TARIFFS AND THE SKATE INDUSTRY

[Steely Daniel]

National anthems are one of the most unnecessary things in sports and now is not the time to be a bitch.

/edit well other than the Olympics I guess

[Sick_McCrank_]

Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

Fuck this guy!

[lowline]

as an american, i'm totally fine with canadians booing us right now. we fucking deserve it

also extra props for ripping up musk's contract

[Too Frank To Fred]

Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

Anthems, flags, nationalism, chest-beating, are hollow and meaningless. Use your brain and your heart...

[ryanrockmoran]

Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

Daily reminder that the National Anthem is not a military anthem and has literally nothing to do with our armed forces.  People always want to hide behind soldiers to justify their jingoism

[h00man]

Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

"you're"

No wonder Trump got elected....

[Fast_Freddie]

Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

As a retired & 100% Disabled Navy veteran, people that say you are "being disrespectful to service members" have zero clue what ALL service members think...
IMHO I served my country so people have the freedom & privilege to exercise their rights and speak their minds in this country, regardless of what people think are "right or wrong"

[Dwayne Hoover]

Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

[GnarAlarm]

Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

[Fast_Freddie]

All my homies hate the national anthem

Had to...

[D10S]

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Anybody doing anything besides standing up during a national anthem is a fuckin bum.
You have all the time in the world to voice your complaints during the day, but being disrespectful towards the men and women who have fought for your right to go to the game or even boo in the first place is fuckin lame.
You get no points in life for that, and your a coward.

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As a retired & 100% Disabled Navy veteran, people that say you are "being disrespectful to service members" have zero clue what ALL service members think...
IMHO I served my country so people have the freedom & privilege to exercise their rights and speak their minds in this country, regardless of what people think are "right or wrong"

would GNAR if I could

[realtalk66]

some people itt should stick to posting on facebook. im sure the Skaters Over 30/40/50 fb groups would love to talk about how SL/PSL/BATB should have Mike V sing the national anthem before they start. 

[TheLurper]

Foreigners should respect my anthem.

1. lol, no. Booing another nation's anthem isn't polite, but far less shitty than engaging in economic warfare against our closet ally. You know the country that purchases more of our goods/services than anyone else and has worked with us, supported us, and fought along side us  for many decades.

2. I'll give you an out here. Using real sources (i.e. books published by respectable publishers or peer-reviewed journal articles or the Smithsonian, etc.), I'm curious, if can you explain the history of why Woodrow Wilson chose the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem.

Yes, we all know that the song was inspired by events in the War of 1812 and the surprise victory of American forces at Fort McHenry. Yes, we know that it was played in the Navy when they raised and lowered the flag. And, yes we know it was played during the 7th inning at a baseball game a player decided to salute the flag and inspired others to salute it. All well and good, but...

Please help us understand why we chose this as our national anthem opposed to America the Beautiful, My Country, 'Tis of Thee (which was the de facto national anthem prior to Wilson's action and 71st Congress putting the Star Spangled Banner Act on Hoover's desk), or This Land is Your Land. Help me understand what Woodrow Wilson and later the 71st Congress expressed as the meaning of the song and why they chose this song to replace My Country 'Tis of Thee. Instead of making your feelings facts, please help us understand exactly what those who made this our anthem meant it to represent.

[nah-nah-nah]

The fuck does a national anthem have to do with skateboarding? Grow the fuck up

[Rosstradahmus]

Looks like Mexico is cooperating and the tariffs are paused. Seems like a win unless you enjoy fentanyl. Now you cry babys can bitch about something else. Funny how the same people who support raising corporate tax rates and minimum wage are now worried about passing on the price increase to the consumers.

[lowline]

Looks like Mexico is cooperating and the tariffs are paused. Seems like a win unless you enjoy fentanyl. Now you cry babys can bitch about something else. Funny how the same people who support raising corporate tax rates and minimum wage are now worried about passing on the price increase to the consumers.

ah, looks like we got a macho man over here. are you gonna bring up "woke" now... is the woke in the room with you

[lowline]

keep being a crybaby! *did not actually read the fine print of what he voted for and has zero care about anything related to it*

[alien porkchop]

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some people itt should stick to posting on facebook. im sure the Skaters Over 30/40/50 fb groups would love to talk about how SL/PSL/BATB should have Mike V sing the national anthem before they start.

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I don’t think I could recover from Mike V doin it to the anthem. It would be like that episode of southpark where cartman seees the buttface people and can’t laugh anymore because he reached his humor threshold

um… doin what you say?

[Coastal Fever]

More like Rosstradumbass am I right guys

[skippersoldballs]

Might as well just use a recording of the US anthem during games in Canada until all of this horseshit is over. I felt bad for the lady in the wheelchair singing, but at the same time I would definitely join in if I was there.

[Garfiled L. Asagna LLC]

[Rosstradahmus]

keep being a crybaby! *did not actually read the fine print of what he voted for and has zero care about anything related to it*

I didn't vote for anything. I hate all politicians equally.

[skateboarder4life]

Looks like Mexico is cooperating and the tariffs are paused. Seems like a win unless you enjoy fentanyl. Now you cry babys can bitch about something else. Funny how the same people who support raising corporate tax rates and minimum wage are now worried about passing on the price increase to the consumers.

Yeah another Trump W

[neonbrown]

Looks like Mexico is cooperating and the tariffs are paused. Seems like a win unless you enjoy fentanyl. Now you cry babys can bitch about something else. Funny how the same people who support raising corporate tax rates and minimum wage are now worried about passing on the price increase to the consumers.

"cooperating"

[fuckingawesomesauce]

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keep being a crybaby! *did not actually read the fine print of what he voted for and has zero care about anything related to it*

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I didn't vote for anything. I hate all politicians equally.

Epic take bro

[Sticks and Stones]

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keep being a crybaby! *did not actually read the fine print of what he voted for and has zero care about anything related to it*

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I didn't vote for anything. I hate all politicians equally.

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Epic take bro

I would suggest at least a correlation should exist between the amount of hate you feel for a particular politician and the size of the pile of bodies they have chosen to build their moral high ground on.

[botefdunn]

I mentioned this before, but anyone interested in why these tariffs were threatened then dropped should look at what has just happened:

Western countries + China are threatened with illegal (according to international trade law) tariffs.

At the last moment the threat against western countries is dropped, but not against China.

Western countries are so relieved that the bully has stopped picking on them, that they turn a blind eye to the fact that the same unfair practices continue to be applied against China.

In the aftermath, we now see Panama (who the u.s. has also threatened) backing out of trade deals with China. Look to see the same thing happen among European countries.

All the border/immigration, fentanyl talk is completely irrelevant to what is going on, which is that the u.s. is trying to soft default on its trillion dollar trade-deficit to China. To those who are fine with this, I'd just ask that you understand what this says very clearly about capitalism and its social models: these models do not follow the rule of law or have any moral underpinning, they are just adaptive tools used to further the consolidation of wealth.

[lurker_and_poster]

I mentioned this before, but anyone interested in why these tariffs were threatened then dropped should look at what has just happened:

Western countries + China are threatened with illegal (according to international trade law) tariffs.

At the last moment the threat against western countries is dropped, but not against China.

Western countries are so relieved that the bully has stopped picking on them, that they turn a blind eye to the fact that the same unfair practices continue to be applied against China.

In the aftermath, we now see Panama (who the u.s. has also threatened) backing out of trade deals with China. Look to see the same thing happen among European countries.

All the border/immigration, fentanyl talk is completely irrelevant to what is going on, which is that the u.s. is trying to soft default on its trillion dollar trade-deficit to China. To those who are fine with this, I'd just ask that you understand what this says very clearly about capitalism and its social models: these models do not follow the rule of law or have any moral underpinning, they are just adaptive tools used to further the consolidation of wealth.

THIS.
you hurt your loved neighbors, the people and the government - for no reason.
And you the people in US will pay the bill.
How your govourment act the last weeks with Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Panama and upmost Gaza is morally wrong.
You are standing on the wrong site. You shoud protest - we dont want to hurt Canada, we dont want to hurt Mexico,
we dont want to steal land from people in Greenland or Gaza.
If you let the government hurt and steal from people around you - you are next.

[Síota]

So with the new 25% tariff trump is putting on all Al and Steel products, I guess truck prices are gonna go up in America?

[TheLurper]

The best way to predict the future is looking at the past:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-trumps-tariffs-benefit-american-workers-and-national-security/

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-05-07/trump-disastrous-steel-tariffs

https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/steel-profits-gain-steel-users-pay-under-trumps