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FFBlitzace wrote:jezzerinho wrote:Anyone who supports not just a climate change denier but someone who wants to roll back the little progress that has been made to avoid catastrophe... i guess the truism is correct that voters get who they deserve.
Republican voters can point at the Biden Administration and make the same kind of schoolyard burn. It's meaningless.
Tarheel wrote:Has there been any suggestion as to why the donation came from the Magic and not personally from whichever DeVos family member wanted to donate?
It seems to me to be pretty counterproductive to use a sports vehicle for political donations - you're going to alienate part of your customer base (and, most likely, piss off at least part of your staff who wouldn't want to be associated with whichever politician you've donated to).
It's difficult enough to follow a sports team in any high level league that doesn't have owners with either deplorable politics, dirty money or a penchant for tax evasion, but using the teams to route money to political causes just seems like another step into the sportswashing ether. The NBA (and other leagues) needs to do better to regulate stuff like this, IMO.
pepe1991 wrote:jezzerinho wrote:Anyone who supports not just a climate change denier but someone who wants to roll back the little progress that has been made to avoid catastrophe... i guess the truism is correct that voters get who they deserve.
Let's not pretend global warming isn't politically driven and isn't fed -to-masses to oblivion by mega companies who saw great way to force you into buying new stuff by guilt tripping you.
If you are older than 35, you grew up listening about Boogeyman called Ozon layer and how it's so awful over Antartica, and how it will literally kill us and how it will take 50-150 years of molecules of chlorofluorocarbons to be destroyed.
Than you were guilt tripped into buying new fridge to save the planet but they also forgot to tell you that in atmosphere 1,1 millions of tons are relled by CFC product. Sounds a lot , i know.
However, same people who are "Earth protectors" also forget to tell masses that Evaporation relises 300 000 000 of tons of same clorin naturally, and vulcanic activities relise 36 000 000 . Ooops... It seems like...your new fridge didn't save a planet, but for damn sure it helped company sell you new bullshi*
And after all this nobody ever today talks about Ozone layers. I guess those new fridges once again saved the planet
Now it's time to repeat same with cars. And nobody will tell you ( oops...) that 77% of total global GHG emission isn't done by cars but..drumroll... Industries and agriculture . Now we can be sain persons and ask ourselfs simple question:
What was last time we saw on tv or youtube or anywhere "Green " commercial that goes at companies and food factories and blames them for polluting us ?
But Pepe, you crazy basterd, 16% of GHG emmision is done by transport you say? Yes. But here's dirty little secret: one cruise ship pollutes more than cars of some 5 million people -together.
But that's not all, all the s** you take on your cruise ends up where? Well....you can only imagine where will massive boat dump his s***.
So whole tihng is way more political than you want to admit. Nobody is questioning global warming nor should, nobody is questioning global pollution nor it should, but answer that you get once you start to get to a bottom of it will probably not be one you hoped that will be sold with you buying new Tesla . Mostly because your Tesla needs electricity, and your country can't provide enough without nuclear energy, coals or oil. So you are "all green and good " but you are actually being played as a fool. Congratulations! Buy new fridge, help ozon!
davey_wavy wrote:The check written to DeSantis was on May 19th before he announced his run for president. This has been confirmed by the Magic
Everyone can quit crying now
eyriq wrote:I can't say this is how I want them spending their money.
Fortune Teller wrote:A statement from the NBA Players' Association:
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This is an embarrassment for this organization and, unfortunately, this city. Anyone who tries to spin it any other way is simply willing to turn a blind eye due to their own political preferences.
G-Heel wrote:Politics aside, it's stupid to use the team name to donate to a politician. You just alienate the other side with the move. And then you should know most players lean Blue, so you potentially give them a reason not to come here. This move just doesn't make sense to me, but I'm not a billionaire, so what do I know.
Even though I don't agree with the move, I don't think it's enough to make me stop supporting the team, because I root for the players and the city, and who the team represents, which are the fans imo, not their dumb owners.
OrlMagic05 wrote:G-Heel wrote:Politics aside, it's stupid to use the team name to donate to a politician. You just alienate the other side with the move. And then you should know most players lean Blue, so you potentially give them a reason not to come here. This move just doesn't make sense to me, but I'm not a billionaire, so what do I know.
Even though I don't agree with the move, I don't think it's enough to make me stop supporting the team, because I root for the players and the city, and who the team represents, which are the fans imo, not their dumb owners.
Agree 100%! However, my concern with this is the players. Not a smart move by a team like the Magic who have had a hard time keeping their stars. I have to believe this makes someone like Paolo uncomfortable given his public stance he has made in the past about certain political points. Yes, lets go ahead and piss off our star rookie right off the bat.. Not that smart.
MartinsIzAfraud wrote:Donation was given way before the whole presidential candidacy was announced. However like many have said just use the owners name.
Fortune Teller wrote:The line in the NBPA statement "using money earned through the labor of its employees" is damning. Those words were carefully selected.
The last line is also telling: "The Magic's donation does not represent player support for the recipient." I don't think they word the statement that way without talking to the Magic players. Otherwise they would have said "does not necessarily represent player support."
