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Max Read's avatar

Best articulation of what it's like to be from New Jersey since Philip Roth

ziyan's avatar

>Ten years before the Department of Homeland Security began hiring pubescent groypers to post memes about deportation, there was “Weird Celtics Twitter” paving the way of using internet-native linguistic techniques to naturalize grotesque, entrenched power.

lmfao

Neil McEnerney's avatar

I can’t decide whether you’re being too kind to the Knicks or if you’re just further along in your healing journey

Pete Tosiello's avatar

banger, ock

Tosten's avatar

Growth mindset comes for everything we cherish including subcultures that were never meant to dom. Solidarity from an LA-via-San Diego Clippers fan ✊🏼

Peter's avatar

I feel like the grinch living in nyc as a nets fan right now

Niccolo Tate's avatar

Wonderful piece, it again sparks my fascination with the odd (at least to me I guess) small coalition of NBA fans from Washington state who root for the Thunder

Franklin's avatar

I’m from Boston and I am not sure you mentioned how amazing and awesome and better the Celtics (and other Boston sports team) are than your sports team!

destiny's avatar

great read. u from JC, or newark? i love my country hudson county so much it hurts

Pranav Badami's avatar

> My hatred for the Knicks, then, is but a misdirected rage toward the Nets for initiating this existential question of belonging in the first place.

Beautifully said!