Morant flashing gun again?

[Hawkeye15]

It's not a system problem, it's a built in feature. Most people don't realize there are pro and cons to any place you call home. I think Americans are lazy af, on top of soft mentally and physically. A country this obese clearly does not give a **** about its health.

And with regards to the school system, the whole thing has always been trash but the declining value in it is obvious at this point. A HS degree used to mean something, now adays you have overly educated idiots at colleges needing to be bailed out.

Some defects we have were paved with good intentions. Like no kid left behind, when some parents might actually want their kid to take it slow and actually absorb info.

anything short of meritocracy hurts society at large. We need to get back to this

go do a lil research on this one buddy. Take a gander what is in our food ingredients the last 40 years, how food companies are allowed to advertise their products, what our schools serve kids, what our education around nutrition is built on, and get back to me on "it's a lazy issue". Hell the EU banned ingredients known to cause obesity, cancer, behavioral issues, and more, and these are the staples of what anyone under the age of 45 has been raised on in the US. And while a few states are taking action (like yours), many politicians are bought and paid for by the food companies so it will take time, if we ever get there, on holding food manufacturers accountable for what is in their product.

Your college claims are a different subject. We all know an educated society is a better one, but the cost of education is outlandish. We also know around the world, other first world countries that have tax payer funded colleges have it cheaper, they have better students, and more educated populations.

The US spends more on healthcare than any advanced nation in the world, yet has a very poor quality of healthcare. Why is that chronz? Why is gun violence so unique to the US chronz? Why is healthcare in the US nearly twice as expensive, yet far less accessible, than many other first world countries chronz?

As smart as you are on basketball, you couldn't be dumber on **** like this my man.

[Hawkeye15]

Lol, I've heard that before. Proven them wrong before. The key is in the strength of the data, most people don't understand how numbers can be weaponized against them. They usually just rely on or parrot others.

And I highly doubt you've properly quantified my estimation of lazy anyways lol. Feel free to make the argument but spare me this appeal to authority

Edit. Nvm. Let's just get back to basketball, even if you think Americans are hard workers, it's not changing anything here.

no you haven't. Stick to basketball

[Hawkeye15]

First Bolded: I would love to see the numbers on that.

I certainly haven’t fully understood your takes since you became an ardent conspiracy theorist. But the idea that Americans are lazy or among the laziest nations is a pretty sensational take.

As for its relevance to your point, if your point is more of the typical vapid “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” rhetoric, save it. It’s nothing but shallow platitudes devoid of critical analysis.

yet in a country with health clubs everywhere, 20 different diet fads ongoing, we are addicted to drugs and obese as hell.

There is more awareness around obesity in the last 20 years than ever before, yet we get fatter. Why? The ingredients that have been put into our food since the late 70s. The way food companies can advertise with pure lies, and how the healthcare industry depends on our population being unhealthy.

He should have gotten off his high horse long ago.

[valade16]

yet in a country with health clubs everywhere, 20 different diet fads ongoing, we are addicted to drugs and obese as hell.

There is more awareness around obesity in the last 20 years than ever before, yet we get fatter. Why? The ingredients that have been put into our food since the late 70s. The way food companies can advertise with pure lies, and how the healthcare industry depends on our population being unhealthy.

He should have gotten off his high horse long ago.

Statistically, we see a sharp increase in obesity in countries that adopt or import an American diet. That's a strong indicator our diet has a lot to do with it.

[Hawkeye15]

Statistically, we see a sharp increase in obesity in countries that adopt or import an American diet. That's a strong indicator our diet has a lot to do with it.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-re...r-the-decades/

https://stacker.com/food-drink/50-wa...-last-50-years

First developed in 1957, high-fructose corn syrup began finding its way into the American diet in the 1970s. By 1984, the concentrated, corn starch-derived goop was the main sweetener in virtually every soda and sweet-tasting processed food. In the 2000s, however, the tide began to turn against high-fructose corn syrup, so much so that there was a campaign to rename it "corn sugar."

https://studyfinds.org/foods-in-america-additives/

Troubling new research finds the majority of foods purchased by Americans (60%) contain any number of artificial additives such as preservatives, sweeteners, and coloring or flavoring agents. Even worse, these levels represent a 10-percent increase since 2001. The study makes a strong case that the prevalence of food additives is on the rise in a major way. For instance, the average amount of additives in food and beverage products added by manufacturers has increased significantly between 2001 (3.7) and 2019 (4.5).

By 2019, over half of all packaged food and beverage products purchased by U.S. households contained at least three or more additives. Moreover, and perhaps most concerning of all, there was a 22-percent increase in baby food purchases that researchers consider ultra-processed or contained additives.

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-investigation

A handful of powerful companies control the majority market share of almost 80% of dozens of grocery items bought regularly by ordinary Americans, new analysis reveals. The size, power and profits of these mega companies have expanded thanks to political lobbying and weak regulation which enabled a wave of unchecked mergers and acquisitions. This matters because the size and influence of these mega-companies enables them to largely dictate what America’s 2 million farmers grow and how much they are paid, as well as what consumers eat and how much our groceries cost.

I could post a million links. Long story short, over the course of my lifetime, food companies have infused more and more additives, dyes, processed grains, canola oils. All of which directly to behavioral issues, cancer, skin disease, hypertension, diabetes, you name it.

Over 70% of the large food manufactures are donors to the GOP, which of course we all know protects big business over all else.

Conversely, the healthcare industry then depends on Americans eating these terrible diets, as the for profit medical industry needs as many customers as possible.

The US is so ****ed up, and it has occurred under the watch of the Baby Boomers, and now my generation. Without social media, we would likely never even have visibility to these issues.

But acting like America is fat because "they are lazy", is laughable. The only reason I am even aware of it all over time, is I love nutrition, and have a fat phobia. Otherwise I would likely be just like everyone else..

[IKnowHoops]

There's no executive of any company anywhere who could have had the last 6 months that Morant has had and kept their job whether a Republican state or not. Some people are trying to make this a race or culture issue, when it's simply a poor judgement issue.

The only problem is there are a plethora of guys who can step in and do the same job or better than the executive. Not to many Ja’s running around. I know that’s not your argument. Ja has shown poor judgement for sure. But he will rightfully have a job because his skill level makes more of a difference and is much more rare than what most executives can offer.

[IKnowHoops]

To me this isn't much different than the Kyrie situation. Yes, Kyrie had a constitutional right to voice his opinion on social media about a movie he endorsed but that doesn't mean his free speech should come without repercussions. Yes bigotry is different than brandishing a gun but both actions caused the NBA a lot of negative press and put their respective teams in a compromised position. If they don't take action, they look like they are enabling that behavior. These leagues dont want fans to get the impression that they support behavior that is or could be problematic.

I agree with this

[Raps18-19 Champ]

I agree, he is impacting the NBA because they have self identified as a progressive league, and have multiple people within it (Pops is an example) who speak up for gun control, etc. Morant is literally killing that message by doing things like this.

My entire line of posting in here is mostly based around how sick the US is with these things, and if Billy Bob politician can send out xmas cards with AR15s in the hands of their children, well then Morant getting in trouble for something TOTALLY LEGAL (yet totally stupid) is beyond contradicting.

Well your post has been all over the place here so it was a bit confusing.

[Hawkeye15]

Well your post has been all over the place here so it was a bit confusing.

I simply find it deflating that in a country where the GOP led states are turning into the Wild West (including TN), this is somehow being called out is all. And I get the NBA is trying to be a progressive leader and I respect that. But it's just hilarious considering the state of the US as it relates to firearms. You can literally leave your AR15 fully loaded, sitting on your deck, a kid can come take it, mow down 19 kids, and nothing happens to you as the gun owner. Yet Ja Morant, a young black man with millions of dollars, waves a gun (legally fyi), and his world is being shut down around him. Ironic.....