Based on anecdotes and Reddit threads, it seems that UT admissions is just randomly picking candidates. Fucking weird. I’ve soured so much on our alma mater in recent years and seeing absolutely unqualified dopes get in while superstars get CAP’d is infuriating. And I don’t even have any skin in the game.
I argued about NFTs with quite a few smart, successful people who were convinced I was out of touch and that stupid shit was the wave of the future. FOMO is a pretty powerful enemy to reason. What’s really depressing that crypto persists, despite the fact that a crypto coin is basically just an NFT minus the tenuous connection to a tangible asset.
I lived in Boston for several years. Sheesh. Where do I begin? A black schizophrenic homeless lady once shouted “YOU WHITE BITCH!” right in my Indian friend’s face. And I witnessed some Cambridge street trash call an Aryan German dude a “dirty Jew.” So Bostonians may be racist, but at least they don’t discriminate. They will confusingly slur you regardless of race, color, or creed.
So unlike the other groups listed (gun nuts, farmers), that wrestling crowd was likely not a MAGA bunch. Their anti-ICE chant is not indicative of a changing sentiment in the same way as, for example, the Boogaloo Boys recently criticizing ICE was.
Don’t get too excited. Wrestling has evolved and the demographics of its fanbase have shifted. After kayfabe died, the real dummies (the fans who thought it was a legitimate combat sport) moved on to shit like UFC. Wrestling fans these days are all in on the bit. They know it’s a pure performance art. That crowd is mostly geeks.