kickingandscreaming
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... didn't use "pathetic" at least once.
USWNT Olympic roster announced
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GoldenGate
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Yes, I created my account long before EOTL knowing he/I would eventually get kicked out. Or no, I posted a few times years ago before realizing this place was full of mostly hateful and ignorant posters, but stupidly got involved again after recently stumbling upon offensive comments about the WNT.
Desert Hound
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I assume that realization came about when you were looking in the mirror?
kickingandscreaming
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"mostly hateful and ignorant posters" - Well, he has that misanthropic streak like EOTL. Let's see if he goes down the road of "bending the board to his will" and checks off the "delusions of gradeur" box.
It is uncanny. You express yourself just like EOTL. Well, prior to being known as EOTL, they, them, it went by End Of The Line for a year or so.
So people ask how protesting could distract or divide the team... this is how.
Rapinoe bullys team into protesting
Rapinoe bullys team into protesting
outside!
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Hope was a great goal keeper, but it is hard to imagine her being bullied. She is also has a reputation for saying stuff that is not entirely believable. I am not saying she is lying, but she is not exactly the best source for facts.
Interesting claim. A friend who is an exec for a sports network said the same a few weeks ago.
The article content does not match the headline.
While I don't doubt that Rapinoe sowed division, I would like to hear that claim from someone more credible (or a better grasp on reality) than Hope Solo.
True. She did go off the deep end a bit. You will see about 20 different versions of this story if you google "rapinoe bully".. amazing how diverse the press is.
In defense of Hope I watched her presentation when she ran for US Soccer president and I was actually impressed, but it could have been that my expectations were really low.
Some of those "Rapinoe bully" articles were more click bait than substance.
The "bully people into BLM protest" theory has legs because so many of us witness similar behavior from the left in other contexts.
What is more likely? That twenty athletes with 20 different sets of opinions all decided that they wanted to protest the same thing? Or that a few athletes with strong opinions badgered the others into joining the protest?
Given what I remember of campus leftists, the "badger your coworkers" theory makes the most sense.
What is more likely? That twenty athletes with 20 different sets of opinions all decided that they wanted to protest the same thing? Or that a few athletes with strong opinions badgered the others into joining the protest?
Given what I remember of campus leftists, the "badger your coworkers" theory makes the most sense.
Comply or be labeled a racist, homophobe, misogynist, Nazi, Trump supporter, etc. See GoldenGate for exhibit A.
GoldenGate
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Impressive how Rapinoe bullied the Premier League, most Olympic teams, and pretty much every western professional soccer team in the world into kneeling before games. And also bullied 56% of Americans who believe it's appropriate for athletes to kneel during the anthem. We should ignore, however, that Hope Solo was not even around then, has no idea what she's talking about and, to the extent she claims she saw Rapinoe "almost" bully players, she is lying. She left the WNT before kneeling ever even happened. https://www.newsweek.com/hope-solo-left-uswnt-before-megan-rapinoe-starting-kneeling-soccer-1619990.
It is crazy anyone could sincerely believe that Rapinoe is the one doing any bullying when it comes to kneeling, when the only actual bullying comes from those who have subjected Rapinoe and others to daily death threats for years, and have repeatedly assaulted and threatened people who kneel or support one's decision to do so. What kind of warped mind can honestly believe that a strong lesbian asking teammates whether they will consider joining her in kneeling is a bully, especially when they're demanding that Rapinoe lose her job for exercising her First Amendment rights and are staying staying silent about the death threats and personal attacks that she endures? The answer is obvious.
Wow right on queue. If you speak her name three times in a mirror does antifa show up?
Hope Solo was kicked off the National team before Rapinoe started kneeling, and Solo was charged with domestic violence. She has zero credibility, Sounds like she was just seeking attention. She says that Rapinoe 'almost bullied' her teammates. WTF. So even she is saying that Rapinoe didn't do it. 
MSK357
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Were you there? You know for a fact Hope is lying, or are you assuming everyone thinks the same and nobody was pressured?
Desert Hound
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The intolerance usually comes from people like you.
The left claims to like diversity, etc. And in a sense they do. They like different colored people...as long as they all think the same. You fit that mold perfectly.
One of the most intolerant places I visit is in the area of the Golden Gate Bridge. The uniformity of thought is a sight to behold.
MacDre
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Why do you think the cost of living in the Bay Area is so high?
Why do you think the cost of living in Arizona is so low?
HINT: Has something to do with supply/demand and the education level of the population.
A dedication to you Hound:
Desert Hound
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It certainly has to do with supply and demand. You are constricted by the coast and so cannot expand that direction.
Then you have onerous zoning regulations, housing codes, etc that drive up the cost of new housing, etc. etc.
It is geography and bureaucracy (bad policy) that make housing in the bay area and many other regions of CA overly expensive.