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Pro sports are used by the capitalists to distract the populace and to turn them into lethargic viewers. Pro Sports organizations are mind-numbing corporations.

Joined June 2012
Professional sports fans throw the word 'pride' at every turn; yet their pride is empty, meaningless, it's absurd corporate allegiance.
Professional sports are counterrevolutionary in the way they sync up mass aspirations around manufactured spectacles.
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Professional sports serve an important function for the capitalists; they drain the desire for social action from the hearts of the people.
Athletes are physical and mental revolutionaries; this is why old capitalists pay them handsomely to become house slaves.
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Watching sports is for weak individuals; it turns the mind into a visually reactive vegetable.
Athletes make natural revolutionaries; this is why capitalists pay them well, to ensure, that they stay away from radical politics.
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The pro athlete could have used his energetic spirit to push for social revolution; instead he becomes a manufactured upper class spectacle.
Professional sports destroy the creativity of the human body; they sedate, they subdue, they negate it.
Professional sports are used by the master class to control the minds and bodies of players.
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Professional sports murder the revolutionary spirit of the people; they turn citizens into passive television addicts.
Pro sports are only entertaining to those who ignore the fact that they are watching working-class bodies controlled by capitalist pigs.
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Pro sports promote the capitalist value of mindless competition; true athleticism is not competition, it is control over body and mind.
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Professional sports dehumanize the populace both on the level of producing cattle (players) and consuming cattle (viewers).
Professional sports teams are used to destroy the active spirit of the populace by turning people into obese, lethargic, viewers.
Professional sports are used by billionaires to gain intimate access to the body of the working-class.
Professional sports are a sickening device for the mass negation of the revolutionary athleticism of the masses.
Pro sports are used to subvert politically relevant social dialogues; instead everyone in the community is talking about players and plays.
Pro sports make methodical use of emotional branding; this is why millions pin their hopes and aspirations to a corporation (team).
Professional sports are designed to turn men into idiotic cheering fools, when they should be out organized and mobilizing for revolution.
The professional athlete is a miserable human beings; he has sacrificed his soul and his identity to serve master (team-owner).