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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 04:47:27 PM »

Whatever helps you feel better about being a dumbo

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Off Topic / Re: has hillary gone insane?

« on: September 24, 2017, 04:31:59 PM »

Whatever degenerative brain disease that was causing her fits is probably progressing into the later stages. I hope she lives through the 2020 elections so Annoying Orange's reelection literally kills her

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 04:28:18 PM »

Man it's almost like these isolated instances of handicaps politicizing sports doesn't mean politics is a part of sports

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 03:54:43 PM »

I like it how desperately you're clinging to this argument despite doing basically no research into the topic

Done enough. Sports and politics are about as intertwined as my big toe and pinky toe

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 03:45:40 PM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_sports
throughout history sports and politics have overlapped so much that I'd safely say that sports being inherently political has been the name of the game since before the united states was even a thing

stuff even rome was getting in on that action
http://www.historyoftheancientworld.com/2014/09/gladiatorial-games-as-a-means-of-political-communication-during-the-roman-republic/

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:56:44 PM »

And the reason he's not doing it is because he feels his country is not deserving of respect.

Yeah just disregard the part of my post where people do it today just because it's what we do in sporting events
I mean even schools do their school anthem before games so idk why the forget you guys are trying this angle

Do it

Careful

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:41:35 PM »

one example

Fair enough
My point still stands though, sports aren't inherently political, so, thanks for the factoid, but uh

Only ones getting "assblasted" are you and the rest of the chuds who are angry a black football player are protesting police brutality on the football field, Clayton Bigsby.

When you need to mention his race and police brutality in order to put yourself in the moral right
I said this earlier: I could not give less of a forget about anyone's moral grandstanding. I just want politics right the forget out of sports. If Kuckerforget wants to talk about police brutality during an interview or w/e he's free to do so, just keep that stuff off the field. I don't think that's asking much of people.

the principle is the same, richardwad. here, eat your own words

They aren't hurting anyone by having these beliefs. They aren't hurting anyone by expressing them. Free speech, at all times, or not at all.
                  - deus ex

You're loving stupid. It isn't the same principle. It'd be the same if the league fired Crackerjack over what he said OUTSIDE of the game. But when you protest in the middle of a game, on the field, as a player, you're bringing your stuff into the sport where it doesn't belong. I remember the same people getting tilted over Tim Tebow or w/e his name was kneeling for prayer because it was too religious a display for the sport, so why the forget is this any different? Do I really have to sit here and ELI5 this stuff to you?

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:24:01 PM »

isn't it interesting that deus ex was so headstrong on his argument about how if someone says something you don't like you shouldn't kick them out of the business? isn't it interesting that despite this, he has no problem explaining how someone who kneeled is now a horrible friend who needs to be removed from all sports games for the rest of history? you know, "freedom of speech and expression is perfectly fine everywhere else but if it touches my american sports i'm going to be angry!!"

its like... the inconsistency... is in liquid form now

Ah yes, because football players are customers and not representatives of the sport itself
Because in the Richard Spencer situation he walked into the gym and started spewing national socialist rhetoric
These are two comparable things
You are loving handicapped please stop talking to me

I already did. Sports isn't inherently political (like a little league game isn't really political at all) but in most of the contexts we've talked about (the olympics, the super bowl, anywhere where the anthem is played basically) it is.

Except it's not. No one's ever gotten politically assblasted over sports up until now. There are no politics involved in the olympics. No one is worried about the political fallout if Germany beats the UK or some stuff like that. If you think otherwise then

You are loving handicapped please stop talking to me

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Off Topic / Re: |NEWS| Multiple people injured in shooting at Antioch, TN church

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:14:27 PM »

the discussion going on in the Fox News link "comment section" is hilarious lmao

This IS really NOT funny but...you know it was crazed White people because there're no pics of the perp.
If this were a Black / Brown church there would've been 20 pics of the perp on the ground and in cuffs.
FOX promotes stereotyping. Hmmm....sounds a little tribal to me. Maybe, a lot tribal........
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Another example of media bias.  If this had been a black church, that would be a big part of the story.  Because race isn't mentioned, we know this is a white church.

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:12:28 PM »

That'd be true if we haven't been defaulting to doing the national anthem for over a century
Sports was apolitical even with the anthem because people sang the anthem just because it was something you did
By refusing to do it and instead kneeling in protest Kaperrichard politicized the anthem and started this whole thing. Before this you never had anyone getting all hot under the collar over the national anthem in sports, but here we are, because some friend needed some publicity to make up for his averageness on the field

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:03:28 PM »

uh no but what is it about sports that means we should sing the national anthem lmao

It started in baseball when people were actually respectful of our country, and due to the positive reception it gained traction in other sports
It's not mandated that you MUST do it but it's just really loving obnoxious when the players bring their politics onto the field
If you wanna be an activist and actually make a difference how about you spend the money you make slapping yourself against other men to help the marginalized people you think you're helping, when in reality all you're doing is killing the sport for everyone involved. loving idiots. It's not rocket science.

politics isn't just about legislation. its about international relations. sports does not influence legislation, but it exists in a political context that cannot be ignored.

Please explain to me the political context of loving sports

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 01:58:34 PM »

yes it is. do you not feel a political tension at the mere presence of the DPRK in the olympics? any competition between countries is inherently political. another good example would be the "miracle on ice", which took place during the cold war.

No? Who the forget cares what countries take part in the olympics. People watch to see the best athletes from every country compete. There's no politics involved. You don't see foreign policy tailored around who got their stuff pushed in four years ago

uh yes, do we sing the national anthem when we buy groceries?

I don't know, is grocery shopping a loving sport?

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 01:51:51 PM »

is that not bringing politics into sports

Is it bringing politics into sports when we sing the national anthem of the country the Olympics take place in?

Better question: why would you bring sports into politics? Our government is so loving ineffectual and partisan that it can't pass any worthwhile legislature despite being held by a plurality of one party. Imagine how bad it's going to be when the Democrats inevitably take back a congressional body in 2018.

Please explain to me what any of this has to do with putting your hand on your chest for the national anthem

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 01:39:33 PM »

Why would you bring your politics into sports
Get on the loving field, salute the flag, play the loving game and go the forget home
Sports fans do not like that stuff and that's why the NFL, and ESPN by extension, is losing viewers
It matters because it's going to kill the sport for no real reason. It's annoying. People aren't allowed to dance in the endzone but obnoxiously refusing to take part in saluting the flag simply for the sake of virtue signalling nonsense is okay?

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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: September 24, 2017, 01:30:46 PM »

Imagine thinking the president only has one brain cell and can only focus on one situation at a time