Chuds when Palestinian children are being genocided:

Chuds when they see a gay person:

Rainbow capitalism annoying both the right and the left apparently

I didn't watch the opening ceremony but I assume it wasn't even actually queer, it was the french just being french.

I don't know what they were expecting, they don't exactly have high opinions of France and Paris

"sir how do we make everyone forget that we're making people swim in seine river which is literal raw sewage and pollution"

"make the rest of the olympics really gay"

"brilliant as always sir"

If you don't piss off Matt Walsh then you've truly created nothing of value. He's like the lowest barrier for entry to figuring out if something has the potential for being interesting.

Did I miss something. My dad was only complaining about all the rich people there and my mom thought the Israeli delegation was booing when the MC tried to make a token appeal to some sort of world peace.

The opening ceremony was mediocre though obviously not for the reasons the chuds gnash their teeth. I've binged all the ceremonies back during the pandemic. London 2012 was more of a spectacle even with its typical amnesia of the role of colonialism during its industrial revolution performance, Rio 2016 had much more soul and character, Beijing 2008 is still the unbeatable standard; all of them had a more organized structure than Paris' "tourism ad skit" of Haussmann's old buildings along the Seine. The Parade of Nations is typically meant to give full attention to the athletes and so the constant interruptions to splice in perfomances were obnoxious. I will say that the hot air balloon flame cauldron, reminiscent of those balloons in the old Paris World Fair posters, is a rather unique idea that was also executed fairly well, unlike the boat parade.

The LGBT representation was just one part of Macron's overall rebranding campaign of France's image as an "progressive nation boldly confronting its past" as a theme that permeated the entire ceremony. Seeing that Louise Michel statue description on how she was "exiled to New Caledonia and fought against French colonialism" was quite a satirical display of how superficial Macron's "Brand France" is given the current French colonial occupation and the military troops stationed to squash the still ongoing New Caledonian indigenous protests taking place since May.

"queer" no this is just how the French are

Them: the opening ceremony is satanic!!

Me: wtf is this a fucking jojo reference

tbh even I thought it was surprisingly gay

They don't call it "Straight Paree" now do they?

the whole satanic panic about a bunch of tree-hugging vegans is also very funny to me, it’s gojira ffs

It's just more pinkwashing imo. Between this and the French banning their athletes from wearing the hijab, it's all completely cynical. With the genocide in Gaza, I can't help but feel this will be weaponized against Palestinians because let's face it, the average person who sympathizes with the Palestinians will be both outraged by the banning of the hijab and completely turned off by the queer parts of the ceremony. This is continuing the process of queer people being weaponized as a tool of Western imperialism and reactionaries using anti-imperialism as an excuse to be queerphobic. And the biggest joke in this tragicomedy is that the West isn't even that good for queer people either.

yep. i saw some anti-government opposition type person tweet something along the lines of "this filth is the result of bending the knee towards islamists and leftists. people of the world will either eradicate this infection or the leftists will step by step ruin any event or concept imaginable. they should open up mental hospitals with the capacity in the millions to put them there." great democratic opposition we have here.

also i mean this in the best way possible, i don't know what the deal with the kid that was there was but they shouldn't have been there. this is just giving chuds more ammo for their bullshit.