3-4 comments in and I’ve been convinced that they don’t necessarily need to be motivated by anything but he desire to take some type of public action to address problems they believe exist. Thanks, Kinja.

To create public scrutiny, to do one’s part even when you do not know all the moves before hand, because you think it’s right.

It’s not a hunger strike. None of these guys are in danger if they have to keep doing this for the rest of their careers. They can afford to try things.

It may not seem like much, but protest gain momentum and get traction over time. Whether it’s a bus boycott or sit-in. In time, the issue remains in the faces of those holding the power until things change. There are a few goals/end-games that I see: 1. Solidarity with Kaepernick until he’s signed by a team and given…

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

I don’t know their goals, because I have read their statements on their actions, but often, protests serve to:

To keep you talking about it and eventually, you will hear something or see something that finally strikes a chord and changes how you personally approach these issues. It took the loss of Heather Heyer’s life to do it for her mother. It took listening to their teammates and trying to understand for these white…

He’s the guy in school I beat the shit of for bullying someone else.

Orly Taitz wants him investigated. He’s her new Obama.

I don’t *normally* support violence, but in this case, I think it is perfectly acceptable and possibly the only appropriate response. Trump is a big, bloviating clown, but he seems mostly human. Not a good human, but human-ish. Like he seems to care for his own kids. Cruz strikes me as some kind of skin-walker who has…

yippee - he’s a sociopathic, McCarthy-esque, Ayn Randian racist every second of every day!

*That’s* how you show one’s self to be a candidate of solid character.

And I just gave up my Canadian citizenship two years ago...

Or that his own dad didn’t have to worry about coming into the country illegally because Cubans are automatically granted asylum.

All while saying, “please forget I was born in Canada. Also forget that my very own dad just became a citizen 10 years ago.”

Yes, at least he is consistently a garbage human, lol.

We should welcome people who come following the laws, but there are consequences for breaking the laws, and that is part of what makes America the nation that we are.

“That’s what every other country on Earth does, and there’s no reason that America’s laws should have less respect than the laws of every other country on Earth”

I love it. Some kid gets brought to the country when they’re 5 or something, they grow up, are American in every way but on paper, and Cruz is gonna round them up and toss them back to countries they’ve never visited and don’t know the language...because their parents broke the law.

Jesus, Ted. If they could find a way, most of your party’s voters would deport YOU. Stop trying to pretend it’s about immigration law.

Yeah, he’s a dick for having that position, but that’s his position so at least he owns it. He’s not hedging or dissembling, so on the plus side, it makes it really easy to draw and contrast and say “this is what voting for Ted Cruz would mean.”