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Because half the fucking country is treating it like sports.
I thought I understood this as a Canadian until this current World Series. "My team good, your team bad." Then I saw comments from the fanbases of the teams that the Blue Jays faced, and now I understand that people are absolutely deranged. Calling for violence for opposing players for daring to face their team? Yikes.
And this is literally just a game. It doesn't actually have a bearing on people's lives in the long term. (Except the actual teams, I guess.) No wonder American politics is the way it is. Unfortunately, parts of Canada are trying to emulate this here, too.
There's something going on for sure. For many years, we were able to have sports without death threats.
I suspect it has something to do with the current attempts to manipulate people. We have news and politicians trying to pit us against each other and calling for violence against non-violent people. It's the Jose took your lunch kind of thing, and the conditioning feels like it's running rampant.
I worry about Canada; I don't think your people are emulating it. I think they're being influenced and are the next target.
I'm awfully tired of unprecedented times, but I fear we're setting the new bar for precedent.