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Notes App and Sports Rivalries

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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Can I Love Liverpool Without Hating Manchester United?

Liverpool and Manchester united fans are always singing back and forth to each other, harmless and humorous cruelty. 96 liverpool fans died in a human crush at hillsborough stadium in 19 89 which was caused by grossly negligent failures by police. But the rupert murdock owned son newspaper an a series of false stories claiming that the Hillsborough disaster had been caused by drunken l Liverpool fans. This is the kind of cruelty that we are only capable of when we stop thinking of each other as human beings whose hearts all break in the same places. Although physical violence between fans less common now than it was in past decades, hatred, not just toward rival teams, but also racism, and mesogony and

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