US soccer cancels a patriotic war hero

Hüsker Dü said:
I loved Loeffler and Cruz dressed down in denim and her truckers hat as if they would ever dress like that in NYC or DC! Just regular folk worth millions and selling your kids future to the highest bidder.
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Hey Q people. Did Frumpy Trumpy return to power today?

Oh, and go figure that the GQP is defending the intelligence of Neanderthals. In their defense, a Neanderthal would seem like a rocket scientist compared to a trumpanzee.
 
Lavey29 said:
US soccer joins other professional sports in disrespecting our flag and all those brave men and women who fought valiantly for our country.

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Seth Jahn eviscerates US Soccer's decision to remove him from council, reveals death threats

Seth Jahn, a U.S. 7-a-side Paralympian who was booted from the U.S. Soccer athletes council for his speech railing against the repeal of the anthem-kneeling, doubled down on his stance and revealed he was receiving death threats over his words.
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full90 said:
When he said lots of countries had slavery and the USA is the only one to fight a war to end it, I’m not sure he understands that is exactly the opposite of the point he’s trying to make.

and to say that oh since only 8% of people owned slaves it couldn’t have been that big of a deal and ignoring the scale and scope of the economies built on slavery is....obtuse. Either intentionally or he’s just stupid.

if you don’t think folks should kneel during the anthem. Fine. Think that. Then head on down to your local police station and ask what policies and procedures they are putting in place to eliminate the murder of Black people. If the kneeling bothers you, go help fix the reason they are kneeling.

but trying to dismiss the whole thing under the guise of some inaccurate facts and tired rhetoric is so played out. It’s 2021.That way of thinking lost the presidency, house and senate. Get a new playbook homie.
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Wrong Question #2: What’s the reason for slavery and why did it exist in the US and elsewhere?

Reason it’s the wrong question? Because slavery was practiced everywhere for most of human history and is still practiced today. For example, according to that National Geographic article titled “21st Century Slaves“:

There are an estimated 27 million men, women, and children in the world who are enslaved — physically confined or restrained and forced to work, or controlled through violence, or in some way treated as property.
Therefore, there are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade [11 million total, and about 450,000, or about 4% of the total, who were brought to the United States]. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking in its global reach—and in the destruction of lives.
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And as Thomas Sowell wrote:

Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved – and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.
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Therefore to ask the reason for any type of human cruelty including slavery, which have existed for millennia and continues to exist today is to ask the wrong question as Gary Saul Morson points out in his article “How the great truth dawned“:

To ask the reason for cruelty is to ask the wrong question. People sometimes ask the reason for slavery, but since slavery was practiced everywhere for most of human history, the right question is the opposite one: why was slavery eventually abolished in many places? In the Bolshevik context, it is mercy and compassion that require explanation.
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So there we have the Correct Question: Why was slavery eventually abolished in so many places including the US following thousands of years of the practice, and what’s the explanation for the rise of mercy and compassion that motivated the end of slavery in the US and elsewhere?

Here’s more from Sowell on the topic of abolishing slavery:

Everyone hated the idea of being a slave but few had any qualms about enslaving others. Slavery was just not an issue, not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the 18th century – and then it was an issue only in Western civilization. Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other American leaders. You could research all of the 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing criticism today? American leaders of the 18th century.
Deciding that slavery was wrong was much easier than deciding what to do with millions of people from another continent, of another race, and without any historical preparation for living as free citizens in a society like that of the United States, where they were 20 percent of the population.
It is clear from the private correspondence of Washington, Jefferson, and many others that their moral rejection of slavery was unambiguous, but the practical question of what to do now had them baffled. That would remain so for more than half a century.
In 1862, a ship carrying slaves from Africa to Cuba, in violation of a ban on the international slave trade, was captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy. The crew was imprisoned and the captain was hanged in the United States – despite the fact that slavery itself was still legal at the time in Africa, Cuba, and in the United States. What does this tell us? That enslaving people was considered an abomination. But what to do with millions of people who were already enslaved was not equally clear.
That question was finally answered by a war in which one life was lost [620,000 Civil War casualties] for every six people freed [3.9 million]. Maybe that was the only answer. But don’t pretend today that it was an easy answer – or that those who grappled with the dilemma in the 18th century were some special villains when most leaders and most people around the world saw nothing wrong with slavery.
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EOTL said:
If you were in the military for 33 years, you certainly are not paying the tab for anyone and never have. To the contrary, every dollar you have received in both salary and pension in your life has been courtesy of others who are actually subsidizing your sorry ass dumbf**k. You should thank all those people you want to deny social benefits to for paying taxes that fund yours.

Seriously, you are as stupid as they come.
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