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24 Jan 2018, 12:24 am

Tennys Sandgren a open supporter of Donald Trump and the alt-right has been bundled out of the Australian Open tennis quarter finals.

Sandgren is a future US tennis champion has retweeting white supremacist videos from the Alt right's Nicholas Fuentes
http://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/aus ... 47be470730
Sandgren represents a unique problem for the US tennis federation as he is obviously supported by the POTUS but clearly is "on the nose" with many in the US tennis community including champion Serena Williams
http://www.news.com.au/sport/tennis/aus ... 1646f88672



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24 Jan 2018, 12:42 am

he can't be too intelligent. otherwise he would have put his giant ego aside and laid low for as long as was necessary to make lotsa moolah.



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24 Jan 2018, 1:06 am

When Sandgren knew he was in the draw for the Australian open he tried (rodent like) to delete the offending tweets.



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24 Jan 2018, 1:09 am

I suppose folks with at least some traits of APD are most liable to come out of the woodwork wherever there is a chance of money, fame, or power to be had.



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24 Jan 2018, 1:28 am

I think he's a good tennis player but has a rotten personality. Serena Williams is right.

I imagine black soldiers have to put up with this in the US forces as well...grit their teeth and accept they have a Sandgren in their squad whom they are forced to protect their racist backsides



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24 Jan 2018, 1:32 am

I imagine more than their share of gifted athletes end up being warped by their parents, who drove them too hard and warped their personality, or spoiled them and raised them to believe they shat solid gold, a more severe personality warpage.



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24 Jan 2018, 1:52 am

auntblabby wrote:
I imagine more than their share of gifted athletes end up being warped by their parents, who drove them too hard and warped their personality, or spoiled them and raised them to believe they shat solid gold, a more severe personality warpage.

Yeah I accept his views are probably nurtured by his warped parents



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24 Jan 2018, 1:55 am

his karmic path is likely to be long and winding.



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24 Jan 2018, 5:47 am

Why do people pay so much attention to the intellectual mindscape of people whose claim to fame has nothing whatever to do with having good ideas?


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24 Jan 2018, 5:52 am

Wolfram87 wrote:
Why do people pay so much attention to the intellectual mindscape of people whose claim to fame has nothing whatever to do with having good ideas?

Because it seems so prevalent these days that people advertise their "narrow" intellectual landscape



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24 Jan 2018, 5:56 am

Why don't those idiots realize white supremacy is f*****g dead....


I have some nordic blood and i am also native american, if preserving 'white people' means treating other races like s**t and seeing them as less valuble and denying them all entry to the country and deporting tons of young people who grew up here, in america to a country they may not even have any recollection to having been from then maybe whiteness is not worth preserving.


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24 Jan 2018, 5:57 am

Latest comments from our new tennis Nazi

"You seek to put people in these little boxes so that you can order the world in your already assumed preconceived ideas," Sandgren began. "You strip away any individuality for the sake of demonising by way of the collective. With a handful of follows and some likes on Twitter, my fate has been sealed in your minds.

It's ironic but that's exactly what the alt-right do!! they seek to orchestrate the fate of minority groups in their little minds and put people in boxes??

He's a good tennis player but has a piss-poor intellect



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24 Jan 2018, 5:58 am

Sweetleaf wrote:
Why don't those idiots realize white supremacy is f*****g dead....


I have some nordic blood and i am also native american, if preserving 'white people' means treating other races like s**t and seeing them as less valuble and denying them all entry to the country and deporting tons of young people who grew up here, in america to a country they may not even have any recollection to having been from then maybe whiteness is not worth preserving.


I think these fools think humans should be like pedigree dogs...inbred...



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24 Jan 2018, 6:00 am

cyberdad wrote:
Wolfram87 wrote:
Why do people pay so much attention to the intellectual mindscape of people whose claim to fame has nothing whatever to do with having good ideas?

Because it seems so prevalent these days that people advertise their "narrow" intellectual landscape


All the more reason to develop a filter. I don't go to actors/singers/athletes for their stance on economics, or their scientific knowledge, or their understanding of ethics. Any more than I go to Richard Dawkins for his ability to hit a ball over a net with a glorified carpet beater.


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24 Jan 2018, 6:05 am

Wolfram87 wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Wolfram87 wrote:
Why do people pay so much attention to the intellectual mindscape of people whose claim to fame has nothing whatever to do with having good ideas?

Because it seems so prevalent these days that people advertise their "narrow" intellectual landscape


All the more reason to develop a filter. I don't go to actors/singers/athletes for their stance on economics, or their scientific knowledge, or their understanding of ethics. Any more than I go to Richard Dawkins for his ability to hit a ball over a net with a glorified carpet beater.

true...I think German intellectuals said the same thing about a certain beer hall rabble rouser in the 1920s...he went on to become supreme leader of the brainwashed volk



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24 Jan 2018, 4:34 pm

Oh noooooo, not another thought crime. Watch out Sandgren, the thought police are coming. What's this got to do with his tennis?


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