tbf at least 20% of the brain damage seen in football players comes purely from being am*rican
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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Anyone else here lie completely outside of the American_civil_religion_loop (football, basketball, marvel, star wars, game of thrones, breaking bad) for the last 30 years?
Sorta. I still like star wars, but it's sw the way i remember it from when i was 15. But yeah otherwise super alienated.
Andor and The Mandolorian are worth pirating. The rest of it's not great.
Yeah. And i'm super obtuse about it. I liked rogue one a lot bc of the themes of "actually you should kill fascists" and little people fighting back. I liked last jedi bc i thought it handled the force well, portraying it as more of a spiritual thing that helps you be a sneaky bastard instead of just making you a super hero. I liked mandalorian when it was doing monster of the week stuff and not a plot, but only watched season one.
If you haven't seen Andor, YOU HAVE TO SEE ANDOR. It's like if in 1979 George Lucas decided to go all in with the Viet Cong allegory. I guess the evil empire being opposed being the stsr wars one got it through Disney, but it is genuinely the most leftist show ever maybe by accident but it explores the reality of forming a revolutionary insurrectionist rebellion in a very real and grounded way. It was made by libs but Andor is based on Stalin in his youth and cause it's star wars the libs let him be the hero. I cannot overstate how fucking good Andor is. I've tested the waters and libs don't see the stsr wars empire as a metaphor for any real empires, but for a leftist it feels weird this was even allowed to be aired. All it takes is the smallest amount of media literacy for it to be the best thing you've ever seen. It's by a wide margin the best thing stsr wars has produced period. The first movie and empire aren't even in the same conversation. Andor is a fucking masterpiece, the first 3 episodes don't feel it cause they're setup, but once things are going, I completely guarantee you'll not only like it but love it. It's that good
If that doesn't convince you, I'm a star wars nerd sociologist more than a fan. I only like the first 2 movies and even then I think empire isn't as great as people think. Buy I find star wars and everything surrounding it to be fascinatingly stupid. Andor isn't stupid. I'm being as adamant as possible, watch this specific show, there's no lore bullshit or fanservice and all you really need to see gor it to work is the 1977 original movie
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I wouldn't call that The American Civil Religion. That's just mainstream cultural media.
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My treat is lecturing others on why their treat consumption is bad.
Still a treat, you're still treat chasing.
And cocaine, I really really love cocaine.
Cocaine is like the worst treat. It's made by slave labor and sold to fund right wing paramilitaries, all just to make you feel like you drank four red bulls with a prozac. Seriously, eating a T-bone while watching Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and jerking it to BDSM porn is probably more ethnical than a Coke habit.
Cant hear you over the middle of my nose dissolving
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I wonder if this is going to be like those oxycontin commercials from the early 2000s. It's non-addictive, you can get as much as you want for anything that hurts, trust me I'm a pharmacist bro I'm regulated. Las Vegas really solidifying sports betting as the anything anytime anywhere casino seems so ominous.
I have friends betting on which song will be played at half time 🫠
+ gooning
Just another chapter in our very boring dystopia. Millions of Americans desperately searching for some sense of community and attaching themselves to a billionaire’s chess game and developing a parasocial relationship with their team, all for some fleeting dopamine
Sounds like everything else in America eh
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I'm a huge mma nerd so I'm not allowed an opinion on the damage of football lol and that's ok.
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American football causes brain damage and the sport should be mandatory until every American is a drooling moron incapable of inflicting more horror upon the global south.
honestly just make them play without pads.
make them play with sharp, spiky pads
And cars like Mad Max
Half time show is a guy bungie corded up on the front of a mack truck playing riffs on his flamethrower guitar
People used to die all the time playing football with no or leather helmets.
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Mixed on football, but what really pisses me off is when I’m being critical of it and I get a bunch of “🤓 ummm football is actually one of the most complex sports in existence and you’re showing your ignorance. There’s nothing that comes close to such intellectual prowess”
Godamn I really need to move to China, maybe AI will make the language barrier easier to work through
It's so complicated that a four hour long game broadcast only features ~ ten minutes of actual play.
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They also like sports in China. You're gonna find weird superiority-compexed nerds everywhere frankly.
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“🤓 ummm football is actually one of the most complex sports in existence and you’re showing your ignorance. There’s nothing that comes close to such intellectual prowess”
And then football itself is just "bunch of big guys do a running hug so hard they all get brain damage, this goes on for 15 seconds and then there's a half hour commercial break. This continues off and on for 5 hours."
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Soccer/football has a concussion problem that no one talks about either. Hugo Lloris like had a year of play lost because he was kept in game. Sports have physical risks ✌️
I mean when blood sports and combat sports exist, are extremely popular, and haven't died out or been banned despite getting punched or kicked in the head to the point of losing consciousness being a key part of these sports, I don't see how contact sports like American Football or Rugby will be banned or die out. I do think more needs to be done to make contact sports safer though. I like the changes rugby made with regards to cards for high tackles and the scrum, it makes the sport look safer than when by friends played it in high school.
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Get rid of the pads, longer time outs after a concussion, a maximum number of concussions before forced retirement, solid education of players on the effects of repeated TBIs, high pay for athletes to compensate for that risk, high quality healthcare for those that do suffer injuries, and of course nationalize it so that the profit motive doesn’t fuck with the rest of those things
Oh and do ban it for minors, that shit’s fucked. High schoolers can play flag football but tackle football has to go
maximum number of concussions before forced retirement
Then they're just not gonna report them. Sports are big money
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A big problem is they basically pull kids from highschool, give them vast amounts of money with no guidance, then dump them. Afaik most pro sports people blow through all their money in a few years and often have no job skills.
Reject tackle football embrvce flag grvdivon
American football causes brain damage
Yes. And players have it even worse.
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American Football causes brain damage and the band needs to be banned. Happy listening!
Imagine if 
did a cover of Never Meant. It would heal America. Mom said it's my turn on the lathe of heaven
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I don’t think it needs to be banned necessarily. Full contact sports have been a thing since forever. I don’t watch nor do I know the history of football so I don’t know why it seems to be different to other contact sports, but I’m sure someone could explain and maybe figure out a solution.
Well, it's. A bunch of things. The players have gotten massively bigger with steroids and scientific body building. So instead of two 160lb guys whacking each other like in the 1920s it's two 300lb guys. Helmets and pads let people hit each other real, real hard without ijury to the body, so they're getting hit more often, so they've got more chances for tbis. Tbis result from anything that knocks your brain around, not necessarily things that cause concussion. They build up over time, causing more and more damage.
And this is just subjective, but people seem a lot more vindictive now, hitting people harder when there's no need.
We had this problem in a larp. Headshots were illegal, but even accidental blows to the head could add up so we were really encouraging people to start wearing helmets and head protection.
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The brain damage is people obsessing about a damn sport and shooting up shit when your team loses or wins (I'm in fucking Kansas City and I'm fucking dreading for when the super bowl ends, I ain't going to get any sleep.
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