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Raskolnikov38 posted:IS IT? CAN IT BE? IT IS! ITS ANDREW YANG’S MUSIC BUT WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON?! 
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Sep 5, 2020 05:16
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Endless Mike posted:BAH GAWD THAT'S ANDREW WANG YANG'S MUSIC!!!
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Sep 5, 2020 05:18
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loving hell that's a shot fired from Woods
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Sep 5, 2020 05:22
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I’m gonna have to sue someone tonight 🎶
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Sep 5, 2020 05:23
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WWE gonna get taken down by the 1-2 punch of money marks Tony Khan and Andrew Yang.
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Sep 5, 2020 05:29
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WWF considered Scott Hall's accent, hair, and toothpick part of Razor Ramon's likeness when they sued WCW.
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Sep 5, 2020 05:30
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Endless Mike posted:Well, not pro ones, anyway. Chris Evans has a union (granted, that union just hosed its members on their health care)
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Sep 5, 2020 05:34
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I went to reddit and saw the thread "Vince McMahon officially bans all WWE talent from associating themselves with 3rd Parties (Twitch, Cameo). Talents given 30 days to comply." I thought "well maybe it's because I browse Squared circle occasionally" that it was on the front page, so I loaded up my VPN and I switched between 4 different servers in four different countries. WWE's awful treatment of their wrestlers is trending internationally on reddit.
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Sep 5, 2020 05:53
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MassRafTer posted:In case anyone believes it is because of AJ or any other particular problematic comment: Weren't WWE trying to recreate the Meet and Greet packages by selling 2 minute zoom calls for an insane amount of money as part of Summer Slam? It's not just income though, it's probably like the one fun thing these wrestlers do where they get to interact with fans and just be themselves. I'm sure some people would even be against the ban if WWE threw another $100,000 at them to make up for the lost income. They're already grossly underpaid for what they do, now they're trying to take away extra income and joy from these people
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Sep 5, 2020 05:54
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Liquid Communism posted:The only reason they haven't broken up New Day yet is Woods (and now Kofi) being out for long term injury recouperation. The three of them said if Vince breaks up the new day they walk. And they are huge moneymakers for WWE as a group too.
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Sep 5, 2020 05:55
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Astro7x posted:Weren't WWE trying to recreate the Meet and Greet packages by selling 2 minute zoom calls for an insane amount of money as part of Summer Slam? Yes they did virtual meet and greets for Summerslam.
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Sep 5, 2020 05:55
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Astro7x posted:Weren't WWE trying to recreate the Meet and Greet packages by selling 2 minute zoom calls for an insane amount of money as part of Summer Slam?
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Sep 5, 2020 05:58
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https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1302099041166274561 Bix, Andrew Yang & Marty McFly's mom are gonna save wrestling together.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:01
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It was $125 fora 2 minute video chat.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:03
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Andrew Yang is a complete idiot at best and a malicious piece of poo poo at worst, but when he's right he's right. Not that the Democrats would actually stand up for workers' rights, but still. Besides that, having Jey Uso go up against Roman is at least some kind of storytelling, so at least for me it clears the exceedingly low bar that WWE has set.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:05
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dsriggs posted:Bix, Andrew Yang & Marty McFly's mom are gonna save wrestling together. Unionize Cerebral Bore posted:Andrew Yang is a complete idiot at best and a malicious piece of poo poo at worst, but when he's right he's right. Not that the Democrats would actually stand up for workers' rights, but still.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:11
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The last time I spent any money on WWE related stuff was day one of Big E’s Cameo and it was a steal at 75 bucks
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Sep 5, 2020 06:12
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I have a feeling WWE management had no clue just how much money talent was making on these outside gigs and figured they wouldn't put up much of a fight about it. Can Vince McMahon comprehend that Paige is making 500K per year on Twitch? They probably look at the relative pittance the company gets from youtube and figured they could easily move in on whatever talent are making and get their cut too. Now they are probably realizing they stepped on a hornet's nest (and I'm sure they want those big bucks even more than before) and are trying to figure out what to do next.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:16
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RealFoxy posted:I don't know anything about Yang besides him fighting for Universal Basic Income, what's he doing poorly? His UBI idea was absolute dogshit that would have included abolishing basically every other aspect of the social safety net and as such would have hosed over the poor even more than the current system.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:17
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it'd be amazing if they caved on this and moved NXT to Tuesday as it'd be the biggest capitulations the company has done in years. And if they don't it could end up even worse for the company
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Sep 5, 2020 06:18
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WHAT'S ANDREW YANG DOING IN THE JUDICIAL ZONE?
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Sep 5, 2020 06:19
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Cerebral Bore posted:His UBI idea was absolute dogshit that would have included abolishing basically every other aspect of the social safety net and as such would have hosed over the poor even more than the current system. Yup. That UBI plan was one of the worst thought-out policies I’ve ever seen.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:34
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Yang sucks and I doubt he'd get Labor (if he gets any cabinet position) but someone like Yang is online enough that he might actually want to go after WWE. More importantly enough wrestling is enough of a joke that the administration wouldn't care if he does. The same way wrestling has always skated on abuses because it's wrestling and no one cares might work in reverse because it's an easy target for the administration to look "progressive" on. So it won't happen but I'm hoping for the first meme pro labor action by the US government.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:46
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Britt Baker's boyfriend's girlfriend is dunking on the competition! https://twitter.com/RealBrittBaker/status/1302105295112593408
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Sep 5, 2020 06:55
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Rarity posted:Britt Baker's boyfriend's girlfriend is dunking on the competition!
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Sep 5, 2020 07:37
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The Board of Directors should remove Vince as CEO. And replace him. With.... THIS MAN.  Give F. Murray Abraham the book, is I guess what i’m saying.
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Sep 5, 2020 07:42
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RealFoxy posted:Coward Cole is afraid of calling out Vince because he'd have to go to AEW and go nose to nose with Riho Bruh....
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Sep 5, 2020 07:50
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This is the 3rd time that Bray has lost a world title and not gotten a rematch.
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Sep 5, 2020 07:54
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dsriggs posted:Bruh....
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Sep 5, 2020 07:59
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Rarity posted:Britt Baker's boyfriend's girlfriend is dunking on the competition! You missed the best bit! https://twitter.com/AdamColePro/status/1302105758696341504?s=19
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Sep 5, 2020 08:29
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First, I thought the "WWE doesn't own wrestlers real names" thing has already been proven in law. Warrior warrior changed his name legally to Warrior Warrior so that he could keep using it in WCW. Also Test changed his name legally to Andrew Test Martin, so WWE couldn't stop him from performing as Test. So unless they have re-worded their contracts since then, (which it looks like they might have), there is precedent that people can use their own names to do what the gently caress they like with them. And also, amongst the hosed up things WWE has done in the past day, why is nobody talking about how they broke up Bayley and Sasha? At least they kept Bayley heel, so she can continue to be adorable and trash talk. But BOO to them for breaking up two friends. Going back to the twitch stuff: I don't think it is about the money. It's about control. It's about "I OWN you!!!!", and "You will only do what I tell you to do. No more, and no less." Edit: On the control thing, I also think it is about trying to strip wrestlers of their own identity, and opportunity to be themselves, and replacing that with a WWE approved and vetted identity where they can recite the catchphrase that somebody else wrote for them/the company.. BrigadierSensible fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Sep 5, 2020 |
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Sep 5, 2020 08:39
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BrigadierSensible posted:First, I thought the "WWE doesn't own wrestlers real names" thing has already been proven in law. Warrior warrior changed his name legally to Warrior Warrior so that he could keep using it in WCW. Also Test changed his name legally to Andrew Test Martin, so WWE couldn't stop him from performing as Test. So unless they have re-worded their contracts since then, (which it looks like they might have), there is precedent that people can use their own names to do what the gently caress they like with them. Those were both cases where the wrestler was no longer under contract
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Sep 5, 2020 08:41
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BrigadierSensible posted:And also, amongst the hosed up things WWE has done in the past day, why is nobody talking about how they broke up Bayley and Sasha? At least they kept Bayley heel, so she can continue to be adorable and trash talk. But BOO to them for breaking up two friends. WWE gonna WWE. Also I kinda glossed over the summary, but your post prompted me to go back and read it over more thoroughly and are my eyes deceiving me or did a two-hour wrestling show literally only have three actual wrestling matches on it?
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Sep 5, 2020 08:45
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BrigadierSensible posted:And also, amongst the hosed up things WWE has done in the past day, why is nobody talking about how they broke up Bayley and Sasha? At least they kept Bayley heel, so she can continue to be adorable and trash talk. But BOO to them for breaking up two friends. They've been building to this for months, this is the least objectionable thing WWE has done lately
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Sep 5, 2020 08:48
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Intruder posted:They've been building to this for months, this is the least objectionable thing WWE has done lately Agreed, like it's genuinely one of the few decent long-term stories they have.
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Sep 5, 2020 08:49
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I know she's really good at it but it's still loving wild to me that we're doing the Bayley/Sasha feud with Bayley as the heel
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Sep 5, 2020 08:58
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Cerebral Bore posted:Andrew Yang is a complete idiot at best and a malicious piece of poo poo at worst, but when he's right he's right. Not that the Democrats would actually stand up for workers' rights, but still. Speaking from personal experience, gently caress ANDREW YANG. But I’m glad he’s using his non wrestling notoriety to take WWE to task here JUNGLE BOY fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Sep 5, 2020 |
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Sep 5, 2020 09:01
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Bayley as a heel is Good Actually but I have no desire to see babyface Sasha ever at all, she’s a million times better as a heel. At least in WWE. She’d probably be super cool and charming as a face in a company where she can do her own character stuff
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jesus WEP posted:Bayley as a heel is Good Actually but I have no desire to see babyface Sasha ever at all, she’s a million times better as a heel 90% of this is cause of the way that Michael Cole says IT'S BOSS TIME
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