As a kid, the Olympics was a fun thing to look forward to. Now whenever I see my city/country applying for anything similar, I’m up in arms
I think London 2012 may have been the only Olympics in my lifetime that wasnt some kind of humanitarian travesty.
Even as a kid i didn’t really get it. I liked to watch the best off they showed on tv or when someone broke a world record or something. I thought that’s what the Olympics are. Then one day my friend asked me if i wanted to watch the winter Olympics and i was excited. Just to sit there for hours just watching the most boring thing i have ever seen. And that was before i even knew about the steroid hypocrisy and uow scummy it is
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The ancient curse proclaiming that the Olympics must suck or the host country will descend into war continues.
Ah yes, the ol’ “Just push them somewhere else” tactic
“Out of sight, out of mind” or something like that
Out of sight, out of mind. Am I right?!
Doesn’t this happen every Olympics?
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A miracle!
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Hm.
Ah yes, the glorious Olympics tradition continues of host countries proudly jerking themselves off while spending insane amounts of money.
“Look at us while we jerk our selves off. Ignore the fact that we are completely making life harder for marginalized communities to be able to build these one time use stadiums and lodgings that may or may not be used to house people.”
dEI iS a CoRe VaLuE
The Louie CK of sports organizations
Yes, Louis CK is the only man in world who jerks off?
The fuck?
I’m really at a loss for what good the Olympics bring to humanity. Really just seems to fuck over thousands of people every 4 years.
Way more than thousands, given the widespread economic effects on the
victimhosting country.Speaking as a Greek, 20 years later there are literally still multiple abandoned world-class sporting facilities, unused, in maximum disrepair. Some like the one outside my town never used even once (Olympics included), after millions of euro spent.
I hope the homeless can use it for shelter at least, though it’s in a pretty inconvenient spot anyway.
The Olympics are a great way to help build unity and promote friendly competition between otherwise adversarial nations. In theory. In practice it’s an economic dick-measuring contest and a way for authoritarian shitholes to get good PR.
They did this in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics.
I was living in Vancouver at the time, it was kind of surreal. Now I’m living in one of the northern towns they shipped them to… it’s surreal in a different way.
I’m from Vancouver, and the way the homeless were treated pre Olympics was, if you’ll pardon the language, a goddamn fucking disgrace. Only a bit worse than the rest of the time, to be fair, but it really solidified my dislike of the systems in place there.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In spite of the government’s denial of any connection to the Olympics, which Paris will host in the summer of 2024, some non-governmental organizations and elected officials believe the Games are part of the reason why this relocation plan has been recently activated.
He now has a full-time job in Paris but, even after so many years in the city, he has not been able to find permanent accommodation, largely due to extremely high rental costs in the capital and very limited availability of more affordable social housing.
Ahead of next year’s Olympic Games, hotels in Paris have started canceling their emergency housing contracts with the government to make space for the expected influx of tourists, according to Paul Alauzy from Medecins Du Monde, an NGO that works with homeless migrants.
In a televised interview Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron insisted France was doing its part to help the migrants that arrive on Europe’s shores, spending, among other things, around 2 billion euros each year on emergency accommodation for homeless people.
“The approach of major sporting events – firstly, to a lesser extent, the Rugby World Cup in 2023, and then the Olympic Games in 2024 – means that we have to think ahead and anticipate the situation, thanks to a policy of de-cluttering,” he said.
Manzi, of Utopia 56, thinks the relocation effort could be a good idea in principle, but says the problem is that the regional shelters will only house people for three weeks, according to the cities tasked with hosting them, and what happens after that remains uncertain.
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In the end its all about money and greed under capitalism and they don’t care who they exploit
That’s the way, really great. Some day we will be judged by our posterity of how we treated the weak and poor .
More manpower for the protests
I wonder where they’re going to find a carpet big enough to swipe them under it.
Finally! They are so unsightly.
Thankfully this sort of thing never come to a boil in France.
French govt taking notes from the shoe mistress
