Dubbedinenglish
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Good Lord, take Bolt out your damn mouth. Trump is asking to get dunked on.
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Trump takes shots at Kaepernick, Get that son of a bitch off the field
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Good Lord, take Bolt out your damn mouth. Trump is asking to get dunked on.
Packers are going to stand and lock arms for the game Thursday. Ask the fans to do the same
http://www.packers.com/news-and-eve...ign=sf117028964_TW__sf117028964&sf117028964=1
http://www.packers.com/news-and-eve...ign=sf117028964_TW__sf117028964&sf117028964=1
Is this some kind of compromise? The kneeling is a noticeable and powerful image. If they lock arms they are still standing and it just won't get the headlines and attention to the cause imo. Smells like an NFL brass solution.
TheCochese
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He can't not stop talking about it.
yeah really not liking how this linking arms thing is going
this will go on for like another week or two and then people will move on having thought they successfully compromised with the original protesters and we all came together in "unity" and grew as a people.
then some players will still kneel and people will get annoyed again being like "wait I thought we were done with that, we compromised and did the arm linking thing. it's time to move on now. we grew. back to football."
anotherVegan
Member
Good Lord, take Bolt out your damn mouth. Trump is asking to get dunked on.
Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico...
I'm still waiting for the Trump joke to be over. Is it over?
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
Remember when Kid Rock cut a slit in an actual flag in the center and wore it as a poncho during super bowl half time.
Vets cared about that for maybe a week.
TheCochese
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Yup. Compromise on the gesture--the original purpose is (thankfully!) forgotten.
Fuck.
Frozenprince
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And that, children, is how Donald J Trump, a man who has never used or spoken in a full paragraph in his entire life, became president of the United States.
People are idiots who need everything about life to be distilled down into easy to digest and understand factoids, despite many of them working in jobs that require years of study and complicated and accumulated knowledge and would laugh at someone running things or doing there job if they had as facile an understanding on it as they do on their pet issue of the day.
Host Samurai
Member
Good Lord, take Bolt out your damn mouth. Trump is asking to get dunked on.
Cant believe that this is a real tweet
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
I haven't been active in this thread, but that Shannon video has gone to good use to share with others.
Frozenprince
Banned
This was always the inevitable outcome.
America does not want to have the conversation it needs to have. It will do anything and everything to avoid that conversation.
theignoramus
Member
What, no comment about the thug mentality, Black on Black crime, and how police brutality victims are "no saints"?
I will never forget the way that this woman spoke with deference and respect to Mark fucking Furhman on her show while belittling and mocking her Black guests who challenged the Fox News narrative. She's a witch.
Nowhere in that statement does it mention the discriminatory criminal justice system and the fight to protect black men from being murdered by police with no repercussions.
Unity is nice, but you first have to confront how you can make things better. It may sound nice to say we can all relate to the pain, but all pain isn't equal.
All misunderstandings are not innocent mistakes. These problems with the system thrive from intentional maintenance of policies that inflict real pain on an entire community.
You can't wash away a real fight because it's not going away with military love and police handshakes.
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
I'm not even American and this "issue" infuriate me..
This is disgusting.. one sides try really hard to shut down the very basic right. Right to voicing a concern and they do it in very irrelevant manner and yet this one side fuming hard about it..
I just.. ugh.. this is straight out from 50s, its very unacceptable to see this. No sane human should see this as issue
Sorry for my bad english
This is disgusting.. one sides try really hard to shut down the very basic right. Right to voicing a concern and they do it in very irrelevant manner and yet this one side fuming hard about it..
I just.. ugh.. this is straight out from 50s, its very unacceptable to see this. No sane human should see this as issue
Sorry for my bad english
Good God, this is gold.
Don't tell people how they should protest. Purity test. Blah blah blah.
Linking arms did more harm than good. If you're gonna be a fence sitter, just stand like you usually do. Don't pretend to make a statement so you can feel better about yourself while trying to appease all the racists out there so they can feel good about themselves.
Linking arms did more harm than good. If you're gonna be a fence sitter, just stand like you usually do. Don't pretend to make a statement so you can feel better about yourself while trying to appease all the racists out there so they can feel good about themselves.
Been that way since day 1 in this country.
Frozenprince
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The minute Trump spoke it became about showing him what for and telling him to shut up
Everything else is dead, now. That's just the sad reality of it.
Everything else is dead, now. That's just the sad reality of it.
excelsiorlef
Member
God insincere both sides is worst than what she used to do.
http://schnittshow.com/programhighlights
Sept 26th 2nd Hour, jump past the ~15 mins of North Korea talk to get to the phone call.
Didn't hear the dude finish since I was getting out of my car, but apparently there are White Ns and Black Ns and Orange Ns, all taking a knee... Totally not racist right?
Adam Sadler
Member
Wait Ray Lewis really said he waa praying to God? Lmfao
Good Lord, take Bolt out your damn mouth. Trump is asking to get dunked on.
Good to know the President of the United States is sharing the exact same dumb shit the racists on my Facebook feed shared today.
Frozenprince
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I think Stephen A said it best "Ray Lewis doesn't have conversations with people, he has sermons"
Frozenprince
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It's fucking hysterical how for 15 years he was a murderer who got away and should be in prison but now that they can trot his you know what ass out there on TV every day to sing and dance for them he's "beloved'".
I was honestly caught off-guard by how eloquent and moving it was. He used some seriously dynamic public speaking skills and abilities. And the juxtaposition of his content with the setting (a fucking TV studio) made it even more powerful. It was brilliant.
The average voter chooses people based on literally a single issue or if they feel like they can fall in love with a candidate. They could care less about policy and platform as long as that candidate makes them feel good.
This guy is great!
plagiarize
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Jesus that line:
"You can't stand it when they kneel because you want them lying down."
someone should make that into a song
Frozenprince
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Which is my point. People are, generally, idiots who want to feel smart or engaged.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Pausing a frivolous interview versus protesting for equality....
Choppasmith
Member
I think I just lost a friend over this.
I had a very nice older woman who was my friend and coworker. We worked well together, but then she moved to Oklahoma, but we kept in touch via Facebook. I had seen through her posts she was conservative. There was the occasional Obama-bashing post but it seemed more like "I'm Republican, so Obama is my enemy" kind of posts and not racist or anything, so I just kinda shrugged it off. She posted some really stupid stuff when Trump got elected. Stuff like Trump "welcoming back" Santa and Jesus and then another time (I think it was around the time he first tried to impose that Travel Ban) she posted some picture of him with a kid with the caption "Look how sweet he is with this child, the picture the media WON'T show." It was super frustrating, but I lack a certain assertiveness. To quote an old phrase, "I'm a lover, not a fighter." So I did nothing. But then today, she posted some excerpt from some kind of NFL rulebook or SOMETHING (I don't follow sports) that highlighted rules about players MUST be standing for the National Anthem out of respect to the flag and country. And then followed up with a picture of NASCAR racers standing for the Anthem with the words "Look at these fine folks showing PROPER respect to their country and flag."
That did it, that was my breaking point. I commented saying sarcastically at first, "Yeah, it's not like the head of NASCAR was threatening people's jobs if they didn't stand or anything." I then followed up, "You know, that does it, I just can't associate with someone so tone deaf anymore that's aligned herself with a white supremacist. I'm done. Take care of yourself."
She then sends me a message, I read it just now "Please don't shun me over a stupid post." I want to followup with something but I'm at a loss of what to do.
I had a very nice older woman who was my friend and coworker. We worked well together, but then she moved to Oklahoma, but we kept in touch via Facebook. I had seen through her posts she was conservative. There was the occasional Obama-bashing post but it seemed more like "I'm Republican, so Obama is my enemy" kind of posts and not racist or anything, so I just kinda shrugged it off. She posted some really stupid stuff when Trump got elected. Stuff like Trump "welcoming back" Santa and Jesus and then another time (I think it was around the time he first tried to impose that Travel Ban) she posted some picture of him with a kid with the caption "Look how sweet he is with this child, the picture the media WON'T show." It was super frustrating, but I lack a certain assertiveness. To quote an old phrase, "I'm a lover, not a fighter." So I did nothing. But then today, she posted some excerpt from some kind of NFL rulebook or SOMETHING (I don't follow sports) that highlighted rules about players MUST be standing for the National Anthem out of respect to the flag and country. And then followed up with a picture of NASCAR racers standing for the Anthem with the words "Look at these fine folks showing PROPER respect to their country and flag."
That did it, that was my breaking point. I commented saying sarcastically at first, "Yeah, it's not like the head of NASCAR was threatening people's jobs if they didn't stand or anything." I then followed up, "You know, that does it, I just can't associate with someone so tone deaf anymore that's aligned herself with a white supremacist. I'm done. Take care of yourself."
She then sends me a message, I read it just now "Please don't shun me over a stupid post." I want to followup with something but I'm at a loss of what to do.
You can say this issue is very important to me and I'll talk if you're willing to have a constructive discussion ... Doubt it'll go anywhere but worth a shot .
TheContact
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Patriots (at least) FB page comments are returning to normal at least. The top hits are from respectable people bashing the people bitching about kneeling and the rest are just top comments about the actual post in question. Starting to look like these ❄️ are either shutting the fuck up or are realizing theyre wrong.
Its a divicive topic. Sadly theres even good people who are against this for all the wrong reasons. My uncle is a good person who supports my family and especially my young children and he was posting that he was against kneeling. His family is also military so hes just ignorant to the purpose of the protests and only sees it as disrespectful. I dont hate him for it I just think hes ignorant. I dont block him from my life because of it though. I really think his motives are genuine but he cant get past the fact that he feels like its disrespectul. Just try to do ur best to counter their arguments (it is really easy) and try to get them on your side.
Its a divicive topic. Sadly theres even good people who are against this for all the wrong reasons. My uncle is a good person who supports my family and especially my young children and he was posting that he was against kneeling. His family is also military so hes just ignorant to the purpose of the protests and only sees it as disrespectful. I dont hate him for it I just think hes ignorant. I dont block him from my life because of it though. I really think his motives are genuine but he cant get past the fact that he feels like its disrespectul. Just try to do ur best to counter their arguments (it is really easy) and try to get them on your side.
Have a discussion. She sounds up for it.
OriginofHysteria
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If she's willing to message you then she's willing to talk. Have a discussion without pushing the other one away and see what comes out of it. There are a lot of good talking points on our side.
I think if anyone put more emphasis on the people who " give up their lives for America flag " but adopts a clearly indifference attitude on foreign causalities as a results of American's war tendencies, they should go fuck themselves and their disgusting nationalistic pride.
theignoramus
Member
The director of Michigans State Police shared a Facebook post calling anthem kneelers "ungrateful, entitled degenerates"
(Her department has previously been investigated for racial discrimination. Black officers won a lawsuit alleging it.)
(Her department has previously been investigated for racial discrimination. Black officers won a lawsuit alleging it.)
Nabs
Member
guess who is going to back track
Get to the point, Ray.
ryutaro's mama
Member
Mofo knelt to pray
T-Sizzle is that dude.
neurosisxeno
Member
The right in general loves to hold up the one person of a given group that "gets it". That's why they endeared themselves to Sherrif Clarke (Black), supported Milo (Gay), continue to give Ben Shapiro (Jewish) some love, and continuously try and resurrect the career of Tomi Lahren (Woman). They love finding the handful of people of a given group and holding them up as validation of their often regressive and racist policies. It's 1 step away from "I can't be racist, look at this black friend I have!"
OriginofHysteria
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You have no idea how many times I've seen that Morgan Freeman video.