“Don't compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!”

:kropotkin-shining:


Edit: Did U Kno: If this post gets 100 upbears, all sports worldwide will be outlawed.

Sorry, but I don’t make the rules.

Edit2:
🎉WE DID IT CHAPOS! 🎉
All competition is now forbidden.
If you engage in it, please report to the nearest reeducation center immediately.

    • JayTwo [any]
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      4 years ago

      You know that the "injurious to the species" line was a Kropotkin quote, right?

      You haven't ever been to one of those small towns that fucking worships their football team, and covers for their shitty, oftentimes sexually abusive, bullshit?

      Fetishizing competition is what leads to that.

      Trying to pretend like competition doesn't lead to toxicity by only picking and choosing the nice ones is the same smoothbrain logic that people use when they defend capitalism by going "Costco treats their workers well".

      Literally every famous leftist who actually did something

      This is some serious great man theory, bs, right here.

        • JayTwo [any]
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          4 years ago

          To be completely honest, I'm taking some things I do indeed believe, somewhat, then following through all the way with them to make points and take stances I ordinarily wouldn't, towards something I'm well aware is entirely unacceptable in current society.

          So, I'm both being serious and taking the piss, at the same time.

          Schrodinger's shitpost if you will.

      • KamalaHarrisPOTUS [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You haven’t ever been to one of those small towns that fucking worships their football team, and covers for their shitty, oftentimes sexually abusive, bullshit?

        surely the problem here is the sport itself lmao

        • JayTwo [any]
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          4 years ago

          Where did I go against a specific sport?

          The culture of competition fetishisization plays a big part, most definitely.

          Whenever young men do something horrendous and get their wrist slapped because "they have their life ahead of them" they're almost always members in a sport.

          That's one hell of a coincidence.

          • KamalaHarrisPOTUS [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            That’s one hell of a coincidence.

            also a totally unfounded and unsupported claim, pretty sure rape culture exists in the military, businesses, family life, and just as a feature of a patriarchal society, not because os le sportsball

            Where did I go against a specific sport?

            to use your own reductive and unproductive posting style... where did anyone say you did ?

            • JayTwo [any]
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              How is killing other people not competition? The teams are just much larger. And the stakes are higher.

              where did anyone say you did

              "surely the problem is the sport itself"

              You're implying that I'm blaming, ahem, "the sport itself" and not a pervasive culture which elevates the status of, say, hs football players, and shields them from consequences.

              • KamalaHarrisPOTUS [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                implying

                see you should say "I'm infering" not "youre implying"

                How is killing other people not competition? The teams are just much larger. And the stakes are higher.

                ok enjoy your thread

                • JayTwo [any]
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                  4 years ago

                  So, am I not supposed to assume you're trying to reduce my argument to being about... the sport itself, when you literally used the words "the sport itself?"

                  What else am I supposed to infer from that, Mr Peterson?

                  • KamalaHarrisPOTUS [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    You haven’t ever been to one of those small towns that fucking worships their football team, and covers for their shitty, oftentimes sexually abusive, bullshit?

                    if what you got from this is that i meant football (which means something different to me then what you call football in america) itself and not the act/existence of sport that's on you, see how annoying it is to argue agaisnt someone who does that?

                    dont do it any more

                    • JayTwo [any]
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                      4 years ago

                      Funny how you decided not to quote the line directly under it which makes it clear I was using it as an example:

                      Fetishizing competition is what leads to that.

                      It happens for members of swim teams too. Lacrosse, baseball etc. I just picked a sport, because most people are the most familiar with it exhibiting itself towards the football team.

                      Friday night lights for example, whose TV show did a 180 compared to the book, but that's a big digression.

                      dont do it any more

                      How about you not imply something, refuse that you did twice, then finally admit you implied something while blaming me for being frustrating?

        • JayTwo [any]
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          4 years ago

          It's still a problem for the swim team.

          The reason why the volleyball team don't engage in the same sort of sexual harassment is because most schools only have a women's volleyball team.

          And trust me, members of womens teams still break rules and laws and get away with it, because they're on a school team, and are therefore seen as higher up on the social hierarchy.