Nice that you ignored about 90% of my comment.
I never said the jobs you mentioned are easy, that's why you dont see me complaining about them earning too much.
You seem to think sport at such a high level is easy.
AliOski
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In a democracy you just require a (super)majority for everything necessary to be changed and done to achieve anything.
It is of course easier in a dictatorship to achieve ethnic cleansing, but doesn't require one. Look at Turkey and how they treat the Kurds. Not saying they are the best example of a democracy, but it isn't a dictatorship by definition.
Almost every athlete started sporting when they were a kid, and it's the passion and competitiveness they developed back then that is pushing them to reach top sport levels.
Yes, you are telling the kid inside them which started their whole journey to the top to not do what they want to do.
Regardless, it was a metaphorical comparison, I wasn't calling them mental children.
That's like telling a kid they can't do what they love doing because their parents are bad people. You do you I guess. It's not like those athletes have any other option other than not doing what they love.
Did you consider that they might be representing the nation and not the regime?
Then why weren't you cheering for USAMNT?
No English person today calls it soccer. It's football or in a worst case scenario association football.
Where are you from?
Bunch of millionaires rolling around once they get bumped, acting like they broke their leg in half.
Prevents referee from ignoring fouls and thus prevents dirty aggressive play. Does it matter to you that the actors in your favorite movie earn a lot? Or do you bitch about that too? Those sportsmen are essentially entertainers.
[...] and puts up ads on every flat surface in the world.
Well, that's how the football industry increases the demand of their entertainment. Byproduct is that it makes the sport popular, and sport is healthy, so it's good that it becomes popular.
The 10 to 10 ratio of up- and downvotes says a lot about the people here…
I can see where you're coming from, as I mentioned, Turkey isn't the best example of a democracy, but even now Erdogan can still get removed by a majority of the population, which is not the case in a dictatorship. A dictator can only be removed by the military.
I disagree with the last sentence, the definition of fascism is pretty clear, it is an ideology with certain beliefs and opinions. Not a process, not a form of government, but a set of ideas. If the set of ideas is not complete, it is not that ideology. I already gave you the name of the ideology you were describing.
It is like describing something socialist as stalinist. Like yeah, stalinists are socialists but not every socialist is a stalinist.