International Fascists buy sneakers too

[nhbbear]

And fuck these guys with sneakers and the people who buy them. They are made in sweat shops by children for a few cents a day and these pricks want to talk about social justice.

 

[tonni]

It’s like he is a centaur with the lower half being a tank

He can shoot, drive through brick walls, shoot hoops

 

[nhbbear]

He can shoot, drive through brick walls, shoot hoops

how does he piss or fuck?

 

[tonni]

how does he piss or fuck?

The tank barrel is like a cock extender

 

[MicroBrew]

And fuck these guys with sneakers and the people who buy them. They are made in sweat shops by children for a few cents a day and these pricks want to talk about social justice.

The big fish are the folks who own the brands, so that would be the owners , CEOs, shareholders of Nike, Adidas and others. Guys like LeBron and Cena are small to mid level fish.

 

[ultramanhyata]

The fascists were communists as were the nazis who were also far left liberals.

Exactly. And don't forget anarchists like antifa are also fascists.

 

[nhbbear]

The big fish are the folks who own the brands, so that would be the owners , CEOs, shareholders of Nike, Adidas and others. Guys like LeBron and Cena are small to mid level fish.

Still, in James case, he tweets about social justice while his shoes are made in sweatshops

 

[nhbbear]

Exactly. And don't forget anarchists like antifa are also fascists.

they’re twatwaffles that use weapons
Of fascism to silence anyone they disagree with

 

[ultramanhyata]

But it would be nice to see American companies to tell China to eat a dick if they don't like something. It isn't lost on me that they use our capitalism as a weapon against us.

At least we're not (yet) at a point with human rights-violating China where our own congress is passing laws to expressly forbid support for boycotts of the Chinese government. As is the case with Israel.

 

[ultramanhyata]

they’re twatwaffles that use weapons
Of fascism to silence anyone they disagree with

"Weapons of fascism".

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[nhbbear]

"Weapons of fascism".

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And your issue with that?

 

[Gutter Chris]

At least we're not (yet) at a point with human rights-violating China where our own congress is passing laws to expressly forbid support for boycotts of the Chinese government. As is the case with Israel.

We're probably closer to it than we are far

 

[MicroBrew]

Still, in James case, he tweets about social justice while his shoes are made in sweatshops

A lot of the criticism of James is from the right and it is purely because he is a Black guy supporting BLM. MJ and Tiger and others don't receive such flak because they aren't out there supporting BLM. So the criticism of James has little to do with the right actually being concerned about China's human rights situation and all to do with attacking anyone who supports BLM.

 

[n...not crazy]

You guys will cry about anything right?

Just don't buy the sneakers they are promoting.

Been doing that for 30 years. It's not working.

 

[rob mafia]

The big fish are the folks who own the brands, so that would be the owners , CEOs, shareholders of Nike, Adidas and others. Guys like LeBron and Cena are small to mid level fish.

sweet, i just bought a share of nike. with that $132 i spent, i'm now a bigger fish than multigazillionaires like lebron and cena.



i think my yacht's being delivered tomorrow. i'm gonna put rims on it and sail it in a lake of champagne.

 

[nhbbear]

A lot of the criticism of James is from the right and it is purely because he is a Black guy supporting BLM. MJ and Tiger and others don't receive such flak because they aren't out there supporting BLM. So the criticism of James has little to do with the right actually being concerned about China's human rights situation and all to do with attacking anyone who supports BLM.

MJ and Tiger don’t put themselves out there tweeting about being hunted by police and posting “you’re next” with an officer’s picture after he stopped a murder. And I have always criticized nike sweatshops and the sneaker fixation where people kill over a pair of damn shoes and people wait up to 24 hrs in line to get the damn things

 

[rob mafia]

A lot of the criticism of James is from the right and it is purely because he is a Black guy supporting BLM. MJ and Tiger and others don't receive such flak because they aren't out there supporting BLM. So the criticism of James has little to do with the right actually being concerned about China's human rights situation and all to do with attacking anyone who supports BLM.

...imagine actually believing this. so all the cena criticism?

 

[Yehudim]

It's remarkable how American conservatives can just invent new realities and keep repeating them to each other over and over until they are true.

LBJ has never expressed support of the Chinese government, and he probably doesn't have much knowledge of the Chinese government, although probably more than the average conservative. Yet his grave sin was....failing to criticize the Chinese government to conservatives' liking, which they packaged as a hypocrisy relating to his domestic (American) activism

And, as for the situation in Hong Kong itself, James still didn't have much to say at all: "I felt like with this particular situation, it was something that not only was I not informed enough about, I just felt like it was something that not only myself and my teammates or our organization had enough information to even talk about it at that point in time, and we still feel the same way."

...

Still, for years, James has taken up the mantle of progressive issues, and so, yes, for many it was disappointing to see him tread so cautiously on what seems, from here, to be such a clear-cut matter of right and wrong.

But targeting James and accusing him, personally, of suborning a communist dictatorship for his inartful comments is misplaced at best — an attempt to score cheap culture war points while letting the NBA itself off the hook, according to Dr. Harry Edwards, a renowned social justice activist and professor of sociology who has served as an adviser to Colin Kaepernick, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos and Tommie Smith.

The very same people trying to dunk on him now have often had little interest in hearing about social justice causes in America — particularly when James was involved — but, suddenly, they weirdly feel like his voice is not only valued, but also required. What’s more, they seem to feel that his unwillingness to speak about the Hong Kong protesters voids all of his prior advocacy efforts, the school he built in Akron, the spotlight he’s brought on police brutality and state-sanctioned violence and his lobbying for greater gun control, according to those critics. Edwards isn’t having it: “That’s not just disingenuous, it's degenerate,” he said.
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Basically, the entire narrative is just a way for right wing puds to leverage anti-Chinese sentiment toward dismissing James' activism for black issues. To the extent that they care about Hong Kong or Taiwan, it's almost exclusively so they can say "see, you don't really care black lives - you're just a puppet!"

And it's not like American conservatives themselves really care about democracy and due process and free speech: for all of American history, they've been attacking those things while liberals try to protect them.

With that said, Go Suns @Anung Un Rama @Jesus H. Sherdog

1) Hong Kong is not Israel/Palestine with a lot of nuance. It is simply authoritarianism taking over a democracy
2) Yes, you’re correct, he is criticized for his failure to criticize China, since apparently he has become a social critic. China is a regime that is committing genocide and he has nothing to say
3) He’s an anti-vaxxer

In short: he sucks. He’s just some rich guy who speaks his mind when it’s safe. His words mean nothing.

 

[MicroBrew]

MJ and Tiger don’t put themselves out there tweeting about being hunted by police and posting “you’re next” with an officer’s picture after he stopped a murder. And I have always criticized nike sweatshops and the sneaker fixation where people kill over a pair of damn shoes and people wait up to 24 hrs in line to get the damn things

LeBron has his fair share of wrongs, but supporting BLM isn't one of them, except for the people who hate BLM. He deservers some of the shit he gets, but some of the shit he gets is simply because he supports BLM. MJ and Tiger both profit from so called sweatshops, and soo do many other atheletes, but they don't get shit on because they don't support BLM. The point is that when the rightwing criticizes LeBron for kow towing to the CCP, it isn't because the rightwing actually cares about human rights in China, it is because LeBron supports BLM. Ivanka Trump has stuff made in China. Jared Kushner's family tried to sell US green cards to wealthy Chinese.

As an American he is going to be concerned with American social issues, and is either ignorant of or not concerned of international issues. This is typical for most Americans.

 

[MicroBrew]

...imagine actually believing this. so all the cena criticism?

He is a Black guy supporting BLM, that is why the rightwing is always mentioning LeBron in regards to CCP news. He isn't criticised for being a Black guy, he is criticized for being a Black guy who supports BLM.

MJ and Tiger and many other atheletes also advertise products or have branded products made in China, but neither gets criticzed like LeBron. Ivanka Trump has products made in China, and Jared's family tried to sell US green cards to wealthy Chinese. Cena got criticized because as far as celebs or atheletes kow towing to CCP goes, Cena's video stands out for being very pathetic.