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minus-squareZozano@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down9·5 days agoI hate that the end of every news segment on radio and TV ends in “sports”. Sports is not fucking news. Stop wasting our fucking time perpetuating a tribalist game
minus-squareNigelFrobisher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·5 days agoWhat exactly did you think the political section was about?
minus-squareCarstenBoll@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down10·5 days agoSport is politics in Europe, at least. It’s important who you support because sports clubs are often tied to political movements. You don’t want to support Lazio, for instance, and Real Madrid was Franco’s club. Anyway, politics is also a sort of game as you say.
minus-squareangstylittlecatboy@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 days agoFootball hooliganism must be the endgame of “everything is political.” I see it as something to preferably be avoided personally.
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 days agoNot every European country. I’d wager it’s mostly Southern and Eastern Europe where that is the case.
minus-squareCarstenBoll@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoTrue, though there’s also FC St. Pauli (antifascist) vs Hansa Rostock (neonazi). Can’t think of anything from Denmark, off the top of my head, or the UK. Not much of a football fan tbh.
minus-squareSkunkWorkz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoIn the UK it’s tied to social class rather than political party.
I hate that the end of every news segment on radio and TV ends in “sports”.
Sports is not fucking news. Stop wasting our fucking time perpetuating a tribalist game
What exactly did you think the political section was about?
Sport is politics in Europe, at least. It’s important who you support because sports clubs are often tied to political movements.
You don’t want to support Lazio, for instance, and Real Madrid was Franco’s club.
Anyway, politics is also a sort of game as you say.
Football hooliganism must be the endgame of “everything is political.” I see it as something to preferably be avoided personally.
Not every European country. I’d wager it’s mostly Southern and Eastern Europe where that is the case.
True, though there’s also FC St. Pauli (antifascist) vs Hansa Rostock (neonazi). Can’t think of anything from Denmark, off the top of my head, or the UK. Not much of a football fan tbh.
In the UK it’s tied to social class rather than political party.