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Depends on the employer.

So, BLM, the organization, is the be all, end all authority on the issue of racism? BLM the organization and what it advocates are simply not the same as the more wide spread anti racist movement. While the founders of the BLM organization may have coined the phrase, “black lives matter”, it has since come to be used by a much broader anti racist movement. I find the comparison to the abortion issue lacking on several levels, but I appreciate your response.

Oh, I’m positive about that. The networks will never sue the owners to recover losses due to a player work stoppage. Indeed, there is language in the agreement that says owners still get paid by the networks, regardless. The competition among the networks to secure broadcasting rights is just too intense. If FOX, CBS, NBC, ESPN, etc., sue to recover lost revenue from a canceled game or two , they will simply not be invited back to the table in the next negotiation. Besides, as I implied earlier, it makes no business sense to risk huge future stakes over several future seasons for the sake of attempting to recover the much smaller lost revenues during a short term stoppage.

Who would want to be on the opposing side of anti-racism messaging?

Bob Kalsu. For reasons too numerous to mention.

Someone may demand a refund, but it won’t be any of the networks that pay billions a year for the broadcast rights; none of whom want to risk disfavor with the league in the next negotiations. There’s just too much long term future stake to risk on a short term loss.

Agreed. The pandemic has sucked the joy out of most things this year. It’s just harder to get psyched up for football because it’s just so trivial in the grand scheme of things. I’m hoping I start feeling it when we kickoff in a week and a half.

That’s all well and good, but I need to run it by Thad Brown first.

Just curious, Biscuit, but what don’t you feel like you have a choice in anymore?

Judging by the comments in this thread, I’d say they have good reason to think that. Seems some of us care a great deal about what they’re saying about something that’s not about football.

Not surprising in the least even with the pandemic given the fed has injected $2.3 TRILLION (with a T) into the economy, including $1.5 TRILLION of liquidity directly to Wall Street investment banks. It just goes to show how effective the federal government can be when it comes to stemming financial disaster. Ironically, it’s given to the biggest proponents of limited government intervention. I wish we would inject as much into demand-side policies as well.

Did the just read that racism doesn’t exist in the USA? Is it any wonder we are in the state we are in?

I’m sure you’re right. But whether or not people intend to be callous about this simply doesn’t matter.

On that basis, his only hope is playing for the Vikings.

Stupidity and ignorance are problems to be sure. But the cold, calculated callousness that people exhibit is the bigger problem, imo. Another sign of these times, I guess.

No to Prince Amakumara until he makes good on that “millions in dollars of US currency” he promised in that email he sent me.

Tub. Of. Goo.

Hmm. Posting by just thinking. Would be a welcomed change from all the posting without thinking that occurs around here.

Yeah, he’s a legit good guy. I don’t know anyone who’s ever said an unkind word about him. One of the greatest compliments I heard came from Jordan Palmer who said Fitz was so hard to compete against for the job in Cincy because he was such a good guy.

That’s a different argument and I agree. I’d be hard pressed to find a worse player, that’s for sure.

NP isn’t even on the list of spectacular fails by this team.

It’s obvious that certain media outlets seek to paint all activists, protestors, rioters, other criminal elements with one broad brush in order to delegitimize perfectly legal protest activities. This is done intentionally for cheap political reasons, photo opportunities, etc., and stoking division between people is the goal. There is no legitimate defense of Dilley’s rhetoric. None. He is calling for an armed call to violence.

Yes, he used the word “antifa” and the reporter used the word “activist” so I can see your point in that regard. And while I appreciate the clarification, it does little to sway my opinion of his terrorist intent. I also don’t buy the “antifa” narrative that’s been manufactured to stoke fear and tamp down legitimate protests. But that is another subject I have no desire to discuss here with your or anyone else. But if the antifa boogeyman really exists, maybe Dilley can go to their headquarters and make a preemptive strike.

Online threats are taken seriously by law enforcement agencies the world over. The fact the threat was made on social media over the internet doesn’t make it any less serious. Your expertise should have informed you of this fact. Speaking of irony, I find it ironic that those who’ve taken the solemn oath to protect and serve communities and wear the badge that exemplifies that dedication, would condone having armed vigilantes in the streets and killing people. For the record, I’m just as angry about actual violent mob behavior as you or anyone else. But getting back to Dilley, what is violence before it becomes actual?

He made a terrorist threat by saying he and countess others are armed and waiting for orders by the president to start taking out activists. He didn’t say rioters. He said activists. I don’t trust these yahoos to be able to distinguish between the two. Had anyone threatened the McCloskeys or their property, they would have been well within their rights to defend themselves. Except nobody set foot on their property and nobody posed a threat to them. As has been the case every other time these overly litigious people have run others off their property, including neighbors. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn they did the Rambo thing in the hopes of creating yet more grounds to sue yet more people. It’s what they do.