• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Oh cool they’re going to turn all the former football hooligans who’ve turned into the pogrom forces into a domestic insurgent force aligned with US interests or regime change.

    This feels like the Maidan playbook.

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      Oh cool they’re going to turn all the former football hooligans who’ve turned into the pogrom forces into a domestic insurgent force aligned with US interests or regime change.

      I can genuinely see the US doing something like that, I won’t be surprised if the CIA have been pushing out left-wing ultras-fans culture in football and replacing with far-right chud shit.

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        In the UK it’s not so much that it’s in football anymore, the hooliganism was cracked down on and everyone doing it was banned. The problem is that Tommy Robinson and his lot are basically trading on the exact same culture that used to exist in the old hooliganism, but now they’re doing it outside of football under the nationalism banner.

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            Maybe, but football hooliganism was all turned nazi in Ukraine so I don’t know.

            The sport is really useful for encouraging micro-nationalist behaviour at a local level in a sort of tribal chest beating way, and then transposing that behaviour onto national politics.