if you are alive Feb 8, 2026, climate change is already impacting you drastically. saying otherwise requires ignorance. and i mean that in the original sense. not just never being shown the evidence. the willful choice to ignore that which is above and in front of you every single day

wouldn’t 80s hair metal be more like cross dressing but for people scared of the gender performance of drag?

professional wrestling is what got ranked here. Think about the shakespearian theatre about the amateur sport of wrestling as being what’s ranked here, not true competitive wrestling where the winner and loser is determined by the bout

you also made gridiron football watchable, and have never gotten the credit that the CFL deserves

It was after professional wrestling and boxing. I was surprised boxing was ranked higher than UFC/MMA

Yeah so we are clear, I am not disparaging the talent and artistry that goes into wrestling. In fact, I’m decidedly not, I love that shit. I just think it should maybe treated as the most popular live performance art instead of as the 9th most popular professional sport.

I mean a sport that is played on foot rather than on horses ;)

If we do want to be pedantic then the list, 1-4, would be

1. Gridiron Rules Football
2. Basketball
3. Baseball
4. Association Rules Football

Better?

I went ahead and used the americanized shorthand of “football” for gridiron rules football and the british loan word “soccer” for association rules football (soccer is a an Oxford slang tradition of adding “-er” to the end of something to make it an activity, IE calling rugby rugger and footer for all forms of football. In that tradition association football became assoccer or soccer) since the context was “what are americans watching, and why are all of us engaged in this weird ritual where even if we don’t care about the superbowl we find ourselves at superbowl parties?”

it looks like baseball has finally been surpassed by basketball. the major american sports fandoms now go:

1. football
2. basketball
3. baseball
4. soccer
5. hockey
6. tennis
7. golf
8. auto racing

from here it gets murky. like should WWE and AEW be included, even though they’re staged soap operas?

amusingly, strategically in gridiron football it is to your advantage to run the clock any time you have any lead no matter the down, distance, or quarter. the load management of the game makes it so that it’s to your offense’s advantage with a lead to keep the opposing defense on the field as the clock runs.

gridiron football is a game of action in which the goal of the action is to maintain inaction. contrast with the other american pastime sport, baseball. that’s a game of inaction in which the goal of the inaction is to suddenly spark action. and the very most exciting game in baseball is the one where one pitcher renders the other team completely inactive.

us americans are a confounding bunch. there’s a reason Canada had to be who invented our third most popular sport, basketball

they are mainstream media. joe rogan is one of the most popular media franchises. it doesn’t matter he’s in a newer format than fox news, it matters that he’s part of the same mechanism and cultural delivery system

“why doesn’t anyone want to date me!? i’m a high value male!!!”

i just didn’t get what was going on. then i saw the author’s explanation further down

am i seeing a different sketch? i don’t see a white generic cop

i was coming in here to recommend exactly that!

food! food is such a great communicator of who you are and what you’ve experienced

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grange

fraternal order with an overall left-wing populist stand on most things founded right after the civil war. fundamentally, granges represent a form of mutual aid with a bit more structure, a bit more hierarchy, and a bit more pre-existing connections into local communities than starting a new mutual aid project from scratch.

they’re a bit more direct in how they seek to help people through politics than things like the odd fellows or rotary clubs, but also a little bit more explicitly political. that said, for the experience of being in a church and removing harmful aspects, they have a lot of the same features:

• community meetings
• broad coordination of support across long distances
• a purposeful attempt to influence society at large through outreach and financial influence

look for granges and mutual aid projects. that’s been my experience. they offer the community and the mutual support, put without the guilt, shame, and hate

And if not, it was a Native American community

This is currently happening, right now, in Knoxville, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee

yeah. i’ve been attending abolish ice movement meetings since 2009. this isn’t a new movement, it’s just become something that’s become so visible it can’t be unseen at all. it’s like how the Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 but people think of it as starting in 2020.

too many people view things as starting when they find out about them, and too many people are too hard on people for genuinely not knowing something was going on. we have a horrifying torment machine that’s killing us all and if we lose control of what the truth is we might be fucked for an extraordinarily long time.

so do tell people these things are going on and have been going on for a long time. tell people where you learned about this and where they can find out more. don’t be a scold. don’t tolerate anyone who flat out denies the opportunity to educate themselves or be educated.

we don’t have time to relitigate the 2020 primaries to figure out which of the progressive voices was the one progressives should have rallied around to avoid the neoliberal wing continuing to control the dnc, but we do have to learn our lessons of how the vote was split handing biden the election, despite the fact he was bascially everyone’s 4th choice out of 16. and most of all, we need ranked choice ballots so people can truly cast votes that matter instead of letting the machinery of the party continue the illusion of choice.