Frightening Grant Wahl news

I read about it in Time magazine.
-- Hans Gruber

 

I'm not going to apologize.
The fact that many of us jumped to conclusions says more about Qatar than it does us.
This has been the most corrupt World Cup in the history of an event that has been corrupt before the first ball was ever kicked.
If the same thing had happened in other World Cup, including Russia, no one would have reacted the way we did.

 

Asian Dawn, indeed.

 

His brother made a lengthy post about that on Twitter yesterday. He had just agreed to a divorce that morning before learning that Grant had died. The video was not a great idea, but that poor guy was in a bad, bad place when he recorded it.

 

Have already mentioned that I had one too many pops that night and that he threw me over the edge. And apologized. Just saying my brain never goes there without that tweet.

 

I got lectured fairly regularly growing up that I needed to cultivate a good reputation because an event would come along in life where it would be important for people to give me the benefit of the doubt. Maybe there needs to be a little more emphasis on that on a global scale.

 

I think the only way the whole world will ever come together and stop fighting among ourselves is when the aliens start attacking us.

 

Because I’m a cold-hearted person on the spectrum, the only thing I thought of the early part of this thread is that a sociologist couldn’t create a better case study of how modern conspiracy theories spread online rapidly.

Two coincidences. Passionate feelings. Mistrust in a government/authority. Media speculation. A place to instantly post feelings. Voila.

It really was an incubator.

 

Easy to forget Qatar is - and has been for decades - home to the largest US base in the Persian Gulf.

I think most folks were led astray by the brother's video and went from there.

 

Eh, whatever side doesn't like its leadership will greet them as liberators.

 

Nah. That's when you take out the MFers you don't like here first, and then go do battle with the aliens.