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[Owlbread]

I propose mass rainbow-flag bearing among spectators. You know, rip open your shirt like superman to reveal gay pride shirts.

[scriver]

Homoerotic Hulk Hogan is running wild, brother!

[MorleyDev]

The shit going on in Russia at the moment is really irritating me. I've been rather misanthropic lately, and signs of humanity appearing in all of the bile are so very pleasing to see. I hate the "well our laws" argument because it's a human rights issue, which means fuck your laws. Human rights, your rights stop at the point they get in the way of others. You have no right to call for the harming of another, none. And yes, we will decry those who think they do. And we will be right to do so.

The fact that his suffering ended left him with more dignity I believe - I couldn't imagine what it would have been like to just expire like that over time, waiting, sweating, writhing.

I grant the latter would be worse than the former. I do support the right to choose to die, I just dislike the idea of "dying with dignity". What I believe to be a better way to view it is as stopping yourself from having to live without dignity. The end, those last few moments on this earth, are always without dignity. Doesn't mean you should have to live without dignity.

[Guardian G.I.]

The International Olympic Committee announced that all protests advocating for gay rights by sportsmen at the 2014 Winter Olympics contravene the Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter which bans political protests and displays of political, religious or racial propaganda at the Olympic Games. Violators will be disqualified.

Gay rights activists will tear the IOC apart in 3, 2, 1...

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That was reported days ago, so your count is off. They've been tearing them apart for quite a while.

[Leafsnail]

We should boycott the Olympics.  Not because of Russia, but because the IOC is a terrible organization that deserves to fade into irrelevance.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've never even watched the Olympics or supported it financially in any way. I am of a more pure boycott than all of you![/gawdgetonmylevel]

[Aptus]

The International Olympic Committee announced that all protests advocating for gay rights by sportsmen at the 2014 Winter Olympics contravene the Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter which bans political protests and displays of political, religious or racial propaganda at the Olympic Games. Violators will be disqualified.

Gay rights activists will tear the IOC apart in 3, 2, 1...

This disgusts me. If I did not already not give a shit about the olympics I would be boycotting right about now.

[Dutchling]

I tend to miss the Olympics entirely. Shit like this reminds me it exists.

[Guardian G.I.]

All the fuzz over boycotting the Winter Olympics in Sochi reminds me of the threats to boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing because of the Tibet independence campaign and general human rights violations.
Not a single Olympic team boycotted the Games. Furthermore, Georgian Olympic team didn't dare to stage anti-Russian protests in response to the war in South Ossetia, fearing possible disqualification.

[LordSlowpoke]

can we please not discuss how an organization that doesn't bend over backwards in full disregard of the regulations that have been there since the cold war became a thing (unless i am mistaken that's the time this one was added, as to not turn the olympics into a bloc vs bloc thing, they ended up being boycotted by people anyway) and how utterly horrible it is for that and how it should go die in a fire while there's a plethora of human rights abuses that have occurred while the olympics were not hosted in russia and that's more of a reason why it should be disliked? sure let's turn a blind eye to what was said in the previous discussion we already had on this (and my post was conveniently not replied to, but i don't hold it against someone to just stop talking when i'm starting a ~srs discuzzion~) but suffice to say the last three ones were bad on that front if not outright horrible but hey we had nice cgi and ridiculous mascots

All the fuzz over boycotting the Winter Olympics in Sochi reminds me of the threats to boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing because of the Tibet independence campaign and general human rights violations.
Not a single Olympic team boycotted the Games. Furthermore, Georgian Olympic team didn't dare to stage anti-Russian protests in response to the war in South Ossetia, fearing possible disqualification.

also this

[Owlbread]

I loathe the Olympics and the IOC for the way that they've managed to turn competitions that were once about individuals into this... outlet for nationalism, really. Of the questionable sort. The Olympics in London were politicised to the Nth degree.

You may be surprised but I would rather Scotland did not have its own Olympic team. I would rather no country did, that it was about individual sportsmen and their abilities like it was in ancient times.

[scriver]

@LordSlowpoke -
Your post was "conveniently not responded to" because it involved saying Jews should have just moved out of Europe when nobody liked them, and everyone was too much in pain from the resounding facepalment upon reading it that they could bother with it.

Also your posts are unstructured and run-on and it's hard to make sense if what point you're even trying to make.

[GlyphGryph]

LordSlowpoke - the Olympics are pretty much an outright negative influence on the world, and we'd be better off without them. Their sole purpose is to advertise to as many people as possible while paying people as little as possible and acting as parasites on the countries they land in. Anything that opens more people's eyes to their bullshit is a good thing - I don't care how long they've had the regulations on the books.

Their primary motivation is, has been, and will continue to be "make as much money as possible, everything else be damned" and that's pretty much it.

Also you're words are kinda painful to read - you should consider not making your entire post a poorly punctuated capitalization resistent run on sentence.

[LordSlowpoke]

@LordSlowpoke -
Your post was "conveniently not responded to" because it involved saying Jews should have just moved out of Europe when nobody liked them, and everyone was too much in pain from the resounding facepalment upon reading it that they could bother with it.

Also your posts are unstructured and run-on and it's hard to make sense if what point you're even trying to make.

sir

there was even an abbreviation included in the post you're responding to. it should have sated your sarcasmometer by all means. i have no idea what else should i have added.