Fuck the olympics. It’s an oppressive, leeching grift in service of nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.
So it’s coming home?
“Civilized” is this context is a dog whistle for white. Anti-Arab and anti-indigenous beliefs are taking over both.
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.
I think you need to read the comic again.
It’s calling the USA (white) uncivilized, and everywhere else (mostly not white) civilized.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.
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.
AFD, National Rally, CPC, and other far right parties standing right behind them
I wish I could at least be like Ed and too stupid to understand how shitty it is here.
At the end of the movie, the hyenas eat the fallen king.
Unfortunately, that’s how it got this way. Too many Eds.
That was my belief for quite a while. There’s certainly no shortage of stupidity, but the real problem is that people do understand the evil shit they vote for, and they fucking love it.
Look at the Trump admin: he didn’t trick us into voting for him by giving some ‘on paper’ bs about why the things he does is somehow good; he just got on stage and started shitting on veterans, disabled people, women, immigrants, etc. The majority of voters looked at that and said “YUP! THAT’S MY GUY!!”
We’re (collectively) just fucking evil. Idk if there’s a fix for that.
The thing is, they don’t truly understand the consequences. Otherwise c/leopardsatemyface wouldn’t be a thing.
They believe that they are free from consequence because they keep being told that, and by the odds they’re unlikely to face major direct consequences of their choices. And when they do, often it gets blamed on “the other side” instead of the people they choose to represent them.
It’s not about them being too stupid to understand, or too evil to want better, it’s about an unwillingness to think about the consequences of their actions.
Oh i’ll be around to remind them. I’ve been doing rounds on calling out the idiots that still keep blaming dems for not saving them from themselves. Voters are entirely to blame for this and need to grow up and own their entire part in this mess.
They’d have to be willing to listen to you for it to matter. And shouting “you’re a moron!” at them has gotten little to no positive response thus far.
We don’t go to Ravenholm.
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.
The Olympics may be interesting, but they won’t be happening in the United States.
The next American Olympics is scheduled for Summer 2028. America, and the world, will be a much different place by then. I expect that we will have an Olympics of mostly authoritarian nations, and no Democratic nations.
And there will be lots of ludicrous world records set, because they will fuck with the timings. These guys can’t do anything without cheating.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we had a Nero situation happen at the next Olympics.
I don’t think the Olympics will happen at all in the United States in 2028.
Ah yes, because Europe is not slowly turning alt-right.
Britannia waives the rules.
Neigh, Monty Python.
A man of culture!
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.
That’s true and I’m all for it but I’ve seen enough people who seem to believe that banning them would solve the biggest problems instantly.
I cannot fathom how maple MAGOT 51st staters haven’t looked up the price of insulin in the US vs Canada yet.
It would require them to think and then they wouldn’t be maple maggots anymore.
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.
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.
“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. Ask indigenous peoples if they have forgotten. 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
“Treats,” current tense.
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.
Welcome to the Land of the Free, here’s your bill.
Gawd I’m so tired.
Land of the fee, home of the slave 🇺🇸
Home of the Brave (we’re terrified of non-white, non-male, non-cis, and/or non-Christian people)
I’m chilling in Mexico bruh
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 said it above and I’ll say it again…a Nero situation might just happen at the next Olympics and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Gold medals won by other countries are illegal medals!
Stop the (medal) count!
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.
