Alright, I'll be a petty asshole - 12 months in theater MG Carr, where the fuck have you been the last 16 years?
The NFL, Kneeling, Ratings, and the Flag
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Alright, I'll be a petty asshole - 12 months in theater MG Carr, where the fuck have you been the last 16 years?
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Honestly, I don't like how the President weighed in on the situation. It's so trivial and beneath him. I feel like we have a lot more pressing concerns going on that needs his complete attention. I do consider the kneeling a type of peaceful protest. It's his freedom and right to do so. He's not spewing hateful rhetoric or burning flags. He's bringing to light institutional racism and discrimination among minorities during recent police altercations. Something I believe is prevalent in our country. If this is not an appropriate way to protest, what is? I have traveled enough to realize that this is the greatest country to live in and am thankful for the rights and freedoms that are granted to me by being a citizen. But I'm far from aligning with anything chauvinistic, jingoistic, or xenophobic.
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Indiana National Guard since 1990. But his deployment was to Iraq during the GWOT. Looks like he somehow missed DS when he was on AD:
Adjutant General | Indiana National Guard
Going by the Wiki Entry, 1-77 AR did not deploy for Desert Storm: 77th Armored Regiment - Wikipedia
Seven, and I'm not a GO...
This has spread slightly to the NHL now.
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I haven't watched Hockey since the lockout.
This whole thing is just a way to jump on a bandwagon to get your name and picture in the media in hopes of garnering attention for something about which most of these fuckers are ambivalent at best, wholly uninformed for the most part, and maybe 3 in the NFL really and actually believe without having a Muslim significant other threatening to cut them off.
As long as there is outrage, which correlates to media coverage, this will continue - until those that want to say something back to the money machine that is the NFL (actually Pro Sports as an industry) and boycott anything having to do with the industry. Bad press is press, and press means money, so the reporters and the NFL are getting richer through this whole fiasco/sham/attention whoring performance.
Speak with your wallet, or walk away from the argument.
As long as there is outrage, which correlates to media coverage, this will continue - until those that want to say something back to the money machine that is the NFL (actually Pro Sports as an industry) and boycott anything having to do with the industry. Bad press is press, and press means money, so the reporters and the NFL are getting richer through this whole fiasco/sham/attention whoring performance.
Speak with your wallet, or walk away from the argument.
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Como say what?
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"SPANGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?!" <pulp fiction>
I wanted to know what you meant by this spreading to the NHL.
NEIN BOLO MEIYOU ARSELICK.
There was one, maybe two players kneeling during the anthem. That's what I mean by slightly.
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Lightning forward J.T. Brown raises fist during national anthem
I have to imagine there is a LOT of external pressure (to protest) on the few black guys who play in the NHL
Sorry yes it was a fist raise. I must have equated it in my head and then misremembered it, heh. I'd say you're probably right too.
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Go after the President, nada. Go after Jerry Jones, hit the showers: Jemele Hill Suspended by ESPN After Response to Jerry Jones
Lo siento, pero yo no hablo "Hobbit."
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