NBA profits or, Hong Kong?

So, in the NFL it is OK to "take a knee" and disrespect The Flag but, in the NBA it is a punishable sin to speak out in support of Hong Kong?

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Money talks?

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

Yes, Rusty, , , , ,

America's business is Business!

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China, a communist country, is depriving these U.S. businesses of their commerce to shut down their clampdown in Hong Kong. This was inevitable. This was a conflict that China waited on until the numbers were big enough to make their threat to take their money away financially severe enough to make the NBA "soft" on their political activism. They had no problems with their woke athletes speaking out against civil rights abuses domestically and police brutality. There was no downside. Business was not affected and their bottom line never suffered. This is entirely different. A communist totalitarian regime who controls all commerce is now using their power of the purse and there is no end consumer. It's just their government. The NBA will cave. China will not. A business against a government? The spine would cost too much for the NBA.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.