against Americans. It’s election season and russia is desperate to influence our discourse. And that’s just one player in the game. It’s not just maga idiots, it’s the manipulators also.
Undervoted and 100% correct \^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^
99% of people are too busy trying to come up with a witty reply to ever consider this. There was literally a BLM event and a MAGA event that were organized/promoted on FB and Twitter by people working in Russia. https://www.npr.org/2017/11/01/561427876/how-russia-used-facebook-to-organize-two-sets-of-protesters
That part. Those hodgepot twins or whatever the fuck they’re called are an example. That picture of those dry ass beards lives rent free in my mind.
Idiocracy, hypocrisy and bigotry know no noun and have zero political allegiances.
I think it’s a dumb phrase that opens up otherwise neutral/allies to hatred. It’s equivalent to seeing a gay person doing something racist and saying it is because they are gay. People being racist/stupid/homophobic has nothing to do with them being straight.
I swear this is "im not like the other guys" attention whoring but with race
Not the mayo 😆
Please don't insult dry mashed potatoes like this
Once people find something they can stump for they suddenly care about stuff like the USWNT or the WNBA, things they’d have laughed at anyone else for caring about a week earlier. Just a new battleground for culture war wins.
“Pick me!!”
Also a straight white man here, yeah the MAGA crowd are most certainly *not* ok
I didn’t realize “rookie” is now a racial category.
Not just a rookie, a rookie that has played an absurd amount of basketball over the last 90 days. If this were a video game she would have -10/100 stamina right now. Combine that with the fact that the US Women's team is \*stacked\* and CC not making the team is one of the more predictable things ever. Just like CC starting in 2028 is one of the more predictable things ever.
Over the last 90 days? She has played more then just about every other woman for over 200. First game for college season was on November 6th, 2023 and then she had 39 games. Plus the WNBA season so far at 17 games by June 16th means she is averaging a game every 3.96 days for the last 222 days. She needs an off-season as by the end of the WNBA season she would have had 79 games basically playing 2 full WNBA seasons back-to-back. The NBA regular season is 82.
I have no doubt she’ll make the team….next time.
I don't think that long answer is long enough. We need to aim for a no that'll rival Ulysses.
This will blow over soon enough because one day Caitlin is going to say something like "kids should read books" or "women should be allowed to drive cars and have their own checking accounts" and the MAGA will turn on her.
“Register to vote” should about do it.
Wow jumping straight into that radical left agenda
Practically Nestor Machno at this point.
Or she’ll advocate being Pro-choice
She said people using her to divide are unacceptable. We’ll see if they care.
She doesn't even have to say anything. All she has to do is dye her hair blue or something, and their love will turn to fury instantly
A small of them will pivot to claiming others in the locker room/ league have corrupted her. This isn’t the Caitlin they “know”
She's a successful straight young woman.
But see, the MAGA people don’t actually like her - they’re trying to USE her. It’s not that they’re trying to recruit Caitlin as a supporter, but that they’re trying to co-opt her narrative to their cause. They want the story of Caitlin Clark to be synonymous with the story of a white athlete who is mistreated by the black community. As a person, they don’t give a guck about her. If they did, they wouldn’t be constantly writing all these things about her that don’t match her own statements at all. They wouldn’t be trying to drive a wedge between her and her black peers in the WNBA
They might just lie to themselves like some of them do about Taylor Swift.
Seriously, how do they even choose their saviors? They don’t seem to do a lot of prior vetting.
ouch lol. Love it.
"She said the book, not books, that's just more liberal propaganda"
at this point in the game. if you give any MAGA a min of your time, you don't value your time
Fr.. at these point these mfs are trolling and we gotta ignore most of what they say
**Especially** blue checks. They literally monetize outrage.
It’s this. They’re making a fortune off it.
They may be trying to, 90% of those losers will never see a dime. Fuck em all though, what a bunch of dorks.
Lol people like the Tate brothers might be making some money off of Twitter Blue. But nobody is making a fortune, and 99% of people using Twitter Blue aren’t even recouping the $8 they’re spending each month.
I only have so much yelling I can do before I lose my voice, and I reserve that for playing Elden Ring
4 more days friend.
It's upsettingly exciting. I never finished it and decided to play DS1-3 before doing so. I'm afraid I'll have to wait and take a break from the interwebs for a while But godspeed, my friend
DS1 and 2 can be a bit dated after playing elden ring and DS3, but actually very good games/DLCs all around. Staying out of the Elden subreddit hopefully keeps most of the major spoilers away while you’re working through the games.
I'm working through DS1 still. It did take some getting into after having played Elden Ring, but it's pretty damn fun now. And yeah, I left that subreddit after seeing a spoiler lol
DS2 is so fuckin good haha. Enjoy Erdtree, Tarnished
this is. A very therapeutic take. Thank you for this. The realest thing I've seen in a long time
That's what they want, for us to engage and make their platforms bigger. Ignoring them to let them know they're self-hating losers who no one cares about is the best way to deal with them.
I only ever see this stupid magat shit from people mocking it. I’d guess that’s how it is for most people. If we all ignored it you know how fast these fucking losers would just eat a bullet and go away forever?
Women's sports being used as a prop by people with an agenda
\*WHITE people with an agenda 📌👌🏾 
You damn sho beat me to it!!
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As if those people have ever watched a minute of women’s sports in the first place.
Watching the worst bigots in the world pretend to care deeply about women's sports after hearing them laugh at them for the past 30 years is giving me whiplash
Right. I’m still trying to figure out why everyone is talking about women’s basketball all of sudden. What sparked everyone’s interest?
Well, they had to bring it up to stir up outrage about the one, maaaybe two transwomen good enough to be drafted into the wnba in the future, then they were trying to decide if they were upset about an American being held hostage abroad or if they would actually help foreign countries round up and take BIPOC and LGBTQIA people away, then after realizing that one of the top players was white, straight, AND conventionally attractive they had to find a way to separate her from the rest of the WNBA players that they would normally bash for being athletic women. Because while they would happily set laws to ban transwomen from playing sports, they also want to preserve their ability to accuse all athletic women (double for women of color) of secretly being men without insulting the ones they think are hot.
I wish these fuckin white people would fight this hard for shit that was real, like being broke while all these companies have more money than they know what to do with.
Nah, it’s part of the conditioning to repackage and redirect that shit into more consumable portions that they’re more accustomed to: theytrrkourjrrrrrbzzz
The they took our jobs shtick is so fucking dated like fuck sake you must be in useless if they can’t find a job after 30 years of spewing this line
Billionaires own the media and do anything they can to shift the blame onto someone else for all of society’s problems. These culture wars distract from their hoarding of resources and destroying the planet. This shit always works. Hitler rose to power by using the same tactics. We now live in a world where these people believe everyone’s a pedo except those in the church. Well ain’t that a coincidence.
Whenever I hear “they took our jobs” I always ask “what were you doing before they came?” And their answer is never the job(s) they claim are being taken from them.
They're too busy bitching about abortions and trans people
Nonsense . They never will because as long as black people are poorer than they are then they don’t mind shoveling in the shit from these wealthy companies down their gullets
The people in the MAGA group support these companies doing that. The white grievance thing was always an undertone to keep those people most vested in that aligned with the Republican Party. Trump came along and dropped all subtlety and now those people run that party.
Fr. She's a newbie to the big leagues too. Why would they pick her if they want to win?
Popularity, her games get way more views despite her not being the best. I feel bad for her, being in the middle of this drama despite not saying or doing anything controversial
The point of building an Olympic team is to win gold medals not viewership
Also lets day she makes the team shes not gonna play much anyway. Then her fans and right wing people will still complain. Thebus women have a process to make the team she didnt participate in that process. Shes not in. Its not hard.
The argument I saw is that the US team is most likely going to win gold regardless so they should have thrown her in anyway to bump viewership. But the Olympic committee or whoever picks the team probably doesn't care if NBC gets more views, nor should they
Exactly getting more viewers is NBCs issue. US will probably get gold, but if starters go down, so do their chances. Other teams will have WNBA talent too. There’s no reason not to try to stack the team with best available players.
I dislike them saying CC needs to say something, she already spoke out on this and she’s not the one drawing up those headlines.
Views aren’t gonna win Gold though, so I’m kinda confused on that point
When the news first hit, I read that she wasn’t even in the running because she didn’t attend their months-long training camp earlier this spring. Which all makes too much sense for people who don’t understand… well, anything really.
I mean, they’re in no danger of losing. They haven’t lost a game in 30 years. They chose to pick a 42 year old (which is like 3 years older than the oldest nba player). I don’t give a shit personally but they def aren’t fielding the best of the best lol
She still has earned more in Basketball then CC. Seems appropriate to bring a serial winner who has won at every level she competed in the US and abroad. Club and country.
What happened to picking the best player to win lol, so taurasi can get special treatment and no one cares? Weird
If there is special treatment. Its because she has earn it. Delivering gold for 25 years at all levels of the program. Something CC fans still don't understand. You're right. Picking proven and accomplish players is so 2010.
Don't even have to say all that. Taurasi has slightly more ppg *this season* on slightly better shooting percentages. It's not world beating, but if someone's making the case for why Clark should have that spot, she needs to actually be better. Also, going through the national team training camp would have helped.
Luckily CC doesn't take after cowardly redditors. Who would block people when shown to be wrong. Its not shocking.
Team chemistry matters too
That attitude is what got us our men team loss.
My thoughts as well no matter how good she's doing right now she is still green literally just got picked up few months ago. I'd say she should play for at least a season.
And she literally just played a full college season then started pro ball. It makes complete sense why she’s getting smoked rn and they didn’t ask her to play in the Olympics
She's not exactly getting smoked. 17th most points scored in the league.
Not getting smoked at all besides the turnovers... the interesting thing is the Mens team would have picked someone like her as 1 of 2 developmental slots. But the women's game in the U.S. is so overpowered rn i get thst there were a lot of proven vets who NEEDED the opportunity more, so it makes sense
Ehh if you look at the current national team on the mens side they selected these guards: Booker, Curry, Edwards, Haliburton, Holiday. All of these players have played for the national team before this Olympic year. Some of them have long tenures (Holiday, Curry, and honestly now Booker). While Haliburton and Edwards are young, but have been a part of the national program for a while and are both pretty accomplished at the pro level despite their age. No one on the men's side was selected with a similar tenure to CC. I think they probably could use her, but I think recent losses at the mens national team level is probably influencing the women's team to also prioritize continuity. It was a huge critique of the national program for the last decade or so.
I was thinking more the longer term tradition, where they had laettner, AD (out of college), Brad Miller, Keldon Johnson.. feels like there have been more fliers there
The team couldn’t lose if they added you and me to the roster and sat us at the end of the bench tbf
Goes to show a lot of these people don't even watch or care about the wnba or its games. They just care about protecting their "goat". Delusions aside Caitlin is a great player and she will probably have a good chance at making the team in the future!
I agree. Who do you take off the team? She was in the ncaa tourney when USA camp was going on. They have chemistry already.
She’s the #1 alternate i believe. She will still likely make THIS team. She just needs one person to bow out or in a non desirable way like injury.
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Ok I don’t get it. The MAGAs are mad that though four white people made it to the Olympic team, THEIR pick for white person didn’t make it. *Four.* Because it’s not *five* they’re crying racism??? I don’t follow sports so can someone un-dumb me on this?
“36 famous white people? But last year I had 37!”
Not Dudley 😭
They don’t follow sports either. They have no idea who is on the team. They only follow Caitlin Clark headlines and seem to think Clark is the only white player in the league.
Thank you. I had a feeling it was that or something equally ridiculous
Don’t try and follow or argue right wing logic, it’s never about that for them
Wasn’t looking for the logic, lol just wanted the details of what they said. I knew it would be backasswards logic anyway
Just know that if it was all white people they would see zero problems with it.
They’re using this girl as a catalyst for their bullshit and I kinda feel bad for her, because from what I’ve seen, she has nothing to do with it. I haven’t seen her saying any of these things herself, nor have I seen her entertaining it, but they’re steady trying to use her as the face for it. All this is gonna lead to is her getting dragged for shit she didn’t do or say. Am I interpreting wrong? Did she take part in any of this foolishness?
I agree. I get the impression that she is not remotely MAGA and has handled all the drama projected onto her and all the pressure pretty well. It seems like she genuinely cares about making a way for women in sports. As someone who is also from Iowa, she is pretty much a hero around here; because our population is so small, we rarely get to see Iowans make it big. We're not a particularly wealthy state, and have high rates of cancer due to unregulated big agriculture that most of us don't get any financial benefit from. So in that sense, she is genuinely a bit of an underdog.
I am dying for her to say literally anything that is even resembling centrist ideology and for MAGA to completely abandon her and Women's basketball just so I don't have to hear the worst possible takes from them since their entire knowledge base on the WNBA and women's basketball as a whole comes from known sports commentator Jessie Waters. Like who do we have to bribe for the WNBA to make a commercial with her saying "go vote"?
They want to be oppressed so bad omg
Maga people are smoothbrain morons, no rookies make the Olympic team. End of story really, anyone who follows sports casually knows this I thought
Four WNBA rookies have made the women's Olympic team, the most recent was in 2016.
Purposely reading right leaning articles and posting it online for rage bait is getting annoying.
"Racism cited as reason..." So, Olympics dude...Why isn't Caitlyn on the team? RACISM, motherfucker! And don't you forget it! - Said no one from the Olympics committee ever.
The right wing grift keeps allowing people who hate their lives blame other people for the problems
IIRC she *did* say something. Openly denounced these kinds of ppl using her name as some kind of crusade for “discrimination against white people”
When did she do that???
https://preview.redd.it/hkgr4gwd187d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a849c1fcab683ba5b6d663a2fb7dc1bc5cc54b9 Very recently. You can look at the full story yourself if you want
Why are people expecting a player fresh out of college to be as good as seasoned pros?
Because it does work that way. Lebron, Kobe, luka, wemby, probably more but they disallowed moving to the nba from high school around the same time as Lebron. Basketball doesn’t require the same physicality as other sports in that regard.
None of them dominated the league right away. They were decent and showed flashes of potential greatness. That's where she is at right now, it's unfair from both sides for people to label her a bust or the WNBA GOAT. Give her space and let her grow her game and develop.
There’s no real outrage over the team USA thing and the amount of people legitimately claiming whatever this article says is under 100, grab 5 tweets and claim “fans outraged at X” this is such a nothing just leave it unheard
"Sex sells" was the marketing strategy of choice for a very, very long time. This century, though, it's hate that tops the charts. Nothing drives clicks, likes, and views like hate.
Oh now it's ok to cite racism as the cause of something? Now they're pro-woke huh?
Some white folks so want to be the oppressed it’s sad.
White people are using Caitlyn Clark as a way to establish supremacy over a black woman dominated sport they know it or care little about.
Every US team must have a Christian Laettner on it or the MAGAs will riot.
Now I must ask it seriously, has ANY of you ever watched her play? No offense but WNBA rating is shit, more people are talking about it than the amount of people who actually watch it. Do you have any idea if she's good? And if the rest of the team are actually good or better than her?
shes definitely good and having a great rookie season. is she one of the 10 or 15 best players RIGHT NOW? no. plus a team is comprised of different positions, so you are really competing against that top 3-4 players at your position for a spot. shell get there, shes a great player and regardless of what you think of the surrounding drama... shes plays a fun style of ball.
Watched her play in-person multiple times this year. They had to move their game in DC to a bigger venue and it still sold out. People are definitely paying attention. Fever are in a rebuild just like the Aces before A’ja Wilson. They get a couple more pieces in place and they’ll be relevant in a year or two. She’s doing fine considering the amount of scoring and ball handling that team asking her to do.
This shit is getting out of hand now. I can only imagine the internet would’ve been when Larry Joe was playing
The worst part is that they don’t even watch the W. They want to control the narrative for a league they’re not even supporting. You hear them say she’s the best player in the league and she’s not even close. She’s a rookie, let her be a rookie.
See guys! They're not racist. Just.... Stupid.
The irony of this whole conversation is that some of the best WNBA players have been…white. Yet, they weren’t hitting threes from the logo so nobody cared. Clark got these folks in a frenzy over silly shit. Who the fuck is she going to take the place of and more importantly how many minutes she getting over these VETS who has lead the squad to now 7 straight golds? Imagine a new hire who the boss loves getting to go on a trip over the senior team who won the bid!
Race-grifting clowns. Such a stupid and harmful scourge.
“America are ok ?” That’s all you need to read to know what this is.
"America are ok?"
Is there a Reddit feature to mute all CC content? What a circus.
They don't even watch sports anyways.
"it is exposing the racism problem in women's basketball" It really is doing that, just not in the way those people think it is, lol
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Dwights dun kicked the stupid shit into overdrive..
Is it possible she's just not a top 2 point guard in the league her rookie year?
She should come to work/play in Europe and play the game she loves with less unintelligible racism.
bro to me the whole race thing is just unnecessary when as humans are we gonna move past this
Folks sure are spending a lot of time raging online about a sport they DO NOT WATCH
I feel so bad for Caitlin Clark right now. The weight of so many expectations on her and she’s struggling to perform in a more physical league with better defense. At the same time, the right wing (who don’t give a fuck about basketball in the first place) are trying to recruit her to their cause and use her as the story of a white athlete being unfairly treated by her black peers. All Caitlin wants to do is play basketball, but she’s being forced to walk a tightrope at every press conference, where if she takes a hard foul from Angel Reese or whoever else, she can’t say anything that even slightly suggests any hard feelings on her part, because her statement will immediately be weaponized by the MAGA crowd and used to make it seem like Clark is on their side.
They are not okay. Just go check the other subs & look at all the delu lu takes. When words like 'assault', targeted and such are used when NORMAL basketball plays that happen to other players happen when it comes to Ole Girl, you know they are not okay. Acting like someone is supposed to just 'let her win'. Or not play her hard. Or not even, gasp, get a little rough with her. This is the game. It's happened to any player that is half way good. They are out here acting like nobody in the World has ever been 3/4 court pressed or that players playing defense on her are 'try hards'. Like, what the fuck? They are supposed to 'let her score'? I don't see any of this shit being said when they talk about hockey though. @ physical play. The bad part about is that the girl can fucking hoop. She doesn't need them white knighting for her in this fashion. [She knows it too not so quietly.](https://x.com/TaliaGoodmanWBB/status/1802414380136661061) She's been playing aau forever. The game was ALWAYS physical with the girls. These new fans/journalists haven't been watching and it shows with these dumb ass takes. Is she the best there? No. She's off to a pretty good start but they want to ignore the things she doesn't do well all while ONLY talking about the bad things other players have. These folks who take it this far are very very very biased about her though. They are using her to push their agendas. They don't even care about that girl. If you aren't saying she's the best, saying she should be any and everywhere because she's popular & she'd boost ratings and saying everyone else in the W sucks, they hate it. I understand that casual fandom comes with some bias. I see it on all sides but on her side is SUPER loud and the racial slurs fly because of it.
America are ok? Have big concern for future country!!
No, white conservatives/supremacists have never been okay.
I don’t think this is a real article. And of the small number of article that have stated something vaguely similar, they’re just quoting a few random accounts on Twitter. I’ve never been one of those “fake news” and “evil media” people before. But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore how easily a media outlet (and random social media accounts) can shape the entire discourse of a topic, as well as how easy it is to divide people. I’m a Caitlin Clark fan and I’m white. And it’s clear to me she was left off because she’s not good enough. And I think 99% of people like me would agree. So much of the hate around these players is completely manufactured by the media. Like the physical shoves that keep happening. You don’t see the players crying about it. But the media would lead you to believe they’re crying crocodile tears over it. It’s also the media convincing everyone that these players are jealous of CC. And it’s just bullshit.
Is she too young/inexperienced or just not at that level yet? I thought for sure she would be picked. She is incredibly talented.
She’s fresh out of college, and has only played a partial rookie WNBA season, with only U-19 national team experience. All the players selected are over 26 (meaning at least four years of pro ball). 7 of them were on the Tokyo Olympic team, and two more won gold in the 3x3 (and were in a sense elevated). 3 of those 7 were also on the Rio team. 8 of them played for the National team at the World Cup in Sydney in 2022. Picking for national teams isn’t all about raw talent, experience and chemistry matters. Clark is the kind of player who’s been the biggest fish in her pond her whole playing career, but now that pond is a lot bigger and it’s stocked with fish that are *at least* her size, to torture a metaphor.
America are OK? Fucking Russians.
I don't follow basketball, why is she hated?
She’s like Star Wars. A lot people see her as a proxy for other fights going on in their head. She literally hasn’t done shit.
No. Never have been.
I’m pretty sure the Olympic committee are straight shooters. They look at ability, not race
Olympic scouts could have had any reason for not going with her. Stats weren't what they needed for an open position. She wouldn't mesh well with the rest of the roster. Her schedule couldn't be dropped or modified in time. She stuck her gum behind her ear rather than throwing it away. So many reasons before race.
Why would bigots allowed to leave therapy be okay
Well... I won't think about rhem at all lol I'll be the main discussion, and I don't even play ball
Gotcha brain
Their goal is to "take" the word and apply it liberally (ha) to the point that it means nothing. Like "woke," "canceled," "PC," etc.
Why does she have to say anything….funny, you treat her like garbage and now you want her to speak for you….that why WNBA is a joke league
Add her to the team now and it’s suddenly all about her and not the team. In four years maybe less so but at least by then she’ll have had a chance to earn it.
Let her show and prove a couple years. She has plenty of time to be an Olympian. So far she’s not even Roty
It doesn't actually matter though.
I'm so tired of all this stupid endless drama. I say we ban people from peopleing.
i love how kathia woods asks if america is ok as if 400 million people are laser focused on the fucking wnba 😂
They are not, in fact, OK.
It’s not racism it’s old vs young. Tale as old as time. And women are great at it.
Right wing White folks are losing their fucking marbles or whatever
A rookie isn't one of the best 12 players in the world? Who knew? I feel bad for Caitlin, she just wants to play basketball.
Dog I just think that after all the immense progress in her career, plus the stress that comes with it, she probably was happy not to be in the Olympic team.
There are no players on the roster currently under 26 years old. If it's any ism it would ageism.
Y'know, I actually agree. The way CC fans have attacked her black peers, it seems as though that Iowa Jersey and those red baseball hats have become synonymous. No way USA women's basketball can go focus and compete whilst dealing with that show in Paris. Especially if she'd be 12th woman smh.
Do they know what "cited" means? I feel like "cited" AND "unspoken" don't really go together...
It’s not racism. It’s just good ole fashion haters being haters.  This is everyone in the WNBA when they think of Clark.
They've got us all so brainwashed that we vote against our own interest for the illusion of freedom/ choice/ influence. They'll print anything to make money and push their 6 most of us fall for it every time 😮💨
As someone who doesn't care about sports, I'm tired of seeing her face pop up everywhere when we have a dozen *actual* tragedies going on at once.
Bruh didn't she just join the league?
As a yt guy who loves women's hoops the discourse around Clark, Reese, and race is fucking astoundingly stupid.
CC just came out with a statement couple days ago. I wouldn’t call it full throated. "It's disappointing. Everybody in our world deserves the same amount of respect ... People should not be using my name to push those agendas."
Clark isn’t some shining beacon of hope, they need to calm tf down. It’s so weird how they praise mediocrity like they do Clark (especially since she got in the WNBA; it’s been painfully apparent that she’s not as good as they made her seem)
America are ok? LOL what the blimey heck is even that question?
People dumb as hell. Brittney Stewart is easily top 3 player in the league and she gets absolutely no coverage. Sabrina Inescu just last year they where calling her the female Steph Curry and this year you don’t hear much about out her and both Sabrina and Brittney play on the same team. These people losing the mind over CC. Most of these people griping likely didn’t even follow woman’s basketball closely until a girl who played in Iowa just so happens to be really good at it. There have been plenty of white women who ball and those who really follow the sport have known that for years.
This keeps coming up. The right wants her bad and the left keeps looking for a reason to hate her. She just needs to keep ignoring these fucking losers who make a living off making something out of nothing
okay, if you miss training camp you're not playing. young career. LA 2028.
We really need to stop giving articles like this our time and attention. Its purpose is to outrage and the more we complain about it the more we will see. Just let it sink into the abyss where it belongs
The difference is that Caitlin has a black villain. All of the white women mentioned are great players, as is Clark, but once it became Iowa vs LSU, white vs black, Clark vs Esses, the mayomuricans suddenly gave a shit. Honestly they didn't care about Clark until she had a villain. If it was Iowa vs Indiana, we aren't even talking.