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a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: est on 12 Jun 2010, 18:22 ---Khar, I read the article you linked to and that is what I got from it. They moved a bunch of homeless people/squatters into a shanty town. South Africa and other countries like it do this pretty much any fucking time without anything to provoke it, so yeah of course they're gonna do it come an event like this.
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So? None of that means that the occurrence isn't worth noting and getting angry about. You could say something pretty much the same about damn near every bad thing that ever happens.
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 12 Jun 2010, 17:34 ---I wrote a blog post about the football!
http://panzerdivisionjohncandy.blogspot.com/2010/06/fussball-fussball-uber-alles.html
It's prety scathing.
I guess I hate the working class or something pack of wolves?
I mean, I dunno, I guess a lot of working class people feel very strongly about Roman Catholicism but would you really try and support that particular institution?
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Oh come on, you know I never implied you hate the working class. And although football is pretty different to Catholicism there is a useful similarity in that how a religion like that functions on an individual level is very different to what those that run it want you to think. For one thing, I've never personally known a straight Catholic. Their reasons for sticking with a religion that officially condemned them for what they saw as their natural and not at all sinful desires were complex. Just like enjoying football. God knows I've no reason to stick up for FIFA, but enjoying football isn't as clear-cut as you're making it out to be.
And I know you weren't talking about club football, but with your fascist comparison in that blog post you do kind of skirt around the fact that by far the easiest way to identify an anti-fascist in the UK is if they're sporting the name of a professional football club:
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: amok on 12 Jun 2010, 18:16 ---The blog post started well and the news article therein is an important read but the fascism bit is kind of a stretch, at best.
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You deny the fascist aesthetics associated with large international sporting events? Here is a quote from yesterdays Sun newspaper
--- Quote ---WAYNE Rooney urged the whole nation to get behind England tonight - roaring: "Your support will drive us on to glory."
The Three Lions talisman was last night raring to take on the USA in the first of our World Cup group games.
And he begged fans to play their part - as he said of England's chances of going all the way in South Africa: "We're not scared of anyone."
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Only the nation united, without dissent, can spurn our mystic elites on to the righteous victory the deserve. DO NOT THINK. ACT. ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND.
Yeah I was specifically talking about not just international football but a certain class of international sports events with national teams. I'm not really making statements about enjoying football, although I'd still say the premiership type of football is more corporate sponsored bread and circuses than anything else. The difference between Manchester United and St. Pauli is the same as the difference between Coldplay and Stiff Little Fingers.
I would say the fact that I find football incomprehensible allows me to be more objective about it, or at least as objective about it in the opposite way as you are, if that makes sense.
Also I think you mean 'gay catholic'.
JD:
sports to fascism is quite a leap
that's like working in a office, then deciding to take lion taming as a career.
look out! Ninjas!:
It's less fascism and more nationalism.
Patrick:
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Halfway there, Khar, halfway there.
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