What surprised you today?

[Punjabi]

The number of (American) football players who did not kneel for the national anthem.

Only one team had any sort of unified resistance, and that had less to do with general racial tension, and more to do with some inflammatory comments made by the team owner.

But let’s start at the beginning. Last year.

Colin Kaepernick kneeled for the national anthem as a way to protest police violence against black men. He was accused of spreading dissent

No one much cared. A couple of people kneeled with him. Then he got released from the team, in a move the team insists is completely unrelated.

Color me skeptical.

This year rolled around, and more players started to kneel. One team even had a moment of silence before the national anthem.

But the movement started dying. Fewer players were kneeling. Colin Kaepernick was never hired by another team.

Then while the motion would’ve quietly ground to a halt, the Glorious Cheeto, Donald Trump himself stepped in.

Over a period of three days, he tweeted 24 times concerning the national anthem. How disgraceful the protests were. How immature. How wrong.

What happened next was almost funny.

Every single team had a display of defiance during their game that week. From linking arms to sitting down, to in one case not coming on to the field at all, and staying in the tunnel.


It’s a little embarassing how our president is disrespected to the point of public, unified disobedience among the demographic (rich men) who were supposed to be his biggest supporters.

The demonstration shut him up. And then it was all back to normal. Very few and far between protests, both of the last two weeks.

The football players didn’t protest en masse because they believed in the cause. If they were, it would’ve happened every week. They protested against the inept leadership of Donald Trump.

Well played NFL. Well played.

[Punjabi]

We are well aware of the ‘Salman Khan’s Hit & Run’ case. It was a decade long and his stardom made it very high profile. During this tenure Salman manipulated everything using his political and economical pressure. And finally he managed to flee out of the Indian Judiciary system. Every Indian knows that It was Salman khan who was drunk and thrashed the people on the roads. But still nobody could do anything against him.


But he is not the only one who has done it, there are lot more people in the list. One of them is the son of India’s prominent business tycoon “Akash Mukesh Ambani”.


On the evening of December 8, a customised Aston Martin worth Rs.4.5 crore registered to the Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Ports under number MH 01 BK 99, was cruising down Pedder Road in Mumbai's posh South Bombay suburb, when the driver lost control.

The car was going at such high speed that it banged into an Audi being driven by a Ghatkopar resident - a 25-year-old MBA student called Foram Ruparel - causing the car to jump the divider and hit an oncoming bus.

The Aston Martin in the meanwhile also hit a Hyundai Elantra, owned by Vikram Mishra, a resident of Thane who works at a pharmaceutical firm. One of the passengers in his car was a pregnant woman, who sustained injuries.


Mumbai Mirror, have already pointed out that it was Akash Ambani, son of the richest industrialist in the country, Mukesh Ambani, who was on the driver’s seat when the accident, took place at 1:30 am in the early hours of 8 December. Unsubstantiated reports on social media immediately after the Peddar Road incident had hinted at two people losing their lives in the Aston Martin hit-and-run case, but these links and posts were either removed from the websites or led to dead links soon after the news spread, albeit in trickles.

So, this was the incident of 2014, when the UPA government was in the rule. We are very much aware of BJP and Ambani relations and how Ambani funded the party in recent time.

Also, Ambani’s ‘Reliance Industries Ltd’ purchased the stake in one of India's largest media companies--Network 18 Media and Investments Ltd.

Network18 owns TV channels (including CNBC TV18, CNN-IBN, CNN Awaz), websites (firstpost, moneycontrol), magazines (including the license for Forbes India), entertainment channel (Colors, MTV and Homeshop Entertainment) among other businesses. RIL said it's board approved funding of 4,000 crore rupees (or roughly $730 million) to Independent Media Trust (IMT), of which RIL is the sole beneficiary” for taking over Network18.

This means that no one has a dare to print this news. Ambani literally manipulates the news in the India and they decide what has to be shown to the people.

This is the irony of the world. People talk about the freedom and progress but still the aristocracy thrashes the commoners in a ruthless way. This is the shocking thing that I read today. This can happen with anyone. Most of the people wont care unless and until they face anything like this. But there’s no point in laughing on someone’s spilled milk. There are number of ways in which we are being affected in a daily life. Its just that we dont realize it. The government is looting people in every sense. As we can see the recent policies made by the RBI about the transaction charges. There’s a ‘Vijay Mallaya’ who committed a fraud of thousands of crores and living a happy life in abroad. And there are people who are paying taxes for breathing in life as well.

[chokomenia]

Today I was surprised that my account get unlocked . So I can now start posting.  I opened an account and was told my account have some evil activities. I have been trying for days to find solution. Just today I find a solution and it was unlocked.  I went to freebitcoin site got some bitcoin and used it to unlock it. I am so happy for it and it's welcome to bitcointalk for me

[alexros20]

When my girlfriend wants to break up with me..

[FFFFound]

Canadians not giving a shit the tar sand are helping accelerate climate change.

[orphendwight]

My X added me on IG.

[rosesmith]

My children didn't want to go to school today.

[AtomicDoge]

It was just an ordinary day

[hknmtt]

The news that the russian plane that crashed some days ago maybe have been due to human failure. Just imagine being responsible for the death of 71, even if it was an accident...

[paternoster05]

That I'm still alive even though I'm wasting it, somewhat the man from above still give me another day. I dont know if I should be grateful or something but I do know that life is important so I try not to do suicide.

[paulwallyall]

IT WAS SUNNY IN SEATTLE... AND IT'S FEBRUARY.

I get so much energy and happiness from sunshine.

[vitalik_little55]

I own 2 dogs and 2 cats. All of which are males. Usually, the cats are the ones I have to clean up after in terms of puke. I seem to step in it more often than not. On my way to make my morning coffee, I slide on the floor through you guessed it, puke. I thought it was another hairball but no... It was a LARGE amount of dog vomit and it was in three different places. Apparently, my dog thought it would be a good idea to eat half the sofa and then puked it up all over the kitchen. He is still new here, 8 months old and adopted from a shelter. So that was fun lol

[chokomenia]

Wake up today and it happen out water supplying channel spoil and there is no water in the house. I was surprised that my elder brother went down the street to get some water for the whole family. I still can't believe it

[orphencali]

I'm surprised, I'm now a Jr. Member. Wow!

[shawncole]

I'm surprised with my new mindset. The mind can adapt good viewpoint if you feed it with right thoughts.

[coindawan]

Too much snowing.

[Lionfortis178]

My train was on time for once lol

[KomodoStrikes]

I was surprised i am about to recover my loss in bitcoin.
I've invested bitcoin at 12K U$D, went down to almost 5K U$D but it rises back with a price around 11K U$D now.
Now, i really learned the essence of HODLing the hard way.

[baeboy30]

I get surprised today with my family because they give me something special

[cristinaxx]

I'm surprised that I'm a Jr member already so amazing.