So, You`re Boycotting The NFL...
Posted by starznbarz 7 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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I also am very selective about which movies I watch, as there are certain actors or actresses I refuse to give my cash to. The last Jane Fonda movie I watched was Cat Ballou, e.g.
When Kelloggs announced support for climate change efforts, I cut them off my grocery list.
I guess I'm a hardline boycotter.
I watched a game and stopwatch timed the actual action. The 3 hour elapsed time (without any instant review) included 40 minutes of play. Haven't watched a game since.
(Note that I was a fan with mid-field season tickets for years.)
Bread and circuses.
Me dino wishes I studied acting to appear on the sliver screen.
That way, I could be an expert on anything I cared to comment on.
Last night I noted on the news versus turning on the game for the same reasons that the players on both teams stood during the anthem and then the news stated the Denver team would also not take a knee.
The blow back from the fans has been heard loud and clear so their actions are now history.
Long live the fan base!
I asked him if his opposition to the pledge was related to the football players. He said it's for similar reasons, but he was doing it long before the players' protest became an issue. He doesn't seem to care about their politics, just figures on points, yards, etc.
I'm sure he'll change his mind on all these things many, many times in his life, although he's been anti-pledge for over a year now. I keep my mouth shut and let him figure it out. It's one thing he can talk about that I understand. He knows so many teams' players, what year they won bowl games, and so on. We took him to the football museum in Ohio, and I fell asleep during the video. All I remember is a display of which computers were popular around the times of significant Superbowl games. I have been reading American Football for dummies.
It's too bad people get fired up about the politics. It seems so good to see the kids play and get exercise, teamwork, individual recognition for plays. I was never into sports at all, but now I appreciate it for the first time.
I'm getting tired of shows trying to pound their liberal philosophy into the viewers with a sledge hammer.
I actually boycotted the NFL for a year when they rehired Michael Vick. You know what...I never went back to watching it as I did before that, anyway. I'll catch a couple games a year now and that's about it. Just can't relate anymore...
I watched it, and I didn't see get that out of it at all. I think people make make that up from whole cloth to draw attention to the show, or maybe some writer was inspired by modern politics. I see not even the slightest hint of anything about President Trump in the show.
I don't understand why they needed to do yet another design on what Klingons look like, they didn't redesign the humans! Having the change from original Trek made sense because of the ability to improve makeup, but they had a nice Klingon look and culture down in the following shows and no need to redesign.
And, the ship design was intended to be more shiny than even Next Generation and this is a decade before Kirk so they should actually seem somewhat like Kirk's ship.
And the plot and dialog was terrible. They acted like squabbling high school kids rather than Starfleet.
Only watched the first episode, will not be signing up to watch more. And I'm a Start Trek fan, went to a convention in 1975 watched it all.
I thought the same thing, but I then I thought all references to nationalism are not about anyone nationalist figure. It reminded me of The Lexus and the Olive Tree. All these foreigners, he implied, are making them lose their cultural and religious heritage. The way he evoked the Klingon religion felt very un-like President Trump, who is not particularly religious and certainly does not himself as a religious icon inspired directly by Jesus.
There's a stronger case the the protagonist, Michael Burnham, is closer to how I imagine Trump supporters see themselves. She lost her parents in a sneak attack by the Klingons. She says they need to prepare to fight the Klingons because fighting is all they understand. She is rebuked.
1. The admiral accuses her of racism, even though she's trying to talk about culture. They keep saying she's racist.
2. The admiral arrogantly says she ought to be more sensitive to racial minorities since her physical features are consistent with a racial group treated as an underclass hundreds of years ago.
3. Her captain says she's been hurt by the sneak attack and just wants revenge.
4. Even though she turns out to be correct, the Klingons were preparing a sneak-attack, no one acknowledges it.
If there is politics in the show, I think the protagonist, Burnham, will be the Trump-supporter. Maybe she'll "see the error of her ways" or something. I don't think so though. I don't think the show has anything to do with modern politics though. These are all themes that have been around since ancient times.
"the ship design was intended to be more shiny than even Next Generation and this is a decade before Kirk so they should actually seem somewhat like Kirk's ship."
This is always the problem with prequels. It was true of Enterprise. I can forgive the shiny look-and-feel, but I don't want to see things well-established as being from the future, things like holodecks, intra-ship beaming, Romulans.
And, yes the harping on "racism" was not Trek like. I mean the original Trek had the racist episode with the half black half white people who hated each other if based on which half was black. The crew of the Enterprise didn't harp on racism, they just were completely puzzled as to why someone would care. I would hope that in 200 years that we look at race the same way: "Why does anyone care what color someone's skin is" Although there may be some speciesist thinking but that wouldn't be
racism.
I agree. Both current major political parties will have to die before this can occur.
hate others no reason in their mindless unconscious heads is needed.
The people bring up the issue of race turned out to be dead wrong. The admiral did it in a rude way apparently intended to make the audience not care when he died. So it was not harping on race.
Yes. Give it time. It's only a few hundred years, a blink of an eye, since the world got smaller. The implicit bias test shows we're still dealing with it. At some point it will be like the Assyrian Empire's affairs or Punic Wars. They were probably so contentious even educated people struggled with them, but now they're ancient history.
So they did it on the second week of the show, and gratuitously. Darn it! I'll still pay for anything with the Star Trek name.
Well, I don't either, but that's because I for darn sure do not want to know what their politics are. Or, if like most actors they are (huge generalization here) liberal, they need to keep that to themselves during the time they are performing.
In the end, just like with the NFL, they need to shut up and do what they are paid to do, during the time they are paid to do it, and then raise all sort of hell when they are off the job, if that is what they choose. (That would be great because I would never know about it....which is why they don't do it that way.) As an aside: never ever again will I watch anything Meryl Streep is on, around or about.