The Woke Olympics

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Costa Rican gymnast's Olympic routine includes Support for BLM

Luciana Alvarado incorporated kneeling and a raised fist in the routine

Costa Rica’s lone gymnast Luciana Alvarado finished her Tokyo Olympics floor routine Sunday by taking a knee and raising a fist in apparent support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Alvarado failed to move into the finals of the competition but chose to make an impact in a different way. She told the GymCastic podcast afterward she wanted to show the importance of equal rights.

She said it was choreographed to pay homage to the Black Lives Matter movement. She said Friday she performed the same move at training.

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Luciana Alvarado, of Costa Rica, performs on the floor exercise during the women's artistic gymnastic qualifications at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) (GM)

Costa Rican gymnast's Olympic routine includes support for BLM
 
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KB5252 said:
How much of their issue is roster, how much is coaching?
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I saw the end of the France game and watched a team down by 2 clank about 5 3pt attempts. One was taken when the defender was laying on the ground after getting hit in the face.
 
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utvolpj said:
I saw the end of the France game and watched a team down by 2 clank about 5 3pt attempts. One was taken when the defender was laying on the ground after getting hit in the face.
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I noticed the same thing. How dumb was that? That speaks to the issues I mentioned.
 
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VolStrom said:
So France has black people?
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Yeah, but you have to consider why. They had African colonies - so second class citizens, They had the Foreign Legion - cannon fodder or real fighters? They imported slaves into the New World before we got into the business, and they needed some to help keep the rest in line - until they didn't like in Haiti. So just more of the same when they need athletic mercenaries.
 
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John Lennon’s ‘Imagine,’ blared at the Olympics, is a Totalitarian’s Anthem

The Olympics opening ceremonies in Tokyo featured one of the worst pop songs of all time: Yes, I’m speaking of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” sung by a large children’s choir and a bevy of celebrities.

As a fan of the Beatles and Lennon especially, it pains me to say this, but it’s true: While its melody and arrangement are indeed beautiful, the lyrics are an invitation to moral and political chaos.

Consider the opening verse: “Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us, above us only sky / Imagine all the people livin’ for today.”

I frankly can’t imagine anything worse. To say that there is no heaven or hell is to say that there is no absolute criterion of good and evil — no way of meaningfully determining the difference between right and wrong, no standard outside of the subjectivities of each moral actor by which to say any one agent is better than any other.

'Imagine,' blared at the Olympics, is a totalitarian's anthem
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
John Lennon’s ‘Imagine,’ blared at the Olympics, is a Totalitarian’s Anthem

The Olympics opening ceremonies in Tokyo featured one of the worst pop songs of all time: Yes, I’m speaking of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” sung by a large children’s choir and a bevy of celebrities.

As a fan of the Beatles and Lennon especially, it pains me to say this, but it’s true: While its melody and arrangement are indeed beautiful, the lyrics are an invitation to moral and political chaos.

Consider the opening verse: “Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us, above us only sky / Imagine all the people livin’ for today.”

I frankly can’t imagine anything worse. To say that there is no heaven or hell is to say that there is no absolute criterion of good and evil — no way of meaningfully determining the difference between right and wrong, no standard outside of the subjectivities of each moral actor by which to say any one agent is better than any other.

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Lennon knows the truth now. Imagine that.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
John Lennon’s ‘Imagine,’ blared at the Olympics, is a Totalitarian’s Anthem

The Olympics opening ceremonies in Tokyo featured one of the worst pop songs of all time: Yes, I’m speaking of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” sung by a large children’s choir and a bevy of celebrities.

As a fan of the Beatles and Lennon especially, it pains me to say this, but it’s true: While its melody and arrangement are indeed beautiful, the lyrics are an invitation to moral and political chaos.

Consider the opening verse: “Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us, above us only sky / Imagine all the people livin’ for today.”

I frankly can’t imagine anything worse. To say that there is no heaven or hell is to say that there is no absolute criterion of good and evil — no way of meaningfully determining the difference between right and wrong, no standard outside of the subjectivities of each moral actor by which to say any one agent is better than any other.

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If you need the concept of heaven and hell to make you act right, then you're a POS. Just sayin'

Do these concepts actually work? I see no convincing evidence that they do within Christianity. Faith, not righteousness, is what saves us, right?
 
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n_huffhines said:
If you need the concept of heaven and hell to make you act right, then you're a POS. Just sayin'

Do these concepts actually work? I see no convincing evidence that they do within Christianity. Faith, not righteousness, is what saves us, right?
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You are calling Christians pieces of SH!T?
 
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Grand Vol said:
I don't know about woke, but I was watching the beach volleyball with the sound turned down.

Quite an amazing sport, women's beach volleyball is. Very athletic.
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And being an old lecher has nothing to do with that appraisal?
 
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Orangeburst said:
You behave at work to get a paycheck, even though you may disagree?
You speed down the highway at your own discretion?
We could go on and on.
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Oh, I thought you said life, not work. I'm talking about being a POS or not.

Nothing forces me to drive below the speed limit in bad conditions, I do it because I'm not an idiot POS.

Speed limit and work incentives have little to nothing to do with heaven and hell.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Oh, I thought you said life, not work. I'm talking about being a POS or not.

Nothing forces me to drive below the speed limit in bad conditions, I do it because I'm not an idiot POS.

Speed limit and work incentives have little to nothing to do with heaven and hell.
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Sticks and carrots are how life works, at work where you spend 1/3 your life, and have little say and another 1/3rd sleeping.
Have no idea what your second sentence has to do with anything.
Face it..you live by carrots and sticks or tell ur manager to FO and see what happens
 
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