Prahlad Friedman Interview

[sekrah]

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excellent interview. my reaction was, "such a badass." must be nice to 'grind it out at 200/400 NL,' as another posted said.

i tend to want people to stfu when they inject political arguments into non-political topics. actors do this constantly and i wish they'd all stfu regardless of their views. but i have to say you saw it coming given his past. no complaints, though. when he won his 2003 wsop bracelet he bashed the iraq war and that was at a time when so-called "patriotism" (aka jingoism) was rampant in this country. that was pretty brave of him, and you have to respect that. it's so trendy now to be anti-bush and especially anti-war but he's been that way all along.

agree or disagree, opposing views are often stifled in this country, and maybe he didn't pick the right/best venue for his speech, but he still expressed a very unpopular opinion at the time and didn't give a [censored] what others thought of him or his beliefs.

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I'm definently no war hawk, believe me. I believe going into Iraq was a mistake.

But I cringe at these very same people like Friedman who huff and puff with anti-war and anti-Bush rhetoric, but they would also sit on their hands and keep their traps shut when thugs like Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and Robert Mugabe slaughter people.

Friedman is just another in a long line of patently absurd phonies.

[THAY3R]

Sekrah, you know what's more annoying than people who inject their political views unprovoked?

People who don't stop bitching about those people.

[boondoggle]

Nothing wrong with Prahlad. He ain't breaking no rules. Perhaps people need to look at their envy instead of at Prahlad.

cheers
Boon

[RunDownHouse]

Sorry for being an idiot, but where is this interview? Not only is there no link anywhere in the thread, but not even a mention of a website. That makes me think its super obvious and I'm just out of the loop.

[chicagoY]

He's an ethnic studies student, but, of course, at Berkeley, everything is politicized to the point where you can't learn anything. You come out knowing what you came in--that is if you were properly indoctrinated to begin with.

[JayTee]

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Sorry for being an idiot, but where is this interview? Not only is there no link anywhere in the thread, but not even a mention of a website. That makes me think its super obvious and I'm just out of the loop.

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Prahlad's Interview

[Riina]

So even when families are getting bombed out of their houses everyday, soldiers are dieing for what appears to be the wrong cause, diseases and poverty are spread everywhere we have to label and wrap this up as a 'political issue'(for the sole reason of it being started by politicians), and discuss when and where it is 'proper' to adress these kind of events. I think i would know where these families would like you to stick your 'proper guidelines' for the attention of their misery. Blehhhhhhhh..... [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[Clayton]

for someone whose eccentricities have been well enough documented in his play online, I think the interview shows just how well grounded this guy is. for a guy who gambles for a living, I dont know if its his upbringing or his Berkeley schooling that does it, but he "gets it".

[sketchy1]

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Let's just spend our 24 hours, 7 days, 52 weeks going around repeating, "Gee, I'd be alot happier if there wasn't any war."

Aug 10: "Hey Prahlad, How are you today?" "Miserable. There's war."

Aug 11: "Hey Prahlad, What's up?" "Just war. Everywhere."

Aug 12: "Hey Prahlad, What's new man? "Nothing new, same old war killing people."



Go stuff it in a sack. We'd all be living in caves if every person on the planet just walked around moping all day about conflicts they have no control over.

There's people being murdered and raped every day in THIS country.. Why not say something about that.

"Hey Prahlad, Are you upset you were eliminated today?"

"No, I'm just happy I wasn't raped and murdered today with all the crime around here."

Put him in a strait jacket.


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you fail to realize that he was "HAPPY TO BE ALIVE" and never mentioned being miserable.

you're also pretty [censored] in the head.

[sholler]

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for someone whose eccentricities have been well enough documented in his play online, I think the interview shows just how well grounded this guy is. for a guy who gambles for a living, I dont know if its his upbringing or his Berkeley schooling that does it, but he "gets it".

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Clayton I hope you're kidding.