Life doesn't mean anything to sports athletes?

Guess again.

https://sports.yahoo.com/has-the-bubble-burst-nba-players-willingness-to-sacrifice-playoffs-could-be-the-start-of-something-big-221848034.html

The NBA constructed a bubble to keep the coronavirus out. It couldn’t do anything about real life though.

Now, in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the entire NBA playoffs are teetering as players are rising up by sitting down, refusing to serve as society's entertainment while they feel threatened, hopeless and angry.

They aren’t going to shut up, and for now they aren’t even going to dribble. At least not while emotions are raw, the opportunity is rare, and the belief they can do so much more than just be basketball players is at hand.

It started Wednesday afternoon, when the Milwaukee Bucks chose to walk out of their playoff game against the Orlando Magic. Bucks players were reportedly in the locker room trying to reach the attorney general of Wisconsin. 

That decision set off a string of discussed strikes that led to postponements that wiped out the entire slate of Wednesday’s NBA games (Oklahoma City-Houston and the Los Angeles Lakers-Portland).

No basketball on Wednesday. No one should count on Thursday. Who knows when it returns, if at all, in 2020?

Want a detailed account of the corruption and destruction capitalism brings to the globe?

Look no further -> https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/25/chris-hedges-how-corporate-tyranny-works/.

 

 

Fear is what they intend to spread.

 That is, this is what the establishment wants to sow in non-white people's minds when shit like this happens -

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/24/uprising-protests-break-out-in-wisconsin-after-police-shoot-black-man-in-the-back-multiple-times-at-point-blank-range/

 

By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams

Protests broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the state’s Justice Department launched an investigation Sunday evening after police officers shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the back multiple times at point-blank range as he tried to enter his vehicle.

 

Someday soon, I hope to be out of IT.

My eldest recently chimed in on how he'd like to work for himself only.

Incredible that after 20+ years in IT, I still haven't figured that out yet.

The real 'winner' of the 2020 US Presidential Election is American hegemony.

The Establishment.

The rich and the powerful.

The 1%.

Pick your term, or combine them if you like. It doesn't really make a difference, because it's everyone else on globe that will lose. And all this in midst of a global pandemic, racist police brutality, and of course climate change.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/22/pers-a22.html

My vacations ends.

And corporations being as they are, expect me to be back to work literally the day after. 

In this case, this means Saturday and parts of Sunday.

Well so much for the Habs this year.

 At least they got farther than the Make-Believes.