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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 25 2017, 08:08 PM (654 Views) | |
| + QueenTD | Sep 25 2017, 08:08 PM Post #1 |
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Never thought I would see the day our president would be Twitter beefing. http://elitedaily.com/news/politics/donald-trump-attacked-nfl-on-twitter/2079331/ http://theinterrobang.com/donald-bum-trump-vs-lebron-james/ https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911572182060453893 He actually been Tweeting against the NFL all day today. Even retweeting....something that say boycott the NFL https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor |
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| + Emmeth | Sep 25 2017, 09:00 PM Post #2 |
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Just making his way through the grind, insulting anyone he can on the way. Surely nobody expected him to actually behave like a President when he was elected? |
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| + Ssj3vegito96 | Sep 25 2017, 09:17 PM Post #3 |
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I agree that it's ridiculous to disrespect the flag. The flag is not a symbol of the current events in the country. It's a symbol of what defines the country; the blood sweat and tears that it was built on and the rights we have that make 'Murica so great But trump is also being ridiculous by giving a few athletes that people for some reason worship so much attention. He needs to stop taking people's attention away from the real issues like ISIS, North Korea, and aiding people suffering from all the recent disasters |
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| + Steve | Sep 25 2017, 09:18 PM Post #4 |
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Hurricanes, other natural disasters Travel bans Humanitarian crisis all over Brink of war with North Korea NFL PLAYERS DIDN'T BEND THE KNEE Definitely the most important thing going on right now. I seen a good quote from someone on Facebook, I forget who it's originally from but it sums the whole thing up pretty well: ![]() It's truly shocking that this man is President and at the same time not surprising at all. What a joke the position seems. Are you some edgy teenager who talks s*** all over the internet all day? Good news, you're qualified to be President of the United States of America. |
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| + Pyrus | Sep 25 2017, 09:36 PM Post #5 |
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Would be funny if the entire NFL and NBA got Trump impeached. Don't f*** with America's sports! |
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| * Yu Narukami | Sep 25 2017, 09:48 PM Post #6 |
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It's a symbol of the freedom that lets people kneel during the anthem, or do something that's labelled as 'unpatriotic' though. You can't disrespect a piece of cloth, and expressing the freedoms that countless people have died to protect for you is the very nature of American freedom. |
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| + Ssj3vegito96 | Sep 25 2017, 10:04 PM Post #7 |
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Yeah so in other words they're disrespecting the thing that allows them to disrespect it...lol what are they even accomplishing? It doesn't make sense to me. It's weird to me that they disrespect the flag which is a symbol of the rights that allow them to do it in the first. And it's also low. Just because you're allowed to do something disrespectful because of freedom of speech doesn't mean you're not a jackass for doing it You can voice an opinion that a person is a fat disgusting idiot. Freedom of speech. That doesn't mean they're not being rude And it doesn't come down to it being just "a piece of cloth". People fought and died for the country this flag represents. So insulting the flag is disrespecting them. In my opinion |
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| * Mitas | Sep 25 2017, 10:12 PM Post #8 |
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But the flag means nothing. It is just a piece of cloth. The meaning that is placed on it is what matters and it's up to the individual person to decide where they place that meaning. If it's on the flag, fine. If it's not, also fine. Also, you can't tell somebody what something represents because it's all down to interpretation. If somebody believes the flag is representative of the current state of affairs then that's what it represents to them. And if they want to make their opinion on those affairs known by disrespecting the thing they feel represents it, then that's a valid form of protest. |
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| Tinny | Sep 25 2017, 10:53 PM Post #9 |
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To be honest, I feel that argument is completely ridiculous, mostly because of how the American Public does everything short of pissing on it in daily public life. This tweet... grouping(?) more or less sums it up for me. https://i.imgur.com/AngPeuS.jpg Giving out the link directly because the picture itself is really long and would be unreadable here. Point is, if disrespecting the flag is the problem, all of America is guilty of it. And even then, I do have to say this, where else should they protest? Where less people will see and it's less likely change will happen, less likely that people will see what is happening? Protests are practically built on getting in the way of public life, on showing that no, things aren't okay. The civil rights movement, a lot of that was outright breaking the law, and generally ruining the white people's day by sitting at the chairs without ordering anything, and other such activities. They were trying to make a statement and were publicly protesting, and I"m not sure how else you'd have them do it in a way that's as effective as doing it here. To be honest, I feel Martin Luther King Jr. sums up this frankly strange reaction I keep seeing towards this flag. The way he talks about the white moderate who values order more than justice. ![]() Yes, it's offensive, of course it's offensive. It's meant to attract the attention of people to the problem of police brutality and the lack of accountability for the officers who commit those acts of murders. Regardless of if you feel such things are happening or not, I'm not sure what you'd suggest as a protest to get people to look and see, and protesting out of sight may as well be the same as telling them to shut up. If they went to their locker rooms, no one would be talking about this and it's more likely no one would have even noticed. Telling someone to do that as protest, is telling them to protest, out of earshot, out of view, conveniently for people, and out of mind. I know for many it's not intended like that, but it is the final result. A silencing of the would be protesters. Edited by Tinny, Sep 25 2017, 11:02 PM.
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| + Ssj3vegito96 | Sep 25 2017, 11:23 PM Post #10 |
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It's interpretation too but if it's really based on interpretation that much then what do we make of the colors on the flag? Like traditionally the red is a symbol of valor, which is obviously a nod to those who fought for us. I'm not sure if there's ever been any documented official meanings for the colors but I'm sure there is a reason, no? Edited by Ssj3vegito96, Sep 25 2017, 11:24 PM.
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| Daemon Keido | Sep 25 2017, 11:28 PM Post #11 |
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Why is it disrespectful to to the flag and what it represents, exactly? All I have heard is people complain THAT it is offensive without a clesr answer as to WHY it is offensive. |
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| Tinny | Sep 25 2017, 11:30 PM Post #12 |
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The stars represents the fifty states in the union. The stars also are symbols of the heavens and the goal to contact the divine. The stripes represent the dawn of a new beginning and are symbolic of the rays of light coming from the sun. Red represents the valour and hardiness of the nation, white refers to the purity and innocence, and blue refers to the vigilance, perseverance, and (I shall emphasize in this conversation) justice. The flag doesn't really have any reference to the military specifically, and generally represents the nation as a whole. |
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| + Ssj3vegito96 | Sep 25 2017, 11:33 PM Post #13 |
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People find it offensive because a lot of people traditionally think of the bloodshed as one of the things the flag represents. Better than violent protesting people have though Honestly I don't think it should be surprising people find it offensive but like I said earlier it's not really a big deal compared to what trump should be focusing on |
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| + QueenTD | Sep 26 2017, 04:00 AM Post #14 |
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| + Emmeth | Sep 26 2017, 07:39 AM Post #15 |
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If USA truly is a land of freedom, are NFL players then not free to kneel in front of the flag and anthem? Why is the flag made to be such a symbolic thing that kneeling disrespects it? According to law I should be able to go to USA, put a flag on the ground and piss on it without consequence, but I guarantee you I'd get life in jail. Freedom means absolutely jack-s*** in USA. |
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