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Old February 26th 17, 07:38 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Saturday, 25 February 2017 19:29:56 UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:
We aren't little tribes competing for
who gets the waterhole anymore.


I can never decide whether sports team allegiance is a good or bad thing.
Does it release potential aggression towards the "enemy" tribe?
Or reinforce it? As it does in soccer around the globe.
There are very distinct similarities here to self-harming, Republican voters.
The followers are of average low intelligence and are easily fleeced.
Paying a week's wages to watch millionaires play a children's game, while wearing rip-off merchandise, is certainly highly profitable for the team owners.
Ironically some of the soccer team owners are foreign billionaires.
A nice little extra income when the banks aren't paying any interest on their ill-gotten gains.