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The intrinsic homoeroticism of being enemies but being tied together by your collective childhood dream of being a part of a sport as friends and then finally experienceing that sport but now you hate each other and only having the memories of your childhood yearning to experience this together and now finally you're finally here together but you can't even experience it like the innocent children you used to be because the crueltly of adult emotions ruined it.

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Adrian Newey: Silverstone was a technical foul

Also Adrian Newey: But Max's Brake Check was a silly mistake

The double standards are actually stupid like I'm past seeing them as annoying or angering now they're just stupid

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The way Max F was staring at them fondly through the mirror with a smile and the way luisinha and lando held one another and the way Luisinha chose that picture to post and then tagged Max

In this essay I will...

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Adrian Newey: Silverstone was a technical foul

Also Adrian Newey: But Max's Brake Check was a silly mistake

The double standards are actually stupid like I'm past seeing them as annoying or angering now they're just stupid.

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I live for the absolute Irony of all the twitter dudebros proclaiming F1 as such a macho and manly support and then we have the drivers joking about seeing each others nipple piercings and pressing their helmets onto one another for the closeness. Or holding each other by their dainty waists and literally spraying white liquids on one another. Or the inherent homoeroticism of seeing each other more than you see your family. Or the inherent homoeroticism of being the only people who'll understand each other right at this moment because you're the only people who inhabit the F1 grid at this moment.

Anyways, this was my way of saying we CANNOT let toxic f1twt onto our hellsite.

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This is going to be so long, but I need you guys to realise the absolute shithousery, the grasping of straws mv stans like to pull to defend their driver when they could just acknowledge that their driver messed up, that that acknowledgement doesn't mean they have to stop stanning him, that they don't have to call out people who are holding these privileged drivers accountable, that if they actually called their driver out we would like them a lot better and #anti verstappen wouldn't be a thing because we wouldn't have to call him out if his stans were already doing it.

Also the person who responded to me blocked me I think because I couldn't access their reblog after a while but I did screenshot it.

"Well, maybe Max is right. Maybe it isn't his problem"

The moment I read this statement I realised the gall, the absolute audacity of the person I was talking to. When someone says ableist slurs and you're starting your statement off with 'maybe he's right' or maybe it isn't 'his problem' that a group of marginalised people who've been discriminated their whole life are upset by the fact that someone they might have admired has just said that on live TV in front of countless children and adults who are now being influenced by his words, then maybe you're the one in the wrong @seeyoufkinglaterson.

Also, I think it's ironic that you're essentially agreeing that he didn't apologise for his words. At first you were like 'he apologised' after realising he didn't actually apologise, you're doubling down by saying 'oh but it isn't his fault is it' frankly, the audacity is outstanding.

"People were blowing out of proportion a word that isn't such a big deal in his culture"

They weren't blowing anything out of proportion, these are words people have had to grapple with their whole lives, words that have hurt themselves personally, members of their family, their friends or even people of their community and you're saying that a public sportsperson being criticised (because it definitely wasn't hate - it was gentle criticism that devolved into hate because 'it isn't my problem') is blowing things out of proportion.

As for his fucking culture, yes he grew up in a society where it was okay for him to use that language without anyone really educating or calling him out on it. But he's a global athlete (literally) and if that language is so commonly used by Dutch people he must have slipped up in real life in front of his British/Australian/Canadian (Fluently English speaking) colleagues and they must have schooled him - because this language is so commonly used right? Also, he's used ableist language before (see 2017) and so he has no excuse for 2020 - he knew exactly what he was saying. So let's stop talking about his culture, because honestly, it's not the excuse/explanation you think it is.

"British media loves to push the 'Verstappen bad!!!!' narrative"

Not really, they just call out Max for what he does. The brake check - yeah that was unacceptable driving and should be called out, especially that joke of a penalty. Calling out ableist language - yeah? if you think that discriminatory language shouldn't be called out than you really need to sort your priorities out. Calling out the objectification of women by suggesting that Kelly is just a 'thing' that he bought isn't 'Verstappen bad' it's the truth. If you think being called out for these truthful and also problematic incidents is 'Verstappen bad' then you haven't seen the articles calling Lewis and Yuki's team radios aggressive and perpetuating the 'angry black man' and 'aggressive Asian driver' stereotype that has existed within British Media for a long time - in fact, Kamui Kobayashi was called out for aggressive driving when he wasn't at all. Pascal Wehrlein was apparently too hight maintenance  for F1 (everyone who's ever met him refuted this statement). So 'Verstappen bad' isn't a thing, you just think people calling out your driver for what he's done is bad.

"You're the ones who are putting importance on words and attaching your labels to them"

I don't know if you're aware but words DO have meanings and they do have connotations attached to them - if they didn't we wouldn't be communicating as we do. This is such a nonargument that I'm not even going to talk about it that much. I just want to say that if you really think that, than maybe you should stop attaching labels to words and putting importance on them. So next time someone calls max 'slurstappen', 'human error champion', 'mv0', or 'crashstappen' or his stans 'slurstannies' it shouldn't bother you, because you really should stop putting importance on words and attaching your labels on them - or is that only applicable to max, are his words the only words we can't put importance on and attach our labels to? For the record - I don't think people should use those words to describe Max but if you don't want to put importance on words or attach labels to them than you do do.

"when really all Max did was blurt out a couple of swear words because Lance Stroll made a rather questionable manoeuvre that caused contact. Similar to road rage, that I'm sure anyone who has ever been on a road had felt when the person in front of us does something dangerous."

Max didn't just 'blurt out a couple of swear words' if it was just swear words, this would be such a nonissue because everyone swears on their team radios. What he did was use ableist slurs in response to Lance Stroll's 'questionable manoeuvre' that isn't normal. You can swear and be an aggressive person on your team radios because it's such a high stress situation but the moment you use ableist slurs it just tells us that you use that language in common situations. You're ableist slurs are our 'fuck's' because when you're pissed off you use ableist slurs and when the other drivers are pissed off they use 'fuck' so how often must he use ableist slurs that it just came out on his team radio like that, like how the other driver's use fuck and get called out for it. Lance does a 'questionable manoeuvre' and Max is spilling ableist slurs and Max brake checks Lewis and there were no ableist slurs - because that isn't language Lewis uses in his day to day life. It's funny how you're attempting to appeal to the other people of tumblr by saying 'I'm sure anyone who has ever been on a road had felt' to excuse ableist slurs when we just swear our fucking minds off and have probably never used ableist or racist slurs during our road rage incidents. You're just revealing what you're like when you road rage and honestly, it just explains why you're so defensive.

"And following a certain politician on social media doesn't really mean anything. It's possible to be interested in what someone has to say without necessarily agreeing with their opinion."

Yes, but don't you think it's more common for people to follow politicians whose policies/ideas resonate with them. Don't you think it's concerning that Max might be interested in a politician with radical ideas about Islam such as banning the qur'an and taxing hijabs as well as calling Moroccan immigrants scum?

"But you're already anti-Verstappen: your mind is likely set in stone"

I'm not anti-Verstappen, I just tag my posts against his actions as anti-Verstappen because that's the tag they belong in. I admire/hate on people's actions. When Max does kind things he does kind things and they deserve to be talked about, when he does horrible things he does horrible things and they deserve to be talked about. I guess I'm Anti-people who don't call out Max for his actions so he's not held accountable, so he doesn't think he's done anything wrong so he just carries on doing it and all my glimpses of a kind, generous and brilliant human being he can be are crushed and that crushes me because people will only ever learn that something is wrong is when they're with brutal honesty told what is wrong and if you won't do that (which you aren't doing) than he won't ever stop doing the things he does. There's nothing more that I hate than people not meeting their potential, especially their potential to grow as a human being because everyone fucks up and then they get hated on and called out and than they educate themselves and show that they've learnt from their mistakes and that just doesn't happen with Max and it's crushing because we can all see the person that he is with Daniel, Lando, Charles and sometimes Lewis as well but the people that tell him he didn't brake check anyone (helmut) or the people that tell him that someone tried to kill him (christian) or the people that tell him he's doing fine as he is (jos) aren't helping him. Everyone grows up, I know Max will as well I think it'll happen eventually but it pains me to see the person he could be with Daniel and the person he is with his current influences. Max is just a person - people do good and bad things and when they're enabled they never get the avenue to learn. So yeah, not Anti-verstappen, Anti-the people who enable his behaviour and don't call him out including his fans.

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OMFG HE DIDN'T APOLOGISE

mv stans I need you guys to stop saying that he apologised because he absolutely did not.

2017 - Used ableist slurs against US GP steward

- Got called out on it

- Said he didn't mean to hurt anyone

That isn't an apology. That's a 'I'm sorry YOU felt hurt by what I said' that's a 'I'm so sorry you're so sensitive'. NOT AN APOLOGY.

2020 - Used ableist slurs against Lance Stroll

- Despite being called out on it

- Said it wasn't his problem that people were offended

Once again mv stans, not an apology so I don't understand where this notion that he apologises for his ableist language is coming from because publicly he has never apologised despite publicly offending a bunch of people.

Also wht on earth am I hearing about an Instagram account - could someone inform me of what's happening.

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Lance Stroll/Lewis Hamilton is the ultimate ship and you can't convince me otherwise. Because the dynamics of this duo is mouthwatering. You have shy little insecure lancelot stroll regretting his entire existence and 'umming' and 'aahing' out of every question coupled with flamboyant confident Lewis Hamilton answering every question with a 'yh im the goat and wht' energy. Lance grounds Lewis and Lewis brings Lance out of his shell and they just work.

Also, may or may not have a Lance/Lewis 'woke up married in Vegas' fanfic au planned 👀

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Hottake: Using other drivers' mistakes to minimise your drivers mistake happens much too often and shouldn't actually be a thing. Because it's done in the guise of calling out your driver but all you're actually doing is pretending that your driver didn't actually mess up that bad because this other driver also did something. You can call out your driver without bringing other drivers into the conversation, you shouldn't be annoyed when your driver is rightfully being called out for offensive behaviour/language, and if you're going to defend your driver under the umbrella of calling them out than you should just stop because all you're doing is making yourself look like a fool and also offending a bunch of people out there by invalidating their thoughts and feelings about a situation they have a true right to feel some type of way about.

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"He just made a mistake"

The first time he used ableist slurs in 2017 he probably made a mistake. I can understand how commonly used language can be inoffensive in a certain culture and can be totally offensive in another, so I can believe that in 2017 Max was probably ignorant to what his words meant to fluently English speaking people. But he was called out on it and so when he used ableist language again in 2020, I don't believe that was a mistake. He knew exactly what he was saying, after all, he had been called put on it back in 2017.

"More importantly, he apologised, so the matter should be allowed to lie"

He didn't actually apologise though. In 2017, he said that he 'didn't mean to hurt anyone", that isn't an apology. That's a "I'm sorry YOU felt like that". And in 2020 he said that it was "not my [his] problem". Does that sound like an apology? Also I don't believe an apology is the most important thing. I believe what's more important is learning from your mistakes and providing assurances of change. He didn't apologise, nor did he learn from his mistake as demonstrated by his repeat offense.

When you say something like that for the first time, it's probably ignorance. When you say it again, that's the type of person you always were.

Also talking about racism. Max follows a Dutch politician called Geert Wilders. I believe that when you follow a politician, you are usually in agreement with their policies and ideas. Wilders has been called the "Dutch Donald Trump" and he has called to make the "Netherlands great again", wants to ban the quran, tax hijans and "stop Islam. Also believes Moroccan immigrants are "scum". Do I think Max is racist for following a politician with racist ideas. I don't know. Do I think it's concerning that Max follows a racist politician with radical ideas against Islam through his own free will? Yes.

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i'm just wondering who sutil is that you mentioned in your recent post about nico being the most toxic in brocedes? was he another teammate/friend that lewis had, and it was a similar sort of situation?

He was a friend of Lewis' also in F1. Lewis and him were at a nightclub in Shanghai (after the Chinese GP in 2011 I believe) and he had an altercation with the owner of the Lotus F1 team and basically he hit him with a Champagne bottle and the owner was really badly injured. Lewis was named as the defense witness at Sutil's trial to basically defend him but he never appeared and it ended their friendship.

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Hear me out, Merc's setbacks was God's plan to expose yall. He ain't dominant anymore - which is the reason you guys said you didn't like him. So why the hate now? What is the exact same about the Lewis from 2 years ago? It ain't the domination, he's currently out of championship contention. It ain't him being sexist, ableist, homophobic because he's apologised and learnt from his very human mistakes. So what is this one factor that has constantly stayed the same for Lewis? Forgive me for speaking the bitter truth, but perhaps it's the color of his skin?

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Nico Rosberg was the most toxic one in the Brocedes situation (Lewis to a certain extent probably) and no one can convince me otherwise. Lewis is so closed off from others in the paddock and you can't tell me that it wasn't because of Rosberg and Sutil and honestly that just breaks my whole heart.

P.s. It affected Lewis so much and you can't see if from the way he never befriended anyone in the paddock after Sutil and Rosberg

P.s.s. From Grecian holidays and boxes of kellogs frosties to this - it's honestly so tragic and it's so cinematic how we saw the degradation of a friendship right before our eyes. We saw and heard it all.

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The more I realise that managing directors (Ross brawn) and officials that are still very much in close contact with FIA (bernie Ecclestone) are able to publicly have the most shittest of shittakes the more I see and realise how abu dhabi 21 happened. You're not going to be fair and just when you've tried breaking rules or not following rules and said stupid stuff about German dictators and no one calls you out.

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If you're not going to listen to the opinion of someone just because their organisation and by extension they themselves are having setbacks should you even have a job as managing director of a whole institution where you're literally supposed to listen to people out of professionality and concern. George is the literal GPDA president, you know has a responsibility to voice concerns of his fellow colleagues. None of them like sprint races - George does his job and talks about it but he won't get listened to because he's not that far ahead on the grid. They're still pissed about George and Saudi and it shows. Let George do his job Brawn and maybe you should do yours. Saudi and today were the epitome of being unprofessional. George did his job, do yours Brawn.

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Just wanted to point out (because people still use this excuse to this day) that saying "he was under pressure" or "he didn't mean it" or "he's not actually like that" or "we shouldn't listen to team radios because stuff comes out in the heat of the moment" isn't the excuse/explanation you think it is for ableist slurs.

See I agree for most instances you really shouldn't listen to the team radios, but when someone uses ableist slurs so aggressively and "in the heat of the moment" maybe you should step back and consider that he's probably used this language his whole life, he's so comfortable with this language that he uses it on the daily, which is why he equates it to "fuck" like we all say "fuck" alot don't we. All the other drivers say fuck alot and we know that because that's what they scream into their team radios don't they? You'll never hear other drivers say ableist language because they've either been made aware of how offensive it is or because they would never even think about saying that in their day to day life and therefore it doesn't translate to team radios.

"But it's common to use ableist slurs in the Netherlands" I hear you say. And yeah it is. But he's part of a global sport, surrounded by personnel of various ethnicities and races, he should have known those words were offensive and derogatory and stopped as soon as he found out.

"What if they didn't tell him though, what if he didn't know" 2020 wasn't the first time. He used ableist slurs in 2017 as well, and was called out for it (not as much as he should have been) and clearly he hasn't learned, because if you say it once you're ignorant and deserve a second chance if you say it twice and then refuse to apologise by saying "not my problem"? Then you haven't actually changed, you've just become smarter and learnt to hide it.

tldr; welcome to my class on dissecting stupid excuses from people who support a man who has used ableist slurs and also refuse to call him out but then call out other drivers and use those mistakes to minimise their drivers mistakes - "Yeah he did this, but look at what this driver did" Isn't really you calling out someone so don't even try because it's just embarrassing and offensive to people who've actually felt hurt.

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AusGP vibes rose my expectation and now we need the fruity to carry on for all the races. Like the vibes? Immaculate.