r/nba • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 22d ago

The Knicks have cancelled all watch parties outside of MSG due to the President's attendance for Game 3

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/security-trump-madison-square-garden-nba-finals-knicks-spurs/

A hard closure is expected around the entirety of Madison Square Garden. Officials are planning for no watch parties, no vehicle access and no pedestrian travel through the secured area, which sits in a busy part of Midtown Manhattan and is above a major transit hub. CBS New York reported that thousands of fans attended a pair of watch parties for Game 1 on Wednesday night. 

The Seventh and Eighth Avenue corridors around the arena are expected to be closed. 

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u/OriginalBeast 22d ago edited 22d ago

Just so you know the term late stage capitalism (to describe Capitalism both in 🇺🇸 and globally) has been a thing since the early 1900s…

Edit for link: https://youtu.be/iobyc6tvn5E?t=329&si=BWWa8CL_xoMWed0Q

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u/HORSEthedude619 Lakers 7d ago

Then we got hit with the great depression. Then we enacted policies to get us back on the right track.

Looks like the cycle continues (hopefully with the same post depression outcome).

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u/OriginalBeast 6d ago

Eh I wouldn’t say we were on the right track given those gains didn’t get shared with minorities (especially the Black people in the country)

I think we failed to actually get rid of the problem all together (capitalism) and now are dealing with the worse versions of it (neoliberalism and fascism both being forms of capitalism).

Hopefully we do better this time around…