Kaepernick's influence over Betsy Ross flag sends Nike stock...up.

[RoryN]

"The bump in stock price added $3 billion in value to the company."

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/07/05/nike-stock-up-since-latest-kaepernick-controversy/

 

[CandiCame]

Yeah, predictable shit is predictable.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Lots of USA haters out there.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Lots of USA haters out there.

There certainly are, but thankfully Colin and Nike supporters love their country.

 

[HisArpy]

Lots of USA haters out there.

The tell will be whether Nike's stock returns to it's price before the spike in a few weeks or not.

Lots of people will throw money in a spur of the moment thing for support. Few real investors will fund a losing proposition. When Nike fails to deliver higher dividends because they pulled their latest hot product off the shelves (self imposed declining sales), will those new investors bail or hold?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The tell will be whether Nike's stock returns to it's price before the spike in a few weeks or not.

Lots of people will throw money in a spur of the moment thing for support. Few real investors will fund a losing proposition. When Nike fails to deliver higher dividends because they pulled their latest hot product off the shelves (self imposed declining sales), will those new investors bail or hold?

Nike has proved to be geniuses. They made 3 billion from not releasing their "hot product" and didn't pay a nickel for the advertising. Isn't capitalism great?

 

[phrodeau]

What did he actually do, anyway? Wear a shoe like a hat or something?

 

[CandiCame]

What did he actually do, anyway? Wear a shoe like a hat or something?

He said he would prefer nike use our current flag instead of the colonial flag because it better represents an America where more people enjoy more freedoms, rather than during colonial times when slavery, the planned genocide of natives, and whatnot were things.

Nike was like, "Yeah, you're right let's actually redesign those".

And the consumers were like, "Yeah, he was right. Good consulting sportsball man."

 

[BotanyBoy]

There certainly are, but thankfully Colin and Nike supporters love their country.

Considering how they veiw seemingly everything about it as racist and terrible I disagree.

Much like the leftist who claim the same it's hard to claim you love your country when you hate pretty much everything about it and want it effectively destroyed so it can be re-done in a manner directly contradicting everything about the way it's existed for over 240 years.

 

[RocketLauncher]

Ha! This is hilarious. People decided to boycott Nike and switch to Converse. The reason stock might have gone up is Nike bought out Converse years ago.

ETA Research people, research.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Considering how they veiw seemingly everything about it as racist and terrible I disagree.

Much like the leftist who claim the same it's hard to claim you love your country when you hate pretty much everything about it and want it effectively destroyed so it can be re-done in a manner directly contradicting everything about the way it's existed for over 240 years.

That's a whole lot of ascription.

 

[BigTopBedlam]

A company decides to mark the 4th of July by making a pair of shoes with the original American flag on the heels.

The fact that anybody was pissed off by that illustrates exactly what is wrong with modern Western political discourse. Let alone so pissed off that they had to pull the shoes.

 

[CandiCame]

That's a whole lot of ascription.

Someone suggested to a shoe company a better design that would appeal to a wider audience! Surely this consulting work for a private company means that democrats hate America!

...how does he even... get where he's going? Like in his brain?

I feel like the inside of his head is that 90s windows screensaver with the little box that bounces around and whenever it lines up perfectly to hit a corner he has a thought.

 

[Matthew Craig]

https://images2.imgbox.com/79/7e/jmWSnPWN_o.jpeg

 

[beew]

https://images2.imgbox.com/79/7e/jmWSnPWN_o.jpeg

boo!.

 

[needit700]

Kaepernick and Nike are both

ass wipes!

 

[beew]

*crickets*

 

[Ramone45]

Seriously , tho. Kaepernick has to be the least significant person to exert influence in the history of mankind. Why would anybody give a shit about what he thinks? There's nothing compelling about him whatsoever. He's a megarich un-talented football player. So Nike's stock went up. Who's buying their shit now, pencil-necked geeks? BTW, Nike's products suck. Ask Zion Williamson.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Seriously , tho. Kaepernick has to be the least significant person to exert influence in the history of mankind. Why would anybody give a shit about what he thinks? There's nothing compelling about him whatsoever. He's a megarich un-talented football player. So Nike's stock went up. Who's buying their shit now, pencil-necked geeks? BTW, Nike's products suck. Ask Zion Williamson.

He played for several years in the NFL. By definition that's not untalented. He just made the company 3 billion dollars.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

What did he actually do, anyway? Wear a shoe like a hat or something?

He said he would prefer nike use our current flag instead of the colonial flag because it better represents an America where more people enjoy more freedoms, rather than during colonial times when slavery, the planned genocide of natives, and whatnot were things.

Nike was like, "Yeah, you're right let's actually redesign those".

And the consumers were like, "Yeah, he was right. Good consulting sportsball man."

aaand this is where context and critical thought matters in one's basic intelligence as a functioning adult American citizen because

https://i.ibb.co/LxT6PZv/File-Jul-05-2-00-18-AM.png

these assholes use that flag because it represents that age.

When you use/appropriate/pimp a dated flag or an old symbol, you're not actually being cute or fashionably current, you're pretty much endorsing its era. If you're ignorant over the times it became a thing and the people it affected, in the negative for the marginalized as well as the positive for the privileged, then maybe perhaps you shouldn't be ignorant about them. If you can't take the heat for owning the ugly associated with that verity, then maybe perhaps you shouldn't be using it and it should remain in museums where it belongs. As history to learn and be better from.

Because, I assure you, the shitstains in that photo above know exactly what they're doing by flying it.

But yeah, schmucks...keep bitching at Kap for standing by the modern flag and keep burning the Nike gear you already paid for. Privileged nimrods gonna nimrod.

https://media.giphy.com/media/8UGoOaR1lA1uaAN892/giphy.gif

By the way, The Gap made these "Manifest Destiny" t-shirts a while back because it's associated with America's history and rhetorically it sounds like an upward phrase with no downside...to those who are ignorant of what Manifest Destiny actually was.

http://www.indigenousaction.org/wp-content/uploads/manifestdestinyshirt-179x300.jpg

https://putthison.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tumblr_mbxovgZ5Ys1qdb4s4o1_r1_1280.jpg

so the Native American community, amongst others, clapped back at the Gap with the facts and they pulled them shits faster than The Flash looking for an unoccupied bathroom to pee in.

https://putthison.com/evolvingstyle-you-can-say-this-has-nothing-to/

Knowing what things are, what terms are, what history actually was, those things matter. Someone is always ready to profit off your ignorance.

 

[phrodeau]

A company decides to mark the 4th of July by making a pair of shoes with the original American flag on the heels.

The fact that anybody was pissed off by that illustrates exactly what is wrong with modern Western political discourse. Let alone so pissed off that they had to pull the shoes.

Someone was pissed off? Someone more than you?

 

[CandiCame]

Meanwhile Nike still uses sweatshop labor so like...

I mean, fuck um.

I realized I didn't say that at any point I feel compelled every time nike comes up to remind everybody that they're evil.

In the early 2000s when I was a kid they tried to be all, "Oh but we tour our sweatshops to make sure there aren't any kids stuck in the machinery anymore!" like that's gonna make it ok.

Alright, go about your day. Just... I have a compulsion to mention how evil they are when people talk about them.

 

[LesDesirable]

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[SgtSpiderMan]

there's someone who has no idea how stock works.

Nike stock didn't go up? Let's see your cite.

 

[LesDesirable]

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