[jlisenbe]

Can't help but notice that they seem perfectly happy to have ML teams in those states including, of course, Atlanta.

[talaniman]

The MLB pushback on voter suppression laws are but ONE corporation, as many more have joined the fray.

A Full List of Companies That Have Advocated Against Georgia's New Voting Law (newsweek.com)

It's ON!

[tomder55]

Corporate wokefare .

[tomder55]

The woke corporatists crowd of course will of course say nothing about their business dealings with China ;a nation that uses slave labor . Apple ,Coca Cola ,the NBA and their hypocrite players stay mum . As an example ,last year a Congressional Executive Commission on human rights abuses listed Coca Cola as a major American company with ties to forced labor camps in the Chinese province of Xinjiang .The report went on to specifically name Coke's s Tunhe sugar facility in Xinjiang as having direct ties to forced labor. Now Coke has lobbied Congress against legislation targeting companies who engaged with China’s forced labor policies.
But the CEO James Quincy has been very vocal against Georgia's common sense election reforms .
Coca-Cola CEO wants Congress to act after Georgia's voting law - CNN

There are many more examples of this woke hypocrisy .

[jlisenbe]

It just keeps getting weirder.

"A Portland high school has postponed changing its mascot to an evergreen tree after a committee member raised concerns about its possible connotations to lynching."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-...es-to-lynching

[tomder55]

I think it is weird having a tree as a mascot . Then I remembered Stanford has a tree , Must be a west coast thingy.

MLB I would call for a boycott from watching the game . But for years nobody has watched the game. The Home Run Derby the day before the game has better ratings

[jlisenbe]

There aren’t many team names left. The Peaceful Amoeba??

[tomder55]

My fantasy team is the gnats

My other team is the punishers

[jlisenbe]

What happens when the Gnats play the Mosquitoes?

[talaniman]

The woke corporatists crowd of course will of course say nothing about their business dealings with China ;a nation that uses slave labor . Apple ,Coca Cola ,the NBA and their hypocrite players stay mum . As an example ,last year a Congressional Executive Commission on human rights abuses listed Coca Cola as a major American company with ties to forced labor camps in the Chinese province of Xinjiang .The report went on to specifically name Coke's s Tunhe sugar facility in Xinjiang as having direct ties to forced labor. Now Coke has lobbied Congress against legislation targeting companies who engaged with China’s forced labor policies.
But the CEO James Quincy has been very vocal against Georgia's common sense election reforms .
Coca-Cola CEO wants Congress to act after Georgia's voting law - CNN

There are many more examples of this woke hypocrisy .

Big Biz kowtowing to China is nothing new, they've done it before with dictators and corrupt regimes around the world throughout history. It's the capitalist way be it cheap labor or outright slavery. Miscro Soft, Walmart, Nike, you name it. A buck is a buck.

They were in lockstep with voting suppression until the court of public opinion called them on it so game on.

[tomder55]

you think the woke thugs are the court of public opinion ? thanks for the laugh of the day . This is a desperate ploy by MLB to save it's bacon . It is desperately trying to get a young audience. Well maybe geezers like me will remanence about days gone by when the All Star game was interesting . But we will not transfer that enthusiasm for the game to our grandkids , You notice how the NBA was just a little less enthusiastic about all that social justice stuff this season ? That was because they lost audience due to wokeness . Same has happened to NFL . We shall see where the 'court of public opinion 'really sees woke and cancel culture .

[paraclete]

why don't you just wake up and cancel the culture of gladiatorial games

[jlisenbe]

why don't you just wake up and cancel the culture of gladiatorial games

I'm all for it. It would be great if the NFL, NBA, and MLB went out of business. I watch none of it and couldn't care less.

You notice how the NBA was just a little less enthusiastic about all that social justice stuff this season ? That was because they lost audience due to wokeness . Same has happened to NFL . We shall see where the 'court of public opinion 'really sees woke and cancel culture .

Absolutely correct. It's going to be interesting.

[tomder55]

If MLB really believed Georgians are now living under “Jim Crow " why are they only canceling 1 of the 82 MLB games scheduled to be played in Georgia ?

[jlisenbe]

As you said, this has nothing to do with logic. It's all about some perceived public posture. Only an idiot would think that Georgia's law was anything even remotely connected with Jim Crow laws.

[Athos]

I'm all for it. It would be great if the NFL, NBA, and MLB went out of business. I watch none of it and couldn't care less.

For a guy who posts about his concern for his fellow man, it's sure a surprise to learn that you "couldn't care less" about the millions affected by the loss of the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Your "shoot yourself in the foot quality" rises again.

[paraclete]

For a guy who posts about his concern for his fellow man, it's sure a surprise to learn that you "couldn't care less" about the millions affected by the loss of the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Your "shoot yourself in the foot quality" rises again.

these things are non events, bread and circuses for the masses, what would you do without them, find something else to do

[Athos]

these things are non events, bread and circuses for the masses, what would you do without them, find something else to do

The comment was about the economic effect of losing all those entertainment venues. You're pretty casual about throwing millions of people into economic disaster.

[jlisenbe]

You're pretty casual about throwing millions of people into economic disaster.

Drama alert.

[jlisenbe]

Not a fan of rap music, but this guy is popular and is hitting the nail on the head, so there is still hope.

I think it's crazy I'm the one who they labeled as controversial
And Cardi B is the role model for 12-year-old girls
There's rappers pushin' Xanax at the top of the Billboard
But if I mention race in a song, I'm scared I'll get killed for it
It's backwards, it's gettin' exponentially dumb
It's more difficult to get a job than purchase a gun
Eminem used to gay bash and murder his mum
And now he doesn't want fans if they voted for Trump
We're ashamed to be American, you should probably love it
'Cause you have the right to say it and not gеt strung up in public
As children, we werе taught how to walk and talk
But the system wants adults to sit down and shut up
Cancel culture runs the world now, the planet went crazy
Label everything we say as homophobic or racist
If you're white, then you're privileged, guilty by association
All our childhood heroes got Me-Too'd or they're rapists

[Pre-Chorus 1]
They never freed the slaves, they realized that they don't need the chains
They gave us tiny screens, we think we free 'cause we can't see the cage
They knew that race war would be the game they'd need to play
For people to pick teams, they use the media to feed the flame

[Chorus]
They so fake woke, facts don't care 'bout feelin's
They know they won't tell me what to believe in
They so fake woke, same old safe zones
They so fake woke, facts don't care 'bout your feelin's