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Feb 12Liked by Jupplandia

Daniel, you have written an amazing number of brilliant essays, but this is one of your most brilliant ever! YES YES YES YES YES. Sports used to be the last refuge of meritocracy (albeit in a limited way, lol) and the last remaining refuge from the politicization of EVERYTHING. And of course... that refuge could not be allowed to remain a refuge. I could not agree with you more, that this is exactly what's happening. Thank you for writing this!! I will share it with my email list.

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Thanks very much, Iā€™m really glad it struck a chord. šŸ˜€šŸ˜€

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Feb 12Liked by Jupplandia

I shared it with my email list, only about 50 people, but already received a couple of highly favorable comments.

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Thatā€™s great, thank you! Iā€™ve had several people join free today so you might be responsible for that. šŸ˜€šŸ˜€

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Bravo! You've captured my grumbles precisely.

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Thanks Carl šŸ˜€

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Feb 12Liked by Jupplandia

I couldn't bring myself to watch the Swift Bowl. I knew the Swifties would win, pre-arranged. They'd hand the trophy straight to her, where she and Travis Pfizer would give a speech telling everyone to get a Covid vaccine, an abortion and to vote for Joe Biden.

You're right, they've taken away our loves and the things we value. I hate them.

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Exactly Cara. Itā€™s so obvious and so malign. They canā€™t leave us anything.

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Feb 12Liked by Jupplandia

But they can never take my soul or my faith. Thank God.

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Feb 12Liked by Jupplandia

Your observations are as usual on point. One question though. Are ā€˜theyā€™ trying to cut out our hearts? Or do they have so little of worth they must destroy all that we have? Which then leads further to what will our world look like if we we could restore everything to ā€˜normalā€™?

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Thanks John. Good questions. Iā€™d say itā€™s both-they want to cut out our hearts and destroy all that we have AND they deep down know that their own creations are trash. That makes eliminating ours even more urgent as it shows them up. Those who most vehemently insist that Taylor Swift is better than Beethoven deep down know that they are lying.

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Feb 12Liked by Jupplandia

I used to love football and the playoffs. I often watched games with my parents. It was fun as we each had a favorite team, for different reasons.

I also, fondly remember big Thanksgiving games with neighbors at my apartments. Again fun rivalry amongst friends with some good food, drinking and a few wagers.

Then we had what we called "Super Eve" a whole weekend of people from all over the country gathering to watch the game on a TV in a one bedroom apartment in Atlanta. Few of us celebrated New Years eve, preferring to save all our celebration energy for the big weekend. It was fun with many silly "traditions" of the weekend.

The world is far too serious and lacking of a childish sense of fun to continue that party. I suspect it ended when it got too big and the newbies had no clue why we thought it was so much fun. šŸ˜•

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Itā€™s so sad. That sounds like it was a wonderful focus for the family and for friends and neighbours, a real community thing. Thatā€™s exactly what I was thinking of in terms of what sport used to provide before they ruined it.

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Feb 12Liked by Jupplandia

Nailed it.

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Cheers Kay šŸ˜€

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Feb 14Liked by Jupplandia

I haven't ever been a sports fan, but we were SWAMPED by it this year. Didn't watch it, didnt care BUT I did notice the PsyOp and the inflitration. Just when I think the BS and propaganda really get any worse, it gets worse. Where is the bottom of tbis pit?

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It seems to have no end. That's why I don't follow anything on mainstream news or TV channels, print media etc. They will throw this crap at us all day long.

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But I still remember when I did....

Ditto Daniel. 1966 as it turns out. I was 13. :o)

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That must have been amazing. I think my dad would have been 19 at the time. Weirdly we never spoke about 1966 even though I used to watch football with him.

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Oddly enough ... the last football match I ever went to was in Sunderland in 1975. The Mackems were playing W. Brom and won 2 - 0

Geoff Hurst was playing for Brom that day and received a great welcome from all fans.

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There are reasons for this, but one reasons stands above all the rest: Destruction for the sake of destruction. It's never about building back better, nor building anything. The left is a nihilistic death cult

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I shared your article with a US email list and received some replies, which set me thinking how we need to embrace positive masculinity, because our society is being deliberately emasculated and weakened.

Hereā€™s my response to the list:

I was driving on a hilly road recently, and a couple of boys on bikes popped up out of nowhere, zipping down the road at great speed, jumping the bikes around, it was really quite reckless and potentially dangerous. But I couldn't help feeling exhilarated by seeing these boys going hell for leather, just letting it rip. I thought the young had been ground down with all the misery that is promoted these days, so it was great to see the audacity of these boys, enjoying themselves taking risks.

The last few years have been so sickening, with society deliberately being destroyed, purportedly to protect the elderly with comorbidities, sacrificing the lives of the young to do so.

And the majority tricked into going along with this heinous scam.Ā 

I'm a feminist, but oftentimes this past few years I have questioned...where the hell are the men?!?!?

Our society is being smashed by evildoers, who is there to fight back? Sure, women and men must rise to pushback, but we desperately need to see positive masculinity embraced, because it has been deliberately undermined for years.

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