Thank you.

Yes, exactly. I mean, we can’t FORCE Marshawn to feel like the political system will work for him. Bill Maher was being a patronizing asshole. Marshawn is doing good the way he sees fit to do good. But no, let's lecture him on the virtues of participating in a shoddy political system instead of focusing on all the…

This, again, was not my point there. My point there pertained to shoddy journalism and the way the situation was presented completely out of context to skew the perceptions of readers into finding the situation more racist than it actually was. But heaven forbid people actually use their brains and try to understand a…

Again, don’t be confused as to thinking that I don’t think voting matters. This article simply said that they were being patronizing to Marshawn and I happen to agree with that. A man doing as much as good as Marshawn is doing should not be read the riot act about casting his one ballot. Certain people believe that…

Don’t think that I’m saying voting doesn’t have importance. The point of this article is that they were being patronizing to Marshawn, and they were. A single individual, especially one who is as involved locally as Marshawn, does not need to be read the riot act about casting his one ballot. He is doing far more good…

You may not have said the words “voting is a magical solution”, but that is pretty much the sum total of everything you have been saying.

Yeah, if only one more person had voted for Hillary. We would be golden then. Marshawn’s neighborhood in Oakland would be all fixed up and better if only he had voted for Hillary.

The problem is that you have called Marshawn’s position stupid. I have yet to see you make one salient point about how local things change best through votes cast. Both people were right, voting matters and community involvement matters. The point of this article was that Maher was being patronizing. All you have…

Plus, keep in mind that even if we had President Al Gore and President Hillary Clinton and a Supreme Court to match it’s not like Marshawn Lynch’s Oakland neighborhood would have seen any specific improvements because of that.

Let me put it this way, your neighborhood park is full of broken concrete and equipment that hasn’t been changed since the 1970s. Here are your options:

You think eating cat shit is a legitimate choice?

I think you’re discounting Marshawn’s opinion as stupid unfairly and too quickly. His one vote, ultimately, wasn’t ever going to make a real difference in his neighborhood. He wanted to see REAL, active change in his neighborhood. Community involvement really is worth several magnitudes more than voting alone. Even if…

They are not mutually exclusive, but your response chastising him for not casting his single ballot and defending the other patronizing assholes is pretty stupid. When he is doing something worth 10,000 votes, how stupid is it that you are defending those criticizing him for not casting 1 single ballot? He has every…

Democrat or Republican doesn’t matter when we are looking at poverty. Poverty is poverty. The politicians, regardless of their party, generally don’t do squat at a community level. Marshawn Lynch is doing great things and his actions are worth thousands and thousands of votes. There is nothing right or left about…

What about his point about how nothing changes in his neighborhood unless he gets involved at the community level so THAT is how he prefers to be politically active? What on earth is wrong with that? There are too many people out there who think the casting their ballot makes them more important or involved…

Like, congratulations, you make me sick. This one is actually worse than the one that said it hoped I got cancer and my dog got hit by a car on the same day. Achtung Juden? We are clearly having a great political discourse here. You realize that people disagree with Anthem protests and they have a right to express…

The responses to all of this have made me sick and yours is one of the worst. Achtung Juden? Really? Nowadays, when you say it’s bad journalism to leave out critical details from a headline to present it in a skewed context, you are a “Trump humping Nazi racist fuck”. There was a case where a team in West Virginia put…

No, the Anthem protest is a political action, meaning it has a political point of view. The American flag is not the opposite symbol of that point of view. A Trump sign is the OPPOSITE symbol of that point of view. Being the OPPOSING crowd, it makes sense (outside of a racial context) why they would bring the Trump…

By the way shit-for-brains, you realize that something can be considered “buried” when it is absent from the headline of an article, correct? How do you think I found out about the anthem protest if not by reading the article? Perhaps that was my very point? That the detail of the anthem protest was absent from the…

This is incredibly dangerous thinking! So there is no such thing as a misguided individual? Like, oh I don’t know, high school kids? They themselves, in their hearts, are all a bunch of racists because they support a racist. They they didn’t bring that Trump sign to counter an Anthem protest, they did it because they…