Who's down-voting me? Am I wrong, or do the Norks have internet now?

Not quite appeasement. Trump has been applying maximum pressure to get Kim to the negotiating table. Now that he's playing ball we have to make some concessions. Everyone involved understands that this is the best chance of avoiding a war that Kim wouldn't survive, we're still negotiating from a position of strength.

The Pope does. Doesn't his word take precedence since the New Testament never said anything about gays?

One kinda important guy in the Bible did say "Love that neighbor".
Good thing I ain't Christian

Kathy from Church is literally ISIS

Ha!

Because they aren't saying:
"here's a problem, let's fix it", they are saying:
"I'm more enlightened than you, and I'm gonna prove I care by disrespecting the flag and anthem your uncle, brothers, and friends killed, suffered, and died to defend! Because I know better than every idiot that would dare serve or respect a nation that has the audacity to not shame and convict every Law Enforcement Officer to do their jobs".
There's a difference.

Did you read my second to last comment on this thread?

I seem to be in the middle of half of them, but I don't find out until later

They aren't trying to make anything better. They're self-righteous wannabes who are starting shit over a narrative that was proven false.
It ain't about the cloth, it's about what that cloth represents.

They weren't protesting the police, they were protesting the United States of America.
That's what it means to kneel to the flag during the national anthem.
That symbol is why us soldiers choose to fight and put our lives on the line. That flag will be and has been draped over our coffins, given to our parents, wives, or sons to symbolize what we agreed to trade our lives for.
Symbolic speech may be protected by the constitution we swore to defend, but it still hurts to see that speech directed against us from the very people and culture our fathers and brothers have died to defend. And it fucking stings for those attacks to come from the rich and famous that so many of us and our families look up to or simply enjoy watching play on the rare holiday we get to enjoy at home.
Nothing about my patriotism is "over the top". Every little comment like that, every passive aggressive jab people have been taking at me, mine, and our nation is getting really fucking tired, really fucking fast.

It's disrespectful to the troops, yeah, but I thought the issue was that they were using a unifying event as a platform for divisive protest.

I hope so. Thanks brother

Stubborn discord is good, bull-headed ignorance is not.

I thought the issue with kneeling was that the players were "on the clock" and made their bosses look bad.
Nevermind that "hands up, don't shoot" was proven wrong.
Then again, I don't watch Fox News...

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" - George Orwell
You have the right to speak, you do not have the right to only hear what you want to.

I don't