Skybox wrote:MAGICian619 wrote:Skybox wrote:Imagine getting less votes than an orange man in an orange jumpsuit
What have we come to? Really stupid move organizationally...my own politics aside, dumb business move. GM can't be happy about that "optic" being attached to his recruiting efforts.
As Xatticus expounded above, corporate donation loopholes big enough to drive a battleship through are one of the truly despicable problems with our (USA) system.
...wait, Xatticus?
Do you applaud that mass donations to Democrats from the NBA and their constant pushing of organizations' that if donated to your money goes to nothing but getting Democrats elected?
No one ever seems to have an issue with the above. Flip it around and
people like you are ready to jump off a cliff.
First of all, don't say "people like you" because you don't know Jack S**t about me. Secondly, as you can see from the media and NBAPA response- it was a stupid business decision...I'm talking about stirring up things when there's no need to do so. The Devos family probably have dozens of corps (largely based on shell games, but I digress) to run their "contributions" through. Why run such a relatively small amount ($50k) through an organization dependent on a largely liberal African-American population and, generally speaking, progressive stance on things? Winning in the NBA relies, in part, in being able to recruit talent, endear yourself to agents, etc...It's just bad business to make unnecessary, highly visible, potentially divisive moves that could affect your GM's ability to build a better team.
I wouldn't endorse similar contributions in the other direction either - why be potentially divisive? Donate to kids, local initiatives, etc. Politics today is way too explosive...as you can see by the two ass clowns who immediately labeled me after my post.
FYI, I'm a registered Republican, by the way, I just don't support liars, racists, Medicare frauds, Insurance industry lackeys, or pathological hypocrites. I don't think slavery was trade school, I can't recall any positive figures in history that banned books, and I don't think drag shows are a higher priority than, well, just about any of the other hundred things that need work. I'm an old, straight, white male who owns a successful business...I'm just trying not to be a jerk.
Good post.
The thing is, the phony culture war initiatives are just that -- phony. Many republican leaders couldn't care less about drag shows, African-American studies, gay marriage, abortion, etc. It's all part of a strategy that has been decades in the making. Most republican economic policies are bad for blue-collar and lower-income white Americans. This is why blue-collar whites used to always be democrats. Republicans had to figure out how to change that, so what did they do? Started talking about the Bible, gay marriage, abortion, immigration, transsexuals, etc. This distracts blue-collar and lower-income white Americans from things that likely have way more impact on their daily lives, like the fact that the minimum wage hasn't been raised in years, the income gap has grown exponentially since the 1950s, the super wealthy pay less tax proportionally than average Americans, the middle class is vanishing, etc.
Just take the issue of de-regulation. If you are a factory worker, you want regulations in place because they make you safer. If you are a laborer, you want your employer to have to pay you overtime pay when you work more than 40 hours a week. Unions benefit you. Lower-income towns across America are the ones usually impacted most by water and air contamination issues. So theoretically, these people should not vote republican. How to get them to vote against their own self-interest? Tell them you're on their side simply because they are white. Scare them into thinking homosexuals are trying to indoctrinate their children. Show them pictures of migrant caravans coming to take their jobs and kill them. Play on their racism, misogyny and xenophobia. Hold a Bible in the air. I mean is anyone stupid enough to believe republican lawmakers aren't paying for just as many abortions as democrats? It's all a charade.
Most of the Supreme Court Justices who decided Roe v. Wade in 1973 were republican appointees. In other words, it was a majority conservative court and it voted 7-2 in favor of a woman's 14th Amendment right to make her own reproductive decisions. 7-2! Obviously that would never happen today because now republicans use abortion as a litmus test for judicial appointments, knowing it's one of their biggest rallying cries in rural America. It's all a farce. Like the line from the Wizard of Oz -- "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
