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[–] 10605851? 1 point 42 points (+43|-1) ago  (edited ago)

What's happening is actually much more profound. These idiot football players are in opposition to Trump, but the way they're doing it also puts them in opposition to the flag. Effectively, they're handing Trump the flag.

This is why you shouldn't try to be a thought leader when you get paid to scramble your brains on a weekly basis.

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[–] 10606015? 0 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago 

Remember, they are claiming it's not a sign of disrespect to the flag or the US but the nigs playing in England did it too but then they all stood for God Save the Queen. Fuck 'em.

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[–] gosso920 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Should someone tell them it's the same melody as "America?" Nah, they're too stupid to understand.

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[–] Thrus2 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Actions speak louder then words. They are doing something disrespectful to a symbol of the country (flag or song take your pick), and saying it is for some cause. They have a lot to say about the cause but few if any of them have any actions that seem to draw the media attention that their disrespect does.

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[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago 

The protest has always been retarded for that reason, simply replace Trump with police. The original point was supposedly that cops kill blacks. So to protest cops Kaepernick refused to honor the flag. Rather than claiming police behavior was dishonoring the flag, he connected the police to the flag. As a result, instead of talking negatively about the police like he wanted, he started a negative discussion about himself acting unAmerican. Then a bunch of other imbeciles started joining him proving none of them are capable of logical thought or effective use of iconography.

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[–] MkeAmericaGreatAgain 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Fuck yes. You said it perfectly. The cops that act out of line are just as disrespectful to the country as the nigs taking a knee. First time ive heard someone else put it this way and it couldn't be anymore right

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[–] Thin_White_Duke 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I actually thought about this tonight.

A better way for him to have made his point would have been to say that he was kneeling as respect for his fellow Americans who lost their lives to police brutality.

But it wouldn't be race baiting or anti-American enough.

They're just fucking mouth breathers anyway.

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[–] JohnCStevenson 12 points -12 points (+0|-12) ago 

Fuck the flag. It's just a pointless piece of cloth meant to make people blindly patriotic and ignore any issues facing America. As long as Donald Trump is the head of our nation, we can no longer say that America is a great country. The athletes refuse to respect Trump, and he's currently steaming on Twitter about it.

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[–] Le_Bucheron 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

please stop breathing. You are wasting air.

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[–] lucifirius 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Go away ShareBlue shill

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[–] SelfReferenceParadox 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The flag was designed for the specific purposes of making people ignore social issues, the founding fathers were actually incredibly studious psychologists, and they made the flag knowing that the specific combination of red, white, and blue would cause people to go into a frothing rage, killing mexicans on site and having spontanious orgasms at the mere thought of Trump's combover. The stars added through the years don't actually represent new states, but rather they have been repositioned to allow greater control. States being added at the same time was merely a coincedence believed to be a side effect of Pence's time machine wreaking havoc on the very fabric of the universe, the same fabric the flag itself is made of. It is believed that area 51 is in face a massive flag, used to influence specific parts of africa and greenland. The siezures suffered by Clinton during the campaign season were the result of Ben "silent killer" Carson, the USA's top undercover agent, secretly injecting her with a solution of ground up flags while she was sleeping. You can shitpost, Mr Stevenson, but one day you may find yourself on the wrong and of a loaded flagpole, and we'll see who's steaming on twitter then.