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⌈ Secret Post #2951 ⌋

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[The To-Do List, Brandy/Willy]

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[Avatar: Legend of Korra]

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[The Amazing World of Gumball]

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[Agents of Shield]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Galavant]

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[Soukyuu no Fafner Exodus]

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[Jamie Dornan from "The Fall"]

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(Neil Gaiman)

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I hope the Patriots win. I hope Belichik laughs all the way to the bank. We're angry at the Patriots for cheating or something? What bullshit. We need to stop pretending they don't embody everything about professional sports and the sham of the $700 billion dollar sports industry. They're just returning our scornful gaze with an eager mirror.

Edited 2015-02-01 22:08 (UTC)

Why don't you get angry about video games or movies

people spend plenty of money on those

sports industry makes $700B a year, exponentially more than what other entertainment industries earn, and yet it receives an outsize amount of tax breaks and subsidies AND it's partially tax exempt

stadiums are built $200M a pop with on average 70% of the costs paid via taxes, often displacing entire communities, altering city layouts and skylines, and putting a tremendous drain on resources for no discernible positive economic impact

many if not most businesses in various sectors receive tax breaks, including video games but there's something wrong here when the sports industry is making ten-twenty times what everyone else makes a year and yet we pay most of the costs for their giant fucking economic and land-use black holes and a good chunk of their salaries

if you're a filmmaker you can't even fucking get a tax break unless you can prove that you'll spend $500k in whatever place you intend to film in, but we build stadiums for millions of tax dollars and they bring no money to local economies

Yeah, stadium deals are a crying shame, but the tenor of your remarks seems to exceed that.

well sure, shady stadium deals are just part of the problem

This is the most dramatic football post ever. IT IS A SHAM! GAZE INTO THE ABYSS! I AM SO EDGY!!!!

if this is dramatic and edgy you must not get out much

Professional football (both versions) are a huge money waster.

As opposed to....?

The NFL is totes a legit non-profit though. Totes.

For once, I kinda agree with Dethtoll. Cracked did a great post about how the football news this year has been spousal abuse, child abuse, drug abuse, and cheating, and we're watching two teams who embody all those things.

Yeah, the NFL is terrible.

Sports aren't terrible. But the NFL definitely is.

...I think you just suddenly made me understand why my husband always preferred high school or college ball. Now THAT'S something I didn't expect today.

--Rogan

At least you're consistent about needlessly shitting on everything.

"wah stop not liking stuff i like"

given that dethtoll's whole thing here is getting mad at people for liking something he doesn't, i'm not sure how well that holds up

tbh i agree with him, at least when it comes to sports

Pro sport is largely playing to the gambling community anyway, isn't it?

Not really.

It turns out the NFL was just focusing on the "deflated balls" to take attention away from how they've been handling all of the actual awful things that've been going on in the league.

It's a real shitshow.

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