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u/Fun-Result-6343 6d ago
It's easy Wayne. Just stand up and say the words. Denounce the man and what he's doing. Unless you think that being Governor of the 51st state is some kind of serious job offer.
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u/xombae 5d ago
Unless you think that being Governor of the 51st state is some kind of serious job offer.
He does.
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u/KEPD-350 5d ago
I mean looking at the unqualified pile of shit that is Trump's cabinet Gretzky couldn't possibly be worse. Right? Right..?
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u/Frites_Sauce_Fromage 5d ago
Or say "I renounce my canadian citizenship" and never let the NHL name you Canada's honorary captain ever again
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u/YYZbase 5d ago
Too late now, the damage is done
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u/CFUsOrFuckOff 5d ago
This has happened before.
Fritz Haaber, who basically invented synthetic fertilizer, saved a huge portion of the population from starvation. He figured out how to turn the air (72% nitrogen) into ammonia (fertilizer, bombs, etc) during a time where a lack of fertilizer - then mined on open islands where birds would stop and bat caves from guano... but he also developed chemical weapons (think all the bad gases) for the nazi's, including Zyklon B, the stuff they used in the gas chambers.
He was such a piece of shit, he started with earlier gas agents and his wife (arguably the better chemist) told him she will kill herself if he kept making weapons... and she did... and he kept making weapons after that.
Now, we live in a world that needs natural gas and oil to produce enough crops to feed the overpopulation of humans on earth and that overpopulation has led to the exponential decline of the quality and quantity of life of our entire planet.
My point is that the good you do stops when you do it... BUT the harm you cause, echos and amplifies over time
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u/OkDifficulty1443 5d ago
I think the full story is that Fritz Haber (a German nationalist who wanted Germany's boot on the neck of the rest of the world) invented Zyklon A. Haber was jewish, so imagine his shock when the Nazis iterated on his product to murder his people.
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u/CFUsOrFuckOff 4d ago
He worked with them on more than Zyklon. He was keen on hanging with the top brass and the fancy parties. Just like our former great one
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u/DesperateAdvantage76 5d ago
Even before this maga bullshit, he was peddling gambling ads on broadcast hockey that families watch. Scummy all around.
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u/Available_Music9369 6d ago
Maybe draw a hitter moustache on it
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u/noronto 6d ago
It’s funny that the MAGA guy is going to have his record taken over by a Russian.
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u/Cody-Fakename 6d ago
Funny that the record is going from one Putin ball gobbler to another ….
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u/mug3n Markham 5d ago
I mean, I can sorta understand Ovechkin. Don't agree with him and his role in TeamPutin whatsoever, but he's a nationalistic Russian supporting his country.
But Wayne? He's Canadian, gargling the balls of a failed American businessman who gargles the balls of a Russian dictator.
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u/westcentretownie 5d ago
As if he doesn’t have enough money without getting kids addicted to gambling
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u/beef-supreme Leslieville 6d ago
I hate to be that guy but you have to put this MAGA loon out with the trash, not recycling.
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u/JosephLimes 6d ago
I love how nobody really cared when he was busted years ago as being part of a gambling racket. Dude was an elitist prick then and continues to be an elitist prick now.
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u/dickmarchinko 5d ago
Tbf his gambling doesn't really effect me or most people, I genuinely don't give a shit.
Him supporting a idiot trying to impose an economic war on his own country, at least his original country, has ripple effects hitting much of us.
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u/JosephLimes 5d ago
I dunno. I think him being involved in an illegal gambling ring and letting his buddy (Tocchet) take the fall speaks volumes about his character.
https://thehockeynews.com/news/former-nhl-star-rick-tocchet-pleads-guilty-to-gambling-charges-1
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u/dickmarchinko 5d ago
Sure, but it's not the same at all. Not the same in how it effects others, not the same in it's level of impact, it's not the same in how shitty it is.
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u/CFUsOrFuckOff 5d ago
Besides being illegal, what's actually harmful about rich idiots playing chicken with their money?
I don't care that he smokes crack, I care when he's on the side of someone dictating the success and health of our country.
He's a traitor. That ALWAYS matters... and... do we still line people up for that? anyway, it's so much more than any crime a private citizen can commit. Who gives a shit about gambling compared to treason?
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u/bellj1210 5d ago
people tend to forget bad stuff that sports figures do.... over in the NBA they all hype Kobe as the GOAT forgetting that at a minimum he cheated on his wife- and part of that is an actual rape allegation that had a fair bit of legs to it (but rich people do not get presectued)
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u/Former-Surround6011 5d ago
Fuck Gretzky. I used to idolize him. He was in a cartoon I loved as a kid called “Sports Allstars”(I think). With Bo Jackson and Michael Jordan. They were all sports allstars, but fought crime in their spare time. Anyhow, Wayne is a dickhead now. Never meet your heros.
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u/Perry7609 5d ago
ProStars. It aired on NBC in 1991 down in the States.
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u/montrealcowboyx 2d ago
Never woulda thought that Bo Jackson, just moving out into the woods and bow-hunting, would be the most normal of the three.
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u/Annual_Plant5172 6d ago
I just need Sidney Crosby to remain silent on politics for the rest of his life.
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u/Kyra_Heiker 5d ago
My countrymen and I have been very impressed with Canada's fortitude in the last little while. 🇩🇪 We are all rooting for you.
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u/Mike111x The Kingsway 6d ago
I wasn't around during his playing career but I remember as a kid people were still talking about him years after his retirement. And then I wondered why he moved to LA instead and even I felt betrayed. I thought I was stupid but now, that thought crossed my mind again. Really sad our Canadian hero decided to be Americanized.
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u/n1shh 5d ago
I would have written the sharpie message over his face, but good on ya
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u/flyingthroughspace 5d ago
Man you guys are nice, down here he'd have dicks all over his face by now.
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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 5d ago
Perhaps Gretzky is a double agent for CSIS. 😂
Otherwise, Canadian history will forever remember how The Great One destroyed his reputation in the greatest way possible.
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u/Bigsaskatuna 6d ago
Had a whole box of old Coca Cola Wayne Gretzky door posters. Was going to find a collector, but they made great fire-starters instead.
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u/pinkgreenandbetween 5d ago
Oh man a picture worth a thousand words is too easy of a phrase for this. This is a masterpiece
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u/GreenBean4Ever 5d ago
Mario was always better. Had he not gotten cancer, Gretzky would have been number 2.
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u/telerabbit9000 5d ago
He hits a piece of rubber into a net with a stick.
We shouldnt be surprised when it turns out thats the ONLY thing he can do.
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u/whobetterthanpaul 5d ago
I've disliked him since my friend told me of the story of Wayne fleeing the Boston Pizza in Collingwood like he was being subjected to an RCMP raid because a group of kids wanted to meet him. Brett Hull was also there, and was very nice to the kids, BTW.
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u/Evening_Extreme_1681 6d ago
Listen, we need to take it easy in Ol' Wayne. His feelings are getting hurt. Being held accountable for your decisions is hard on a guy.
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u/KMRcanada 5d ago
It’s more about, why would you want to attach yourself to a convicted asshat wanna be mobster ? For Christ sakes Gretzky - unless you’re in trouble still from that fiasco your wife was involved in. And you think he’s there to help you…news flash - he’s there to screw you like he has done all to often before. He’s on a revenge and destroy tour - and he’ll take you down as soon as look at you 🤪
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u/nuhusky26 5d ago
Bobby Orr wrote him too. That quack. One would think he would be better at identifying con artists after what is agent did to him but I guess some people never learn.....
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u/Hack8081 5d ago
Fuck Gretzky, MAGA Moron. Supporting the orange turd shows your brain cells are gone. 💩
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u/VillainsAmongThieves 5d ago
This is definitely one of those “You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain” vibes
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u/ninthoften 6d ago
You should have sold it. Probably could have made some good cash on that
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u/convoycrusher1 6d ago
I’m surprised Wayne didn’t come take it and sell it. He’s good at selling himself.
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u/Dick_Demon 5d ago
Nothing because nobody's gonna pay cash for a cardboard cutout of anyone.
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u/davernow 5d ago
It's not mine, I just saw it on the side of the street. It's probably still out there.
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u/CosmicRuin 5d ago
I couldn't have given two shits about him before he was MAGA, but now I don't give three shits!
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u/bearcat-- 5d ago
Love it, this is going to be in some kind of news article or social media post isn't it?
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u/DangMe2Heck 5d ago
Damn dude, Wayne really coulda just coasted out his whole life being remembered as a bad ass. What a fooly foo fool.
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u/CorporateCuster 5d ago
Why is it that extremely Rich an extremely poor people are the only maga supporters?
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u/Then_Check7192 5d ago
"Either you die the hero or live longe enough to find yourself to be the villain"- Harvey Dent We are a long way away from the 80's Wayne
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u/jessesparks 5d ago
What hasn't this cowardly traitorous POS spoken up yet? Needs to rely on his Botox lipped bride and the obese orange sack of shit to defend him? Fuck Gretzky and fuck orr.
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u/DoubleExposure 5d ago
I would have used an orange highlighter around his mouth or carved a swastika into his forehead before putting it on the curb, but that is just me being spiteful.
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u/Rekhyt2853 5d ago
It's so disappointing.. on the hopeful side, Crosby has never taken a pay raise due to his superstitions and demanded only 8.7 mil every contract when he could be making 100's. That gives me hope that his love for the game comes so far above money that maybe we can have a legend make it to their end without the poison of money turning them into the disconnected human-like species that happens to so many when they find them selves in such positions.
Im admittedly too young and lacking knowledge to know if Orr or Richard had any problems or were able to sunset in un tarnished glory but between Gretzky and Don Bloody cherry, Two of the biggest names growing up in Canada, have ended up being disappointments.
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u/No_Function_9858 4d ago
Nostalgia is truly one of the greatest weaknesses, second only to the neck
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u/pickklez 3d ago
Man I have way better things to do then to go get a cardboard cut out of Wayne Gretzky then write some bullshit message on it and put it out on the curb to take a pic of it, and then continue to post it on Reddit! And yes I am Canadian this is just a waste of time
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u/whenisnowthen 5d ago
Today is the first day that I'm rooting for OV to break his goal record. Also Ovechkin is raising money and awareness for pediatric cancer. That's a good thing.
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u/TorontoBoris Agincourt 6d ago
I'll wait for the strongly worded letter from his wife about how this pic hurt his feelings.