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[-] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 149 points 1 year ago

Just be careful guys...if it can happen here it can happen to you. Stay frosty out there.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 1 year ago

Kick US media out of your country, use opensource software and you'll be better off.

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't be afraid to just take US intellectual property.

It was acquired through exploitative neoliberal and neocolonial policy. "AI" is actually the peak manifestation of this.

Also, China does it (though in some cases consensually) and its gone fairly well for them.

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[-] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago
[-] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

I wish I could at least be like Ed and too stupid to understand how shitty it is here.

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, that's how it got this way. Too many Eds.

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[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

The US is going to take gold in every event. Mostly because other countries won't be allowed to compete or won't want to.

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 37 points 1 year ago

Gold medals won by other countries are illegal medals!

[-] A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Stop the (medal) count!

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I've always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.

The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified

The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it

The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can't be caught.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 39 points 1 year ago

Rich countries have highly developed sports infrastructures that allow better detection of talents and training the talents in the best possible conditions. That is probably already enough to explain the difference in results. No need to look for some drug conspiracy. If your city doesn't have the money to build a swimming pool, you'll never have swimming champions from there.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

Russia, a powerhouse, had a ridiculously complex scam going and even they were caught.

They aren't rich in the normal sense, but they are powerful and secretive, so I think they provide a valid counterexample.

Does it go on? I'd believe constantly. Does it get found out? Every time, albeit there's always a short window of success. Do more powerful nations have more success at cheating? Yeah, since the smaller countries can't cheat as well.

But not a conspiracy, just correlation, I think.

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 37 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the Land of the Free, here's your bill.

Gawd I'm so tired.

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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 year ago

AFD, National Rally, CPC, and other far right parties standing right behind them

[-] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 30 points 1 year ago

European grown up with that.

Don't buy american wine for example (not only cause is unbearably sweet), cause of pesticides allowed.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

They use fungicides on vineyards in Europe though. In France there are more people diagnosed with Parkinson’s around vineyards than anywhere else in the country

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[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

European here, we can buy us wine???
All wines i grab in the store to check are french lol

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Meanwhile how the Canadians treat the natives:

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

If you think Canada is bad (and it sure is), you should see how the US treated its indiginous peoples.

[-] SippyCup@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

WHAT? JUST BECAUSE WE ROUNDED THEM UP AND PUT THEM IN CAMPS WITH NO FOOD OR WATER WE'RE THE BAD GUY???

we HAD to do that, we had HUNTED their primary FOOD SOURCE in to OBLIVION.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 1 year ago

lol I didn’t even think of this. Personally, I think that hosting the Olympics is a really fucking stupid thing for a city to do, so I’m just gonna sit back and laugh.

And yes, I’m American.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

Fuck the olympics. It's an oppressive, leeching grift in service of nationalism, imperialism, capitalism, etc.

https://nolympicsla.com/

[-] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago

So it's coming home?

[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

Cut the crap on the "civilized" world farce. If there was any decency the israeli onslaught would be punished. Instead these countries stand by them and do nothing.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Civilised doesn't have to mean flawless. The US is still a horribly barbaric country, and the weapons Israel use to commit genocide come from the US.

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[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I cannot fathom how maple MAGOT 51st staters haven’t looked up the price of insulin in the US vs Canada yet.

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Consider all MAGAts cultists. You cannot fathom how fucked in the head they are. You could point this out, any logical person would see how crazy expensive insulin and other medication in the US Healthcare system is ... but MAGAts have no logic whatsoever. They will just say its "fake news" or liberal propaganda.

I am serious. You have to shut MAGA down. These bitches are crazy.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

It would require them to think and then they wouldn’t be maple maggots anymore.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

They will complain that the US is paying for Canadian health care.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 15 points 1 year ago

The football world championship is going to be in the US too. The goalies aren't the only ones going to be shot at.

[-] Aksamit@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago

Ice is going to have a field day kidnapping football players

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

Any non-white team is not going to have a good time.

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[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

We don't go to Ravenholm.

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