Nope.
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Do you give a fuck about the World Cup?
Just a poll. Personally, I couldn't care less.
Nope.
"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property." - Assata Shakur
Not really, could be interesting I suppose.
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
Soccer is the opium of the people, comrades!
God, not at all. Volleyball is the only good (spectator) sport. Fact.
I care about the overwhelming corruption and exploitation that comes with it, if that counts. As far as the sport is concerned, not at all.
"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is." - A. Shakur
"There is nothing here, no oil, no strategic location. We will recommend to our government not to intervene as the risks are high and all that is here are humans."
- Rwanda, 1994
sure. i like football.
Last edited by Dr Doom; 19th June 2014 at 04:02.
Everywhere it is the police who do the whipping and the one in rags who gets whipped. And then the people who sit smugly at their well-laden tables are surprised when someone rocks the table, overturns it, and shatters everything to fragments.
Yeah, this. I voted no, but this sense I do care.
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci
"If he did advocate revolutionary change, such advocacy could not, of course, receive constitutional protection, since it would be by definition anti-constitutional."
- J.A. MacGuigan in Roach v. Canada, 1994
I voted yes for two reasons. The first being that football is my favorite sport, and I love watching it but I'm not giving much support to any team (except any team against the U.S.). The second reason is the same as Brad and adipocere, I hate what the event is doing to the poor people of Brasil. Many of them like football as much as I do, but they want nothing to do with the massacre that is the World Cup. Conflicting positions, I know. So in response I am not purchasing WC or FIFA related commodities.
Growing up with the sport, it's hard not to watch. Although, when I do watch I hope that our protesting comrades break into the stadium and force the evacuation of the players and such. Unfortunately what I got was a bunch of Chile fans doing almost that. Well, one can hope I guess.
"Maybe some day... I'll find a way... without you.."
Pretty much what adipocere said, but I like football.
The World Cup is a collective exercise of self-hypnosis.
yeah, I do give even several fucks about the WC.
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I'm not overwhelmingly passionate about football - I see the headlines and feel like crying sometimes at the woeful failure of our species to allocate resources effectively. There's no point in going into the social repercussions here, I can't help but feel that anyone on this forum should know them and be able to identify them as common trends in capitalism. Aside from knowing the players on the team I support, most of it is just noise that flutters past my head and leaves me apathetic.
But, there are some games that just ignite something furious in me. There are few things that really enliven me so dramatically, in a physical way, as a football game that I care about. These are few and far between, but sometimes it can catch me so forcefully that I am shouting and howling, entreating the screen or elated with the triumph of a well-wrought goal. Good sport can induce a euphoric quality just as well as music can. The limping sadness of a defeat when you had hinged your hopes on the success of a team is comparable to a comedown.
I suspect that a large part of this is crowd psychology, or some vicarious desire to belong in a society that frequently shits on me and I take pleasure in rejecting. I find the match hypes to be annoying, trivial and banal exercises in advertising. But when football is exciting, it just has the power to make you manic.
"He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many."
Formerly known as Pragmatic-Punk / Right Hand Of Jah / Heinous Bifter
I love it almost more than anything and I hate myself for it.
I wish death on everyone who works for the Department for Work and Pensions.
I don't care for sports. At all.
To quote Chris Rock when Jimmy Fallon mentioned the World Cup:
"Great! I dont't care!".
"Whatever you do, never lose your fondness of walking. I walk myself into my daily well-being, and I walk out of all illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so heavy that one cannot outwalk it." -Soren Kierkegaard.
"Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality. There remains madness, 'the madness that one locks up', as it has aptly been described. That madness or another..." -Andre Breton.
Do people really need to make topics that only serve to bait?
It gives them some kind of thrill?
"But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first free-thinker and emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge." ~Mikhail Bakunin
I used to play soccer a lot and enjoyed it, but watching it is a whole different ball game!
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci
"If he did advocate revolutionary change, such advocacy could not, of course, receive constitutional protection, since it would be by definition anti-constitutional."
- J.A. MacGuigan in Roach v. Canada, 1994
Living is the opium of the peopleSoccer is the opium of the people, comrades!
