This (Sha'carri)

[cilla4progress]

Link to tweet

?s=19

[Ohio Joe]

1. K & R - nt

[redstatebluegirl]

2. K&R

[cilla4progress]

3. The Onion

Link to tweet

?s=19

[George McGovern]

7. Thank You for posting this from the Onion, cilla4progress.

it is so sadly true. Gold medals tarnished at the feet of dreams denied.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. This x 1000

[Traildogbob]

5. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[FailureToCommunicate]

6. Yup.

[Demovictory9]

8. Yep!

[ananda]

9. This reply nails the double standards!

Link to tweet

[Sympthsical]

12. Lochte didn't make it.

Alas, age gets everyone. Besides, he's a sex idiot.

[gulliver]

10. Who is the source?

Whenever I see "defund the police," I assume its source is anti-Democrat and anti-Progressive. The tweet content could be the bait. I don't disagree with it. But the foolish DTP heading might be the intended "propaganda payload," as it is destructive to the good side. If we don't know who this person is and can't vouch for them, I'd be very concerned they are pro-Trump, pro-Russian pawns. This is the world we live in wrt social media unfortunately.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. What does "wrt" mean and do you seriously not know

Who Bree Newsome is?

[Wounded Bear]

14. With respect to, or with regard to...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WRT

Initialism of with respect to.
Initialism of with regard to.
Initialism of with reference to.

[wellst0nev0ter]

15. This is the source

In other words, she's an activist, not a mealymouthed politician.

It would do our side better to work with activists instead of alienate them.

[ChubbyStar]

17. I think Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels to try and explain insularity

Everyone should read it.

[gulliver]

20. Agreed. Everyone should.

[gulliver]

19. Please. That's a credential for trustworthiness and leadership worthiness?

I applaud removing the Confederate flag and, as I said, the content of her tweet in the OP. That doesn't mean she's not a Russian or Trump pawn, witting or unwitting. It doesn't mean she's not a fool or mere attention seeker.

Read the heading she put on her tweet. It's foolish and devastating for the cause of the good side. The fact that she has a "name" (to some who may confer status too blithely) only makes it worse.

If Bill Cosby, Ralph Nader, or Edward Snowden backed the athlete at the center of this controversy, I don't think it would be considered a good thing, although it would get a lot of retweets. The tweet quoted in the OP is not the kind of support the athlete or the Dems need. It's arguably harmful to both, arguably an attempt to gain publicity by the tweeter at the expense of the athlete.

Name recognition means nothing. Gravitas and a track record, however, do mean something.

[wellst0nev0ter]

22. If you're going to immediately dismiss someone because she believes in "defund"

Then good luck finding progress with your smaller tent.

[triron]

21. Swift arrest for her yet the lead instigator of the Capitol insurrection walks free.

[wellst0nev0ter]

23. And now apparently we shouldn't listen to her because she hates the police

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. lol wow

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. We've come a long way from Jesse Owens dominance in Berlin in 1936

A long way In the wrong direction.

[triron]

18. Ooh, that smarts!

Great!