Mufasa then proceeds to murder an indigenous person and give a standing ovation to an SS veteran. Simba nods and sends ten billion more to Israel.
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.
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.
Define interesting
I wish I could at least be like Ed and too stupid to understand how shitty it is here.
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.
At the end of the movie, the hyenas eat the fallen king.
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.
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?
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.
…it’s harsh times
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.
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?
Btw, I recall a kid in northern Italy which had a third nipple growing cause hormons from Us meat in rhe school’s food before UE got in.
No thx.
Iirc that’s actually pretty common. Well, maybe not ‘common’ but way less rare than you’d expect - it’s one of those things that goes undiagnosed most of the time cuz people think it’s just a mole and don’t put any thought into it.
Genetically speaking, we have ‘milk lines’ similar to like dogs or some shit - the code is there for two rows of three (four?) nipples along the length of your abdomen. That code is just an inactive evolutionary artifact, but some genetic fuckup can toggle it back on.
…that said, I don’t think hormones are a factor, just genetics. Probably still don’t eat our food though; most of it’s just a wad of sugar, salt, and grease, and diabetes and high bloodpressure will cause a lot more problems than a bonus nipple.
bonus nipple.
Phrasing it like that makes me want one
I’ve been 1000 times, and I’m never going again.
That’s my part.Dang I live in the United States and I don’t think I’ve been here 1000 times.
Born and raised 30 minutes from Buffalo, for 45 years, plus a 3 year stint driving airport limo, sometimes multiple times per day,
I’m a few hours away now, but I haven’t crossed since 2019.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Welcome to the Land of the Free, here’s your bill.
Gawd I’m so tired.
Home of the Brave (we’re terrified of non-white, non-male, non-cis, and/or non-Christian people)
Land of the fee, home of the slave 🇺🇸
Fuck the olympics. It’s an oppressive, leeching grift in service of nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.
So it’s coming home?
AFD, National Rally, CPC, and other far right parties standing right behind them
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.
They will complain that the US is paying for Canadian health care.
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.
We don’t go to Ravenholm.
