Blazers End Partnership with Military Contractor Leupold & Stevens

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  1. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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  2. dviss1

    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    Really? Like, really??

    Please tell me how this relationship benefited the Blazers besides creating protesters.

    I'd happily join the protesters and am very glad the Blazers ended their affiliation with a company that continuously fleeces our country.

    Like we need to be spending that much money on "defense".
     
  3. Reep

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    The military spending is a red herring. A local business that has been very successful, has it's relationship with the Blazers killed by a bunch of unemployed, over-entitled perpetually-offended people. I don't care what the business is, I don't like seeing the tantrums of the perpetually-offended rewarded so they will keep being unemployed and continue finding something new that offends them to protest.

    Do you honestly believe that this group won't just run to the next cause to protest? You think they will now go back to their day jobs content with their efforts?

    This is just another example of the cancel culture. The "tolerant" people attempting to cancel anything they don't personally agree with.

    I recognize you and I are never going to agree on political matters. I would just like to say that I appreciate you as a fellow Blazer fan even though we don't agree on political issues.
     
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  4. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Generalize much?
     
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  5. Jon

    Jon mr. 300

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    they have day jobs?
     
  6. Reep

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    When the shoe fits, yes. Pretty sure this wasn't a random group of business people.
     
  7. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Because anyone who disagrees with you or actually cares about a cause is jobless. Your generalizations completely neuter your arguments.
     
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  8. Reep

    Reep Well-Known Member

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    I never said I disagreed with them. My point is that I don't think it is healthy for people to protest companies they don't like to try and harm them or shut them down. If everyone did this then jobs would start dying off and you end up harming the people who work for the companies. Everyone is offended by something. Should we shut it all down?

    There are people on board with the cancel culture and people that are not on board. I am not on board. And yes, I do believe the vast majority of the social media cancel culture types are not gainfully employed and live in their parent's basement.

    I'm going to go back to only basketball comments. Many of us don't agree on political issues, but I hope we can focus on this exciting time of year and all the promise that is going on at the practice facility. Go Blazers.
     
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  9. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Yep. I'm ready to get back to basketball. And, go!
     
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  10. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    OT please move this to OT
     
  11. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    That's too bad. My hunting rifle has one of their excellent scopes. Mounted with Redfield mounts. 3X9 with a post graticule.
     
  12. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    What's the big deal?
     
  13. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Yeah, that's just for the ordinary grunt and not the sniper.
     
  14. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Before you embrace this position I think that you should realize that snipers saved a lot of American lives in Vietnam, perhaps even me. No doubt about it, they've saved countless American lives in the middle East.
    No, I support our snipers. It's the idiots that get them into needless wars that I don't support. The GI is doing his job.
     
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  15. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I don't think that supporting our troops is any kind of "political shitshow".
     
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  16. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I was okay with hometown heroes but a little jealous. Us Vietnam Vets have never really received any recognition despite having an incredibly high casualty list. Some of us came back either in a coffin or with debilitating disabilities.
     
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    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    I fully support the troops. First and foremost, by arguing they should have never been sent to begin with.
     
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    That to me was the saddest part of the Vietnam war era is how the troops were perceived and treated when they came home as if it was their fault. How can you blame a bunch of young men forced to serve and go in a war we never attempted to win? I never had to serve as my draft class was right after they abolished the draft and we were withdrawing troops, but my number was #20 which meant I was essentially drafted if the draft rule hadn't expired.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    One nimrod in here called me a "baby killer".
     
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    Sorry but that's a load of bull to me. And personally, IDGAF who gets "caught in the crossfire" when it comes to cutting military spending. We spend more on "defense" than the next 10 countries. It's not a fucking red herring.
     
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