MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Looks like the NBA is more totalitarian about protest than the NFL?
By artappraiser on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 9:13pm |In the NFL, it's the players that got the "censored" treatment. But at NBA games, fans gotta toe the line, too?
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Just an extension of corporatism - now corporate nations stretch their influence.
Makes you wonder why Putin's being secretive - he should enjoy the sunshine.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:29pm
Hey your first sentence basically is an explanation to myself, in a nutshell, why I have long had this disgust thing about fandom of professional team sports! I try not to be a party pooper and kill joy about this, understand how it's almost a necessary entertainment thing in a lot of people's lives and a useful substitute for tribalism and all kinds of aggressions. But really, it often strikes me as absurd: do people stay loyal fans of like, film production companies?! No, they judge each film as it comes out, good or bad. Or like, Proctor and Gamble? No they might like one product and not the other. The loyalty to pro teams has just always struck me as: sicko. And this was even confirmed by the spouse, the progeny of a football coach father. He watched pro football on TV with the sound off and was not a "fan" of any one team, he was interested in how they were playing the game, and who was excelling, not rooting for win/lose, nor "my team, love it or leave it" no matter what it may do.
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 2:00pm
Jo-na-than! I had a friend who rooted for Apple like that.
Me I watched football for the pom-pom girls - the blood & broken bones was just gravy.
How corporatism looked in the 70's:
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 3:59pm
I had a friend who rooted for Apple like that.
Makes perfect sense if you are a shareholder! As to anyone else, though, to me, makes it likely that the person is a stoopid sheeple, sucker-born-every-minute type.
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 4:16pm
#TakeAKnee out, #Let1000FlowersBloom in.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 4:02pm
made me laugh:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 4:28pm
Guest Op-ed by Schweppe tweeted by Op-ed Editor of NYPost :
this one got 5,800 retweets so far:
AND last but not least, were y'all waiting for the Drumpf to chime in? Well, never fear, here he is:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 4:40pm
oh this is rich, to Laura Ingraham and Breitbart, it's the fault of "the left" for tolerating it:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 4:51pm
back at the NFL:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 7:24pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/12/2019 - 7:32pm
Globalism is hard work:
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/13/2019 - 4:53pm
Hong Kong protesters are hooligans (more like hockey than basketball?) The classic silent majority and all that.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 12:06am
wow, this actually amazes me, the people of Hong Kong are not at all like the people of China, they are all for the hooliganism. Like few others in the world, this is not your average population.This says they're really pissed, ready for revolution:
Just got to go to work, get the kids dinner, no time for revolution, but glad others are doing it? Does not bode well for keeping this population in line. They will quietly sabotage whatever they can.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 1:16pm
The police have been attacking them, so not much sympathy. MTR a bigger problem, the biggest complaint I hear.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 1:24pm
If this video is what many in Hong Kong are seeing everyday, makes it a little more understandable, it's like the constant daily resistance thing has already started:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 1:16am
wow. This is probably why they haven't shut this down with extreme violence yet.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 1:36am
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 12:39am
Trump's deal with Erdogan, Rudy scheming to remove the Turkish cleric from PA, must all be miles from a lucrative endorsement deal with China for a Turkish player - now the miniwar with the Kurds. Freedom fries while money burns - which is the hotter topic? Loose lips sink
scholarshipssponsorships? (knew I could pun better)by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 2:10am
This is exactly the kind of thing just slays me about pro sports, that someone like Peter Baker would like Thos. Boswell making mythic and would feel this swell of pride and patriotism; it's just fucking game played for big profit:
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It is what it is, can't change human nature, I guess.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/16/2019 - 11:29am
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by artappraiser on Sat, 10/19/2019 - 1:10am
Trump in China - he'll go a lot softer than LeBron.
"Freedom's just another word for no investments to lose" - the annotated Jannis Joplin (Kris Kristofferson)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/china-donald-trump-bra...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/19/2019 - 5:55am
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/19/2019 - 2:27pm
It's hard to boycott crack forever when you've developed a taste for it:
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/01/2019 - 8:40pm