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  • Zombie@feddit.uktoWorld News@lemmy.world•IOC criticised for selling Nazi-era Olympics T-shirtEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    And even then, they generally don’t wanna watch amateurs, semi-pro, or low league pros. Can only be the national/world leagues or nothing at all.

    Almost as if they don’t really care about sport but instead are using it as a means to be part of a group, to have a cultural link with others. A shame sport culture is mostly brainrot pundits constantly waffling shite like “they really wanted to win this one” as if they’re not trying to win every time. No moment of silence and just watching the spectacle allowed. Constant punditry, hours of pointless analysis before and after every game.

    Not to mention the constant hype as if each match is the most important of all time

    https://youtu.be/MusyO7J2inM

    Watching amateur sport is far more interesting IMO. Less predictable, more exciting, no bullshit punditry, more passion for the sport.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktopolitics @lemmy.world•ICE will be at the World Cup, director says
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    3 days ago

    Pirating still aids them.

    It still legitimises and normalises FIFA. By watching it you’re still engaging in their spectacle, still likely to talk about it with others, still accepting that it’s a legitimate tournament not ripe with corruption.

    Even VAR decisions are controversial and corrupt at times, the whole reason VAR was claimed to have been implemented to prevent.

    FIFA is rotten to the core, and needs properly boycotted. If you really care about football watch local leagues, not this spectacle of wealth, corruption, and power.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump Wrecked In Devastating Poll As Most Americans Say He’s ‘Worse Than Biden’ — With Whopping 18 Point Swing
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    10 days ago

    They’re not experiencing the same reality

    HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.[2]

    The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4] He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.[5] Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend, an effect Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.[6] It has since gained further resonance in the social media era in 2025 in the U.S.[7]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation