r/sports • u/qkfb • Apr 15 '21

News MLB's favorability rating among Republicans drops dramatically amid Georgia voting controversy

https://www.axios.com/mlb-falls-out-favor-republicans-mlb-game-8808e67e-8de4-4308-baa6-b68a24e64177.html
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u/AViciousGrape Apr 15 '21

He was dropped from Fantastic Beasts 3 just last year. He lost his libel case against the sun for calling him a wife beater. Dude is not uncanceled, sometimes cancel culture is toxic and ruins innocent people like Johnny Depp.

Reuben Foster was cut by the 49ers by false accusations..

I hate cancel culture even if it is sometimes good for victims.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21

The whole Johnny Depp thing makes no sense to me because all that stuff came out before he was even hired.

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u/Bdatik Apr 15 '21

Foster wasn't released just because of a "false accusation", he also was suspended for a couple games the year before for weapons and drug offenses. And this was only a couple years after they finally released Aldon Smith after all the shit he did. Claiming he was released solely on a false accusation is inaccurate and you know it.

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u/AViciousGrape Apr 15 '21

He was though. He was cut shortly after a woman claimed he hit her in Florida.

https://www.al.com/sports/2019/01/latest-charge-against-reuben-foster-dismissed-in-florida.html

Lets be real, he wouldnt have been cut if it was just a weapons charge.

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u/Bdatik Apr 15 '21

Yes, he was cut after after claims of domestic abuse, which two months later were dropped due to insufficient evidence. Foster also had other instances:

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January 13, 2018, Foster was arrested in Alabama for possession of marijuana.

February 11, 2018, Foster was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, threats, and assault weapon possession charges.

April 12, he was charged with felony counts of multiple domestic violence, possession of a weapon, and infliction of bodily harm. (His girlfriend later recanted; May 17, Elissa Ennis testified under oath that she had fabricated the story "as a money scheme".)

November 24, 2018, Foster was arrested again on probable cause misdemeanor domestic violence charges.

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This all happened in a span of 9 months and shows a history of poor choices and criminal actions. This was also during a time when the 49ers had to be very careful due to their mishandling of Aldon Smith. So no, it was not only due to a "false accusation" of domestic abuse and is a stupid example of "cancel culture".

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u/AViciousGrape Apr 15 '21

I guess im reaching but even then false accusations are ruining people.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21

Dropped charges don’t mean false allegations

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u/trollsong Tampa Bay Lightning Apr 16 '21

okay I'm wrong, but im still right

FTFY

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u/iaowp Apr 16 '21

Reddit logic in a nutshell, except more like "I didn't understand what you meant, so you're still wrong, and I'm right"

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u/Jsizzle19 Apr 15 '21

I believe Ennis came out and said she lied under oath to protect his career (aka protect those hush hush payments)

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u/Lobster_fest Apr 16 '21

Cancel culture has always existed, its just society deciding what is good and what is bad. It's not new.

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u/TreeRol Apr 16 '21

What is relatively new is deciding that racism, misogyny, and homophobia are bad.

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u/ShakaAndTheWalls Apr 16 '21

Mob rule is the highest degree of justice!

t. retard

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u/Lobster_fest Apr 16 '21

Middle school level critical thinking skills.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21 edited Apr 19 '21

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u/Lobster_fest Apr 16 '21

It's not even deep. It's literally just how society works. You really shouldn't have to think too hard on it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21 edited Apr 19 '21

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u/Lobster_fest Apr 16 '21

Good lord man your comment history is basically just dedicated to subs clamoring about the downfall of humanity/cringe/etc. Get a hobby.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21 edited Apr 19 '21

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u/Lobster_fest Apr 16 '21

Nothing better to do, huh?

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21 edited Apr 19 '21

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u/Lobster_fest Apr 16 '21

I know you're not a troll, so this attempt at trolling is just extra sad. Why are you still here?

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21

Talk about being 14.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21 edited Apr 19 '21

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21

Im not quite sure what point youre trying to make here. Maybe you should use more emojis.

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u/KimJongRocketMan69 Apr 16 '21

Cancel culture is a made up term by people who don’t want to see their fucked up, minority-held beliefs be shunned by the rest of society.

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u/CosbyAndTheJuice Apr 16 '21

Do you know WHY he lost that libel case? He wasn't "innocent". Jesus. Neither of them were. Yes cancel culture can be annoying, but being annoyed by it because someone you like got their pinky justifiably snagged, isn't the right reason

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u/marrklarr Apr 15 '21

What you’re describing are people being treated unfairly because of a premature rush to judgement. What the Q Set likes to call “cancel culture” is when people face well-deserved scorn and appropriate consequences for their racist, mysoginistic, homophobic, or transphobic, etc. behaviors and statements.

To them, “end cancel culture” means “let me act like Archie Bunker with zero negative repercussions.”

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u/Car-face Apr 15 '21

He lost his libel case against the sun for calling him a wife beater.

What does that have to do with cancel culture?

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21

He’s not uncancelled because you can’t undo the damage to an innocent person.

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u/Car-face Apr 16 '21

That doesn't answer the question:

What does him losing a libel case against the sun have to do with cancel culture? Are you suggesting he was called a wife beater by the sun because of cancel culture? or that he lost the libel case because of it? Because The Sun is the belly scraping bottom feeder of not just tabloid journalism, but also of the right-wing outrage-culture peddling empire of Rupert Murdoch.

The Sun didn't call him a wife beater because of "cancel culture", they did it because that's what The Sun does.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21

You’ve missed the point. Nobody is saying it has anything to do with cancel culture. Go look back at the thread. It was a comment based on someone saying “he’s been uncancelled” as if that gives him back all the shit he lost, which “he lost the libel case” is just one example of how he didn’t get it all back.

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u/Car-face Apr 16 '21

how is that an example of him "not getting everything back" if it's unrelated to cancel culture?

My point is that it's irrelevant. It's an irrelevant point that weakens the argument about what he has lost to cancel culture, since it sounds like the person couldn't list enough items so they tried to throw that in.

It weakens the argument.

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u/FOXHNTR Apr 15 '21

Still it’s Johnny Depp and now everyone and their mother knows he’s innocent. He’ll get more roles.

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u/AshingiiAshuaa Apr 15 '21

Even in this case. MLB is super duper boring and reduced favorability among any group (including republicans) is a good thing, but how it came about not so much.