Recent content by 1969iggy

I'm asserting that protesting during the national anthem is INEFFECTIVE at reaching the "roughly 50% who are too ignorant to understand what America really stands for" who you NEED to get support from SOME of them to get what you want... They think that you are the roughly 50% who are too...

Communities is in quotes because they only meet half the definition of community in my view... they are "a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common" but they DO NOT meet the more important part... "a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result...

Not sure where you get your ratios, but i don't think that 2/3rd of the football watching country is against him.  Say what you want about Trump, but i don't believe he's dumb...  A manipulator for sure... but not dumb.  If you think he's dumb, i think you should read Sun Tzu...

Thanks... now i'm REALLY going to bed.  If i can find my way there... :)

A) for the same reason you apologize to your sibling when your parents demanded it of you....because it's the way we get what we want, and if you believe your cause is worthy, we sometimes sacrifice our pride for our cause. B) Good point, other than the people who voted for him don't see it...

Well, the music is over.  This Fascist father censor has to go to bed.  My apologies to any i offended.  My thanks to those who discussed with me a topic i know is volatile...it's always hard to open yourself to critics when you know that it's so easy to criticize from behind a keyboard...

I 100% support direct action...  but i feel it should be effective in moving your cause forward, not steeling your opponent against you.

NFL Fans.  Maybe i'm wrong, but i get a sense that most fans want politics out of their football. They have bosses and spouses and kids to give them stress, for 180 minutes on any given Sunday, they want a distraction... entertainment.  The cause needs to find a way to integrate into that, not...

I will admit i have no idea what point you are trying to make...  as an industrial engineer i see the world as data... and is that data showing that we are accomplishing our goals or no?  The data so far would lead me to believe that the protests are galvanizing opposition more than gaining...

Please see earlier comment on "Do you want to 'win' or get what you want?"

As opposed to rhetoric that will galvanize you opponent.  Well played! :loco:

So if someone voted for Trump they are a bigot?  Can't they just not like career politicians?  Or if they voted 3rd party just not like liars?  I honestly think that berie would have won not because he's white, or a male, but because he was the most likable candidate.  Hillary was just so hard...

As i have already said...  you have the attention, so pivot to something else.  If Kap came out tomorrow and said "I'm sorry to any veterans who were offended by my not standing for the anthem.  I need to highlight the injustice Americans are suffering every day, and it wasn't my intent to...

If you think "joe six pack" is "inflicting the injustices" you are going to lose this battle.  Most white people don't care.  They get up for work, get ready for work, go to work, work, drive home from work, and then their day starts with their family. Do you want to make a point, or do you want...

Wanting people to stand for the National Anthem and  "endorsing racism" are worlds apart. See, that in my view is the problem.  People co-opt an action to mean something it is not intended to... and both sides do this fairly frequently(assuming you subscribe to a Dem vs Rep or Liberal vs...