I know Chris irl. He's a cool guy, this is worth listening in on.

Watching college football depresses me because my school is awful at football lmao

Football and other games like that are just simulated warfare anyways. It gives people the 'us vs. them' mentality, sort of like how the olympics were originally meant to spread peace. It was a substitute

It gives people the tribalism they crave, it gives them a way to be explicitly chauvinistic for something that is socially acceptable

Exactly

my guys are better than your guys

But with all the switching, trading, etc. it's no longer people from your town against people of other towns

It's whoever is the best against the best the other team has to offer

Like my family is more into college football then I am and they never went to college. I just started going to this college this semester too 😂

@Isabella Locke-MT Ironically enough, the Olympics is one of the biggest indicators of the biological/anatomical differences between races.

I agree

huh, it’s almost like there’s a metaphor in there about regional identity being destroyed for the sake of profit <:galaxybrain:366743669484683264>

the trading players thing, that is

College football is the same as fraternities and sororities I suppose. People naturally desire identity and fraternity. They want a clear "us" and a clear "Them"

Its simple that way

not that one’s identity should be entirely about football in any case, but still...

My brother is like that. Completely obsessed with this one team

It's probably 90% of his identity and he's a husband and father. He watches every single game, has lots of merch, etc.

I'm pretty sure he's an NPC.

@Brunswick people always make it sound like “us vs them” is wrong, but our assumptions and observations of “the other” tend to be correct most of the time

^

I agree Alex

I’ll take the 70% solution that offends a few people over the 0% solution where no one’s happy

All of these are surrogate identities for lack of identification with blood and its actual heritage. Whether it be a sports team, a subculture, for liberals POC and sexual deviants, or for conservatives Israel

And they're all very shallow identities compared to the real thing, and prone to relapse into dissociation and nihilism

Even political affiliation, and even ethnonationalism un-acted upon, is this surrogate much of the time

I follow/interact with a bunch of women on Instagram who've built their identities around their aesthetic, basically flowers and daintyness

I guess that's better than most as it's essentially traditional femininity, but it does seem to tend towards consumerism at times

It's easy to fall into the trap

I follow a few SAHM vlogs and they are always showing off the products that they have (mops, certain cleaners, etc) and I was jealous that they seemed to have it all together. I bookmarked a few of the products they were endorsing. But at the end of the day, I don't need a $40 fancy mop in order to keep a clean home

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157800850087067&id=832592066

Forty years ago.

Yeah, MP is great. Wouldn't be aired today

Cleese has said some pretty nationalist things in the past

Strange guy looking into it - pro brexit, anti-globalist sentiments yet..anti-Trump.

Probably just doesn't like his personality enough to be anti Trump?

Silly reason to be anti Trump.

Trump offends the Anglo sensibility.

Trump is a physical Anglo-Germanic, but his spirit is Mediterranean.

Transmogrified by a lifetime living among "them" (italians) in the big apple.

few know this.