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Originally Posted by Kevin Kolodziej
So the Einstein report has been out for an entire weekend now and I think everyone has had a chance to digest it a bit.
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Yes, you're right. 4 days was more than enough time for us to get over having our entire team's goals, hopes, and dreams for the season crushed.
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Originally Posted by Schnabel
I'm sorry to hear you feel this way about it. Yes it sucks what happened; however, we cannot change the past. We can only look into the future and plan to prevent what has happened. For now though, enjoy a little comic relief and save yourself the stress of what has happened.
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You'll have excuse us if we don't join in the comic relief.
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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
While I partially agree with you, don't forget that some highly esteemed members of our community made this song/video too. Just saying.
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Just because someone is a highly esteemed member of the community, does not mean they are not capable of being an insensitive jerk. This is something that I will have no problem discussing with them in person this weekend.
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Originally Posted by Tyler Olds
Completely agree, have some fun and get off the CD soap-box that everybody likes to get up on when anything that could remotely be considered as "offensive" or "insensitive" is posted.
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I am getting very tired of people telling us that we should laugh this off. Were you there on Einstein? No. Did you have your robot disabled on the biggest stage in FIRST? No. Did you have to explain to a room full of your students that someone sabotaged everything they had worked towards this season? No. Did you have to explain to your employer why they should continue to grant you time off to attend competitions, and continue to support your team even after this debacle? No. Do you have any idea what we have been through? No!
Yes, we are angry. No, we will not laugh about this, and No, we will not sit idly by while someone makes a mockery of what happened on Einstein.
What we would appreciate, is if people would stop trying to make light of what happened, and give us the time we need to deal with this in our own way. We are simply not ready to laugh about this yet, and we likely never will be. The guilty party still hides in anonymity, and until they come forward and accept what they did, we will likely never have closure.
Would you be able to laugh it off if someone went into your pit and tore out your electrical system before the biggest matches of your season? Would you be so quick to "suck it up" if someone then made a music video about it?
We would like to laugh, just not about this. This is the last you will hear from 2056 on this subject.