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Turns out Kap was right (but we all knew that). Trump and his propaganda machine echoing renowned racist Walter Headley - when the looting starts, the shooting starts   What a sad day to be

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WTF did you want Trump to say or do? Register everyone who took a TV so that they can get their warranty? 

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Nothing racist with this remark......

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Pretty sick!

 

Yet, why is this happening? What is making the people so pissed off @ the gov't?

 

Why are people lashing out @ gov't? Lashing out @ The cops that are just enforcing the simple laws gov't makes?

 

What changed in society that people do the unthinkable? What's pissing these nut cases off about authority and gov't?

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That contrary to your post, we don't "have Sweden's back" when it comes to defense spending. And never have.

 

You want to get all butthurt about being an dipshit, that's your problem. Next time, don't double down on an ignorant supposition, and you won't get butthurt.

 

I asked a question, you friggin loser. I said serious question on the post, to emphasize it. You're the one who has no friends in real life, right?

 

If you think the Scandinavians could have beat back the Soviet Union with some word that EII found and a few helicopters because you beat your family at Risk, and now they won't even play with you, that's great.

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I asked a question, you friggin loser. I said serious question on the post, to emphasize it. You're the one who has no friends in real life, right?

 

If you think the Scandinavians could have beat back the Soviet Union with some word that EII found and a few helicopters because you beat your family at Risk, and now they won't even play with you, that's great.

 

This...

 

Great. We should just buy Sisu as our defense budget and then give everybody 20 hour work weeks, etc.

 

Was not a question. This is also where I noted you're a dipshit. That is not coincidental.

 

If you have a problem with that, then don't be a (*^*&%^$^#next time I answer your question.

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Pretty sick!

 

Yet, why is this happening? What is making the people so pissed off @ the gov't?

 

Why are people lashing out @ gov't? Lashing out @ The cops that are just enforcing the simple laws gov't makes?

 

What changed in society that people do the unthinkable? What's pissing these nut cases off about authority and gov't?

Race baiting for political gain.

 

The left has launched a campaign telling Black Americans that they cannot succeed because they are oppressed, and that law enforcement is the front lines of that oppression. It benefits them politically to create this issue, and the firestorm that follows.

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Race baiting for political gain.

 

The left has launched a campaign telling Black Americans that they cannot succeed because they are oppressed, and that law enforcement is the front lines of that oppression. It benefits them politically to create this issue, and the firestorm that follows.

Yep. There's always been a significant faction of people that mistrust government and rail against authority. The left has "legitimized" that attitude and it's given us Occupy, BlackLivesMatter, Hands-Up Don't Shoot, and kneeling/sitting for the National Anthem. The flag burners of the 60s are now real driving forces that shape our national attitudes and culture.

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Race baiting for political gain.

 

The left has launched a campaign telling Black Americans that they cannot succeed because they are oppressed, and that law enforcement is the front lines of that oppression. It benefits them politically to create this issue, and the firestorm that follows.

 

The Left Is Weaponizing Sports
by David French
Striking the latest blow for pregnant and “chestfeeding” men, the NCAA has mounted its righteous high horse and is pulling seven championship events from North Carolina venues. The Tar Heel State, you see, has the hateful audacity to mandate that its citizens use the public bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. The NCAA’s decision comes on the heels of the NBA pulling its all-star game from Charlotte, and in the midst of a rolling series of small-scale (though much-hyped) national-anthem protests at NFL football games.
Before I turn to the larger issues, can we just take a moment to ponder the pathetic absurdity that is the NCAA? This is an organization, mind you, that reaps billions of dollars of rewards off the labor of disproportionately poor and minority students while imposing on them — as a condition for even participating in college sports — economic restrictions not imposed on any other college student. So-called student-athletes don’t own their time, or even the rights to their own names. The vast majority of them don’t go on to play pro sports, so they’re effectively prevented from making money during the time when their earning potential is at its highest. But the NCAA is now suddenly discovering social justice? Please.
While the NCAA — as perhaps the peak representative of progressive hypocrisy and cheap virtue signaling — is an easy target, its action raises a much more significant concern. Simply put, there are not many cultural spaces remaining where Americans can meet on more or less neutral ground — where Americans of all faiths and political beliefs can meet, unite, and share a positive communal experience.
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Sports are perhaps the only significant cultural force to counter this troubling trend. America still watches the Super Bowl. The opening days of March Madness still cripple workplaces across the land. And when a home team wins a championship, the explosion of collective civic joy completely swallows politics — just ask the inhabitants of “Believeland” after their miracle comeback against Golden State.
But it’s more than just the events themselves. Sports carry with them an entire culture through which fans can meet, form friendships, and establish lifelong bonds. Some of the most meaningful friendships of my life were formed through my law-school fantasy-baseball league. More than two decades later, we still have the league and we still love each other like brothers, despite our vast political differences. Sports give us the opportunity to connect and to dig deeper than politics or ideology — to know a person as something other than a collection of political positions.

Social-justice warriors, however, can’t leave well enough alone. Is the trend now that major sporting events can only occur in progressive-approved locations? Will we now be subject to a parade of progressive-approved (and only progressive-approved) player demonstrations? And spare me any argument that our sporting culture is opening itself up to free expression. I’m glad neither the NFL nor the San Francisco 49ers are punishing Colin Kaepernick, but just ask Curt Schilling how much the progressive sports elite values dissent from the social-justice orthodoxy.
I don’t mind if individual players or owners express themselves, so long as it is clearly understood that all viewpoints are welcome. I mind, however, when the sporting elite decides to turn professional and college athletics into a sweatier version of a progressive college campus, speech codes and all. I mind when social-justice warriors try to wield the awesome economic power of sports — built via the pocketbooks of all Americans — to punish conservatives, especially Christian conservatives.
To do that is to play with fire. The NCAA’s decision and Kaepernick’s protest have immense power now precisely because sports has always been neutral ground. The NBA salary cap skyrocketed in part because live sports is one of the most valuable properties in television. End the neutrality, and you will — over time — narrow your audience. ESPN is already struggling with lost revenue due to cord-cutting. It turns out that when consumers can truly choose their channels, they often don’t choose ESPN.
The more ESPN acts like MSNBC, the more consumers will look elsewhere. The more the NCAA acts like Oberlin, the more good will it loses with fans and — crucially — the legislators and other government officials who prop up its insane and unjust business model.
Not that most progressives really care. Unity? Fun? Those are meaningless concepts when social justice is at stake.

 

 

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Social-justice warriors, however, can’t leave well enough alone. Is the trend now that major sporting events can only occur in progressive-approved locations? Will we now be subject to a parade of progressive-approved (and only progressive-approved) player demonstrations? And spare me any argument that our sporting culture is opening itself up to free expression. I’m glad neither the NFL nor the San Francisco 49ers are punishing Colin Kaepernick, but just ask Curt Schilling how much the progressive sports elite values dissent from the social-justice orthodoxy.

I don’t mind if individual players or owners express themselves, so long as it is clearly understood that all viewpoints are welcome. I mind, however, when the sporting elite decides to turn professional and college athletics into a sweatier version of a progressive college campus, speech codes and all. I mind when social-justice warriors try to wield the awesome economic power of sports — built via the pocketbooks of all Americans — to punish conservatives, especially Christian conservatives.
To do that is to play with fire. The NCAA’s decision and Kaepernick’s protest have immense power now precisely because sports has always been neutral ground. The NBA salary cap skyrocketed in part because live sports is one of the most valuable properties in television. End the neutrality, and you will — over time — narrow your audience. ESPN is already struggling with lost revenue due to cord-cutting. It turns out that when consumers can truly choose their channels, they often don’t choose ESPN.
The more ESPN acts like MSNBC, the more consumers will look elsewhere. The more the NCAA acts like Oberlin, the more good will it loses with fans and — crucially — the legislators and other government officials who prop up its insane and unjust business model.
Not that most progressives really care. Unity? Fun? Those are meaningless concepts when social justice is at stake.

 

 

 

San Diego’s new stadium may be tackled by NFL protests

 

There is a ballot measure hitting San Diego this November that may be tackled by this sentiment.

 

Prop C is the appropriately named measure in the city of San Diego that has to do with the Chargers.

 

Their proposal to raise the hotel room tax in the city to pay for a downtown multi-purpose football stadium and an adjacent convention center facility.

 

 

I must admit, I am torn. I am not keen on raising taxes to fund a venue that will help multi-millionaires connected to politicos get richer. However, after coming downtown for Padres games and seeing what the new baseball stadium has done for the surrounding district and the businesses there, I have been tempted to vote “yes.”

 

Plus, the new stadium could help us keep an event really important to me: Comic-Con.

However, the protests are already undermining the chances for measure approval, especially among undecided voters whose votes will really be needed to pass the plan by a supermajority.

Nobody is saying these athletes can’t protest. They can take the time out of their busy days, go to a rally, pass out petitions, and get engaged in any cause they wish. On their private time.

Just imagine going to your office and staging such a drama. How long would you keep a job or face some disciplinary action?

The days of Americans passively accepting demonstrations thrust upon them during sporting or other community events are over.

Right now, many football-loving citizens are weighing their personal protest options. Mine include voting “No” on Proposition C and not watching the one football game I do watch each year…Super Bowl.

I suspect I am not the only one considering my own protest involving Super Bowl 2017 either.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/09/san-diegos-new-stadium-may-be-tackled-by-nfl-protests/

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