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And those poor Tibetan seals.
Now, back to the sign. To make the irony work, Tibetan monks should have a great runner at the Olympics in China. You think they can run dressed in window drapes and drinking Goji juice?
Another thing that does not work in this irony is the ironic bedfellowship between US Turbocapitalism and Chinese Ultrasocialism.
Nazi Germany was touted to be the defender against Russia and their bolshevik bullsh!t, until Hitler installed some railtracks and put up signs that work can make you free. Now, how ironic is that Chinese "capitalism" holds the same promise for masses working for next to nothing? Some socialism.
The real Olypmics and freedom is on Ebay guys. That is the only place on the planet, which is not even on the map, but where Freedom and Capitalism works for everyone - provided you have some sh!t to sell to other people.
Like Fake Steve and his touch-me products. Tactile.
'Would we have allowed communist Russia to host the Olympics?'
Chinese hackers have attacked the Save Darfur site as well as pro-Tibet sites:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Save-Darfur-Coal...
As for Tibet and "99%" of Tibetans, why wouldn't "99%" of Tibetans relish a foreign dictatorship overrunning their country, looting it, massacring people, crucifying and burning monks, raping nuns, shelling the Potola (which was built in the *Seventh* century), burning books, and doing their best to destroy this ancient and admirable culture?
Why wouldn't Tibetans be all on fire to approve the current round of brutality?
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=11805
Of course they would. It's only logical.
(I gotta stop reading xkcd...)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
You've been 'shopped
Nazi Germany did host the freaking Olympics.
I feel a smug storm coming.
daKat
Paix
Would it help if there was another sign next to it that said "if we'd known then what we know now?"
I realise there are some people too stupid to know about the 1936 Olympics, but they aren't the ones campaigning for basic human rights in China.
They're the ones sitting on their fat asses whining about keeping politics out of sport.
The not very brights can feel clever for a moment, because *they* knew (because they read it on a blog somewhere) that Germany did host the Olympics during the Nazi regime.
The slightly more clever ones can stop and think for a moment, hey, what *is* the difference here? Are we still trying to reward human rights abuse, in the hope that the world watching will encourage China to allow freedoms we take for granted? Is being nice to China the same as appeasement in the 1930s?
If "the slightly more clever ones" are the only people you're interested in communicating with, you need to stop and think what you're trying to accomplish. "The slightly more clever ones" are probably already on your side; if they're not, they could be more effectively reached by a clearer message.
(later addition)
On further reflection, your assertion that it's the "not very brights" who can feel clever because they know Nazi Germany did host the Olympics is nonsense, and it highlights the problem with this kind of "irony."
The biggest problem with the sign, which I hinted at above by referring to its lack of context, is that as receivers of its message, we know nothing about the person behind the message. There is no particular reason to assume, as your "not very brights" do, that the person is ignorant of the relevant fact; there is also no particular reason to assume, as your "slightly more clever ones" (and presumably, by extension, you as well) do, that the person is aware of the relevant fact. We simply don't know, and this is the biggest reason why the irony doesn't work: we don't know whether it's actually irony or not.
That's why I described the sign as "pointless": it may have a point, but we can't tell, so effectively it is in fact pointless.
Most important of all...how might history have changed HAD we and others boycotted, stood up to the Germans in 1936?
I dunno, I got all that from the sign. Not so pointless after all is it?
And, apparently, the torch carrying that is currently causing so much "controversy" was instituted by the Nazis:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=...
Quote from Adolf himself:
"Sporting chivalrous contest," Hitler declared just before the torch was lit, "helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7330949...
stricken is knit in the german or the austrian language. I'm betting any germanic language you do not knit and purl, you stricken right and stricken left. This is the motion of the needle. In english the words probably come from knot. The word purl is also the word for bubbling up, as a stream. Now don't make me make all you programmers review knitting rules. Perhaps you should look at the inside of Steve's knitwear if your eyes can see that fine. And if you still can't understand, I may have to call on the spirit of all the wives of certain famous physicists that the some guys based all their ideas off of and these poor women ended up broken and bent, unspoken for and spent. They may be relieved or angry. WHO knows with women?
I do not know the words for knitting in Oriental languages. The monks wear woven fabric. That's weft and warp, by dear sons.
Panchang,
and now I understand what it is you say to me. I am relieved to just be another not so rich girl, in American terms, as I live and shop in this country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
USA did not boycott the games, btw.
As Homer is wont to exclaim, Doh!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dead-ro/2403957312
Although, I don't know if they were actually Nazis but they were threatening castration. Are we gonna split hairs here Donnie? Am I wrong?
But you, I love. That is, I fake love you. But in a real way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
He was also Time Magazine's Man Of the Year in 1936. Got them out of a depression by building a massive military. Sound familiar?
No, you don't get it. *sigh*
Murray
http://blog.murraytrillionaire.com
Just cashed in all my carbon credits. Bought some Apple stock. FSJ, is that a moral hazard?
It's the racism syupid!
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Needless to say...grandmother and the devil.
pot...black
kettle...copper
Thank you for your time.
There are so many lies about that Olympics due to WW2 and all the propeganda spewed out by our media and government. Of course, the winners of war write the history books so all those lies became fact.
I also read that the whole torch relay was designed by Napolean when he was the king of the Roman Empire. A sad legacy to uphold, no doubt.
Paix Out
It just shows how some Americans don't know history - and will repeat it.
I can just say again: spent if possible ten free ticket's for watching the easy rider movie to each of this fascismtards you see somewhere.
I hear Hitler was as bad as GWB!!
Hell, SJ won't license OSX to clonemakers and bricks unlocked iPhones. So he's a Nazi too, right? No Olympics in Cupertino either!
which the answer is of course not. the point of the sign is, 'how will history look back on this?'
SO SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU SMUG FLAMING FOREIGNERS WITH YOUR CLUELESSNESS.
which the answer is of course not. the point of the sign is, 'how will history look back on this?'
SO SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU SMUG FLAMING FOREIGNERS WITH YOUR CLUELESSNESS.
How do you know it's not being sarcastic, making a point, etc? Do you know who made the sign? No. Quit jumping to conclusions like the 289 other baited flamers who replied 'duh, Germany did host the 1936 Olympics, but I'm too retarded and lazy to read any of the other replies so I'll say the same thing over and over again'
one of the reasons this blog exists is to draw the attention of clueless 'tards like you who are quick to jump to conclusions and get off pointing out someone else's 'mistake'.
Down with the USA! We don't know our history or geography! TOTAL. DUMBASS.
I love the hysteria of crowds, don't you?
Hokay, for Earth Day, Branson, you listening? Let's go to Columbia, Honduras, Nicaragua and Chiapas, then drive some poor peasant farmers off their land and consolidate it all so we can grow some ethanol crops and pat ourselves on the backs for doing something about the ecology while making a quick billion or three at the expense of others. We're already getting first returns from Mugabe's 'reclaimed' farms in Zimbabwe. Oh, and er, don't forget to bribe the local mafias, militias, municipalities and the local deputies and the governors, so we can say with a straight face, we gave back to the communities.
and no, they were not being funny. I'm pretty sure of that.
Just sayin'
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This isn't as stupid as everyone seems to believe it is. Not as stupid as this guy who was pro-war in Iraq:
http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/Morans...
(to the tune of "shake your booty)
We got principles!!!!
He is especially thrilled that they carry on the tradition of bringing the torch from Greece to the Olympic Games - a PR-stunt which had been introduced 1936 by the Olympics organizer Joseph Goebbels.
Best wishes from Austria!
I guess you gotta be a knitter who understands graphs and politics and accents and language to get the joke.
One person laughs. Madame Defarge goes on knitting with the wool pulled over her eyes. Cloris Leachman.
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