None of those people mattered, duh.
NFL taking both knees these days.
I’m pretty sure there was something for 9/11 actually. It’s been a while but I’m almost positive.
This guy’s right. Isn’t that the one where they made Janet show us her titty? Never forget!
If I’m there and they call for one for him, Ive got my clown music loaded and ready to go. “not for him”, so say we all
every time i try to have a moment of silence for charlie kirk i end to giggling because that stupid fuck is in hell
If I believed in hell, I would do a little dance.
I believe that when you’re dead, that’s it, you’re gone. And rightly so since that guy was a massive piece of shit and by all morality, deserved to die. And then the way he got killed? THAT makes me ACTUALLY do a little dance.
I can’t wait for you know who… I’m gonna go into the street and do a little dance. Maybe even a big dance and have a party that lasts a week
Unfortunately, there is no hell. We need to make sure horrible people get their comeuppance here, on earth.
Since it looks like he died near instantly, with no time to reflect on the damage he’d wrought, he basically escaped justice. On the plus side, he can’t do more damage. On the far larger negative side, he’s a martyr now.
I saw an electronic billboard yesterday on the road that said “In Rememberance Today” or something like that and started getting angry thinking they were talking about Charlie Kirk but then I’m like, oh damn, I done forgot…
It’s not like I can boycott their garbage any more than I already do.
US sports (except maybe basketball) are very right-wing. I don’t think they actually care one way or the other, but their audience is mostly boys and men, and boys and men are right wing these days, so the sports cater to that audience.
Studies have consistently shown a pretty even split, typically leaning Democratic. This trend aligns with American demographics and reflects the political landscape of the cities where these teams are located, which tend to be predominantly Democratic.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-every-nfl-teams-fans-lean-politically/ https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/action_networks_nfl_fan_base_politics_survey_which_way_is_your_team_voting/s1_17354_40754216 https://archive.learcenter.org/nflpolitics/index.html
I assume you were being hyperbolic when you said that boys and men are right-wing.
I imagine people won’t like to hear it, but there’s no denying that major sports teams rely on the same “in-group/out-group” dynamic that fascism relies on.
It may be a more benign form (for the most part), but the whole “my sports team is better than yours!” Is definitely tribalistic in nature. It’s not surprising to me that many die-hard fans may revel in arbitrary social divisions in other facets of their lives.
Fascism is about the in-group that gets to make rules that bind the out-group but not themselves. The important bit there is the enforcement of those rules with the state’s monopoly on violence.
Merely having an in-group and an out-group is harmless on its own. It’s how you have inside jokes. It’s how you have friends who you can trust with secrets. It’s how families work.
Having in-jokes with your friends is not tribalistic. I mean, it may be something a small tribe does—that’s not what we’re talking about.
Performative hatred of “the other ones”, sports teams, clankers, what have you, scratches the same itch fascists love scratching. Obviously, that’s something they can leverage.
I don’t know if they do it in the US, but it’s well known that Nazis in Europe are recruiting from the soccer fan clubs.
People turning their entire lives into revolving around artificial factions about a game they have no say in, and willing to get into physical fight over it, yeah, those are exactly who they want.
As if the left is immune to tribalism…
I am immune to tribalism. I use my long dick to ward off tribalist spirits. What now, big boy.
Not saying you are wrong at all, but EW
I have a good time watching the game but the commercials make me wince.
The salute the troops makes me gag.
The nationalism disguised as patriotism … it’s honestly getting to be too much.
It’s not just commercials, it’s often also the commentators. They’re not saying outright Nazi things, but, for example, they often they reminisce about how things used to be better, and complain about the current world.
Me waking yesterday with no memory of whomst I was.
I am very sick.
Boycott the NFL if you like American style football just watch Canadian or Australian football or even rugby they are all close enough and in some cases like Australian football I would say are better
Or just attend university leagues. I don’t even like football, mostly because I don’t understand the rules, but this time of year I go to cheap to free university games.
Or avoid all sports 😉
If you suggest this to a Canadian they’ll rip out your spine, they could never give up hockey or seal clubbing.
*ice hockey
The last time I checked, and fuck me if I’m wrong, the NFL has several black athletes. What did kirk say about black people?
The league only cares about black athletes to the degree that it can profit off their performance.
Case in point: Colin Kaepernick knelt during the national anthem – which was honestly an extremely mild form of protest – and was immediately black-balled.
If they do care about black athletes, they clearly care about money a lot more.
The players are unionized, and the NFLPA has a lot of strong black voices in leadership if I recall (at least as of the last time I looked into it)… But yeah I doubt they’ll do anything unfortunately.
NFL Players Association should stand up to this shit.
Remind me who the owners… wait, don’t. Let’s just look at a picture of the owners of the nfl.
Then think about how ‘just’ their presentation goes. Compare the owner and the ‘peripheral’ employees. There’s a better picture that I can’t find that is often used in sociology classes, where the owner of a team is in the presence of the cheerleaders and the players, and it can’t be beat for showing that if you’re a rich man wanting slaves and concubines, owning a team is pretty much the next best thing.
The sports associations are fucked.
Calling the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a “huge mistake”
Describing Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful” and “not a good person”
Stated “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to think, ‘I hope he’s qualified’”
Claimed successful Black women like Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson were “affirmative action picks” who “do not possess the cognitive capacity to be taken seriously”
This doesn’t matter at all. Release the Epstein files.
We need justice and closure for the survivors. That’s why the files need to be released.
The information on the tiny amount of epstein files released might be titillating but the real meat and potatoes is in the rest of the huge mountain of information that they did not release.
I said they weren’t gonna, and they didn’t. We got a big ol flag display outside town, the towns proud of it. It goes to half staff when appropriate. It did not fly half staff yesterday.
My town too. Most flags at houses are being flown at full mast.
Like, flying a flag at all is questionable at best but it’s nice to know that most people clearly don’t care.
Cool, another reason for me to hate football
