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.
But its really funny. Fascism has a set definition. The word has actual meaning. You can’t just pretend everything you don’t like is fascism. It makes me think that some communists here are bitter social outcasts who want to pretend anything the normies like is evil.
Isn’t the NFL’s treatment of Black athletes, the previously mentioned DoD advertising, the overt nationalistic displays including the national anthem (which, yeah, aren’t unique to capitalist countries but I’m talking about them in conjunction with the rest of the event), reason enough to call the Super Bowl sus af if not fascistic?
As someone who isnt from the shithole country burgeristan:
This is literally the same as saying that “hurr durr the fuccen nationalistic aryan sports competitions they did in nazoid germany wasnt fascist because sports competitions arent fascist”
Murica is a fascist country which actively ruins the world and commits mass genocide through both hard and soft power. Therefore, anything the media industrial complex there does to placate people and unironically celebrate its “culture” is by extension, fascist.
As someone else said: “big expensive displays of nationalism are pretty fash, yo”
Furthermore, your insistence that criticisms stem from “not being a normie” or whatever
A) Is a textbook ad-hominem logical fallacy.
B) Is cringe because you’re evoking some abstract concept of what’s “normal” to create an in-group out-group scenario where you’re on the side of the in-group. Basically invoking the “big other” unironically, its pure ideology combined with the petty immature mentality of your average american highschooler. A maldeveloped, spiritually poisoned human being due to both capitalist brainwashing and spending their formative years in a fucked up environment.
Well you’ve stepped above superbowl = fascism because of singing the national anthem to straight up the superbowl is fascist because it is played in America. I suppose most of the libs on this site are fascists too since they aren’t actively fighting the country and therefor are complicit in the culture.
Your A/B points are big Shapiro energy. I bet daddy would be proud
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My point is that football/the superbowl cannot be described as being in itself fascist using ANY definition of fascism that has existed in the past 100 years. I personally think its funny when people misuse the word fascism. My “ad-hominem logical fallacy” is my personal theory as to why some people misuse fascism to shit on things they don’t like.
Sus username is sus, also not even the best pedophile from the Venture Brothers
Captain Sunshine > Sgt Hatred
