prolly got a higher % chance to get stabbed at a footy game in London than you have to get shot by a cop for an entire lifetime as a white dude in the US. those fucking crowds look brutal sometimes.

In the US sports crowds are notoriously rowdy, but places like Baltimore or Philly are super bad. Full beer cans, AA batteries, etc get tossed at tailgate parties all the damn time. Buffalo Bills fans have a tradition of jumping off cars through wooden folding tables like WWE wannabes.

There is very little violence in the premier league anymore, but in our 2nd league it gets pretty rowdy. Still, international football is by far the worst, full on fighting in streets, trashing cities, racism etc. England fans and Russia fans are the worst, but to be fair the world cup in Russia was pretty safe.

you ever seen the movie Green Street Hooligans? I had an ex that was obsessed with that damn movie..... must have watched it 12 times.

nop.

according to the study im referencing yes.

i see no reference.

I haven't, but I've heard of it. Is it any good? If you like those sorts of films you might like the film This Is England.

the first one is quite good, but might be different from a british perspective

it's funny how the narratives of lefties and their unreasonable tax hikes, and that of giving away 'free stuff' without having a plan how to pay for, happily co-exist in the right wing hive mind - lots of empty space there for it not to collide i assume...

meanwhile in the present they are being robbed by their leaders, blinded by a debt funded sugar high of the stock market and some manufacturing jobs on life support (also debt funded ofc, but those couple of thousand voters happen to live in key states, so the billions spent there won't be invested intelligently. thank you, electoral college!).
trump gives tax breaks to corporations and millionaires (despite promising they will not benefit at all), asks for billions and even shuts down the government for a record time over retarded campaign stunts (despite promising mexico would pay for it), generously adds to the deficit (despite promising to reduce it), deregulates wall street and fossil fuel (his buddies and business partners), increasing the military budget (great military, invisible planes, steam powered catapults, and ofc the 'nuclear') - and no one in the cult seems to care where the money for THAT comes from.

but hey, universal healthcare, adequate wages, and affordable college education, we can't have THAT - that's socialism and evil, and you end up like venezuela...
republicans (and to a slightly lesser degree corporate establishment democrats as well) only serve the rich and powerful, but their voters are too stupid to realise that and get easily distracted by their puppet masters pointing at the others as the real enemy. being a politician / lobbyist in such a divided and stupid nation must be heaven...