That is sickthis is cool:
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I dunno, I kinda wanted to buy a Kaep jersey now...
Check your white privilege care.
it's funny how super fucking serious Americans take the National Anthem, 1KW. I was having this convo with Claire the other day - apparently that is not the case in Aus (or any other major nation, apparently)
it's fucking absurd. honestly, I am proud of Kaep. 1) he is finally making a name for himself, there was no way he was going to ever do so with such mediocre QB play and 2) protesting the National Anthem is just something that doesn't come across most Americans' minds. for as radical as I consider myself, it never crossed my mind - but thanks to Kaep - why would I stand up for anthem? I feel like it should be protested...
There is a big difference between patriotism and nationalism. I never sang the Australian anthem because I'm not Australian.
I love my country, I support their sportsmen and their achievements but I think it's stupid the feel somehow part of the team when they win. I mean sir Ernest Rutherford was the first man to split the atom and pretty much invented nuclear physics as we know it, but despite being born on the same land mass as me I have no claim to his achievements. Ditto soldiers who murder other soldiers under the same flag we fly at sports events.
Americans argue that they owe their soldiers something when in actual fact it is the opposite. If the American people didn't allow their taxes to be spent propping up the countries industrial military complex, none of those poor, undereducated teenage males with nothing else to contribute to their community would not have had a job. Not one American citizen has been saved in the past 15 yrs. in fact the only thing your war on terror has given you is a boost in confidence that would have otherwise been crushed by the knowledge that a couple of box cutters owned your largest city and Lockheed Martin could stop shit.
If you truly wanted to protect your way of life start by protecting the hundreds of innocents killed by your police who are supposed to serve you.
If you don't want politics in your sport don't have token armed forces rounds or reward championship rings with a trip to the White House.
To me its a non-story, athletes are objects to me I really dont care about their lives outside of sports.
...watch ... gymnastics...
Well I don't want ur politico talk in my sports forum. Take it to the nude thread plz k thanxIf you don't want politics in your sport don't have token armed forces rounds or reward championship rings with a trip to the White House.