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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Lets be real, people enjoy the show.

Gladiator fights would be popular even today, especially if to the death was part of it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Public executions for crimes in Europe eventually turned into entertainment for the masses.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Public lynching was popular in the USA. Don’t get me started on fairs and carnivals.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

No "eventually" about it. It was spectacle and entertainment from the start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah if its bloody its fun.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

MMA WITH SWORDS! THATS WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

AND LETS THROW SOME LIONS IN THERE!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah animal fights are bad, replace them with death robots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Robot Wars/Battlebots robots, people fighting rc cars that are trying to flip them over with hydraulic paddles

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

WITH BLACKJACK! AND HOOKERS! In fact, forget about the MMA and the lions!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Something like this?

https://youtu.be/1JxuGcHrBzg?si=pCBT3Ld1bBUFELa_

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

So is football.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!"

-Your owners robbing you blind

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Gladiators rarely fought to the death... among themselves. They were glad to make a show of publicly executing some untrained prisoners, though.