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that stocking full of coal will lay a MoFo out

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Whitesploitation or GTFO!

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ducks and pigs... what is this, Looney Tunes?

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I prefer my more traditional knockout game of Jamesons-drinking.

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What is the game where someone runs up to gullible wingnuts on the internet and hits them so hard with exaggerated stories, that they fall over themselves being racists?

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<i>black-on-white violence common to the “knockout” game in states like New York and New Jersey and cities like Chicago and DC</i>

I feel sure that if there had been instances of this "knockout" game here in NY or in my family's home cities of Chicago and DC, that there would have been some screaming headliney news coverage of the thing. Reminds me of the time when a bunch of panicky white suburbanites and cops and the NY Daily News invented a thing called "Wilding," which (they said) was black teenagers going on rampages and so they arrested a bunch of black teenagers for wilding on a white woman jogging in Central Park and beat the shit out of them til they "confessed" and then threw their asses in prison at the ages of 14 to 16 for 12 years until oops it turned out there was no such thing as wilding and some other guy had raped the woman.

Yeah and the city is refusing to settle their lawsuit either. Because hey, "wilding" might have been a thing, and just because it wasn't doesn't mean the city was wrong. Right?

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somewhere - heaven if you believe in it - trayvon martin nods knowingly.

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Wilding? Is that when white people pretend to be a black stereotype and do stuff Fox told them black folk do?

Yes. It. Is.

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GAaaaaaaaaaahhhhsahahahahahahahahah

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You know, speaking as a gradually matriculating old person, cold-cocking a 79-year-old is pretty weak shit. I'm 66, and I know a number of folks in their sixties who would be happy to take shot at handing Rambi, here, his ass.

But over seventy, we start to get a little frail. We have to rely on our children and grandchildren. Mr Barrett should keep his head on a swivel.

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I watched the Muppet Show religiously (this may be ironic). I am as long as the day is straight, but, I'll tell you. Nureyev...

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Actually, given the current definition of "literally" as either "literally" or "not literally", I think it's literally impossible for anyone to not do anything.

But, yes, battery.

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Hahahahaha no.

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The same question to which the answer is Jesus Christ?

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Have you ever seen them together?

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Oh, and hey, happy holidays. I'm just going thru back issues of the wonk after I'm back from Christmas/funeral activities.

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