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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

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

everyone's always "media literacy is ruining tv" and never "media literacy is ruining sports fandom" even though both are true.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

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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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

We will be forced to join the rest of the world in soccer, it only makes sense

[-] regul@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Watching sports is a fun thing to do with your friends.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

there are two wolves inside me. one hates sports. the other hates people that hate sports.

do more sports, don't go insane watching.

[-] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 months ago

It's cultural for me as most of the players are Black, so I'm gonna keep watching.

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"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.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Reducing all sports fans to rabid Ameribrain "football" stans is pretty reductive, this is a silly take.

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

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

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

They cultivated sports, not advertising models owned by the most racist bourgeois fucks in the country.

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

fair enough, sports gambling and ads (which are usually just for sports gambling these days) do weigh heavily on enjoyment

[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Stereotyping is also toxic.

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[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Oh is it time for our biannual relitigation of this struggle session already?

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

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"

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

That’s my position, hope we win this year! If we don’t I’m gonna set a car on fire

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[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

"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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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Down with cis means down with modern sports shrug-outta-hecks

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[-] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

The revolution will be televised on ESPN

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 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.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

death to america means death to sports culture

[-] regul@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

America's sports culture is perhaps the least problematic globally. There's no such thing as a "Cleveland Browns Ultra".

[-] hypercracker@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

there are some cool left-wing soccer clubs

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

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[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago
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