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Toxic Male's avatar

Much food for thought here, an excellent piece of writing. I have always thought professional sports functioned as another form of propaganda for the fake polis. People root for teams often owned by foreigners or people who don’t reside in the same state. The team has players who didn’t grow up in the area and have no particular ties to the geographical region. It’s really a faux loyalty to a corporation. They extract wealth from the people by demanding billions of dollars for stadiums or else they will move to another locale. Truly this is a modern leviathan that provides a false sense of community.

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Reading this while being a white man with mixed-race parents in a third world country made me feel a confusing set of emotions.

Great writing by the way. You're good.

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