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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Also that's kind of a weird threat I always though the color guard and cop **** before the game was a FAVOR to them, a nice thing for our Troops and Troop-adjacent First Responders.
I'm pretty sure they can find some other people to hold the giant flag.
I suspect this is one of those bad bets borne out of too much Fox News. Trolly made this point earlier that lol anyone is going to boycott the NFL, fat conservative white America is going to be furiously refreshing their fantasy football teams with their ass parked on the couch with a 6 pack drowning themselves in Doritos like the rest of us, this is just something for them to plaster on their Facebook feeds during commercials.
It's an empty threat. The cops think that by threatening to take their flags home and not show up, the Browns and the NFL are going to genuflect and beg for them to come back and make their players stand and salute the flag.
The more likely scenario is the NFL isn't going to go to war with their mostly black labor and they're going to assume fat dumb white America is too lazy or buzzed from opiates and alcohol to carry out their threat, change the channel from the sportsball they are addicted to gambling on, which is almost surely the far better bet.
I think the alt-right brigades call this virtue signaling, that is, empty gestures designed to demonstrate your own good character (e.g., you're a good patriot authoritarian in this case). Right wing America is virtue signaling over Kaep and threatening to not watch the NFL. The threat is empty and they don't care that much about Kaep and people kneeling through the anthem. NFL remains the safest bet in town, precisely because right wing America will never turn it off.