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Sayoria posted...

Maybe not a dozen, but he'd be a shoo-in for Poll Faulting.

+1

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This thread aged well.

For the record, the U.S. has led in golds and total medals each of the last 3 Olympics.

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It always has. That was the issue in Italy in 2020. Doctors actually had to pick and choose who got services and in the process, chose potentially who lived or died.

Heart attacks, seizures, other accidents and pregnancies still happen and COVID burdens the system even more.

And with a vaccine available, it's not necessary.

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RIP

A great American.

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Furikake

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Yes.

Used to be able to put palms on the floor though, so I'm regressing.

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Yes. But some never learned. "Social" media is leading to atomization of actual social interaction.

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LostForest posted...

I mean... let's be real guys, she does look very masculine.

Does the "reporter" need to call this out?

And follow-up with all the other shit?

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BilalPowell posted...

Are they allowed to criticize Chinese state media in China?

Probably not a good move.

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codey posted...

Imagine going up to someone right after winning an Olympic gold medal and asking "Now that you've done all this, can you stop and be a normal woman like the rest of us?"

I kind of feel sorry for the athlete.

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https://news.yahoo.com/tokyo-olympics-2021-chinese-gold-medalist-faced-with-absurd-line-of-questioning-described-as-manly-woman-053738890.html

After you win an Olympic gold medal, the first thing you would expect to be asked about is the winning performance. Something along the lines of how it feels to officially be the best in the world at your given sport.

Unfortunately for Chinas Gong Lijiao, after winning the gold medal in womens shot put, the post-event interview focused solely on her relationship status, rather than her triumph. She was also absurdly described as a manly woman during the segment.

The interview was conducted by the Chinese state media channel CCTV, which asked Gong a number of highly personal questions, including both when she would marry and if she had plans for children.

Nothing on one of the most dominating shot put performances ever seen, but instead if she had plans for a womans life?

The asinine line of questioning caused many Chinese citizens to come to the defence of their new Olympic champion on the popular social media platform Weibo.

One of the trending hashtags was Is marriage the only thing that can be talked about women?

Clearly, the female reporter from CCTV thought so.

Gong is a better person than most, however, as no one wouldve blamed her if she decided not to give the interviewer the time of day. Instead, the 32-year-old decided to take the high road.

I may look like a manly woman on the outside, but inside Im still more of a girl, she said in response to the inappropriate label.

She was also asked: Since you used to be a manly woman for shot put, do you feel you can be yourself from now on?

Gong responded, Um maybe Ill look at my plans. If I dont train then perhaps I will lose weight, get married and have children. Yes, its the path one must take in life.

One good thing to come out of all this is that Gong now has hundreds of new fans in her corner. One popular post on Weibo claimed that Its not that she cant get married, its that no man is her match.

That truly might be the case as Gongs performance was so dominant, all five of her throws wouldve been good enough for the gold medal.

Not too shabby if you ask us.



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ShineboxPhil posted...

That poster who made that take didn't know that while most countries were sending amateurs to the Olympics, the Soviets were sending pseudo-profesionals that they sponsored and had them do nothing but train for competitions.

That Soviet Red Army Ice Hockey team were playing to the quality of an NHL All Star team full time and they were dummying Collegiate athletes.

Remember the 72 Summit Series. That was the first time they played a stacked Team Canada. Canada won albeit it being close and they did it without Bobby Orr.

I was about to bring up the Soviet and East German teams. They were amateurs in name only. They were literally part of the army.

China runs a similar program currently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_119

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sabrestorm posted...

pro athletes should not be able to play

Incredibly bad take.


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ShineboxPhil posted...

Would any of you seriously watch a men's basketball team of amateurs competing against eachother?

I've watched Olympic basketball with no pros and it's like the NCAA Tournament - lot of emotion, but the skill level isn't there.

The addition of pros has only improved Olympic basketball.

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b_hamnite posted...

I've already been doing it. Good for her!

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TrowaBarton7 posted...

Are you talking about the U.S. and Palestine/Yemen?

Whataboutism.

Create a topic on the subject if you'd like to discuss it.

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Shezarr posted...

We need more journalists willing to call a spade a spade, not less.

People like The-Apostle are how we get "99% of scientists agree anthropogenic climate change exists, 1% don't, now here's 1 person from each side to argue their case"

+1

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The-Apostle posted...

Why don't you explain to me where I'm wrong? It's okay, I'll wait.

For the record, it doesn't matter if it's a news article or an opinion. You can have an opinion without sounding biased.

There is nothing wrong with bias towards truth.

A "fair and balanced" author treats "2+2= 4" and "2+2 =5" equally.

One is clearly wrong.

Again, there is nothing wrong with bias towards truth.

"Both siderism" is part of how we got into the shit to begin with.


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shockthemonkey posted...

Im sorry that your journalism professors taught you poorly

For-profit universities....

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I'll give you "outlandish" out of sheer kindness. "wholly unfounded" sounds dead ass accurate.

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The-Apostle posted...

Biased af article is biased af.

"Fake News"

Point out the bias in the article.

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Bio1590 posted...

Yo wtf

Qatar lied to FIFA for the World Cup next year. The same "mild and sunny" bullshit. Summer temps in Qatar are between 95 and 120 Fahrenheit (35 - 49 Celsius).

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There have been articles about how Japan flat out lied about their climate to the IOC in their bid. I lived there 3 years. The Japanese summer is absolutely miserable with the heat and humidity.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mild-and-sunny-did-tokyo-olympic-bid-committee-lie-about-its-weather-to-win-right-to-host-games

https://www.outkick.com/tokyo-lied-to-get-2020-bid-now-athletes-paying-the-price/

https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/world-wants-apology-for-tokyo-olympics-false-claim/news-story/527b5f645803451c22bf914de58ead2c

"Many days of mild and sunny weather" my ass. Even by Asian and SE Asian standards, Tokyo summers are brutal.

The 1964 Olympics in Tokyo were held in October the summer is so brutal there.

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I like Shih Tzus.

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Mistere Man posted...

Yes but all of your base are belong to us

That is actually true as the us has one base I hear.

LMAO. +1 at the highlighted.

The U.S. has no bases in China. You heard wrong.

Please spare us the "people are saying" ; "I hear" and "many people" bullshit.

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Irony posted...

The only country that probably believes this is North Korea

Like all conspiracy theories driven by the internet, it will spread like a virus. Fenris, Atombender and Shabby will begin posting updates to the conspiracy theory any day soon.

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ROOTFayth posted...

france and korea have always had the best dancers afaik

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Homeless_Waifu posted...

Pretty sure it came from china.
The slums in china are third world rate, and they're very close to large cities in china. Slaughtered animals are sold in various wet shops across china... Hell the animals kept in captivity are mistreated and housed in very unsanitary conditions...

How the literal fuck could the who wholeheartedly believe that the disease didn't come from china when diseases like these have been an ongoing issue for decades

Everyone, including WHO, knows the virus originated in China. Some people are just debating how it originated.

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Trelve posted...

Covid was created by toilet paper manufacturers to generate demand in lockdown.

Big TP.

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/08/06/china/china-covid-origin-mic-intl-hnk/index.html

As Beijing grapples with a worsening outbreak of the Delta variant, an outlandish conspiracy theory linking the origin of the coronavirus to the United States military has gained renewed traction in China.

The wholly unfounded theory, which claims the virus may have been leaked from a US Army lab, has been repeatedly promoted by Chinese officials and state media since March last year.

But over the past week, Beijing has doubled down on the conspiracy, mobilizing its diplomats and vast propaganda apparatus to call for a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation into the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The campaign comes after Beijing rejected WHO's proposal for a second-phase probe into the origins of Covid-19 last month. The study would include audits of laboratories and markets in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic. That has drawn the ire of Beijing, with a top Chinese health official accusing WHO of "disregarding common sense and defying science."

WHO released an initial report from its Covid origins study in China in March, concluding the lab leak theory was "extremely unlikely." But a growing number of Western nations and scientists have questioned the thoroughness of the original report, accusing China of "withholding access to complete, original data and samples."

In late May, US President Joe Biden ordered American intelligence agencies to redouble efforts to look into how the coronavirus originated, including the possibility it emerged from a lab accident.

The intelligence community was required to report back to Biden in 90 days. Since then, no smoking gun has emerged to support the lab leak theory, and many scientists continue to believe the virus is more likely to have jumped naturally from animals to humans. For now, senior intelligence officials say they are genuinely split between the two theories.
Beijing has emphatically rejected the idea the coronavirus could have been leaked from a lab in Wuhan, alleging that Washington is attempting to politicize its origins. And yet at the same time, it is also aggressively pushing a counter-lab leak conspiracy theory without any scientific evidence.

Last month, the state-run Global Times started a campaign calling for people to sign an open letter to WHO demanding an investigation into the Fort Detrick lab. The letter which only requires a single click online to "sign" has since gathered 25 million "signatures."

At a news conference last week, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian called for WHO to investigate both the Fort Detrick lab and a laboratory at the University of North Carolina, helmed by leading US coronavirus expert Ralph Baric.

Zhao also suggested American military athletes who attended the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019 could have brought the coronavirus into China reiterating a baseless claim he made on Twitter in March 2020.

China's state broadcaster CCTV, meanwhile, aired a 30-minute report this week titled the "dark inside story of Fort Detrick." On Weibo, China's heavily censored version of Twitter, a hashtag related to the report was the top trending topic on Tuesday morning. It has since been viewed 420 million times.

On social media, some government and state media accounts promoted yet another groundless theory from an obscure Italian tabloid, which alleged the US military had spread the coronavirus to Italy through a blood donation program. "Damning evidence! The coronavirus entered Europe from Fort Detrick via a US army blood donation program," read the headline of a widely read story posted by the Communist Youth League, the youth branch of China's ruling Communist Party.

The concerted propaganda push has further fanned nationalist fury against the US. Some Chinese internet users have accused the US of being "shameless," while increasing numbers have taken to referring to Covid as the "US virus" a dig at the term "China virus" repeatedly used by former US President Donald Trump, who lashed out at Beijing as his administration struggled to contain surging cases and deaths in America.

Beijing's renewed focus on Fort Detrick comes amid the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant across China. Since July 20th, the spiraling outbreak the worst in more than a year has infected more than 500 people in dozens of cities, placing millions of residents under lockdowns and triggering mass travel restrictions.

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https://news.yahoo.com/house-lawmaker-suing-pelosi-over-214416593.html

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the three congressional Republicans suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over fines for not wearing masks during a vote on the U.S. House floor, has contracted a breakthrough case of COVID-19, the second member of South Carolinas delegation to do so.

Norman, who has said he has been fully vaccinated since February, tweeted that he began experiencing minor symptoms of COVID-19 on Thursday, tested positive for the virus that day and would quarantine for 10 days.

Representing South Carolinas 5th District since 2017, Norman is part of a federal lawsuit against Pelosi over a mandate earlier this year that members wear masks while on the House floor.

Last week, Norman and U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Thomas Massie of Kentucky sued Pelosi, seeking a determination that their $500 fines issued because they went maskless during a May vote are unconstitutional and should be rescinded.

The masking requirement was an attempt to prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, medicine, and science, despite a deep divide over these issues of opinion, lawyers for the members wrote, arguing that masks were required in televised areas only in the chamber.

It has been used to force Plaintiffs and other members of the minority party to be instruments for fostering public adherence to this ideological point of view that Plaintiffs find unacceptable, they added.

The trio had challenged the fines in June, arguing that the mandate was out of sync with recent federal guidance on face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their appeal failed.

The May vote in question happened a week after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance noting that fully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing.

Even after that updated CDC guidance, Dr. Brian Monahan, Congress attending physician, wrote that mask requirement and other guidelines remain unchanged until all Members and floor staff are fully vaccinated.

The mask requirement was lifted June 11 but has since been revived because of a resurgence of the coronavirus. As cases of the virus increase, the CDC has updated its recommendations to include a return to masking indoors, even for fully vaccinated individuals.

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Mr Hangman posted...

Wade literally does not allege any conspiracy, and there's nothing crackpot about his article. It's very soberly and technically written. It could be wrong, maybe, but it's a serious, well researched argument which deserves a serious rebuttal. The medika.life article is a serious rebuttal, mostly. "He's a conspiracist crackpot" is not. You only push people away by so callously dismissing sincere and careful opposing views.

Find better sources.

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Mr Hangman posted...

Money was not central to Wade's article. Reading this response, it's off to a bad start by calling Wade's article a "conspiracy theory". At no point does it allege any group conspired to do anything. That's not just a semantic quibble - a big part of why conspiracy theories are easy to dismiss is that it's difficult for groups of people to keep a secret and unlikely that there would be some shared malicious intent among multiple parties.

It makes a far point that it was unfair of Wade to call the letter "an opinion piece", but it's a minor point. I'm not impressed by how much this response complains about Wade making ad hominem attacks while having no restraint whatsoever on doing the same. Then it goes deep into the biology arguments, which I'm not competent to assess. But I'm also not inclined to take the word of "experts" who insisted it wasn't airborne, that masks don't work, and have on multiple occasions been caught telling manipulative lies hoping to steer people's behavior rather than trusting them with an honest answer.

Wade is a conspiracist crackpot. Find better sources.

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thronedfire2 posted...

good

people who don't want to get vaccinated can stay home

This.

I remember calling this months ago too but the anti-vaxxers told me it would be the vaccinated forced to stay home.

Next up: vaccine passport.

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We still don't know what it will do to their bodies either.

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They made a video of DeSantis' current leadership:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qyxvdksDKQ


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Mr Hangman posted...

So did I until someone wrote about it seriously.

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

Wade is already being debunked. His basic thesis is "follow the money". He is a Fauci hater who was a science writer for newspapers but is not a scientist or doctor.

https://medika.life/debunking-nicholas-wades-origin-of-covid-conspiracy-theory/

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DD Divine posted...

Remember when he wore a bicycle helmet when riding a bicycle like any sane person would but he was called weak and pathetic and compared to Putin riding a horse shirtless. Then we had a slob after him who couldnt even ride a bicycle or a horse.

And how scared shitless Putin looked whenever he shook Obama's hand. No geeking it up like he did with Trump





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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.8.user=gosugus

Posted blatantly false anti-vax information (cooked numbers), then attacked everyone in the thread who pointed it out.

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Called it in April.

There is no financial, religious, racial, gendered, or sexually oriented barrier to vaccination.

Transportation is not even an issue. Lyft, Uber or public transport will give you a feee ride in most places. In other places the vaccinators will come to you.

No excuses.

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WaterLink posted...

I mean the spikes and weight of the shoe matter a lot, I say this as someone that ran track and cross country in HS and I remember how much time I shaved off my various distances once I upgraded my shoes sophomore year.

I think despite winning he's essentially saying there needs to be some kind of standard so competitors are competing on the basis of their own talents and not by their equipment, since some competitors might be sponsored by a better company and therefore get better equipment. I think it's a valid argument, and probably better for him to say it after winning so people can't just write off his argument as sour grapes.

I ran track too. And have a nasty scar for choosing the wrong spikes, the wrong day on a 4X100 relay (near where Tiger Woods broke his legs btw - Chadwick school).

On topic: there are standards, AFAIK everyone followed them. One guy is bitching.

This is like a golfer saying his/her competitor made it tougher for using the "wrong" club to hit a tough shot.

The spikes used were legal. You won. Go the fuck home and open a bar or whatever.

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s0nicfan posted...

Especially when you have your own custom designed shoe that you insist is totally different than their custom designed to shoe.

I honestly have never heard a complaint like the 'gold medal winner' is making here.

You fucking won, and are complaining your opponent made it tougher because of his spikes?

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The guy won, take your gold and go home.

I know spikes are a big deal in track (and have a nasty scar to prove it) but complaining the 2nd place guy's spikes pushed you hard is going to fall on deaf ears.

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geshkigal posted...

I hear some people argue (i.e., AbroadInJapan) that Hiroshima-style is better.

I only lived in Tokyo and Sapporo, so I wouldn't know. Could be a 'grass is greener' thing too though - no matter how good what you're having is - it's always better somewhere else.

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MaddenDude-- posted...

I love soccer and basketball but I couldn't care less about olympic basketball or olympic soccer. IMO its stupid. For soccer the elite country competitions are the continental championships which we just had, and the world cup. Olympic soccer is pointless. And for basketball, literally no one should give a shit about it because its a sport thats dominated by the united states where some of the best players in the world aren't even playing.

IMO Olympic basketball can be interesting. I was impressed by how other countries were grateful for the Dream Team in '92 though. They (Argentina, Former Yugoslav countries, Greece, Brazil, Nigeria and others) said that even in defeat, they were given something to shoot for. A lot of them have gotten pretty close and even send players to the NBA.

I love soccer, support the women's and men's teams but can't think of one "Holy Shit!" moment in Olympic soccer.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

I mean even if viewership becomes so low they wanna cut it (can be boring to watch at times) id rather they just not televise it (put it on the internet at least though) than outright cut it

+1

I can see that.

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FF_Redux posted...

I made a smaller one on my smaller pan with the rest of the batter. Letting it cool down. Tomorrow at my work break Ill try to see if I can reheat it, the toppings Ill have with me to top when its hot.

Actually it reminds me of a Swedish/Scandinaviann pancake called Raggmunk. Its savory. Pancake batter mixed with loads of potatoes, you can do it with carrots or other root veggies too. Usually served with sliced porn belly and lingonberry jam.

Wait, what? I'm not sure what we're talking about anymore.

Just kidding. Enjoy.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Wrestling should be a permanent fixture in the Olympics on grounds its been around since the start and iirc is considered the oldest sport in known history

I agree. Too much X Games level shit now.

I wouldn't watch it much, but it belongs.

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brestugo posted...

Football, basketball and track.

I went out for baseball junior year and may have set a record for futility during tryouts. I thought just being a good athlete would be enough, but NO SIREE BOB!

Didn't make the baseball team.

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