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[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 14 points 2 hours ago

Look at this bitch bringing politics into sports! SMH

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 44 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I think it would be great if they stormed the field and just arrested one whole team. "Got money riding on this game, bitches. Good luck in Guatemala or wherever." Then flip the audience a double bird and walk off the field.

Like if we're doing this, let's just speed run, full mask off.

I mean great isn't the right word. But if this motherfucker burns to the ground, I don't want some Rome bullshit where people are able to kid themselves for like 1000 years. I want them to see within their own lifetimes just how badly they fucked up. I want to see the haunted look in their eyes as bury loved ones and lose homes. This is a nation—indivisible, motherfuckers. Fucking rot in it with me.

I... I'd better stay off the internet today.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

No, they should wait for halftime. Just when Bad Bunny starts singing they should storm the stage and have Joe Rogan, dressed as an ICE agent, pick him up and body slam him shouting, "This is what you get spic!"

All of his dancers strip off their clothes revealing they are actually the new ICE dancers. A funky groove starts with some powerful bass backing it up.

Suddenly thirteen jet fighters fly overhead in a tight formation breaking the sound barrier just after they buzz the stadium.

Explosive fireworks go off all around the field and an ominous voice shouts out, "Are you ready!"

Kid Rock dances onto the stage as the new ICE dancers back him up. He shouts into a golden microphone, "We cancelled this woke halftime so Americans can get what they crave!"

As Kid Rock debuts his newest song "ICE, ICE, Save me" ICE agents arrest Bad Bunny and rough him up on stage for everyone to see. After Kid Rock finishes his set he shouts, "If you are brown it is time to leave town!"

Finally, the camera pans to an empty bench on the field and we can see the ghost of Hogan side hugging Kirk as they sit together crying in joy at the scene they had just witnessed.

[–] astanix@lemmy.world 2 points 17 minutes ago

This sounds plausible af. If you told me this happened, I would probably believe it.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What substances are you on?

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Are you looking for recommendations?

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 hours ago

Sure, why not

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

None. Not even ADHD meds because it's a weekend. This is just raw brain squeezings after a rough week at work. Only a couple hours of sleep is probably the issue.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

you don't take it on weekend?! How do you function on the weekend then?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Gestures around at the chaos and devastation.

Mate, it's almost noon and my bed is piled with clothes that have to be folded and I'm sure my daughter hasn't fed the dogs breakfast. And I am taking her to a lunch with friends in... 2 hours.

I take those meds for a reason but my body needs a break on weekends.

My wife was out of town overnight and I went full mania on a project with no one to make me stop. Realized the time at like 3:30AM when the fucking development AI was like, "you need to take a break man. Get some sleep. We'll pick it back up tomorrow." What the shit?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Probably coulda got shit done a lot faster without the slop machine

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't feel like getting into an internet argument over it, but believe me when I say no. I developed the first version of this over weeks. Well days plus a lot of tweaks and fixes.

I developed this new version overnight and it does more.

I'll credit that if you just said that to every single AI comment you find, you'd be right more often than a coin flip. Just not this time, as it happens.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

I've no dog in this fight, but be sure you recheck the new version when you're back to a saner frame of mind.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 42 minutes ago

Good advice. I appreciate that.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 hours ago

Sleep deprivation can be a hell of a drug

[–] RaoulDuke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

If they fucked with sports teams, Americans would finally get upset.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 hours ago

You’re 100% right, those are our circuses, even your namesake loved football. If the NFL and college football stopped overnight there would be a lot of pissed off poor people with nothing to do on the weekends and nothing to look forward to during the workweek. The rage would boil over much more quickly than most would expect

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Unless one of them kneels, then all bets are off

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

You mean kneels... Like a terrorist!

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 hours ago

Not my FUHTBAAWWWLL!

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The only poor people at the Super Bowl are the ushers and concession vendors.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Seriously. WTF idiot person thinks $2500 nosebleed tickets are what undocumented people are spending money on... Just because Bad Bunny is the halftime show?

Have these idiots heard of TV? Or are they so busy trying to undo the 20th Century and garggle that Project 2025 dick in hopes of subjugating a tradwife that they forgot all about the talking pictures?

[–] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not sure you know how much landscapers and construction workers can make. ICE Cream Barbie’s threat may keep them from going now, but I know an undocumented laborer that’s gone to the Super Bowl with MUCH better seats AND took their daughters to a Taylor Swift concert in the same year. They also pay their fair share in taxes on their earnings.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 13 minutes ago

I'm familiar with their wages. My point is that even in a best case scenario for ICE, they might spend $2 million for a photo op with 2 or 4 people arrested. Not that these people give two shits admit how they spend my money.

[–] MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago

"Hell yeah, glad they stormed in and rounded up all these lazy immigrants... This beer line sure is long, and it ain't moving."

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Oh boy, people getting gassed at the Super Bowl is the America everyone wants!

[–] 0ndead 10 points 4 hours ago

What a national shitshow that would be.