Bait offered, taken, much entertainment.
A few days ago, Kelly Slater, world champ many times, posted a provocative response on his Instagram account to news that 260 Chinese boats were fishing near the Galapagos Islands, that volcanic archipelago in the Pacific with the most diverse and plant species in the world.
Same joint that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Slater was succinct,
“Send the navy and sink em?!”
One follower of Slater, a kid who’d only ever made one post, aware perhaps of Slater’s penchant for responding to even minor player in the IG game, issued a bill of challenge.
“You would be the type of fool to advocate for military violence and US involvement overseas. The US needs to stop fucking policing the world. Getting the military involved has never helped anything it’s always the same people who end up hurting and having to pay for it.”
A popular, though untrue, historical inaccuracy.
The US was pivotal in saving the West in World War Two, its involvement in the Great War ended the stalemate there, South Korea would be Communist if not for the three-year long US-led UN intervention between 1950 and 1953 and Kuwait would’ve been folded into Iraqi borders in 1990.
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, okay, not so great.
Slater’s riposte.
“Fuck off. It’s a joke, albeit a serious topic. I’m currently and always have been anti war. I’m also pro environment and wildlife.”
The kid parried,
“Sorry I didn’t find ur joke very funny. My family was displaced of the US fucking bombing their homeland.”
The kid’s parents fled Baghdad?
Here, I got into the DMs and asked where they were from.
“My mom came here from Iran during the revolution in the late seventies.”
Me: “US didn’t bomb Iran. Only that dang failed chopper rescue of hostages.”
He: “It was the result of US-backed coup. The US night not have been dropping the bombs themselves but they sure as hell funded it.”
Me: “US backed the Shah not the Ayatollah.”
He: “Point I’m trying to make is that US involvement overseas never works.”
Anyway,
After the thing about his family being displaced, Slater kissed the button, as they used to say in renaissance fencing.
“And I don’t really give a shit to talk to you or hear your opinion so fuck off.”
The kid proved a master of defence.
“Shits not really a joke.
“You privileged little fuck.”
“Don’t need to be an asshole about it wow.”
Before, finally, the dagger blow, the coup de grace, from Slater:
“Writing me out of the blue talking shit is such a crock of shit. Accusing me of being a racist? My girlfriend is Chinese. You’re on glue. You’re a miserable coward. And now you’re blocked.”
“Hahahaha,” wrote the kid.
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Just reading this now, but it looks like you are actually the historically incorrect troll. Did you watch a hollywood film for your history lesson or what. Maybe next time read a fucking book smfh! This is the type of bullshit only people from the US can come up with, no wonder you have a huge problem with fake news over there… side info: the cia actually had to release there data from the whole kuwait situation in 1990, maybe read up on that instead of shit posting your neonazi ameritrash propaganda.
A++
Fucken woke cuntz. Always looking for something to feel superior about.
so many little aholes that don’t know anything about history who insist on giving lessons on the subject anyway. this little fool knows nothing about the iran-usa history of the seventies. Kelly was right, F this little jackoff.
This is like some university super woke message board, you should all be ashamed of yourselfs
I thought his girlfriend was Hawaiian or something.
Kel should stop with the drunk posting.
Damn, you people are bored and almost as dumb as the commenters on Breitbart.com
Wasn’t there a time when surfers were cool and sophisto and smart?
Last century. apparently.
I love the US. Gave my fam a new life after WW II when Europe was a wasteland and my aunts and uncles were eating grass (literally) but peep “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins….. not all wars are fought with bullets …
One of the best books, as far as opening my mind, I have ever read. Spot fucking on GIGi
I got another for you if you’ve digested that one.
Loose it on me blood….. and, yes , that’s one book that will stick on me foreva …. don’t wanna go down a rabbit hole here buuuutttt …. also check “Massacre at El Mozote” Mark Danner. Heavy shit dude…… now show me yours……
Open Veins of Latin America…. by Eduardo Galeano…. the back stories to John Perkin’s book…. heavy fucking iifting amigo.
I found it researching what happened to Evo Morales last October. And guess what? Yup, dirty US corporate hands caught in the cookie jar again. Evo barely escaped. Check this out, roll a fattie and get a cold one…. enjoy… this site kicks fucking ass too
https://theintercept.com/20…
Thanks man,,,,, def gonna get ….
China is the most populous country in the world, thus not technically a minority
Surfed Persia in 72, Baluchestan stand ups … this kid needs a bit of herstory but let me tell you being interviewed by SAVAK regarding our boards was petrifying, particularly considering what was glassed inside them ..
Heard he won’t marry her because she chinese tho
Ouch!
Phewww..
What a thread.. Stab would be cry-wanking if they had such bold and fresh engagement.
The kid’s correct, a book called All The Shah’s Men (great read) details
how U.S. interventionist policy in the 1950’s caused mass global chaos
that did directly result in the Shah being removed from power (Iran had a
democratically elected leader named Mossadegh in the 1950’s that the
U.S. and Britain helped overthrow and replace with the Shah because they
wanted control of the oil and refineries and 30 years later that anger
resulted in the Shah being overthrown from power) in the late 1970’s and
that’s a huge reason why Obama apologized to middle eastern countries
early in his presidency. With that point made I 100% support Slater that those fishing boats
need to go away from the Galapagos Islands regardless of how we do it.
I wouldn’t exactly call all those drone strikes an apology…
Also, I feel that the GOAT (and he is) could have really backed up his argument of not being racist by not only saying that she was a Chinese, but also that she is Chinese with a Hawaiian name. Argument done.
Miller?
Wow, thoroughly impressed with an Aussie’s knowledge of US diplomacy (is that the correct terminology?). Far exceeds mine and I’m of the red, white, and blue and stars and stripes (which is why your education exceeds mine). And to have the journalistic instinct to go into the DMs to get the real story. Did he send you dick pics after the convo? Or is that Snapchat?
And yes, send the Navy.
Is girlfriend a ladyboy?
Can I plz borrow your copy of the Protocols? Need to edicate ma’self.
Wait, I’m completely fucking lost here. At what point does this guy call Slater a racist? I have looked at the exchange multiple times but can’t locate the racist statement by the guy towards Slade. Old Jimmy seems a bit sensitive and putting words in the guys mouth. Granted the guy calls him privileged but that a long ways away from being labelled a racist.
That’s what I thought. So where did Slade get the racist angle from, because the kid didn’t say anything racist. Maybe he gets so many different internet trolls challenging him and he is getting them all confused together.
DR’s reductionist take on the last near-century of American wars and covert interventions is almost identical to Kelly’s “Chinese girlfriend quip” in its tone-deafness and willful cultural-historical ignorance.
Georges Clemenceau was the architect of that damn stupid treaty of Versailles. And he lost the election cause the French thought he went too soft on the Hun.