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Postponement of professional sports in "protest."

DrawbarFlatsDrawbarFlats Posts: 788 Senior Member
in Second Amendment/Politics #1
Yippie!!!! This is great news! Perhaps we'll have an entire year of not having to watch these idiots. I find that refreshing. 
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  • earlyagainearlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member
    #2
    The country belongs to the extremists.

    Two people refuse police commands. One enters the driver side of a vehicle. The other attempts entry of a store/gas station armed with a knife. Both are shot. One after being tased. 

    We are offered two contrasting narratives. 1) They're both innocent, and were murdered. 2) They or anyone else of color that broke a law represents all people of color, and all protestors etc....

    Neither one is correct. But that doesn't matter. Pick a side.

    The value of organised sports should have been questioned along time ago. Its all in need of a major trim.
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  • JustsomedudeJustsomedude Posts: 1,478 Senior Member
    #3
    Theyre just trying to save face for all the people boycotting them. Its like making fun of yourself before anyone else can do it first.
    We've been conditioned to believe that obedience is virtuous and voting is freedom- 
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  • GunNutGunNut Posts: 7,642 Senior Member
    #4
    Ooooohhhhhh nnnnnnooooooooo... 😐😑😑🥱🥱🥱😴
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  • BigslugBigslug Posts: 9,875 Senior Member
    #5
    Well. . .since few would argue that arena sports in a time of airborne disease is a really dumb idea, and you probably shouldn't be playing anyway, these famous players with no other skills may be thinking they need to do something to stay in the spotlight somehow.  

    The protest angle of celebrity is something I can't wrap my brain around.  Sure, their opinion is as valid as anyone else's, but for the media to make it out to be MORE valid than anyone else's - and for anybody to swallow that line -  when that individual's ONLY claim to fame is ability to sing or throw a ball is a bit mystifying.  There are not a lot of PHDs in sociology in professional sports who could PROPERLY weigh in, so why is anyone acting like there are?

    Not that I think it would solve much, but I kinda think we need some sort of national education campaign on things like the basic purpose of police, police procedure, legal use of force, and ummm. . .oh yeah, the fact that police were called to ALL of these scenes for a reason in the first place.

    But for that to be effective, we probably need some preliminary education in critical thinking processes and forming reactions more complex than one's initial "feels".


    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • JerryBobCoJerryBobCo Posts: 8,227 Senior Member
    #6
    I guess they're showing us.
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    NOT!
    Jerry

    Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
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  • 10canyon5310canyon53 Posts: 2,122 Senior Member
    #7
    Wait.......there are professional sports?
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  • tennmiketennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member
    #8
    The two basketball teams that were going to sit the rest of the season backtracked when they were told they'd have to take a 30% pay cut. Guess the money was more important than their 'principles'. :D 

      “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    ― Douglas Adams
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  • RaftermanRafterman Posts: 402 Member
    #9
    Wait, only 30% ? If I decided to not go to work it resulted in a 100% pay cut! Sign me the heck up. :'(
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  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,288 Senior Member
    #10
    There aren't enough words in English or Greek to express how little I care...
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
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  • LinefinderLinefinder Posts: 7,856 Senior Member
    #11
    I don't care what they do. Now, De Niro, OTOH........

    Mike
    "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
    N454casull
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Posts: 8,305 Senior Member
    #12
    One of the good things about the pandemic is we have been able to live without the sportball foolishness.
    It's boring, and your lack of creativity knows no bounds.
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  • BigslugBigslug Posts: 9,875 Senior Member
    #13
    zorba said:
    There aren't enough words in English or Greek to express how little I care...
    How about French?  I hear they're good at indifference.
    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,288 Senior Member
    #14
    Bigslug said:
    zorba said:
    There aren't enough words in English or Greek to express how little I care...
    How about French?  I hear they're good at indifference.
    Don't know no French, so can't help ya! ;)
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
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  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 12,771 Senior Member
    #15
    Sadly they think they are that important and the media tells them they are.  They can all starve for all I care 
    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
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  • JerryBobCoJerryBobCo Posts: 8,227 Senior Member
    #16
    zorba said:
    Bigslug said:
    zorba said:
    There aren't enough words in English or Greek to express how little I care...
    How about French?  I hear they're good at indifference.
    Don't know no French, so can't help ya! ;)
    Je ne parle francais.
    Jerry

    Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
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  • DrawbarFlatsDrawbarFlats Posts: 788 Senior Member
    #17
    zorba said:
    Bigslug said:
    zorba said:
    There aren't enough words in English or Greek to express how little I care...
    How about French?  I hear they're good at indifference.
    Don't know no French, so can't help ya! ;)
    Bon jure
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  • pjames777pjames777 Posts: 1,421 Senior Member
    #18
    They could do so much more with their $$$ millions for Black communities.  I'm not missing sports.
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  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 12,771 Senior Member
    #19
    pjames777 said:
    They could do so much more with their $$$ millions for Black communities.  I'm not missing sports.
    Growing up i enjoyed watching sports with my father when I wasn't playing baseball or swimming.  I slowly lost interest in watching any pro sports.  The money and attitudes totally tuened me away.
    The big mouths today want to cry about being held back while they have more millions than many people will ever make in thousands in their lifetime.
    Refusing to play a game to show support for BLM should result in a lifetime suspension from all sports.
    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
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