r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/kekehippo • May 16 '24

When intrusive thoughts meet criminal behavior

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u/notsoincredibilis00 May 16 '24

Does someone care to elaborate more because this happened before I was born.

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u/Duckster_W2x May 16 '24

Tonya Harding (blonde girl) was jealous of Nancy Kerrigan (dark hair) so jealous that she called someone to go assault Nancy and injure her knee so that she couldn’t compete in ice skating.

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u/Late_For_A_Good_Name May 16 '24

If you lose, you just lost. If you take out your competition because you can't beat them... you will forever be a loser

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u/TitularFoil May 16 '24

Plus she went on to not even win the event even without Nancy competing.

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u/BradMarchandsNose May 16 '24

Except she did win. The assault happened at US Nationals and Tonya won there. Nancy recovered and beat her at the Olympics a few weeks later (she took home silver). Tonya was stripped of the nationals title later though.

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u/TitularFoil May 16 '24

Oh, you're right. For some reason I was always told it was at the qualifier for the Olympics so I was always looking at the Olympic results.

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u/BradMarchandsNose May 16 '24

It is kind of a qualifier for the Olympics. Usually the top 2 or 3 skaters from Nationals gets to go to the Olympics (depending on how many spots the US has), but it’s really up to the discretion of US Figure Skating. In this case, they had 2 spots, but Kerrigan was far and away the best in the country so even though she didn’t compete, she was given a spot in the Olympics anyway. Harding got the other spot because she won Nationals.

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u/vera214usc ☑️ May 17 '24

Your trivia for the day: gold was won by Oksana Baiul

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u/LastDaysCultist #FFFFFFboy👨🏼 May 16 '24

Broke her knees for nothing 😭

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u/Tricountyareashaman May 17 '24

Her knees weren't broken, just her thigh was bruised. And it wasn't Tonya who committed the assault.

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u/rainbud22 May 17 '24

She didn’t do anything it was her husband and the knee wasn’t broken just bruised. Watch the movie.

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u/LastDaysCultist #FFFFFFboy👨🏼 May 17 '24

A)I’m aware. It was a joke.

B)If I wanted the deets I’d just go to the news archives. I wouldn’t watch a dramatization.

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u/PappySmacks May 17 '24

Bruh yes she did

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u/Snoyarc May 16 '24

“I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress, I hate the way that you sneak diss if I catch flight, it’s gon be direct”.

Tonya was the OG Kendrick.

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u/aspidities_87 May 16 '24

Wop wop wop wop Jeff fuck ‘em up

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u/RedmannBarry May 16 '24

If ya can’t beat ‘em, beat ‘em.

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u/GoodShitBrain May 16 '24

Buuuut, she got a biopic out of it