hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
27m ago
Uh, isn’t non-commonwealth rugby Union mostly in countries with very heavy British influence to begin with?
hydroacetylene
29m ago
It got Mbappe the golden boot and it’s consistently one of the better games of the tournament. This year was a really good game for watching.
hydroacetylene
53m ago
One does not ‘bring back’ mexican coke, one pays a price premium for it in any store. It doesn’t make enough of a difference to really be worth it, but for those who would like to, you can simply pay more from normal mainstream retailers.
hydroacetylene
57m ago
Ok but academics can’t actually do anything about that(Trump is ruling by decree, even if it’s greatly exaggerated). They are, in fact, making the problem worse, by pushing democrats to nominate people who believe their theories.
hydroacetylene
1hr ago
‘People’ don’t watch 37 seasons of cops. People watch cops when they’re bored, they don’t follow the franchise.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
The worlds major sporting powers probably could. Lots of rugby players on it, of course, but American football isn’t completely unknown over there either.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
American football is expensive but it’s within the realm of what Western Europe could afford- after all it took off in America when we were a lot poorer than they are now. Could Europeans fill out a full team? Probably, a number of those countries are very competitive across a range of different sports.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
College quidditch is also notable for being ridiculous and inane as a sport. They run around with brooms held between their legs, even.
Like ultimate frisbee is not that.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
And then people unfamiliar with sports tried to make quidditch real, giving ammunition to ‘JKR made a fictional sport, not a real one’.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
American football is ludicrously more expensive and has more specialized players. But typically rugby(and Canadian football) players find more success slotting into American football teams than the reverse, and I struggle to believe that high income countries can’t afford to build NFL teams.
But the other thing to point out is that the NFL is not, primarily, a sporting organization, it’s an entertainment platform. A limited number of teams isn’t going to expand, because the NFL’s success formula is celebrities+tabloid fodder+a big show that’s easy to televise- and thats a lot harder to replicate. Hardcore sports fans in the US are pivoting away from the NFL and towards things like hockey and soccer(college football is also huge, but it’s a class/cultural phenomenon).
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Cuba being right next to the USA brings in lots of investment, they’re mineral rich, and they were probably destined to have at least some shipping income.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
What is ‘traditional anthropology’? Margaret Meade’s work was mostly based on lies. Early anthropologists said all kinds of crazy shit. The field has been ideologically driven fan fiction, sloppy research techniques, and actual lies since the beginning.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
No, whatever is done about academia will cause lots of collateral damage to things like medical and engineering research.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
In fairness, Spain had 12 goals blocked, which only happened because Argentina has the best keeper in the world.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
There are lots of countries that are wealthy enough to play American Football- but soccer got to Africa from France, not the other way around.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I mean, you should vote. But if you want something higher impact, volunteer with local campaigns that oppose flock cameras. Many local elections are nonpartisan and people are simply lost as to who to vote for; a door knock or a phone call can replace the all important (R) or (D).
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Folding knives are extremely normal for Americans to have in their pockets for opening boxes and the like; even if it's technically illegal nobody cares outside of the sorts of places that already have metal detectors.
Then again, this is the country where a day long class and a background check entitles people in most states to carry a firearm anywhere they go.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
That's actually not true- the handful of sports whose ancestors were clearly documented functioned as a substitution for war. A lacrosse match substituted for a battle.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Actually soccer, rugby, and cricket spread out from England at about the same time, but soccer got the widest adoption and displaced the others, in both rich and poor countries alike. Rugby and its descendants(like American and Canadian football, or Australian rules football) are dominant in most anglosphere colonies, but not in Britain itself.
Soccer is an awesome sport. It has rules that are simple enough that everyone can understand them- but at the same time, they don't let everyone get away with murder. It's not highly scripted. It isn't a sport that rewards sheer mass over athleticism. Anyone except the wheelchair bound can play, anywhere, anytime. It's the world's sport for a reason, it beat out rugby and cricket for a reason.
Tiny nations could not put up a fight in America’s sports even if they played them at the same rate.
Tiny nations do, however, do this. The rugby powers could field good American Football teams if they wanted to, probably quite quickly. Plenty of small european countries already field good basketball teams- Serbia actually pushed the US to the brink for olympic gold. And Latin American baseball players are extremely common.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In practice, that is not how it works- excommunications are publicized as a judgement that the extenuating factors don’t apply. The lack of publication of excommunications serves as a judgement that whatever reason they have for doing it(in this case, almost certainly persecution) is good enough to dispense from the law.
Lone cranks doing crank things under the radar is the reason for the látame sententiae cannons, when high profile behavior goes unpunished it can be assumed to be judged not excommunicating.
The current status is that there is an above ground church. Officials(clergy etc) in the above ground church are legally required to be members in the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, a communist front group which picks bishops and disciplines priests for hewing too close to Catholic doctrines the CCP doesn’t like. Non-Chinese Catholics are generally agreed to be dispensed from mass attendance inside red China and the Vatican does not impose penalties on the CPCA.
China also has an underground church about which virtually nothing is known except that it was stronger when John Paul II let them consecrate underground bishops to replace the ones martyred. There may still be underground bishops being consecrated in technical violation of canon law; the Vatican is supremely uninterested in excommunicating them. Most Catholics in China attend underground services at least occasionally(unlike in the gulf countries, underground priests are largely local) but underground church only Catholics are agreed to be a minority.
Edit to add- in Conservative Muslim countries, the underground church usually uses nonresident priests who say masses in private. Red China is unique in having a theoretically aboveboard structure to go along with it; the soviets tried to have this but failed and tended to lapse into persecution. To read about the experience of a Catholic priest ministering under persecution in the Soviet Union, With God in Russia by Fr Walter Ciszek is generally agreed as the best account. Nothing of the sort has been published for either red China or the gulf countries.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Argentina fought in multiple wars, but the Falklands/Malvinas are just the only recent one- they fought in the triple alliance, for example(the South American world war).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It's pointless barely-justified jingoism of the sort that is very common in Latin America. But because the Argentines are white people behaving like Slavs and the counterparty is Britain, it's newsworthy.
In Texas concealed carry is often enough not concealed very well.
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