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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.
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.