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Schweinhund posted:anything is better than them making terrible jokes about their rivals and dumb fans acting like they're hilarious What about the ones always thanking god for allowing them to win? They're annoying as hell too. Guy standing in a boxing ring who just clobbered his opponent thinks he just did the will of some god?
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Rugby Player Todd Carney made national news when a photo was snapped of him peeing into his own mouth at a local pub. Thats what I call self expression.  
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Jul 24, 2020 22:03
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I would only like it if they agreed with me politically. If they don't than I don't think it should allowed. Thanks.
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Jul 24, 2020 22:17
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I like a lot of commentary as long as its not joe buck, op
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Jul 24, 2020 23:14
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I think they should just forgo playing the sports all together and each team should debate each other on various political topics for 3 hours. In full uniform of course. Also physically fighting is allowed to determine who is correct.
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Jul 24, 2020 23:18
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This just seems glib and reductive to me, like every other memey-jokey reference to her death No good tweets
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Jul 24, 2020 23:21
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Hmmm let's give a political/ideological platform to some dude whose qualifications include throwing ball well and likely multiple concussions, what could go wrong?
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Jul 25, 2020 00:01
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Colonel Cancer posted:Hmmm let's give a political/ideological platform to some dude whose qualifications include throwing ball well and likely multiple concussions, what could go wrong? Lol you're right, let's restrict political platforms to real estate moguls with tv shows
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Jul 25, 2020 00:03
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Colonel Cancer posted:Hmmm let's give a political/ideological platform to some dude whose qualifications include throwing ball well and likely multiple concussions, what could go wrong? weird way to tell everyone you are a fascist
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Jul 25, 2020 00:16
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Waterbed Wendy posted:weird way to tell everyone you are a fascist 
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Jul 25, 2020 00:18
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I don't want corporate interests playing any role in public discourse whatsoever because regardless of what positions they support or oppose they do it to increase their wealth/power in some way and they already have way way way way way too much.
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Jul 25, 2020 00:26
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Honestly I don't think we as society should give much regard to the opinions of people particularly good at entertainment when it comes to issues outside of their preferred form of entertainment, but if they are gonna be put on a pedestal while giving out pretty common opinions I am glad to see them express ones I agree with. It's even more plus good when you see bigger organizations do it because it means the issue is hitting a critical mass and it's gonna be commonly accepted that everyone with a public facing opinion has to be on the right side of it.
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ArbitraryC posted:Honestly I don't think we as society should give much regard to the opinions of people particularly good at entertainment when it comes to issues outside of their preferred form of entertainment "Shut up and dribble, political opinions belong to the politicians and the pundits"
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Jul 25, 2020 00:32
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Aw hey big guy I'm just joshing around. I thought that would have been obvious by the hyperbole but it is the internet after all.
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Jul 25, 2020 00:32
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The_Continental posted:Rugby Player Todd Carney made national news when a photo was snapped of him peeing into his own mouth at a local pub. Thats what I call self expression. A rugby player who pee into his own mouth, he a shameful rugby player.
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Jul 25, 2020 00:38
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I like the specific type of disjointed and confusing social commentary you only get from MMA stars.
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Jul 25, 2020 00:39
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popewiles posted:"Shut up and dribble, political opinions belong to the politicians and the pundits" I didn't say that, just that being good at football doesn't necessarily mean you have any more or less relevant insight*. *Arguably, many college athletes would have a better idea of what growing up poor was like compared to an average college student as it is one of the few viable paths forwards for people born in low income homes, but the same could be said for academic scholarships for low income families that don't come coupled with the same level of social reverence and you don't see those people getting primetime chances to talk about important issues, particularly economically important issues that many athletes dodge as they won a lucrative meritocracy competition and as such can preach a bootstraps approach to income.
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Jul 25, 2020 00:40
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Unironically, everybody should say whatever they want at all times, no matter how vile the speech or the person. Free speech is the closest thing this loathsome universe will ever have to a purpose or deity. It’s valuable in and of itself. I don’t care for nazis, btw. Ya’ll should punch them whenever possible, and then joyously accept it when you’re sentenced to jail.
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Jul 25, 2020 01:00
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*yells
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Colonel Cancer posted:*yells Better than yelling “fire” at a crowded book burning. I’m not sure if I have a point.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Better than yelling “fire” at a crowded book burning. Hell same 
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Also I'll give a poo poo what an athlete says when they back that speech up by refusing to compete in a city/state/country that does the thing they're speaking out against.
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Nobody's out there to shut up rich famous people, it's virtually impossible without a totalitarian regime at your back. But the cult of personality they undoubtedly generate can be very dangerous.
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Colonel Cancer posted:Nobody's out there to shut up rich famous people, it's virtually impossible without a totalitarian regime at your back. But the cult of personality they undoubtedly generate can be very dangerous. Becoming a professional athlete is pretty much the only defined route by which a lot of underprivileged minorities will ever have a substantial platform, but you are right that it is dangerous for them to exercise it. Better for them not to confuse real Americans by not making statements reflecting on their experiences.
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The_Continental posted:Rugby Player Todd Carney made national news when a photo was snapped of him peeing into his own mouth at a local pub. Thats what I call self expression.
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Jul 25, 2020 01:47
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Also I'll give a poo poo what an athlete says when they back that speech up by refusing to compete in a city/state/country that does the thing they're speaking out against. How about when they're blackballed out of the league
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popewiles posted:Becoming a professional athlete is pretty much the only defined route by which a lot of underprivileged minorities will ever have a substantial platform, but you are right that it is dangerous for them to exercise it. Better for them not to confuse real Americans by not making statements reflecting on their experiences. Yup you got it.
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Jul 25, 2020 01:58
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keeping em separate is actively serving some dickhead's political agenda, every time.
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Jul 25, 2020 01:59
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The_Continental posted:Rugby Player Todd Carney made national news when a photo was snapped of him peeing into his own mouth at a local pub. Thats what I call self expression. Joey Saladino got a haircut
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Jul 25, 2020 02:00
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I don't object to politics from sports players in general but I do object to politics from sports organizations categorically and I also object to politics from sports players and organizations in America because our stupid rear end culture is so hosed that we think a rich rear end in a top hat going into the fuckin projects to hand some kid more money than the last ten generations of his family combined have ever seen in their lives, to put him to work as an entertainment slave for a bunch of other rich assholes is not only cool and good, but when that kid is tacitly allowed to perform an utterly meaningless symbolic gesture to Make People Think About Racism because it's in the organization's interest to appear Woke, that is actually Stunning and Brave and a real marker of social progress
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Jul 25, 2020 09:45
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pike the head of Roger Goodell on national TV and then we'll be talking
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It's fine as long as they don't criticize China
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I don't want corporate interests playing any role in public discourse whatsoever because regardless of what positions they support or oppose they do it to increase their wealth/power in some way and they already have way way way way way too much. its protest/politics by proxy which adds a layer of disengagement/distance, making any commentary all the more shallow and without merit or meaning
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Jim Long-un posted:I don't object to politics from sports players in general but I do object to politics from sports organizations categorically and I also object to politics from sports players and organizations in America because our stupid rear end culture is so hosed that we think a rich rear end in a top hat going into the fuckin projects to hand some kid more money than the last ten generations of his family combined have ever seen in their lives, to put him to work as an entertainment slave for a bunch of other rich assholes is not only cool and good, but when that kid is tacitly allowed to perform an utterly meaningless symbolic gesture to Make People Think About Racism because it's in the organization's interest to appear Woke, that is actually Stunning and Brave and a real marker of social progress So you're just against people from the projects getting paid what they're worth for the value of the work they're doing or what? Anyway on a more serious note now that Aaron Rodgers has broken up with both Olivia Munn and Danica Patrick it's finally time for him to step out of the shadows and take up the mantle of "Being Gay With Me On National TV" a hard hitting cause I've been working towards recently that my wife assures is me is fine.
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Jim Long-un posted:I don't object to politics from sports players in general but I do object to politics from sports organizations categorically and I also object to politics from sports players and organizations in America because our stupid rear end culture is so hosed that we think a rich rear end in a top hat going into the fuckin projects to hand some kid more money than the last ten generations of his family combined have ever seen in their lives, to put him to work as an entertainment slave for a bunch of other rich assholes is not only cool and good, but when that kid is tacitly allowed to perform an utterly meaningless symbolic gesture to Make People Think About Racism because it's in the organization's interest to appear Woke, that is actually Stunning and Brave and a real marker of social progress Do you think Kaepernick was being manipulated by his organization to kneel during the anthem?
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Not trying to convey that you were, i just see that as the most visible and significant example of protest in sports as of recent, and it didnt seem tokenistic.
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