Political Meme Thread 21.9.5 Endwalker

So who's the prick who deleted all my posts?

I split the socialism tangent between you and Jenee into its own thread but now I can't find it.

Someone else may have tried to fix it, because the first post wasn't from this thread. It was a MC post that had nothing to do with socialism.

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened to the split. I saw it after I created it, and then it was gone.

Yea, I made a post in it - stating that the first post....

Time to put down the beer and walk away, dude.

Well that's just super. ​

Yeah, it sucks when your voice is marginalised and ignored.

I was silenced by the communist bloc!

Better than being silenced by the New Kids on the Block.

I'm taking this beer with me.

I’d be AOC’s sex slave.

Playing the National anthem is not politics, it’s the National anthem, it belongs to everyone.

Prior to September 11, 2001, most sports didn't open with the national anthem. I think baseball did. But, that's it. The reason it started was a military effort to increase recruitment.

That's why it's political. It's supposed to keep up support for a war that has lasted 20 years.

No. The anthem has been played before sporting events for decades, from high school level to professional.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...layed-mark-cuban-colin-kaepernick/6702871002/

You're right about the military getting extra-involved after 9/11, though.

A good proletariat knows when to hold tongue and when to use tongue, komrade :diancanu:

I've been around for almost half of a century. Every football game, baseball game, basketball game, or automobile race I've ever been a part of or spectated started with the national anthem. When my son was a toddler he thought the last two words to the Star Spangled Banner were "Play ball!"

I am also pretty sure this did not start with 9/11. I do believe it was a bit of a thing for celebrities to sing it before sporting events long before that. I cannot say for sure as I really never watched that much, but that was a thing that entered my radar so I cannot imagine it was not a thing.

They aren't?