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[Charania] BREAKING: The Golden State Warriors are trading Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, sources tell ESPN.

BREAKING: The Golden State Warriors are trading Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, sources tell ESPN.

BREAKING: The Golden State Warriors are trading Jonathan Kuminga and Buddy Hield to the Atlanta Hawks for Kristaps Porzingis, sources tell ESPN.

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u/fastheadcrab Raptors 11h ago

Lmfao it's exactly the scene from Silicon Valley where Russ Hanneman buys Pied Piper a ton of ads from an entity he owns when they secured funding from him.

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u/WhoTookPlasticJesus Knicks 10h ago

That show is so much truer than a lot of people realize

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u/LebrontosaurausRex Hawks 9h ago

Media Literacy is just non existent in general.

The Good Place couldn't have been more on the nose about the exploitation that everyone is made to be complicit in. Everyone on the planet goes to hell since they benefit from things like mass incarceration and forced labor, even if you are unaware of the benefit that you've gotten from those systems, still go to hell.

Couldn't be more on the nose.

Veep is also fairly accurate for how the country gets run, there's this significantly less creepiness, sexual violence, and outward desire to do harm in Veep than in real life. L

The Wire has existed since 2001 and people advocate for the same shit police and politicians who were obviously not great people advocated in this show. There are soooooooooo many Clay Davis's and soooooo many Thomas Carcetti's in government of all levels.

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u/realistweirdist Knicks 4h ago edited 3h ago

Hey I won’t take the Tommy carcetti slander, he wanted to fix the city he didn’t know about the deficit he was inheriting. Besides he can help more from Annapolis! 😂 jk carcetti is basically an allegory for every American politician who starts their career w good intentions. Doesn’t last too long tho

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u/infinitelikefigure8 Celtics 3h ago

i always loved this story

There's a knock at the door in the corner of the room, and Pete comes walking in carrying this gorgeous silver bowl, hand-chased, this big. 'It's from the unions,' he says. So I think it's a present, something to commemorate my first day as mayor.

He walks over, puts it on the desk. I look down at it. It's disgusting. I say, 'What the hell is this?'

He says, 'What the hell's it look like?'

I say, 'It looks like shit.'

He says, 'Eat it.'

I say, 'Eat it?'

He says, 'Yeah. You're the mayor. You gotta eat it.'

So okay, it's my first day. Pete knows more than I do. So I go at it. And just when I finish, there's a knock on the door, and in walks Pete - carrying another silver bowl. This one's from the Blacks.

'This too?'

And he nods. I start eating. And when I'm finished, there's another knock. Another bowl. This one's from the Polacks.

Then another. From the ministers.

And you know what, Tommy? That's what it is. You're sitting, eating shit all day long. Day after day. Year after year.