Longtime fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs might recognize this sort of hypothetical from Dave Nonis vs. a potato. It’s never good when the potato comes out on top.
“The most historic sporting event of all time”?
The NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup and the World Cup are all going on right now. This is maybe the fourth biggest sporting event of the weekend.
TLDR: it’s all bullshit.
However, there are no rules, and the bullshit enriches oligarchs and entertains their chud fanboys, so it will persist until the guillotines are built.
Of course it does, why wouldn't it? The alternative is that rich people stop getting richer, a scenario that has been effectively engineered to never happen again (until it does, but I doubt that will happen in my lifetime).
This is true, and it’s worth asking why virtually every government on earth consistently ignores better, cheaper, more humane solutions to these problems in favour of being “tough on crime”.
Human nature certainly plays a role; people whose salary depends on the status quo surely do as well.
The number of people at the Knicks parade today were roughly equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana & Alaska. So if you heard about any issues in NYC today, but not about any crimes in those states, you know the agenda of that media.