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Sportswashing and the Police State

It Could Happen Here

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Esports - It Sucks

The Saudis have taken my beloved Starcraft League. I will be waging an unending holy war against them until they cease to exist. All I know about esports is Sonic Fox and Smash Bros. That's all I know. Because everything else just seems like people who are having a fun time playing video games. It was very funny to watch these people have some special type of thing. So it's just really funny, but also- People get, like, really seriously injured doing esport shit. Like, particularly with soccer players, there's a lot of soccer players who are, like, paralyzed who have, like, serious damage to their spines.

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