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That is the real question. And apparently they don't require it.
But they have taken sides in a political battle, which is never good for business, unless your true business is Marxism.
Monopolies and oligopolies don't care about pleasing customers. This is an extension of what we have seen from the mainstream media and the largest tech companies. Screw you, they are taking sides, and they don't care about consequences when it serves their higher agenda.
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Agreed. I wonder how the former rangers he served with are going to feel?
The flag is different than government. Imo the flag represents what the people believe in, our freedoms, our country. It doesn't represent government and government is the one at fault here. Not country.
Not saying you are saying otherwise.
NFL Players Kneel During Anthem, Stand For ‘God Save The Queen’
Dozens of NFL players for the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars showed a unified front on Sunday and kneeled as the national anthem played during the start of their game in London, defying President Trump’s attacks on the league’s athletes.
Those who were not kneeling, including the coaches on both teams and Jaguars owner Shahid Khan, locked arms during the national anthem at the game in London’s Wembley Stadium. Players taking a knee during the performance included Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs and C.J. Mosley, wide receiver Mike Wallace and safety Lardarius Webb as well as Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette, linebacker Dante Fowler, defensive tackle Calais Campbell, defensive end Yannick Ngakoue and cornerback Jalen Ramsey.
The players then stood up for “God Save the Queen,” the British anthem.
More at: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/0...ks-on-nfl.html
Because the UK is such a wonderful example to the world?
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Besides what others have said maybe the biggest reason is they don't last long. Wilson slides and avoids contact. That's an anomaly for a running QB.
Taylors done decent enough. This is his 3rd full season. First 2 had 100 carries. He wont last.
Newtons a beast but even when Carolina had the big year and he got MVP, he didn't do anything much different, The passing tds went up because of the defense and turnovers they got. He's a 60 percent passer. Besides the running of course. He's good at that. Gets a decent amount of rushing TDs on a team with good running backs. lol
Cunningham is another. After becoming starter in his 3rd year, he started most of his games the next 4 years. After that, 3 times in the next 10 seasons. 1998 was his best season and he did it passing not running. 32 carries for a full season, next lowest rushing attempts he had in a full season, was 65 carries.
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So it is optional.
Religion and politics are known to be hotly contested subjects; it makes no sense to me to include either one in a work place since it has nothing to do with the skills and the talents of the people that work there nor the mission of the employer. I can understand countries anthems in international sporting events like the Olympics when different countries compete. The inclusion in a local sporting event makes no sense to me. And so I would agree with the NFL employers that something like this should be optional.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. imho the best outcome would be to completely separate sports from politics and save the anthem for political rallies and such.
There are already laws against police abuse of authority and brutality. A hundred more laws will not change anything if juries refuse to convict.
The problem is culture. I would argue that the culture that can't bear athletes kneeling during the national anthem is the same culture that sees police as beyond reproach and an entity that needs to be supported regardless of its actions. It is a religion of state which will not bear any 'offense' against it.
Which side is disrespecting the nation's ideals? The group attempting to make things better, but whose methods you disagree with, or the group attempting to quash dissent?
Opposing their kneeling is not going to change their opinion as to what the solution should be. Supporting them in trying to change things and then engaging them in reasoned discussion about the best solution to the country's problems would be more productive.
The person best able to have that conversation is the person kneeling beside them.
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That the crazed, insane, batty Anti-RAYAYAYAYCYST Social "Justice" "Warriors" (really anti-social, anti-justice Rabbits) have chosen to infect and ruin one of the last simple, enjoyable, carefree escapes that normal, working white men have is..... fantastic!
Their march has gone as far as it can (for now). All sympathy is being lost. As they descend into Leftist Singularity, the entire rest of the country, every marginally sane man left, is becoming disgusted by their deranged behavior and aligning as their avowed enemy.
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If you ask the players, they probably don't know. In the Titans-Seahawks game, the announcement was specifically about racial inequality and police brutality.
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And there it is.
Whether anybody wants to admit it or not, that's the bottom line.
And the people they have aligned themselves with, at least some of the more outspoken ones, have stated, without ambiguity, that they want me, my family, my belief system and my history exterminated.
I have no choice but to align and pick a side now.
I hate having been forced into that position, but it is what it is.
War is all hell.
I owe you a rep.
No disagreement here. It's not good business to include partisan politics.
But the anthem is a tradition at sporting events. It is non-partisan. How did it become a tradition? I don't know. Should it change? I don't care.
Should we stand and sing "take me out to the ballpark" at baseball games? Eh, don't care one way or another. Should it be changed? I don't see a reason for these arbitrary, hysterical, partisan political demands to change traditions.
Let's not ignore the big picture. At it's core, this is a Marxist revolution, and that always requires the destruction of existing traditions.
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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Kaepernick "made it to the Super Bowl" on the back of Alex Smith, who played more of the regular season. Smith had the highest completion percentage and passer rating in the entire NFL that year. Harbaugh replaced him with Kaepernick because a "running Quarterback" was the hot fad of the day. It cost the Niners the Super Bowl, and led to the eventual firing of Jim Harbaugh.
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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Cater to your employees, or cater to your customers, that is the question.
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not represent this forum or any other entities or persons.
One word? When it comes to defending Trump, you can write thousand word essays and stand on your head.
Why isn't it guilt by association? If the powers that be can spew deplorable nonsense and call themselves libertarian while doing it, causing people to be leery of us, then why can't they divide us from the anti-fascist police movement by trying to tie it to communism?
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