“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
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.
everyone’s always “media literacy is ruining tv” and never “media literacy is ruining sports fandom” even though both are true.
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.
downhill skiing is irresponsible and selfish because it’s too dangerous
Yes, driving to a mountain is incredibly dangerous and that’s why the ski train must be seized by the workers
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.
I take it there’s no snow train anymore and it’s a hell of f150 traffic up dubious roads to the mountain now
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.
This is a good take. Be sure to add the gambling plague to that negative list, though.
We will be forced to join the rest of the world in soccer, it only makes sense
Watching sports is a fun thing to do with your friends.
there are two wolves inside me. one hates sports. the other hates people that hate sports.
do more sports, don’t go insane watching.
It’s cultural for me as most of the players are Black, so I’m gonna keep watching.
“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.
Reducing all sports fans to rabid Ameribrain “football” stans is pretty reductive, this is a silly take.
All existing socialist states highly prize(d) athletic achievement and watching sports with friends is a great way to bond socially, so as to put the social in socialism
They cultivated sports, not advertising models owned by the most racist bourgeois fucks in the country.
fair enough, sports gambling and ads (which are usually just for sports gambling these days) do weigh heavily on enjoyment
Stereotyping is also toxic.
You can write a dismissive “here’s why this sucks” post about anything.
Oh is it time for our biannual relitigation of this struggle session already?
Wouldn’t be Hexbear without it
I think last time we settled on “It’s okay not to like sports, just don’t be a weird jerk about it”
That’s my position, hope we win this year! If we don’t I’m gonna set a car on fire
If we don’t I’m gonna set a car on fire
I thought the setting cars on fire thing was when the favored team won.
I’m gonna get blasted on grain alcohol and do it either way
No, that’s just the natural state of Eagles fans. They just do that sometimes.
only if it’s a cop car
yes
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.
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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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Yes because the proletariat can only talk about sports. If you don’t you’re obvioudly some sort of bougie fuck.
WTF is this?
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Down with cis means down with modern sports
Fair enough I would be interested to see what a sporting world looks like that admits a modern understanding of sex & gender. Weightclasses maybe?
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Blitzball
What if Robot Wars, but with actual mecha?
The people need Solaris VII. :SickoDuncanFisher:
The revolution will be televised on ESPN
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.
death to america means death to sports culture
America’s sports culture is perhaps the least problematic globally. There’s no such thing as a “Cleveland Browns Ultra”.
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there are some cool left-wing soccer clubs
Sports have degenerated into gambling though, the masses are being addicted and bled dry by algorithms. Not to mention the already horrible alcoholism.
Sports aren’t inherently bad, but under capitalism they certainly are.
that’s a good point in the past few years the gambling has sapped a lot of fun out of it. can’t even talk about sports online without some punter moaning about how their parlay didn’t hit.
