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My vote is golf for the former, and wrestling for the latter

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Frisbee golf is like golf but with all of the reactionary elements stripped away. Just set up baskets in any given nature area and play, foliage is a feature not a bug.

Conversely American Football is like rugby but with a whole host of reactionary elements tacked on. It's the sport with the highest commercials per minute for a reason.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'll keep saying this....the superbowl had a kanye ad with nazi shit on the shirt but Palestinian flag on a performance was the one that got panned. Hell kapernick kneeling got more heat than that

[–] ScreamingDanger@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

I'm a disc-golf enjoyer and we refer to it as The People's Golf.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

The reactionary part of frisbee golf is the crackers complaining that they get in the way of their morning jog through the park

Most reactionary is definitely polo, most proletarian is i think football but all professional leagues needs to be burned and remains reeducated (that goes for all big money sports though).

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Most proletarian sport?

ICE HOCKEY.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

train-shining LOKOMOTIV POSTING

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

I have a Tretiak jersey

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reactionary: american football

Prole: soccer, especially HA HA HA HA RONALDINHO SOCCER

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Ronaldinho is a zio 😓 i found out the other day

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago

I know I just bought his jersey too (knock off but still)

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Damn, I honestly haven’t thought of Ronaldinho in years, what a thing to find out. Although he’s probably also a Bolsonaro supporter, supposedly just about every Brazilian sportsperson is.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

most proletarian: pancake eating contest followed by dizzy bat race

most reactionary: pickleball

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Pickleball is the exception that bucks the rule of 'minuature version of sport > big version'

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You just gotta go smaller - table tennis

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Golf is the obvious answer for reactionary, but it seems like it could easily be prole? Like, the courses are there, it wouldn't be that hard to provide rental clubs for everyone, set up a system for fair tee times for everyone.

The time investment would be the only real blocker, but in a real DotP, that would hopefully be easier to make available for anyone that wants it.

But also, you know, astroturf the whole place or something. The environmental impact doesn't go away with equal distribution, but it might at least be a little more reasonable if it was something that was for everyone to enjoy.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

astroturf the whole place

visible-disgust just use native flora!

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean I agree, but golf's pretty hard even with fancy trimmed grass. I think playing through a loose natural thicket would very considerably change the game to a different thing altogether.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

skill issue (idk never played)

[–] DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 days ago

It's definitely golf

Anglos are so uncoordinated that they have to obliterate everything and install a hostile homogeneity across dozens of acres before they can even imagine accurately hitting a ball where they want it to go

[–] TommyBeans@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

Pretty much any sport is going to run the gamut from reactionary to prole, no? Soccer is very prole, any group of folks can kick an improvised object around. On the other end you have fucking FIFA, the definition of reactionary.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

Most reactionary: Big game hunting or that thing where inbred *nglo nobles on horses hunt down foxes with dogs

Least reactionary: Probably football

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

I'm going to say polo or dressage as most reactionary.

I'd say running, or other track and field, as most proletarian.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

Reactionary: Chess, you literally larp as a king and send pawns to their death.

Prole: Russian Roulette. Everyone is equal plus Russian is communist.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Golf is most reactionary in terms of real world effects and the damage it causes to environment and municipal layout

"Sport" Hunting is most reactionary in terms of ethos and aesthetics

Soccer is the most proletarian just by reality of numbers

[–] someone@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder if the most effective leadership-decapitation military strike possible on the United States would actually be a simultaneous bombing (genuinely hypothetically, I am NOT advocating for adventurism) of the top 100 most expensive country clubs at 3pm on a sunny summer Friday.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It would have a noticeable effect, but Golf Courses are so disgustedly bloated and sprawling that even heavy air strikes would have a high chance of missing without real time spotter intelligence (in a Tom Clancy novel of course)

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Harrison Ford tried to 9/11 a golf course. Didn't work

Soccer is the most proletarian just by reality of numbers

Another important part of football is how simple it is and how little it takes, you go to any poor village in an African country and you will see kids with a ball kicking it to 2 rocks that represent a goal post, sometimes there's no ball sometimes it's just a bottle.

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[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most prole = Soccer

Most reactionary = Also Soccer

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[–] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Motorsports are the most reactionary even if just because of the high cost of even participating. Alternatively, golf, I suppose.

Football (soccer) is by far the most proletarian, even if commercialization has been very successful in the last 25 years.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 week ago

most reactionary: am*rican football
most proletarian: soccer
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