N/S Dan Snyder HATES The Commanders Success

[sfidc3]

I like Dan Snyder, but I’m rooting for the Commanders in the NFC. The negativity against Snyder is really because he’s a conservative who owned a team that the left wing press support and is in a left wing area. If he had different politics or demographic characteristics, you wouldn’t have heard a negative word about him.

Is this some kind of joke? I lived in the DMV almost the entire time he owned the team and had many friends who were WFT fans on both sides of the political spectrum, the one thing they all agreed on was that Snyder's ownership was a disaster....from the sexual harassment, toxic workplace, multiple lawsuits filed, worst game day experience in the NFL, etc....

How bad is it, when the other billionaires (again from all sides of the political spectrum) force one of their own out, it almost never happens
probably, at least in modern times, the worst owner of a professional sports team in history.....

Opining that politics had anything to do with Snyder's demise total dismisses that he brought it all on himself with his petulant and immature behavior, is just plain ignorant.....

 

[DaveXA]

Is this some kind of joke? I lived in the DMV almost the entire time he owned the team and had many friends who were WFT fans on both sides of the political spectrum, the one thing they all agreed on was that Snyder's ownership was a disaster....from the sexual harassment, toxic workplace, multiple lawsuits filed, worst game day experience in the NFL, etc....

How bad is it, when the other billionaires (again from all sides of the political spectrum) force one of their own out, it almost never happens
probably, at least in modern times, the worst owner of a professional sports team in history.....

Opining that politics had anything to do with Snyder's demise total dismisses that he brought it all on himself with his petulant and immature behavior, is just plain ignorant.....

Yes, all of this. Snyder is a horrific excuse of a human being and tried to cover up and ignore the sexual harassment accusations. And yeah, there have been more than a few who have spoken out about the front office and the mess it was. The stadium was and still is terrible, and fortunately the new ownership is looking to move out of that dump.

And don't forget, Snyder was in the middle of that email exchange that led to Gruden's ouster from the NFL.

And he treated fans like sheet. Charged to watch open practices when it had previously been free, and just a mountain of other questionable business practices.

Him selling the team was the best thing that's happened to that franchise in a long, long time.

Good riddance.

 

[sacked4loss]

I hope they change their name back to redskins

 

[Madmarsha]

I hope they change their name back to redskins

I keep throwing Rougeskins in the mix. It's gonna catch on eventually.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I like Dan Snyder, but I’m rooting for the Commanders in the NFC. The negativity against Snyder is really because he’s a conservative who owned a team that the left wing press support and is in a left wing area. If he had different politics or demographic characteristics, you wouldn’t have heard a negative word about him.

ah...you've cracked the code. well done

 

[No2DC]

I like Dan Snyder, but I’m rooting for the Commanders in the NFC. The negativity against Snyder is really because he’s a conservative who owned a team that the left wing press support and is in a left wing area. If he had different politics or demographic characteristics, you wouldn’t have heard a negative word about him.

Do you live, or have lived, in Southern Maryland, Northern Virginia, or DC (the DMV)? Do you know they have three rings already? Politics you know nothing about I see. The guy was a terrible owner for a once proud franchise, its that simple.

 

[Saintman2884]

well yes and no
first to address your question to me, the conceit of capitalism is that competition fosters smart growth and development of quality goods and services
when the government winners and losers before competition even begins it's not competition

secondly, communism has never been tried in any sort of environment the theory was based on
communism has only been tried in places where the oligarchy had already created a failed state - so if you want to argue that communism has never turned a failed state into a productive one (and exclude some of china and pre-stalin Russia) then sure, you are correct

now do socialism

Even if a true Marxist anarcho-communist state were to be achieved or attempted, it would still be a one-party, authoritian somewhat rigid police state where civil liberties (freedom of press, conscience, religion) would eventually come under attack or be suspended or outlawed. Organized religion or the very concept of God itself doesn't exist in Marx's envisioned far-distant future utopia. "The opiate of the masses" was an ironic phrase meant by Marx and later socialist/communist idealogues for industrial proletarian workers to destroy, eliminate bourgeiouse, remnants of feudalism by smashing, closing or turning churches, synogagues even mosques into hospitals, hostels, or schools. If you were a believer, you'd be mocked, shunned, or discriminated against by being given menial, "go-nowhere" jobs with little socio-political, economic mobility.

Marx might've been a child of the Enlightenment and Hegelian dialectic theory, but he was no democrat or really believe in representative forms of government. He, Engels, and later more radical socialists/Communists like the post-WWI German Sparticists of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liepernekt, as well as Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Buhkarin didnt believe in political compromise, they were self-serving, self-righteous distant who believed if they could kill, murder, rape and torture hundreds of millions of people over several decades and it would still somehow achieve a anarcho-communist state, hey, it was all forking worth it, morality and humanity, be damned.

And you're wrong about communism being tried only in failed places and besides, typically after most civil wars and revolutions, aren't most countries internal socio-political, economic infrastructures sort of frayed or somewhat damaged? That's what typically happens in civil wars and revolutions in general in that a lot of sheet gets destroyed and a lot of people die violently. It occurs regardless of whether its a nationalist or a successful left-wing revolution like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, or Castro's Cuba. As much as I disagree with their economic or social policies, at least Hugo Chavez and Salvador Allende were democratically elected and as so, were responsible and beholden to their constituents as such.

One of the Soviet-bloc's most innovative, sophisticated, technology advanced satellite states was in East Germany. Throughout their 41-year history, GDR actually had oldest and healthiest life spans amongst Warsaw-Bloc along with Hungary and Czechoslovakia, their workers, factories were some of best-educated, well-trained and productive by the late 60's in Eastern Europe (even better then still-fascist Spain and Portugal), holiday and workers compensation, injury insurance as well as medical care was better then the USSR. Only problem was that still didnt erase the fact that the leadership (Ulbricht, Honoeker) was corrupt, power-hungry, intensely paranoid about potential civil unrest and qualified East Germans fleeing the country ("brain drain" got so bad by the late 50's that it lead to East German authorities, with Soviet permission, to construct the Berlin Wall). GDR was also one of the most heavily spied upon surveilance states in human history where its been estimated that among a population of around 10-15 million, 1 out of /6/7 were likely a Stasi spy, unofficial informant, minder, or collaborator. And unlike the CIA and the KGB, the Stasi and the NVA used some of the most innovative, creative yet diabolical forms of domestic surveilance on supposed/potential dissidents, politicians, foreign reporters/journalists, embassy staffs. Even used attractive male Stasi "Romeo honey traps" to prey on young but vulnerable Western women working as mid-upper level positions in Western embassies, governments. The highly recommended Deutschland series, especially its 1983 2015 version shows a Stasi agent living and working undercover as a Bundswehr Lt. as an aide to a prominent West German NATO general is one such example.

The great, fearless West German Willy Brandt's career as Chancellor ended in mid-70's when it was discovered that his chief of staff and wife had been undercover Stasi agents for years. IMHO, Brandt mightve been one of Germany's best, courageous and most successful politicians post-WWII, next to Helmut Kohl. Even the Stasi admitted later on that their undercover espionage operation with Brandt went in a direction highly unfavorable to them.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Even if a true Marxist anarcho-communist state were to be achieved or attempted, it would still be a one-party, authoritian somewhat rigid police state where civil liberties (freedom of press, conscience, religion) would eventually come under attack or be suspended or outlawed.

Um..,

Organized religion or the very concept of God itself doesn't exist in Marx's envisioned far-distant future utopia. "The opiate of the masses" was an ironic phrase meant by Marx and later socialist/communist idealogues for industrial proletarian workers to destroy, eliminate bourgeiouse, remnants of feudalism by smashing, closing or turning churches, synogagues even mosques into hospitals, hostels, or schools. If you were a believer, you'd be mocked, shunned, or discriminated against by being given menial, "go-nowhere" jobs with little socio-political, economic mobility.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

 

[Saintman2884]

Um..,

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Hey, everything's fine and okay. Its easy like Sunday morning. Just an interesting conversation or discussion of historical topics. Or a thought exercise/experiment at best. Have as much of a good time as possible as long as we don't hurt ourselves or anyone else.

Besides, these topics really aren't the point of this original thread topic Guido, and that is that Daniel Snyder's biggest legacy will be his total, abject failure as an NFL owner and businessman, in general and how he singlehandedly destroyed a once-proud, successful franchise.

 

[El Caliente]

I just hope that he learns how to love again.