PonyExpress

The Olympics have always been used as a fascist spectacle, never more evident than this year with so-called Communist China, and so-called democratic Russia using the event to consolidate the power and legitimacy of their totalitarian regimes. From the goose stepping military parade to the ant-like humans, the opening ceremony was an advertisement for totalitarianism. It was no coincidence Russia used the moment to invade Georgia. Note the lack of any pretense to "precision strikes" or any sop of a concern to "collateral damage" in that aggression.

Now we have our own american network shilling on behalf of fascists to make a buck back for covering this ****-fest.

Time for america to check out of the "olympics" and send the creepy IOC packing.

We've had enough totalitarian propaganda, individuals at the service of the "state". The modern version of the Olympics was the product of the fascist moment in European history, and we should do away with this crap.

shmessy

I thought it was awe-inspiring and beautiful. A great testament to how working together, humans can achieve some beautiful art and pageantry.

I wouldn't blame the olympics for the Russian-Georgia war or for China's dismal, but improving human rights record. Go to the source for that.

Please explain your contention that the "modern version of the Olympics was the product of the fascist moment in European history". How can that be when it involves all the nations of the world getting together in one place to meet and compete? Is the UN fascist? Are World's Fairs fascist? Maybe we should just all isolate ourselves in our caves and never get together (like an internet forum!).

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maverick4

The Olympics Opening Ceremony was beautiful, the best I've seen in my life, and the hundreds of people in a bar I saw it with from over a dozen countries all agreed.

IcyPatriot

I think Russia is going a bit strong on Georgia ... but if Georgia had stayed in their own territory there would be no conflict right now. Georgia is looking for sympathy ... showing dead civilians and the like ...

But why did they invade?
Perhaps they invaded thinking Russia would stand pat until the Olympics were over? I would not paint russia as the lone bad guy here ... certainly they are not human rights specialists but there's more to that tale.

PonyExpress

What we understand to be the "Olympics": The torch, the Olympic rings, the Olympic village, the mass display of propaganda, was a creation of the Nazis in the lead up to 1936.

It was very impressive then, too.

Here again we have the IOC complicit in allowing the Chinese government to "impress" the world with their pageantry. Look behind the mask.

As for the "UN" and the "world's fair", those are different discussions.

Frankly, it's no surprise people think the ceremony was beautiful. Staged propaganda to impress the masses is part and parcel of totalitarian regimes.

I'd be more impressed it they allowed freedom of speech, like we are permitted on the "message boards" you seem to mock. But the people of China are not even permitted that freedom. Big Brother is watching.

Better to be a free man in a cave than a slave in a stadium.

PonyExpress

South Ossetia is recognized by the entire world community as part of Georgia. I question the circumstances as reported. OTOH, The invasion of Georgia by the Russians mirrors the same thing the Bolsheviks did in 1921, under the pretense of protecting the Ossetians from Georgian aggression. I find it interesting that the Russians had so much combat power at hand moments after the supposed "invasion" of South ossetia by georgia.

I also find the timing, Aug 8, the opening day of the Olympics, as odd for a reactive operation, as the Russians are portraying it.

It seems to me the Russians chose the time of this operation to capture the full attention of the world, and to make a point of their own growing strength.

The fog of war prevails and we'll have to wait and see what the facts on the ground actually were. But from a distance it looks like the classic "Sudetenland" pretense.

shmessy

Really? That stuff wasn't in LA in 1932? Or the 1928, 1924, 1920, 1912, 1908, 1904, 1900, 1896 Olympics?

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Patters

There is something fascistic about, and it's unfortunate how nationalistic it sometimes becomes. The Chinese have gone all out in that regard, almost as bad as the Germans. (But, there's no denying their opening ceremony was very beautiful.) Some countries put on a rather fascistic show, but others don't. I think the US hosted Olympics, for instance, were much more about sports than any form of ethnic superiority.

Harry Boy

Castro, Chavez, Slimey Iranian Dictator, Palestine and CHINA among the worst violaters of Human Rights on the planet, the same American Left Wing Liberals in and out of the Media that love these scumbags are the same people that went insane when an American Soldier put a pair of ladies underwear on a Muslim Murderers Head.
F-ck The Olympics
F-ck China (they still have slavery)
Tell The Muslims to "free their women" F-ck them too.

:disagreement:

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IcyPatriot

You forgot the pre-teens that the pedophile scumbags love to marry.