I don't care if people watch sports, it was the introduction of politics into sports broadcasts/branding that left many people with a bad taste in their mouth.
What I and others are criticizing is how sports became avenues of ideological expression rather than the very thing you are describing, a thing most normal people just want to watch.
My dad (just as an anecdotal data point) hasn't watched a professional football, soccer, hockey, baseball or basketball game since the various leagues started their "bend the knee, stop racism nao" horseshit. Turns out being lectured even for just five minutes preceding or during a sporting event on non-sport-related topics is enough to put someone off the whole spectacle entirely.
As he's said several times when we've talked about it, "there's plenty of other shit to watch that doesn't insult me for watching."
My sentiments echo
@Conan and
@moocow's dad. To borrow a liberal phrase, a number of people consider sports their safe space to be entertained without having to worry about the everyday crap happening around them. Anything that tries to reintroduce needless politics or everyday crap back into that safe space is unwanted and turn people off enough that they will turn off whatever device is broadcasting the event.
I get your point here. I hate the political messages too, don't get me wrong, but at the end of the day.. it's what I like, I guess.
If you can filter out the political ideology and still enjoy watching sportsball, I'll genuinely salute you
for being able to do it; not everyone can do it, and others believe they shouldn't have to in the first place.
A few months back I recall seeing an article of the Baltimore mayor giving himself a pat on the back because Baltimore had the lowest number of murders it's seen in many years.
How strange and unusual they'd use number of murders rather than murders per capita, but it really makes sense once you look at the dropping population
The left will do whatever it takes to manipulate statistics in their favor. When COVID first hit, the media reported the increasing number of cases on a daily basis until the raw numbers plateaued. Then, they made an unannounced switch to 7-day totals until those numbers dropped - leaving them no choice but to stop reporting numbers and instead fueling the frenzy in other ways.
It wouldn't surprise me if any big city such as Baltimore would report drops in raw numbers because that looks better than reporting the reality that the percentage remains constant or that it's increased in light of decreasing overall population.
Here is a question i wanna ask, if we banned all children from the internet completely, would that improve it?
I doubt it because kids will still find ways to access the internet - just as they found their parents' playboy magazines, sex manuals, porn stashes, etc. It also wouldn't solve the problems of the degenerates who pose as kids to groom the actual kids that have unrestricted/unmonitored access.
Now you have office jobs that force you to download apps from google play store that sync up to your computer account. I''m not even talking about email apps for your office email, I'm talking straight up "we need to link your windows login to this app".
I forget what happened at my workplace, but the solution our tech guy insisted on was having to get some code from an authenticator app. Thankfully, a coworker was able to get a code from his authenticator app because I made it clear I had no desire to install a work app on my personal phone. I dislike how mobile devices and apps have led tot he expectation people should do stuff or respond to communications after hours - essentially blurring the line between professional and personal time.
Edited for spelling and clarity.
