The US is going to take gold in every event. Mostly because other countries won’t be allowed to compete or won’t want to.
I’ve always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.
The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified
The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it
The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can’t be caught.
Russia, a powerhouse, had a ridiculously complex scam going and even they were caught.
They aren’t rich in the normal sense, but they are powerful and secretive, so I think they provide a valid counterexample.
Does it go on? I’d believe constantly. Does it get found out? Every time, albeit there’s always a short window of success. Do more powerful nations have more success at cheating? Yeah, since the smaller countries can’t cheat as well.
But not a conspiracy, just correlation, I think.
Rich countries have highly developed sports infrastructures that allow better detection of talents and training the talents in the best possible conditions. That is probably already enough to explain the difference in results. No need to look for some drug conspiracy. If your city doesn’t have the money to build a swimming pool, you’ll never have swimming champions from there.
Gold medals won by other countries are illegal medals!
Stop the (medal) count!
Fuck the olympics. It’s an oppressive, leeching grift in service of nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.
So it’s coming home?
I’m chilling in Mexico bruh
My cousin was an Olympic sprinter and that couldn’t make me give a fuck about the Olympics. Honestly it just seems like another thing to distract families so they have something to talk about. Also, the committee is basically run by the mob. Hard pass.
It’s one of the few things where most of the world fights without anybody dying. We need way more things like the Olympics to remind us we are all part of the same species sharing a collective space ship Earth.
Ah yes, because Europe is not slowly turning alt-right.
And who are the sponsors that gladly endorse and fund the European alt-right? Why, it’s American billionaires, of course.
At least Germany is in the process of lynching AfD.
Don’t get your hopes up, even if they get banned their voters won’t suddenly disappear or change their minds. Troubling times are ahead of all of us, we’re sitting on a powderkeg and this time it’s not just the Balkans.
Yes, but at least they’re no longer legitimised. Their fascist party doesn’t have a platform to speak on. It is a limitation against them.
Britannia waives the rules.
Neigh, Monty Python.
A man of culture!
We don’t go to Ravenholm.
I cannot fathom how maple MAGOT 51st staters haven’t looked up the price of insulin in the US vs Canada yet.
Consider all MAGAts cultists. You cannot fathom how fucked in the head they are. You could point this out, any logical person would see how crazy expensive insulin and other medication in the US Healthcare system is … but MAGAts have no logic whatsoever. They will just say its “fake news” or liberal propaganda.
I am serious. You have to shut MAGA down. These bitches are crazy.
It would require them to think and then they wouldn’t be maple maggots anymore.
They will complain that the US is paying for Canadian health care.
Meanwhile how the Canadians treat the natives:
If you think Canada is bad (and it sure is), you should see how the US treated its indiginous peoples.
“Treats,” current tense.
“There is an even worse place” is really not a good argument.
I mean if we’re going to discuss statements of fact we could also include Europe’s history of colonial exploitation. But I’m on board with just ribbing the US for now.
Having to dig up old stuff and again pointing at other places is again a miss.
It may seem old to you because your privilege allows you to forget. But ask indigenous peoples if it feels old to them. You may be suprised by what you hear, when you take the time to listen.
Thanks, don’t really need the lecture or your assumptions
WHAT? JUST BECAUSE WE ROUNDED THEM UP AND PUT THEM IN CAMPS WITH NO FOOD OR WATER WE’RE THE BAD GUY???
we HAD to do that, we had HUNTED their primary FOOD SOURCE in to OBLIVION.
The football world championship is going to be in the US too. The goalies aren’t the only ones going to be shot at.
Ice is going to have a field day kidnapping football players
Any non-white team is not going to have a good time.
And here I was worried, that it might end up in a democracy.
Oh and they are racist against lions ,even have stupid clubs for their hate
“Civilized” is this context is a dog whistle for white. Anti-Arab and anti-indigenous beliefs are taking over both.
A few nights ago, I watched a classic film called “The Battle for Algiers”. The movie explored the French occupation of Algeria during the independence movement of the late 50s/early 60s.
And let me tell you, “civilized” France was doing some curiously unciviled shit by the end.
I love the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ. Don’t know if there’s a movie of it.
“These stupid primitives that we’ve denied sovereignty and exploited couldn’t possibly beat us with anti aircraft weapons!”
Fuck all colonizers. Fuck the U.S. for getting involved after the Vietnamese thoroughly said, “no, we want to rule ourselves.”
Don’t know if there’s a movie of it.
From the Wikipedia article:
The battle was a subject in the 1992 French film Dien Bien Phu written and directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, who had been present at the battle as a war cameramen.
The beginning of the 1966 film Lost Command starring Anthony Quinn showed the battle towards its end. The film was adapted from the French novel Les Centurions written by French journalist and former soldier Jean Lartéguy.
I think you need to read the comic again.
It’s calling the USA (white) uncivilized, and everywhere else (mostly not white) civilized.Is it or did you just really want to use dog whistle in a sentence and rant about whites?
The meme implies everywhere except the US is civilized so you screaming about racism is likely just brain rot.
Ah yes, using white as a noun, the hallmark of a sane and reasonable person.
Cut the crap on the “civilized” world farce. If there was any decency the israeli onslaught would be punished. Instead these countries stand by them and do nothing.
Many of the countries in question don’t have a military presence that could dwarf the others, nor an army that would willingly fight larger enemies for those morals.
Obviously, I’m not including America in that statement.
You’re correct but there is much that can be done without military intervention. The least these nations could have done is a weapons embargo and sanctions. Many other diplomatic levers that can be used but aren’t.
Civilised doesn’t have to mean flawless. The US is still a horribly barbaric country, and the weapons Israel use to commit genocide come from the US.
If you really think the US will struggle to host the olympics, it might be time to leave the basement once in a while.
Global sports events have never been hosted by governments with terrible human rights records right?
Checks History
No no no noooooo.
Just be careful guys…if it can happen here it can happen to you. Stay frosty out there.
I think Europe had their time. They are nodding knowingly and pitifully at America at how hard it will be to climb out of it.
Russia is worse then the US is, but the US is working on it. Both are helping out likeminded European groups. Musk was turning up at German and British facist party events for a reason.
So what you’re saying is that the UK needs a repeat of Cable Street to drive home that fascism isn’t welcome and drive out wannabe-Mosley.
Would be an option. Another really good one would be a reform of the election system. It is insane that Labour got 2/3 of the seats in parliament with only 1/3 of the votes. Even worse with Reform polling at about 1/3 of the votes right now.
Nah, the right is on the raise in Europe too. The question is for how long and how far do they get.
With a lot of money from the US.
In some cases, but rich people are usually right wing as it justifies their wealth. Consequently they are classists. And racism is just another type of classism.
In other words, Europe has their own rich monsters.
…it’s harsh times
Are you kidding? Europe is trying it’s best to keep up with the USs sprint to the hard right.
The crisis of the 30’s was a factor and now we’re in the same position.
Dramatically worsened by the results of ‘there will be no more Nordstream’.
Not a peep from our EU leaders, just more bootlicking, crippling sanctions on ourselves and buying wildly expensive and polluting US fracking gas.
And billions more of their murder toys OC, what else are our pension and social welfare funds for?
Kick US media out of your country, use opensource software and you’ll be better off.
Don’t be afraid to just take US intellectual property.
It was acquired through exploitative neoliberal and neocolonial policy. “AI” is actually the peak manifestation of this.
Also, China does it (though in some cases consensually) and its gone fairly well for them.
Apparently China just came out and said they dont care about american copyrights so this might grow.
To be fair, its not like the West played by the rules during the colonial era so that’s understandable.
A number of US based companies have willingly given away IP in the past to access the market.
Fascists? Here? in europe? What gave you the idea that it could ever happen?
