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Virtue Signaling By Live Tweeting Women's World Cup
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^ democratic socialist here. I'll be damned if someone equates conservatism to pretending to enjoy a sporting event that couches national chauvinism in some feeble opposition to the other kind of chauvinism.
American conservatives proselytize the capitalist system with might. American liberals proselytize it by commodifying things like gender equality and gay pride and making it an extension of American soft power and the capitalist system. In making these reasonable goals that are most accomplishable in tandem with a socialist system synonymous with Western capitalism, neoliberals not only coopt existing radical movements, but they transform them into a tool of Western Imperialism.
The gay pride parade becomes equivalent to the military parade. The Women's World Cup become equivalent to arms dealing by the military-industrial complex.
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- conservabro
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I started watching it this morning, and then it hit me: soccer is effing boring and these women could get beat by a high school men's soccer team.