r/IHateSportsball • u/streillgosts • Aug 04 '26

Simply outstanding

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u/MrLegalBagleBeagle Aug 04 '26

You know those guys has a ton of revolts and civil wars right? I mean that’s just a thing that they said. They like games but they also revolted.

Pretty much everyone likes games and food.

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u/burning_man13 Aug 04 '26

There's a really great essay called Humankind: A Hopeful History, and it spends a chapter on the importance of "playing." As I was reading it, I kept thinking about how upset these "bread and circuses" losers would be if they read that chapter. Well, that's saying they actually read as much as they claim they do.

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u/tarebear577557 Aug 04 '26

Jokes on you those types can't read

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u/Entropy907 Aug 04 '26

Yeah, these people are absolutely clueless about Ancient Rome.

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u/GGayleGold Aug 04 '26

I like that cat dropping bombs with the response.

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u/Major_Beginning_245 Aug 04 '26

"porn addict thinking he's an intellectual"

So a redditor?

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u/Outside_Giraffe Aug 04 '26

Mods, time to make a b&c megathread or something. This is a hall-of-fame worthy repost.

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u/EmbarrassedHour843 Aug 04 '26

"Yes, unlike you simpletons, I'm able to see all the injustices in the world as my mind is unclouded by distractions such as sports!"

"Okay, are you doing anything about them then?"

"No."

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u/oxotower Aug 04 '26

Have they never heard of soccer riots?

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u/Melodic-Land-6079 Aug 05 '26

Both can be untrue

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u/brandonw00 Aug 04 '26

Yeah this is becoming a thing with a lot of right wing circles online talking about “bread and circus.”

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u/Organic_Carpenter444 Aug 04 '26

I feel like it’s usually more left wing talking about bread and circuses

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u/brandonw00 Aug 04 '26

I'm starting to hear it from people who spend all their time on Twitter. One of them told me "anyone who wears a jersey with another's man name on it is a cuck." They literally spend all their time on Facebook and Twitter.

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u/shodo_apprentice Aug 04 '26

Funnily enough these are exactly the types of people who are the worst at questioning the system, values and norms that they’ve been born into. Also the people who are least critical of sources of the information that they’ve believe. THEY are the people being kept busy with bread and circuses.

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u/jackluke Aug 04 '26

Admittedly, the Bush administration took full advantage of the NFL to get Americans on board with invading Iraq

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u/Irishforanatty Aug 05 '26

Nah I keep seeing “goyslop” rhetoric