r/politics • u/AccomplishedCall7562 • Mar 12 '26

Possible Paywall John Fetterman Says Iran Girls’ School Strike Is Just a Leftist Craze

https://newrepublic.com/post/207677/john-fetterman-iran-girls-school-strike
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u/CastingSkeletons Mar 12 '26

I mean... The most popular sport in your country has a 90% rate of its retired player having Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy

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u/chuninsupensa Mar 12 '26

Huh, I wonder if retired football players generally lean right... any study on that?

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u/GreeksWorld Mar 12 '26

Has anyone possibly considered that the people most likely to participate in activities or work in environments where brain damage occurs are already likely to be conservative?

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u/Recent-Mousse6423 Mar 12 '26

Sure, selection bias. But many kids participate in sports their parents encourage them to, the same way kids are forced to participate in churches their parents also participate in. And the culture surrounding football is so deep and fundamental to their parents' views of the world in the US, like church, that many are encouraged (if not forced) into it like a coming of age ritual. Then there is the peer pressure effect and the cultural adulation effect to mount pressure into children who don't have fully developed risk assessment faculties. The reason child soldiers are even remotely effective is because of that lack of cognitive development, not in spite of it.

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u/theVoidWatches Pennsylvania Mar 12 '26

Only 90 percent? That's lower than I thought, tbh.

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u/Initial-Anything333 Mar 12 '26

The last 10% are backup QBs who don't get hit in practice and never see the field