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The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:51 am
Black Nikes Matter got buddy canned.
Our ancestors will be laughing at us hundreds of years from now
Unless the cultural revolution lasts one thousand years.
Totalitarian systems, once set up are damned hard to dismantle.
Right. Nazi Germany lasted 12 years. Fascist Spain 40. The Soviet Union 73 (albeit having a bit of a dead cat bounce right now) and the Chinese are in their 72nd. I mean, some of them are almost as robust as democracies....
Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:46 am
Did you guys hear about the soccer player who was fired from the LA Galaxy because his wife made a couple of counterrevolutionary remarks on social media. They're purging family members for blood crimes now. duh oh.
Aleksandar Katai cut by LA Galaxy over wife's 'racist and violent' Instagram posts
Serbian released by Galaxy after wife’s racist Instagram posts
Tea Katai mocked protests related to killing of George Floyd
Aleksandar Katai has been released by the LA Galaxy after a series of alarming social media posts by his wife, Tea.
The Galaxy announced their decision to “mutually part ways” with their new Serbian winger Friday in a one-sentence news release.
Tea Katai made the posts on her Instagram story earlier this week, and the Galaxy angrily condemned them as “racist and violent” on Wednesday.
The Instagram posts made by Tea Katai on Tuesday, which have since been deleted, mocked protests related to the killing of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. One image showed a police SUV attempting to drive through protesters in New York. A caption in Serbian read, “Kill the shits!” while a second showed a picture of an individual carrying boxes of Nikes with the caption “Black Nikes Matter”.
The Galaxy met with Aleksandar Katai on Thursday. He disavowed his wife’s posts late Wednesday night, saying the “views are not ones that I share and are not tolerated in my family”. Katai signed with the Galaxy as a free agent on 31 December.
Galaxy fans immediately reacted with wide online calls for his dismissal. On Thursday, a handful of fans gathered by the David Beckham statue outside the club’s stadium holding a banner reading “No Racists in Our Club” along with a circle and a red line through No 7, Katai’s uniform number.
The 29-year-old Katai had been participating in voluntary individual workouts this week with his Galaxy teammates at their training complex in Carson. On Thursday, he posted a message on Instagram calling the posts “a mistake from my family” and saying he took full responsibility, apologizing “for the pain these posts have caused the LA Galaxy family and all allies in the fight against racism”.
Although he had played in only two games with his new club before the coronavirus pandemic postponed the MLS season, Katai was expected to be an important part of the Galaxy’s attack this season alongside Javier “Chicharito” Hernández and Cristian Pavón.
Katai joined MLS with the Chicago Fire in 2018 after a career in Europe, including time with Serbian powerhouse Red Star Belgrade. He had 18 goals in his first two seasons with the Fire, who acquired him from Alavés in Spain’s La Liga.
There's a David Beckham statue outside the LA Galaxy stadium? Seriously? I mean, he was effectively retired when he went to play there.
Mëds wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 2:47 pm
Apparently she's the victim of a subjective history lesson as the unofficial account mentions significant (yet non-specific and unverified) numbers of both black and white deaths in the Rosewood Massacre. The town was wiped out by whites from a neighboring town who didn't give two shits if the people they were after were black or white, they were just out for revenge because a white woman was assaulted by a black man in the next town over.
Tulsa was the result of a riot gone wrong over another assault by a black male on a white female. The situation was nearly diffused when one side (no one knows which) fired a shot. At the end there were 10 dead white people and 2 dead black people.....and then shit hit the fan. White people went on a rampage. But it was hardly started by someone that was simply out to take away wealth from blacks.
Bottom line. Hate is hate. The only way to stop hate and revenge is with love and forgiveness.
Nobody can change the past, but dwelling on it only means that the past remains in the present.
Thanks for this post Mëds. The only thing that I have to add is that "love and forgiveness" has to be preceded by reconciliation. But I don't think we're even at that stage yet because too many people don't even acknowledge that there's a problem.
Fuck man...took a 6 month job building a grain terminal in somewhere called High Level Alberta. Talk about the middle of fuckin nowhere. 800km north of edmonton...
The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:56 am
Fuck man...took a 6 month job building a grain terminal in somewhere called High Level Alberta. Talk about the middle of fuckin nowhere. 800km north of edmonton...
The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:56 am
Fuck man...took a 6 month job building a grain terminal in somewhere called High Level Alberta. Talk about the middle of fuckin nowhere. 800km north of edmonton...
Anyone ever been there? Topper?
Topper is an expert on middle of nowhere places
I know lol. Him and I seem to have been down every rat track in western canada
The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:56 am
Fuck man...took a 6 month job building a grain terminal in somewhere called High Level Alberta. Talk about the middle of fuckin nowhere. 800km north of edmonton...
Anyone ever been there? Topper?
Topper is an expert on middle of nowhere places
I know lol. Him and I seem to have been down every rat track in western canada
Being raised in the city and having never left the city, out in the middle of nowhere places creep me out. I need mayhem, it’s like a distraction.
Im the polar opposite. If i need to enter a big city i plan my access and egress routes with google maps. I then stay in the middle lanes stressing til i can gtf outta there
