Police Identify Guard Suspected in Fatal Shooting During Denver ‘Patriot Rally’

Epoch Times ^ | October 11, 2020 | ACK PHILLIPS AND ZACHARY STIEBER

[Spktyr]

Different causes from what I can tell. In fact, a lot of the *fans* of organized sports were responsible for the decline, starting with when pro sports became a fast track for jocks to make fortunes.

[rlmorel]

So, you are saying hundreds of millions of Americans who watched sports over the years are at fault?

[Spitzensparkin1]

rlmorel wrote:

YES. That's the first thing he did after pulling the trigger. Looked right at the camera girl that was working with the agitators trying to provoke the Patriots.

"Did you get that?" Exactly what I thought when I saw this.

This was another staged op by Antifa and the traitor media to paint the false narrative that we are the racist fascists. /spit

Two patriots whose blood is now watering the Tree of Liberty. Both laid down their lives for the country they loved and supported, proving with their lives who the true rascist, fascist, treasonous traitors really are.

Next up? The tyrants? Not soon enough, eventually our tyrants will also water the tree. JUSTICE!

SS1

[rlmorel]

Right...but I think citizen also suggested the guy might be realizing what he has done is all on hi-res recording equipment, and...he might be screwed.

So I am keeping that possibility open as well.

However, while I think the murderer is a mental midget, I have to say, if he didn’t just assume there would be about twenty separate angles with all the people and their cameras recording...well...

I also have to consider the guy is such a dumbass he didn’t even think of it.

It is possible.

[Spktyr]

Directly and indirectly, yes - and I mean no insult to you personally. When football (and other pro sports) stopped being about leadership, co-operation/teamwork, sportsmanship, strategy, tactics, and began to become a cult of personality that worshipped players and money, more money, always more money is when things started going downhill, and that was in the 70s. Fans may have grumbled, but they continued to watch and support their teams - which meant that the teams got ratings, the teams got more money and the teams were encouraged to go down the same path. Fans grumbled more - but then you could get merchandise by phone! Luxury box tickets! Special vacation packages to watch a game in another city! And the fans bought it up, and bought it up and bought it up. Maybe they grumbled a bit more, but they were paying more money.

And all along the fans were teaching the pros that they didn’t have to give a crap about what the fans thought beyond a bit of lip service; the fans would continue to give them money.

By the early 80s, college ball was similarly infected. Jocks by then were the demigods of campus, untouchable, unaccountable, it was aaallll about their pwecious little children’s game - which they played like individual rock stars thrown together, not like a real team, just so they could get picked by the pros - and everyone else was secondary on campus. So the colleges were turning out spoilt brats for the pros, who were already acting like spoiled brats. See the SMU Death Penalty and events leading up to it.

By the early 90s at the latest, high school football (and high schools) were the same way. And yet people kept watching, kept funding, and kept saying they didn’t approve of the thuggery, narcissism and abuse at all levels of sport while signaling they approved of it with their wallets. Had to keep feeding that addiction, just like a meth addict does - even knowing it’s killing them, gotta shovel more money at it.

The only thing the Left did was redirect the inevitable end stage a little. If it wasn’t BLM the spoiled National Felons’ League were supporting, it would be something else.

[rlmorel]

No insult taken. That is a version held by many.

[Spktyr]

The same kind of thing killed the British motor industry and severely damaged the US motor industry. People kept paying for garbage, then wondered why they got more garbage. And then bought another garbage car from the same people in the hopes that somehow it would be different. This still afflicts the US car industry even today.

If fans in general had wanted to keep this sort of thing from happening, they should have stopped watching and financially supporting football when the NFL started allowing felons to play and let corruption begin creeping in. But nooooooo, gotta have “muh football” so the money kept pouring in to the NFL with the unspoken reinforcement that this was the right course of action. The Left literally had nothing to do with it when this happened and they only took slight advantage of the decay already well in progress.

Worth noting that in video games/e-sports, when this sort of thing starts happening in one game/series, generally all the fans stop watching and go to another series. The first series then either cleans up their acts or it collapses.