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Fascists can be beaten, if they are opposed. They are not the majority. They only win when we let them, by complacency or fear.
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My Twitter and Youtube feeds are both currently swamped in NFL ads. They’re spending a fortune to try and fight the boycott, but their money isn’t working. 
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Tough call for me between that and the black national anthem.
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Lift every voice and sing,
till earth and Heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the listening skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
I once painted those lyrics on the walls of a Berkeley student co-op, and opened every house meeting by having the house members sing it.
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Dave Zirin destroys Trump’s claim that the idea of teams listening respectfully to the national anthem and respecting the flag is a long and hallowed tradition.
Oh, Amy, playing the national anthem and having the teams line up before games, it has a long and hallowed history that goes back to the days of Jersey Shore and Justin Bieber. I mean, we’re talking 2009. I mean, Fast & Furious 4 came out in 2009. That’s how long players have lined up for the anthem. And, yes, it comes out of a partnership between the Department of Defense and the National Football League. Everything you see at games, for years, until it was uncovered by Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona, everything you saw for years, like—
AMY GOODMAN: And John McCain, right?
DAVE ZIRIN: And John McCain, yes. And showing it in like—showing like the salute to the troop moment and all of these spectacles, they really were about recruitment for the armed forces, and they pay tens of millions of dollars to the National Football League to do these kinds of events, which speaks to, I think, this partnership that exists and how patriotism exists in these events. This is not some long tradition. I mean, this is something that’s a very short tradition and one that was absolutely geared with post-9/11 war-on-terror concern about the recruitment levels for the armed forces and seeing the NFL as a way to shore up those numbers, and paying billionaires money to make this a reality. And, yes, this was only—this was something also that was hidden. It was discovered by the investigation of those Arizona senators. And I think that sort of gives the game away as far as what all this is about. I mean, Trump speaks about it as if it is this kind of long, hallowed tradition of players standing at attention for the anthem, when it’s actually something very recent and very, I think, just monetary, in terms of the NFL’s perspective.
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https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/911968552726405121
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What a relief for now at least.
Couldn’t happen to a worse bunch of guys. (Mostly guys.)
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At some point, someone needs to ask them directly why they are so hellbent on seeing millions of Americans die needlessly.
Say, the next time they bring this fuckery to the table, yet again…
>_<
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Soooo much winning.
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It’s also worth noting that a while back, Alyssa Milano was spokeswoman for a line of NFL clothing for women. Which is not meant to contradict Zoé’s rebuttal at all… it just adds another layer of self-interest.
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