FISCAL YEAR 2022 “NBA” $10.58 BILLION C Annual Salary CEO: ADAM SILVER $10 MILLION Donation to Endangered Wildlife Charities “0”
HOORAY to BASKETBALL !!!! In what can only be defined as an anomaly, (8) of the (30) teams that comprise the National Basketball Association are named after “SENTIENT” animals. In what also can only be defined as an anomaly, (1) ONE of WHICH ARE CLASSIFIED AS ENDANGERED. The closest they came was the “TIMBERWOLVES” and that is more of a description than an actual species, the record is not one of profiteering off an endangered species. That being said, the “GRIZZLIES” are precarious from year to year from “Threatened” and “Endangered”. Some argue they should be de-listed due to danger to livestock, but at the printing of these words they are PROTECTED. This is great news as it gives the NBA such a great margin to get involved regardless. The NBA did indeed donate “$30 MILLION” of the $10.58 BILLION or 0.283% to various social and community charities. WOW, I bet they felt that on the bottom line. They also have the ONLY EXTINCT animal on the roster with the “RAPTORS“. Like I said, an “anomaly”. Don’t break your shoulder patting yourself on the back.
ONE NOTE THAT
WOULD BE REMISS TO MENTION IN THIS REGARD, IS THAT “NBA”
PLAYERS – CONTRIBUTE MORE INDIVIDUALLY TO CHARITIES THAN THAT OF THEIR EMPLOYERS. ( NOT NECESSARILY TO WILDLIFE CHARITIES, BUT WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT WILL CHANGE).
One LAST MENTION in the context of being FAIR– is bringing up the SAN JOSE SHARKS of the “NHL” or National Hockey League.
I bring up this team and this “mascot”, only because it truly exemplifies EXACTLY the point I am making in this section, and the level of “I DON’T GIVE A SHIT!!” that is reaches.
In 1975, Steven Spielberg, a young director, made the movie “JAWS” A low budget scream fest based off the Peter Benchley book. Unless you live under a rock, or are a teenager with no internet, you know it was about a shark. In the years since, Steven has gone on to direct some of the most important and prolific celluloid ever to hit a cinema screen now widely considered the BEST DIRECTOR in the world. Last statement of course subject to interpretation. What is NOT subject to any interpretation is his inclusion in the (1%) with a net worth of ($4.8 BILLION).
“JAWS” went on to be a massive success, and even today the mere sound of the score is enough to make people get out of a swimming pool.
So here I am, well over 40 years later, and I can easily and confidently state that Steven Spielberg is more responsible for the death of another living thing than anyone on the planet. PERIOD. Does it make him a horrible person?…….No. Just one hell of a director.
I’m going to get back to the NHL, grant me a few lines here.
In this movie, the Shark, seems to take a personal interest in the family of Roy Scheider. Thus compounding the issue by making him an Anti-Semitic shark.
Let me wrap this up. Sharks have been on this planet dating back almost (430 MILIION) years ago. They have a brain that is shaped loosely like a “Y”, and has 3 distinct separate parts., normally weighing less than (1.5 ounces).
It’s interesting that the shark has (3) parts of it’s brain, in that it essentially exists to do (3) things.
SWIM
EAT
BREED
For (430 MILLION YEARS)!!!! No room to start a BLOOD FEUD with the co-star of “The French Connection“.
Yet since that movie hit the consciousness of the world, mixed with the paranoia of not knowing what is happening underwater, the Shark has been vilified. When in REALITY, we can’t live without them.
So today, almost 50 years after “JAWS”, you rarely hear the word shark with “attack“. Which is BULLSHIT!!!! It’s more accurately a shark “mistake“. See, sharks don’t like (Homo Sapiens). They feed on seals, and walruses due to the “blubber“. That is why the majority of “interactions” with (Homo Sapiens) consist of a bite.
Anyone ever get a box of chocolate and you bite one and it tastes like shit? Same thing.
They were expecting a seal, not “Dylan” on a fiberglass board, caked in Hawaiian Tropic.
Which brings me back to the NHL, and the undisputed winner of having your head up your ASS. In 2022– (57) recorded “interactions’ with sharks. In 2022– (100 MILLION) sharks KILLED each year and growing.
SAN JOSE SHARKS donation to Shark preservation, A big, fucking, ZERO- there is your (1%)’s. It’s their EARTH, your just staying in it.
The “Baby Boomers” and “Gen-X’ers” have literally allowed them to take the planet..
Who the fuck are they to say that is “OK“?
POWER UP all you MILLENIALS and GEN-Z’ers. No two generations have been counted on for less than yours. They expect you to be the dumb, apathetic, shitheads, they think you are. They are COUNTING on it. Continue to argue between “WOKE” and “RED“, they could give a SHIT.
Think they want you “organized ” against the way they are going to leave the planet for your kids or grandkids? Your CRAZY!!
Think GREEN and NOT BLUE or RED. If you don’t, then GOD help the future.
NOW you are seeing why
doesn’t want your money. It’s no different than lighting it on fire.
YOU need it,
KEEP it.
The gap is simply too large. We WANT TO WORK HAND IN HAND with the power brokers of the world. We want an equitable and fair percentage of the profit that is being STOLEN from future generations. But it will be an open discussion, with shared opinions. We will no longer settle for the scraps you deem worthy.
WE ARE GOING TO STOP THE KILLING OF RHINOS WITH “OPERATION TRIAGE”.
AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND SEEK CHANGE.
LISTEN TO OUR CONCERNS, OR WE WILL STOP BUYING YOUR SHIT!!!!
IF YOU MAKE PROFITS OFF ANIMALS, THE OCEAN, THE ENVIRONMENT, YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ASSURE IT’S PROTECTED.
NOT YOUR GOLDEN PARACHUTES. QUITE SIMPLY……..FUCK YOU!
RESEARCH what you BUY!
DEMAND accountability!
VOTE and remind them they are our BITCH!
Lastly, I have NOT even included the NCAA, Company Logos, or Products created to serve illegal trade.
Just JOIN.
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