• cmbabul@slrpnk.net
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      1 day ago

      You’re 100% right, those are our circuses, even your namesake loved football. If the NFL and college football stopped overnight there would be a lot of pissed off poor people with nothing to do on the weekends and nothing to look forward to during the workweek. The rage would boil over much more quickly than most would expect

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        18 hours ago

        They also wouldn’t have a “good” excuse to drink and would need to own the fact they have a problem, and we can’t have that.