“Yes I want to be part of a proletarian mass movement but liking sports is normie boring low-IQ primate brain behavior” -statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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    There is nothing wrong with liking sports, sports are cool and fun and can be healthy social events. For someone who is a casual sporting event enjoyer, sportsball discourse is kinda rude and minimizing of their interest.

    There is a lot wrong with defining your entire identity around sports and acting like a child throwing a temper tantrum when others don’t also base their entire identity around sports. It is for those people that sportsball discourse is not only suggested, it is mandatory, because those people should be shamed into doing something useful with their lives. This is doubly true for people who base their entire identity around some specific subset of sports and who reject any sport outside of that subset. If smacking ball with stick across grass can be a sport then pretty much anything can be a sport.

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      Yea it’s seems like an obvious statement but people dont generally have a problem with people liking sports, they have a problem with people who cannot healthily moderate their emotions.

      Obviously there’s some of the pretentious holier than though types but they’re literally just on reddit from everything I’ve seen and reddit says downhill skiing is irresponsible and selfish because it’s too dangerous and they do t understand how it could be enjoyable.

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          My town literally just celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the snow train that bought tourists to town that kicked off skiing in the area.

          They’d get off the train and locals would charge a nickel to drive them to the top of the mountain and it would take them all day to ski back to town.

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    Sports are okay but in a communist society ads, commercials, and product placements would be banned.

    Also American football would be banned too, that shit sucks. Other sports are fine.

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    “I would like to watch grown men play catch while destroying their bodies with poison and scrambling their brains with concussions, and I would further like to make being violently passionate about one arbitrary brand name my entire identity. This is what is mainstream and the most socially acceptable sort of hobby: passively consuming this content at a rate of 30 seconds of gameplay per hour of ads, while drinking heavily.”

    Sports fandom is just twitch streamer stan culture except somehow even more toxic and harmful for everyone involved.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Sports gambling is utterly fucking ruinous and has already shattered quite a few families and warped the sports themselves into betting outlets, even in their televised presentations. That shit should be abolished in any society that actually cares about its citizenry.

    “Dae le sportsball bad amirite” Redditors are generally fine with gambling because their internet funny money is already a gamble.

  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    “Yes I want to be part of a proletarian mass movement but liking sports is normie boring low-IQ primate brain behavior” -statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged

    Yes the words you dreamt up and put in other people’s mouths are deranged. The idea that you MUST like and be able to converse about sports in order to - not just be “normal” - but be part of proletarian struggle that’s also utterly deranged

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    2 months ago

    Okay I am locking this, it has devolved into both sides of this argument just talking past each other and heading into hostile territory.

    Learn to play nice online all of you.