O say can’t you see it’s time to stop playing the national anthem before sporting events? -

[ProgKing of the North]

Yup. Believe the NFL will pay for their buttsnorkeling BLM. Can see a LOT of pissed-off people screaming at the players. coaches and staff who kneel for the national anthem. Can see even more people, like me, totally avoiding the National Fuckedup League. And should Major League Baseball players/managers/staff kneel for the national anthem, you'll see an exodus from baseball.

I don't give flying fuck one what the kneelers say. Kneeling for the national anthem is highly disrespectful of the anthem, the flag, and the nation. On base the national anthem is played in the base movie theater before each show. Everyone, regardless of color, stands for the anthem. People of all races have fought and died for our country, so some can kneel and disrespect our country. The kneelers claim they have the "right" to express themselves in this manner, but fans also have the right to change the channel and find something else to watch.

Once again, the kneelers just fuck themselves. People who might otherwise support making changes to policing will just walk away.

Why does a football game need to be a military rally in the first place though? What does it have to do with football?

Why are snowflake conservatives so obsessed with pushing patriotism into every damn thing? “You have the freedom to do it so you shouldn’t do it” is an incredibly weak argument.

 

[Cyclonus]

I agree. Get politics out of sports.

 

[Spastic Colon]

What's so wrong about loving your country? Even a liberal like myself loves my country. That's the problem. People equate patriotism with UNCONDITIONAL love of country. That's not how that works. You can love your country and still want to make it better. In fact, if you love your country, you want to make it better. There's no place else on earth I'd rather live. If there were, I'd move there -- not sit around and bitch and moan about it.

Playing the anthem is just a tradition. Like half-time shows and cheerleaders. Not necessary at all for the game, but important to some spectators. No one should be forced to stand, but no one should be forced to kneel, either. And you know there is a lot of political pressure to pick a side these days. Maybe some of these players just want to play the damn game and some of the spectators just want to watch it. Why can't a football game be just a football game?

Bring in politics and you ruin it. Sports are escapism. Sure would be a shame if the NFL -- which has predominantly black teams -- gets ruined by BLM politics. When the NFL fixes their domestic abuse issues, maybe they can share the knowledge of how they did that to fix the problem of abusive cops. Until then, clean your own house first.

 

[tehpope]

What's so wrong about loving your country? Even a liberal like myself loves my country. That's the problem. People equate patriotism with UNCONDITIONAL love of country. That's not how that works. You can love your country and still want to make it better. In fact, if you love your country, you want to make it better. There's no place else on earth I'd rather live. If there were, I'd move there -- not sit around and bitch and moan about it.

Playing the anthem is just a tradition. Like half-time shows and cheerleaders. Not necessary at all for the game, but important to some spectators. No one should be forced to stand, but no one should be forced to kneel, either. And you know there is a lot of political pressure to pick a side these days. Maybe some of these players just want to play the damn game and some of the spectators just want to watch it. Why can't a football game be just a football game?

Bring in politics and you ruin it. Sports are escapism. Sure would be a shame if the NFL -- which has predominantly black teams -- gets ruined by BLM politics. When the NFL fixes their domestic abuse issues, maybe they can share the knowledge of how they did that to fix the problem of abusive cops. Until then, clean your own house first.

The problem is that the left feels that America was never great and the sins of its past are too awful to ever be forgiven. So current america has to be destroyed at all cost and rebuild from the ground up.

 

[Spastic Colon]

The problem is that the left feels that America was never great and the sins of its past are too awful to ever be forgiven. So current america has to be destroyed at all cost and rebuild from the ground up.

I know. That's why I've drifted away from it. This is also why you shouldn't give young people too much power. Experience is the best teacher. It is all well and good to be young and idealistic and think you can do better. That can be a force for good change. But, it can also be a recipe for disaster without the proper checks and balances. With age comes wisdom and you realize that utopias are, even by its very definition, impossible. Utopia literally means "no place" in Greek. There is no place where perfect exists. Only the young or dumb think a utopian society is possible. It is the hubris of youth to think that previous generations didn't try to create a perfect society themselves. Of course they did. But they failed because human nature is what it is.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Why does a football game need to be a military rally in the first place though? What does it have to do with football?

Why are snowflake conservatives so obsessed with pushing patriotism into every damn thing? “You have the freedom to do it so you shouldn’t do it” is an incredibly weak argument.

>National sports league has nothing to do with the nation it's hosted in so get rid of the national anthem!
>Faggots fucking each other in the ass has to do with literally everything, so lets put a pride flag on EVERYTHING!

Edit:
I don't even give a flying fuck about this shithole, but that's one of the dumbest arguments I've seen in a while.

 

[Jaimas]

The problem is that the left feels that America was never great and the sins of its past are too awful to ever be forgiven. So current america has to be destroyed at all cost and rebuild from the ground up.

Which is exactly why they're cruising for an electoral disaster according to most metrics in like three weeks.