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  1. #331
    Quote Originally Posted by ChristianAnarchist View Post
    This is the kind of response to this nonsense I expect to see on RonPaulForums. Not all the goonerment worship I've seen in the last few years. What a bunch of lost souls looking for a foulking cause!! LIBERTY is the only cause worth promoting...
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    It is also interesting to see that this peaceful protest is getting a whole lot more flack on the forum than the violent ones.

    Go figure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Philmanoman View Post
    All I know is if I'm not hurting anyone
    And I don't want to stand ...for any for damn reason I choose....
    I'll be damned if someone gonna make me stand
    Be ready to fight if you think you'll force me to do what you want.

    Conversation
    "I won't stand for the flag...i wont stand

    Other guy
    "Oh yes you will...it upsets me so much ...im so offended...i will force you to stand

    Bull$#@! if that's supported on these forums
    Freedom my god damn add
    You understand what freedom is right?
    Has absolutely nothing to do with a flag.
    Quote Originally Posted by ChristianAnarchist View Post
    This is the kind of response to this nonsense I expect to see on RonPaulForums. Not all the goonerment worship I've seen in the last few years. What a bunch of lost souls looking for a foulking cause!! LIBERTY is the only cause worth promoting...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    On. The. Nose.
    Not even $#@!ing close. Show me a single quote on this forum saying the government should force people to stand at attention during the anthem or retract your false statement. Whether you agree or not, many people associate our flag and national anthem with our countries' founding, our constitution, and the liberties that we enjoy every day that sets us apart from the rest of the world. Kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful and shameful. Anyone that does will be criticized as not being socially acceptable, as a consequence of their actions.

    If you want to kneel during the anthem you are free to do so. It seems like YOU are the one asking for government force to silence anyone speaking against your actions.

    This form of protest is the stupidest idea I've ever seen and the NFL will suffer gravely because of it.
    Last edited by spudea; 09-30-2017 at 02:00 PM.
    I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.

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    The shooting of Gabrielle Gifford was blamed on putting a crosshair on a political map. I wonder what event we'll see justified with pictures like this.

  4. #333
    I just think its funny how half the country thinks they're resisting oppression by kneeling while the other half thinks that standing is an act of observance.




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  5. #334
    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    Not even $#@!ing close. Show me a single quote on this forum saying the government should force people to stand at attention during the anthem or retract your false statement. Whether you agree or not, many people associate our flag and national anthem with our countries' founding, our constitution, and the liberties that we enjoy every day that sets us apart from the rest of the world. Kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful and shameful. Anyone that does will be criticized as not being socially acceptable, as a consequence of their actions.

    If you want to kneel during the anthem you are free to do so. It seems like YOU are the one asking for government force to silence anyone speaking against your actions.

    This form of protest is the stupidest idea I've ever seen and the NFL will suffer gravely because of it.
    I'm not asking the gov to do anything.

    YOU are the worshiper of the almighty state for all the unconstitutional wars, while at the same timing using the constitution to uphold your POV. These protests are about the militarization of the police state.

    As far as a consequence of actions, shall we all forget the REAL history of the US and the many wars & murders done in the name of "spreading democracy"?
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  6. #335
    And oh waaaaaah. Now you are neg repping me for not supporting your form of "spreading democracy."

    I'll accept that.
    Last edited by Ender; 09-30-2017 at 02:22 PM.
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  7. #336
    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    I'm not asking the gov to do anything.
    Neg reps for false statements. Still haven't shown me a quote on this forum supporting the use of force to make people stand, when you said that was "on the nose".

    YOU are the worshiper of the almighty state for all the unconstitutional wars
    Another false statement. Don't put that evil on me, show quote supporting unconstitutional wars or retract.

    These protests are about the militarization of the police state.
    Another false statement. I haven't seen anyone doing these protests has ever mentioned militarization of the police state. Kaepernick's view of oppression is drastically flawed. He should be condemned for advocating race wars.



    I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.

    Quote Originally Posted by spudea on 01/15/24
    Trump will win every single state primary by double digits.
    Quote Originally Posted by spudea on 04/20/16
    There won't be a contested convention
    Quote Originally Posted by spudea on 05/30/17
    The shooting of Gabrielle Gifford was blamed on putting a crosshair on a political map. I wonder what event we'll see justified with pictures like this.



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  9. #337
    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    Neg reps for false statements. Still haven't shown me a quote on this forum supporting the use of force to make people stand, when you said that was "on the nose".



    Another false statement. Don't put that evil on me, show quote supporting unconstitutional wars or retract.



    Another false statement. I haven't seen anyone doing these protests has ever mentioned militarization of the police state. Kaepernick's view of oppression is drastically flawed. He should be condemned for advocating race wars.

    ]
    Why is this all so personal to you? No statements made were about YOU. Good dialog is much more effective than neg reps, name-calling, and anger- especially over a peaceful protest.

    Again:

    Patriotism Is A Two-Edged Sword

    By Paul Craig Roberts

    PaulCraigRoberts.org

    September 29, 2017

    I sometimes wonder if America’s greatest threat is the population’s hyper-patriotism. The bulk of the population is now at work shutting down the NFL players’ First Amendment rights, and none of the incensed censors are capable of understanding that it is they, and not the NFL players, who are attacking the U.S. Constitution. We have been through all this flag business before, and federal courts have ruled for the protesters who burnt flags, wore them on their clothes, whatever. Yet, here we go again.

    Hardwick Clothes CEO pulls the company’s advertising from NFL games. Insofar as advertising helps Hardwick’s shareholders, CEO Allan Jones is hurting his own shareholders in order to protest the NFL players’ protests, a thought that probably never occurred to him.

    According to this report — white people across the country are burning their NFL shirts and their expensive tickets for which they paid hundreds of dollars.

    A Louisiana state representative has introduced legislation to ban state subsidies for the New Orleans Saints because of their “disgraceful protests.” It is OK with Rep. Kenny Havard for Louisiana taxpayers to give hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to the NFL team as long as the players stand for the anthem, but not if they don’t. It apparently never occurred to Havard to question whether relatively poor Louisiana taxpayers should be giving hundreds of millions of dollars to a billionaire team owner. There is no doubt that the average salary of the Saints exceeds the average salary of Louisiana taxpayers.

    Former NFL quarterback John Elway declares: “I believe that this is the greatest country in the world,” and his personal belief takes care of the numerous protesters who clearly have a different view.

    Bill O’Reilly makes a guest appearance on Fox News berating the NFL protesters for ignoring the effect on US soldiers in Afghanistan who “are putting their life on the line.” Apparently, after all these years it still has not occurred to O’Reilly that the soldiers’ lives — and those of Afghans — are being put on the line by the military/security complex’s drive for profits and the neoconservative drive for US and Israeli hegemony.

    Trump sends out emails: “Do you stand with President Trump, our flag, and this great country” against the NFL protesters?

    The childishness of it all is an American embarrassment.


    The patriotic response is not only an attack on the First Amendment but also plays into the hands of Identity Politics, which has its own take on the matter. Julio Rosas writes in the HuffPost that standing for the national anthem is standing for white supremacy.
    This whole thing is just playing into the hands of TPTB and taking everyone's eye off of more important matters.

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  10. #338
    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    Why is this all so personal to you? No statements made were about YOU. Good dialog is much more effective than neg reps, name-calling, and anger- especially over a peaceful protest.

    Again:



    This whole thing is just playing into the hands of TPTB and taking everyone's eye off of more important matters.

    JMHPO
    + rep, should cover any damage from butthurt neg reppers.
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  11. #339
    Trump hijacks power of US president by the help of Russians.


    Now he hijacks the flag to pressure dissenters. He is not president for most Americans.
    Last edited by katsung47; 09-30-2017 at 06:39 PM.

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  13. #341
    NBA Orders Players To Stand For The National Anthem

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-30/nba-orders-players-stand-national-anthem
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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  14. #342
    Movement to Boycott NFL November 12 Growing

    https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/27024-movement-to-boycott-nfl-november-12-growing
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  15. #343
    Another problem is that we're still talking about them...

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    The American flag is a symbol of freedom.

    At the same time, yes, it is a figurative manifestation of statism and I totally get those who are saying "bravo to anyone refusing to salute/stand for/pledge allegiance to it."

    Am I the only one that can see both sides of this?



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  19. #346
    Stoking the fires... agent Lemon spewing coast to coast


  20. #347
    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    Not even $#@!ing close. Show me a single quote on this forum saying the government should force people to stand at attention during the anthem or retract your false statement. Whether you agree or not, many people associate our flag and national anthem with our countries' founding, our constitution, and the liberties that we enjoy every day that sets us apart from the rest of the world. Kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful and shameful. Anyone that does will be criticized as not being socially acceptable, as a consequence of their actions.

    If you want to kneel during the anthem you are free to do so. It seems like YOU are the one asking for government force to silence anyone speaking against your actions.

    This form of protest is the stupidest idea I've ever seen and the NFL will suffer gravely because of it.
    There is a conflict at play here, as so rationally discussed by Ron Paul in a couple of his videos on the subject. On the one side, there is the private property, business, employer rights side of the story, and on the other, there is the right to protest side.

    Ron falls on the private property side, but some see that as forced submission to the state, especially due to government funding of sports, which Ron does address and does not support.

    There is also a huge gap on what the "protest" is really is trying to accomplish. Both sides read into it exactly what they want. The truth is that the "reasoning" for this protest has changed so many times, there is no one answer. Trying to justify or condemn the "protest" based upon the goal is simply futile.

    The biggest picture view is that this is cheap politicking by Trump going against the socialist/communist strategy for overthrow of the nation. A lot to be opposed to, but nothing to support.
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  21. #348
    Quote Originally Posted by spudea View Post
    Not even $#@!ing close. Show me a single quote on this forum saying the government should force people to stand at attention during the anthem or retract your false statement. Whether you agree or not, many people associate our flag and national anthem with our countries' founding, our constitution, and the liberties that we enjoy every day that sets us apart from the rest of the world. Kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful and shameful. Anyone that does will be criticized as not being socially acceptable, as a consequence of their actions.

    If you want to kneel during the anthem you are free to do so. It seems like YOU are the one asking for government force to silence anyone speaking against your actions.

    This form of protest is the stupidest idea I've ever seen and the NFL will suffer gravely because of it.
    Ya but people can be "disrespectful" to a piece of cloth all they want. It USED to be a "free country" (not so much anymore). No one has any duty to "respect" your holy cloth or DO anything. That's freedom (something you claim people have died for). Seems so strange when people get their panties in a wad over people actually EXERCISING freedom and then you tell them to stop it because their exercise of freedom is hurting your sacred cloth. Don't you know that inanimate objects cannot feel? Neither can they "deserve" respect. If you have an IDEA (such as liberty) THAT may be worthy of respect (or not). Even then, if someone chooses to NOT respect your idea there's nothing you can (or should) do about it.

    Getting angry about such is a colossal waste of energy...
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    As we go headlong into this absurd, divisive, choreographed insanity
    I'm struck by this stark sober contrast of a nation
    soberly reminding themselves of their own insanity and horrors
    brought upon them by their own government.




    In the forest near old Butovo, about 5 kilometers south of the Moscow Ring Road, lies the largest burial place for victims of Stalin's purges in the whole Moscow region, a site of mass executions. At the small plot of land known as the Butovsky Shooting Range or "Butovsky Poligon," about 20,760 people were executed between August 1937 and October 1938. Among this were men and women, the old and the young, people from 70 different nationalities and many faiths and social classes.

    Seventy-seven years ago, in August 1937, the head of the NKVD ordered a high fence be erected around a remote five-hectare patch of oak forest glade. The construction was largely ignored by locals, who were told the site would be a shooting range, a rumor that frequent gunfire seemed to verify.

    More than 20,000 people were executed at the site in a little more than a year — an average of about 50 people per day. The diversity of those executed was stunning, including South African communists, Polish nationalists, Germans, Hindus, Chinese, Tatars and Jews. However, the site "specialized" in executions of Orthodox Christian clergy, targeted by the Soviet Union as supposedly counter-revolutionary elements in their atheist state.

    About 1,000 of the victims were clergy from the Russian Orthodox Church, and about 300 people from that number have since been beatified as saints. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church began commemorating the site, establishing a small wooden church on the site in 1996 and a larger church that has been active since 2007. Since the year 2000, the patriarch has led an annual service in the church of the martyrs to commemorate those killed in Butovo.

  23. #350
    Quote Originally Posted by ChristianAnarchist View Post
    Ya but people can be "disrespectful" to a piece of cloth all they want. It USED to be a "free country" (not so much anymore). No one has any duty to "respect" your holy cloth or DO anything. That's freedom (something you claim people have died for). Seems so strange when people get their panties in a wad over people actually EXERCISING freedom and then you tell them to stop it because their exercise of freedom is hurting your sacred cloth. Don't you know that inanimate objects cannot feel? Neither can they "deserve" respect. If you have an IDEA (such as liberty) THAT may be worthy of respect (or not). Even then, if someone chooses to NOT respect your idea there's nothing you can (or should) do about it.

    Getting angry about such is a colossal waste of energy...
    They can also suffer the consequences of offending those who love their country, we are also free to protest their protest.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

  24. #351
    Once again, the usual suspects on this site prove just how inept they are when it comes to political strategy.

    "Hey, you know those overpaid, 85 IQ-equipped, drug-addled, brain-damaged, woman-beating degenerates whose popularity is currently in freefall for not understanding the importance of symbolism? LET'S SIDE WITH THEM! We understand symbolism even less than they do! BLM and libertarians are natural allies! After all, we both brainlessly bleat "$#@! da po-lees!" and have deranged fantasies about totalitarian oppression in a Western country! A match made in heaven!"

    Good lord didn't Rothbard's excursion into fruitlessly attempting to convert leftists teach you anything? Of course it didn't, look who I'm talking to.
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  25. #352
    seen any sports lately?
    how bout them sports?
    d'you fantasy sports?



    Last edited by Raginfridus; 10-01-2017 at 01:47 AM. Reason: Simple Jack gives a fuck, do you?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    They can also suffer the consequences of offending those who love their country, we are also free to protest their protest.
    NOW you're getting down to reality!! Yes, one can exert violence when they are offended. It's a very real possibility when you consider the brutal reality -- "Man" is a violent dangerous animal. If you "offend" his beliefs (no matter how silly) he can become butthurt and punch you. If that's your strategy for "promoting" your ideas it's an old strategy but a popular one...
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  30. #356
    Quote Originally Posted by ThePaleoLibertarian View Post
    Once again, the usual suspects on this site prove just how inept they are when it comes to political strategy.

    "Hey, you know those overpaid, 85 IQ-equipped, drug-addled, brain-damaged, woman-beating degenerates whose popularity is currently in freefall for not understanding the importance of symbolism? LET'S SIDE WITH THEM! We understand symbolism even less than they do! BLM and libertarians are natural allies! After all, we both brainlessly bleat "$#@! da po-lees!" and have deranged fantasies about totalitarian oppression in a Western country! A match made in heaven!"

    Good lord didn't Rothbard's excursion into fruitlessly attempting to convert leftists teach you anything? Of course it didn't, look who I'm talking to.
    1. Liberty is unpopular. The popularity of the opinion or protest is irrelevant.

    2. If 85 iq degenerates are right then they're right. A bunch of ad hominem attacks won't change that.


    But of course you won't agree, look who I'm talking to. We all know the real reason you oppose siding with them.

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    Ron Paul: We Are “Seeing the Emergence of ‘Snowflakes’ on the Right “

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  33. #359
    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    It is also interesting to see that this peaceful protest is getting a whole lot more flack on the forum than the violent ones.

    Go figure.
    The violent protests kind of speak for themselves. I don't think either of the Dr. Pauls would ever advocate violence as a way to protest. I can respond to violent or nonviolent protests in an appropriate way. Turning off a game and getting rid of gear harms nobody and should not upset anyone.

    I know DirecTV is going to have something to say about the thousands of dollars in refunds they have issued for their NFL Sunday Ticket packages. Game sponsors are likely making their voices heard as well.
    Last edited by euphemia; 10-01-2017 at 04:52 PM.
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  34. #360
    Quote Originally Posted by euphemia View Post
    The violent protests kind of speak for themselves. I don't think either of the Dr. Pauls would ever advocate violence as a way to protest.
    I wasn't talking about the Pauls.
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