NBA Milwaukee Bucks & Orlando Magic boycott tonights game in protest.

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  1. Texan

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    These overpayed players are refusing to fulfill the terms of their contracts. They are costing the media and team owners millions of dollars. They have already turned their games into a social justice extravaganza. Now that's not enough for them. Let them get participation trophies instead of paychecks.

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    If you think BLM will EVER be regarded as bad guys, you are hiding your head in the sand. Look around you! Look at any sport! NBA, MLS, Baseball, Football... Take your pick. BLM have the most widespread support you are liable to ever see. Except among White Supremacists, of course. But they're alone....

    Black people have been the oppressed for centuries. And the oppressed are always the "sweethearts" in history.

    As for Obama, if the movie were about deportations in that era, he will be the bad guy on that particular episode. But not in the eyes of history. There is not a single issue in existence today in which Trumpists are not the bad guys. Not one!
     
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    The Trumpist right doesn't support the right to life. They support a right to life when it's convenient for them. But not in general. Justifying murder is not support for the right to life.

    It's mind boggling that somebody would believe that shooting an unarmed man in the back is supporting the "right to life"
     
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    They don't support life at all.
     
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    You mean the unarmed man with the knife?
     
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    Because, of course, to the bad guys dollars are more important than the life of people. Or the rights of a large portion of Americans. I can almost see the script of the movie right now.
     
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    No. I mean the unarmed man who was unarmed.

    I'm not a police tactics expert... or anything like that. But I know that to use a knife you need to be close to your target. While with a gun, you can be farther away. So if the guy had a knife, what kind of idiot would you have to be to follow him up close?
     
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    Dollars are a form of expression. Do you really think the players will refuse to play when they KNOW their paychecks are on the line? The NBA and team owners have been capitulating to the demands of the players. They have finally pushed too hard and there will be consequences for their actions. If not, the NBA will fold within the next couple of years because of the lack of public support.
     
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    Even if their lives, or the life of their teammates are on the line if they do?

    That's insane.... It's likely every black player in those teams knows about racist cops. And I think they understand that this changes now, or it never will....
     
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    Are you saying that players who insist on playing are being threatened? By whom?
     
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    By racist cops! Aren't you paying attention? All black people in this country receive a lecture from their parents about cops. Every time they are stopped by a cop... they fear for their life. And their fears continue to be proven right again and again....

    And they want this to change. Easy as that....

    By far, the large majority of cops are not racists. But they have no way of telling who is and who isn't. So they are afraid every time. And they have a right to not be afraid.
     
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    Real deep there. BLM is top down. BLM is manufactured consent. BLM is supported by the elite. The elite are TERRIFIED of populism. BLM cannot threaten their power, populism can,
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    You are being managed by people who are thinking three steps ahead of you.
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    The Academic Agent breaks all down brilliantly. He lost his job at a prestigious British university this year and is in the process of being depersoned. This is what happens to people who speak actual truth to power.
     
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    If it was self defense, why did the police (that he was supposedly "helping") arrest him for murder? As far as the NBA........you don't have a clue what you're talking about. They are protesting the shooting of another unarmed black man. You can say he had a knife (he didn't) or IF he was going for a gun (he wasn't.......or was he going for a knife, make up your mind) but the fact remains that was shot in the back 7 times while 3 officers followed him with guns out as he walked around his car and apparently the ONLY solution to whatever problem they foresaw was to shoot. Now take that scene and put it against the Bundy idiot and his followers that entered a courthouse with guns and pushed their way past police to protest having to wear a mask. TO PROTEST HAVING TO WEAR A MASK!! If that was a black crowd doing the same thing for the same reason, they would have all been shot. No doubt about it, THAT is the state of America today and you just don't get it.
    This isn't going to stop with the NBA. All the major sports will join......and so will the college sports. Get a clue as to what is going on. Much needed change is coming......and nothing you do or say will stop it.
     
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    The wealthiest 1%? Yeah they thought they were right back before the civil rights movement.

    Popularity fades.
    Lol they aren't oppressed now.
    I don't put much stock in fortune telling
     
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    why is their viewpoint stupid?
     
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    Did they?
    Yeah they have no idea what police do.
    You don't know what you are talking about.

    If you were dealing with a person and he reached into a car, would you just simply wait until he shoots you to shoot him?

    You don't know what he has in that car.

    You never did that job so you don't know a damned thing about it.


    Good. I hope all junkie wife beater ball ends. It's all idiot entertainment.
    Yeah black ethnostate.

    Black lives matter means nobody else does.

    Doubt that change will happen.
     
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    It's anti life.

    If you can't defend you're life with lethal Force you have no right to life.

    If you have to wait until a person kills you to be justified in killing them you don't have the right to life.

    They believe police should be slain by criminals.

    It's as stupid as a person can be.
     
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    Sorry it's not Trump supporters burning down people livelihoods and charging people with murder for self defense
    Not murder if it's justified.
    So an unarmed man can't kill or injure you? An unarmed man can't reach into his car and grab a gun? Or are you supposed to wait until he kills you before you are justified in shooting him?
     
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    Oh, we're pretending.

    You don't know anything about guns or knives.

    Ask these armed police officers surrounding this guy with a gun and the ones he killed.

     
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    Social justice is another word for political correctness.

    Political correctness is what authoritarian dictators use to control people.

    Meat heads who's only valuable skill is to play children's games lack the mental capacity to understand this. And they lack life experience. Living as the ultra rich keeps them out of touch.
     
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    What racist cops? Most of the time people say that and they are wrong.
    Sounds like they are just perpetuating the idea.
    only if they are on fentanyl and die of a heart attack or try to take a gun out of the officers holster. White people are killed more often despite having fewer interactions with the police. Seems the fear is unwarranted.
    When an officer gives a lawful command obey it, don't take fentanyl, and don't try to take the officers come out of his holster.

    Bam problem solved.

    for you to think this is a black only thing is extremely racist of you.
    Not from what I see.
     
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    My kids are all white and they received the lecture on how to behave around police and especially in a traffic stop. It's what good parents do and it has nothing to do with skin color.

    I even gave the speech to my daughter in law. She isn't white, but I felt she needed it and wasn't sure if her parents gave it to her.
     
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    And you honestly believe that??
     
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    Why are they upset all of a sudden? Democrats have been enslaving blacks, lynching them, shooting them, segregating them, denying them quality educations ,,,, for years ,,, and they keep voting for Democrats. Wonder how many of the woundings and killings were not committed by historically Democrat cops in Democrat police departments in Democrat cities in Democrat states.
     
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    You honestly believe that?
     

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