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Yea, funny how lefties are always crying Nazi at these things but lets make a comparison between the rhetorical and the literal, shall we?

See there is no law, nor has any Republican introduced a bill for a law, in which someone would be arrested for kneeling during the national anthem.

However, liberals have actually passed laws by which a person can be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated for not calling a person by the pronoun they prefer.

So while we're just exercising our right to commenting on insulting things, insulting things which are in fact the product of rights themselves, leftists are out there saying that a thing which is insulting is not a right.

So tell me, bob, which of these two things strikes you as Nazi-esque?

 

Nah, I voted Trump.

 

Lord have mercy, read a paper once in a while. NFL ratings are tanking. Vin Scully is not the only one who has tuned out.

 

Which one of those organizations trash talks other people who served?

 

That is moronic. The NFL is a top draw, but it has suffered from this protest. Only morons deny this, and it takes a special kind of moron to think that no change in broadcasting means no change in viewing.

You didn't disagree or oppose anything I said, you're just mincing words regarding how I said it. Everything I said was true. Men were drafted and then when the war ended, they were discharged.

Back in the 40's when the war ended, millions of soldiers and sailors were honorably discharged, even without having served that 4-year minimum you have made up out of think air.

 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The NFL needs casual fans for their ratings. True fans are becoming casual fans and casual fans are walking away.

I was a machinist mate in the United States Navy. What does that have to do with anything?

 

Does your military service to America make your patriotism and/or love for America any better than someone who didn't serve?

 

Obviously it doesn't.

That said, why would you take the word of an "internet peep" about being in the service?

Unless they post their legal name and service record, why would you believe them?

In fact, it is a preferred tactic of the internet RW Fever Swamp to make up fake stories of military service to elicit online sympathy.

Yours truly,

The Sultan of Brunei

 

You don't know, do you.

I am making a note to myself not to waste any more of my knowledge and wisdom with you.

 

The NFL will continue to have casual fans. The ratings were going down before this incident.

 

Yes actually it does. He was willing to serve even you and other like you so you and yours can remain free. So yes, that makes his patriotism that much better than those who just flap their gums about caring. Just make sure those of service age in your family register with selective service. I think we're going to need them on the Korean Peninsula soon.

 

It gets a thank you from me for serving and taking care of us. It also tells me that you have knowledge of the military in America.
However, if it is the Trump base who are going to boycott, oh well. It will be short lived, because this group likes violence.
They are the rowdy, obnoxious, drunk beer drinking sloshers who holler, expose their a$$ cracks, physically abuse the other teams supporters, and who think they are at war instead of at a game. Is this the group you are referring to? Oh well.

 

Wonderful post. A tribute to those who have put their lives in jeopardy for us.

 

My father Professor Peabody Sr. served in the Air Force B-17's during WWII, as his two brothers served as well. One is buried in Cambridge American Cemetery in England when his B-24 made it back from Schweinfurt but only my uncles body made it back. The other was on a mine sweeper in the Pacific.

 

Sorry, I don't buy that.

One who served makes that person commendable for doing so but it doesn't make his patriotism or love for America any better or worse.

Are those that served any better (Patriotism and/or love for America wise) than someone who was unable to serve as well?

And do those that served make their opinion(s) about America any better than those that did not serve?

Even when I was of service age, I was ineligible to sign up for Selective Service.

I couldn't have done it if I tried.

One of my friends, who was the same age as me, tried and was denied.

 

If by "wisdom" you mean "total falsehoods" then thank you for no longer wasting my time with them.

 

No it doesn't. I judge patriotism and love of country on a case-by-case basis. That's why I very rarely bring it up unless asked. (I did bring it up last month in a conversation about morale in the Navy, but that was a situation where I was drawing on my experience as opposed to saying it somehow makes me more patriotic.) One of the great things about America is that you don't need to serve to have a voice in - or even to lead - the government.

Furthermore, my service wasn't exactly guts and glory. I am very blessed to say I came of age during a time of peace when the military was downsizing. Bases were closing from coast to coast (not to mention ships being decommissioned left and right). I was one of the last classes to graduate from RTC Orlando. It is very eerie being on a huge base being closed down. My service consisted of training on globe valves, standing watch and mopping up. The closest I got to seeing combat was Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando when it wasn't as nice and clean as it is today. I was one of a great number of shipmates who the Navy really had too many of.

One thing I have noticed is that people who have served don't throw it other peoples' faces as if that gives them moral superiority when discussing politics. Granted, the question I was asked here was "did you serve?" so I suppose I could have responded with a simple "yes" but I don't think mentioning my rating was entirely out of order.

 

Oh I have seen several...many, in fact... that do throw it in another posters face in an attempt to ascertain what they believe is moral superiority on a certain subject(s).

And, in most of those cases that I have seen, those that do that tend to be liberal.

 

I have noticed that too. Conservatives tend to quietly go about their thing. Liberals tend to say "*I* served therefore *I* am right and *YOU* are wrong!"

 

It's the difference between talking about doing something and actually getting off ones can and doing something. To insinuate they are the same is simply ridiculous.

So you didn't even try? I at least tried and was classified as 4F by the Air Force. I was trying to sneak in, a year earlier I had a compression fracture of a vertebrae in my back when I went down a flight of stairs.

 

That's a different subject.

It's a moot point anyway as no one has ever been drafted since the inception of Selective Service in 1980.

 

I'm sure you believe that.

 

Then please explain to me how the relatively small percentage of Americans who served in the military had their love for America and their patriotism for America enhanced by their service in the military and is now more loving and more patriotic than those who didn't or couldn't serve in the military.

 

NFL attendance up....