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Does this sum up what is wrong with ESPN right now?

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Does this sum up what is wrong with ESPN right now?
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>>76215437
yea
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People were cutting cable to begin with. ESPN exacerbated it
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>>76215437
Pretty much.
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Yes since millennial liberals don't buy cable subscriptions like ESPN anymore
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Blame whoever sold out to Disney
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>caring about flyover states

ESPN has it right desu
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Why did they think paying the NBA a gorillion dollars over a decade was a good idea?
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>>76215437
Nope.

The media is centralized and colluded.

ESPN did not make a business mistake.

It's not really a business.

Entire Soros Propaganda Network isn't a joke.
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We don't want any talk. Their downfall began with having everything be some sort of talk/argue show. Just show sports. Show tape delayed weird shit during the day like they used to. Just show sports.
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The problem is that the people that work there are fucking bores but they think they're changing the world with this shit. Don't even mind the content but it's comes off as self indulgent and self affecting to point of nausea.
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>>76215504
Fucking this.

Stats, scores, and highlights if they're not showing games.
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>>76215504
The problem is there's no market for sports highlight shows anymore when people can just go online and see a game and highlights instantly. The market for it was much better when there was shit like no interleague play. Now you can see cross country athletes whenever you want.
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>>76215526
I didn't say anything about highlights bud
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>>76215502
This.

IT'S NOT A BUSINESS DUMB FUCKS. THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WHY THEY'RE DOING IT.
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>>76215437
Based Clay Travis
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>>76215552
Why he's wrong.

If anything this is disinfo.
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No my dad is a Huff Poo reading nu-male and would love that but hates Sports Center and calls it boring.

Current ESPN has as much to do with sports as MTV has to do with music.
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>>76215504
>they added espn2 to do this while espn was talk
>they're now just both talk
>espn3 doesn't have weird shit just boring college shit
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>>76215526
I know people are going to disagree with this, but I don't think the market should matter when it comes to news.

News and yes, ESPN, shouldn't be about being entertained, it should be about conveying info.

>But online.

You're right, but that just shows how incrasinfgly irrelevant 24 hour news stations are.
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>>76215563
>Current ESPN has as much to do with sports as MTV has to do with music.

yep

It's not a business decision to have Bruce Jenner get an inspiration award. It's not a business decision to have their pundits be fags and dykes.

ESPN/Disney is a Jewish propaganda agency. Is what it is.
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>>76215526
it's a pain the fucking ass to find sports highlights online, it's been 7 minutes of minimal effort and I still haven't found the harper fight from earlier today
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>>76215600
Heard of Twitter?
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>>76215600
Took me literally 5 seconds.
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>>76215437
Not enough spelling bee or little league baseball.
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>>76215600
are you fucking stupid?

https://twitter.com/IslesRW/status/869389445597982722

literally seconds it took to find this
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>>76215600
i googled "bryce harper" and the first hit was a link to espn's website with the video. didnt take 7 min btw
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>>76215611
>>76215622
>>76215640
yea and it's a fucking shitty low quality video player.

I don't have high speed internet and hd screens all over my house to watch some grainy pixelated shit
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>>76215600

Here's your you.
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>>76215524
What about Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption
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>>76215702
It's just more people fucking arguing.
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>>76215693
When's the last time you've been on youtube, 2006?
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>>76215486
t. Hillary Clinton
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>>76215724
>twitter is youtube

>most sports on youtube are quality videos

>the good youtube videos aren't instaspammed with dmca claim bots getting them taken down.
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>>76215702
ATH, where two fags a dyke and a feminist give you a progressive take on today's sports 'news'?

Yeah, I'll pass.
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>>76215702
Their success is what ruined sports channels since everyone tries to copy. They are the apple and should be eliminated
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ESPN is a fucking joke. They don't even cover the greatest sport on Earth, hockey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McPPM1g0lqU
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>>76215805
>tucker carlson and jason whitlock

yeah no fucking thanks
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>>76215456
This. ESPN relies heavily on the current television/cable setup in the country. For the first time ever people are able to replace cable subscriptions with similar yet cheaper content via the Internet. ESPN would have had to correct during this period no matter what.

That being said, they would be in a better position right now if they didn't waste time with all the hot take shit over the years. Their last round of layoffs also axed tons of the journalists rather than the opinion people. So I don't care if they burn in flames. There would be a market for reasonable sports opinions of someone would step up and produce it
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>>76215486
Howd that work out for hillary
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Fox Sports has all the good personalities that ESPN needed to be able to just have talk shows. Skip was a lot better than fucking Max Kellerman, That faggot hates white people.
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>>76215819
people dumped ESPN because of the (((propaganda)))

I know I did.
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>>76215818
Too much truth for your tiny brain?
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>>76215546
And what is that?
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Well, it's one of several reasons.

1. People realized that ESPN wasn't going to focus primary on sports ever again.

2. Cord cutting is an industry wide problem, but a major reason is that alot of people caught onto ESPN's scam that 5 to 10 dollars of their cable bills were going directly to ESPN

3. The programming is cannibalizing itself. All their daytime programming is now in the '2 to 4 people give hot takes on the 5 biggest news stories of the day'. there's no point to keeping ESPN on for more than a half hour a day now. There is no reason to watch Sportscenter at 6 pm now unless you like your takes mixed in with what athletes are posting on instagram or twitter, and interviews with musicians for some godforsaken reason. Of course, numerous talking heads are the network will call you racist for not liking the new SC6 format, even though if you watched ATH or PTI, you already know what's going to be discussed. It is your fault for not watching, not their fault for creating something that is sloppy seconds in sports news form.

ESPN could very well have weathered this storm, but they decided to spend billions of dollars on live sports contracts, thinking that live sports are future proof. But there's a limit to how much live sports a viewer will care about, and they have reached that limit. Few people are going to care about a midseason fuckfest between the Cleveland Browns and Jacksonville Jaguars, or the NBA in it's current state of Golden State and LeBron fucking everyone dry. Hell, they lost a shitton of money because the College Football Playoffs were played on New Year's Day this year. People aren't going to cancel their shit to sit down and watch sports anymore.
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>>76215904
100% correct.
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>>76215830
I dumped them because at the time all they talked about was Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Tim Tebow and Lebron
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>>76215840
propaganda and social engineering

(but you knew that)
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>>76215943
keke, yeah right. ESPN has gone out of their way to attack the NFL for YEARS.

They might as well call it ENBAN

and it's no mystery '''why'''
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>>76215499
You know what's funny? Giving the NBA that money triggered the huge increase in the salary cap, making sure Golden State and Cleveland will not have to make any major roster changes for the next decade. They are responsible for the NBA being in this fucked state right now.
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>>76215969
>They might as well call it ENBAN

they barely even cover hockey or baseball

and they never have anything good to say about the NFL


ESPN i rigged media/fake news
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>>76216022
NBA and ESPN controlled by the same people

yeah, I said it
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>disney takes over espn
>it turns into shit

hmm
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ESPN was great when it was Mike & Mike in the morning, ATH and PTI as the only "opinion" shows and then the rest was straight sports or sports news.

They should bring back Jay Mariotti and return ATH to its prime.
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>>76215904
>implying that a warriors and cavs finals will have bad ratings
>doesn't remember when ratings were at rock bottom when the spurs dominated
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>>76216135
>people with this pleb taste exist
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>>76216135
ATH and PTI were the shitholes that started the whole hot-take media industry (outside of radio).

Just take a look at early PTI, when SKIP BAYLESS was the main runner for it.
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>>76216135
Hollywood/TV aren't real business anon.

>>76216156
>ratings


Ratings aren't real either
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>>76216156
The Finals won't have bad rating, but the main story for this season was "The rest of the league is garbage and we should timeskip to the Finals," which I feel like ESPN doesn't want after paying a metric fuckton for broadcasting rights.
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>>76215956
To what end
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>>76216156
ratings dont matter in the grand scheme, they're more a "trend" kind of thing to help market predict profit earnings on deals going forward

fact of the matter is, ESPN has signed some obscenely huge and gross contracts with sports leagues for broadcasting rights (NBA, NCAA, MLB, etc) that have hamstrung the shit out of them

i mean, billions upon billions in these contracts that are just not paying the end dividends they hoped

thats really the heart of why ESPN is failing, the contracts have fucked them hard and now they're hemorrhaging money

what the OP image is complaining about is really a small, although true, part of the large pie that is ESPN's current financial problems
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>>76216237
ratings aren't real baka

when will you idiots get this?

Do you really think ESPN would have made the decisions it has made if ratings where real and it was a legitimate business?
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>>76216246
Quit giving him (You)s
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>>76216277
more bullshit


ESPN/Disney (and really the entirety of the MSM) is a Jewish propaganda device

it's really that simple
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>>76216282
t. shill
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>>76216296
Propaganda for what
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>>76216311
Identity politics.
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>>76216296
Yep. And the NBA is a Jewish owned/controlled league. The NFL isn't.

Simple observation should tell you this much.
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>>76216329

>watching TV

found your problem
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>ESPN signed a $500 MILLION dollar deal to broadcast college women's softball
ya i wonder why theyre falling apart
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>>76216329
To what end
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>>76215437
It's not "Middle America," who's this hack that wrote this garbage? I live in New York and almost everyone I know that watches ESPN is fed up with their garbage.
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>>76216311
Progressivism. Communism. Zionism. Globalism.

All the same shit.
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>>76215486
better over than into
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>>76216346
Brooklyn here. Me too.
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>>76215502
This.

It doesn't matter if they were on the verge of collapse. This isn't a business model, it's a message to be aired.
Could hemorrhage money for the next 10 years it won't change shit. It's their for the purpose of propaganda.
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>>76216356
You think espn is trying to make america communist and the first step in their plan is to have shitty opinions about sports?
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>>76216330
>NFL
>almost all the owners are Jewish old farts
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>>76216346
In the video someone posted earlier in the thread, they actually cover how ESPN and sports journalism used to be more NY-centric and that type of liberalism, but now they're very much pro-San Fran type of liberalism.
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>>76215437
I'm can't believe the Jews lost...
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>>76216369
I don't know if you've noticed, but they've been openly talking about politics a lot, namely race and gender.
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>>76216346
I think it was by that Clay Travis guy or what have you

shit you not, redneck FS1 guy that has literally said racist shit before

so it kind of makes his argument a little bit funnier really
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>>76216368
yep


same deal as Hollywood


ESPN's current goal is to divide, distract and demoralize the populace.

It has little to do w/ sports.
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>>76215702
They suck cock no matter what 2 or 3 faggots trying to reinvent a 6 year old stale meme keep pushing
Fucking trash.
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>>76216382
Race has always been a part of sports. What does that have to do with communism
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>>76216370
25%

and guys like Dan Schneider sure don't seem to be down w/ the globalist agenda.

Nice disinfo shill
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>>76215437
Muh middle america
ESPN is losing subscriptions due to cord cutting. That's it.
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>>76216371
That's been a Whitlock take.
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>>76216384
>>76216368
So they don't care about ratings but you think they also want to spread propaganda....
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>>76216394
I know you're a shill, but I'll take it as an opportunity to tell the truth.

Racism, feminism, LGBTQFDRE etc. are just a way to divide the populace to soften it for totalitarian rule.

It's why they push identity politics.

>>76216404
>nothing to see here goy
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That's not going deep enough. The underlying issue is young writers coming in fresh from college who have learned all their life that they're gonna change the world - and they probably thought they would end up somewhere else other than ESPN.

So what do you do with your massive insecurity, frustrations at your job and desire to "do something that matters", to be recognized for not "just" talking about silly sports? You put out drivel about social justice.
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>>76216404
Yes. Cord cutting because cable subscribers have no reason to continue their subscriptions. Why? Because the channels being broadcasted are uninteresting, boring, preachy, and not entertaining.

Which direct right back at ESPN's choice of broadcasting. The cord cutting is a result of cable subscribers seeing channels like ESPN turn to complete shit and therefore saying "fuck this, why pay all this extra money for nothing then?"

People aren't ending their subscriptions "just because" you know.
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>>76216421
When you control the market it doesn't really matter much
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>>76216424
There is zero indicators it is due to a left political slant. It's just a nice narrative Clay Travis uses to trash the network
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>right wingers get mad that libruls want to put politics into everything
>but they do the same thing
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>>76215702
>Around the SJW
>Pardon the Lack of Stat Boy

Once, the was a way.. to get back homeward..
..once their was a way, to get back home..
>sleep, pretty darling, do no cry..
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>>76216421
ratings aren't real.

it's an ancient form of rigged media, and a false indicator of public consensus.

They've since moved onto rigged tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter, which are also complete bullshit.
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>>76216449
it's weird that they would rig stuff so much but then lose all the time. something isn't adding up with your logic
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>it's cord cutting go....guy
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>>76216449
You don't know how ratings work. If they weren't real TV shows wouldn't get canceled mid season
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>>76216444
Not the baitfag that keeps posting ITT but I am on /sp/ for probably +45 minutes everyday and I don't watch ESPN for that exact reason
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>>76216462
yeah, they're really loosing


every country in the world except 4 has a central bank
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>>76216449
meanwhile so called "liberal propaganda" tv shows get canceled all the time because of shit ratings. Odd
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>this one faggot ITT trying to look like le /pol/ boogeyman
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>>76216469
Anecdotal shit means nothing. Cable subscriptions have gone down. People aren't going to cut the cord just because of ESPN being shitty, they'd just watch another sports network.

You can't just cancel ESPN from your cable package
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>>76216476
nigga plz


they'll keep whatever they want to on the air
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>>76216448
please stahp
>so many tears
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>>76216225
>Skipp Bayless
>PTI
wut
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>>76216472
and?
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>>76216425
>>76216425
this write here
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>>76216476
>>76216468
>>76216462
>responding to such bad bait
It's like I'm really on /sp/

>>76216489
Anecdotal shit it might be. But I'm a very average dude who loves his sports and I have a hunch I'm not alone. And you know it too
Also yes you can cancel ESPN from your cable package. There's thousands of providers throughout the country.
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>>76216490
>they'll keep whatever they want to on the air

right... and what they want is shows that get good ratings because they can sell ad time easier and for higher price.
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>>76216356
>All the same shit.
Jesus fucking Christ, /pol/.
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>>76215437
Who is the biggest anti-white personality at the company?
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>>76216449
>>76216468
They are real. They just aren't what people think they are exactly. A lot of people have the misconception that channels/shows generate profit or revenue based off the ratings of a particular night. Like a match between two high caliber teams are going to draw high ratings in a championship, so that night might be "more profitable" for a network or something.

Again, they're more or less trend setters. They help networks identify what gets people's attention and what doesn't, and plan their broadcasting schedules and series and shows ahead of time catering to what was bringing in the highest pool of watchers. That way, the amount of network flushing you can do for advertising, not only from external advertisement hosts but also of your own shows ("Catch our knew X series, tomorrow at 8!"), and stuff a network can build upon around a night with "high" ratings can maintain constant viewership.

The "ratings aren't real" thing is just a dumb thing for dumb people who are butthurt their shit show isn't doing well (Yes, Jemele Hill I'm looking at you) to say as an excuse as to why it doesn't matter for them in the long run.
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>>76216522
he's right


it's different names for the same thing
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>>76216436
>Why? Because the channels being broadcasted are uninteresting, boring, preachy, and not entertaining

Yeah every single channel of the hundreds do that. Sure. The fucking food network has a liberal bias.

They're ending it because it is too expensive with tons of channels they don't want when streaming services are available and cheaper
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>>76216520
>Also yes you can cancel ESPN from your cable package.
?
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May we have a moment of Why. for the RIP in pieces and departed

Korny and Wilbon will never be the same ;_;
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>>76216494
He used to be a regular host and fill-in back in the early 2000s
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>>76216525
all of them


well...SVP and Kornheiser do seemed annoyed by their employer.
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>>76216311
Communism and white genocide
>>76215702
They don't talk about the best sport hockey, so fuck them
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>>76216522
The dude is pretty clearly just trolling as le /pol/ Alex Jones memer

>>76216537
Yeah my brother did and it saved him like $9 a month. I couldn't but my provider is horseshit.
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>>76216530
t. Schlomo Shillstein
Bristol, CT
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>>76216549
What was the process and what is his provider's name?
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>>76216549
the shills have arrived

>muh ratings
>nuh cord cutting
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>>76216520
>You can cancel ESPN
Not how that works. Channels are bundled.
Sure you can get rid of the sports bundle but you also lose other non espn channels

>Thousands of providers
What?
Verizon, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish, and Direct TV isn't thousands
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>>76216534
And you seem to fail to recognize how huge ESPN is relative to the rest of the series of channels in a normal cable subscription. It literally is $9 out of your monthly cable bill. That's a fucking lot for a channel(s).

It is one of the main stays for cable subscriptions, yet people are cutting them regardless because they aren't worth staying for. Particularly for the cheaper options you mentioned.

And I never mentioned liberal bias being the particular thing that's destroying ESPN, but straight denying it is also ludicrous when just about every person and their mother is vocal about a lot of the shit they are shoving down people's throat.

Cable subscribers wouldn't cut their cord if they had a reason to stay and watch ESPN, but the quality has gone down, and so they don't.
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>>76216530
>>76216530
>>76216530
>shit show isn't doing well (Yes, Jemele Hill I'm looking at you)

she dindu
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Guys how do I get every last drop of pee out when I urinate? Tired of it dripping out 15 minutes later and making my undies smell
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>>76216563
That's a question I don't have the answer to unfortunately. I mean we are just small town dudes in Minnesota so you are sure as hell not going to get a cable package from "Sjobergs Cable & Internet" lol
But I'm wicked jelly of him since his setup costs less with tons of movie channels
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>>76216575
yep ESPN gets money off the top of EVERY cable subscription. In fact, more than any other non-subscription channel.

these shills are LYING
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>>76216549
>>76216520
>Also yes you can cancel ESPN from your cable package.
Straight up talking out of your ass, you underage kiddo
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>>76216343
So you'll cry tears of joy when your son has his dick lopped off and turned inside to be like his hero Caitlyn
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>>76216584
take your under pants of when you pee
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>>76216587
Are you an advocate of a free market?
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>>76216577
>Every other person
Conservative news rags and Clay Travis isn't everyone.

>Cable subscribers wouldn't cut their cord if they had a reason to stay and watch ESPN

Yeah every cable user makes the decision based off of ESPN apparently. How fucking dumb is that?

You know you can watch FS1/NBC/league networks instead of ESPN and keep cable.
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SOROS
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>>76216590
>>76216575
Mmm, bye.
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>>76216370
>>76216399
Actually 20% that I counted.

Arthur Blank (Falcons)
Zygi Wilf (Vikings)
Stephen Ross (Dolphins)
Robert Kraft (Patriots)
Glazer family (Buccaneers)
Dan Snyder (Redskins)
and Steve Tisch (50% of the Giants)

6.5 / 32 = 20.3%
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>>76216587
Yes that's why saying a liberal bias is causing the decline in ESPN's profits is ridiculous

Who cuts off all the channels to spite ESPN? If you do that you're even more pathetic than ESPN's faux liberal garbage
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>>76216605
>Conservative news rags and Clay Travis isn't everyone.
What. Every fucking average person complains about ESPN now. Have you ever fucking been to Twitter even?

>ESPN is the only reason people cancel their subscriptions
Putting words in my mouth. It is not the only reason. But it is a plenty big reason, considering its the MOST expensive part of your fucking cable bill. But not the only reason.
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>>76216607
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>>76216543
>regular host
When?
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>>76215437
>cord cutting on the rise since netflix introduction 8 year ago
>Viewership drop across all television ratings, regardless of genre or network
>YOU ARE LOSING BECAUSE OF PANDERING TO LIBRUHLS XDDD

/pol/ fuck off
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If you watch ESPN you need to be fucking euthanized
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>>76216531
>he's right
But he's not.
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>>76216623
Every average person? Can you show me the study that shows that? Because I sure as hell didn't cut cable because of ESPN


>Putting words in my mouth
Nope I quoted you. You said people cut cable because of ESPN.
Why the fuck would I stop myself from being able to watch CBS because of ESPN's bullshit? If that is the case you take sports too seriously
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>>76216641
There's people in this very thread who said they have stopped watching for that very reason
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>>76216641
They literally cut off half of their potential fanbase.
You're a moron if you don't see this.

Pic related got fired because he's a conservative even though his show was one of the highest rated shows on TV
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>>76216447
/pol/ has really ruined 4chan
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>>76216623
>considering its the MOST expensive part of your fucking cable bill

Now see you're a bit confused. ESPN is the most expensive 3rd party rights your provider purchased, but the majority of your bill has nothing to do with those channel rights. The most expensive part of a cable bill is general fee bloat that costs much more than the generally quoted figure of $7 per subscriber for ESPN.
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>>76216656
Cutting the cord isn't the same as stop watching ESPN. You can easily watch FS1 or another channel instead
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>>76216641
People are cutting the cord because of Netflix and other cheaper options as you mentioned

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Ratings dropping across the board, channels losing viewerships.

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Most are still doing fine in their own broadcasting bubbles, but....

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ESPN is failing because they signed horrible contracts with leagues for broadcasting rights and are putting up terrible shows, and as a result they can't handle the viewership drops.

How do you idiots not get this?
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>>76216667
>Pic related got fired because he's a conservative
not even remotely true
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>>76216620
Al Davis' kid too.

I'm pretty sure it's 25%
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>>76216674
You said differently in your very post.
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>>76216676
This
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>>76216676
most people do get it. Some people just like having their conspiracy wet dreams since that is easier than trying to deal with the real world.
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>>76216679
Yeah, 7.5 = 23.4%
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How do we get more BBC in baseball bros?
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>>76215904
As an actual pro athlete and someone with intimate knowledge of the journalism world this is basically the best answer you're going to get
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>>76216621
ESPN isn't really a business.

Why do you think the 'commercials' are pharmaceuticals, AARP and fucking the proven Jewish front Kars4Kids?

They don't give a fuck about money.

They're gonna broadcast their propaganda one way or the other.
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>>76215437
No

Cable is dying.

ESPN is the most expensive cable channel by a lot and relies on a subscription based business model.

ESPN is losing revenue and viewership due to Cable's slow and painful death.

The bad sports deals have hastened ESPN's demise. Having the CFB playoff on New Years Eve, MNF, NBA, etc. All these deals were poorly thought out and ultimately caused ESPN to lay off a shit ton of jobs

The mothership could be a conservative mouthpiece, a pure sports with no commentary channel, or a liberal mouthpiece. it still wouldn't change the network's fate. EPSN will eventually die or go 100% online. Adapt or die

The older generations, that actively watch and pay for cable, are dying off while the younger generations are abandoning cable for the internet. They aren't interested in 2-3 east coast talking heads regurgitating opinions about sports teams and athletes. They want instant gratification. They want to either watch the game, or see the best parts of the game and then the resulting memes that come from the game. they aren't going to wait through 40 minutes of sportscenter in order to see their team's highlights.
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>>76216656
Those people are either autistic kids or /pol/ thinking it's edgy to be racist.
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>>76216686
If I'm sick of ESPN I'll watch a different channel, not end my cable subscription.

If I want to end my cable subscription it's because of it's expensive
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>>76216676


so what does Kornheiser and Wilbon do?

>this is what people really want to know!
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>>76216678
Then why? Why the fuck else was his show cancelled? One of the highest rated shows on TV like I said. There was absolutely no reason to cancel it.
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>>76216699
>Why do you think the 'commercials' are pharmaceuticals, AARP and fucking the proven Jewish front Kars4Kids?

kek, 100% true


these aren't real advertisers

>muh cord cutting


shills THICK itt


wouldn't want anyone telling the truth
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>>76216714
retire and be glad they were able to coast as mediocre sportwriters to huge salaries
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>>76216719
Costs and production issues between studios
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>>76216729
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>>76216699
/pol/ please go
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>>76216656
No one's denying they don't exist, but let's not act like they're THE number 1 reason ESPN is failing. they're an insignificant drop in the pond at best.

Half of the US can't even be assed to vote and you think they're drop their cable packages altogether just because of Colin Kaepernick shenanigans?
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How do we get more giant Mandingo cock in swimming bros?
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>>76216726
>Kars4Kids
Literally an Orthodox Jew front


On ESPN all of the fucking time
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>>76216371
That's an interesting take. The amount of coverage the Warriors get and the extensive Kaepernick shilling has been so noticeable lately. I think baseball and hockey are still trapped in East Coast bias though.
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>>76216751
>>76216751
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>>76216719
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=why+was+last+man+standing+canceled

i know reading articles is propaganda and fake news to your fragile mind. but you should try it sometime.
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>>76216702
Yeah what a totally unforeseen thing to say: stop watching a channel once they decide to put sports on the backburner.
I mean come on, right?
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>>76216698
Oni, I just looked up your high school. Pretty sure I know some of your HS teammates.
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>>76216383
Either way it's pathetic how much these arguers instead of commentators try everything they can to not talk about sports, but to talk about identity politics and the so-called "cultural divide" that "has to be discussed" regardless of who you are politically.

I just want sports talk, not more politics, I've had a good damn enough and I live in a liberal city so there you have it.
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>>76216356
>Progressivism
American bullshit to try to disprove the dialectical revolutionary theories of
>Communism
A revolutionary movement built on dialectical philosophy that the lower class will seize power from the upper class in a likely violent revolution often times it's confused with communal living like the Kibutzim in Israel founded during the early days of
>Zionism
A Jewish nationalist ideology that arose around the idea of uniting Jewish people into a nation-state as opposed to a disparate group of people who were a often discriminated against minority in every country in Europe. It happened in 1948 and they fought a bunch of wars with Arabs who didn't like them. They were sort of social democrats until the 80s with
>Globalism
Which is just a word conservatives and edgy /pol/ tards use for Neoliberalism, an ideology that took root in Israel with the rise of Menaham Begin and the Likud Party.
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>>76216769

Who needs sports

let's talk about Lebron's cock and the Kardashian's
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How do we get more hard veiny gigantic black penis into rock climbing bros?
Find out at 8am on ESPN
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>>76216607
FIXED

they made such clowns of themselves....baka


and yeah, ESPN = Israel

duh
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>>76216394
They've been talking about race almost relentlessly ever since Kaepernick knelt for the anthem. Hell even in early 2016 not a single person there talked about "race issues."
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>>76216769
>stop watching a channel once they decide to put sports on the backburner
But sports is not on the backburner

>Implying you can fill 24 hours of television without talking about other shit

What are we doing right now? Of course the media is gonna be progressive neoliberals, it's marketed as an inoffensive ideology.
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>>76216776
thanks for correcting the record Schlomo
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>>76216776
wtf is revolutionary about communism lmfao
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>>76216759
It's mostly because west coast baseball has sucked for the last decade, save for the even year Giants, and west coast hockey is limited to California and Vaughncover until Seattle gets its Arena shit sorted out.
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>>76216783
are you going to fuck a rock?
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>>76216795
read a book, champ
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>>76216701
Reddit: The Post
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>>76216802
you Israeli niggas are truly shameless
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>>76216802
Which one?
I'm reading Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzche now
Communism is meme tier
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All they have to do is stop giving shows to Jemele "Jiggaboo Dindu" Hill and Michael Smiff and they would literally instantly be doing better.

NO ONE likes them. NONE.

Instead they give them prime time slots. For what reason, I will never know.
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>>76216812
>reading Nietzche
>"Communism is meme tier"
Pot, meet kettle.
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>>76216806
/pol/ poster: extreme downs edition
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>>76216812
>Communism is meme tier
maybe it is but the post I replied to illustrates a significant gap in basic understanding of human history
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>>76216776
>communism
>revolutionary
>Kibutzim
Do we have a happy merchant in this thread?
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>>76216802
Reminder: Marx and Lennon where Jews
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>>76216806
how about using a counter argument and providing some evidence to refute those claims rather than just crawling back to the >m-muh leddit defense?
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>>76216814
I don't think people would suddenly re-subscribe to their cable overlords just because ESPN dropped a shitty program.
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>>76216806
Why the fuck is 4chan obsessed with reddit?
You have to go on reddit to know what it's like to insult others by calling them reddit, right?
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>>76216829
Reminder: Water is wet.
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>>76216829
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>>76216840
>this post

>>>/reddit/
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>>76216768
>he actually believes there was any other reason besides because Tim is a conservative

Your brain must be clean as fuck, being washed so much.

>>76216829
>lennon
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>>76216816
Just got it at the library because wanted something fun. To be quite honest senpai.
It's ok so far.
>>76216821
That's if you're under the impression communism was only tried in the last 100 years or so.
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>>76216829
Lennon wasn't a Jew, he used to make fun of people for being Jewish
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>>76216851
>he used to make fun of people for being Jewish
ever seen a jewish comedian?
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>>76216851
>Lennon
Did he also make fun of McCartney for being a bitch?
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>>76216860
No, but why the fuck is a musician even relevant to this discussion? Because he made the song "Imagine"?
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Lennon was from England
he was British
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>>76216829
Mark David Chapman did nothing wrong
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Assuming that the guy meant to write Lenin, Lenin didn't even know he was a Jew though I'm almost positive you'll deny that

Every conspiracy theory fag views evidence against them as evidence for their theory
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>>76216774
Wouldn't surprise me if you're from the Metroplex lol
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>>76216882
I'm not but I know a few people there.
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>>76216816
Confirmed for plebus maximus who can only comprehend literature on the most basic level rather than spend time savoring and developing meanings.

Protip: it's about how man will turn to chaos without God/the highest value held and man's search for purpose in the world to keep him occupied and finding meaning.
But you probably thought "God is dead" was the end all be all and finished it there.
Go back to SparkNotes
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>>76216898
you're a bit dense huh?
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>>76216851
>>76216862
>>76216867
>>76216868
>>76216872
not gonna lie there my ads, I pee'd a little
11/10, some moddy pin and lock this thread
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>>76216915
t. brainlet
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>>76216928
>he doesn't get it
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>>76216898
Fucking kek, /lit/fags are so pathetic.

>muh philosophical wankery reflects intellectual prowess
>you didn't like it because you're too dumb to understand it!
lol, no, it's plain enough to understand, it's just not engaging unless you're a pleb.
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>>76215563
What did he say when you came out to him as a Kekistani?
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>>76216941
>those times when you're in an argument and you realize you're wrong but you keep going rather than just be like "Oh damn"
Pack it in faggots.
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>>76215437
>la la la tans, gay, and black people don't exist if I pretend they don't exist la la la I can't hear you la la la
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>>76216956
This won't get you anywhere lad. You've posted a repetitive 3/10 in a thread that already blew up.
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>>76216955
>when a /lit/pleb thinks shitflinging over useless philosophical wank constitutes "debate"

Oh my heavens!

>a lit/fag/ has THIS poor of a grasp of English vocabulary
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>>76216955
there's no argument. the guy just called you a meme and you launched into a book review. go sniff your own farts now that you've proved him correct.
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>>76216967
I barely go there. It's a dogshit board where 1/4th of the posters are only there for the fucking Lolita general.
But regardless the book has a meaning about man's drive and purpose in life, be it religious or through the high held values, to become a superman. It isn't about "le gods not real, tip fedoras"
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>>76215828

Yes, because Cowherd Show with Lavarr Ball BS and Undisputed are much better. (Sarcasm)
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>>76217402
Once /sp/ stops paying attention to ESPN's downfall it will turn on FS1
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>>76215437
>tfw you thought that the ESPN being a sjw shitshow was a meme

I regret my curiosity. ESPN is a load of utter shit. How did it get so bad, 'Murricans?
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today on espn
3 black guys talking over each other with a limited grasp of the english language while a cute blonde tries to corral them into moving onto the next segment

repeat x5
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>>76216394
About the only culture that fetishized race as much as us was the Soviet Union. Collectivism and race go hand and hand.
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>>76216447
Your types are the ones that ingratiated politics into places it had no business and you're just seeing the blowback. Little simple things you take blindly as complete good like Title IX are horribly destructive affirmative action programs but you're so blinded to what you've been fed your whole life you probably see nothing political at all about it.
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>>76215702
Around the Horn ended when Jay Mariotti was ousted
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