"New York cyclists held a die-in at Washington Square Park to protest the recent spate of bike-related deaths. [AMNY]"
What misleading wording. These were car-related deaths of bicyclists, deaths caused by drivers.
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I’d be more impressed with their diversity and love more hate less message if Jaelene Hinkle was on the team. Widely considered the best woman left halfback in the US. Never got a real chance because of her Christian beliefs. Also, a woman of color. Guess loving more hating less only applies to people who agree with you.
Not interested in this show of vulgarity, crassness and virtue signaling anymore. Megan your 15 minutes are up.
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I'm glad you mentioned the great job done by the sanitation workers--I was amazed that by lunchtime nearly every bit of confetti was gone. They were similarly awesome cleaning up after the Pride parade.
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Congratulations to the USWNT! They gave themselves a high bar because they sought not just to win the World Cup but to win win the World Cup to shine the light on unequal pay. Let's set the bar higher and see how much more the soccer team can achieve by having more women of color be in the team.
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If the USWNT feel they deserve more money then more power to them, but the concept of equal pay for equal work cannot be realistically applied in team sports. Will Rapinoe accept the same salary as the least valuable player on the squad? Doubtful. Just as Christian Pulisic isn’t going to accept the same salary as Megan Rapinoe, the USMNT simply have no chance to qualify for the 2022 World Cup without him.
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@Louis
These women made me and my daughters proud to be Americans for the first time in a very long while. Put a price on that!
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I don't care what the nay-sayers have to complain about.
The US Women's Soccer Team got the welcome and the party they deserved yesterday.
And I'm still grinning ear-to-ear about it.
Well done. ladies!
Well done NEW YORK!!
(Now give them equal pay and get rid of the Astroturf).
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I was thrilled by every moment of the Women's victories in the games of the World Cup.
Then came the politics, which for me lessened the victories.
Must we always use the platform of victory in sports to advance our political agendas?
It started, of course, with Muhammad Ali who pranced around like a peacock, saying he was the " greatest."
Btw Joe Louis, who was the epitome of humility despite defending his heavyweight championship 24 times ,once told the" greatest" that he would be a member of Joe's Bum of the Month Club.
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@Robert Delaney
One person's "political agenda" is another person's basic rights. Every day, our fundamental understanding of what our country stands for is under attack. This is not a time for empty pageantry.
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@Robert Delaney, yes and what is your opinion of Donald Trump politicizing the Fourth of July celebration on our nation's capital?
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Not one word of politicizing You need to get your facts straight.. @M
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I was going to attend the parade (only a couple blocks away) until I got the feeling it would become politicized. I too wanted to join the revelry but could not do so in good faith when the celebration of the team becomes conflated with a political ideology. It’s nice Rapinoe made a statement about inclusivity but using her stardom to promote an ideology does the opposite.
People mocked Jordan when he said ‘republicans buy shoes too.’ Well Jordan promoted inclusivity and Rapinoe did not.
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Women's sports are the minor leagues, if they were truly "champions" they wouldn't lose to high school boys.
I'm not interested in following minor league games.
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@asdfj Sorry to hear that. You missed some great games!
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@asdfj No one's forcing you to follow them. You don't have to click on an article, read it, and then leave a comment, either.
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Are you kidding me?
Ok, let's go over it again, do not mix politics or religion in a social event in this case the celebration of this team.
If you do you take away from the purpose of the celebration which is supposed to congratulate the fine work of this team.
Afterwards, go thru the property legal challenges if any to enable this team to get higher pay.
A great majority of Americans support the amazing victory of this team. The equal pay thing is highly controversial, and many Americans do not agree with the team's definition of it, some consider it equal pay others consider it social engineering, preferred class and quotas and mandates.
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@Paul
How is equal pay controversial?
I suppose it's controversial to pay a hugely successful winning team the same amount as a consistently losing team, but I don't think that's what you meant.
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@Paul: "The equal pay thing is highly controversial."
No, it's not! It's only controversial to men who are living in the dark ages.
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@Mo, regarding "to pay a hugely successful winning team the same amount as a consistently losing team" - This may be a matter of the base amount needing to be the same for men and women.
I wonder - does this seem right to pay each individual on a team based on being a winning team, which for most of the players has nothing to do with their own individual abilities. Do we pay a salaried worker more because they happen to work at a very profitable company, rather than a start-up that has not made profits yet - or based on their own individual ability, whatever company they work at. (Who, given a choice among jobs, would work at any company other than financially already-successful companies if we do that?).
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