We get it. You don’t like sports. Who cares. I think there’s validity to sport and I enjoy watching and playing many of them. Has capitalism ruined everything the common person holds dear in most sports? Yes. I literally wrote an article about it.

But sport itself isn’t inherently bad and being like “herp derp sportsball” makes you sound like a basement dweller incel who wants to shoot up their school because they think jocks get all the girls instead of the kind gentlesirs who study the blade.

A lot of people are only exposed to sport as a tv show and a product, but most sports have roots that go back hundreds of years, are very influenced by working class history and local teams are often at the heart of communities (although many have been stolen and turned into just another generator of capital).

Sports have also been an arena for the class struggle - aristocrats and workers battling it out over who should be allowed to play and control different games at different time, “amateurs vs professionals” (i.e. those who were wealthy enough to be able to fund their sporting career as a hobby vs talented workers who needed to be paid to play) was a controversy in sports for decades. Even today there are many teams run and owned by fans in some sports, and the struggle between workers who have been watching their teams for decades (even through multiple generations of families) vs their indifferent capitalist owners is ongoing.

Also playing sports is fun and you will make friends and get healthy.

Read up on sport in 20th century socialist states, it was treated with massive investment and athletes were awarded high honour, it was tied in to public health (along with often being integrated with making people fit enough to serve in the army to defend against all the capitalist countries wanting to invade you for trying to not be capitalist). Even in capitalist countries today grassroots sport is one of the only real community/social circles people have that isn’t tied to working for a capitalist.

  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    Do you clutch your pearls and scream brown shirts every time you see a military flyover

    in America? you'd better believe i do. i also curse god because they woke me the fuck up

    this whole country is built on an indian burial ground and this army filled those graves. 'America is lebensraum succeeding' isn't a fucking joke its literally what happened.

    even retreating that, the nationalism on display at the NFL is explicitly an anti-muslim project that emerged in the wake of the ""war in terror"". the fucking 500 ft flags are there to get us on board with ceaselessly bombing the cradle of civilisation and making life hell for muslims who live here

    • SgtHatred [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They fly some planes and sing the national anthem, that's it. You think the standard American flags they fly are brain washing people into supporting imperialist projects?

      • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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        3 years ago

        'blatant propaganda isnt real because its blatant'

        its fucking troop worship on the most popular entertainment programs in the country. get a grip, people buy into lies when they're repeated over and over and over.

        but i don't even have to argue that, patriotism being a part of the game is chronologically linked to imperial projects. even if you don't see the relationship, the goddamn DoD certainly does