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in case you're having a hard time understanding why republicans are so upset at the idea college athletes might get some kind of compensation for their labor, this one picture explains it.
his entire career @SenatorBurr has opposed taxes. but now he wants (black) college athletes to pay up shareblue.com/richard-burr-t…
republicans 99% of the time: people need to get paid, lots and lots of money, and no taxes!

republicans, when black people might get paid: we have to preserve the purity of college sports, also if they get paid, we gotta tax 'em
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another piece of evidence why "we go high" is a nice sentiment but not the way the left should play real world politics
also its very strange to me how republicans hold on to anger about things from 30, 40, 50 years ago but democrats cant seem to muster up sustained anger over things like brett kavanaugh, school shootings, or even clarence thomas. they just seem to dissipate.
spoken as the guy who will never fucking get over 2003 and seeing good men and women ground down into meat in the desert because pos george w bush lied and wanted to win reelection.
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