Megan Rapinoe & The US Soccer Team

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ClearwaterVol said:
Come on, you mental midget, read your post again.
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The old don't agree with me you are stupid argument. Thats all you've got? The majority of that team would not use their interview time to make any kind of protest. While anyone would like more pay, they would not use their time to protest what they are being paid and, I am guessing, most feel lucky just to make the team and represent their country.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Because the Washington monument was built by slaves? Jefferson and Washington are genuine heroes of history, IMO. Teddy and Abe are both admirable and very controversial. I might go with the capitol building over the WH.
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Just not a fan of obelisks. And at least when I was there you cant go up, so once I had seen one side it was all the same. No problem with it being dedicated to Washington. Best president we ever had because he didnt want the job.

Mt Rushmore doesnt make sense on any level but who they suggested. Where, why, how its laid out. No tie to any of them or anything at all except another reason to piss on the natives.
 
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I see the problem as a lack of respect for anything from the under 40 year old crowd. This is what happens when children are raised in a broken home, or by absentee parents, or in a single parent household (where the parent has to work). Also, they have been educated by a broken public education system. We shouldn't be surprised when children raised by Beavis and Butthead on television, act like Beavis and Butthead. We have several here on the forum.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I see the problem as a lack of respect for anything from the under 40 year old crowd. This is what happens when children are raised in a broken home, or by absentee parents, or in a single parent household (where the parent has to work). Also, they have been educated by a broken public education system. We shouldn't be surprised when children raised by Beavis and Butthead on television, act like Beavis and Butthead. We have several here on the forum.
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Yeah, I don't fit the bill for anything you described in the first half and I still don't find myself dumb enough to respect entities, buildings, and pieces of cloth for little more than arbitrary symbolism.

It's like case no. 62467 of you talking out of your liverspotted posterior.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
You might want to research your numbers. US Soccer Federation has a yearly revenue of around 100M. About half from sponsorships and television rights. The women have far higher ratings and the women's home jersey is the number 1 selling soccer jersey for NIKE and holds the record for the most sold in a year. The women's team has earned about 2 million more than the men for game fees in the last 3 years.

The big disparity is money earned from the world cup and I don't dispute that the revenue from that is economically driven. However, excluding world cup bonuses, the woman have earned the right to be paid more than the men.
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You cant exclude the championship tournament from the sport. The women also play more games for the ticket sale argument. I think the average per game favors the men. But I didnt look to hard at those numbers.
 
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Report: NYPD Investigating Vandalism Of Megan Rapinoe Posters As HATE Crime

"Hate has no place in the transit system..."

Megan Rapinoe and the rest of the World Cup-winning U.S. Women's Soccer team were honored in New York City Wednesday in a ticker tape parade culminating in a ceremony in front of City Hall. A couple of days before the big celebration, the New York Police Department's Hate Crime Task Force started a hate crime investigation related to posters featuring Rapinoe, who is openly gay and emphatically anti-Trump.


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"The New York Police Department's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating after posters of USA soccer star Megan Rapinoe were vandalized in a subway station," CNN reported Wednesday. "Eight posters featuring Rapinoe in her US Women's National Team jersey included homophobic and defamatory slurs along with the phrase 'screw this h--,' the NYPD told CNN."

Report: NYPD Investigating Vandalism Of Megan Rapinoe Posters As Hate Crime
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
Yeah, I don't fit the bill for anything you described in the first half and I still don't find myself dumb enough to respect entities, buildings, and pieces of cloth for little more than arbitrary symbolism.

It's like case no. 62467 of you talking out of your liverspotted posterior.
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LOL! WTF is a liverspotted posterior?
 
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LouderVol said:
You cant exclude the championship tournament from the sport. The women also play more games for the ticket sale argument. I think the average per game favors the men. But I didnt look to hard at those numbers.
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I wasn't excluding the world cup. I said that the WC bonuses will skew toward the men as long as the economics demand it, but the men didn't even sniff the tourney.
 
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LouderVol said:
You cant exclude the championship tournament from the sport. The women also play more games for the ticket sale argument. I think the average per game favors the men. But I didnt look to hard at those numbers.
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How much world cup money is the us men's team expected to bring in at the next event?
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
Yeah, I don't fit the bill for anything you described in the first half and I still don't find myself dumb enough to respect entities, buildings, and pieces of cloth for little more than arbitrary symbolism.

It's like case no. 62467 of you talking out of your liverspotted posterior.
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What do you respect?
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
I cannot ever recall any leader acting like trump. Left or right
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You forgot Obama already? He just wasn't "savvy" enough to twit; and as proven without a teleprompter, he certainly wasn't up to off the cuff remarks. But he did have beer summits to cover his "moments". Just in case you think I'm praising Trump, somebody really should take both his phone and the mic away ... for someone in the limelight, his speech (but not all he has to say) is pathetic.

Of course, given his history, the thought that Biden could be presidential and lucid is something only a Dim could imagine. Trump plays fast and loose with fact when shooting from the hip (like most marketing types); Biden and most of his current contenders are just truly clueless.
 
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LouderVol said:
Just not a fan of obelisks. And at least when I was there you cant go up, so once I had seen one side it was all the same. No problem with it being dedicated to Washington. Best president we ever had because he didnt want the job.

Mt Rushmore doesnt make sense on any level but who they suggested. Where, why, how its laid out. No tie to any of them or anything at all except another reason to piss on the natives.
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This insight into your disdain for particularly shaped monuments, intrigues me. How do you feel about 5 sided buildings?
 
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1972 Grad said:
Do you respect the institution of marriage in society? You seem to have commitment problems.
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Inviting the government into my life voluntarily? What do you think?

I don't have commitment issues. I just refuse to settle for anything short of my own standards.
 
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