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that was just an ordinary type of salute in 1936. it wasn’t replaced in the American flag code until 1942
Finally, an Olympics christians can get behind and support.
Only using triangle energies based on logic systems like GNU Octave, which should calm the mind.
Yeah, but it’s close tho 🤷♂️
I’ll take “weird and tacky” over “Literally Nazi” any day.
I quite liked the 2024 opening ceremony
Didn’t care for it personally, but I’m indifferent to most Olympics and halftime shows and such displays, so I also understand it wasn’t meant for me.
It’s of course impossible to reach everyone, but the opening ceremony had many things going for it appealing to a lot of different people. I was talking to a death metal fan the other day who was over his head in excitement over Gojira’s performance and how it seemed they were given artistic liberty to do what they wanted with it, not sanitized by some outsider who doesn’t understand the art.
It seems to me the opening ceremony did a great job at representing a broad spectrum of France. What offends people is not that they themselves are not represented, but rather that other people and expressions are. As if they are crying over a loss of cultural hegemony. And what’s worse, they seem to be mostly white conservative Americans crying over a loss of cultural hegemony over a French event.
It’s absurd. And it seems the director of the ceremony anticipated the outrage and chose to lean into it rather than to shy away from it, which is personally why I think it might have been the best opening ceremony ever. Because, like so many other represented groups, I belong to a subculture: The subculture of hating these stuck up hypocritical conservative self-proclaimed guardians of public morality and taste with all my guts. And that subculture was very well represented! :)
It was weird and all, but very entertaining and nice in that it did something new
Yes! Especially the performance through all of paris’s landmarks. Much nicer than one in a generic stadium. Although I wouldn’t fault Beijing 2008 or London 2012 either.
Me too, but it’s kinda close…
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I see your comment and I raise you family members who would vote the opposite in an election.
I mean. They invented the Olympic torch relay and overall showed their competence in Propaganda. You can sell literally anything if you do it right.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
The Games were the first to be televised, with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries.[2] Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games for $7 million.[2] Her film, titled Olympia, pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports.
Yeah, the 1936 was a huge and famously pretty successful propaganda event for Nazi Germany. It’s might have served as an inspiration for certain other authoritarian regimes.
At least the Chinese and the Russians didn’t upset American sensitivities! Good for them. <3
except for the fact that jesse owens embarassed them so much by being phenominal.
Nothing short of legendary.
I think this years opening ceremony did a wonderful job showcasing France and French culture in all its diversity. There’s some really clever juxtaposition of tradition and contemporary France. Aya Nakamura, who has been criticized for her use of unconventional use of French language, dancing with the guards of the Académie Française (the institution responsible for the French language) was amazing, and a great fuck you to the people out there who pretend to be traditionalist but are really just poorly camouflaged racists with their heads stuck up their asses.
The blue naked man everybody seem so upset by is a cultural treasure, and he did not disappoint.
The fact that Americans are having a meltdown over it of course makes everything better, but it’s just a bonus.
I think it was actually great on so many levels. Original, spectacular and pissing all the rabid bigots off. You have to love France for that fuck you attitude.
Not just Americans having a meltdown
Man is complete tit, but still funny to see!
It’s so ridiculous people get pissed over this. We are talking about Paris. They had royalty that were playing with sexuality and gender since the 1700s. When did we get so f*cking prude??
I agree - I think they did something truly great. It was great fun, completely harmless, showcased France and its people, and pissed off a lot of people I don’t care for in the process. And it gave a lot of genuine talents a moment in the spotlight, without ever getting dull or overly traditional.
I can’t read the article beyond the headline, but that’s already hilarious.
Yeah, it was certainly unconventional, but I liked it. Had some serious ESC vibes.
I wasn’t upset because I thought they were a Smurf 😂
Paris 2024: occasionally cringy but well intentioned
Berlin 1936: just cringeThe people complaining about the Paris 2024 opening ceremonies are probably big fans of the Germany 1936 opening ceremonies.
I don’t know, I watched the Paris opening ceremony last night, and I doubt I’ll ever see another as bad as that with what remains of my life
amazing how a society can zombify itself
“it was the only time the olympics weren’t woke” - some daily wire dude on twitter, probably
dude it was woke as shit, an African-American took four gold medals in the capital of Nazi Germany
Pretty based.
You have to scroll down through their post history for less than 10 seconds to see this guy complaining about being called a nazi.
This was a very clear Olympic war full of square structures and no useful triangles that could generate peaceful harmonic energy. Try learning GNU Octave coding for more.
but yeah it was pretty shitty. the American president snubbed Jesse Owens
It was so bad that they had to cancel the next two Olympics.
If I remember correctly, this Olympics started the trend of elaborate opening ceremonies because Hitler wanted to create more fanfare.
Opening ceremonies are legit Nazi shit.
