• FidelCashflow [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Sports are similarly a opiate of the masses but people don't complain about that as readily as they do astrology. So self crit is prudent to make sure why we do what we do.

    • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Nobody goes around pretending they can tell the future or understand people's personalities based on the results of sports games

      • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        You simply are not fun enough at parties to see people decend into wold tribalism over sport teams then.

          • effervescent [they/them]
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            edit-2
            3 years ago

            Stars are fake. The moon isn’t actually in the sky it’s all an illusion. The North Star isn’t bright. Those collections of stars haven’t formed the same shape for thousands of years. It’s all a conspiracy by Stanley Tucci

        • NomadicWarMachine [any]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          I find most sports extremely boring to watch, but I kinda get having hometown pride and wanting your team to win in order to have bragging rights for a bit. People who get deep into that shit and can only talk about sports and sports stats and are in sports clubs that war with other clubs are pathetic losers who should get another hobby.

          Side note, what’s the end goal of sports hooligan gangs? Like don’t you want your team to have opponents to play against? If your gang was successful in murdering all the supports of the opponent team wouldn’t that mean you team would have nobody to play against? What would they just stand around the field?

            • NomadicWarMachine [any]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              I get the appeal of playing sports, it’s exercise with your friends. I find WATCHING sports really fucking boring generally, especially American Football, it’s 90% standing around and commercial breaks.

              • BeamBrain [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                especially American Football, it’s 90% standing around and commercial breaks.

                That's what makes it so quintessentially American