Holy shit, this is the best comment thread in Deadspin history! This thread is Deadspin HOF worthy.

Yo, serious question: You seem to be butthurt about these protests and you seem to think that all protesters are doing it to diss the American military complex. Do you guys just not hear why they’re protesting on purpose, or because you’re a white dude and you let yourself get hyped up by FoxNews, that’s why you’re…

+2 low-hanging fruit.

Stan Kroenke: hey guys it’s dean I’m over my data limit so hit me up on stans phone

Jimmy Haslam: *continues typing on a calculator thinking he’s sending a text*

If Kaep isn’t a Texan after what happened to Watson....

Glad to see the NFL police are conducting a fair investigation.

Yes, their “personal political cause” of please stop letting police kill black people with no repercussions. Pretty much the same as wanting a fucking McRib.

Come, on guys

Also the right to completely misunderstand what people are protesting, but still be loud, indignant, and ignorant about it. That’s as American as it gets.

That is a horrible analogy. Protesting during the national anthem makes complete sense and you not understanding why leads me to believe you have not taken a second to open up the Constitution. The national anthem and the flag are representations of America. Equal Protection under the law is one of the Constitutional…

Reading is so hard.

[start rant] Nooooo....everything is about MEEEEE. I voluntarily enlisted in the Armed Forces. Now everyone has to suck my dick and pander to me all my life [rant over]

Thanks for this comment, it’s heartening. The full-on military knob-slob mode we’ve been in since 9/11 has a dangerous logical extension . . .

“To the military, they are the flag.”

Oh, cool. They are wrong, though.

Do you really think they person you replied to knows what “recursive” means?

What you’re posting amounts to a concerted propaganda campaign to tie the symbolism of the flag to the military.

“It’s all I was qualifie.......TO DEFEND THE FLAG!”

Someone needs to remind these clowns that the protests have nothing to do with them, and that the flag is not specifically about the military.

That is one helluva response.