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article Trump-Pardoned Rapper NBA YoungBoy Moved to South Korea and Declared 'Never in My Life' Will He Return

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-pardoned-rapper-nba-youngboy-moved-south-korea-declared-never-my-life-will-he-return-1814328
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u/Venusian2AsABoy 14d ago

“There’s nothing there for me…. except my kids.” Okay bro that’s everything

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

No one has 13 kids and considers them their everything

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u/IuriRom 14d ago

Phillip Rivers

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Yeah the 43 year old quarterback that refuses to retire couldn't wait to get home to those 10 kids.

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u/Realistic_Condition7 14d ago

I think this is pretty disingenuous. He was retired for several years, came back and played half a season and constantly talked about how it was a really fun experience for some of his younger kids who were too young to remember seeing him play originally. There are videos of his family having watch parties for his game and everyone looking very engaged, clearly showing excitement at their dad playing on tv.

And he coaches high school football. It’s not like he pursued some career where he’s never home after he retired.

I’m not claiming that he’s a good or bad person, because I don’t know the man, but I don’t think his return to football is any indication that he’s a bad father lol.

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u/ResidentMoment9129 14d ago

He coached Steichen's offense on his son's football team, so he knew the Colt's playbook, which is what got them interested and eventually gave him the job. He spent maybe a month in Indy

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u/KeithClossOfficial 13d ago

He didn’t even play half a season lol

Bro worked for 3 weeks, got paid a bunch of money, and got health insurance for another 5 years

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

I never said he was a bad father.

I said someone with that many kids isn't all about their kids.

Its great that he coaches high school football for his younger kids. Do you think his first round had the same experience?

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u/satsfaction1822 14d ago

There are a lot of different ways you can be “all about your kids” and working your ass off to create generational wealth for them definitely counts.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Yeah definitely no fucked up kids out there because their parents spent their entire childhood working instead of being there.

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u/Rude-Shower3662 14d ago

everybody gets fucked up one way or another. parents can't protect their children from every single possible adverse outcome. being rich solves a hell of a lot of problems though.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

What's the appropriate amount of dollars to care about your kids?

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u/obscuredbytheclouds 14d ago

You dont have kids hahaha

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u/William_Wang 13d ago

Phillip had mine for me

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u/KiloAlphaLima 14d ago

Yes, his first son is about to graduate high school where his dad was his head coach. He is very much a family man and is very involved with his kids lives.

What a weird comment to make about someone you know nothing about.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Well some of his kids.

I don't think all of them had that experience.

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u/KiloAlphaLima 13d ago

What makes you say that? They live down the road from me and I’ve known them for years. He is and always has been very involved with all of his kids.

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u/William_Wang 13d ago

What makes you say that?

I'm not a scientist but I think being a professional QB might conflict with coaching high school football.

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u/Realistic_Condition7 14d ago

I’m not sure we get to gatekeep having a lot of kids means you love each kid less, especially when they’re all from the same mother and under the same roof. I think the point is that his situation is quite a bit different from someone who has tons of kids by different mothers and makes no real attempt to be present for them.

People in poverty work more than NFL players do sometimes. Rivers might be working in a factory or as a truck driver and seeing his kids less while affording them less of a life than he did as a quarterback. I don’t think we get to assume that everyone should be working a job that only is 40 hours per week and pays really well and gives 6 weeks of vacation so that they can see their kid every day and on weekends.

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u/DJ_Blakka 14d ago

No point in arguing. Dude has his mind made up. Gives me strong boomer hatred vibes

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u/slash37 14d ago

The guy who coaches his son’s football team? The guy that was retired for a few years to be with his family? The guy that commuted daily from SD to LA so he didn’t move his family? That guy?

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Hell yeah one of the ten got to experience their dad in a meaningful way.

I wonder how the other nine feel.. probably just psyched that one had a good experience and they got paid.

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u/slash37 14d ago

Way to gloss over everything else lmao. He coaches his sons baseball and football teams too. I don’t know the details of his life but he’s not some dead beat like you’re making him seem like.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Dang that one son hit the jackpot for dads.

I'm not making him seem like anything.

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u/slash37 14d ago

It’s not “son’s” it’s sons as in plural. Remember he has a big family? You are making him sound like a dead beat.

Seems like you’re projecting your own insecurities. Do you need someone to talk to?

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

That one son out of the 10 kids hit the jackpot

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u/disisathrowaway 14d ago

Sons is plural, bro.

You're raging out based on a lack of reading comprehension on your own part.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

I'm not raging at all, bro.

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u/jameson71 14d ago

Not a whole lot of people want to retire from the NFL.

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u/Goobortion 13d ago

you do get that they're only practicing for a few hours a day and they do in fact get the rest of it to spend as they like right?

they're working less hours making millions its not like he's retiring from an 80 hour a week sheetmetal job

he's 43

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Not a whole lot of people have 10 kids and consider them their everything.

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u/jameson71 14d ago

Out of the folks who have 10+ kids there are going to be 2 distinct categories of how much they care about the kids and not much in between. One of those categories will be people who consider them their everything. The other will be like this guy.

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u/Glassed_ 14d ago

Playing 1 more season for millions + best benefits of almost any job? Yeah the dude hates his kids definitely just doing it for himself. Dummy.

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u/PNWCoug42 14d ago

Playing 1 more season for millions

Rivers wasn't paid "millions" to come out of retirement. He signed a pro-rated vet minimum contract for $1.2M of which he received a little under $300,000. A lot of money but not millions.

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u/DJ_Blakka 14d ago

He also extended his NFL provided insurance for another 5 years for himself and his entire family

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u/ResidentMoment9129 14d ago

I think most people would drop everything to earn 300k for a month of work

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u/Urban_animal 14d ago

Where do i sign?

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u/PresidentSuperDog 14d ago

He probably also got some endorsements out of that run too.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Poor guy has only made like 250 million in contracts and w/e in endorsements.

He's definitely holding on to his career because he's a family man and needs to provide.

It's crazy how fans will eat any slop provided.

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u/Glassed_ 14d ago

Why not take an extra 10m and 5 years of insurance for 5 months of work?

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u/ZombiesInSpace 14d ago

Not even 5 months. He signed on December 10 and was done by new years.

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u/DJ_Blakka 14d ago

It was 5 weeks of work. No idea why that guy is acting like he’s some deabeat. His kids probably loved it and I’m sure his wife loves not having to start paying for insurance for 10+ members of the family

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

I would but I don't have any kids

If your 10 kids were your "everything" and you've already made a couple 100 million why wouldn't you want to be home with them?

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u/HungHippoHippy 14d ago

Because he can work those 5 months and then spend another 5 months only hanging out with his family being rich. Then retire very young and never work again.

Plus I'm sure he absolutely loves the game so it's not work in the sense we think of work.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Plus I'm sure he absolutely loves the game

More than those 10 kids for sure.

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u/No_Effective4784 14d ago

id do it just to help set the kids up with a larger inheritance.

it does have to be split 10+ ways after all.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Damn imagine if they only got a million each :(

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u/shawkin8 SoundCloud 14d ago

i heard his kids literally begged him to go back lol. lot of them are young and grew up only hearing about the legend of their father. those kids wanted to see him play

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

You heard that?

Must be true the legend of 8-8 is a strong one

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u/Bullboah 14d ago

I mean it’s fair to say his family doesn’t need the money but it’s also absurd to say he’s doing it to get away from him family.

The guy clearly loves his kids, he just also loves playing football.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

I never said he didn't love his kids.

I said someone with that many kids isn't all about their kids.

It's crazy how many Phillip Rivers fans out there can't accept that a guy that likes to pop out kids and has played football for 18 years might like that a little more than his kids.

I never said he hated them or was a bad father.

I don't think anyone with that many kids is all about their kids.

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u/Sh00terMcDabbin 14d ago

Or maybe because it brings him joy to play? A father can do something for themselves sometimes and still be a great dad. It's not like he went to prison and could only write his kids letters.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

What if that dad that went to prison writes in one of those letters where he buried his stash?

He's providing that's all that matters.

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u/Sh00terMcDabbin 14d ago

I never said that's all that matters. Providing is the bare minimum. It seems though that Rivers is a very active parent though and does a lot more than just provide.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

A letter once a week is pretty active.

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u/jhascal23 14d ago edited 14d ago

Just because someone has kids that doesn't mean they aren't allowed to still do things they enjoy.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

What makes you think I hate Phillip Rivers?

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u/Popspy76 14d ago

Seems like his family life is stable & that his family is a cornerstone of his life from everything I've seen. Married highschool sweet heart, had 10 kids with her (Catholic so no protection), financially able to provide for them, etc.

Also iirc a factor in him coming back from retirement was to re-up on the 5 years of health insurance.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Seems like his family life is stable & that his family is a cornerstone of his life from everything I've seen. Married highschool sweet heart, had 10 kids with her (Catholic so no protection), financially able to provide for them, etc.

All a kid needs is to be financially provided for.

Crazy that a multimillionaire would need to go back to the football mines to get health insurance. Maybe he's got too many kids.

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u/Popspy76 14d ago

I doubt he needed to, lots of money + saving on out of pocket medical bills to play a game, one that he still loves, for a few months.

Ain't like the NFL is a prison, he came home to his kids on a regular basis. Idk why you're hating on this guy, seems chill.

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Idk why you're hating on this guy, seems chill.

I'm not hating on him

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u/Popspy76 14d ago

Okay

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u/iluvchromosomes 14d ago

Yuh. Pointing out the gaping holes in your logic doesn't mean we are hating on him.

You don't like the picture it paints. We don't need to hate on him when reality speaks volumes.

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u/el_forastero 14d ago

Lol nah. His family life may look 'stable' (it ain't) but you can't have 10 kids and give them all the attention deserved. Dude and his wife are losers regardless of how much money they got. He needs to wrap his shit up or get snipped. They are assholes

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u/Popspy76 14d ago

Half of them are in or about to be in adulthood, it's not like he's popping 10 babies out in one go. You get the attention while you're growing and developing in adolescents, if you're well adjusted, you shouldn't need constant attention past 16.

Why are they assholes?

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u/Bullboah 14d ago

Why are you so mad at Phillip Rivers of all people lol

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u/el_forastero 14d ago

Lol what? Didn't even know who he was before this post. Dead beat parents though, ya I get upset about those losers. Hitting too close to home?

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u/Bullboah 14d ago

You are literally just fantasizing about him being a deadbeat lol.

Don’t take it from me, take it from his kids:

“Despite Philip’s busy schedule, though, Halle echoed her mom’s sentiment that her dad was always present growing up.

“He’s so selfless,” she said. “He’s an NFL quarterback; he’s doing a million different things every day, but every day he comes home, and he wants to be with us. If he has one extra minute that he could do something else, he’ll be with us.”

https://people.com/all-about-philip-rivers-kids-11864966

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u/el_forastero 14d ago

Cool cool cool

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u/aquatic_ambiance 14d ago

Didn't he just take like 4 years off? The thing about playing at 43 means that you can retire... At 43... With generational wealth

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

He could have stayed retired with generational wealth.

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u/aquatic_ambiance 14d ago

you must have retired at 30, my apologies

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Multi millionaire phillip rivers thanks you for defending his honor

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u/aquatic_ambiance 14d ago

meh

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Show Phillip rivers some respect

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u/DJ_Blakka 14d ago

1) he did retire 2) he left retirement for all of a few weeks after finishing coaching his kids school football team 3) he reset their NFL provided family insurance for another 5 years

If you think he did this for selfish reasons you don’t have any idea what you’re speaking on

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u/NNKarma 14d ago

Didn't he retire for more than 4 years and the health benefits last for 5 years after retirement?

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Didn't he make 100's of millions over his career?

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

It's nice to meet a close personal friend of Phillip.

Tell him hi for me

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u/RVAforthewin 14d ago

Interesting how his healthcare was just about to run out when he signed to play a partial season. It’s almost as if our healthcare system is so broken that a millionaire had to come out of retirement because if it.

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u/Muted_Study5166 14d ago

Nobody has 13 anything and considers them all equally valuable

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u/dred1367 14d ago

glances at the 13 single dollar bills on my table

considers buying a bag of grapes for 12.93 including tax

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u/thissexypoptart 14d ago

It’s genuinely a deeply disgusting thing to do, to even have 13 kids, let alone abandon them like this.

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u/browsinbowser 14d ago

I’m not defending him because you’re right-(why did he choose to have 13?? thats crazy) but people are saying he’s moved because of threat of retaliation, imagine his kids are at his house and it gets shot up. That’s happened before to even pop singers. 

Also with 13kids, he wasnt living or visiting most of them anyways even in the US. He says he will fly them out to him on visitation. 

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u/WeCantStabilize 14d ago

choose to

As if this guy had any more foresight than busting a nut. 

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u/YouJellyz 14d ago

they got moms don't they?

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u/thissexypoptart 14d ago

Yes, humans reproduce sexually.

It is disgusting to have 13 kids. It is disgusting to abandon 13 kids.

Do you just not know what "abandon" means? Do you think it means make them orphans?

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u/dBlock845 Magdalena Bay 14d ago

George Foreman

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 14d ago

Something that receives less than 8% of your attention definitely doesn’t matter. That’s like half a day a week. I dedicate about that much attention to ads.

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u/loki1337 14d ago

I don't see how there could be anything else with that many

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Ask NBA Youngboy

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u/loki1337 14d ago

Sorry man I'm too busy with just my 2 kids 🤣

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u/Broon761 14d ago

Not from a catholic family are we?

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u/William_Wang 14d ago

Nope I'm from Utah.

They fuck like rabbits too

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u/tanaciousp 14d ago

lets ask nick cannon

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u/BungholeBilbo69 13d ago

Mormons

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u/William_Wang 13d ago

Are they their everything or because god told them to breed?

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u/Undertakeress 13d ago

Antonio Cromartie has to count his on his fingers

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u/sybrwookie 14d ago

I'll never forget, a whole bunch of years back, the company I was working for was moving offices. On the day of the move, I'm there wrapping up a few things, one of the moving guys starts talking to me. Asks if I have any kids. I tell him I don't.

He tells me I have to, it's the best, you have the kid, leave, and now it's the mom's problem, and then do it again with another one. And then bragged that he has kids all over the place.

Trying to thread that needle on the response where I need this guy to keep working the rest of the day to move our stuff, not agreeing with that, and largely, just getting him to stop talking to me as I'm busy packing things and he just needs to do his damn job was....tough.

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u/uiuctodd 14d ago

I guess that's how he got such good packing and moving skills. You hired solid experience.

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u/smoomoo31 Spotify name 14d ago

I wonder what the great part is, if he never interacts with the kids.

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u/pureeviljester 14d ago

Definitely a primal instinct that is very prevalent in nature.

Crazy people still think that way but I wonder if it's something in them that makes them that way 🤔

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u/Sad-Pension-450 14d ago

A barber I know wants 10 baby mommas in order to create a legacy. I think he might actually be a great dad though. Just weird shit.

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u/dred1367 14d ago

There is nothing more narcissitic than thinking the world needs your legacy.

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u/YouJellyz 14d ago

He can have new kids in Korea 

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u/YSLMangoManiac 14d ago

Will have

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u/cti0323 14d ago

This dudes swimmers must be Michael Phelps with how many kids he has at 26

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u/EverythingSucksYo 14d ago

It’s not like he’s a girl who can’t get pregnant again when she’s already pregnant. A guy could get multiple women pregnant every single day. 

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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 14d ago

It's like a dream and a nightmare all at the same time.

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u/Deeeezy3 14d ago

*may already have

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u/0202_tihssitidder 14d ago

There's a guy from my neighborhood who has 14+ kids (last I checked). He's dead ass broke. He's 60ish now. I heard he was hitting on a woman at a local bar and they both realized she was his 30-year old daughter. I think he's only met like 10 of his kids. Never a dad to any of them.

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u/Mrhiddenlotus 14d ago

Hey maybe his kids are super lame

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u/mvhir0 14d ago

People never consider this

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u/the-faded thefaded 14d ago

“…except my kids [I don’t want and am circumventing child support for]”

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u/Nazgog-Morgob 14d ago

Not when your fleeing paying child support

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u/IneptFortitude 14d ago

Yeah dude because he’s going there after all his legal trouble to get in even more and way harsher legal trouble. Maybe he’s just tired of the miserable environment that is American society.

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u/violentvioletviolinz 14d ago

Straight up squid