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You are here: Home / Organizing & Resistance / Don't Mourn, Organize / Late Night Open Thread: No Alternative But Patience

Late Night Open Thread: No Alternative But Patience

by Anne Laurie|  January 3, 20162:05 am| 25 Comments

This post is in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Open Threads, Sports, Daydream Believers

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@indiancountry Please cover "Change the Name Rally!" Sun. Jan. 3 outside Dallas Cowboys stadium! pic.twitter.com/AYxXg0HTn1

— Miss Oglala Lakota (@MsOglalaLakota) January 2, 2016

Got this from the twitter feed of Mother Jones’ Editor-in-Chief.

You’d think the other rich fvcks in the NFL’s Rich Fvck Owners Club would take Dan Snyder aside and point out the calendar no longer says 1957… but I guess if you can’t show your frog-belly white arse in public, what’s all that money for?

Here’s video from a 2014 protest at the same stadium:

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    January 3, 2016 at 2:26 am

    Change the name of the team to the Concussions.

    Truth in advertising.

  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    January 3, 2016 at 2:27 am

    @efgoldman:
    What you are trying so hard not to say is that he is a rich, entitled, fucking asshole.

  3. 3.

    Ruckus

    January 3, 2016 at 2:41 am

    @efgoldman:
    Was just checking to see if I understood you correctly. I see that I did.

  4. 4.

    Elizabelle

    January 3, 2016 at 3:29 am

    For the record, the word “redskins” shows up in the new Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight.

    I do not think that was by accident. It’s in there, along with copious use of the N word (as usual), but I’m not sure I’ve heard “redskins” before.

  5. 5.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 3, 2016 at 4:03 am

    @Elizabelle: You must have not watched alot of old westerns.

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    January 3, 2016 at 4:11 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA: LOL. That’s true, not enough.

    But I think this term was in there on purpose, because a lot of the movie turned on the aftermath of the Civil War and race relations.

    Tarantino stood publicly with protests against police violence, and didn’t back down. He could have used other terms like Indians, injuns, Apaches, whatever. He went with redskins, because it’s become a terrible word and the audience would pick up on that.

    I guess it could just be an homage to content from previous Westerns, but I think the word is doing more work than that.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    January 3, 2016 at 4:35 am

    BTW, thanks to the commenters for refraining from dropping spoilers on the Chipmunks movie.

    (I keed, I keed.)

  8. 8.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    January 3, 2016 at 4:50 am

    @NotMax: Don’t look at me, last movie I saw in a theater was a decade ago.

    ETA: That was only because the kid had just finished her Air Force Basic Training and wanted to see one of the Harry Potter movies, before that was sometime in Bill Clinton’s first term.

  9. 9.

    Tommy

    January 3, 2016 at 5:01 am

    As a former season ticket holder of that team, which I don’t even feel comfortable typing out the name anymore, and somebody who worked in the industry in the DC area where Snyder made all his money to buy said team (and had friends that worked for him), to say the dude is a “total tool” would be an understatement. If you want your skin to crawl just head to the City Paper, who has had an ongoing feud with “Danny Boy” for years, and do a search.

    His dick moves, and many not even team related, would take hours to detail. But my favorite is when he bought a huge mansion on the Potomac, couldn’t see the river from his house, so he just gutted the property of every tree, breaking about every law on the books. But when you are worth billions you just sue and drop money here or there and buy your way out of it.

    I mean the dude is such a dick he even found a way to piss off his fellow billionaire neighbors. I would think that takes some effort!

    Now off to watch the holiday episode of Sherlock! That should be an OK way to start this Sunday morning since we will have to wait until 2017 for any other new episodes.

  10. 10.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    January 3, 2016 at 6:01 am

    @NotMax: Spoiler: David Cross isn’t in it, so I can’t say “I blue myself!” at a theater showing Chipmunks. That reduces whatever entertainment value this movie had from nil to negative.

    Although Tony Hale is, so there’s always “And that’s why you don’t use a one-armed person to scare someone!”

  11. 11.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    January 3, 2016 at 6:19 am

    Hey, if the calendar still said 1957, Washington Washingtons would still have another old racial problem to conquer being the last NFL team to win a black player.

    Seems they went 5-30-3 in the last 3 years before they joined the entire rest of the league. And I’m not looking it up but I’ll guess none of those new upstart AFLers could afford to hobble their on-field abilities with the monochrome personnel policy.

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    ThresherK (GPad)

    January 3, 2016 at 7:10 am

    @ThresherK (GPad): PS FYautocorrect. That’s sign a black player not win a black player.

  13. 13.

    different-church-lady

    January 3, 2016 at 9:02 am

    Oh those poor, misunderstood Trump supporters! If only some kind soul would talk to them!

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    January 3, 2016 at 9:04 am

    @efgoldman: Nothing changes until it starts to hurt the merchandise sales.

  15. 15.

    different-church-lady

    January 3, 2016 at 9:07 am

    @Elizabelle: They’re Hateful. What would you expect?

  16. 16.

    Another Holocene Human

    January 3, 2016 at 9:19 am

    @Tommy: I hope his basement flooded every spring.

  17. 17.

    Another Holocene Human

    January 3, 2016 at 9:22 am

    @different-church-lady: Wow, why did I click on that? Kosdrama is the worst.

  18. 18.

    different-church-lady

    January 3, 2016 at 9:44 am

    @Another Holocene Human: You clicked on it because I desperately needed a companion for my facepalming. You did it for me. And don’t think I don’t appreciate it.

  19. 19.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    January 3, 2016 at 10:11 am

    @efgoldman: That is why Roger Goddell doesn’t have the stones to tell that dirtbag to do somehing about that sorry excuse of a field. I dread the Seahawks playing there.

  20. 20.

    Blondie

    January 3, 2016 at 10:21 am

    @Tommy: My husband and I are longstanding fans of the Washington semi-pro football team – hubbo calls them the Washington Cicadas, ’cause they only show up to compete every 17 years. (He’s also suggested changing their logo to a potato.)

    We figure the team is cursed by its owner – Dan “Fvck YOU!” Snyder has been voted the very worst owner in ALL of professional sports. We have a working hypothesis that the team gets so many really, really bad officiating calls b/c the officials hate him, Roger Good(hair)ell hates him, and the fans hate him. Nothing will change until he changes or sells the team.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    January 3, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    A protest at a Cowboys game seems disturbingly likely to end in gunplay.

    Drunk, amped-up, armed Tesxans? What could possibly go wrong?

  22. 22.

    Steve from Antioch

    January 3, 2016 at 1:22 pm

    Yes, we have a bunch of men running around inflicting injuries on each other that will result in debilitating conditions and, in many cases, brain damage down the road.

    But the important thing here is not to call the team a naughty name.

    Fucking pathetic wankers.

  23. 23.

    Mnemosyne

    January 3, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Yet another reason it’s nice to live in a blue state — California has officially banned high school and college sports teams from using “Redskins” as the team name, effective 1/1/2016.

  24. 24.

    Steve from Antioch

    January 3, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    We like ourselves, don’t we?

  25. 25.

    Zinsky

    January 3, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    What makes it most offensive is that these billionaire NFL teams and owners pay little or no income tax, yet are always more than ready to take tax hand-outs from cities to relocate or stay in that city. They also use their location as financial blackmail to extort dedicated sales taxes and other revenue-sharing schemes which end up looting the public purse…

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