France and UK. UK still thinks they're competing like the old empire days, but France basically just does not care about them/is barely aware of them.
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In the US? Democrats vs. Republicans.
According to the rest of the world, the US doesn't have a left party. Democrats are right wing and Republicans are extremist right wing. The left is completely unrepresented in our government. Both major parties lean conservative (from a global perspective) and care more about helping major businesses and the rich elite than actually representing the people.
That's why there's a whole movement centered around "no war but class war." The American people are not actually represented and are instead pitted against each other in this fake "red vs. blue" distraction so we don't actually go after our political leaders, or weed out the source of the money behind the scenes that dictate their actions.
the US doesnβt have a left party
Yes*.
Technically speaking, there's the Green Party and PSL on federal ballots for many states, but the electoral system is positioned so that there's no foreseeable way that a party other than the two main ones could realistically win. So for all intents and purposes, there's no federal left-wing option.
got that right!! I always said I make Democrats look like Republicans
Working Class vs Ownership Class
Yeah that's really no contest anymore.
The horse has been dead for thousands of years, and the dust of its former corpse has scattered to the wind. Yet somehow, it's still being beaten because anything less would be "woke."
Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake is a good example of "stop! stop! he's already dead!"
A diss track that calls you out as a pedophile is the most-awarded song in Grammys history, became a theme song of the DNC, was the hit of the Superbowl. And at said Superbowl, he twisted the knife by inviting Serena Williams, someone who you stalked, to dance as a lil fuck you.
I don't follow hip hop or much pop culture, and even I know this. I know there's way more instances of absolute murder that haven't bubbled up to people like me knowing. Time to wave the flag, Drake.
I love that I keep learning new things about Kendrick's halftime show. Not only did it make some racist uncles very angry, I keep finding hidden things in the show. Absolutely spectacular performance.
Nvidia vs AMD.
vim vs. emacs
It doesn't matter if you personally like emacs more, far fewer people use it.
Firefox vs Chrome Desktop GNU/Linux vs Broken Windows
If we're talking football β½, a rivalry is usually a long term thing, that transcends temporary factors like winning records.
You only have to look at Liverpool and Everton, or Man City and Man United, or Aston Villa and Birmingham City, to see that rivalry can be fierce and lasting even when one side enjoys a long period of dominance over the other.
As long as it matters more than most games to both sets of fans, it's a rivalry IMO.
In US college football: Washington State University vs. University of Washington. WSU cares about it a lot. UW... has bigger fish to fry.
I think manga/anime covers mostly one sided rivalry better than a lot of other media. I think it's that drive for perfection that pushes many characters. One is already shown to be near perfect, and the other is always trying to catch up.
Examples would be Bakugo and Midoria from My Hero Academia. Midoria is by far the most powerful and sees Bakugo as a friend, not a rival, but Bakugo is obsessed to outdo him and keeps pressing himself to find a way to do something Midoria cannot.
I also think of Ippo and Miyata from Hajime no Ippo. There is a bit more 2 sidedness here, but it is mostly Ippo. Miyata sees they are becoming closer in skill, so he leaves the gym to build himself up on his own away from Ippo, and though Ippo beats people that would outclass Miyata, Miyata is still the one Ippo wants to beat since he set him on the start to his success but still was usually one step ahead of where he wanted to be. Miyata wanted to stay that one step ahead, but wasn't constantly using Ippo to do that after a point, he knew he had to keep looking for greater challenges if he didn't want to be surpassed.
The Kansas City Chiefs vs the rest of the NFL.
I'm glad I lived to see my team's villain era.
The only thing one-sided about the Chiefs are the refs' calls.
Spoken like someone who hasn't actually looked at the stats for accepted penalties in the NFL. If you had, you'd know the Bills and Vikings are actually getting much more help than the Chiefs.
But that's okay.
You can be wrong. :) The rest of us know your team sucks of their own accord.