OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years

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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#381 » by basketballRob » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:07 am

I think she'll be home before Christmas.

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Post#382 » by shangrila » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:07 am

Nearly 20 pages and this still hasn't been locked?

Impressive

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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#383 » by JimmyPlopper » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:11 am

basketballRob wrote:I think she'll be home before Christmas.

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Long time in jail. I've spent a night here and there in detainment and the county jail. Not fun.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#384 » by LeMasta » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:12 am

why doesnt she just get deported?
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#385 » by taikibansei » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:13 am

shangrila wrote:Nearly 20 pages and this still hasn't been locked?

Impressive

EDIT: NVM, we hit 20
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#386 » by TheNewEra » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:35 am

Johnny Bball wrote:Does half this board realize that the US is in a proxy war with Russia? The fawning over and defending of Russia is just stupid if you are a US citizen.



Most I’ve seen are people calling out Americans talking down on Russia and it’s people for its corruption and policies while we have a boatload of issues here.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#387 » by ReddoverKobe » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:48 am

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Chronz wrote:What makes you think so, do you know how many businesses and lives were lost compared to watever the cultists think happened on j6


Oh do tell us what happened on Jan 6th.

Who is us? You admitting to partake in the tribal war between the cultists?

What makes you think I know what happened that day? I know several groups rhetoric, lemme guess, you think it was some sort of desecration of democracy, as if our republic were so weak as to fall to unarmed hooligans at some outdated building


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Post#388 » by Sofia » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:49 am

USA: 40,000 Americans incarcerated for weed.

Russia: 1? American incarcerated for weed.

USA: *shocked Pikachu face*
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#389 » by Statlanta » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:50 am

My understanding is that she was working in the offseason, that WNBA players have to do since the league doesn't make money, and she treated Russia like it was California. Now her team is on national TV on the playoff bubble without her.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#390 » by Asianiac_24 » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:53 am

Anyone who thinks Griner deserves the 9.5 on top of the 6 months she already served for a couple vape cartridges has an agenda against her, her political stance, or both. This sentence is a damn tragedy, and IMO if the US/Russia wasn’t in a proxy war right now, she would be a free woman right now.

What I don’t agree with is trading a Russian criminal for her. What’s stopping Russia from coming up with another BS excuse to prosecute another American? Are we just going to release all their criminals for them, or do we not care because this said American isn’t a celebrity or public figure?
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Post#391 » by ocelot17 » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:53 am

Women’s prison is pretty easy compared to men’s prison. You don’t have to worry about getting jumped or stabbed.

She’ll be fine.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#392 » by azcatz11 » Fri Aug 5, 2022 12:58 am

ocelot17 wrote:Women’s prison is pretty easy compared to men’s prison. You don’t have to worry about getting jumped or stabbed.

She’ll be fine.


She’s probably getting CIA protection in that prison. If anything happens to her in there we’re looking at world war 3
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#393 » by CS707 » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:09 am

Asianiac_24 wrote:What’s stopping Russia from coming up with another BS excuse to prosecute another American?


Being smart enough not to travel there in the first place?
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#394 » by Loaded_Hollows » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:21 am

Ein Sof wrote:
Dzon Dilindzer wrote:play stupid games, win stupid prizes

why people feel sorry for her is beyond me

cant wait to see athletes crying over this, **** imbeciles

Serious question: do you have a mental illness?


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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#395 » by garrick » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:22 am

JimmyPlopper wrote:
Johnny Bball wrote:Does half this board realize that the US is in a proxy war with Russia? The fawning over and defending of Russia is just stupid if you are a US citizen.


yeah unless you are a self-hating, self-sabotaging type

I think there are more of these folks than we had accounted for lol

There's a significant minority of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum that are rooting for Russia to win and somehow think that Russia is either a counterbalance to American imperialism or a paradise for traditional family Christian values.

I debated with a guy that is a democrat and is always harping about affordable healthcare and is anti Trump yet he also is strongly rooting for Russia to win and calls the Azov battalion nazis and has swallowed the Kremlin lies hook line and sinker.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#396 » by Wall_To_Clips » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:26 am

Asianiac_24 wrote:Anyone who thinks Griner deserves the 9.5 on top of the 6 months she already served for a couple vape cartridges has an agenda against her, her political stance, or both. This sentence is a damn tragedy, and IMO if the US/Russia wasn’t in a proxy war right now, she would be a free woman right now.

What I don’t agree with is trading a Russian criminal for her. What’s stopping Russia from coming up with another BS excuse to prosecute another American? Are we just going to release all their criminals for them, or do we not care because this said American isn’t a celebrity or public figure?


Agree. Silly sentence that should never exist in 2022 for such a minor crime. Also agree trading the “merchant of death” or whatever, a literal terrorist to free a celeb isn’t ideal.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#397 » by Johnny Bball » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:27 am

gst8 wrote:
Asianiac_24 wrote:What’s stopping Russia from coming up with another BS excuse to prosecute another American?


Being smart enough not to travel there in the first place?


:roll: Tell us all about your travels and work overseas.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#398 » by Pointgod » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:28 am

Bolts wrote:It’s funny how people think that other countries should adopt our laws. Why?


The US is a country that has a bunch of garbage laws and is going backwards by rolling back women’s rights. Russia is a corrupt, backwards country that has garbage laws aimed at minority groups and punishing its people. Both things are true and doesn’t preclude people from pointing out how the “law” in Russia is backwards and punitive. What’s happening with Britney Griner has nothing to do with “law” and everything to do with politics.
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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#399 » by Pointgod » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:29 am

Wall_To_Clips wrote:
Asianiac_24 wrote:Anyone who thinks Griner deserves the 9.5 on top of the 6 months she already served for a couple vape cartridges has an agenda against her, her political stance, or both. This sentence is a damn tragedy, and IMO if the US/Russia wasn’t in a proxy war right now, she would be a free woman right now.

What I don’t agree with is trading a Russian criminal for her. What’s stopping Russia from coming up with another BS excuse to prosecute another American? Are we just going to release all their criminals for them, or do we not care because this said American isn’t a celebrity or public figure?


Agree. Silly sentence that should never exist in 2022 for such a minor crime. Also agree trading the “merchant of death” or whatever, a literal terrorist to free a celeb isn’t ideal.


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Re: OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years 

Post#400 » by Alonzo_Morning » Fri Aug 5, 2022 1:31 am

The High Cyde wrote:
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The High Cyde wrote:******* terrible, I couldn’t believe being in her position. Hope she’ll be okay.


Well, she put herself in that position so...

I feel bad for her in the sense that she had no idea what she was getting into but you commit the crime, you have to pay the consequences.

This is cruel though, the punishment does not fit the crime. At all.


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