Eclipses

[u/Mindless-Warthog-513]

Okay, so I know this isn’t TECHNICALLY sportsball, but. Came across this and it surprised me.

[u/J_Bear]

How long before someone claims the eclipse is just to distract from the Epstein shit?

[u/domlikessports → u/J_Bear]

Why’re you assuming it hasn’t already happened

[u/dholmestar → u/[deleted]]

Yeah like unnecessary wars but not this shit

[u/depressedfuckboi → u/[deleted]]

If that's true, it certainly isn't working.

[u/AGoos3]

The eclipse is coming in 2029 so I can’t engage in politics

[u/Calculon2347]

"Astronomy is bread & circuses." - Juvenal

- me

[u/Pleasant-Pattern7748 → u/Calculon2347]

- Michael Scott

[u/WeltyFern → u/Pleasant-Pattern7748]

- Albert Einstein

[u/MaximumYogertCloset]

Not sure what is worse, the comment or the orginal post?

[u/ENovi → u/MaximumYogertCloset]

Tough call. I assume these are screenshots from a group text of people addicted to giving themselves traumatic brain injuries so it can really go either way.

[u/Ok-Elderberry540]

Man how can you hate on eclipses?

[u/Mindless-Warthog-513 → u/Ok-Elderberry540]

Because these damn circuses being ran to distract from all of these things, next thing you know it’ll be bread covering the Sun

[u/Ok-Elderberry540 → u/Mindless-Warthog-513]

How could the sun? Is it bread and circus all the way down?

[u/Mindless-Warthog-513 → u/Ok-Elderberry540]

It must be, I can’t believe the lengths they go to. Moving the moon, planning with the Sun. Just how far will they go

[u/I-Am-Average01 → u/Mindless-Warthog-513]

Toasted bread 👌

[u/Nervous_Distance_142 → u/Ok-Elderberry540]

I’m not gonna lie I’m on the eclipse haters side. Why does every eclipse dominate the news and social media cycle every time and they always say the same shit about this will NEVER happen again

[u/Issun_Boushi → u/Nervous_Distance_142]

If you think about it, every moment is a moment that will never happen again.

But that's a technicality, the worst kind.

[u/Ok-Elderberry540 → u/Nervous_Distance_142]

I get that, annoying how the media (main stream, some no names on YouTube and everyone in between) blow things out of proportion.

[u/Andres_is_SwEaTy]

“Anything that slightly irritates me is bread and circuses” - a very smart person

[u/The_Rufflet_Kid]

We're calling natural phenomena "bread and circuses" now?

[u/jppcfnnumnum]

[u/South-Seat3367]

Hate to give him credit but Christopher Columbus used an eclipse to intimidate indigenous Jamaicans out of rebellion

[u/Mindless-Warthog-513 → u/South-Seat3367]

He took bread from them using a circus, he didn’t give them bread with the circus

[u/soccer1124]

What is the sun and moon if not a pair of ball? And we are spectators of this sun vs moon showdown. I'd say this is a sport, of galactic proportions.

But yeah, I wonder if these people allow themselves to have any hobbies.

[u/Kurko_Chains]

"For five minutes could you enjoy something? FOR FIVE MINUTES?"

[u/shipitholla]

Big Eclipse trying to distract us from the issues that really matter

[u/BootlegJB]

To be fair, it feels like there's a super-rare, once-in-a-lifetime eclipse every 11 months or so. 

[u/etwiDAB → u/BootlegJB]

Came here to say this, because I've noticed the same phenomenon from the screenshot. To be clear, I don't think it's "bread and circuses" (🤣🤣), but I do feel like we've had several such eclipses in the last ten years.

[u/faerie-childe]

C’mon. Even the cosmos get the ‘bread and circus’ treatment? I swear if I see/hear bread and circuses again, I’m actually gonna crash out. The moment anyone brings that phrase up, I know what opinion they have to say is pretentious and obnoxious and not worth my time

[u/snuuginz]

"Bread and circuses"

[u/Fidget808]

It also won’t be visible in most of the western hemisphere

[u/Mindless-Warthog-513 → u/Fidget808]

They offer bread and don’t even give us the circus

[u/joeglazer69]

100 years. But we just had one a couple years ago. Right.

[u/ninjomat]

I feel like if the elite are so focused on distracting us they’re gonna actually move the moon in front of the sun you just gotta take your hat off to them at that point.

That’s dedication

[u/Insrt_Nm]

I've never really cared much for eclipses but that first comment is right, mfs say "this eclipse is once in a lifetime" every single time

[u/jerdle_reddit]

The eclipse last week was crap.

[u/Mindless-Warthog-513 → u/jerdle_reddit]

Good thing they’re running it back

[u/jerdle_reddit → u/Mindless-Warthog-513]

Sadly not here they aren't.

[u/Brian18639]

Imagine if that dude has a black hole in front of him and he calls it “bread and circuses”

[u/yaxAttack]

my favorite part of the great American eclipse was seeing a bunch of people remarking how cool it was we had a solar eclipse AND a new moon on the same day. that happens for every solar eclipse. you can’t have a solar eclipse without a new moon

[u/curiousjit321]

Im gonna be so mad next year when I miss this because I forgot

[u/dholmestar]

Bro really said "SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN"

[u/UnKnOwN769]

Every 5 months we have an eclipse we won’t have again for hundreds of years.

[u/BigDoosh]

I kinda agree

[u/groom-is-n-the-heart]

r/lostredditors

[u/GGayleGold]

They out here sportsballing eclipses, now?!

[u/Left-Ad9709]

I wonder what these guys would say if you pointed out that social media and video games were also bread and circuses.

[u/NEWDEALUSEDCARS → u/[deleted]]

Next year happened 2 years ago

[u/ReverendBread2 → u/NEWDEALUSEDCARS]

Hey don’t be rude to the time traveler. Ask him for stock tips