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Ahaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaa......dumbass.
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BamaFan334
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Nice rebuttal. Pretty sure everyone on this board got a little dumber seeing that
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@BamaFan334, except you. Right?
BamaFan334
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No, think you were able to dumb me down a little with your hotshot rebuttal.
You boys are intent on wrestling with the pig today...
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It would seem. I surrender.
planomateo
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OldPlayer
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Where's the hypocrisy? One does it in celebration and thanks. The other does it in protest. The act of kneeling isn't the controversy. It's the timing and reason (mostly the timing) that has people up in arms.
OldPlayer
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I like bacon. Sausage too.
I wonder if the marked drop in subscribers to ESPNs products which has cost them untold millions seems silly to their company’s shareholders or ex-employees canned after their losses..
I’m not sure that Nike’s drop in market share will be any less precipitous than the loss at ESPN, but it would certainly appear to more singularly personify what it is that preceded millions to exit stage left from ESPN.
I think there is a wholesale underestimation by the left of the average level of patriotism amongst Americans. Not arguing the point that it is right or not to burn your Nike socks. That is irrelevant when your stocks lose 10% of their value in 2 weeks. Lol
I’m not sure that Nike’s drop in market share will be any less precipitous than the loss at ESPN, but it would certainly appear to more singularly personify what it is that preceded millions to exit stage left from ESPN.
I think there is a wholesale underestimation by the left of the average level of patriotism amongst Americans. Not arguing the point that it is right or not to burn your Nike socks. That is irrelevant when your stocks lose 10% of their value in 2 weeks. Lol
Trob
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As a part of that younger generation of soldiers, I'm 100% behind Kap. And it's not split between old and young like you're implying. There are many soldiers and vets from all living generations that are on both sides of this debate.
Do you think Moses should have just kept living the plush life in Pharaoh's mansions while his people suffered as well? What does who he was raised by and how or where he was drafted have to do with this? People who live comfortably shouldn't try to help others? Black people raised by white people should stay out of the affairs of other black people? How do you know what injustices he did or didn't face before the NFL? He's facing an injustice now for standing up against what he perceives as an injustice isn't he? Why isn't that enough?
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@OldPlayer, Hypocrisy of the people defending capukenik were the accusers of Tebow.
My mistake was dropping my 2 cents in the hawg waller of this thread.
My mistake was dropping my 2 cents in the hawg waller of this thread.
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Deerslayr84
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When your hero idolizes Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, you have problems headed your way long-term. The United States of America is founded on principles that are perfectly antithetical to communism, marxism or any mash-up of the two. It really says a lot about the upper level management of a company to suggest that such an individual should carry the weight of the company as far as advertising goes. I hope they lose tons of money. It's a capitalist system after all based on risk/reward. They took a risk on a communist sympathizer and fan of psychopathic socialist revolutionaries. Let them reap the "reward".
comparing this football player to Moses??? could there be a bigger stretch?
Some Che quotes for you to ponder as your hero, Colin must enjoy also:
"We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.”
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”
"The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!”
And I will let you look up for yourself what Che thought of black people. This quarterback that Nike idolizes is either ignorant or willfully hateful... either makes for an unfit idol and leader.
Shalom
comparing this football player to Moses??? could there be a bigger stretch?
Some Che quotes for you to ponder as your hero, Colin must enjoy also:
"We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.”
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”
"The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!”
And I will let you look up for yourself what Che thought of black people. This quarterback that Nike idolizes is either ignorant or willfully hateful... either makes for an unfit idol and leader.
Shalom
You took the time to write all that stuff and yet nary a single word about police profiling. The reason for the season. Good job Mr. Ostrich.
rocknthefreeworld
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This thread is exactly why Nike paid him. Everybody is talking about Nike right now. The majority of boycotters won't last long or make much of a dent in their stocks but there is a large group who are now going to be more loyal to Nike than before just because they think they support them. If people had just ignored it when it all started we wouldn't have this BS now but nope, folks gotta be outraged at one washed up player who decided to become some kind of protestor when he got involved with a woman who is heavily into activism. Let those who support him do so and everyone else just ignore it, but nope you gotta make a martyr and media sensation out of someone who should be a footnote.
You took the time to write all that stuff and yet nary a single word about police profiling. The reason for the season. Good job Mr. Ostrich.[/QUOTE]
That's because it isn't the issue at hand. The issue is who Nike chose as their advertising brand so to speak. There are plenty of other individuals that would have been a better representation for the "oppressed" and also would have been a good role model for children and athletes without potentially alienating or offending another GIANT subset of your customers. All I'm getting at is it is likely going to turn out to be a bad business decision for them. That is what I suspect. Time will tell. So far it has killed ESPN's profits. You can't argue that it hasn't.
I'm not debating whether people are profiled or not. I don't think there is any way to definitively prove or disprove that claim.
That's because it isn't the issue at hand. The issue is who Nike chose as their advertising brand so to speak. There are plenty of other individuals that would have been a better representation for the "oppressed" and also would have been a good role model for children and athletes without potentially alienating or offending another GIANT subset of your customers. All I'm getting at is it is likely going to turn out to be a bad business decision for them. That is what I suspect. Time will tell. So far it has killed ESPN's profits. You can't argue that it hasn't.
I'm not debating whether people are profiled or not. I don't think there is any way to definitively prove or disprove that claim.
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