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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 23 2017, 08:55 AM (223 Views) | |
| xenon | Sep 23 2017, 08:55 AM Post #1 |
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Goodell released a statement saying Trump’s words were divisive: Link Got me thinking back to the inauguration- is Trump a dividing or uniting force? Is he trying? Is it important? Does the media make it impossible? |
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| Jolly | Sep 23 2017, 08:56 AM Post #2 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Trump is pretty good at uniting people the media considers inferior. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Copper | Sep 23 2017, 09:03 AM Post #3 |
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I don't think Mr. Goodell likes deplorables. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Horace | Sep 23 2017, 09:05 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Horace | Sep 23 2017, 09:06 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think it's impossible to track in any realistic manner how divided or united our culture is. Pop culture however is more united than ever in its hatred of Donald Trump, so the one effect I've seen with my very own eyes indicates to me that he is a Uniter. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| xenon | Sep 23 2017, 09:13 AM Post #6 |
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I frequent a fair bit of NFL and other sport communities online. There’s always been “side topics” and “coffee rooms” ![]() But in general - the discussion has been pretty apolotical. Until recently. It feel like all aspects of American life are being pervaded by political divisions. Edited by xenon, Sep 23 2017, 09:16 AM.
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| xenon | Sep 23 2017, 09:13 AM Post #7 |
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| Horace | Sep 23 2017, 09:15 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I checked my favorite Packers forum for discussion on this - nothing. Then I searched google for other packers forums - found no discussion of this there either. Was a little surprised. I probably missed something. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| xenon | Sep 23 2017, 09:17 AM Post #9 |
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I use predominantly reddit - sample bias maybe |
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| Davis | Sep 23 2017, 09:22 AM Post #10 |
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Who was the last uniter? It's a word often used but I have a hard time remembering the last uniter. |
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| Horace | Sep 23 2017, 09:28 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's really astonishing that after 8 years of Obama's social healing, our race relations are, as so earnestly reported by our media, so terrible. It's almost like the whole fvcking concept is whatever we want it to be, because it's undefinable and unmeasurable. With several hundred million people in this country, it's inevitable that our one great source of truth: ANECDOTE!!, will be present in sufficient quantities to prove, with that perfect evidence, that race relations are exactly as we want them to be, at any time. Of course, the most interesting question is, what do we want them to be? But I think many of us might have difficulty being honest about our answer to that question. We should probably have a dialogue. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Jolly | Sep 23 2017, 09:45 AM Post #12 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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I'd rather talk about it than have a dialogue. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| jon-nyc | Sep 23 2017, 09:53 AM Post #13 |
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Cheers
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Ike. |
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| Copper | Sep 23 2017, 10:19 AM Post #14 |
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This morning I talked to a man who had skin a different color than mine. It went OK. I feel like I have made a contribution. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Renauda | Sep 23 2017, 10:31 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Say, that was mighty white of you for sharing that contribution with all of us. |
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| Horace | Sep 25 2017, 07:57 AM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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On second glance, this is on the front page of the forum. This was written in response to the Packers President's comments on Trump's comments. You'll have to excuse the embarrassing writing quality. I think this guy probably shut down discussion of this on his forum. He rules with an iron fist over there. (I no longer post or read there after my year-long ban a few years ago.)
Here's the Packers' statement he was responding to:
It appears that for the first time in my memory, the customer is not right. Because of our now firmly entrenched tyranny of the politically correct minority. I wonder what the NFL is afraid of. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Davis | Sep 25 2017, 04:07 PM Post #17 |
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The owners are simply trying to protect their revenue streams, it makes great business sense. They are not liberals. |
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| Horace | Sep 25 2017, 09:06 PM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I'm not sure about "great business sense". They are between a rock and a hard place here. There is no good option for them. The best sense is of course to say as little as possible without taking flak for saying too little. Which I suppose is how almost everybody involved is approaching it, from their own perspectives. Except Trump. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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