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This makes the whole “helmet disqualification” even more senseless.
Fuck Olympics. Fuck World Cup. Fuck Superbowl.
You like sports? Go do some sport. Don’t pay corrupt corporation to watch it.
There are no Nazis in roller derby. (In fact, both USARS and the WFTDA are explicitly anti-Nazi.) And here in Kansas City, our WFTDA league reads an inclusion statement before every game.
Support your local roller derby league.
Manny people who say they like sports actually only wanna watch.
yeah, and we don’t hang.
I like sports. I play sports.
And even then, they generally don’t wanna watch amateurs, semi-pro, or low league pros. Can only be the national/world leagues or nothing at all.
Almost as if they don’t really care about sport but instead are using it as a means to be part of a group, to have a cultural link with others. A shame sport culture is mostly brainrot pundits constantly waffling shite like “they really wanted to win this one” as if they’re not trying to win every time. No moment of silence and just watching the spectacle allowed. Constant punditry, hours of pointless analysis before and after every game.
Not to mention the constant hype as if each match is the most important of all time
Watching amateur sport is far more interesting IMO. Less predictable, more exciting, no bullshit punditry, more passion for the sport.
I know. And most of them, as most of the society in general, don’t want to sacrifice anything for the sake of morals. World Cup games are played on stadiums build by slave? Not my problem, I just want to see my national team play. IOC protecting war criminals? Not my problem, I’m just here to celebrate sports. NFL is making money by giving people brain injuries? But it looks so cool!
The IOC being friendly towards fascists is not news. Even Heraskevych’s ban in the Winter Olympics is a symptom of this.
As a general rule, all large international sports organizations are run by coalitions of far-right leaders and particularly amoral neoliberals.
They certainly know how to appease the current US administration
I love how the PR guy comes clapping back with how Jesse Owens competed in the 1936 Olympics. Then put him on a damn shirt! Not a super crypto-fascist looking poster.
Yes, the IOC, along with FIFA and other major organised crime syndicates with sports as a cover story, is fine with authoritarianism, often even openly supportive.
They sell merch from all the games, and this one doesn’t feature any Nazi imagery. Unless people are specifically using it to promote Naziism, meh.
IOC now showing their true colors.
It’s just… so blatant. That’s what shocks me the most.
The Olympics as we know them were born in Berlin.
Before 1936, they were disorganized and not particularly popular.
The Nazis saw the propaganda value in the spectacle, so they created the modern Olympics.
Wtf that’s so obvious ! How they can defend something that bad.
Should everything relating to nazi-era Germany be banned?
Merch made with Nazi symbology on it? Yes, it should.
This isn’t a textbook or educational work - it’s promotional merchandise made purely for profit.
This doesn’t have any Nazi symbology on it.
The Nazi Reichsadler is a Nazi symbol, it’s a distinct design.
Sure is. And it’s distinctly not what’s pictured.
The round thing under the eagle is a Nazi symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross?wprov=sfla1
It’s also an ancient symbol for the sun, but so is the swastika.
EDIT: It looks like the whole image is the Nazi designed poster for the Olympics. Like I said in my other comment, they could have just used an image of Jesse Owens for that particular Olympics. Would have been a better message.
It’s the statue on top of the Brandenburg gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate It was built long before the nazis. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s a nazi propaganda poster though.
It’s an iron cross, added in 1815. It predates Naziism by over a hundred years. https://www.history.com/articles/brandenburg-gate-a-brief-history
