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enjoyablethings  ·  3420 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why do we inject patriot acts into sports?

It feeds into the "warriors, competition, badasses, woohoo, USA!, USA!" thing. I think it's a way for people to transpose those competitive feelings about sports into nationalism. Vaguely thinking about war as an international competition.